I ran cross country all four years with Brother Brian Vetter as our head coach. We had a fantastic team winning many championships and dual meets. This was partly due to Brother Brian’s tough workouts and lengthy practices…from hill repeats to long runs (lost)...
Brother Marcellus was an incredible teacher of chemistry and radio when my brother Ray ’50 and I attended The Mount. He helped Ray get a scholarship to Loyola College (at that time) and also encouraged him to pursue a doctorate in chemistry, which he eventually...
One of my fondest memories at MSJ comes from my senior year Calculus II class. Mr. Cegelski was our teacher, and he encouraged us to do our best on the assignments. Most of all he encouraged to be competitive with each other by trying to out “brown-nose”...
Up until 1962, about ten percent of The Mount’s students lived on campus. I was one of them. We were called “Residents.” The dormitory space was on the third and fourth floor of the A Building for rooms, and on the upper floors of the M...
It was early September 1961 when first I walked down the cobble stone entrance to Mount Saint Joseph. Looking up you saw the old, somewhat intimidating, dark red, brick buildings that were the heart of the campus. Several weeks before, I had reported to the lower...
In junior year (1960-1961), our religion teacher Bro. Benedict (later Bro. James Fitzpatrick) made a strange decision: he would cover the first semester of our religion course in 3 weeks and spend the rest of the time teaching us the Old Testament. Little did I...
