fall 2007 - Seton Hall University

about 15 students regularly participate in
events — but Harrington is undaunted. “It
is always a challenge to get people involved,
especially when a club is in its formative
stages,” she says. “We really are hoping
to get more people involved this year.”
A liberal studies major with a minor
in Latin, Harrington clearly thinks before
she speaks. She always seems to speak
in complete sentences, and unlike many
college students, she doesn’t pepper her
comments with fillers such as “like,” and
“you know.” “She wastes no words, which
is a remarkable thing in a human being,”
Sweeney says. “She’s got a marvelous,
quiet self-possession, and she seems
quite sure of herself, and what her future
is going to be like.”
For Harrington, the future surely will
mean more bagpiping. She’s preparing for
her first competition with the St. Columcille
band. She hopes, she says, the future
will bring a trip to Ireland, where she’d
like to look up distant relatives. And perhaps
it will mean more time at Seton Hall;
she says she’d like to work after graduation
before deciding on graduate studies,
and her alma mater is a top choice for
employment. (Indeed, Seton Hall is a bit
of a family affair for the Harringtons.
Her father, Jim, works at the University
Libraries, and her sister, Maura, teaches
part-time in the English department. Mom
Eileen is a former schoolteacher.) “It would
make me happy to help others to have as
positive an impression of the University
as I have had of it.”
Stephanie N. Mehta is a New York-based financial writer.
SCHOOL COLORS: When she plays the pipes,
Harrington wears a kilt made of Seton tartan.
Photo by Peter Field Peck