Campion Nostalgia Guestbook Archive 2003
Wed Dec 31 13:51:21 2003 [Fred Nora 1970]: Thanks Ed and likewise
to you and all Knights.
Wed Dec 31 11:06:37 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: Happy New Year 2004
everyone - make it a good one.
Wed Dec 24 23:01:21 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Festivum Festum
Nativitatis Christi
Wed Dec 24 12:20:23 2003 [Hugh Toner 75]: Merry Christmas to
all knights and their families , and friends . May you all enjoy the Peace
of the season and God' s Blessings thru the New Year.
Wed Dec 24 07:19:20 2003 [Tom Rink 1964]: Mr. Keough, the golf
outing is scheduled for Monday, June 7th. By the way, we weren't called
"townies" we were "day" students. Mr. Franzen, read last weeks Sports Illustrated
maybe it will help you.
Wed Dec 24 06:00:54 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: To Tom Olson: Merry
Christmas and thank you for making this forum available. Communicating
with fellow Knights has truly enriched my life. We all owe you a debt of
gratitude. Best regards for the coming New Year . - Joe
Tue Dec 23 13:13:21 2003 [Keough '65]: Any early mutterings
about a PdC Golf Spectacle for June '04? I had such a riotous time in '01
that I wanna' do it again! Those who have never attended need to do give
it a shot. I laughed so hard for so long that it took a day or 2 for my
jaw muscles and my chest cavity to stop aching. Or perhaps that was the
cholesterol...(plus I'm still pissed about not getting longest putt--Curse
you Townies!)
Tue Dec 23 06:35:42 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Recently received
emails suggest several Class of 70 alumni are alive and still "kickin out
the jams." I've heard from Tommy Martin (now living in Italy and looking
for visitors), Chick Foxgrover and Dan Crutcher. Rumor has it that Chris
Boehme just turned 51. Doug Wiley is pushing rap music in Atlanta for Sony.
Mike Udelhoven's son, Eric just got married and Mike got his foot fixed
at the Mayo Clinic in time to dance with his new daughter-in-law. His wife,
Dana, still looks like Cher (only prettier). Tom Veihman's 13 year old
son, Eddie, is bigger than Tom was in his sophmore year at Campion. I'm
still banking in Mpls.
Mon Dec 22 18:02:37 2003 [john franzen 1971]: Incidentally,
if you're willing to, Keith, please extend my reiterated thanks to Chris
Lamal for letting me have his geometry book real cheap a few years back.
He and a few of his friends, all bearing books and monetary needs, entered
the room I shared in Marquette Hall on the last day of my frosh year. Several
of my friends were there. A number of book buying transactions were entered
into. Lamal said he had an A-class, Vacek-preferred, geometry book to sell
for $3. I said I believed I was interested. When I searched my pockets,
however, I found I had only $1.75. I apologized and said I couldn't afford
it after all. Mr. Lamal then said he didn't think he could find anyone
else to buy it, for most frosh had already left earlier that day. He said
he might as well just give it to me, and handed it to me. I said, "Well,
wait a minute now," and said I could give him in return what I could afford,
and handed Chris all of the $1.75. Had Mr. Lamal and his generosity just
played the part of the prudent businessman? I think not. One doesn't have
to have exclusively good memories of that for which one is nostalgic, but
the memories of it don't have to be exclusively bad, either. If you're
out there: thanks again, Chris.
Mon Dec 22 15:52:33 2003 [john franzen 1971]: I'm the expert
on complexes around here, Keith, and I predict that this incident will
prove to have been insufficient to have that kind of effect. You're probably
too old for any such thing to take hold now anyway.
Mon Dec 22 11:23:44 2003 [Keith Leighty 70]: Eat me, Haschka!
But I think you're right. And it's worse than you make out. I left Reuters
3-1/2 years ago. Now I work at the Times. AND I teach copy editing at New
York University. Oh the shame. I will probably develop a complex now.
Mon Dec 22 10:42:32 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: I always thought
the term "jug" was an acrnym for "judgment under god." I also thought it
was a Jesuit term. So either it is originally a Jesuit term that others
adopted, or it wasn't a Jesuit term at all. They were using jugs at Loyola
High Los Angeles the as recently as 2001, when my son graduated.
Mon Dec 22 10:38:35 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Whoops! I meant to
capitalize the "M" in Manhattan.
Mon Dec 22 10:37:20 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Hey Leighty! I thought
you were in Fr. Warosh's English class when he taught us that "myself"
could not be used alternately for the word for "I." And I thought you were
an editor for Reuters, or something like that. All kidding aside, I wish
I was in manhattan to join you, Paul and Chris for a little holiday fun.
Happy New Year to y'all.
Mon Dec 22 08:02:44 2003 [Keith Leighty 1970]: Chris Lamal,
Paul McCullough and myself are planning a get-together Friday night Jan.
2. Drinks and dinner? We haven't been that specific yet. But any and all
who can make it to mid-town Manhattan are welcome. I'll post details as
they develop. Any interest? My email is keleighty@nyc.rr.com.
Mon Dec 22 07:52:30 2003 [Keith Leighty 1970]: Chris Lamal,
Paul McCullough and myself are planning a get-together Friday night Jan.
2. Drinks and dinner? We haven't been that specific yet. But any and all
who can make it to mid-town Manhattan are welcome. I'll post details as
they develop. Any interest? My email is keleighty@nyc.rr.com.
Sun Dec 21 17:35:15 2003 [Keough '65]: Okay, okay, only 1 more
entry today... I just remembered another really funny "bad" time. I used
to have an ongoing fued w/Jerry Noel '64. He was a w-a-y talented drummer
in the class ahead of me, but I had the really nice set of Ludwig drums
($800+ in '62) while he had a sh*tty set of something I think he got from
Prof DeRatzNest for like $50 total. So he used to steal mine and scratch
'em and beat 'em up at the Checkerboard dances w/o my permission. Anyhow,
we were both played drums in the marching band and one day while I was
whining at him for touching my stuff, he grabbed one of my stix and ran
it through my drumhead, just before we were to play in some downtown civilian
parade. These were the days of calfskin heads and they didn't just get
a hole, they would shred all the way to the rim.
Sun Dec 21 17:22:50 2003 [Keough '65]: Met someone recently
who had gone to a Catholic boarding boys' school in Boston, I think it
was...can't remember the order but not Jesuits. He, too, was an happy recipient
of jugs. Where did JUGS come from?? I had assumed it was a Campion-only
term, synonymous with Kevin Keough; Class of '65. (My last 2 weeks as a
Senior, I somehow racked up 18! I don't remember how or why, but I still
owe a couple...
Sun Dec 21 12:24:40 2003 [Keough '65]: Nice spelling, Keough...
meant 'inoffensive', sorry.. A good question about why we were sent to
Campion. Believe me, I was sooooo immature for my age (& a non-event
in the looks dept.), keeping my wiener out of some hot chick was N-E-V-E-R
a parental concern. My parents sent me to Campion because I tested fairly
high in smartnessification but my focusfying was not so good. They knew
(prayed) that if I had instructors breathing over my shoulder my academics
would improve. Alas, in four years I don't believe I ever read anything
but MAD magazine and letters from home. I was (way back then) able to hear
it once and know it. I graduated ever-the-underachiever in the middle (50-somethingth)of
my class; effort grades were Cs and Ds. Jugged constantly for lack of attention
and running my mouth (still true today).
Sun Dec 21 12:12:12 2003 [Keough '65]: I'm guilty of the two
anonymous but hopefully innoffensive "let's just have a beer" entries...
Sat Dec 20 14:12:36 2003 [john franzen 1971]: I thought that
Michael Doyle's own speculative answer to the question he had posed for
website discussion was equally as interesting as is his question itself.
So I tried yesterday to imaginatively project my way into the shoes of
parents back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s who would observe their children
approaching high school age, to try to consider what guiding concerns about
their children's future, beyond just educational concerns, they might reasonably
have had. Speculative hypotheses like the one I offered yesterday about
what might be a common explanation for something like this are, no doubt,
practically speaking untestable. This time I was not speaking from the
first person point of view, but rather just responding to Michael's scientificlike
wonderment.
Fri Dec 19 18:02:12 2003 [john franzen 1971]: I wonder how many
of us got sent to Campion because our parents figured that that way the
probability would be much lower that we would get some girl pregnant before
marriage.
Fri Dec 19 15:57:29 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Merry Christmas to
you too, Ed, and the same to all my Campion brothers. Mike Doyle, I went
to Campion because my three older brothers, Dave (61), Jon(63) and Mark(64)
had all gone there. My folks were both Marquette U grads and had made friendships
with a few Jebs who recommended they send their boys to Campion. (Father
Harold McAuliffe, SJ being the strongest influence.) My younger brother,
Chris, graduated in 72. The rest is history.
Fri Dec 19 15:53:41 2003 [Bob Bransley 1973]: Have you ever
tried to explain your experiences at Campion to someone who never went
there? Of coarse you all have. The other side to that coin is, each time
we get together, whether with our own class or with other classes, you
feel that special connection. Our wives, who have lived over and over with
the "Campion memories", just accept their own roll as a "Campion Wife".
A Campion Wife is special in unto herself, for she has lived over and over
the never ending stories of life at Campion. My regards to all of them.
This connection we all have has past the test of time and bridged the generation
gap of decades of "Campion Knights". Whether you are from the class of
43, 53, 63, 73. We the "Campion Knights, relate, connect, bond, with each
other at a level that truely stuns other people. A true brotherhood, that
was cemented together for one hundred years, with us at the tender and
down rifgt frightening year of 14-18. It was what it was for each of us.
And in a span of 50 more years it will be no more. GONE FOREVER THE CAMPION
KNIGHTS. Merry Christmas and Peace to all of you Bob '73
Fri Dec 19 12:51:02 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: Merry Christmas men.
We'll always remain a brotherhood that many others would never understand.
Fri Dec 19 09:31:02 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: More random memories.
