Published: October 2016
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It’s tradition—new faces, new places, new starts. Scenes from the past six weeks.
September 8: Members of the Class of 2020 assembled by residence hall on Linden Lane for the annual First Flight procession to Convocation at Conte Forum.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
September 8: First Year Academic Convocation speaker Steve Pemberton ’89, H’15, talked with students following his address in Conte Forum. The vice president of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance, Pemberton is also the author of the memoir A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, which the University distributed last summer to all members of the Class of 2020.
Photograph by Suzanne Camarata Ball
September 8: University President William P. Leahy, SJ, celebrated the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, which marks the beginning of the academic year, on O’Neill Plaza. Also at the altar were vice president and University Secretary Terrence Devino, SJ (left), and vice president for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, SJ.
Photograph by Yiting Chen
September 9: Students regarded Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Articles from the Apostles’ Creed, a Belgian tapestry dating to around 1500, at the McMullen Museum of Art’s new home on the Brighton Campus. More than 600 attended Art After Dark, the first in a series of events planned for students in the newly remodeled building at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue. The museum’s current exhibition, Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, runs through December 11.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
September 9: Aaron Horne ’17 and Felida Milhomme ’17 pored over the exhibition catalogue on the second floor of the McMullen Museum.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
September 12: University Health Services staff in their new headquarters, located in the south wing of Thomas More Apartments, the new undergraduate residence hall at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue. From left are staff nurses Maureen Mullowney and Caroline Faherty; nurse manager Madelyn Rivera, ANP; staff nurse Theresa Barba ’80, MS’02; medical aides Angie Paulino and Yojaira Gonzalez; physician Amy Costa, MD; nurse practitioner Constance O’Connor, ANP; University Health Services director Thomas Nary, MD; and staff nurse Cathy McCassie. The 12,000-square-foot facility includes a 10-bed healthcare unit.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
September 13: Lindsay Brown ’18 talked with Steve Walker of the U.S. Navy Systems Civilian Workforce during the Career Center’s annual Fall Career and Internship Fair in Conte Forum. The fair drew more than 2,000 students, along with recruiters from more than 140 potential employers.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
September 16: Dancing on O’Neill Plaza marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15), as did an outdoor buffet of quesadillas, empanadas, maduros, and more. The Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center continued its annual series of lectures (which this year included Mexican Consul General Emilio Rabasa and TV producer Pili Montilla ’00) and panel discussions (e.g., “The Fight For Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Labor Equality,” on October 11) and sponsored a student art exhibition in O’Neill Library.
Photograph by Christopher Huang
September 21: Priya Atiyeh ’18 (in pea costume) talked with Amanda Ilaria ’20 and Brendan McInerney ’20 on O’Neill Plaza during the annual Healthapalooza. Food tastings, massages, and information about health and well-being programs on campus were provided by the Office of Health Promotion, a division of Student Affairs.
Photograph by Frank Curran
September 26: Mexican Consul General Emilio Rabassa discussed “U.S. and Mexico: A Strong and Profitable Partnership” in the Fulton Honors Library. His visit was cosponsored by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Office of International Programs, Boston College Law School International Programs, the International Studies Program, the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, and the undergraduate, student-run Latin American Business Club of Boston College.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
September 26: Thomas Mogan, associate vice president and dean of students, and Kathleen Sullivan, assistant director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, paid a House Call to freshmen Sofia Farhadi (center left) and Cheuk-Lam Lo (center right) of Xavier Hall. This is the second year of the initiative sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students, in which University staff and administrators—100 volunteers in all—fan out through the freshman residences to welcome new students.
Photograph by Frank Curran
September 28: Craig Ford, a Ph.D. student in theology, and Isra Hussain ’17 were among the four student panelists at “Speak, Stand, Sit or Scream: How Young People Engage Politics and the World in 2016,” sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and held in Fulton 511.
Photograph by Frank Curran
September 29: Speaking in Robsham Theater, actor Chris O’Donnell ’92 opened the 10th season of Agape Latte, a student-run series supported by the Church in the 21st Century Center and the Office of Campus Ministry, in which University faculty, staff, and alumni share personal stories of faith and formation.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
September 29: The University Chorale, joined by students from the St. Columbkille Partnership School (pre-K through eighth grade), and led by director John Finney, performed at a dinner celebrating the successful conclusion of the University’s Light the World campaign that brought in more than $1.6 billion in gifts. The event was held in a pavilion erected next to the new McMullen Museum of Art on the Brighton Campus.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
September 30: Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth headlined the 24th annual Pops on the Heights Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala in Conte Forum, accompanied by the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Student performers included the University Chorale and the Screaming Eagles Marching Band.
Photograph by Rose Lincoln
September 30: The Pops on the Heights gala raised a record $9 million for undergraduate financial aid.
Photograph by Rose Lincoln
October 4: John W. Padberg, SJ, delivered the second annual Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies. His talk, in the Boston Room of Corcoran Commons, was titled “And Then What?: The Jesuits after their Restoration (1814 . . . ).”
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
October 6: University President William P. Leahy, SJ, with Newton mayor Setti Warren ’93 and Newton commissioner of health and human services Deborah Youngblood in the Yawkey Center at the launch of Economic Growth For All, a program that pairs Boston College faculty with Newton city officials to explore issues of income inequality.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
October 6: Donna Brazile (left), interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Mary Matalin, a former Republican presidential advisor, discussed “Women in Washington: Political Leadership Today” in Robsham Theater. Paula Ebben ’89, an anchor for CBS News Boston, served as moderator. The conversation was sponsored by the Council for Women of Boston College.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini