McQuaid University

## Location

McQuaid University is a made-up university in the center of Pennycross, Massachusetts. Its buildings include but are not limited to Benson Hall, Easton Hall, Savage Hall, the student center, McHades Hall / McQuaid Hall / Dana Fenton Building, Stuart Hall, Dab and Phil's joint office, a quad, the McQuaid Coffee Corner, a Hamburger Haven, and the Campus Deli.

## Appearance

It is compact. Except for Benson Hall, the buildings are not picturesque. Its lack of an architecture school showed in the brick-and-concrete monstrosities that made up most of the campus. It has many campus map boards posted around campus. It is much older than Bostock and many other schools, founded in 1950 but with McQuaid Hall dating even older. Its campus is walled.

## Known Students and Employees

* Mrs. Speed (employee)
* Dr. Hardison Parker (employee)
* Georgia Thackery (previous adjunct, but no more)
* Dab Thackery (tenured prof)
* Phil Thackery (tenured prof)
* Charles Peyton (previous adjunct)
* Fletcher Wildman (adjunct)
* Sara Weiss (adjunct)
* Bob Hewitt (adjunct)
* Andrew (grad student)
* Patty Craft (adjunct when alive)
* Linda Zaharee (student)
* McHowl student workers
* Unnamed adjuncts
* Yolanda (Yo) Jacobs (once grad student, now adjunct)
* Prof Nichols (professor when alive)
* Brownie Mannix (adjunct)
* Alexis McQuaid Primo (student)
* Roxanne Beale (former grad student)
* Doreen Beale (student when alive)

## Sequential History

### A Skeleton In The Family

Georgia knows her way around McQuaid thanks to her parents teaching there and the amount of time she spent at McQuaid learning her way around. She recalls how she'd have a possible long-term position when McQuaid was hiring, McQuaid had just hired when she was looking for work, or her parents were serving in some capacity that the hiring of their daughter would be suspect - that's why it took her a while to get a job there. McQuaid has parking problems thanks to a recent massive building campaign. McQuaid's "Welcome Aboard, Adjunct!" packet tells adjuncts how happy McQuaid was to have her and outlined the responsibilities and benefits of the job. Charles introduces Georgia to McQuaid adjunct customs. Madison discovers that Mangachusetts is taking place at McQuaid, and she, Georgia, and Sid attend. Georgia hangs in the attic with Sid instead of going to McQuaid to work. Georgia reveals that McQuaid is her seventh college. McQuaid is one of the *Pennycross Gazette*'s regular advertisers. Joshua Tay University is McQuaid's semi-friendly rival. Sid has to go to McQuaid in his bacon bag (the pattern is supposed to be antelope but it looks like bacon to Georgia). McQuaid is not known for anthropology but it does have an anthropology department. Parking is McQuaid students' number one complaint. Georgia has trouble focusing in her classes because she's got skeletons on the brain. Sid isn't from McQuaid. Georgia gives the suitcase containing Sid to Charles to take to JTU after they're done at McQuaid for the day. Charles is hurt at McQuaid when Jim Michaels breaks into the adjunct office. McQuaid is one of the many local colleges that Deborah maintains security systems at. Campus security at McQuaid has a love-hated relationship with students. JTU's basement lab is a lot more impressive than McQuaid's facility. Georgia struggles to put her concerns out of her mind long enough to get her and Madison to school on time. Yo's life is hooked on McQuaid; she fears that McQuaid's reputation tanking will make her degree less valuable. Allen used to attended McQuaid. Georgia hopes she gets another year at McQuaid so Madison can graduate from Pennycross HS.

### The Skeleton Takes A Bow

Georgia, still teaching at McQuaid, notes that her parents have been on sabbatical the entire time she's been at McQuaid and she's been using their joint office until she gave her father's part to Charles for him to squat in. That was about the only benefit she was still reaping from them technically still be on staff. She only has one McQuaid class this semester. McQuaid sends many memos to Georgia's mailbox in the adjunct office. Georgia learns that Patty Craft was once an adjunct in the Mathematics Department. Georgia remembers that she arrived at McQuaid partway through the fall. Georgia gets an early lunch at McQuaid's Campus Deli before going to PHS for her first SAT prep class. Sara realizes that the minority sampling of those invited to the Sechrest Foundation was better than McQuaid as a whole. Georgia gets more work done at McQuaid but doing homework at home is more comfortable. Sid asks Georgia if she gets any good dirt on Charles while at McQuaid. Georgia stays at McQuaid for an extra hour thanks to extended office hours because students want to discuss their grades on their recent essays. Georgia is happy that the Pennycross Hilton is far enough from McQuaid that there likely won't be anyone else from McQuaid at the Hilton to see her and Yo and Yo meeting with the Sechrest rep. No McQuaid students were accepted from the Long Island high school that had a bunch of kids who hired others to take the SATs for them. Sid goes with Georgia to McQuaid to observe her talking to Charles. The Sechrest Foundation is recruitng at McQuaid and Georgia doesn't tell Charles in case he goes Don Quixote on them. After her classes at McQuaid, Georgia cancels her office hours and picks up Sid to go to Mr. Chedworth's house. After other office hours at McQuaid, she had to run home, making Madison dinner, and going back to PHS for parent-teacher conferences. After eveerything went down, Georgia goes back to work at McQuaid but not PHS. Georgia signs Sid up for online courses at McQuaid.

