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This year, a UD staff member was elected as the National Association of Lay Ministry’s Chair of their Board of Directors.
It’s that time of year (while I’m still digesting Thanksgiving giblets and deviled eggs), that I unveil my yearly Christmas list of things that I really don’t want, but will probably get, anyway. Receiving what you don’t want for Christmas is traditional for fathers like me. When I was a kid in the 1970s Christmas shopping for my dad, I’m pretty sure his list never included Brut Soap on Rope or the Smokeless Ashtray by Ronco. But it doesn’t hurt to wish—and then be plagued by disappointment.
Maureen Pater Hanson ’77 makes things happen. Last year she was in Dayton for a College of Arts and Sciences advisory board meeting and made time to meet with two Flyer students. She needed to know how their trip to France had gone.
Pope Francis named Archbishop Francis Leo, a two-time graduate of UD, among 21 people from around the world to be made cardinals.
“There’s nothing like Christmas on Campus anywhere in the world.” That’s not an overblown statement from Christmas on Campus co-coordinator Gabby Backus ‘25. For me — and tens of thousands of Flyers over six decades — this is a night of pure joy and selfless giving.
Whenever I pull a prank, which generally involves my grandchildren, whose maturity level is way above mine, I think outside the box.
This is a wise strategy because I can’t fit inside the box. And even if I could, the air supply to my brain would be cut off and I’d be even more immature, which admittedly would make me a better prankster.
