BOSTON -- In front of an audience of hundreds of Boston College High School faculty and staff, alumni, benefactors, board members, and community members -- with hundreds more watching a livestream of the event online -- Boston College High School President Grace Cotter Regan and Board of Trustees Chair Father Michael McFarland, SJ, announced that the school has received a historic $49 million gift from the Patrick F. Cadigan Family Foundation, established by late alumnus Pat Cadigan, for a new b