A bottle of Banana Boat SPF 15 sunblock. UV protection full coverage aviator sunglasses. A favorite pair of blue rubber Old Navy flip-flops. A comfortable red cotton stretchy visor. One might not think of these items as necessities for showing up to work everyday.

Sitting down in a 2006 Toyota Prius, Catherine Zipf, associate professor of Cultural and Historic Preservation at Salve Regina, was like a 16-year-old learning to drive for the first time, examining the keyless vehicle with its new buttons and video screens, but so was the salesman.

Wetmore is abuzz with hammers. Originally the carriage house for William Shepherd Wetmore’s antebellum villa Ch

Ian Wilson, a 20 year old Salve Regina sophomore from South Kingstown, R.I., knows where to find the best food, the best surf, and the best beach. Having summered at his beach house on Matunuck Beach ever since he was a little boy, Wilson has really grown to love the place he calls home.

Every final is completed, the class rooms are deserted, the last box is squeezed into the car, the dorm room looks empty and sad, the goodbyes are said and done, the gas tank is full, and now it’s homeward bound.

Every summer, students must make the adjustment from living independently to moving home.