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Peter and Wally Perkins |
ALUMNI
1960s |
Thank you for welcoming me and my family since UVM Orientation 1986. The UVM Catholic Center has always been a place to call home for me on campus. I've got fond memories of Sunday Mass followed by brunch @ Marsh, Godspell featuring my roommate Erin '90, my daughter's christening on Mother's Day 2009. So great to be with you on Mother's Day today with my mother & daughter (& dad) to celebrate 50 years. It's an honor and privilege to be part of this community.
~Ruth '90 In September of 1996 I walked into The Catholic Center for the first time. A student meal was being prepared by the CSA, and talbes were set up in the lounge. A first year student approached, introduced himself as Andy and asked me to help him set the tables. My immediate impression was of the goodness of the people I had encountered. I felt immediately at home, simply by the invitation to lend a hand. I entered RCIA that year; and received the Sacraments of Initiation. Over the years I've wondered how many students' lives were changed by a simple invitation to lend a hand. ~David '98 |
I first came to UVM and therefore The Catholic Center in August of 2001. I was a brand new Catholic, having received 3 sacraments during the Easter Vigil Mass just a little over a year earlier. My 3 years at UVM were a time of great change in my personal life. The Catholic Center was a bastion of stability during that time when I was coming of age. Given that my time here was so early in my faith journey, these 3 years were also very formative years in my faith, during which I learned a lot of what I know now. The Catholic Center played a big part in making me who I am today as a Catholic man. There isn't any one thing that stands out individually as a memory but the entire experience, collectively, was memorable in more ways than anyone can imagine. I still keep in touch with the priests from my time period as well as some of the laypeople and alumni. The ideas of being friends with anyone for 15 years would have been unfathomable to me even just a few years ago and beyond comprehension back in the early 2000s. As I mentioned before, I associate this place with stability and I am ever grateful for that. I am forever...
Yours in Christ, Bryan '05 |
Emily
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ALUMNI
2010s |