Billionaire Robert Hale Jr Gives $1,000 in Cash to Graduates
Every graduating student present at the May 16 commencement for the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (UMass) received an unexpected bonus when they got their degrees: a $1,000 cash gift from billionaire Robert Hale Jr, the founder and CEO of Granite Telecommunications. There were two requirements though — the student had to be there, in…