Bookended by good works and academic pageantry, a three-day tribute to service and leadership drew hundreds to Bentley this spring. Alumni, business and education leaders, and special guests joined campus community members for outreach to local and global causes, the annual Bentley Leadership Forum, and the presidential inauguration of Gloria Cordes Larson. Here are the highlights.

The celebration of service, on Wednesday, March 26, engaged students and others in a range of worthy activities:

• Assembling 1,000 packets of educational supplies for children in the United States and other countries including Armenia, Cambodia, Niger and Ukraine
• Selling 700 specially designed “Bentley Serves” T-shirts to help defray the cost of supplies for the educational packets noted above
• Fashioning bracelets from kiln-fired beads made by the children of the Mmofra Trom Center in Ghana, to sell and market to jewelry stores
• Collecting close to 1,100 T-shirts with the Bentley logo for donation to the Friends of the Shattuck Shelter and the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans
• Creating colorful, informative poster displays of volunteer projects sponsored by student organizations and the Bentley Service–Learning Center
• Learning about activism and women’s issues in North Africa through a panel presentation by Tunisian women