Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/09 JOHN STANDRING ’66 Memory is precious and peculiar, especially childhood recollections. They flood the consciousness, drifting, floating, permanently held together as if roped together. “Memory believes before knowing remembers,” William Faulkner famously wrote. Some six decades ago, when he was just three years old, Jay Standring recalls […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 7/09 ROBERT SIGEL ’53 Every day of our lives, we make choices, shaped by feeling, intuition and habit. Some times it all flows and reaches a pure, inexorable logic and other times, it’s counterintuitive, going against the grain. Robert F. Sigel likes to say of himself: I’m a […]

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 […]