Road Less Traveled Event
Each year the Peace and Social Justice Studies Program, Campus Ministry, and the Alumni Office honor Fisher students and members of the Rochester community who have taken the road less traveled; who have dedicated themselves to peace, service, and social activism. The program includes the following presentations:
The Jennifer Koon Courage Awards
Recipients of the Jennifer Koon Courage Award are students from Fisher and members of the Rochester community who are committed to peacemaking and who strive to make the world a better and more peaceful place.
The Peace and Social Justice Spirit Award
The PSJS Spirit Award honors St. John Fisher College graduates who over the years have lived in the spirit of Fisher's Mission and Creed, embracing the values of "goodness, discipline, and knowledge" and dedicating themselves to lives of "intellectual, professional, and civic integrity, in which diversity and service to others are valued and practiced."
The Reverend Joseph A. Trovato Lecture
Throughout his career at Fisher, Fr. Joseph Trovato's devotion to the principles of Catholic social teaching has inspired many Fisher students to commit their own professional lives to furthering the cause of peace and social justice in the world. The Fr. Joseph A. Trovato Lecture is given by a distinguished scholar who shares Fr. Trovato's commitment to the cause of peace and social justice.
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
--Robert Frost