Dillard’s Homecoming
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, students return to the New Orleans campus for commencement nd presidential inauguration.
Bill Cosby celebrates with Dillard University graduate Alexandria Cruse; the July 1 commencement also served as the inauguration day for Dillard President Marvalene Hughes, pictured here with Brown University President and Dillard alumna Ruth Simmons; marching down the historic Avenue of the Oaks on campus, students carry flags thanking the colleges that took them in after Katrina; Hughes addresses graduates while Cosby and Dr. Mary Francis Berry, former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, look on.
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