Trustee Profile:Harry McNeely
There were days during the past 15 months that employees of Opus Northwest might have thought Harry McNeely Jr. was getting ready to join their construction crew on the site of the new business...
View ArticlePlaying Smart
Twelve-year-old Pedro Guttierez steps to the front of the Brady Educational Center classroom on St. Thomas’ south campus, shy under the stares of the 15 or so contemporaries gathered in a semicircle of...
View ArticleYou can go Back to the Future
It came to me one afternoon in English class, where I was revisiting Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the company of St. Thomas undergraduates, that I was actually sitting atop Tom Town, a mixture of...
View ArticleThe new village commons has computers
A welcome poster in the front window of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center has an image from one of the original library’s small stained glass medallion windows. The image is of Sherlock Holmes, to...
View ArticleBy the Book: Faculty and Staff Publish in Areas of Expertise.
Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Brill)Edited by Dr. Steven McMichael, Theology, and Dr. Susan Myers, TheologyThis volume deals with the friars, especially the Franciscans and...
View ArticleIntellect, Instincts, Influence
The town is tiny Chisholm, Minn. The speaker no longer is a boy, but a septuagenarian widely regarded as one of the most powerful and effective congressmen on transportation issues.Young or old,...
View ArticleTake me away to Gainey
Most people dislike meetings that go longer than 30 minutes. After all, how long does it take to tell employees to do their jobs well and respect fellow workers, even those who wear scary perfume, nap...
View ArticleAccess and Excellence
In a University of St. Thomas tradition since 2000, members of the freshman class gather on Summit Avenue at the start of fall semester and “March Through the Arches.”Filled with hope and plenty of...
View ArticleFinal Thoughts
In 1999, when Tuesdays With Morrie hit the media, I knew I had to call Vince Rush and spend time with him. Of all the things I experienced at St. Thomas, taking his class was unquestionably the best....
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