Too much time on my hands, I suppose. One year at Campion I was on the
debate team and the question of the season was something to do with whether
the U.S. should provide military aid to other countries. How quaint. One
of the primary examples of why we should not provide military aid was the
India-Pakistan dispute in which we were arming both sides. Since the two
countries have been in a continuous state of war or near war ever since,
this memory does not lead to optimism. I also began developing some cynicism
about the value of truth and logic in persuading people. The way debate
worked was that there was one question for the whole season and a team
might argue either side of the question at any given tournament. Interestingly,
the same teams usually won no matter which side of the question they argued.
Most debaters were boys. At one tournament we got beat by a team of girls
whose arguments lacked substance, but the girls were very cute in an innocent
sort of way and they appealed to emotion rather than logic. I remember
being stunned when we found out they won because they so clearly had not
made a good argument. I wish I'd learned those lessons better. Maybe I
wouldn't have been so disappointed by the sorry state of American politics
over the past 35 years. We used to make index cards with quotes and facts
and lug them around with us. I compare that with what I now can do with
our library's databases and with Google. It really is too bad that Campion
didn't survive. I wonder what it would have evolved into. Fewer Jesuits
and more lay teachers, for sure. I asked Fr. Pat Connolly a few years ago
why Campion existed. He told me that one of the goals of Jesuit education
always has been to provide access to a good education to those who might
not have access otherwise. In Campion's case, that meant all the kids from
Midwestern towns without Jesuit high schools. I know there were lots of
reasons why kids went there. I suspect my mother wanted to separate me
from my stepfather at least as much as she wanted me to have a good education.
I'm curious how others understood why they were at Campion. For me, it
was a distinctly unusual choice. The kids from my hometown who went to
boarding schools all went to military schools or schools for problem kids.
"College preparatory school" was not really in our vocabulary. So guys,
why the hell were you there?
Thu Dec 18 14:03:05 2003 [john franzen 1971]: Matthew, I should
just note that I did not use any special technique for generating long
messages. The reason I did not answer your question about that, Thomas
(Nov. 25), is that I just didn't have any answer to it.
Thu Dec 18 12:47:04 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Matt, Nope!, I
won't be posting any snail mail or email letters unless the sender asked
me to post it for them.
Thu Dec 18 12:44:02 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: I haven't come
across George Will in the work I scanned. But he could be from a year I
haven't seen, or didn't get a senior picture in the books I have seen.
Can anybody pin this down?
Thu Dec 18 07:09:25 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: We know the historian
Gary Wills went to Campion. But so did George Will, the conservative columnist
I used to see all the time wearing a bowtie doing network commentary. What
year I'm not sure. But I've seen specific reference to his having attended
Campion in articles about him.
Thu Dec 18 06:43:54 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: "The question
is how to bringing people out of the woodwork." There's good English for
you. Tom, you probably by now know the "secret" to long postings. Not to
encourage anyone else (!), here it is. You compose whatever you want to
say as a word document, then proof it, spell-check it, edit it, add to
it, whatever, and then copy it all into the message box in the guest book.
You can't use indented paragraphs or have more than one space between periods
and the sentences that follow them-just write one long paragraph. And that's
it. (Of course I still manage to post grammatical nonsense anyway.)
Thu Dec 18 06:35:28 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: Tom. The question
is how to bringing people out of the woodwork. Are you suggesting that
you?d post the snail mailed (or e-mailed) letters you?ve gotten from people?
Your BACK acronym is perfect. It perfectly describes me anyway, at this
point in time, I very much feel like a Born Again Campion Knight. 30 years
and not a peep from me, and suddenly it?s, blah, blah, blah Campion this,
blah, blah, blah Campion that! Your website had already been great service
to me and can?t be anything but a great service to all fellow Campionites,
including those who unfortunately had a fundamentally shitty experience
there.
Wed Dec 17 12:15:31 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: I'm thinking of
adding a new feature to the site. It is called "I'm a BACK!!!" Where BACK
stands for Born Again Campion Knight. I have several letters from people
who have lost track of Campion over the years either because they 1) somehow
forgot about it, 2) didn't think they had a worthy experience, 3) didn't
know how to contact anybody since its demise, 4) only attended partially
and didn't consider themselves alumni, 5)etc etc, BUT have for various
reasons become aware of a inner desire to reminisce the special experiences
that was Campion. And they have stated that it was still the best time
of their lives. Some have done this in the Memoir section of their record.
But it may be useful to have a forum for this. What you say!
Tue Dec 16 16:11:20 2003 [john franzen 1971]: You bet, Matthew.
Merry Christmas to David Foster (1971), by the way. Good finally to have
heard from a classmate of mine, David.
Tue Dec 16 12:25:01 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: To John Franzen:
Thanks for the fatherhood compliment. Hopefully I'm a decent dad...Yesterday,
Karl passed his driving test, too, so he's on a roll (One day it's Princeton
University, and the next day he conquers the New Jersey DMV!)
Tue Dec 16 10:47:23 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: About anonymous
entries. Accidents do happen and are ok. My previous comments about anonymity
doesn't apply to those that catch their mistakes and follow up with their
correction. Thanks.
Tue Dec 16 10:39:46 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hmm! Looks like
some of us need to think and then rethink about what someone has said and
then to think and rethink what our replies should be. While we are currently
"pushing the envelope" (as Rush Limbaugh use to say in his standup comedian
days) we do need to "keep it civil" at least. No name calling (deserved
or not)! And I just don't like anonymous entries either. I got busted once
for allowing anonymous commentary. I do not want to invoke a internet validation
scheme. They are a hastle.
Tue Dec 16 09:35:02 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: To Mike Doyle:
I looked at your senior picture in my yearbook. Were you one of the upperclassmen
who painted the murals in the Stone Garden? Although I actually utilized
the place by teaching myself how to ride a unicycle in that freshman rec
room there in Campion Hall, right at the beginning of my freshman year,
before it got converted into the Stone Garden, I still thought that the
guys who painted those murals, with their headbands and army fatigues and
frayed jeans and air of comradely seriousness, were the coolest guys I?d
ever seen in my life! Even though they technically cheated by using overhead
projectors, an implement unavailable, say, to Michelangelo, when he painted
that chapel. Long live the Led Zeppelin (the blimp not the band)! The place
wound up looking cooler than all the posters in all the catalogs that we
flipped through when ordering posters from Fr. Warosh, once we finally
worked up the nerve to creep into Xavier Hall. Besides, as a junior, I
somehow got hold of one of those unicycles and kept it in my room. On a
couple of occasions I succeeded in riding it all the way to Blackhawk Street
in downtown Prairie du Chien without ever having to dismount from it! Does
this qualify as nostalgia, in the context I mean, of fond memories? I mean
for it to, anyway.
Thu Dec 11 06:56:56 2003 [Matthew Micka 1974]: My freshman year
at Campion was the 1970-1971 school year. After that year, my father took
me out of the school. My family lived in Venezuela, and my father moved
us to Maracaibo, the 2nd largest city in Venezuela. It?s English-speaking
school was for the first time ever beginning a 10th grade-I was one of
10 kids enrolled in it. I went from being a freshman at Campion to being
a 10th grader at a school that began with kindergarteners. But halfway
through the school year, my mother needed to return to the states for medical
treatment, and this occasioned my return to Campion. I returned early in
January. It was, wouldn?t you know, cold and snowy and icy. Missing the
first half of my sophomore year had resulted in its share of social consequences.
My roommate from freshman year, who?d been the class president, hadn?t
returned either. He'd had a way of bringing people together, and at the
end of our freshman year, our wing in Marquette particularly, was a pretty
close-knit group of guys. But the class I returned to had more or less
split. There were now the super-studious, seemingly concentrated in Lucy
Hall, and then there were the wasted, all holed up in Xavier. I wasn?t
allowed to join Fr. Dreckman?s Honor?s American History class halfway through
the year, for some stupid reason, and so that right there set me apart
from two of my best friends, who always seemed to be reading for that class.
Another section of my friends had become rather heavy drinkers and dope
smokers. I wasn?t comfortable with either set of friends anymore to my
dismay. But the party-contingent, with much good will intended, invited
me to join them in one of their rooms on a Saturday night when there was
also a dance taking place. For old time?s sake I joined them. When I got
there however all the glasses were in use. A coffee cup was located that
had long been used as an ash tray. Somebody did a perfunctory washing of
the cup, and I think I was served in it Southern Comfort. I was dubious
about just how sanitary cup was or wasn't, but didn?t wish to offend. I
must have gone, somehow, from not wishing to offend, to drinking a whole
lot. The next thing I knew I?d shoved off on my own and proceeded over
to Campion Hall.There was at the time this room in the building that connected
Campion Hall to the Freshman Gym that served as a kind of coffee house
occasionally. One group of guys in the theater department called it Narnia-I
don?t know if that was its official name. That?s where I wound up. As best
as I can recall, I plopped myself down at the table of two seniors and
their two nicely-dressed dates. The two seniors (?72), and their dates,
were incredibly tolerant of me. I remember thinking that I was quite witty
and charming and was definitely concentrating my charms upon the two young
women. They seemed to like me. I was a cute sophomore, after all, and my
inhibitions were nil. I was making them laugh. The next thing I knew, my
location had changed radically. I was in someone?s room in Xavier. I was
wearing my knee-length great coat just obtained a week before at a Salvation
Army in St. Louis. Someone was talking to me, kindly, suggesting that I
try to sleep. And this blurry face before me suddenly came into focus,
and it was...Jesus Christ Himself. It was Jesus Christ Superstar, it was
Mr. Larry Dunn, who I knew only from his portrayal of JC in the previous
spring?s lip-synced production of Jesus Christ, Superstar, staged in the
school chapel. This I think struck me as pretty funny even at that moment.
