Isabela Echeverry ‘06 on How “Dreamers Thrive”
October 12, 2007
One of the highlights of this year’s President’s Society dinner was a moving speech delivered by Isabela Echeverry, a 2006 graduate of Saint Anselm College. Isabella described her dream of leaving Mexico to study in the United States upon her high school graduation. She was repeatedly told by people that her aspirations were too high and that “dreamers don’t survive.”
Despite this, she held out hope and applied to Saint Anselm College. Not only was she admitted to the college, but she was able to attend due to the generous support of college benefactors. Isabela greatly values her time spent on the hilltop in Manchester, N.H. She went from a little girl in Mexico who wondered “What if” to a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City who now asks “What’s next”?
Prof. Margaret Carson’s Film “Vietnam Nurses” Receives Emmy Award
October 1, 2007
Saint Anselm College Nursing Professor Margaret Carson attended the News and Documentary Emmy Awards in New York City on September 24, 2007. Her film, Vietnam Nurses With Dana Delaney, which originally aired on WE TV, was nominated for two awards: Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form and for Outstanding Editing. She did not walk away disappointed, as her documentary received an Emmy award for editing.
In this podcast, Professor Carson explains how she found out she was nominated for an Emmy, her experience attending the Emmy ceremony in New York City, and how her film connects with the college’s mission. She believes there is relevance for current students, as most of the nurses in her film were the same age during their Vietnam service as today’s college juniors and seniors.
Professor Carson spent more than a decade researching the stories of Vietnam nurses. She felt it was important to make a documentary film to ensure that these stories would not be lost to history.
Read College News Release: “Vietnam Nurses” Wins an Emmy for Editing
A Preview of the Chapel Art Center Exhibition “Passages”
September 28, 2007
In this podcast, we feature an interview with Fr. Iain MacLellan, O.S.B., director of the Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College. He discusses the first exhibition of the season, titled Passages, which features the new collage work of Fr. James Palmigiano, O.C.S.O. Fr. James is a Cistercian monk. who creates delicate and intimate collage panels, which represets his own interior vision and spirituality.
The exhibition is part of an ongoing focus by the Chapel Art Center on art and contemplation and how the vita contemplative, or the “contemplative life,” inspires and facilitates an artistic sensibility and spirit.
The Passages exhibit runs through October 27, 2007. To learn more about this and other upcoming exhibitions, visit the Chapel Art Center Web site at www.anselm.edu/chapelartcenter.
Image credit: James Palmigiano, O.C.S.O., Untitled Collage, 2006
Father Jonathan Delivers Homily at Opening Mass
September 10, 2007
On the first day of classes in late August, students and faculty filled the pews of the Abbey Church to celebrate the opening mass of the 2007-2008 academic year. Father Jonathan DeFelice, O.S.B, president of Saint Anselm College, delivered the homily in which he praises Saint Monica and Pope Benedict XVI.
He spoke about the relationship between “humanity and holiness”. Pope Benedict used the Latin correlative “Et… Et”, meaning the Great Both… And, to answer a priest who had been told he spent too much time playing soccer and not enough time participating in Eucharistic Adoration.
The Holy Father stated that one should not have to choose but can both play soccer and be devoted to God. Father Jonathan applied this to life at Saint Anselm College. He spoke about how we as individuals and as a college community can use this message in our daily lives. He concluded his homily with the hope that the school year can “begin with the joy that comes from knowing that our faith is neither an obstacle nor a threat to true learning; nor is learning an obstacle or a threat to our faith.”
Sen. Sam Brownback Proposes Changes to Social Security System
September 5, 2007
In this podcast, we feature a speech by republican presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, who spoke at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on September 4, 2007. During his talk, Sen. Brownback outlined his proposal for reforming the Social Security System, which includes allowing people to put five percent of their taxable income into private accounts.
In his plan, workers would have the choice to remain with the current system or have the ability to save and invest for their own retirement.
After his speech, the senator joined students and faculty for an informal lunch in Davison Hall where discussion continued on Sen. Brownback’s proposed changes to Social Security as well as other issues (read related Union Leader article).
William Shipman, co-author of Promises to Keep: Saving Social Security’s Dream,” and co-chair of the Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Choice also spoke during Sen. Brownback’s appearance at the college.
Photos by Alex Witkowicz
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