Herzlich has “What It Takes”
Super Bowl champion and former Boston College football star Mark Herzlich has written (with Isaac Eger) What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game (NAL/Penguin, 2014), a new book that tells his story from his childhood to his cancer fight to his dream come true of playing professional football. His dream was put into serious jeopardy when he was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, while playing for the BC Eagles. Doctors put his odds of survival as low as fifteen percent—and no one thought he would be able to run, much less play, again. But, Herzlich returned to the game of football. Told with candor and raw emotion, Herzlich’s story is for anyone who has ever fought to beat the odds, for anyone who has ever been told that what they are about to attempt is next to impossible. Giants Head Coach Tom Coughlin provides the foreword for the book. Read an excerpt published in the NY Post. Follow Herzlich on Twitter or Facebook for news about his book tour and upcoming book signings. He will be signing books at Boston College May 31 at 10:30 a.m. in Yawkey Center, Murray Room.
In Memoriam: Maya Angelou
Acclaimed poet, author and actress Maya Angelou, who died today at age 86, made several appearances at Boston College over the course of her legendary career. In 1983, the University awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. She gave a talk at St. Ignatius Church shortly after reading one of her poems at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. She spoke at Robsham Theater as part of BC’s Lowell Humanities Series in 1984. According to records kept at BC’s Burns Library, Humanities Series Director Father Francis Sweeney, SJ wrote in a letter to Angelou after her appearance that scarcely could he recall any lecturer who so “touched and delighted the audience.” “Without using superlatives”, he wrote, “it would be difficult to comment on your [Angelou’s] reading.” Never, to his recollection, had the audience so thundered applause during the course of “four standing ovations”, which was “without precedent in the 28 year history of the Humanities Series.” (Photo of Maya Angelou at Robsham Theater, Mar. 15, 1984.)
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