Pretty funny but strangely religious, too. Because on the other hand here
was this senior behaving in a most Christian way towards me. He?d totally
extended himself and given me shelter in his room when I obviously wasn?t
even capable of conveying to him where my room was. I have no idea where
he found me, or how much effort he had to make to get me to a safe place,
which amounted to his room. All kidding aside, this was the religious highlight
of my years at Campion. I was saved by Jesus Christ in his very contemporary
capacity as Superstar, while at the same time, I was truly helped by a
very kind upperclassman who really did bear an astounding resemblance to
the Savior of my altar boy days. I awakened the next morning laid out across
someone?s bed-Larry?s own bed I suppose. Someone was sleeping in the bed
on the other side of the room, and maybe Larry was sleeping too, on the
floor or something. I sat up and became aware that my still-buttoned coat
was encrusted in vomit. No doubt I had smeared quantities of it all over
the bed that I'd slept on, but there was no question of trying to clean
anything up. I took care not to awaken anyone and slipped quietly out of
the room. The whole dorm was asleep still. I was missing my hat. For some
reason, I think, a hat that I valued. Maybe it was a vintage piece of headwear
that I?d just gotten from the Salvation Army in St. Louis! I had a splitting
headache, like I?d never had before. I went up to my room, and might have
procured a couple of aspirin, if I had any. [I?d drunk four beers exactly
once during a dance my freshman year, out in the snow behind Campion Hall,
swilling down the almost freezing-cold beer that felt like frozen razor
blades as I poured it down my gullet, but that hadn?t resulted in any serious
consequences except that my prefect caught us staggering down the hallway
in Campion Hall during the dance and threatened to write to my parents
about it. Oh, and when I went to Mass the next morning, probably to cover
for myself, since by that time I might well have quit attending Mass, Fr.
O'Connor, I swear, was staring straight at me during his sermon when he
made the outrageous claim that there were those on that very campus who
were more concerned with how many beers they'd drunk the night before than
they were with the number of Vietnamese civilians killed during the previous
week by U.S. forces.] Then I staggered to over to Campion Hall and found
that it was open. The coffee house, too, was unlocked. I had a vague sense
of which table I?d been at, and sure enough, underneath it was my hat,
in a pool of vomit that had congealed into oatmeal. I must have at some
point become ill, and ended up under the table, puking. Those poor seniors,
their poor dates! I?ve no idea how implicated those poor people became
in my predicament at the point that I began to vomit. Hopefully I was under
the table and not still leaning across the table on my elbow, leaning in
towards the most appealing of the two young women seated on either side
of me, making witty remarks. I hope nobody got splattered in payment for
them having been so tolerant of my intrusion upon their double- date. I'll
bet at the very least someone's shoes got splattered with it. My hangover
went from bad to worse as the day progressed. I proceeded to get sick,
really sick, with fever and everything. I must have picked up some kind
of bug from the damned ash tray / coffee cup. I was sick for the next couple
of days, the upshot being that, from that day forward, I?ve never outgrown
a total aversion to hard liquor! Not such a bad consequence, I don?t suppose,
especially considering my family?s predisposition towards alcoholism, as
became clear years later. I remember taking my great coat to the woman
in Campion Hall on Monday morning who took in clothing that went out to
be dry cleaned. She looked at me with such maternal concern as I handed
over the vomit-stained coat. She wasn't condemning of me, just really concerned.
I?d chipped off as much of the dried vomit as I could, but there was still
no disguising the evidence of how I'd spent my weekend. I was embarrassed,
too, because I really liked this woman. She'd baked me a nice chocolate
angel food cake on my birthday the previous spring at the behest of my
mom, and I hoped that she'd bake me another the birthday I had coming up,
when I?d turn sweet 16. And that?s the story of how I came to be saved
by Larry Jesus Christ Superstar Dunn Himself in the early morning hours
on a Sunday in January in 1972, in Xavier Hall at my dear Alma Mater Campion.
I don't think that this encounter was ever acknowledged by either myself
or Larry. Never thanking you wasn?t right, so I'm thanking you now, Larry,
er, JC. You were definitely a superstar that night when you so selflessly
helped a disoriented and somewhat forlorn underclassman. Nor did either
senior, I don't think, ever bring up with me my intrusion into their double-date.
That was nice of them, too. I don't think that I for my part ever felt
completely confident that I could remember exactly which two seniors the
two men had been. And as for the women, well, that was our one encounter,
I guess, and I hope that I didn't permanently stain any article of either
girl's clothing. Those girls were such angels. Maybe they really were angels,
literally. That's how I remember them, anyhow. As it happens, my good old
dad decided once again at the end of my junior year to take me out of Campion,
right when I was on the brink of what promised to be a really great senior
year. This was a devastating event, and it?s only just now, 30 years after
the fact, that I?m realizing how devastating it turned out to be. [Shame
on you, Mike Doyle, for feeling compelled to speak as one of the guys and
agreeing that after 30 years somebody should hopefully have gotten over
some traumatizing event from their past. As a psychologist, you know better
than that, or at least you should.] Don?t be surprised if I soon weigh
in concerning the grotesque underwear incident that?s so recently been
posted on this site.
Wed Dec 10 16:03:33 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: All you erstwhile
Campion musicians, please visit the Campion Easy Knights Bands guestbook.
Tue Dec 9 08:05:00 2003 [Mason A Holt 1976]: Hello to Hugh Toner
, Joe Bertrand, Bret Young. I was one of the guys that left when the school
closed and finished up at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose, Ca. No comparison
to Campion. I roomed with Mark Heberlein down the hall from Joe Bertrand,
Hugh Toner. My e-mail address is holtmh@aol.com
Tue Dec 9 07:52:43 2003 [Mason A Holt 1976]: Home at last!
Mon Dec 8 15:40:13 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Wow, my message
about the phone booth is so close to Dan's, I just want to clarify that
I think it was Terry and Mike and me. Not Dan and Mark.
Mon Dec 8 15:35:45 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi Dan, long time
no hear!! Sorry to hear about Mark. He did attend his senior year. I couldn't
really tell you if he was at commencements or not. I presume so.
Mon Dec 8 15:31:18 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: I remember the
time three of us huddled together in a phonebooth trying to keep warm from
a sudden blizzard while we were trying to hitch hike back from Madison.
A sheriff eventually came along and gave us a ride to the next county.
Mon Dec 8 15:28:15 2003 [Dan Roseliep 1972]: I regret to report
that a classmate of ours, Mark Baughman of Dubuque, Iowa died on November
29, 2003 following a brief illness. I don't think Mark graduated with us
but many of you no doubt remember him. If any of you would like any further
information please feel free to email me. droseliep@ecity.net
Mon Dec 8 14:31:04 2003 [Michael Doyle 1970]: Hit a wrong key.
Mr. Shipley and his "nackles." Fr. Scott's wonderful old science classroom.
Rehearsals and performances of plays. Flirting with girl cheerleaders from
other schools. Sleeping in a barn somewhere between PDC and LaCrosse when
Pete Asmuth and I couldn't get back to school. Reading imon and Garfunkle
songs as poetry for forensics. Drinking beer for the first time during
senior year and thinking it was the nastiest stuff I'd ever tasted. Putting
pennies on the tracks when a train came by. Teasing Bruuuuuce. Giving Fred
Nora's brother a black eye after study hall. Corbo's deadly farts in that
same study hall. Wondering why a soda bottle flung off the back of a train
bounced once before shattering the second time it hit. I have no idea if
or how people remember me, but I think I was a pretty typical kid. I feel
bad that some kids were hurt and I know that the shadows of abuse can stay
with someone for a long time. That being said, thirty years does seem a
bit long to be nursing such hurt.
Mon Dec 1 17:55:53 2003 [Hugh Toner 75]: Jim Owens left a message
reminding me that today is the feast day of Edmund Campon .In light of
that , let me pass along a greeting to all.
Fri Nov 28 15:43:42 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Paul, Great question!
Was that a 16mm film or a 35mm film. Or was it converted to VHS already.
I have a 16mm projector which I use to convert to DV. How long was that
movie? It would be great to add that to this site.
Fri Nov 28 15:21:38 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Does anyone
know who has the movie the admissions office showed to prospective Campion
students? Had lunch with Keith Leighty earlier this week in NY and he described
how some one scored this flick for the 1995 '70 25th reunion in Galena
Ill. and it was a smash. Keith, jump in anytime.
Wed Nov 26 15:52:30 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: OK guys, hang
in there. We have the senior class pix for 1931 and 1932 coming real soon
now. We'll finally be able to see the senior class picture for Kevin McCarthy
'32 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original)) boocoo other movies,
and George Ireland '32 (ball player and coach) etal. All courtesy of James
West '32.
Sat Nov 15 09:18:34 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: You '70 guys are a hoot.!
I feel like I'm back in Study Hall workin' off a jug.
Fri Nov 14 15:27:17 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: Well, Keith, maybe
the rest of the country ought to care who our governor is. The last time
we had an actor for governor he went on to become president. And some people
are talking about changing the requirement that the president be a natural
born citizen. President Terminator, anyone? And Fred, one other difference
between the women of 1850 and the women of today: in 1850 they not only
had real breasts, they had real wooden teeth, if they had teeth at all.
Fri Nov 14 12:39:02 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Correction.
That's 1935
Fri Nov 14 12:34:54 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Fred, speaking
of history, Stanley Baldwin was appointed British Prime Minister this day
in 1938.
Fri Nov 14 10:20:49 2003 [Fred Nora 70]: You know what happened
this week back in 1850?....California became a state. The state had no
electricity. No money. Almost everyone spoke Spanish. There were gunfights
in the middle of the streets.... So it was just like the California of
today only that the women had real breasts.
Fri Nov 14 09:58:10 2003 [Keith Leighty 70]: Uh, Mike, Nobody
outside California cares who is governor there, at least not since Guv.
Moonbeam took his bong to private practice.... I guess that ice storm was
a welcome change for you sun-drenched Angelenos!
Fri Nov 14 08:55:29 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: So Joe, do you
mean a very long stocking cap that hung down my back? You have one amazing
memory, dude. No, I don't have that thing. I only really remember it because
once when a bunch of us were up at Wyalusing, someone (I don't remember
who) threw it off the bluff and I ended up climbing down to retrieve it.
Naive and tender soul that I was, I was surprised that anyone would do
something mean to me like that. I own a nice woolen stocking cap now, but
since I live in L.A. I have very little opportunity to wear it. Basically,
only when I'm backpacking in the high Sierra backcountry. And I'm not saying
that to annoy all you cold weather folks. And when I tell you that I am
now looking out my office window at blue skies over the Santa Monica Mountains
with the temperature around 65 or 70 with low humidity I'm not rubbing
it in. Really. So no one wants to say anything about California's soon-to-be
Governor Terminator, eh? How about a game: pick which celebrity should
be governor for each state and describe his/her campaign theme. Like Heidi
Fleiss for Nevada. "An experienced pro to maximize the tax revenues from
our brothels."
