NEWPORT — Blinking in brilliant sunshine and refreshed by a cool morning breeze, 658 students of Salve Regina University picked up their degrees Sunday from Jane Gerety, Salve president.
A large, white tent and the campus’s numerous leafy trees provided shade as the waters of Easton Bay glittered, and some of the thousands of relatives and friends of the graduates at the 64th annual commencement took time to explore Cliff Walk, which runs past the campus.