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Commencement Speaker Gives Each Grad $1K—But There’s a Catch

‘THE GIFT OF GIVING’

Images from the crowd showed soon-to-be graduates with their mouths open in shock.

Robert Hale, President and CEO of Granite Telecommunications
Darren McCollester

College graduates at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth were left stunned at their commencement ceremony this week, captured in footage with their mouths agape as a billionaire announced he was gifting each of them $1,000.

Even better, the graduates would be getting the money on the spot, with the tech CEO...

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