### The Skeleton Haunts A House

McQuaid is hosting the Halloween Howl, with McQuaid Hall / McHades Hall as its central attraction. Much of the book takes place regarding that specific hall. It is revealed that McQuaid University used to be the McQuaid School of Art. Georgia's parents had plans to go to McQuaid that morning while Georgia teaches her English composition classes; Dab to meet with Dr. Eberhardt about Roxanne and Phil to visit with fellow faculty. While they're on their way, Georgia remembers that Charles is camped out in Phil's office and warns him to get out before they arrive. She goes to McQuaid to get work done before class and run into Charles. It is revealed that McQuaid Hall has to be in used for McQuaid to maintain ownership. The McQuaid School of Art was established by Persephone McQuaid but enrolled dropped after she died, and the building was given to Pennycross to use for a university so long as they named the college and building after the McQuaid family. Art Singer remarks that McQuaid is a dangerous place these days, in reference to Kendall's death. Georgia talks with Brownie about how he's settling into McQuaid. Georgia thinks the McQuaid Mansion study is as big as the adjunct office at McQuaid. McQuaid relies on the McQuaid Scholar Awards to help send students to McQuaid and Kendall's death shouldn't interfere with it; it would be a shame if the students lost their financial aid. Before Georgia goes to McQuaid, she gets a text from Deborah about Beatrice's call. Georgia wonders about starting a food delivery business on McQuaid to work for tips, thinking it'd be a nice supplement to her per-class pay from McQuaid. Dab is noted to be well-known enough at McQuaid to get what she wants. Brownie introduces Georgia to his parents again as a colleague from McQuaid. Georgia picks up Madison and Sid to bring them to McQuaid for a meeting at McHades Hall. Goergia internally jokes about McQuaid having a campus calavera despite the Day of the Dead being a few weeks off. McQuaid has a lost-and-found, where the ninja costume was disposed of in by Oscar and found by Hector. Sid jokes that Georgia's had the hots for Brownie ever since he came to McQuaid. After Phil makes a French toast, Georgia goes to McQuaid to give Hector's ring back to him. Georgia has been working for McQuaid for about a year now and thinks Alexis might recognize her, so she sends Brownie to talk to Alexis and attempt to get her to confess. Sid looks intro tragedies about McQuaid and discovers that a McQuaid student, Doreen Beale, hung herself at home. Roxanne's enrollment is terminated after her crimes are revealed.

### The Skeleton Paints A Picture

Georgia recalls that her parents have only recently returned from an extra-long sabbatical and had restarted their jobs at McQuaid after the first of the year. Dahna wonders if Georgia bringing a skeleton to McQuaid is why she had to leave.

### The Skeleton Makes A Friend

Georgia's parents have long had tenure and have been teaching at McQuaid's English department ever since. Dab reports that some Overfeld tenured professors coming to McQuaid looking for work, saying that half a dozen from Overfeld have already done so. Charles and Phil exchange news about McQuaid as they'd all worked there at one time or another. It is suffering from its success. Enrollment is up again, so another building project just broke ground, meaning there's another couple of years of dodging constructions workers and machinery. Georgia recalls some nastiness about land ownership when she was at McQuaid.

### The Skeleton Stuffs A Stocking

Georgia recalls her parents' tenure there and her knowledge of the campus. However, her murder-related extracurriculars prevented her from being invited back, although she would have gladly stayed. When Louis Raymond comes to campus, Georgia guides him to Savage Hall for the physical anthropology department. Yo and Georgia talk at the Coffee Corner. Charles is staying in a broom closet in the new adjunct building. Sid is taking one of Charles' online classes. There was past vexation at McQuaid when Prof Nichols died, intending to leave a bequest for McQuaid, then Margo changed the will to benefit Bostock. Georgia asks her parents what the buzz is at McQuaid about the Bostock strike. Andrew asys he and many other McQuaid grad students are planning to offer support to the strikers. Brownie says the union meeting at Bostock was way better than the one at McQuaid, where they sort of threatened the adjuncts with the idea of the strike with both Bostock and McQuaid professors. McQuaid profs are aware of the adjunct lifestyle moreso than most, thanks to Georgia's parents. Georgia intends to eat lunch with her parents before Christmas shopping. McQuaid has a policy regarding faculty and employees going missing.

### The Skeleton Rides A Horse

No appearance.