Dunlap is one of the hardest-working members of the football team and is vice president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council. A psychology major, he is equally comfortable in the lab, studying how patients recover from traumatic brain injury or teaming up with faculty to research new assessment techniques for attention deficit disorder.

Dunlap was named community leader of the year by his Connecticut high school and has continued his civic-minded ways at Saint Anselm as a student ambassador, a big brother, and a tutor to children and teens in greater Manchester.

Senior Matthew Moloney, from Brooklyn, N.Y., never had the chance to meet Fr. Bernard Holmes, O.S.B., or Robert Davison, but they are just the sort of men he would have admired. And he is just the sort of young person Lucile and Bob Davison had in mind when they established the Fr. Bernard Holmes Scholarship in 1985, providing assistance for a senior whose life at Saint Anselm reflects the qualities of service, leadership and dedication that they so admired in Fr. Bernard. The Grand Knight of the college’s council of the Knights of Columbus, Moloney traveled to Tucson, Ariz., to serve with Spring Break Alternative last year and plans to go to Central America to serve this year. Upon graduation, he plans to enter the ACE program to serve as a Catholic school teacher while furthering his education. Who knows though, if he passes the written test for the New York City fire department, he may return to his home to serve others a few short miles from Ground Zero. One thing is certain, though; he will serve and lead others in the very way that the Davisons intended.

Many times in any given year Fr. Mark is asked what the college’s current endowment is worth. The short answer at present is around $70 million, but that doesn’t begin to adequately answer the question. As Fr. Mark explains, there are things whose worth cannot be adequately calculated or accurately measured on a spreadsheet. Among those things, he says, is the positive impact that one scholarship can have in the life of a young person, and the positive impact that the life of that young person can subsequently have in the world.

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