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House Masters: Tom and Verena Conley are, for lack of a better term, baller. Though no longer for credit, Tom still offers his immensely popular Wine Seminar every spring. He’s also a regular staple of Stein Clubs, where his conversation vacillates between sophisticated chatter about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation...
...Pope Benedict XVI canonized four new saints to the Catholic liturgy: 19th-Century Italian priest Gaetano Errico; Mary Bernard (Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light...
...think that when we get a new president, we will restore our prestige in the world.” The “Conversations with Kirkland” discussion series was co-founded in 2002 by Kirkland resident scholar Peter Emerson and co-House Masters Tom C. Conley and Verena A. Conley. Guest speakers have included a variety of figures—from actor Richard Dreyfuss to the current president of Zambia—and all major 2008 presidential candidates are expected to speak...
Kirkland House Master Verena Conley was one of the people who alerted the police about the intruder, according to her husband and co-Master Tom Conley...
...Kirkland House Co-Master Verena Conley said that the House’s security guard alerted her as soon as the incident took place...