In 2012, I wrote a story. The kind you don’t ever forget. It was about Declan Sullivan, a 20-year-old junior at Notre Dame. He was named after an Irish saint, adored football and his family, and was known for the video camera he lugged everywhere, filming science projects and home movies. He loved to watch films. He planned to make them.
The job a professor helped him secure at school—as a videographer for the football team—combined all of his interests. He filmed the cheerleaders, the Fighting Irish’s leprechaun mascot and those famous golden helmets, and he did that on the field at Notre Dame Stadium, throughout games that meant so much to him.