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 which a great many people defined themselves. It was especially […]

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 and adventure is a natural, inevitable part […]

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 then find out on their own […]