When Rebecca Brown (A78) took a high school aptitude test designed to help students choose colleges that would suit them, “the algorithm came back with only one suggestion for me—St. John’s!”
Upon graduation, Johnnies often pursue careers in law school, or social sciences, in general. Others end up in hard sciences like mathematics or theoretical physics. But William Payne (A22) chose a different path, an unconventional one. David Kidd (A85) walked a similar road decades before. This is their story.
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, Johnnies from different generations got a chance to meet and rekindle their Johnnie spirits at the seminar table and other activities during Reunion Weekend.
Keith Flaherty (AGI22) is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Clinical Research at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center, where he specializes in melanoma treatment. He attended Yale University as an undergraduate and John Hopkins for medical school.
Joan E. Cole (Class of 1957) made history as one of the first Black women to enroll at St. John’s College.
