Saint Joseph's College of Maine - Commencement 2022

“Today, all of our attention and all of our focus is on you–the members of the Saint Joseph’s College of Maine Class of 2022. For some of you, your entire Saint Joseph’s experience has been inside the frame of the pandemic. And for our Sebago Lake-based students, five of your eight semesters here (more than half of your time with us) have been impacted by the pandemic… For this community, you are not simply students–not even simply soon-to-be-graduated students. You are each much more than that. And through your classmates' words, we will listen to and hear your stories. Four years ago, as we welcomed you to campus, I said that your participation in the college community would contribute to making Saint Joseph’s a better place; that your voices and your stories would join with ours and help make this a more vibrant place. Four years ago, I could not have begun to imagine what that would mean.” President Jim Dlugos, excerpted from his commencement address delivered today to the #SaintJoesMaine Class of 2022