Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 10/09 MARK DWYER ’66 “Whoso would be a man,” Emerson said, “must be a nonconformist.” The story of Mark Dwyer is of a man who’s ostensibly gone against the grain. Not every time, mind you. But he found his own road, his own path and took the plunge. It […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/09 ROBERT J. SHEEHY ’71 A snapshot of Leo High School during the socially convulsive late 1960s, early 1970s: Violence, says one prominent black social commentator and political dissident, is as American as apple pie. America is torn apart by the war in Vietnam, economic volatility, social protest […]

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 designed to understand the motives, tendencies and manner of how a first born of a […]

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 first-generation Americans. His paternal grandparents arrived […]

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. Time is perhaps elusive, but memories, events, lives, […]