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Reflections on a cupboard that’s never empty

Faces of Mercy nourish food pantry started by college and town Sitting at his desk amid bags and boxes filled with macaroni and tuna, not far from the stack of mixed fruit cans near the door, it’s easy to imagine Mike Blais ’09 has a job connected to food. Donations at his Campus Ministry office [...]

Cassie, the campus canine

Meet the Counseling Center’s shaggy ‘ambassador’ Everybody knows about Cassie,” a Saint Joseph’s College freshman says, referring to the gentle Golden Retriever that greeted her as she entered the Counseling Center. “For me, that’s why I first came in here.” As she spoke, the student rubbed Cassie’s ears and graying muzzle and lovingly stroked the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:11-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , |

Jean Szilagyi ’92,’99

Giving without borders Jean Szilagyi of Conneaut, Ohio, helps to run a nonprofit organization and teaches a course on long-term care laws and regulations for the online Graduate & Professional Studies division. "I always put my students first," states Jean of balancing her teaching duties with her work for Sharing America's Resources Abroad (SARA), an [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , |

New athletics web site, college partnership and service learning program

Service learning where everyone learns Talk about a win-win. With the help of a $2,500 grant from the Fisher Charitable Foundation, education professor Dr. Janice Rey created a new service-learning program at a local, urban school that does many things at once for the benefit of all. Using environmental education curricula, the program promotes science [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , |

Tell me a story

Pajamas welcome as education majors conduct bedtime story hour for kids Clad in robes and slippers, youngsters from 2 years old to 10 years old crowd around the couches in the student lounge of Alfond Center. Equipped with blankets and teddy bears, the children settle in for the first story of the night, "Slippers Goes [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , |

Talk with Andrew Wasowski ’11

Andrew Wasowski '11 of Windham, Maine, was recruited by the Marine Corps in high school. At age 18, he found himself in boot camp, which was followed by three tours in Iraq, where he spent nearly 28 months. He is now a junior nursing student on campus. What did you do in Iraq? Intelligence. It [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , |

Erby Mitchell '98 heads admissions at elite school and admits President Obama’s daughters

Erby Mitchell '98 had no idea he would meet and greet President Barack Obama's family when he moved to Washington, D.C., to take a new job in 2007. But last fall after the presidential election, Michele Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, came to visit Sidwell Friends School, where Erby is director of admissions [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , , |

Alumna’s work with Hispanic community in Maine is her calling

Small and determined, she walks toward the altar as if drawn by the pull of a greater purpose. At the Spanish-language Mass where she assists - and in all her efforts elsewhere - her purpose is to honor the dignity of each human being, no matter their nationality or green card status. It propels the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , , |