Decorated

The newest alumni

The pitch

Entrepreneurs venture forth

Big man on campus

Remembering Tim Russert

Old school

Thomas J. Flatley (1931–2008)

Popular

From a best-selling author, lessons in writing for business and pleasure

The best armada in America

Sailing to victory

Close-up

Happy thoughts

A Fleabagger returns

The many roles of Tom McCarthy ’88

Assigned reading

PO 669—Leadership

Campus digest

From the McMullen Museum

The artist Georges Rouault

Prospects

So, you want to be an English major

Advice from Orpheus

If the suit fits

The second time around

One last chance

The bucket lists of spring

Cover photograph by Michael Jacobson-Hardy

Border crossed

For a year the author aided illegal immigrants who found their way to Annunciation House

by Charles Vernon '98

This beautiful craft

Elizabeth Yeats and her Dublin hand press

Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert

The pilgrim

At age 29, the author placed the initials “SJ” after his name and assumed the life of a “resident stranger”

by Andrew Krivak

Overtime

Job holders in the generation soon to retire will have to work longer than their parents did. How much longer?

by Steven A. Sass

In sickness and in hope

Close encounters

Who’s there

C21’s online courses

by Anna Marie Murphy

While you wait

Helping the time pass

The nose

Fragrance designer Trudi Loren ’86

“Real People,” “Xavier U. and Sacred Heart,” “Cartoonist hero,” “Zero sum,” “Puckish pride,” “Into the mystic”

Old fashioned