“Our nurses are truly stewards of their patients, caring for others above everything. With our holistic approach, and an immersion into the liberal arts and Benedictine values, we produce a different graduate, an Anselmian graduate.”

“The first program in women’s studies in the United States was approved at San Diego State University in 1970. Saint Anselm College also is celebrating the 50th anniversary of women at the college this year. It is nice to know that our college joined this major change of increasing the access of women to education.”

From the moment you picked up this issue of Portraits, you surely knew it was special.

The Boyle family’s female legacy on the Hilltop stretches back four decades.

The impressive contributions of these faculty, staff, alumnae, and friends have helped define Saint Anselm College.

The female friendships formed on the Hilltop are one of the best stories we can point to during the last 50 years—and the friends of Helen Gallo Bryan ’81 are some of the closest around.