A new crop of StFX students have received their X-Rings.
University officials presented the long-awaited rings during a ceremony at the Keating Centre Tuesday.
After the ceremony, Maggie Rankin, a nursing student from Mabou, told The Hawk the X-Ring represents what she put into her degree.
“For me, it shows how hard I worked, because nursing school is very, very difficult,” she said. “Every time I look at it, I just kind of think of all the hard times and the good times that I’ve had here at ‘X’.”
Rankin was one of more than 900 graduating students who received their class ring.
She said the much-anticipated day snuck up on her.
“When I started, it seemed like it was a long (time away),” she said. “Now that I’m here, it seems like it went by too fast.”
Maggie MacDonnell, a native of Antigonish Co. and Class of ’02 grad, was selected by the graduates to be the guest speaker; however, she wasn’t able to attend due to weather, so she instead recorded a video message for students from Boston’s airport.
MacDonnell won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize in 2017; she was chosen from more than 20,000 candidates from 179 countries for her teaching excellence and philosophy of hope and kindness.
University officials presented an honorary X-Ring to Antigonish physician Dr. David Cudmore during the ceremony.
