Dream trip turns to nightmare

In a unanimous vote, the School Building Committee and the Permanent Building Committee tonight voted in support of the all-new construction option for the high school project.

In a celebration that lasted three days, and began with fireworks over Lake Waban, H. Kim Bottomly last week was officially inaugurated as the 13th president of Wellesley College.

Several hundred people, including Governor Deval Patrick, turned out for what Board of Trustees Chairman Alecia DeCoudreaux called “an historic moment in the life of Wellesley that we celebrate here today under this white tent” on Severance Green.

“Five Students. One Willing Business. An Eight-Week Takeover. And the footage to prove it all,” is the tagline of CEO Intern TV, a business and TV show concept created by Babson College senior Prescott Paulin.

When Ron Lieuwma walks the National Kidney Foundation 5K on May 18, it will be for those who can’t walk themselves.

Though the 5K “is not a marathon, of course,” said Lieuwma, who is on dialysis, “there are a lot of people I know from the dialysis center who can’t walk.” And so, to “celebrate [his] good fortune,” he is walking the Kidney Walk this year for the first time.