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Elizabeth Shannon, director of BU’s International Visitors Program
and advisor of the Trustee Scholars Program, with Frank McCourt, author
of Angela’s Ashes, the featured speaker on October 9 at the 2003
Gala Dinner at the Fairmont Copley Plaza to benefit BU’s William
V. Shannon Memorial Fellowship. Every two years a dinner is held to help
endow the fellowship, which funds a graduate student from Ireland attending
BU for a year or more of study, and also to celebrate the memory of Shannon,
U.S. ambassador to Ireland from 1977 to 1981 and later a UNI professor
and a CAS professor of history. “It’s a kind of citizen diplomacy,” Shannon
says about the fellowship named for her late husband. “[The students]
come and have their studies, then go home with a huge network of friends
and professional colleagues who will be with them for a lifetime.” Photo
by Fred Sway
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October 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations