It seemed like the easiest way to find a partner. Join a Catholic singles dating website. Go on dates. Begin a relationship. What Audrey (Emerson) Leitao, BINT ’10, wasn’t expecting was to find her future husband on date number one. “I was really skeptical about going on a dating website,” says Leitao. “Christopher and I were both at the same...

Kenneth Bacheller, ’36, was an airplane engineer before and throughout World War II, while living on both the East and West Coasts. But where he will be most remembered is in sunny south Florida for a career as a builder in the booming real estate business. “The houses that my sister and I live in, he built them,” said Suzanne Bacheller, one of two...

On June 13, Kera Murphy, BSM ’09, dunked the rear wheel of her bicycle in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Providence, RI, and headed west on a 70-day, 4,000-mile trek to the shores of the Pacific. Her trip was part of Bike and Build, a national nonprofit that organizes a series of summer cross-country treks to raise money and awareness for affordable...

Jordan Castro’s new business rose from a simple salt cellar—a gray concrete cylinder that stands just two-and-a-half inches tall. And, as Castro, ABC ’10, BPM ’13, admits, building a business out of a salt cellar was tough, especially considering the fact that there are more than 550 different handcrafted salt cellars available in the online craft...

More than 100 years after Wentworth’s founding, Edward J. O’Leary, PE, AC ’48, Hon. ’06, still marvels at the foresight of its founders. “That great piece of land is now in the middle of everything thanks to the tremendous growth of Huntington Avenue,” says O’Leary, a longtime Wentworth corporator and 1990 winner of the Gold Leopard award...