“Over the last nine years, I’ve come to love the hidden quiet of the University. The silence of early-morning student athletes making their way up the hill to Yates, the stillness of members of our community gathered in Copley Crypt Chapel before 10pm Mass, the hushed crowds in Lauinger Library during finals week; they all speak to me of the marvelous things going on inside us, in silence, where God is laboring to bring new ideas and new action to life.”
When Tom Crowley arrived in 1997 as a maintenance electrician, he had an unexpected task: decking the university’s 19-foot Christmas tree with lights.
Fr. David Pratt has been a chaplain at Georgetown for eight years. Before that, he spent over two decades serving on aircraft carriers and aboard destroyer squadrons in the Navy.
Jade Madrid hunts down Spanish and Portuguese resources to help students’ research. In addition to her library expertise, she has her own backstory of experiences abroad that enrich her work.