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The Hawk Newspaper
May 5, 2021
St. Joe’s contacted us, saying the pandemic’s getting out of hand. And then we all went virtual. -Walt Bryz-Gornia ’21
When I was stuck in my house and my mom was actually a nurse at a hospital. When she would come home from work, she would have to take a shower and we couldn’t hug her, well we chose not to hug her just because she was around patients with COVID. -Cassie Hahn ’21
When
did you r e pandem alize the ic was about to cha nge life as you knew i t?
I stopped working for maybe two weeks and then when I came back everyone was fully masked. -Frankie Antonucci ’24 When I came home, my dad’s immunocompromised, so my parents were stocked up with masks, canned foods and different things during that spring break, and I was like, “Oh, this is serious.” -Kella Pacifico ’21 My mom ended up getting COVID from one of her co-workers, actually the first week or so that quarantine started. Her business partner went to a dinner party in New York, right before the country shut down. Her, and I think 23 other people at the party got it and then she brought it back to my mom’s salon that she co-owns with this business partner. Her and a couple other employees got it. Having someone that had COVID close to the beginning of all this was definitely very scary, and definitely put COVID into a different perspective. It was a real thing at that point that it was actually in my house. -Nicole Butch ’21
My birthday was in April, so it was almost a month after. That was the first time I saw all my friends. They all did a drive-by for my birthday, and I haven’t seen that many people, literally, since I was on campus, and I couldn’t hug anyone. -Ali Chapman ’22
I’m moving stuff out of my office and just one moment after the next thinking “This is changing my life.” There was a period in the spring when a lot of us in higher ed were commiserating and saying, “Are we still going to have jobs in the fall? This is scary. This is scary.” -John DiCarlo, adjunct professor of English
I remember my wife saying we should really go to the food store and stock up on food. It was amazing to see the line of people stocking up on supplies and I thought, “wow, this is this real.” -Tom Fithian, director of major gifts
Interviews by: Ethan Grif f ith ’21, Jaylen Dotson ’21, Kenzie Allen ’23, Gabriella Guzzardo ’23, Eddie Daou ’22, Adam Fine ’23, Lauren Lodge ’22, Devon Fitzpatrick ’22
