Holidays on the Heights

The Christmas tree lighting ceremony returned to the Heights on December 1, offering a sign of the BC community’s strength “in the midst of all the pressures that come from COVID-19,” said University President William P. Leahy, S.J.

Photo by Caitlin Cunningham, Office of University Communications.

The tree lighting ceremony had opened with the mellifluous tones of two student a cappella groups, the Boston College Dynamics and The Heightsmen.

Photo by Caitlin Cunningham, Office of University Communications.

Graduate students gathered at Bell in Hand Tavern to celebrate the season at the Graduate Management Association's annual Ugly Sweater Party.

Photo via @boston_college_gma.

“For this too I am grateful.” Campus Ministries held its annual Multifaith Thanksgiving Celebration on Nov. 18 in The Heights Room, while launching its annual food drive, with the help of a truck parked outside McElroy Hall.

Multifaith Thanksgiving photo by Lee Pellegrini, Office of University Communications. Food drive photo via Gesnele Porcena, Auxiliary Retail Systems.

A November production of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”—in which Christmas eventually returns to Narnia.

Photo by Lee Pellegrini, Office of University Communications.

A sign of the season: Faculty, staff, and others take time out for the festivities in Fulton, at the Carroll School's annual Christmas party held in the Honors Library on Dec. 10.

At the Carroll School, we send our warmest greetings to everyone in our extended community—alumni, parents, students, friends, collaborators, and others. We wish you the joy of the season and the hope that a new year brings.

Photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert.