A lot goes into a good education. A lot more, however, comes out of it. Just ask Steve ’89 and Emily Molony Swanson ’89, who have created the Swanson Scholar Program to get thebest and brightest students into the College of Charleston. “Emily and I have gotten so much out of our experiences at the
Sammy and Gina Shapiro have always had a soft spot for their spiritual teachers. So much so, in fact, the couple called on three rabbis from up and down the East Coast to officiate their wedding. (It’s a long story.) That was 51 years ago, and the couple (and its reverence for religious leaders) is
Margaret “Peggy” Kanapaux Sullivan ’39 believed in making the most of your time. She also believed in education. After graduating from the College, Sullivan served in World War II as a member of the Navy’s first class of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). After the war, she studied nutrition at the University of
For Barry Coyle ’86, the bad thing about biology is you have to memorize a lot of stuff. The same thing goes for chemistry. When Coyle was taking those classes his freshman year at the College, he couldn’t get much better than a C. He started thinking maybe he should find a new branch of
Whatever you do, don’t ask Christopher Boffoli ’93 if his mother ever told him not to play with his food. He gets that a lot. All the time. Day, after day, after day. So much, in fact, that Boffoli claims, “If I had a dollar for every time an interviewer has asked me that question
Vincent di Pasquale '00, a multiplatinum music producer and remixer, is an artist first and foremost.
Tristan Shields ’05 is in the middle of nowhere – like, the kind of nowhere that’s at least 30 minutes from any sign of, well, anything other than a handful of people who seem to really like horses and land. He’s sitting in the garage on his family farm, resting from his chores and listening
It’s probably easier to sell real estate in Chernobyl than sell a seventh-grader on the idea that science is cool. But somehow, in the face of that high degree of difficulty, Haley Chamberlain Nelson ’02 has found a way to pull it off. As a key member of Untamed Science, this mother of a toddler
I was a freshman at the college 50-plus years ago, and my favorite spot quickly became 4 Green Street (now Green Way). Ten of us arrived at the three-storied house, excited about being a social experiment for our small college (approximately 500 students at the time) – the first inhabitants of a women’s dormitory. We
John C. Fremont (1836) is a complex figure in 19th-century American history - one worth remembering.
