News' View: Prayers for Professor Lalli
The new JE master spent two decades giving himself to the students he taught and mentored. Now, we owe him our prayers.
On a Wednesday night last March, in the annex of Commons that was the temporary Jonathan Edwards College dining hall for the year, Richard Lalli MUS ’86 was introduced to the JE community as the college’s new master. Someone handed Professor Lalli a scarf in JE’s colors.
“I get to keep it?” he exclaimed. “It wasn’t just for the pictures?”
No, Lalli was told. It’s yours — and so is JE.
“This is a great occasion,” Lalli told the assembled students and fellows. “It’s probably the greatest occasion of my life.”
Speaking to a reporter that night, Lalli said he...
