| DeFilippos Donate $100,000 for BC Scholarship A $100,000 gift to the University by Boston College Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo and his wife Anne will establish a scholarship for a deserving female student-athlete. | |
| Winston Center for Leadership & Ethics Established Boston College has announced the establishment of The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics in its Carroll School of Management to engage business leaders, faculty and students in ethical training and leadership formation. | |
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Why Women Choose to Stay: A CWBC/C21 Event New York Times best-selling novelist Alice McDermott discusses her reasons for remaining in a church whose views of women and their appropriate role in religious life she finds ill-formed and, ultimately, "bigoted." |
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$10 Million Gift Will Fund Retreat & Conference Center A $10 million gift to Boston College from John M. (Jack) Connors, Jr. '63 and his wife Eileen M. Ahearn Connors '66, '95 MSW will establish The Connors Family Retreat and Conference Center in Dover, at the location of the former St. Stephen's Priory of the Dominican Friars acquired by the University last year. |
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BC Club Scholarship Fund Reaches $1M Boston College Club representatives recently presented a $444,000 gift to the University to benefit a scholarship fund for Boston College students from the inner city. |
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Chief Executive Scholarship Honors Financial Services Leader Dominic D'Alessandro Boston College announced the recipient of the 2005 Chief Executive Scholarship at a meeting of the Chief Executives' Club of Boston. Awarded to Souzana N. Obretenova '08, this year's Chief Executive Scholarship is named in honor of Chief Executives' Club speaker and longtime leader in the financial services industry, Dominic D'Alessandro. |
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Lewbel Named to Newly Created Roche Chair Patrick Roche '51, Hon. '01, chairman of Roche Brothers Supermarkets, Inc., has established the Roche Chair in Economics. The inaugural holder of the chair will be Prof. Arthur Lewbel. |
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Urban Scholars Program Receives $2.2 Million Gift A $2.2 million gift from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation will endow a successful Boston College program that trains teachers for jobs in urban settings, one of the most critical needs facing American education. |
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Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Family Irish Artist in Residence A performance by Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Family Irish Artist in Residence, commemorates the gift from G. Craig '64 and Maureen Sullivan that endowed Connolly's position at Boston College. |
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Worklife An @BC video feature: Straight talk from BC's new Council for Women. Related story from the Boston College Chronicle |
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$5M Gift Will Memorialize John Corcoran Longtime benefactor John M. Corcoran '48 has been memorialized with the dedication of the lower campus dining hall and plaza (at left) as the John M. Corcoran Commons. University President William P. Leahy, S.J., paid tribute to Corcoran and his family at a special dedication ceremony. |
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Memorial Labyrinth On September 11, 2003, a memorial labyrinth was dedicated to the 22 Boston College alumni lost in the 9/11 tragedy. |