Fri Nov 14 07:13:52 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Hey Doyle, Do you
still wear that "Mike Nesmith" stocking cap? I must say that these days
I look like Allen Sherman with a beard. I coached peewee indoor soccer
at the local YMCA. The 5-6 year olds had great fun trying their best to
bean me whenerver they could. They all played like Pele as far as I was
concerned. Duck!!
Thu Nov 13 21:07:58 2003 [Paul McCullough ]: Hiya, Keith.Just
to let you know that I'm breaking out, lettin' my freak flag fly, at Great
Wall - moved from the garlic chicken to the kung pao chicken. It's pretty
good, almost as good as the garlic chicken (hint, hint). Don't worry too
much about your stats there in soccer - last year my son's team finished
0-10 in basketball, but he's going out again. Feel the love, babe.
Thu Nov 13 13:01:59 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: P.S., I hope someone
will take the bait and start something about Arnold. The possibilities
are endless: comments about California weirdness, slagging politics as
usual, Terminator jokes, serious political commentary, despair.
Thu Nov 13 12:55:15 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: Keith, I'd be happy
to give you some coaching tips :) Actually, now that I'm on my second round
of youth soccer (my son was a top notch goalkeeper) I have come to the
conclusion that while coaching has some influence on a team's success,
most of it is due to the players, especially on younger teams. Give me
a couple of good, aggressive players and a few who aren't clueless, and
we'll win some games. Give me one outstanding player, and we'll win lots
of games. As they get older and the talent starts to even out, coaching
plays a bigger part. Oh well, enough frivolity. Lunchtime is over and I
must shrink some heads.
Thu Nov 13 11:11:12 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Kostka must be
the influence behind me building this site. Most of my Campion stuff got
destroyed in a flood back home many years ago. I have this lone brick from
Kostka that I've dragged around with me for years. My wife use to bug me
to toss it or give it away. I tried once giving it away, instead, what
happened that guy sent me all his stuff which we made this site with. So
her request started a snowballing ordeal. Today is HER birthday. What a
coincidence!!
Thu Nov 13 09:30:57 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Today is the Feast
of St. Stanislaus Kostka (1550 - 1568) the teenage saint after whom Kostka
Hall was named.
Thu Nov 13 08:02:20 2003 [Keith Leighty 70]: whops, that last
message was from me.
Thu Nov 13 08:01:49 2003 [ ]: I'm coaching soccer as well. My
11-year-old son is on the team. We're 0-9. The playoffs start this week
and our first game is against a team we lost to 8-1 two weeks ago. My alma
mater, the University of Arizona, plays USC saturday. U of A is 2-8. They
won their first conference home game in three years last week. they fired
their coach earlier this year. Try not to run up the score.
Wed Nov 12 17:46:35 2003 [Michael Doyle 70]: Where did everyone
go? Just checked in and I see that no one has posted anything in almost
a month. I don't have anything of significance to say, except that Navy
should have beaten Notre Dame and USC (one of my alma maters) is going
to win the national championship. The last time they won it I was in graduate
school, so we're talking a long time ago. And I've been coaching my daughter's
soccer team and we were 9-1-1 last year and we're 7-2 so far this year.
And the Terminator is the governor of my state.
Mon Oct 20 14:16:06 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: Finally got back to
the site guys. Have been dealing with the Cubs and then the Red Sox not
making it to the World Series - shades of Aquinas v. Campion. Talk to you
soon.
Mon Oct 13 12:33:04 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: A quicker path to
Viehman's accolades: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/min/news/min_press_release.jsp?ymd=20031007&content_id=567356&vkey=pr_min&fext=.jsp
Mon Oct 13 09:31:43 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Big news out of the
Minnesota Twins executive office: Tom Viehman, '70, was named "Tptally
Awesome Coach of the Year" in recognition of his dedication and efforts
coaching kids baseball. Congrats Tom! Go to http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/min/news/min_press_release.jsp?ymd=20031007&content_id=567356&vkey=pr_min&fext=.jsp&c_id=min
to read all about it.
Sat Oct 4 10:19:50 2003 [ ]: .....
Mon Sep 29 14:10:09 2003 [Joe Haschka 70]: Greetings to all
you Class of 70 guys (McCullough, Dudek, Roll, Leighty, Altoff, Kleihege,
Lamal, Nora, Doyle, Wagner) I've been off the site for a few months and
it was very cool to see postings from you all. I keep in touch with several
of our classmates including Tom Viehmann, Doug Wiley and Marty Schultz.
They are all doing well. Tom was over to the house helping my wife and
I finish a bathroom remodeling job. I joined Doug on an ice fishing trip
to Gull Lake in Nisswa, MN last Feb. We had to keep our beer on hot coals
just to keep it from freezing. Now and then I talk to Mike Udelhoven who
owns a furniture business in Vandelia, MO. I also found Les Maiman by doing
a Google search. He's the finance director for a diocese in Texas. Turns
out he had been living here in the Twin Cities for a bunch of years and
I didn't know it. Too bad. He thought I'd joined the Jesuits. Two out of
the five boys my parents had was enough. Hey Paul McCullough, I though
you had a fretless Hofner bass in addition to your Fender.
Tue Sep 23 19:33:20 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Robert Killeren
who was a scholastic from 1942 to 1945 at Campion has submitted his fantastic
collection of Black and White photos he took while there. The link is on
the main page.
Mon Sep 22 10:20:03 2003 [Tom Scheck 1974]: Hi, Jim. A 30 year
reunion sounds good. Where would you like to do it? The Chicago area? Do
you keep in touch with any guys from our class? I keep in touch with Frank
Abderholden, John O'Sullivan and recently with Trip Strub.
Sat Sep 20 10:29:40 2003 [Jim Brinkman 1974]: sorry 'bout that..May
18, 2004. Too much fun in the"zone" on the 3rd floor of Xavier I guess.
Anyway, what do you say we try and get something organized for next Spring?
Sat Sep 20 10:25:09 2003 [Jim Brinkman 1974]: It's been almost
30 years boys and never an organized reunion. May 18, 2003 will mark the
30th anniversary of the date we all went our seperate ways.
Sat Sep 20 10:24:46 2003 [Jim Brinkman 1974]: It's been almost
30 years boys and never an organized reunion. May 18, 2003 will mark the
30th anniversary of the date we all went our seperate ways.
Fri Sep 19 10:17:59 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: Hey Fred. I do remember
your wager of long ago. I've had the six of Sam aging in metallic cans
next to the litterbox for the last 2 years. They're yours if the Cubs win.
I'll relay your sighting of Whitey to the Boston FBI - I'm sure they'll
get some free hot dogs out of it. Fred, are you still down in FL? I was
thinking about the golf outing down there but couldn't swing it. By the
way Mike Frain, I thought that all Frain ushers were on the lam these days....
Thu Sep 18 19:29:59 2003 [BEEN THERE 59]: HEY FRED NORA - -
MIKE FRAIN CLASS OF 57 DON'T KNOCK FRAIN USHERS
Wed Sep 17 05:56:02 2003 [Fred Nora 70]: I forgot to sign the
last message and would sorely regret not getting my Sam Adams.
Wed Sep 17 05:53:30 2003 [ ]: Ed, I once again proffer a wager
of a six of Old Style vs. the same of Sam Adams when this storied battle
ensues. I believe I saw Whitey posing as an Andy Frain usher at Wrigley
last summer. This conclusively disproves AMW's speculation that Whitey
will be found when Tammy Fae washes off her make-up.
Tue Sep 16 14:00:05 2003 [Ed Dudek 70]: Just got back on-line
guys - it's been about a year and needed to re-connect. By the way, it'll
be the Red Sox and Cubs in the Series. In case anyone wants tickets, I
have some for Game 8. Got 'em from Whitey Bulger.
Mon Sep 15 18:37:03 2003 [Joe Williamson 72]: I 2nd everything
Steve May said!
Thu Sep 11 07:21:41 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: http://www.newyork.com/vny/panorama/tour3a.html
It is 10:28 am.
Tue Sep 9 08:31:10 2003 [Michael Doyle 1970]: Paul, what a kind
thing to say. I believe I did a poor job on the show, but it came out well
anyway. Everyone else must have compensated for my lack of attention to
details. I remember the show had a full house, which I attributed to the
lack of anything else to do in PdC. Of course, the bands were cookin' :)
The thoughtful and creative way the Jesuits dealt with me has always impressed
me. Maybe because they could have been hardcore and just sent me home.
Damn, we were young.
Sat Sep 6 15:32:24 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Gee, Mike Doyle,
if it's any consolation, I thought that variety show was great. As I recall,
it had among other acts, The Soul Band (big hit was Temptations' Can't
Get Next to You' featuring Louis Hutt, Jimmy Bowman and Fred Clark) and
The Blues Band (I guess we were into generic titles for bands back then).
This band had Jim Halazyn, Brad Smith, Dan Corrigan, Frank Greider, myself,
and (I think) either Toms Collins or Dave Poladna. Songs included 'Killing
Floor' (The Electric Flag) and 'Kick Out the Jams' (MC-5). Venue was the
gym at Hoffman Hall and it was pretty much filled. I was surprised that
the show went on there as the Hoffman Gym was (I thought) the sacred ground
of Campion atheletes.
Fri Sep 5 19:52:19 2003 [Steve May 1978]: Let's try this again....Recently,
I became aware of the posts on this bulletin board regarding Fr. DiUlio.
I went to summer camp at Campion the summer prior to my freshman year and
was in the freshman class the year Campion closed. Fr. DiUlio was Campion?s
Principal my freshman year. He was also a counselor the summer camp I attended.
During the school year, my friends and I would often spend free time chatting
with Fr. DiUlio in his office. He became a friend, confidant and counselor
to many of us. I have no doubt that inappropriate behavior may have occurred
at Campion. However, I do not recall hearing about any such behavior with
regard to Fr. DiUlio. If this rumor had any legs, I would have heard something,
at some point. To spread such incredible baseless slanderous rumors, completely
without fact or merit, shows great lack of character. If the individual
who brought this story to our attention has any human quality, the facts
should have been shared with the proper authorities, not with a web site.
