Holy Cross Maymester Program Leaves Mark on Faculty, Too

At the end of a long, hot day last May, Aaron Seider, associate professor of classics, was leading a group of students on a tour of the Capitoline Museum in Rome. He was ready to throw in the towel and head back to the hotel, but his students were enthusiastic about continuing. “They were fired up to see this temporary exhibition,” he remembers. As they entered the room, he was stunned to see a quote from Virgil on the wall; Seider had been working on a paper examining how that exact quote was used in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, and instantly made a connection between the two institutions.