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BRIEF PIUS X ALUMNI AWARD Christendom College’s Alumni Advisory Council posthumously honored the late, beloved Dr. Brendan McGuire with the college’s Pius X Alumni Award at the end of December 2020. The college’s Alumni Advisory Council, early in 2020, requested nominations from alumni for the award, with McGuire the overwhelming nominee because of his work in academia and the broader college community, and most especially because of his heroic personal example of a life centered in Christ. The award is typically given at Christendom’s Homecoming, but, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the weekend was canceled for 2020. As a result, the college presented the award to McGuire’s wife, Susan, in a special ceremony.
RECORD ENROLLMENT Christendom College began 2021 with a record enrollment for a spring semester with 510 students studying at Christendom. That number includes 26 students who are studying in Rome, following the success of the college’s fall semester in the Eternal City—a semester in which Christendom was one of only five American colleges to invite students to study in Rome.
FRIENDSHIP AND HAPPINESS Philosophy professor and alumnus Dr. John Cuddeback’s acclaimed work True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness is now out in a new, expanded edition from Ignatius Press. Featuring new chapters on human friendship as preparation for friendship with God and more, the book provides a practical guide to the most rewarding of human achievements: being a friend. 10
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