Fri Sep 5 19:44:40 2003 [Steve May 1978]: Recently, I became
aware of the posts on this bulletin board regarding Fr. DiUlio. I went
to summer camp at Campion the summer prior to my freshman year and was
in the freshman class the year Campion closed.
Fri Sep 5 15:06:37 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: Get me through my email
- pmower@earthlink.net or patmower@campion64.org, and we can get together.
I have done this a few times and it is amazing. Campion Maniacs are always
the same! Sorry to have missed Prairie this year, but 2004 is the 40th
reunion for the class of 64! Beat Marquette, Beat Aquinas, Beat Wahlert.....Go,
Joe Campion! - Joe Campion Lives!
Fri Sep 5 15:04:13 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: Hey Guys! Been a long
while. Hope XX XXXXXX isn't around any more, don't need any of their diatribing!
By the way, Yes, I can play a B-3, but prefer the sweet sound (sometimes)
of the Mighty Wurlitzer.....Guess we come from different eras! For those
that don't know, Fr. DiUlio is a big wig in LA (Los Angeles) with the Catholic
School system here - I think raising money....what else for a Jebbie? I
had intended to call him, but, as usual, my thoughts were good.....Anyway,
if there is anyone who lives in or near LA, Ok, you're included Kevin Keough,
give me a jingle. You can get me
Fri Sep 5 13:00:18 2003 [Michael Doyle 1970]: Amazing how one
forgets details after 33 years. I must have know Mr. DiUlio because I was
a cheerleader senior year. Still can't remember him for the life of me.
I believe Pete Mitch was part of the beer raid. He was my roommate, also.
And yes, he did get caught for something and had to leave school early
and graduate by mail. I don't actually recall whether he got caught for
the beer raid or something else. I'm sure there were plenty of other things
for which Pete "Al Monday" Mitch could have been caught. Interesting how
different kids were handled differently when in trouble. I was caught right
around spring break buying alcohol at a bar in PdC. It was pretty pathetic.
I looked like I was about 16, my fake I.D. was as phony as they come, and
I bought odd quantities of stuff (6 pack of this, half pint of that, fifth
of something else). Apparently an off duty cop was in the bar, knew immediatley
that I was from Campion, and came to school to check out the yearbook to
identify me. When I got back to school I was brought in to hear my fate.
What Mr. Blumberg told me was "you set a bad example, so we want you to
set a good example." So I was assigned the job of directing the spring
variety show. Pete Mitch, on the other hand, had to leave school for a
similar offense. Of course, I hadn't been in significant trouble since
freshman year and Pete most certainly had. Oh well, I've avoided work long
enough.
Fri Sep 5 07:39:11 2003 [Paul Wagner 1970]: Al DiUlio &
Boom Boom Cannon were some of the Jebbies who made basketball trips with
the varsity and JV basketball teams. He was a Mr. DiUlio at time. We used
to call him "Fat Al". I ran into him again when he was the President of
Xavier University in Cincinnati. He remembered those days well. For Mike
Doyle: wasn't Pete Mitch part of the midnight raid on the Jesuit's beer
supplies. He left a trail of beer cans to Xavier Hall and either was seen
or caght and did not graduate with us but did received his diploma by mail.
I couldn't find any articles about DiUlio in the Marquette U papers regarding
the allegations regarding "Fat Al". Finally: I think the Shlitz cans belonged
to Mark Lappe as he did have 1-2 cases of beer in his dresser draws at
any one time toward the end of senior year. Glad to see the Class of 1970
are part of this site.
Thu Sep 4 10:07:30 2003 [Michael Doyle 1970]: Thomas: Uh, gee,
I guess I neglected the obvious fact that of course we were at Campion
at the same time. I suppose this also reflects the fact that I'm surprised
anyone actually remembers me from our Prairie days.
Wed Sep 3 19:48:00 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: A. J. DiUlio,
S.J. was at Campion during the '69 - '70 school year and taught theology,
as described in the '70 Campion Knight (pp.52- 53). I recall him but I
never spoke to or had any interaction with him. I recall that he was a
prefect somewhere; which residence hall I don't know. Sure wasn't on Xavier
Three. Hiya, Michael! Alas, I wasn't involved in the Midnight Food Service;
I "made do" with late night runs to Ma's. However, I recall that a very
prominent member of our class got caught drinking about 48 hours before
he was to receive his diploma (out of respect for privacy, e-mail me if
you would like the person's name). Can't recall what ultimately happened,
although rumors swirled through Xavier that he wasn't going to graduate,
or at least would not receive his diploma with the rest of us. What I want
to know was: who drank all the beer to build the beer can pyramid outside
Mr. Blumberg's office ('70 Knight, p. 132). It was mostly Schlitz's, between
2 to 3 cases, I'd estimate.
Wed Sep 3 17:10:48 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi, Mike, Actually
we did meeti, at Campion, of course. While we didn't hang together, I remember
the faces of a lot of the Senior classes when I was a Freshman and Sophomore.
Many Seniors from the classes of 69,70, and 71 were admired by us underclassmen
for various reasons. I can't say that Seniors after our class were admired
by the underclassman. Mr. DiUlio came on board in 70-71 I believe.
Wed Sep 3 16:01:56 2003 [Michael Doyle 1970]: Just for the record,
I am not related to Teresa Doyle. I also don't remember a Fr. DiUlio, so
I'm not entirely sure what to make of Ms. Doyle's rather confusing posts.
I am pleased that Thomas Olson hasn't met a Doyle he didn't like, but of
course, Tom, you've never met me. It's entirely possible I would break
your string of likable Doyles. On another note, we have a Jesuit psychologist
doing a postdoctoral fellowship in our department and he was telling us
about some goings-on in the Jesuit community here at Loyola Marymount.
His story reminded me of Midnight Food Service, Inc. and the time we stole
the Jesuits' beer. This would have been in the Spring of 1970. For the
life of me, I can't remember who else was involved. I was outside with
a walkie-talkie to warn the guys inside if someone was coming. So fess
up, guys. Who else was in on this?
Mon Sep 1 18:20:30 2003 [Joe Williamson 72]: I remember Tom
Doyle very well. The thing I remember best is that he was a decent football
payer who quit after JV's. I wish he hadn't because we could have used
him. Also, I believe he had a brother, 'Smokey' who went to Camp Campion.
He was a great guy and would have been in my class. Finally, I knew Fr.
DiUlio and thought he was a great guy. If it is true, what Theresa said,
then I am certainly shocked and dissapointed, This scandel in the Catholic
Church has been a long time coming. The only thing I am amazed is how long
it's taken to be exposed. Let the light shine in and let the Church be
better for it.
Mon Sep 1 00:14:00 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Mea copa, mea copa,
mea maxima copa!!!
Sun Aug 31 21:57:34 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi, Teresa, am
happy you are finally brave enough to at least sign your messages with
your real name once anyways. I've known who you were from the first time
you attacked this site. But, I maintained your anonymity to protect, yes
even, you. At the risk of setting you off on yet another tangent could
you please use proper etiquette and put your name in the NAME BOX instead
of using bogus names. Perhaps you will find true friends here then.
Sun Aug 31 21:53:57 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi, Teresa continued:
You have no idea of my interactions if any with your brother Tom. He was
always a cool guy as I recall. In fact, I don't think I yet met a Doyle
I didn't like. But you sister, are really something else. Is Tom still
alive. You always refer to him like he is dead or helpless somewhere which
would be a shame. I think most of us did like him. To me he would have
been an upper classmen and unless he was personally involved as a sophomore
giving me a swirly or snuggy or some other hazing to me as a freshman,
I would have had no negative feelings for him whatseover. And if he was
involved, it wouldn't be any of your business for me to discuss it with
you in a open forum anonymously. Oh, for the record I am not saying your
brother was involved in the hazing ritual. The three guys that humiliated
me I can not remember their faces. I'd rather not stew over it. Now that
is a gift from God. FYI, it was my class that made an exerted effort to
stop the hazing of underclassmen when we became the upperclassmen.
Sun Aug 31 21:51:04 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi, Teresa. I
see you are at it again. You just keep hounding that somehow I rationalize
this and I rationalize that yadeyadeyade. Fact is I haven't rationalized
anything. It is you that is strictly rationalizing who knows what. You
obviously got burned by someone, sometime, somewhere and you keep stewing
in it. And now you are back to homosexual phenomena. Make up your mind.
Your last goaround stated that your problem was a alcohol issue and not
a homo issue. And I did NOT rationalize anything legal over moral about
drinking alcohol. That is your take. If I was rationalizing it I would
have said something stupid like... Jesus was providing alcohol from the
time he was old enough to make it. Don't ask me if that is enough to make
it ok in the 20th century.
Sat Aug 30 08:41:13 2003 [ ]: Hey there is nothing wrong with
being called a homosexual. The Pope agrees, he just doesn't want anyone
to act on it.
Sat Aug 30 08:40:03 2003 [ ]: Be brave give them my link: http://www.livejournal.com/users/6authored2/
I have a letter from the conservative Jesuit who was persecuted that told
me that Al DiUlio was accussed of being a homosexual at Campion but the
order shut the young man down. The order and people who have no sense of
self are always allowing truth to be shut down.
Sat Aug 30 08:28:53 2003 [To tom olson 0000]: Oh, i just slipped
back to read your rationalizaton on DiUlio. What you consider to be legal
is not moral. My brother is one of the most respected people I know. As
his dad said, "That kid can talk about anything." You need to believe in
DiUlio. Go ahead. My brother believes in God. I think men who have fathers
who loved them don't treat the Jesuits like God. I know there are great
Jesuits and generally they are the ones who don't want cheerleaders. What
you call legal is not moral. My brother is Tom Doyle, class of 1971, and
anybody who knows him know that he would not say anything about Al DiUlio
unless he was disgusted. My book's coming out. I had no idea that Tom even
knew Al DiUlio so i have to believe that our father or God put me in that
awful scandal. I bet you were jealous of my brother's charisma. He teaches
kids in the inner city and he would never Legal or not put a flashlight
in a student's face in the middle of the night to say, "Come on let's see
what makes you tick.' So DiUlio used the alcohal as some kind of truth
serum. It's disgusting that you rationalize legality as meaning it's ok.
