Coming Home to Lafayette
I’m writing this letter just having returned from one of the most energized Homecoming weekends in my memory. The overwhelming number of gatherings and…
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Crossing Paths
In fall 1971, Marcia Bloom Bernicat ’75 walked across the Quad as a first-year student on her way to history class. Sixteen years later, Thomas Dougherty…
King of Cranberries
Americans consume more than 400 million pounds of cranberries each year, and Gordon Swanson ’66, CEO of Cran Chile, is the man behind the scenes of the…
Big Island Memories
Recollections of his childhood on the Big Island inspired Roy Kodani ’61 to write The Sound of Hilo Rain. It includes stories from his column in The…
Manila, 1973; Immigrate
Rice still stuck in her hair she turns from the jetway tosses the bouquet to weeping family hand clenched around his the ring pressing hard against bone…
Advocate for Disadvantaged Youngsters
When Amanda Evans ’13 first proposed a partnership between The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she works, and SPARK, a nonprofit mentoring…
Documenting Delectable Journeys
Kathleen Squires ’88 used her English degree to build an editing career with a major New York City book publisher, and by 1997, she was living the dream…
Wine and Words
A degree in English may seem like unusual preparation for a professional oenophile, but Laura Wickiewicz Battiato ’05 is a wine expert because of words…
Think Then Do
Jiselle Peralta ’13 remembers Mary Armstrong often telling her students that they were great thinkers, but that it takes physical action to use that…
Unraveling the Culture of Bullying
Being bullied is universal. The effects linger and foster a feeling of shame, says Laura Martocci ’84, author of Bullying: The Social Destruction of…