May 06, 2021
MacArthur Award ranks Norwich as top ROTC program among Senior and Junior Military Colleges for 2019-20
Col. Joel Newsom told nearly 100 U.S. Army commissionees from Norwich University, some on Sabine Field and Haynes Family Stadium, some watching online, to celebrate their accomplishments, strive for more and lead empathetically.
During Saturday’s Norwich University 2021 U.S. Army ROTC ceremony, which occupied Sabine Field’s football gridiron after the Joint Commissioning ceremony finished, Newsom said the 98 Class of 2021 graduates in the ROTC detachment he leads had excelled in academics, leadership, physical fitness and community service.
Six Army ROTC cadets, he said, had ranked among the top 10 of all cadets within Cadet Command, 23 were named Distinguished Military Graduates and 90% earned their first rank choices, topping the Armywide average of 68%, and 96% got one of their top three branch choices. (The U.S. Army Cadet Command, formed in Apri
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Hockey players sweep Coach Mariano Award as outstanding senior athletes of 2021
Men’s hockey forward Felix Brassard and women’s hockey defenseman Samantha Benoit were named outstanding senior athletes of 2021 last week at a picnic in Andrews Hall.
President Dr. Mark Anarumo and Athletic Director Anthony Mariano hailed student-athletes and distributed awards at the April 29 picnic, which replaced a traditional awards dinner and had been scheduled for Sabine Field until rainy weather intervened.
Anarumo said he understood the hurt of having an athletics season scrubbed by the pandemic, partly because he saw his son Mark Jr. lose his senior season of Division III ice hockey at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Anarumo said his son’s team lost a chance to contend for a national title and his son lost a chance to visit Europe with the armed forces all-stars.
May 06, 2021
U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Gen. Gary W. Keefe lauds commissionees for defending Constitution and its ideals
They marched into Sabine Field, uniforms pressed, gazes purposeful, strides deliberate, ready for their long-awaited moment. Joint Commissioning was nigh, and before the Norwich University ROTC cadets swore into their armed forces branches, they’d sit their last collective stint together.
One hundred sixty-four Class of 2021 graduates would commission 98 into the U.S. Army; 40 into the U.S. Air Force; 16 into the U.S. Navy and 10 into the U.S. Marine Corps. (Two of the Air Force commissionees plan to later transition into the U.S. Space Force.) In his keynote speech, U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Gen. Gary W. Keefe, a 1986 Norwich grad who is also the Massachusetts National Guard’s adjutant general, would reflect on having sat in their seats and contemplated the future.
By NU Office of Communications May 01, 2021
NORTHFIELD, Vt. Norwich University celebrated Commencement and Commissioning ceremonies on Saturday, May 1, in a hybrid of virtual streamed and in-person events held campus-wide in accordance with Vermont pandemic guidelines and with the Norwich community’s health and safety as the highest priority.
Norwich University was honored that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley gave the commencement address to the Class of 2021 in recorded remarks. Milley is the military’s senior-most ranking member and serves as principal adviser to President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and the National Security Council.
All roads, virtual though they’ve sometimes been this year, have led here.
Commencement, Joint Commissioning and the White Coat Ceremony lie ahead this week, a trio of rites capping the 2020-21 academic year. Norwich University adapted to the coronavirus pandemic and went about its business, led by Dr. Mark Anarumo in his first year as president.
A pair of distinguished military speakers will deliver remarks for the Commencement, which will run at 9 a.m. and noon at Shapiro Fieldhouse and Kreitzberg Arena and Joint Commissioning, which will run at 3 p.m. on Sabine Field at Haynes Family Stadium.
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