Patience (Polly) Crozier ’92 has never been one for putting on a mask. “I can’t deal with faking it, for nodding and smiling and going along,” she says. “I think my personality has this weird dichotomy between being shy and having a ‘this is me, take it or leave it’ attitude.”

Winsor Bulletin, Spring 2017

When Tom Bowen suggested that he and the other firefighters on his squad drop to their knees at the site of Ground Zero to pray for the faceless man they had just pulled out of the rubble, he didnʼt realize how his small act of loving kindness would come full circle. (“Big Ben Bowen” - Vox Award, PRSA, 2005, first place, feature writing)

Promise Magazine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Autumn 2004

A friendship forged out of a lifelong passion for music leads to a Grammy win for blues guitarist, songwriter, and producer Scott Shuman ‘78.

Spectrum, Lake Forest College magazine, Winter 2009

If it weren’t for the tenacious prodding of his gut instinct, Thomas Cummins ’73 would not be at Los Angeles’ Getty Museum right now on sabbatical studying one of the only three existing manuscripts on Inca culture.

Denison Magazine, Winter 2007

Few people understand the toll of mental illness like Mitzi Peterson ‘90, P’17, ‘20. She oversees the behavioral health of a population invisible to many: the nearly 10,000 inmates of Massachusetts’ 16 state prisons. A third have mental health issues. While always a therapist clinician at heart, she’s working to make needed change on a system level.

Winsor Bulletin, Spring 2018

Ocularists Bob and Rob Thomas help St. Jude patients who have lost eyes feel whole again.

Corridors Magazine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Summer 2005

Why the Visual and Performing Arts are “on fire” at The Lab School of Washington.

Link Magazine, The Lab School of Washington, Winter/Spring 2019

Not fitting into the norm can feel like an old, scratchy wool sweater—uncomfortable, distracting, oddly painful.

Winsor Bulletin, Spring 2012