Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 with funding from in Member Boston Library Consortium Libraries http://archive.org/details/bostoncollegemags1997bost 1(4 '4 r > «.;m yZSFS&. .V lP% It S^5§ :t, £ Unravelling JJi^S^ ^T ^"-*vi*V* **-^ arrets?£gMBgU=; v4/z excerptfrom a novel by Elizabeth Graver ggggSsSKBg Si. —.*•--.—-_»—>-.*•*-——^--—.- PROLOGUE In the garden When I was a boy devouring seven books a week was nicely mysterious and that it might be about vampires. courtesy of the New Lots Branch of the Brooklyn Once I spent a month on the complete works of Thomas PublicLibrary,Iknewthattherewereworksofnonfiction in Malory, neverquite understandingwhatthe HolyGrailwas. the building, just as I knew there was a tundra in the Arctic, It would be temptingly Freudian to say that my reading an expansive desert in northern Africa and mountain ranges was an attempt to escape, whether from self or from my at the bottom ofthe sea. circumstance. I hold a differentview. Reading certainlywas The New Lots Branch was a warehouse with windows, an escape, but it wasn't an escape from self; itwas to selfand — and its simple and as I saw it sensible—geography was mytrue condition thatI was escaping, to the private selfthat suchthatyouenteredthegrovesoffictionwhenyouwalked was mostreal and thatremains mostreal andvaluable to me. through themaindoorandonlybypassingthroughandout This period ofstory reading lasted years. I date its end to the other end did you come to the reductively named summercampwhenIwas 14. 1wastobeawaythreeweeks,and shadowland ofnonfiction. The borderwas clearly marked soI loadedupon the mostrobustvolumesIcould find. Oneof by freestanding display cases for recentlypublished books, mycounselorswasacollegeboy,andashepassedmybunkone and I don't recall ever crossing it unless I had to, as when day he looked at the book in my hand and said, "Dos Passos? some schoolteacher ordered up a 500-word reporton, say, WhatareyoudoingreadingDosPassos?"JoeCollege'sintent, "TheAge ofAtomic Energy" or"Homer, the Greek Bard" as I later understood, was to show me that he, too, knew who using ruled margins, script handwriting, at least five foot- Dos Passos was. Since I didn't, however, I took him to mean notedreferencesandacoverillustration (an atomicnucleus that I was reading wrong. Soon after this I did become self- surrounded by a swirl oflesser particles, or a sharp-nosed conscious about reading and secretive about my choices. I man wearing a helmet and tunic, with Crayola blood became civilized. The garden gates closed behind me, but pooling below one ofhis heels). that's all right; I had got away with plenty. Except for those occasional and necessary raids on the EncyclopediaAmericana and its ilk, I ravened throughoutmy Between work, wife, kids, friends, a modest civic career childhood in the groves offiction, choosing books by size, and a house in the grip ofentropy, I have little time to color, illustration or a sudden itch to know what the read atall today. Andwhen I do read, I don'treach forfiction Japanese put in their "best" short stories. Ifa book looked but for books ofstrong opinion, which I seem to need ifI'm like it might be ripe, I ate it and never worried. Barbarian to stay awake for more than a dozen pages or past 10 P.M., that I was, I had no notion ofliterature, no idea that some whichever comes first. books had standing and others didn't or that somewhere I am familiar with the body ofopinion which holds that men and women satand dreamed up lists ofstories thatdid the time ofliterary fiction has just passed and we are in the you good and lists ofstories that gave you rickets. I didn't age ofmovies or websites or nothing. I have, in fact, read a even know that reading fiction was considered an act with number ofstrong opinions on this topic. And for all I know implications, as opposed to nonfiction, whose implications they may be right and I may be prime evidence. I understood full well from my cousin Harvey, who was It may also be, however, thatI am temporarilyoffcourse, devoted to books about ham radio operations and spent all that somedaywhen the kids are offearning their own living his free time hunched over a microphone in the garage. and I've nailed the last piece of oak flooring, that I'll find And so I chose Hans Brinker because it was fat, Jack myself turning away from my public, performing selves, — — London's The Sea JT^b/fbecause the jacket illustration was heading again not for the garden, which is shut but for lurid, and The Nakedand the Dead for reasons that will be