Fall 2008
The right direction
By 11 a.m., Winston Benjamin '04, recruitment and retention coordinator at Phoenix Charter Academy (PCA) in Chelsea, Mass., has chastised a student for being out of uniform, sent a student home for smoking marijuana outside the school and talked to police about the incident. He has interviewed two prospective students and their parents and refocused a young man who was disrupting a class. He projects a calm but assertive energy when dealing with his students. He doesn't raise his voice and, more often than not, takes a friendly tone. (more)
The science of teamwork
Robert Morris doesn't waste time. The lean, silver-haired biology professor talks briskly and moves with the erect gait of a gazelle. On campus, he has been known to run from place to place instead of walking. Ask him why, and he'll likely tell you he needs the exercise-and has to get where he's going anyway. So why not run? When it comes to his work, though, the cell biologist displays a Zen-like patience. (more)
The history-making, down-to-earth bishop
Her title and place in Episcopal Church history are impressive. She is The Right Reverend Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera, bishop suffragan and Episcopal priest. She is the first Hispanic woman bishop ordained in the Episcopal Church, and only its 12th woman bishop. And she is only the 16th woman bishop in the history of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which comprises more than 80 million members in 44 regional and national churches in 160 countries. (more)
