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Archive for November, 2009

For more than half of his life, Patrick Gallivan has been at Saint Michael’s. The college has never mattered more to him, and he’s never mattered more to it. By Mark Tarnacki  Photos by Andy Duback If friends and perspective constitute wealth, as in the classic film It’s a Wonderful Life, then Patrick Gallivan ’89, [...]

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Behind the scenes at Saint ­Michael’s ­Playhouse, student interns spent their summer working with the pros By Buff Lindau Photo Essay by Brian MacDonald This past summer, while the Saint ­Michael’s ­Playhouse delivered its 62nd season of ­professional ­theater on campus, it also gave a group of student interns a hands-on learning experience like no [...]

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Her life has not been easy, but Marta Umanzor made an enormous difference in the lives of people from El Salvador to Arizona to Vermont. By Jordan Kilty ’12 Photos by Andy Duback It is 5:30 a.m. on a chilly Friday morning and Marta Umanzor, professor of Spanish, is once again awake before the sun.

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1949 Walter Fitzmaurice, North ­Reading, MA, received the French Legion of Honor award on July 8 in Boston Harbor ­during the Tall Ships Festival for his service during World War II. This award is the ­highest honor to receive from the French ­Government.

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Fall Headlines

The Princeton Review named Saint Michael’s one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, in its new 2010 edition The Best 371 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book.

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A unique program for New American high school students takes root on campus By Buff Lindau On a warm August morning, a small cluster of local high school ­students hurried across ­campus, heading to class in St. Edmunds Hall to join approximately 40 of their classmates, all New Americans ­(immigrants or children of immigrants), for [...]

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This year’s campus community garden was a lesson in sustainable agriculture By Caroline Crawford At the start of each new academic year, campus is filled with the typical sales opportunities for lofts, refrigerators, posters and jewelry. This year, in addition, up cropped a farm stand filled with fresh baby lettuce, cucumbers, flowers, herbs and more, [...]

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Teal Bryan ’12 returns to children in need Mark Tarnacki One way to understand sophomore Teal Bryan’s ­potential is to look at the 2009 edition of the ­College’s literary and arts magazine, the Onion River ­Review.

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Jo Ellis-Monaghan and Greta Pangborn team up to co-direct mathematics and computer science projects, to impressive results By Buff Lindau Two professors working in complex fields are recruiting more students than ever to engage in independent research projects outside the classroom. Jo Ellis-­Monaghan, and Greta Pangborn have teamed up over the last six years to [...]

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By John J. Neuhauser Very soon, the cold beauty of winter in Vermont will be upon us, but now, the ­foliage is brilliant, and we are surrounded by the faces of students, who keep things lively throughout the year and perhaps especially as the days grow short.

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