A screen capture from the video shows Campion Hall under construction.

Back in 2002, I worked at BC’s Lynch School of Education as director of communications and alumni relations. The School celebrated its 50th anniversary that year. Part of the celebration was a gathering at which a video about the School’s half-century was shown.

I had been among the people who had worked on the video, and it had been probably at least 15 years since I had last viewed it. Until this year, when a young BC alumna doing research on the early years of women at BC, tracked me down. She had found mention of the video on a page on the BC website published in 2006, but the link there was not functional.

I remembered the guy in Media Technical Services who had put the elements of the video together and, looking on the BC website, learned Dave Corkum was now in charge of that office. A few email exchanges and he was able to send me a link to the video, which I was able to download and then put on YouTube.

The video is 22:24. It includes vintage film from the early years of the Lynch School; interviews with an alumna from the inaugural Class of 1956, other alumni, faculty, and students, as well as Carolyn and Peter Lynch; and information about programs current in 2002. It’s also a bit of a history of the University overall, of course.

The School of Ed (a Heights feature for incoming freshmen of my era [1964] asked “Who’s Ed?”) was notable for being BC’s first “professional school,” but its principal impact came from introducing women to the Chestnut Hill Campus. San Diego Eagles interested in BC history and especially alumnae may find this of interest.

I cleared putting this online with the BC Office of Communications. Their only request was that it be mentioned that the School of Education, which became the Lynch School in 2000, is now the Lynch School of Education and Human Development.