the inner selfthat I discover there and that you discern only obvious to anyone who's ever been a boy or known a boy. when you're not trying to, like a man walking on the street I read The Scarlet Letter without comprehending Hester's whocatcheshimselfwholeandsubstantiveandstrangein the crime (a wonderful way to read it), Camus's The Plague passing glass and marvels for a moment. withoutknowingitwasa metaphor, and I picked upCarson OurstoryfromElizabethGraver'snovel beginsonpage 14. McCullers's The HeartIsa Lonely Hunterthinking the title Ben Birnbaum BOSTON COLLEGE *r^ magazine SUMMER 1997 VOL.57 NO. 3 The agent 4 DEPARTMENTS 1 by Elizabeth Graver 2 LETTERS New For a England farm girl in the late 19th century, the LINDEN LANE 3 mills ofLawrence, Massachusetts, promised adventure, Bodhran days. Fr. Leahy's freedom and the possibility ofaltering fate. An excerpt from first year. Afropessimism. Unravelling, a novel. An hour in the stratosphere. ADVANCEMENT 52 24 The judgments of Solomon Q&A 54 by Bruce Morgan Thomas Oboe Lee For Leslie HarrisJD'84, the law is not the issue. on the composer's life. It's the children who come before him every day. 57 WORKS & DAYS Circus musician The RikAlbani '68. operator 3 6 ALUMNOTES byJames M. OToole 72, Ph.D:81 follows page 28 Thomas Gasson, SJ, had no mandate to move BC to a new COVER campus. Nor did he have the cash. He just did it. The second photograph courtesy ofthe in an inaugural-year series on some notable BC presidents. American Textile History Museum On 43 target AA by Ernest L. Fortin, BC Since the 1950s, theologian Ernest Fortin has been issuing iconoclastic, learned, humane, elegant, witty and caustic missives on politics and on religion. A compendium. LETTERS BOSTON COLLEGE TESTIMONY "romantic"viewofimmigration. FAITH COUNT magazine This view holds that liberal im- What an interesting, informa- Bruce Morgan's article ["Like migration laws are per se good tive article on Michael Walsh fish in a bowl," Linden Lane, SUMMER 1997 ["Testament:TheWalshtapes," and that anyone who questions Spring 1997] on the weekly VOLUME 57 NUMBER 3 the currentsystem isa racistora Spring 1997]. prayer services of BC's Muslim xenophobe. There are perfectly EDITOR I found myself quietly and Student Association highlights Ben Birnbaum sound-minded Americans (in- quickly absorbed in the tapes the importance ofproviding for SENIOR EDITOR cluding many relatively recent Charlotte Bruce Harvey andyourelaborations.Ithought immigrants) who believe that the religious diversity found on I knew Father but certainly not university campuses. ASSOCIATE EDITOR U.S. immigration laws are seri- SBErNuIcOeRMWoRrIgTaEnR to tIhteisedxitfefnitcutlhtattoIkdno—ownowwh.o to oinuesslcyafplaabwleed.whTehne ycoonuclcuosnisoindeirs worTlhdeiosphenoimnegltionesttwaotes:bi"lTlihoen John Om»belets thank for the article Richard just a few ofthe facts: A greater Muslims."Theprincipaldemog- Freeland or you. rapherofglobalreligiousadher- DESIGN DIRECTOR percentage of immigrants are David B. Williams JOSEPHP.KEATING'36 onwelfare than natives; in 1990, ence is David Barrett ofRegent ART DIRECTOR University in Virginia. As of Susan Callaghan Natick, Massachusetts the United States spent $16 bil- mid-1997, he reports a world- PHOTOGRAPH<•Y DIRECTOR Itwas good tohaveMike Walsh liimomnimgorranetisnwtehlafnarethpeayympeanitdstion wide Muslim population of GaryGilbert broughttolifeinhisownwords, taxes; immigrants make up 25 1,154,302,000. <• PHOTOGRAPHER andalsotohaveBenBirnbaum's percent of inmates in federal REV.TITUSLEONARDPRESLER Lee Pellegrini insightfulcommentsonWalsh's penitentiaries. Cambridge, Massachusetts PUBLICATIONS ASSISTANT complex char—acter and his We need a civil debate in or- PatMahoney achi—evements often hard- der to develop an immigration NEWS HUNGRY CONTRIBUT•I8-NG WRITER won as president ofBC. system that makes sense. ClareM. Dunsford I came to the University in Kanstroom'sstatementsdonoth- It was wonderful to read about 1964 as o—ne of Walsh's faculty ingtomovethatdebate forward. BC's efforts in the community BostonCollegeMagazine hiresand ata t—imewhen itwas BILLMARSAN'86 and even to learn about the tur- ispublishedquarterly(Fall,Winter, relatively small and I actually moil on the campus ["Heat and Spwriitnhg,edSiutomrmiaelro)ffbiyceBsoastttohneCOoflfliecgee, got to know and like him. One McLean, Virginia light,"LindenLane,and"Town ofPublications& PrintMarketing, could hardly have been more of meeting," Spring 1997]. Please (617)552-4820. FAX:(617)552-2441. an outsider to the BC of those