The Bell

Hilary (Sherratt) Yancey’s longstanding interest in the philosophy of disability took on a new light when she gave birth to Jackson, a spunky boy with a number of disabilities. Suddenly, her life looked different from the journey she had once envisioned.

Wally King ’71B was a basketball star at Barrington College, but he didn’t anticipate that a strange overlap of “courts”—that of basketball and that of law—would play major, intertwining roles in his long, varied and often dangerous career.

Wife, mother, vice president: the three leading roles that Florecita (Carías) Mejía ’08 plays daily. The ambitious businesswoman has her hands full between her growing family and a leadership role at Bank of New York Mellon.

How the Ytzen-Handels live illustrates what is important to them, and so it can look different than what many people have grown accustomed to in 21st-century America.

Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.