My uncle, Kwame Ababio, proved to be my most significant critic. There were days in which I wondered why he invested all his time and energy in me. His selflessness made me realize the art of giving is a testament to pure happiness. My deliberate acts induced pleasure in the face of others’ success. I am fortunate to find this…
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Good to know: The night David Sweat came to Albany
Richard Matt was already dead. Now the hunt for Matt’s accomplice, David Sweat, continued to rivet the nation three weeks after the two murderers escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York’s North Country. Back in Schenectady that Sunday afternoon in late June 2015, Joseph Bianchino ’11 G’14, a producer at CBS affiliate WRGB CBS 6, was planning the day’s…
Project 70 – My Metrohm USA Internship Pt. 2
At the end of every month, I help out in the warehouse at Metrohm USA to organize and ship out the excess amounts of customer shipping orders. Though I have been in familiar situations, this one has been the most taxing, physically and mentally, by far. I spent much of the time walking back and forth through the warehouse while…
Good to know: Welcoming them home
HELPING REFUGEES EASE THE TRANSITION At home in Bhutan, a small country bordering India and China, Chhabilall Timsina Sharma was a doctor overseeing a network of public health facilities. But in the 1990s, his family and thousands more ethnic minorities fled to Nepal to escape intimidation and torture by the government. Sharma spent the next eight years treating individuals who,…
Good to know: Hollis Seamon’s next chapter
After 31 years on the Saint Rose English faculty, Hollis Seamon was retiring. So as classes were winding down and final papers being submitted, the professor also had many, many boxes to pack up and loads of old files to discard from her spacious office in Dolan Hall. “I have four unpublished novels in my shelves and files,” observed the…