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St. John’s Prep holds 111th Commencement exercises COURTESY OF ST. JOHN'S PREP The St. John’s Prep Class of 2021 recently celebrated the school’s 111th Commencement exercises. Headmaster and Danvers resident Edward P. Hardiman conferred diplomas upon 258 seniors during an outdoor ceremony held on the school’s campus. Abiding by mask and social-distancing requirements, parents, relatives, faculty, friends, staff and alumni populated spaced, pod seating on Cronin Memorial Stadium’s Glatz Field turf for the ticketed event.  In his remarks to graduates, Hardiman acknowledged the imposs...

A Champion For All Seasons Pat Quinn, the instigator of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and a 2015 Irish America Hall of Fame inductee. We are saddened to learn that Pat Quinn, who helped raise $220 million to fight A.L.S., by promoting the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014, died on Sunday in Yonkers, N.Y., seven years after he learned he had the disease. He was 37. Our thoughts are with Pat’s family. In 2015, the magazine inducted Pat into the  Irish America Hall of Fame. No one deserved it more. Here is his profile as it ran in that issue. Patrick Quinn escorts then-Sec...

A diminutive giant of the Supreme Court and a man who inadvertently launched a new civil rights movement are among the newsmakers we lost in 2020.