STANDARD-BEARER continue to write about what is ISSN0885-2049. days than I was: a Yankee with happening at BC. We have the MPaesrsi.o,diacnadlsadpdoitsitoangaelpmaaiidlaitngBoosfftiocne,s. threeHarvarddegrees,whohad I just finished "Rebound" newspaper to find out what is Postmaster:sendaddresschangesto MIT [Linden Lane, Spring 1997]. As OfficeofPublications& Print been teachingat andwas a a BC parent, I root for BC's happeningelsewherearoundthe MaCrhkeetsitnngu,tH1i2l2l,CMolAleg0e21R6o7a.d, specialist in English history. I teams and follow the basketball world. became the first Protestant Copyright©1997Trusteesof and football seasons. The cama- ANDREAMUNSTERYOCH'89 Boston College.Printedin U.S.A. member of the history depart- raderie created byhavinga team STEVEYOCH '87 Allpublicationrightsreserved. ment, though not its first non- OpinionsexpressedinBostonCollege Catholic: Allen Wakstein had to root for was a wonderful St. Paul, Minnesota Magazinedonotnecessarilyreflect part of my daughter's college dtihfseatcrvuiilbetuywt,sesdotfaffrfte,heedooUfnnocivhreasrrsaginetdyt.opaBarleCunmMtnsii,s beeWnehiraenddthoethyeerarfbaecfuolrtey.now esxhpeecriaemnecet.o BBuCt. tWhaet'sasnaotfawmihlyy MISTAKEN IDENTITY ofundergraduatestudents. aBpCproachingretirementoweour decided on BC because of aca- The caption to a photograph in careers to Walsh's bold demics, not sports. the Springissue [Advancement] program of development and BC's graduation rates speak misidentified one of the alum- diversification, which your forthemselves.Admissioncrite- nae attending a fund-raiser for iatr,tiycoleundBgeCscprriobfeessssoorswealnl.d Fmroorme rgiuaarmauntsetessttahyeatquaalilteyveolftthhaet PtrheofeNseswortsohnipCionllWeegseteArlnumCnuale- rheocwentmuchgrthaedyu,atetoso,wilolwleeartno education for student athletes tKuarre.enTBhiermwionmgahnamiNdeCn't6if4i,edwaass Mike Walsh. as well as other students. I think Mr. O'Brien is a fine coach. But actually the guest speaker, THOMASW.PERRY we cannot allow the "two stan- Patricia Szarek Aburdene IVatertown, Massachusetts dard" approach to admissions NC'69, author of Megatrends to creep in. It's an injustice to for Women. ROMANTIC VIEW student athletes, to other stu- BCM welcomes letters from readers. dents and to the philosophy of Letters may be edited for length Daniel Kanstroom's statements the institution. Fr. Leahy must and clarity and must be signed to aboutU.S. immigrationlawand continuetoplaceacademicsfirst. be published. Our fax number is policy [Q&A, Spring 1997] area (617) 552-2441, and our e-mail ad- fine example of what I call the JOANE.GALLIGAN dress is [email protected]. Southport, Connecticut I o\ Co1.1.F.GE MAGAZINE LINDEN LANE Student David Johnston, right, with Cape Breton style fiddler Buddy MacMaster. Bodhran days SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE MUSICALLY INCLINED For one fine week this June, the jack- whistle, 200musiciansanddancersfromacross hammer pounding of summer con- North America and from Australia, Italy, Ber- struction projects gave way to more muda, England and Ireland converged on the ethereal sounds on the campus. The airaround campus to study with masters of their arts. St. Mary's Hall vibrated with the drumbeats Seamus Connolly, master fiddler and musical oftheIrishbodhran,asagroupofyoungpeople director of BC's Irish Studies Program, had in baggyjeans beattime in a circle on the grass. broughtthis eclecticgroup togetherforGaelic A tall, square-shouldered woman walked the Roots III, a combination summer school and concrete expanse ofO'Neill Plaza and sent up festival ofGaelic music and dance. towardtheskythepure, acappellatonesofIrish Those who answered Connolly's call in- sean-nos singing. A lone harpist made heavenly cluded a sweet-faced single mother of two music from a bench along Linden Lane. fromAlaska and a redheaded optometristfrom Bowing the fiddle, beating the bodhran and Connecticut, brash and sassy as a whistle, who plucking the harp, blowing the pipes and the hadbeenaformerchampionstepdancer.There BOS ION COLLEGE MAGAZINE 3 , LINDEN LANE Two mothers wearing wasJohn, a lanky train conduc- a silent ring ofstudents, fiddles young joined the old. Master tor on the Scranton-New York in hand, listened intently. In a accordion player Jackie Daly, suburban bobs and City line and a step-dance classroom atthe top ofthestairs resplendent in red high-top khakis clasped hands teacher himself. There was amansatalonewithhisbristling sneakers, prefaced a reel with Rachel from Minnesota, whose armfulofuilleannpipes.Teased the coy