Joe Fennessy is known around the Notre Dame campus as the Leprechaun - the mythical, shillelagh-toting symbol of Notre Dame school spirit. But when Fennessy is not leading the Irish football team onto the field, he is a marketing and English major, who takes his studies as seriously as his role as a cheerleader and public figure on campus.
Legacy of a Champion
Nine months after he won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, the thoroughbred Barbaro succumbed to a tragic injury. Barbaro's owner, Roy Jackson, talks about what he, his wife, Gretchen, and a surprising number of horse racing fans are doing to perpetuate the good that has come from the honored colt's life.
Sons of the Phonograph
When the physical archivists of St. Paul's School unearthed a gift from Thomas Edison in a dusty attic, history revealed that the inventor's two eldest sons spent three unhappy years at the School, competing with their father's real baby. This article was awarded the 2010 Grand Gold Award for Best Article in an Independent School Magazine by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.