Alumni & Giving Stories

More than five decades after returning from Vietnam, Larry Winters still feels the tug of war and the moral injuries left by his service there.

A docent at Queens’ historic Bowne House, Emily Vieyra-Haley ’22 uses period costume and storytelling to bring colonial and Underground Railroad history to life for visitors.

Retired Col. Scott Stewart ’99 leads the Air Force JROTC Color Guard at Wekiva High School, building his cadets’ confidence through discipline, performance, and service.

Photographer Mark Maio ’92 spent 16 years documenting Buffalo’s Irish grain scoopers for “Against the Grain,” exhibiting this fall at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Filmmaker Tzvi Simchon ’24 documented a student trip to Holocaust sites in Poland in “Can These Bones Live Again?”, preserving survivor memory for a new generation.