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NFL Exec to Address Members of the Class of 2007
On
Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m., 128 seniors will accept Mercersburg
Academy diplomas from Head of School Douglas Hale and Board of Regents
President Denise M. Dupre '76.
Before seniors join the ranks of Mercersburg alumni, speaker Dick Cass ’64, president of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens, will deliver the commencement address.
Cass manages player personnel, coaches, corporate sales, communications, and business ventures for the reigning AFC North-champion Ravens. The Ravens—who began play in 1996—have won as many Super Bowls as their predecessors, the Baltimore Colts, did in more than 30 years in the city.
Cass spent 32 years with the Washington-based firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before assuming his current post in 2004. He had served as counsel for two other high-profile NFL teams, the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, and the league office, as well as the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NBA’s Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets.
A former student-body president and captain of the football, basketball, and baseball teams at Mercersburg, Cass has served on the boards of the Academy and at Princeton University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1968.
This year marks the Academy’s 114th graduation ceremony. Speakers include valedictorian Yea Eun Kwak and salutatorian Charles Edward Talmadge Roberts. Members of the Class of 2007 will attend colleges and universities including Duke University, Columbia University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Sewanee.
Among Mercersburg’s notable alumni are seven Rhodes Scholars, two Academy Award winners, 10 Olympic gold medalists, four Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, and a Nobel Prize winner.
Photo by Phil Hoffman/Baltimore Ravens
On
Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m., 128 seniors will accept Mercersburg
Academy diplomas from Head of School Douglas Hale and Board of Regents
President Denise M. Dupre '76.Before seniors join the ranks of Mercersburg alumni, speaker Dick Cass ’64, president of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens, will deliver the commencement address.
Cass manages player personnel, coaches, corporate sales, communications, and business ventures for the reigning AFC North-champion Ravens. The Ravens—who began play in 1996—have won as many Super Bowls as their predecessors, the Baltimore Colts, did in more than 30 years in the city.
Cass spent 32 years with the Washington-based firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before assuming his current post in 2004. He had served as counsel for two other high-profile NFL teams, the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, and the league office, as well as the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NBA’s Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets.
A former student-body president and captain of the football, basketball, and baseball teams at Mercersburg, Cass has served on the boards of the Academy and at Princeton University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1968.
This year marks the Academy’s 114th graduation ceremony. Speakers include valedictorian Yea Eun Kwak and salutatorian Charles Edward Talmadge Roberts. Members of the Class of 2007 will attend colleges and universities including Duke University, Columbia University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Sewanee.
Among Mercersburg’s notable alumni are seven Rhodes Scholars, two Academy Award winners, 10 Olympic gold medalists, four Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, and a Nobel Prize winner.
Photo by Phil Hoffman/Baltimore Ravens
