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News & Updates
A night to remember
By Joan Becker Cary ‘79
Our Bradley Renaissance evening began with Bradley sophomore Thomas Carreras ’12, serenading the Chicago-area alums in the splendor of Medinah Country Club. Salad was served. Introductions were made, and dinner was on the way.
By the end of the evening, when the speeches had been given and the film clips all shown, the tune had changed from calm and serious to rousing and energetic. People who had never met until they were seated together were now friends exchanging business cards and hand shakes. And Tommy Carreras was not the only one with a song in his heart. Close to 250 had arisen in Medinah’s elegant ballroom to sing with Tommy the Bradley school song, “Hail Red and White.”
Amazing what a few hours, an invigorating president, incredible student performances and a few facts from Board of Trustees and Campaign Chairman Gerald Shaheen '66 MBA '68 will do.
The Chicago area represents Bradley’s largest alumni contingent with more than 17,000 alumni in the area, said Bradley President Joanne Glasser, known for being “short in stature but a giant in her passion for the students.”
Each Bradley alum who stepped into Medinah that night came with his or her own memories, own thoughts, own reasons why the hilltop, so many years later, is still important in their life. A teacher, a class, a roommate, a dorm, a gondola, a sorority, a sport, a team, an internship….
“What is it that makes this place so very special?” Glasser asked the crowd. If they could have answered aloud, no two people would have said the exact same thing. But each would say that whatever it was that made them love Bradley then, it’s big enough to have made them want to be at Medinah on a beautiful Thursday evening years later, and to support the Bradley Renaissance now.
One can only hope that someday Carreras and speech team member Amanda Voirol ’11, who drew a wowed crowd into the mind of Judy Garland, will have their own good memories to bring to an alumni event, their own reasons why Bradley remains a steady foundation in their life.
As alums, we arrived with memories up front, minds full of “remember when,” but we left thinking about tomorrow. About what Bradley is now and is becoming for every student on campus, and for all those to come.
Fond memories of college days are priceless things. News that the school, our home for four years, is not just thriving, but growing, developing, providing even greater opportunities for today and tomorrow’s students is even better.
“Go onward, ever onward……”