Here am I sitting at the dean’s desk looking out across the north parking lot at the buildings of downtown Regina. I would never have thought of myself in this office twenty five years ago when I was principal of Loyola High School in Montreal, or fourteen years ago when my religious superior sent me to join the Regina Jesuit community and the ministry at Campion College, or even when I was in the office of assistant dean of Campion a few years ago! Yet here I am. It will be fun to meeting and working with students, faculty, staff, and colleagues at the University. It is an exciting time for me.
Summer has been full for me. I have just come back from the W. B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, which focuses for two weeks of lectures and seminars on the poetry, plays, and prose of the great Irish poet. It was a splendid ‘fortnight’ (as they say in Ireland). Strangely, the weather was very much like we’ve had in Regina this summer– rainy and cool.
Who knows what adventures are in store for me this semester. But I look forward to sharing some of them with you during this semester on this blog!
Frank