Providence, RI--A record number of families attended Providence College's annual Upperclassman Parents' Weekend on Friday, February 16-Sunday, February 18, 2007.

The weekend's special feature was Saturday evening's pasta dinner and book signing, featuring NBC's Mike Leonard '70 & '00Hon., which took place prior to the men's hockey game against Northeastern University. Leonard greeted PC parents and families and discussed his great family adventure and new book, The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family.

Other events included:

• Seventh Annual Wine-Tasting Reception
• Irish Night
• "Five Years After the Towers Fell: Finding God in Difficult Times," a lecture by Rev. Joseph J. Guido, O.P., Vice President, Mission and Ministry
• The Temptations at the Providence Performing Arts Center
• Career Services open house
• Athletic events: men's basketball vs. St. John's University, women's ice hockey vs. Boston College, women's basketball vs. Notre Dame University, men's ice hockey vs. Northeastern
• Saturday concelebrated vigil Mass
• Historic guided bus tours of Providence

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