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, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Campus Centered
Posted in Alumni Profile, Fall 2009, Feature, tagged Admission, Institutional Advancement, Patrick Gallivan on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Stage
Posted in Fall 2009, Feature, Online Extras, tagged Abby Lee, actors, Chuck Tobin, internships, Kenneth Kimmins, Marc Tumminelli, Playhouse Junior, Saint Michael's Playhouse on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Education Above All
Posted in Faculty News, Fall 2009, Feature, tagged El Salvador, Marta Umanzor, retiring, Spanish, teaching on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Class Notes Fall 2009
Posted in Alumni News, Class Notes, Fall 2009, tagged Class Notes, Saint Michael's College on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Fall Headlines
Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, tagged best 371 colleges on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Summer School
Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, tagged academic english, Burlington High School, Dan Evans, New Americans, Victoria Orner on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Salad Days
Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, Student News, tagged Community Garden, CSA, farmstand, Frank Huseman, gardening, Heather Ellis, Heidi Lynch, http://smcmagazine.com/2009/11/19/salad-days/, organic, OVE on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
A Bigger Goal
Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, Sports News, tagged Eugemot Orphanage, Ghana, soccer, Teal Bryan on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Mind Over Matter – Team Theory
Posted in Campus News, Faculty News, Fall 2009, tagged collaboration, computer science, Greta Pangborn, Jo Ellis-Monaghan, math on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]



