Arlington Graduates: Can’t Rain on Their Parade

Graduates cobble together a memorable event despite virus.

A few ebullient graduates, keeping social distance, came to the Marymount campus on Saturday to pose for “graduation pictures,” even going so far as to throw their mortar boards in the air and catch them to simulate one of the great joys of finally receiving a degree. They all had the same graduation glow. That, and virtual graduation speeches from figures like Oprah Winfrey and former President Barack Obama, made the day almost as much a traditional graduation as it would have been…without the pandemic.