My earliest La Salle University memory: My Dad called home from work to say he was going to the Civic Center for a basketball game. It was a Thursday evening in February 1990. I was eight years old, in the third grade. He told me that if I finished my homework by the time he got home, I could go with him...on a school night! Highly unusual, I knew this had to be a special occasion. It was. That night, Lionel Simmons would score his 3,000th career point. The crowd erupted in celebration, making the Civic Center look like Times Square on New Years Eve. The team would go on to finish 30-2 on the season, one of the most dominant La Salle Explorers teams in school history. Tomorrow afternoon, that team will be honored during halftime of the La Salle-Fordham game. Ill be there. This time, without Dad, unfortunately...but so glad he took me that night. It was the start of a beautiful relationship with the school at 20th & Olney. 10 years after that night, I enrolled as a freshman. Dad came back to work there a year later (and stayed until his retirement). In 2001, my brother, David Donovan, married my wonderful sister-in-law, Jeannie Calvarese-Donovan, from the class of 1988. My younger brother, Brian Donovan, would join Dad and me on campus in 2002. Fast forward a decade from my graduation, my wife, Stacy-Ann Donovan, would finish tops in her masters Speech-Language Pathology program. My Dad would live long enough to see that-on the 50th anniversary of his own graduation in 1964. Dad was editor of the Collegian, and his final editorial was entitled An Exit with Gratitude. How fitting...
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:35:19 +0000
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