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 […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 5/08, Edited by Larry Lynch ’75 EDWARD J. RYAN ’57 Talent + Athletic Valor = An Exceptional Life for this Leo Man Shakespeare’s famous declaration, in As You Like It, that “All the world’s a stage,” the men and women merely players, imagines a world, an existence, where […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 4/08  ROGER OLSEN ’39  As a young man Roger Olsen witnessed the most significant historical acts of the 20th century. He lived through the Depression and served with distinction in the Pacific theater during the Second World War. Reflecting on his life and varied past, Mr. Olsen did not […]