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Giving Tuesday

Kick off the holiday season by joining the global movement of giving back and creating change this Giving Tuesday.  On November 28, we have a goal of bringing together 350 donors to celebrate the Anselmian ideals of service, inclusion and access. Service is at the very core of a Saint Anselm education, and the College is committed to educating and empowering our students to learn how to identify and address the needs in their Hilltop community and beyond.

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About

Welcome to the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute where, inspired by the life of Greg Grappone ’04, we dedicate ourselves to making known the enduring consolations and wisdom that spring from the humanities, so that we may all better understand the meaning and purpose of their lives.

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Who We Are

Welcome to the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute at Saint Anselm College. Established in 2018 with a generous gift from Robert and Beverly Grappone, this Institute represents several years of thought and planning by Saint Anselm faculty who seek to affirm and invigorate the College’s 128 year-old commitment to humanistic studies as an integral part of a Catholic Liberal Arts Education.

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Leadership

Gary Bouchard, Ph.D. has been an active teacher and scholar in the English Department at Saint Anselm College since 1987. A specialist in the poetry of Early Modern England, he has taught a wide variety of courses in literature and rhetoric and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books. He has specialized for the past two decades on the life and work and influence of the sixteenth century priest and poet, Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595)

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Who was Greg Grappone?

The man for whom the Grappone Humanities Institute is named was himself a model of the examined life that Socrates said was the only one worth living. Greg was young man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, a deep love of books, and a persistent engagement with the great ideas that have informed human existence. A resident of Concord, New Hampshire, he graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2004 as a Great Books major.

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Programs

In the spirit of Gregory Grappone ’04, the Humanities Institute at Saint Anselm College reaches across our campus and surrounding communities to engage people of all backgrounds with questions and ideas that arise from our common and uncommon experiences. We do so in the determined hope that, like Greg, we can know the enduring consolations and wisdom that spring from the rich variety of arts and humanities in our world, and better understand the meaning and purpose of our lives.

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