![]() I feel very fortunate to have been part of this community, and to have been able to contribute in some way to its progress." "I also see continuity in the presence of teachers, across all schools and departments, who can inspire and be prominent in their fields, their doors open to students. BC continues to draw students of remarkable generosity, who feel the call to serve and share their gifts, through PULSE and the Faith, Peace and Justice Program, Appalachia Volunteers, and similar programs. "What I've seen is a new confidence and ambition about BC - a refreshing self-assurance about what it can become," says Keeley, a Rochester, NY, native. He also feels fortunate to have been part of a period of extraordinary growth and development for Boston College. Keeley, a 1972 BC alumnus, has found plenty to savor in his career at the University: as director of PULSE, the for-credit program combining human services field work and the study of philosophy and theology at the Carroll School, which he joined in 1991 as an assistant dean for administration, and as director of programs for its Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics. "You take a chance, you put yourself to a challenge, and even if you don't completely succeed you find things to appreciate about the experience." "It's the willingness to submit ourselves to that passage, even though we don't know for sure what the destination will be," he explains. Joe's declaration conveys the essence of what an educational experience should be, says Keeley, who's often recounted the anecdote for Boston College students over the course of his 43 years at the Heights. "He said, 'Dick, I've read it a dozen times, and I still don't understand it,'" recalls Keeley, who is retiring as senior associate dean for undergraduates in the Carroll School of Management at the end of the 2017-18 academic year. An avid reader, Joe would often talk with the young Keeley about his favorite books, especially Henry David Thoreau's Walden. His name was Joe, and he was the janitor in the building where a then-teenaged Richard Keeley worked.
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