“Running for me is a lot about healing and working things out … When you run, your body hurts, but your mind feels clear. That’s my personal reason why I run. Whether it’s school or you’re fighting with your friends, or you’re just tired, or, it can be bigger things,” said Lauren Healy, MCAS ’19.
“Without training for this marathon I wouldn’t have seen so much of Boston … I had no idea how much that was there.”
“When you do like 10 miles, you’re like, ‘Oh a half marathon’s only a 5K more,’” Thurlow said. “So, you kind of start like, ‘Oh, could I do a half marathon twice and call it a day?”
“‘Why did I want to go into history?’ Because I’m interested in it. Will history save the world? I doubt it. Will it save my life? No, but I’m interested in it anyways,” said Maney.
“It’s important to understand these conflicts if we’re going to avoid repeating these same mistakes,” said Savage.
Emma Hammack brings freshness, positivity, and sometimes her dog to her class on 19th Century Romanticism.
After growing up in the middle of political and religious unrest in Ireland, Rev. Oliver P. Rafferty, S.J. now teaches about some of the historical events he live.
“If you start to look at your history with clear eyes, you will be more likely to look at the world with clear eyes,” said Richardson.
“My uncle was in a kind of rural area in Maryland, and I’d go out with him, out to the houses, and he’d deliver babies … The next week there’d be a basket of apples or potatoes on the back porch—that’s how he got paid,” Burgess said of her family’s longtime success in medicine.
One of the few female judges in Nebraska, Martinez has defied the male-dominant profession and now looks to give opportunities to more young women.
