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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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....

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,...

By SUZANNE WILCOX ENGLISH On June 19, 2019, I set off on a journey I had dreamed about for seven years: hiking more than 100 miles on El Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James. Since the ninth century, pilgrims have completed the Camino to reach the tomb...

In the last edition of the magazine, we asked alumni to share with us the keepsakes they have held on to since their time on campus. Most of those who wrote to us didn’t have to look far for their sentimental and quirky treasures: a nearby closet, on the...

Scholarship recipient Terrell Kane, ’19, with Dr. Claire Watson, founding director of the Public Health Program, who served as his adviser and was “an inspiration” to him. Make your money work for you. This is a tenet John Deignan, Class of 1965, put to...