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Friday TigerBlog: Friends, And Friendships, At The Senior Awards Banquet
May 29, 2015 | General
The Gary Walters '67 Princeton Varsity Club Senior Awards Banquet was held last night.
Dallas Cowboys' head coach Jason Garrett, a former Princeton quarterback, gave an often-funny, often-poignant talk while accepting the Citizen Athlete Award for contribution to sport and society, and Blake Dietrick of the women's basketball team and Mike MacDonald of the men's lacrosse teams won the big senior athlete awards.
Friday's TigerBlog - "Friends And Friendships" - attempts to capture the spirit of the evening:
TigerBlog looked around the tent at the Grad College last night and saw friends - but not friendships - about to go their separate ways.
It's the inevitability that comes with a graduation that is looming less than a week away. TigerBlog sees it each year under the same tent. Four years, gone in the blink of an eye.
This time, it's the Class of 2015 that will be heading off Princeton's campus and into whatever their next chapter holds for each of them.
The occasion last night was the 18th senior awards banquet, now officially called the Gary Walters '67 Princeton Varsity Club Senior Awards Banquet.
As is always the case, the banquet is on this Thursday in May, followed in short order by Reunions, Class Day and then graduation. The banquet is the start of a long weekend sprint in which the members of that particular class go from business-as-usual teammates and undergrads to alums in a matter of hours.
And then, after that weekend sprint, they're off. Friends, with friendships that will endure.
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