First on the things to do list of senior week is the clambake. Next is the Commencement Ball followed by Honors and Awards. Before you know it, it’s the big day: Graduation. A sea of caps and gowns, some people listening intently while some doze off until their name is called.

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.

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.

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

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.