Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/09 JOHN STANDRING '66 Memory is precious and peculiar, especially childhood recollections. They flood the consciousness, drifting, floating, permanently held together as if roped together. “Memory believes before knowing remembers,” William Faulkner … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/09 RICHARD DOYLE '65 Of late a particularly fascinating brand of psychological inquiry has examined the characteristics and personality traits of the first-born. Psychologists have pored over data, behavioral exploration, empirical studies, all … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 7/09 ROBERT SIGEL '53 Every day of our lives, we make choices, shaped by feeling, intuition and habit. Some times it all flows and reaches a pure, inexorable logic and other times, it's counterintuitive, going against the grain. Robert F. Sigel likes to … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 7/09 JAMES M. FARRELL '61 All families have their own lore, a story, a tale, of interconnections or relationships entwined. James (Jim) M. Farrell likes to tell of the first ever date involving his mother and father. Both of his parents were … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 7/09 GERALD SCHMITT '58 Sports are the great meritocracy of American life. They require no credentials, qualifications, preapproval or particular social standing. They just are. Regardless of the game, the sport, the competition, sport is the means by … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 5/09, Edited by Larry Lynch '75 DONALD HOGAN '45 The great American playwright Eugene O'Neill famously said about the Irish, they have no present or future. Their lives exist in a continuous, overlapping "past," that remains suspended over their lives. … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 5/09, Edited by Larry Lynch '75  THOMAS O'MALLEY '57 The 19th century Irish illustrator Henry Doyle (1827-92) created designs that sharply evoked the national mood and daily activity of Ireland. The wanderer is central to that myth. The sense of escape … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/08, Edited by Larry Lynch '75 BENJAMIN DEBERRY '64 The French existentialist Albert Camus famously said in order to exist, man must rebel. The act of rebellion takes many forms, styles and iterations: against church, state, or man’s inhumanity. The … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/08, Edited by Larry Lynch '75 FATHER MAURICE LEAHY '45 The great transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson famously observed that things are in the saddle and ride mankind. The nature of most people’s experiences is to read it, see it, learn about it, and … [Read more...]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 5/08, Edited by Larry Lynch '75 EDWARD J. RYAN '57 Talent + Athletic Valor = An Exceptional Life for this Leo Man Shakespeare’s famous declaration, in As You Like It, that “All the world’s a stage,” the men and women merely players, imagines a world, an … [Read more...]