I trust Tom Doyle, and he told me after DiUlio was forced to resign because
of the scandal, "Well, Al DiUlio is finally getting what he deserves. I
could tell you things about him that you wouldn't believe. The guy's an
ego maniac." You are in love with power Tom Olson---your pathetic rationalization
about legality over morality shows it. I know that you had to have hated
Tom's charisma. His secret, he had a father who loved him, and his father
grew to call Campion, the hole. How's that for nostalgia. People like you
are the reasons cover ups can happen. You don't believe in God, you believe
in mortals and if the mortals mess up in their humanity you rationalize
or attack the messenger. Good Friday is your kind of folks day. Teresa
Doyle.
Mon Aug 25 08:55:22 2003 [Helen ]: my email address is idyiaw@aol.com
if anybody knows Neil Patrick Shannon--I have a photo album of his with
lots of Campion pictures and memorabilia--he was a cheerleader, class of
'63
Mon Aug 25 08:49:06 2003 [Helen ]: Hello, I am looking for Neil
Patrick Shannon, Class of '63--does anybody know how I could get in touch
with him? Thanks!
Tue Aug 19 14:37:30 2003 [Jim Juneau ]: My family and I are
planning a trip near Prairie Du Chien and it got me thinking about Campion.
I attended Thomas More H.S. in Miwaukee, class of 76. We had a swim team
and formed a conference with what was left of private schools in the state,
Wayland Academy, Marquette,Campion etc. In 74 or 75 we had a meet out there
and stayed overnight in one of the dorms. I remember being in a type of
student union with pool table, ping pong etc. The ceilings and walls were
full of written messages from students and guests, so obviously we added
to these. Names that come to mind as some of the better swimmers were Bodnar,Barlow
and Snyder? If I remember right, the Snyder boys parents either lived or
were visiting Saudi Arabia. Am I dreaming any of this up?
Tue Aug 19 14:25:44 2003 [Jim Juneau ]: memories
Mon Aug 18 04:17:45 2003 [MUGU ]: JUST DO IT FOR ME
Sat Aug 2 14:07:09 2003 [Alice Russo ]: I am not a graduate
of Campion. I have been trying to find my friend Martin Quinn class of
1952. I would so appreciate any info from anyone. Thank You
Tue Jul 29 21:34:56 2003 [Alice Russo 1952]: Trying to locate
old friend Martin Quinn class of 1952
Sun Jul 27 04:10:55 2003 [J Chris Chinn 1962]: Tom: I have a
tape of the 1962 Mother's Day weekend band concert. Originally it was on
reel-to-reel, then I converted it to cassette. Any interest? If so, I'll
try to find one or both. Somewhere, also, is the program from that concert
which you're welcome to copy if you want. Let me know.
Sat Jul 26 16:33:32 2003 [Bob Voosen ]: Bill Reiter- nice to
see you are still around and kicking. If you want others to contact you
an email address would be handy. If you like I can add your info to the
roster on this site. I've also put up a site for our class (campion66.org).
There is a link from the main page of this site. Tom O has set up a '66
bulletin board for us. The link is on the '66 site. If anyone is interested
I can provide a campion66.org email address. (It can be set up to forward
to other addresses so you don't have to remember to check it. Also, working
on some updates for the site. Any pics or ideas appreciated.
Sat Jul 26 13:03:57 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: I now have a link
above and one on the main page under the REUNIONS section for BAND REVIVALS.
If you guys pull it off, it would be cool!
Sat Jul 26 12:19:11 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hey, do you have
any tapes (reel 2 reel or otherwise) from Campion bands concerts. Anybody!
Dance Band, Marching Band, or Orchestra. If so, I am willing to convert
it to MP3 and post it on the nostalgia hits page.
Sat Jul 26 11:57:39 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: So, like, I
was out playing bass last night (Fri 7/25) in Bergen Co, NJ with a blues
band (as always, their original bass player dropped out, so I said, "OK,
I'm hip") and while we were playing, I said to myself: the PDC Blues Festival
is this weekend. There's Campion interest in Walter Trout, among others,
so I wondered what was going down. I even e-mailed the Walter Trout web
site a month or so ago and suggested that they 'give it up' (maybe play
a song or two dedicated to them) for the boys at Campion, or (currently)
for the boys at the PDC Correctional Facility. Anyway, I hope the sound
check is good, the drums and bass are in the pocket, and the groove is
tight this weekend in PDC. A little ear candy never hurt anyone. Maybe
we'll get some intell- from some well placed Campion Knight. Hey, to paraphrase
Jake and Elwood, we oughta "put the band back together" and enter our own
Campion band at the PDC Blues festival in the future. I'm thinkin' guitar,
bass, drums, organ (preferably a Hammond B3), horns (tenor and bari- sax,
trumpet, trombone) and at least two singers up front, obviously from Campion.
Oh, and we need three girls (that can sing good, preferably are cute, and
can shake tamborines, maracas and/or anything else) ) to sing back-up/chorus.
What do you think ?
Fri Jul 25 14:15:24 2003 [Bill Friedrichs 1969]: Haven't checked
the message board for a while. Joe W.- we did have a nice time on the 4th
with Animal Dan Lipke and others. Maybe you could join us next year. Next
time your brother or Clem come to town, please e-mail. I'm sure Bill Gillette
and I would get up for a beer or 2. The annual Campion/PDC golf outing
in June was another success. Bill Devine was gracious enough to let me
stay at his cabin. It was a little too close to the river boat but I managed
to stay out of there. It was great to hear Dave Poladna(69) and Mike Obmascher(69),
a couple of old Prairie dog friends still playing music together at Kabers!
They've only been playing together since about 1965 and sounded great.
Played golf with Trausch, Osmanski,Clark, Miller,Staack,Devine, Panther
from 69. It was great fun. Look forward to seeing them all next year.
Fri Jul 25 08:30:14 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Lee, Actually,
I'd like to post them here in the photo albums section. Can you email them
to me.
Fri Jul 25 07:25:57 2003 [Lee Jeffers 91]: Thomas, I have received
photographs (jpegs) of the corner stone, if anyone would be interested
in seeing them have them e-mail me at lee@bigshotslittleshots.com Thanks.
Thu Jul 24 16:12:37 2003 [BOB BRANSLEY 1973]: WOW What a great
site Thanks to Bob Bruchs for telling me about it. Seeing so many names
on this site is a real de ja vue. was in PDC last weekend for our 30th.
what a blast. the only downer was the campus. but you know you have to
go see it every time you go there.
Fri Jul 18 11:42:09 2003 [Bill Reiter 66]: Just remembered,
Bill Haines (I think 68) also passed away last year.
Fri Jul 18 11:41:04 2003 [Bill Reiter 66]: Working at The Boeing
Co as manager in Technical Data. Retired from the MO ANG in 97 after 27+
years in the Air Force and ANG flying the F-4 Phantom. Fr. (Jolly) Roger
Lucey passed away last year. Any others out there form 66, please contact
me.
Wed Jul 16 20:29:03 2003 [John Kelley 1949]: Anyone out there
from the class of '49?
Thu Jul 10 23:01:47 2003 [Lee Jeffers 91]: Thomas, The corner
stone that I was talking about is the one that can be seen in the lower
right corner of the picture you have up on your home page. I do not remember
that there were any other stones for that particular building, but that
doesn't mean there was not. If there were I do not believe they were taken
out and saved. As for your other question, yes, there was a time capsule
in the top of the stone. It was a copper box that contained a news paper
and a penny. These were turned over to MLPS, and I have no idea what happened
to them after that. The reason they wanted the capsule was because there
was rumor that there were precious stones placed in there. That ended up
not being the case. Any more questions?
Wed Jul 9 15:32:51 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Paul, We do have
a Edmund Campion Kersten, class of 1950. I bet he was famous amongst his
peers.
Wed Jul 9 14:57:57 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: OK, at the risk
for starting something here, I have finally created the "Something is amiss!
link in the In Privatum Campianum. It is for the "not so nostalgic" discussions.
Wed Jul 9 13:32:49 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Tom, you have
taken a great load off my mind. I mean (and this is getting like one of
those Lucey Hall think tank sessions, everyone sitting around on the poo
brown bedspreads during room rec, eating potato chips and and drinking
CocaCola, and discussing the problems/inequities of the world), I can relate
to a matyred saint (Edmund) named Campion, a poet (Thomas) named Campion,
schools and colleges named Campion, a Wedgewood china pattern named Campion,
and a movie producer (Jane C, "The Piano" among other films), but a horse
named Campion????? I don't think so. The trouble is, that if one does a
Google web search, that damn horse with the spurious Campion appellation
is all over the place like some sort of fungus. I mean this Campion thing
is special to me, precious. OK, now that I have shared, does anybody know
where the Class of '72 groovemaster, Frank Greider, is? I believe he's
somewhere in Houston. He played a good set of drums. Oh, where's Charles
Gore these days???
Wed Jul 9 12:38:36 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Well said, again,
Pat. Thanks. BTW, I actually also do not condone the idea of those three
drinking in an open area exposed to underclassmen and visitors. It definitely
presented the wrong impression. Albeit some of the jebbies of the time
experimented with social freedoms. Sometimes I wonder if we weren't the
vitctums of a grand experiment. The book Summerhill was required reading
and it may have been an influence on some weak wills. I think any details
will be addressed in the In Privatum. Thanks
Wed Jul 9 12:11:46 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hey Paul, Send
me an email. The link is on the main page.
Wed Jul 9 11:26:06 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: That "Ette" cover
of the Campion Game is an all time favorite and you probably know it is
on this site.
Wed Jul 9 11:20:51 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: The Big item Lee
was talking about is one of the corner stones from Campion Hall. I am trying
to remember if there weren't two. One for Campion, and one for Kilmer Library
specifically. Now what would any of these be worth??? Did they have time
capsules in them or merely concrete?
Wed Jul 9 11:18:00 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi John, and Paul.
