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Public Education and the Future of
Sesquicentennial Medal in recognition
Mass at Fenway Park, September 15,
Democracy, October 5, 2012
of her commitment to teaching and
2012, 4:00 p.m.
Led by Lynch School of Education profes-
scholarship.
The Sesquicentennial Celebration will
sors Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Dennis
officially begin with a Mass at Fenway
Shirley, this symposium will address issues
Park in Boston. The Mass is open to all
related to public education and its role in
Education, November 8–9, 2012
democratic societies.
Led by education professor Henry Braun
members of the Boston College commu-
Religion and the Liberal Aims of Higher
and assistant professor of theology Erik
nity—students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families—and will be concelebrated
Drew Gilpin Faust, October 10, 2012
Owens, this conference will examine the
by members of the Jesuit community and
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin
unique contributions that religiously affili-
alumni priests. It will be followed by a
Faust will address the Boston College
ated colleges and universities can offer to
reception that will include a walking tour
community as part of the Sesquicenten-
the educational enterprise.
of the ballpark. Rain date: September 16.
nial Speakers Series. A noted Civil War
Registration opens in June.
historian, Faust will be awarded a
Energy: From the Last to the Next 150 Years, February 2013 Led by Michael Naughton, chairman of the physics department, and Willie Padilla, associate professor of physics, this two-day symposium will consider the future state of energy from the vantage points of physics, chemistry, biology, political science, and economics. Migration: Past, Present, and Future, March 21–22, 2013 Sponsored by the University’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, this symposium will explore the changing
The symbol
patterns of migration and what needs to
“Evolutionary” is how the late Boston College historian Charles Donovan, SJ, described the approximately four-foot (diameter) tiled seal that serves as the University’s 150th anniversary logo. The mosaic was first laid in 1889, during the tenure of Robert Fulton, SJ, the University’s third (1870–80) and eighth (1888–91) president. It remained embedded in the floor of a first-story hallway at Boston College’s original Harrison Avenue
be done to address the plight of international refugees. Student Concert at Symphony Hall,
building in the city’s South End until March 1991. Donovan called the seal “intermedi-
March 23, 2013
ate,” because it contains some but not all elements of the current design. In place are
Performances by the University Chorale,
the interior shield, the crowns of St. Botolph’s Town (as Boston, England, was sometimes
the Boston College Symphony Orchestra,
known, though that town’s shield featured three crowns), the three hills of Boston,
BC bOp!, and the University Wind
and the open book. Still to be added, in the 20th century, would be the Jesuits’ seal
Ensemble will be featured.
(replacing IHS), text for the book (in Greek, the motto “Ever to Excel”), and a Latin scroll reading Religioni et Bonis Artibus (“To Religion and the Fine Arts”), near the base. In 1991, with plans afoot to convert the empty building to residential use (now known as Harrison Court, it houses Boston University medical students), the seal was removed to
Founders Day, April 9, 2013 A public convocation in the tradition of
Chestnut Hill. It was installed in Fulton Hall during the renovation of 1995, on the floor
the Centennial Celebration of 1963, which
in front of the elevator near the main entrance off the Quad. However, many students
featured an address by President John F.
declined to tread on it, leading to flying leaps as the elevator doors opened. The seal was
Kennedy in Alumni Stadium, this celebration
removed to the University’s warehouse in 2010. It will be inserted into a wall at a time
will include the second Sesquicentennial
and place yet to be determined.
Speakers Series address and the awarding of
—Anna Marie Murphy
a Sesquicentennial Medal.
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photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert