Another school year is past, and I'm still trying to learn social media. Thanks to two recent grads, Jim and Liz, they might teach this old dog news tricks!

For the record: I did not blog because of the story about athe professor and the lap dancing. I have much I could say on that, but I won't (for various reasons). Suffice to say, when I heard what happened I KNEW it would be a world-wide story; I even thought Jay Leno on teh tonight show would make a reference to it; he didn't, but George Lopez did. So, what do you do when something like this happens? Well, at first, not much: You have to wait until the "process" is complete, i.e. the "investigation." It is still on-going. And the story won't go away: for every action in the situation, there will be a reaction....and people all over the world will know that La Salle and lapdancing went together....

At this year's commencement, we had:

*Brigid Smith, of Sewell, N.J., who will be the fifth generation of her family to graduate from La Salle University. The marketing and management double major is one of more than 30 members of her family who are La Salle alumni.
* Eileen Baughan had a successful career as a trader on Wall Street before starting her family. When her twin son and daughter were born premature weighing a little over a pound each, Baughan was so inspired by the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses that she promised that she would one day return the favor and become a nurse. Now, the mother of four, including healthy nine-year-old twins, Baughan is receiving her bachelor's degree in nursing.
*Mother and daughter Eileen and Mary Marguerite Behr never imagined graduating from college together. Mary Marguerite will earn a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education with a minor in American Studies, and Eileen will earn a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Earlier this month, Eileen was sworn in as the first-ever female Sheriff in Montgomery County.
* Rosemarie Lowe, who is 71, earned a degree in social work. A counselor at Gaundenzia, a drug and alcohol treatment center, she will soon start her master’s degree studies.
An honorary Degree will be presented to Tim Shriver, President and CEO of the Special Olympics. (He is the third member of his family to receive an Honorary Degree from La Salle: his uncle, then Senator and later President John F. Kennedy received one in 1958 as his father, Sargent Shriver, first Director of the Peach Corps, received one in 1970.)
The 1,751 graduates come from 32 states and the District of Columbia and 25 countries.