wish that there be "all with their daughters and earlyloveofstepdancingledher aboutbeingostracized(thepipes rattlin' and nothin' breakin'," spun; one ofthe teen- mothertostartthestep-dancing are, after all, an acquired taste), but before you knew it he was school that Rachel runs today. heexplainedthathewasthelone joined on the stage bytradition- agers, with multicolored Caroline, a pediatric geneticist beginner in a workshop held al step dancer Donncha O fromOhio, firstheardthe call in downstairs whose teacher had Muineachain, who broke out hair and a pierced lip, a Tower Records Store in New volunteered to climb up and of the wings in an unrehearsed stepped up the speed, the Orleans, where she was stopped down to give both "levels" per- explosion of clattering feet and in her tracks by the haunting sonal attention. electrifying smile. Brothers shrieking foursome held sound ofthe uilleann pipes be- The step-dance workshops Charlie and Ben Lennon, be- together by nothing more ingplayedoverthestore'ssound were held in Carney, where loved masters of the County system.Recountingtheplaceand startledacademicsemergedfrom Leitram-County Sligo style of than centripetal force time she fell in love, she recalled the first-floor elevator into a fiddle,playedsidebyside,capped and the ofthe music. that the musician was Willie gaggle of gangly preteen girls by the same shock of dazzling lift Clancy and the song was "The who tapped and leaped about white hair and bushy eyebrows. Breeze ofErin." She boughtthe like graceful spiders. In the be- A new generation of Gaelic recordingon the spot, feelingas ginners' classroom, women legends played a jazzy set that if she understood the music in dancers from their twenties to stoodtraditiononitsear.Tommy her bones. She had come to BC their fifties compared the aches Hayes, a round, curly-headed to learn to play the tin whistle and pains they were earning in gnome who personified mis- and to meetothers whose bones two daily workshops of two chieffrom the moment he took felt the music, too. hourseach, sometimesfollowed the stage, was a whirling dervish The center ofmusical activ- bydancingin theirdorm rooms of rhythm. With bodhran and ityfortheweekwasGassonHall until after midnight. A massage spoons and drums, he goaded wheretheIrishRoomlivedupto therapist from Stow, Massa- Gerry O'Connor's banjo and its name as the site of casual chusetts, decided that at next Zan McLeod's guitar into an afternoonrecitalsbytheschool's year's sessions she ought to set exuberant session of musical world-famous teachers, a con- up a table and offerherservices. anarchy. certofNewEnglandmasterson The only student who didn't In a more traditional vein, Thursday night and Saturday's seem to feel the pull of gravity husband and wife Joe and setandcaelidance. In one group wasanelfinblondgirlwhocould Antoinette McKenna, on pipes ofsetdancers,twomotherswear- barely reach the lavatory sink and harp, played and sang with ing suburban bobs and sedate to wash her hands. "How long Antoinette's sister and well- khakis clasped hands with their have you been dancing?" she known whistle player, Mary daughters and spun in a ring; was asked. Bergin, a song that enchanted oneoftheteenagers,withmulti- "Four years," she replied. the crowd with its hypnotic colored hair and a pierced lip, "And how old are you?" refrain: stepped up the speed, and the "Fouryears,"sheunironically shriekingfoursomewas held to- replied. You are the call and I am gether by nothing more than At the week's final concert, the answer, centripetal force and the lift of sold-out to the public, the You are the song and I the music. master musicians took to the On the upper floors of stage in Robsham Theater and am the dance, Gasson, classrooms were desig- put on what master of cere- You are the night and I nated by instrument; a ramble monies Brian O'Donovan of am the day. WGBH down the corridortookonepast radio called not a the squeaking ofbeginning fid- performance but a celebration Their harmonywas perfect. dlers, the childish tootofthe tin of the ensemble tradition that whistle, the aptly silent, closed is Celtic music. Musicians Clare M. Dunsford door ofa harp class. In Gasson performed and came back later 306, Buddy MacMaster, the in the program to accompany grandfatherofCape Breton fid- others, styles appeared and dlers,playedatasmalldeskwhile reappeared in new guises, the 4 B( »S I o\ COL1 EG] \1 \(, VZINE ' THE RECORD OFF ROLL CALL This spring's honorary-degree recipients were: Cardinal Roger The attorney general chats Etchegaray, an