UMass Boston graduates were gifted $1000 in cash during their commencement ceremony after speaker and billionaire Rob Hale surprised the seniors with the generous gift to teach the outgoing students the gift of giving.
Before walking the stage Thursday, 2,000 undergraduate students learned they’d be receiving two envelopes containing a total of $1,000, according to the university. Commencement speaker Robert Hale, a billionaire CEO of a Massachusetts-based communications company, interrupted chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco as he began announcing the distribution of diplomas, the ceremony’s livestream shows.
UMass Boston graduate Wendy Humphreys told CNN she and several other graduates were shocked when Hale returned to the stage for the announcement. “I looked at my friend and jokingly said, ‘he’s going to give us each $2,000 each,’ but I was completely kidding,” Humphreys said. She was astounded to discover she wasn’t completely wrong, she said.
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