Good to hear from you guys. Hey, don't get too excited about Gene Autrys
horse. The horses name was CHAMP. Short for Champion. I talked with the
guy on ebay about him mis-spelling Champion some time ago. He agrees that
it was Champ, but I don't think he knows how to go in and fix his advertisements.
Unbelievable. BTW, how many original unsigned 8x10 photos of Gene and or
Champ can there be. He has these adds up ALL the time.
Wed Jul 9 06:27:22 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Hiya, John.
(Whew, I've just gotten control after finding out about Gene Autry's horse).
It's great to hear from you. I still recall your "Ette" cover, 'The Campion
Game'. As well as the many room rec sessions in Lucey and Xavier with Paul
Downs, Chris Lamal, Rick Kraus, Ed Deiter and others. Truly a forerunner
of Chris Matthew's "Hardball". Nothing was sacred. Hope all is well with
you. Yeah, New York later this year? Sounds good!
Wed Jul 9 06:10:42 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Still have that
bass, John. It's a 1966 Prescision - gets its neck inspected and setup
yearly by Roger Sadowsky. Nothing new on e - bay, but discovered that Gene
Autry's horse was named "Campion". Can you believe it? What was he thinking
when he got that horse? This horse even has some web sites and glossy photos.
I dunno, call me old-fashioned, but why couldn't he have named it "Champion",
or "Campie" or "Champus" or something else. Now every time I hear "Happy
Trails" or "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" I'm gonna think, he's riding
a horse named "Campion". I gotta call Dr. Phil and grab some time with
him.
Tue Jul 8 20:13:37 2003 [John Kleihege ]: woops! hit the wrong
key again.......thinking back to my high school days, I always think of
Campion. What a GREAT experience. Lots of lessons learned. Glad to hear
from the 1970's grads.
Tue Jul 8 20:10:30 2003 [John Kleihege ]: When I returned home
after sophomore year, Dad thought I had become too independant, too adult.
(After all, we were taught to be self-reliant). But, when I think back
to
Tue Jul 8 18:26:49 2003 [John Roll 1970]: Paul McCullough? John
Kleihege? Are you freaking kidding me? Where did you guys come from? I
know it's been awhile since we've had some messages from '70, but come
on! Paul, your Fender bass alone should be an artifact! I still think about
some of your shows with Smith, Halaszyn, et al, at Hoffman Hall......didn't
one of them conclude with a big jam session from "Hair" (Aquarius/ Let
the Sun Shine In, I believe)? I remember Leighty saying that if you guys
recorded anything, he'd buy it. (then again, an endorsement from Leighty
is not exactly like one from Berry Gordy). And John, I remember you well,
even though you left after sophomore year. I hope you're not offended that
Tom Fitzgibbons' utterance of "Klei-he-he-he-he-ge" sticks in my mind.
This was Campion, after all, where the not-so-occasional cruelty was part
of the curriculum. Cletus, didn't mean to shortchange you, but I'm pretty
amazed to hear from Paul and John. I'm definitely envious of your daughter's
Campion paraphernalia....I don't have squat, but would love to check out
what Lee Jeffers has uncovered. Paul, Keith, and Chris Lamal, I may be
in NYC toward the end of the year, but will give you fair warning.
Tue Jul 8 15:51:10 2003 [C.C. Althoff 1970]: As far as artifacts,
I still have one of the team track shirts, one of the swim team warm up
shirts, and my Camp Campion tee shirts and shorts. I don't know how I managed
not to loose the stuff over these many years. I even have my original letter
of acceptance, and of course no true Knight would be without a Koska brick.
As luck would have it, my daughter is now tall enough the wear the stuff,
so I have officially turned it all over to her....looks alot better on
her anyhow, and her friends get a kick out of the fashion statement. I
think I should develop a line of prep school clothing....trousers must
have belt loops, no blue jeans permitted, oxford shoes only, shirt tails
must be tucked in...and on, and on, and on...Anyhow, HI to Paul McCullough..
Tue Jul 8 11:29:03 2003 [John Kleihege ]: THANKS, Paul, for
the update on Leudtke
Tue Jul 8 09:19:06 2003 [Joe Williamson 1972]: I heard Billy
Friedrichs had a wild 4th of July party at his house which was attended
by some former Campion people. 'Animal' Dan Lipke was there and reported
that there were a number of Campion alumns in attendance. One notable was
L.G. Friedrichs Jr. who is notorious for catching a pass from Billy Lochner
and then knocked himself out after running into the the goal post head
first. Animal said he's never been the same since. On another note, I will
be playing golf with two former Campion coaches next week. Don Gosz and
Clem Massey will be reunited at Ridgeway Golf Club, in Neenah, on Wednesday,
July 16th. I played with these guys last year and I know the golf part
won't be pretty but we'll have a good time. Finally, my brother Jim ('70)
will be returning to Wisconsin this Friday and spending the week. I'll
certainly tell him to check out this message board with all the activity
from his classmates.
Tue Jul 8 07:32:55 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Clarence Luedtke
graduated with us in 1970, did the Latin Scientific course of study. Regarding
ROTC, he attained the rank of major. He was not listed on the 1970 year
book page regarding where he ultimately went to college. I was in his class
junior and senior year. One thing was for certain, and that was he was
a dead shot with a rifle. Along with Mike Majewski and others, he carried
Campion's ROTC rifle team his senior year. As Jim Halaszyn '70 elegantly
put it at the time (I'm paraphasing due to the decline of memory), he could
hit a fly off a bull's ______ at 500 meters.
Mon Jul 7 17:35:31 2003 [John Kleihege ]: Guess you can tell
by now that I am not very computer literate.....so will take up where I
left off. I would have been in the class of 1970. This past weekend,(for
the first time) I was telling my family about my Campion school days. Made
me wonder what happened to everybody. Read my old yearbook and thought
I would take a drive to see the old campus. Found out on this web site
about its present use! Glad to see that the latest posts/messages have
been from members of the class of 70. Would especially like to know what
happened to Luedtke.
Mon Jul 7 17:30:08 2003 [John Kleihege ]: I attended Campion
freshman & sophomore years ( 66-68) and would have
Mon Jul 7 10:47:24 2003 [John Kleiihege ]: looking for Clarence
Luedtke (Class of 70)
Mon Jul 7 07:48:38 2003 [Keith Leighty 70]: Indeed I was at
the fireworks. very close to 23rd, my boys and I walked down to about 21st
on the FDR. parked our lawn chairs and kicked back with sodas, sandwiches,
games and books and my 12 year old's Boom box. He wanted to play a CD so
I said go ahead. He puts one on and out blasts Electric Ladyland. Who knew?
to
Mon Jul 7 07:46:34 2003 [Keith Leighty 70]: Hiya Paul,
Fri Jul 4 20:06:23 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: That's great,
Pat. Campion artifacts are getting about scarce as those from the Titanic
. Every try to find a Kostka Hall brick? By the way, you don't play the
Hammond B3, do you? Like R&B or funk? 'Cause if you do, I know a bassist
that would really, really like to hook up with you. Check out "Soul Live",
a relatively new R&B band out of Brooklyn that puts the B3 up front.
So Keith, were you at the Macy's fireworks tonight? East River Drive at
23rd St seemed to be the place to be. I think they were the biggest yet,
bigger than those of the Brooklyn Bridge centennial celebration ('83) or
the Satatue of Liberty centennial celebration ('86). Guess they enlarged
the show because of the events in Iraq. I'm listening to Barry White tonight.
Fri Jul 4 04:58:25 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: I got the ad with Prof
deRanitz in it for the 9.99 asked! I had one of those damn Lowery organs,
bought from Leithold's Music in LaCrosse. I remember very well my mother
coming up and driving me to La Crosse for the purchase. The first Lowery
Festival cost about $1000 Dollars. Later, the next year, I got a Lincolnwood,
and that cost $2500, but they gave her the 1000 that she paid for the first
Festival! Those days are gone. My friend just bought an Allen, Used for
$38,000!
Mon Jun 30 08:12:09 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Yeah, well,
you how it is, Keith. Took me about 15 years to shake off about 80% of
Campion's side effects and about 30 years to feel safe enough to make contact
with other colleagues. At times while there, I kinda felt like the character
Waldo in that old Van Halen music video "Hot for Teacher" - SIT DOWN, WALDO!!
- trembling and afraid to look left or right. Sent in a couple of e-mails
to Aaron Hugenaard's Campion Forever site, including one about Mike Kurb's
hearse. Also sent some stuff about the paddle and the Kostka Hall fire
- seems like a lot of the older Campion grads knew little or nothing about
these phenomena. I'm still playing bass.
Mon Jun 30 07:56:35 2003 [Keith Leighty 1970]: Hey, Paul McCullough.
Good to see your name surface. Mike Majewski and Ed Dudek and I were out
at Coney Island and your name came up when we were asking, has anyone heard
from ??? Majewski lives in Vegas, Dudek in Boston ... Chris Lamal and Dick
Noggle live near me in the New York City area and we get together occasionally.
Lamal runs a Web site for class of 70 alums: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campion-knights/
Drop your email some time. would love to hear from you. keleighty@nyc.rr.com
Sun Jun 29 10:14:36 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Wait a minute,
wait a minute. I just found nine items of Campion stuff for sale - eight
postcards and one ad for a Lowery Organ being delivered to the music hall,
circa 1950's, and showing Prof de Ranitz cranking out some hits (? Green
Onions). This one's gonna go fast, priced at $9.99. Item 2541662919.
Sun Jun 29 09:39:57 2003 [Paul McCullough 1970]: Ummm, I would
guess that the large ticket item mentioned by Lee Jeffers (MLPS '91) on
6/16/03 is probably the sign bearing the school name that hung on the front
of Campion Hall. Speaking of 'large' Campion Hall things, what ever happened
to the humongous prefect desk located at the entrance to the second floor
study hall? To date, haven't seen any Campion (or MLPS) relics listed on
e - bay. Hiya, Clete!
