Baldwinsville resident graduates Manhattan College

(Riverdale, NY)-Alicia Marie Kratochwill of Baldwinsville were among 486 New York State residents among Manhattan College’s Class of 2009.

Manhattan College awarded close to 700 degrees in some 40 major fields of study from its five schools in arts, business, education, engineering and science at its 167th Undergraduate Commencement on Sunday, May 17.

Students who completed their studies in September 2008, February 2009 and May 2009 participated in the ceremony in the College’s Draddy Gymnasium.

During the ceremony, an honorary Doctor of Education was presented to Br. Thomas Scanlan, F.S.C., who will step down as president of Manhattan College later this year. Ray Kelly ’63 commissioner of the New York City Police Department, delivered the keynote address.

In his address, Kelly told the graduates, “There will always be those who say some problems are too big to solve, some injustices inevitable. Manhattan College graduates don’t believe in the inevitable. We don’t believe in conventional wisdom and foregone conclusions. We believe in action reinforced by faith and idealism. I know that New York and the nation can believe in the class of 2009. And I believe that with the time-tested values you’ve acquired here, you have just the tools to create a future we can all look forward to.”

Baldwinsville resident graduates Manhattan College

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