Father Bill retires

Father Bill Nolan, the senior pastor and organizer of Aquinas House, retired at the end of the academic year. Nolan came to the College in 1950 to what was a relatively inactive Catholic community. Today more than 1,000 students actively participate in Aquinas House's religious services.

Whistler's Dentist: This portrait of Dr. Isaac Davenport, painted by James McNeill Whistler, was donated to the Hood Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Weil is a member of the class of 1935. Evidently Whistler shared an admiration for American dentists that was held by many nineteenth-century Parisians. Speaking about Dr. Davenport and his brother, who was Whistler's personal dentist, the artist wrote, "their operating was just like the flutter of a butterfly in my mouth."