This week delivers the first anniversary of the death of American icon Dan Rooney, whose passing last April 13 begat a wave of international mourning and admiration that washes our way still, essentially undiminished.
Only last month, the architect of the Steelers dynasty was the subject of a day-long symposium at Duquesne University, his alma mater, where honorary Rooney scholars from Franco Harris, the dynasty-birthing running back, to Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the former director of the CIA, to Ted Smyth, chairman of the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin, convened in the latest attempt to properly illuminate the full scope of Dan Rooney’s passions and impacts.