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”...
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...
There were many great teachers during my time at the Mount. But I want to recognize and say thank you to Mr. Tom Hughes. I had the good fortune to have Mr. Hughes for Physics his first year teaching at MSJ. That experience helped to instill in me a desire to...