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âInspired to make a differenceâ as a speech-language pathologist
Meet the La Salle grad student and mother of four who quit her job to change her careerâand othersâ lives.
Electing to pursue a graduate degree is an important decision. Thatâs especially true in a large family that features four children. As one might expect, finding quiet time to study can be daunting.
âAt one point,â Rachel McMahon, M.S. â21, said, âwe had preschool through graduate school represented in my house, all in virtual classes at the same time.â
McMahonâs path to La Salle University, from which she will earn a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology, has been truly unique. McMahon is a multi-tasking career-changer who left a full-time role in pursuit of professional mobility. Sheâs a mother of four, including two sons adopted from foster care. Sheâs a gestational carrier for a couple looking to start a family o
Early Roy Lichtenstein: A fount of insight on postwar America
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:43 a.m.
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Roy Lichtenstein s Washington Crossing the Delaware II, from about 1951.Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Courtesy of Gabriel Miller
WATERVILLE, Maine â In 1940, an Ohio State undergraduate named Roy Lichtenstein â yes, that Roy Lichtenstein â made a loose and gestural ink sketch of Paul Bunyan felling a tree with a mighty swing. He passed it off to his roommate with a wink. Keep it, he said. Iâm going to be famous someday.
Someday came, and famous he was, though not for works like that. In 1961, Lichtenstein made âLook Mickey,â his first-ever appropriation of a four-color pulp illustration. (He lifted it from the 1960 kidsâ book âDonald Duck: Lost and Found.â) That anchored him as one of the pillars of the thoroughly American Pop Art movement.