Our very first Alumni Road Trip was a terrific success last month. We stopped over in Bangor our first night and enjoyed a lovely dinner with our Maine alumni. Then we spent two nights in Bean Town and helped celebrate the St. Patrick's Day weekend. Getting together with our Boston alumni for a downhome ceilidh, complete with Cape Breton fiddler Glenn Graham, was a real treat. On the way home we celebrated the actual St. Patrick's Day in New Brunswick's very Irish City of St. John.
This fall we'll repeat the success with an Alumni Road Trip aboard the StFX bus to Celtic Colours in Cape Breton.
Campus is abuzz this week with pre-convocation activity. The grounds are being spruced up and final arrangements are being made for our 1000 new grads and their guests attending the May 4 ceremonies.
Usually spring convocation takes place on a cool, sometimes grey and drizzly day. So we were bracing ourselves for the worst sort of spring weather. Happily the forecast is smiling upon us. We're still four days away, but the prediction is for sun and warm temperatures both Saturday and Sunday! It's so much nicer when our new alumni can mingle with family, friends, faculty and staff outside of the Keating ceremony right after convocation and have keepsake photos taken.
Two other exciting events on the horizon are our Golden X Inn Roadshows taking place in Pictou County and Halifax May 30 & 31. If you're in the area, you won't want to miss the Golden X Inn experience in a different place closer to home. It's a great opportunity to get out and have fun with fellow alumni and enjoy Golden X Inn favourite, Signal Hill.
Hail and Health,
Helen
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Alumni Road Trip Gathers Steam!
It's fun to try new things from time to time, and that's exactly what we're up to in Alumni House these days. We've been seeing that beautiful StFX bus sitting outside the Keating Centre when our varsity teams aren't using it, and wondered: 'Why don't we use that bus for an alumni adventure?'
Then when we heard the Boston Alumni Chapter was thinking about having a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh, our adventure started to take shape.
Tickets went on sale Monday and our bus is nearly half-full now. We're going to stop over one night in Bangor and have dinner with our Maine alumni. Then it's off to Bean Town where we'll enjoy a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh with our Boston alumni and take in the St. Patrick's Day parade. On Monday we'll head back to the Maritimes, staying overnight in Saint John and having an Irish supper with our Saint John alumni.
My colleague Maria Hartery '87 and I are very excited about co-hosting the trip.
This is a first for Alumni Affairs, but we're confident things will fall into place and we'll have lots of fun. I'm sure that bus will see many more alumni road trips. We're looking into maybe having an Alumni tour to Celtic Colours in Cape Breton next fall.
Happy trails,
Helen
Then when we heard the Boston Alumni Chapter was thinking about having a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh, our adventure started to take shape.
Tickets went on sale Monday and our bus is nearly half-full now. We're going to stop over one night in Bangor and have dinner with our Maine alumni. Then it's off to Bean Town where we'll enjoy a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh with our Boston alumni and take in the St. Patrick's Day parade. On Monday we'll head back to the Maritimes, staying overnight in Saint John and having an Irish supper with our Saint John alumni.
My colleague Maria Hartery '87 and I are very excited about co-hosting the trip.
This is a first for Alumni Affairs, but we're confident things will fall into place and we'll have lots of fun. I'm sure that bus will see many more alumni road trips. We're looking into maybe having an Alumni tour to Celtic Colours in Cape Breton next fall.
Happy trails,
Helen
Friday, February 1, 2008
A beautiful farewell for Fr. Gerald Power
| A lovely funeral mass was celebrated at the StFX Chapel this past Wednesday for Fr. Gerry Power '47. Many alumni, faculty and staff gathered to remember the brilliant priest-professor who inspired students in the classics. This past week Fr. Gerry was being remembered by many alumni as an intellectual giant -- a brilliant man with a terrific sense of humour and caring nature. The legacy of former priest-professors like Fr. Gerry contributes much to the unique character of today's StFX. Helen |
Friday, January 4, 2008
Happy New Year from Alumni House!
It's still pretty quiet on campus today -- students don't start moving back into residence until Sunday, Jan. 6. If my own first-year daughter is any example, they're looking forward to it. That's not to say that the holidays with mom and dad aren't terrific, but first-year students become a pretty close-knit group from September to December and they typically miss each other over those three weeks off.
The folks working in Alumni House and the rest of Advancement also had a wonderful Christmas break and are full of energy (some of us anyway) this week getting back to work. In Alumni Affairs we're already well into planning Homecoming 2008 and working with our chapters to help with upcoming events. We're also putting together the winter issue of AlumniNews and look forward to sharing lots of great Xaverian stories with you.
May you and yours have a joyful and prosperous New Year!
Helen
The folks working in Alumni House and the rest of Advancement also had a wonderful Christmas break and are full of energy (some of us anyway) this week getting back to work. In Alumni Affairs we're already well into planning Homecoming 2008 and working with our chapters to help with upcoming events. We're also putting together the winter issue of AlumniNews and look forward to sharing lots of great Xaverian stories with you.
May you and yours have a joyful and prosperous New Year!
Helen
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