Just hanging: A Boston College Minute featuring John Bapst, SJ—the University’s first president (1863–69)—his Jesuit successors, and a man with a drill.

In May 2014, following restoration and reframing, the formal portraits of 22 presidents of Boston College were hung on the south wall of Gasson 100. The portrait of John Bapst was added this fall—following the completion of its restoration. The presidents served an average of five years and 11 months. Thomas Stack died of a fever in August 1887, three weeks into his tenure. J. Donald Monan served the longest—24 years (1972–96). The man with the drill is Scott Angus of the Sign Center.

In 1931, Theodore Marier and Herbert Kenney, members of the Class of 1934, composed “Sweep Down the Field,” a fight song they originally titled “Maroon and Gold.” It debuted on October 24 during a football game against Marquette, and nine years later a Heights editor endorsed it over “For Boston” (the school’s fight song since at least 1917), judging the latter “lifeless” and Marier and Kenney’s tune full of “swing spirit.”

Performers: BC bOp! pianist Andrew Tort ’18 and vocalist Michael Mastellone ’18.

Animation: Members of the 1911 varsity football team.

At the start of Parents’ Weekend on September 26, Zachary Jason ’11 interviewed parents and offspring about four weeks of independence and empty nests.

On the afternoon of September 18, some 1,800 undergraduates attended the Boston College Career Fair, the second of 11 professional development events for students hosted by the Career Center during the fall semester. Students met recruiters from 130 organizations in fields ranging from finance and marketing to education, strategic planning, and information technology. Three seniors—Emily Mata, Donald Lau, and Anne Fothergill—made the rounds accompanied by an @BC film crew.

On August 29, the freshmen were settled; the sophomores, juniors, and seniors were moving in. Zachary Jason ’11—former arts and review editor of the Heights, now editorial assistant at Boston College Magazine—was on Stokes lawn asking students, parents, and faculty the big questions: What are you looking forward to? What are you most dreading? What is a rugby ruck?

With thanks to, in order of appearance (groups, left to right): Trevor Massey ’18; M.G. Wilson ’18; Carter Robertson ’18; Adriana Diaz ’18; Sam Mbugua ’18; Annie Murphy ’18 and Ally Frei ’18; Nicole Lee ’17, Makeeda Sinclair ’17, and Kellie O’Leary ’17; Shane Troy ’15 and Will Relle ’15; Michelle Morgan ’15; Kevin Longo ’17 and E.J. Mitton ’17; Jane Yoon ’18; Matt Piekarski ’17; Madison Dunn ’18; Alison Parsley ’18 and Lauren Crispi ’18; Nick Porter ’18; Jacqueline Gjonaj ’18 and Coco Hayes ’18; Akshaya Joshi, MBA’16, Varun Rungta, MBA’16, and Chun Fong Tsai, MBA’16; Kathleen Maloney, P’17, and Brian Maloney ’17; Mike Knoll ’18; Connor Marshall ’18 and Galen Laurence ’18; Amanda Cantrell ’17 and Danielle Harrington ’17; Joseph Turkmany, P’17, and Lisa Turkmany, P’17; Franck Salameh, associate professor of Slavic and Eastern languages and literatures; and Ryan Larue ’15.

Over four days in June, More Hall, the retired Boston College administrative office building at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road, was demolished by a 651-horsepower Komatsu excavator—the biggest in Boston. The three-story brick structure, built in 1954 to house the Law School, will be replaced by a 490-bed residence hall due to open in 2016.

To the recorded fanfare of “Bugler’s Dream” (the popular Olympic broadcast music), the Boston College members of the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team returned to Kelley Rink on March 1, six days after the close of the 2014 Winter games in Sochi, Russia. The three silver medalists were introduced during a media timeout in a men’s game against Notre Dame: forward Alex Carpenter ’16, who scored four goals and had an assist in five Olympic contests; goalie Molly Schaus ’11, who shut out Switzerland; and forward Kelli Stack ’11, who scored a goal and had four assists. The trio signed autographs and posed for photos with fans in the Power Gym. Another Sochi Olympian, Team USA men’s hockey defenseman Brooks Orpik ’02, was playing a game that night with the Pittsburgh Penguins in Chicago.

"Bringing UGBC down to earth" was the campaign slogan of juniors Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara as the political newcomers vied this year for the leadership of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, squaring off against the "take-back-your-student-government" team of Nanci Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese. The race attracted a record 4,332 undergraduate voters, as the presidency for the 2014-15 academic year went to junior Fiore-Chettiar, a sociology major and UGBC senator, and the vice presidency to classmate Marchese, a major in history and political science.

Campaigning commenced on February 11 and ran for nine days. On Day Two, @BC caught up with the candidates and their supporters as they canvassed residence halls.

Nineteen-year-old William B. Neenan of Sioux City, Iowa, entered the Jesuit novitiate in Florissant, Missouri, on August 15, 1948. Eighteen years later, Fr. Neenan earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, where he stayed on to teach. A visiting professorship led to his joining the economics faculty at Boston College in 1980 and to stints as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and academic vice president, with a sideline as wedding presider. (He estimates he has officiated at the marriages of some 200 Boston College alumni.) Fall 2013 Neenan sat down in his office with Ben Birnbaum, editor of Boston College Magazine, for a conversation about his life and career. Here he talks about his early years as a Jesuit.

At Boston College's Connell School of Nursing, Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess uses virtual crime scenes based on real life to teach forensics.

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