PC Centennial

Enjoy these highlights from Providence College’s celebrations of its centennial year.

By Peter R. McCarthy ’60
In the beginning
My sons both went through the “rite of the college visit,” with stops in Virginia, West Virginia, even Oregon. I did not. Arriving on campus after a short drive from Newport in September 1956 with my parents, I settled into college life with my new roommates...

By Dr. James Norman O’Neill ’65
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author is a retired professor of English at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. He lives in Fort Myers, Fla.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Have you ever spent any time at a nearby library reading old issues of your local newspaper? This kind of dillydallying tends to stir up things from your younger years that you’ve almost forgotten. What follows was sired in a sense by...

Providence College celebrated the life, service, and heroism of Rev. Edward P. Doyle, O.P. ’34 on April 18.
Father Doyle was a faithful Friar: a PC student who went on to become a PC professor, Army chaplain in World War II, Bronze Star recipient, and a liberator of the Nordhausen concentration camp who documented the atrocities he saw by taking photographs...