Alumni Voices | Summer 2021
As a student, where was your favorite campus study space? It’s a question we posed to alums. Little did we know that the deck was stacked — as in the bookshelves, or “stacks,” in Friedsam Memorial Library. It seems many of you preferred the quiet and...
A Tribute from a Friend and Colleague
Dr. Dennis R. DePerro: Leaving a Legacy By Tom Missel On Jan. 2, less than two hours after we informed the campus community that Dr. DePerro was on the road to recovery in a Syracuse hospital from a bout with COVID-19, I texted him. “THAT should make you...
Five of a Kind
The Bonnies went all in with a stellar starting lineup and provided a beacon of hope in a sobering year By Scott Eddy It was a scene from a modern-day “Hoosiers.” Here, as confetti fell over University of Dayton Arena in the moments following the Atlantic...
Bonnies at birth
College friends deliver baby boys on the same day By Beth Eberth Some might call it coincidence. Katie (Meka) DiPerna calls it the Bonaventure circle of life. After all, who would think that 16 years after Katie and her future roommate Caitlin (Curran) Farrell met on...
College Jobs
Before leaving college and working for a living, many alumni were working for a living — or at least to earn enough pocket money for an occasional late-night Burger King run. College jobs. Whether it was working the slop line or washing pots and pans in Hickey Dining...
A Will to Lead
By Susan Anderson At the age of 21, in the fall semester of his senior year at St. Bonaventure, Norb Bennett, ’62, did something most people at that age only dream about: He took over the operation of his family’s dairy farm. He grew up on that...
Amid the Inferno
2016 SBU grad shares tales of battling Western wildfires By Cameron Hurst It’s the second week of September and the depth of a wildfire in Sierra National Forest leads United States Forest Service crew members stationed at Coconino National Forest in...
On the Front Line
As cases of COVID-19 soared to new highs into the fall, St. Bonaventure alumni found ways to ease the burden on those most impacted by the pandemic. Meanwhile, our students, faculty and staff made the most of a semester on campus like no other. Mark...
Flickers of Hope on Campus
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” Of all the words Saint Francis uttered, those might be his most inspirational. Heaven knows, 2020 was filled with darkness, at times feeling like a never-ending solar eclipse....
Guardian Angel
Friar Angel Vazquez proves he’s a cut above, ministering to St. Bonaventure students from his Reilly Center barbershop Story by Beth Eberth | Photos by Danny Bush, ’13, ’15 Growing up on Staten Island, New York, Br. Angel Vazquez,...