adviser to Pope John Paul II on human-rights issues; Peter Dervan, '67, a Caltech chemist; UniversityTrustee John A. McNeice, Jr., '54, retired chairman and CEO of the Colonial Group Inc.; civil-rights activist, singer and history professor Bernice Johnson Reagon; and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Ceremonies were held in Conte Forum because ofrain, and the stands were packed with more than 10,000 graduates, family members and friends. LEGAL ADDITION Deval Patrick, former head ofthe Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, will teach a course in "Emerging Issues in Civil Rights Law" at the Law School this fall. He addressed law graduates at Commencement Exercises May 25. ENTRUSTED Janet Renowasallattorneygeneralwhensheaccepted herhonorarydegreeandaddressedtheCommencementaudience in Conte Forum, but an hour earlier she'd revealed another side to a select group ofgraduates. The U.S. attorney general servingothers,torebuildasense Quizzed about her impres- slipped in quietly, begin- ofcommunityinAmerica," sug- sions ofWashington, D.C., af- ning at the back of the room gested Reno) to the difficultyof ter four years in office, she and moving slowly toward the sustaining a private life in her speculated that none of the front, reachingout and shaking highly visible job ("People are problems afflicting the U.S. students' hands. It was Com- kinder than you might expect. I system of government is new. mencement morning, and think a lot ofthe meanness you ShecitedabiographyofLincoln JanetReno, dressed in a lemon- hear about is overblown"). She that she was reading, which colored suit, was scheduled to spoke frankly, with a school- portrays Lincoln as regularly GSSW Dean June Gary Hopps has give the graduation speech in teacher's folksiness, seemingly assailed by opposition leaders been appointed chair ofthe Spelman an hour, but she had asked to eager to share her thoughts on demanding to know the scope College board oftrustees. A Spelman meet first with a few of those any topic. of his connivance in scandals alumna, Hopps has served as a about to receive their degrees. At one point, after she had on his watch. "They were trustee ofthe Atlanta-based college Taking her seat at the front asked the soon-to-be-graduates always asking him, 'What did since 1989 and chaired the search of the room, Reno leaned for- to tell her their career plans, a he know and when did he know committee to replace President ward, elbows on the table, and young woman in the third row it?' The questions sounded so Johnetta Cole. began to speakin avoice so soft volunteered that she was about much like the interrogatories HEIGHTS PRAISE thatshe could barelybe heard a to graduate with a degree in we get today." hat toss away. "Gee, it seems social work. "Oh, that's won- A law student asked whether The Heights named Dean for like yesterday that I was gradu- derful," Reno replied. "That thegrowingpushfor"crimecon- Student Development Robert atingfromCornell,"shesaid,to reminds me ofone ofthe great- trol" threatens to undermine Sherwood "Person ofthe Year" instant polite laughter. Ques- est compliments I was given constitutional guaranteesofdue this spring, applauding his handling tions posed by the two dozen when I first came to Washing- process. "Well, ofcourse this is ofthe gambling scandal and students, handpicked by their ton. Someone said, 'She seemed notjustalegal issue," Renosaid. tensions associated with student respective deans, ranged from like a very nice lady, but she "This is one of the great issues protests. Also noted was his travel — generational challenges ("We seems more like a social worker of the human condition how to Cape Verde and Jamaica with need to get back to the idea of than an attorney general.' to limit privacy and freedom in student volunteer missions. BOSTON COLLEGE MAG VZINE 5 — — 1 LINDEN LANE theinterestofthegreatergood." attribute her success, a student myselfup and keep going." Reno said she missed beingable wanted to know. "Luck," Reno When her handlers stepped to discuss such matters with her responded instantly, as laughter forward to usher her on, Reno mother,whodied fiveyearsago, worked around the room. "I gently reiterated one simple bit and tohearher strongopinions. think a lot of it was luck. But of advice to students: Follow Reno's motherdarted in and also my parents. My father was your passion undeterred. Then out ofher talk, with each refer- a newspaper reporter. My the attorney general stood, ence looming more powerfully mother was extraordinarily shooksomemorehandsandleft as the central figure in her important in makingme believe forherother,largerobligations. daughter'slife.TowhatdidReno in myself. She taughtme to pick Bruce Morgan THE NATURAL THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE William Flynn, 1916-1997 j. Samira Zebian '99, will represent Massachusetts in the Miss America pageant on September 13. A biology and economics major, Zebian is BillFlynn,whodiedatage8 knew his age until I read his captain ofthe Golden Eagles Dance on June 27, was athletic, obituary. Team and a choreographer forthe resolute, loyal, modest, confi- Yearslater,I'dsee Billatbas- BC Dance Ensemble. At the Miss dent,personable,reverent,good- ketball games in Conte Forum. looking, a formerFBI agentand He could have had any seat in Massachusetts competition, she won a $4,000 scholarship for her the father ofseven. Ifthere was the house. He could have had a something else a BC man ofhis jeweled palanquin behind the tap dancing. generationwassupposedtobe,I home bench or a helicopter A GUY'S BEST FRIEND don't know what it is. hovering over center court if The Shea Field baseball diamond Bill was a math whiz, too he'd wanted. But he chose a was named in honor offormer BC though he didn't make much of couple of out of the way, off- coach Eddie Pellagrini this spring. that. A BC man of his genera- center seats up in the crowd Several Boston Red Sox tion wouldn't. But he taught in above the visiting team's walk- the Boston College math de- way. When you know who you representatives attended, including Johnny Pesky, Pellagrini's teammate partment after World War II heretofore unrevealed data are,you'realwaysthere,sowhere on the 1946 American League and was lateralumni association fromdollarstograduationrates. you sit doesn't much matter. championship team. Ken Coleman, directorand editorofone ofthe Most athletic directors run —ChancellorJ.DonaldMonan, the retired Red Sox broadcaster, periodicals that preceded BCM. from such stories as they would SJ who as BC president was served as master ofceremonies. Most famously, he was the 35- from a plague of scrofula. They Bill's partner and admirer and — During 31 seasons at BC, Pellagrini year (1957-1992) athletic direc- like to do theirworkfrom within friend gave the homily at the led the Eagles to 359 victories and torwho worked out BC's rising amistyfogofsentimentandsong. funeral Mass. He began with an three appearances in the College athletic fortunes on the backsof And wouldn'twe all. Bill was sit- image of "the sturdiest" New World Series. envelopes, who sealed multi- ting in his office offthe lobby of England "oaks that are the last million-dollardealswithahand- RobertsCenterwhenIarrivedto to shed their leaves." Bill, he FEVER PITCH shake,whoneverforgotafaceor tell him what I had in mind. His said, was thatoak. He was right. Last April, BCbOp! alumni from a commitment. He was the man door was open (of course). He Bill was a natural the way oaks across the country joined current in charge while everything qui- was talking on the phone (of are, andyou onlyhad to be with band members on stage at Robsham etlygotdone:oldandnewalumni course). There was no secretary him five minutes to know it. for a loth-anniversary concert at stadiums; Roberts Center and visible(ofcourse).Thephonestill Aseveryninth-graderknows, which the band announced the McHugh Forum; Conte Forum athisear,hewavedmein,though the essence of tragedy is the release ofits first CD, "From the and the Flynn Recreation Com- we barelyknew each other atthe natural who falls, whose talents Edge." The disc's 17 cuts include a plex; the Beanpot, the Big East time.Afewminuteslaterheheard are in the end a curse, too large sampling from each ofthe band's and the Notre Dame series. me out. And then he opened the a burden, too heavy a gift. Bill annual concerts and feature the work Twelveyearsago Iwantedto books,madeeverynumber,coach neverstumbledundertheweight ofDuke Ellington, Glenn Miller and write a story about BC's athlet- and athlete available to me. The of his abilities. He was prolific, the Andrews Sisters as well as some ics program andwhatitbrought only information I nevergotwas true and honored all his long novelty and funk selections. The CD to the University bywayofgifts his age. "What do you want that life. It's the rarest ofstories. He is available through the BC and problems. I wanted to write for?" he asked at a later meeting, was a blest man. Bookstore. a story that contained all the smiling. He smiled, but I never Ben Birnbaum 6 BOSTON CO] 1 EG! \l \(,\ZI\t