Sat Jun 28 16:42:50 2003 [C.C. Althoff 1970]: Hi to Tom Olson
and all my Campion Bro's!. Yup, still with Uncle Sam! I have not been on
the site for a long time, and it is great to visit! Tom, I hope you and
all are well, As for anyone who signs on with no name and class year, I
would be in grave doubt that they had ever had anything to do with the
Knights. We who have walked those halls can all be assured of that. To
my fellow calssmate, Chris O'Brien, I am sadden to hear of the loss of
your son, and I pray for all of your family. Although I am not in the church,
it dosen't mean that I had never learned the power of prayer from "the
old school". As for people who get onto the site with their head stuck
up their 5th point of contact, and have never walked our trails.....leave
twe Knights alone
Sat Jun 28 13:22:48 2003 [Linda Phillips ]: I am looking for
Dennis Foley, class of 1961.
Sat Jun 28 13:22:43 2003 [Linda Phillips ]: I am looking for
Dennis Foley, class of 1961.
Sat Jun 28 08:43:22 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: Ya know, I was just
thinking back to 1974. I played as a Guest Artist in a concert back then.
One day, searching out somenone to let me into what I knew as the gym to
practice, I spotted three individuals sitting in what we called the Senior
Smoker. They were all in Jeans (an absolute NO, NO during our day) smoking,
and had a beer in hand. I approached them, all with longish hard, and rather
loudly proclaimed that I didn't think that this was such a good idea, as
a Jesuit might find them and kick them out. They looked at me, and the
middle one said "I am a scholastic, and there is nothing wrong with drinking
beer...." To which I replied: "That's too bad, because you, as a Jesuit,
are a disgrace to the Catholic Church, Campion, and these kids, as well
as we alumni.....you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself...." They
just shrugged it off. I found that there were Jesuits, such as Fr. J.V.
O'Connor, I guess you wouldsay an old guy left over from our time, who
detested what had happened - the Liberalization of the Church and Jesuits.
I think he and I were right. My mother would have withdrawn me IMMEDIATELY
had she found out of an instance like this. The Jesuit told me that it
was now , "OK", because 18 year olds could drink beer. I can still remember
Fr. Roland Teske, now a distinguished Philopher and Teacher at Marquette
U, saying....."Just because 50,000 Frenchman do it doesn't make it right...."
Sorry for the Diatribe...I just could let this pass.
Fri Jun 27 10:09:57 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: I have to add, to mr.
anonymous: I personally KNOW Tom Olson. He is a power guy, like the rest
of us are power guys. Anyone who attended Campion for even the first six
weeks knows that a Campion Maniac will NEVER back down from a fight or
discussion. Some people I know thinks that does not do a person well. It
does. It means that everyone knows where everyone stands. You don't have
to agree, but it sure helps to know where everyone is coming from and going
to. So, Mr. Anonymous...(I hate writing that out...Latent Laziness from
Jug hall in 61!), you may say things you want to say, but remember, we
are always watching and we know when something does NOT smell right. If
you or someone you know, or someone in your family is bitter, ok. If they
got hurt in some way, I am sorry, and whoever did it to them, and we don't
need to know, owes them an apology. If that person that "hurt" them has
gone to his final reward, don't worry, from what the Jesuits taught me,
he didn't really get away with anything! Done......
Fri Jun 27 10:05:20 2003 [Pat Mower 64]: I don't know about
most of you, but I can tell you that my classmates and I talked at length
about all this abuse stuff. Now, I can't say there wasn't "any", but by
and large, the Brothers, Scholastics and Priests I knew there couldn't
afford to do something like that. Did it ever happen? If someone says that
they "personally" were the object of this, I don't think you can argue
with that. But to say, "I HEARD..", that is stretching things. (No, I am
not talking specifically about family members...). I just know that the
experience that was Campion Jesuit High School was not only Unique and
gratifying (only later in life, I assure you), but we ALL owe a debt of
great gratitude to these men, some young a lot old, who went beyond what
was required of them to educate us.
Thu Jun 26 10:18:16 2003 [Thomas Olson ]: And if it was obvious
we were talking about DRINKING then there would not have been ANY issue,
as back then it was LEGAL to drink at 18 years old with anybody we wanted.
And it was LEGAL for jebbies to drink with us. If the student was a minor
then that of course would not be ok. One more thing... The entries about
abuse was NOT an implication of encouraging drinking. It was made at a
time when the press was full of sex abuse by priests and that is what the
author of the accusation was playing off of. If in fact he was not intending
to imply that sex abuse was the problem then I am sure all the rest of
us can rest now knowing that we REALLY weren't living amonst a sex fiend.
But just a guy who wanted to go drinking some beer.
Thu Jun 26 10:02:53 2003 [Thomas Olson ]: To the new anonymous
person. I do not know why you insist on flaming me!!! My ONLY PROBLEM with
the entry you speak of was the fact that someones REAL name was BLAMED
while keeping their own name anonymous. Anonymous accusations in a public
forem is simply a NO NO. It would have been completely differrent if the
author ID'd themselfs honestly.
Wed Jun 25 19:15:59 2003 [ ]: one more thing mr. olsen, you
either have to be a lawyer or a dr. some kind of power guy, no where was
it stated that any kind of touching happened. he went into his room in
the middle of the night...nothing more was said than that. He took him
drinking, oh, and you and your boys will think that's fine. but it wasn't.
You see, he went there to be a priest and other students confided in him.
He has the soul of a poet. Now, you would think it's cute that a priest
did that, it wasn't cute and other students told my brother stuff. my brother
doesn't lie. He went on. He doesn't relive any of it.
Mon Jun 16 00:32:59 2003 [Lee Jeffers 1991]: Hello, I attended
school on the Campion Campus after it had been sold and became Martin Luther
Prep. School. My father taught there, and so I was able to spend many years
walking the halls of all of the buildings I have seen so much about here.
It has been absolutely amazing to find out about the history, and hear
of other people's experiences from before I knew this school. Before the
building was torn down, that I believe was the library and classroom building,
there were some items that were found that someone may have an interest
in. If anyone is looking for Campion washclothes, towels, blankets, I believe
even a study hall desk, and one other very large ticket item of EXTREME
significance, please feel free to contact me. I know someone who has these
items, and is willing to part with them ( ljeffers04@sprintpcs.com). Thank
you for the trip down memory lane!
Thu Jun 12 11:40:46 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Tom, Chris asked
that the following note be posted also to your Campion-Knights message
board. Could you add it? Thanks. Chris --- Will O'Brien, a son of Chris
O'Brien ('70), was killed on Tuesday in a tragic accident near the family
home in Newton, Mass. Will was Chris's middle son and was just finishing
high school. He died in a collision with an SUV as he was bicycling after
an afternoon of work at the family's landscaping and gardening business.
The funeral will be held this Saturday, June 14, at St. Bernard's Church
in Newton. If you'd like to send a message to Chris and his family, you
can do so by e-mailing him at c.obrien@attbi.com
Sun May 25 14:31:40 2003 [Keough '65]: PdC people--listen up!
On 25 July at your Prairie Dog Blues Festival a guy (&his band) named
Walter Trout and the Radicals are going to play. If you like Blues &
Blues/Rock DO NOT MISS THIS GROUP! He played w/Canned Heat, John Mayall,
et al. I saw them here in Vegas a couple of months ago & I was nearly
in tears. This band kixass. (No, I am not being paid to promote them. )
Thu May 8 08:39:23 2003 [Mike Lochner 60]: We are on the final
leg for this years Golf Outing and need to hear from all interested in
attending. Anumber of people who have been included in foursomes by fellow
alums have not returned registrations. If you are coming let us know ASAP.
Joe, Jim Radke is registered, is your Dad coming ? How about brother.
Thu May 8 08:38:29 2003 [Mike Lochner 60]: We are on the final
leg for this years Golf Outing and need to hear from all interested in
attending. Anumber of people who have been included in foursomes by fellow
alums have not returned registrations. If you are coming let us know ASAP.
Joe, Jim Radke is registered, is your Dad coming ? How about brother.
Wed Apr 30 13:45:42 2003 [Jim Radtke 1947]: Glad to hear that
Jim Williamson might make the golf outing. It would be great if we could
at least make up a foursome of '47s. I know that Gene Eagan is in Madison
and I believe that John Dorazio is also. Looking forward to a great weekend.
Wed Apr 30 13:32:13 2003 [Jim Radtke 1947]: Glad to hear that
Jim Williamson might make the golf outing. It would be great if we could
at least make up a foursome of '47s. I know that Gene Eagan is in Madison
and I believe that John Dorazio is also. Looking forward to a great weekend.
Thu Apr 17 12:54:28 2003 [Mike Lochner 1960]: Thanks for the
info Joe and Tom. I passed on to Jim Radke who lives up by Bayfield
Tue Apr 15 13:45:01 2003 [Joe Williamson 1972]: Yes, Mike, I
can't deny my own father. As a matter of fact he mentioned to me that he
is thinking of going this year. I'll pass along this message to him.
Fri Apr 11 12:11:09 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: Hi, Mike, Jim
'47 is Joes '72 and Jims '70 dad.
Fri Apr 11 10:41:03 2003 [Mike Lochner 60]: Joe Williamson does
Jim Williamson class of 47 belong to you. A Jim Radtke of 47 (Bayfield)
mentioned when talking about golf outing and if anyone from 47 attends.
I can't go back far enough to get your email so thought I would message
you through this.
Fri Mar 21 14:33:54 2003 [Dave Foster 1971]: Nice site,great
memories. Knights forever!
Thu Mar 20 15:24:43 2003 [Thomas Olson 1972]: oon, alli maan!
Thu Mar 20 14:02:38 2003 [Joe Orrico 1971]: "Shock and Awe"
Fu#$ Jihad!!!
Sun Mar 9 08:59:16 2003 [Bob Smith 1968]: A Few Good Lawyers.
About 20% of Campion alumni are lawyers,Are any of you conversant with
federal courts?I need to file a lawsuit by 23 April 03.
Sun Mar 9 08:58:57 2003 [Bob Smith 1968]: A Few Good Lawyers.
About 20% of Campion alumni are lawyers,Are any of you conversant with
federal courts?I need to file a lawsuit by 23 April 03.
Sat Mar 8 17:07:19 2003 [Fred Nora 1970]: Mark Criqui and I
are looking for a few good men from the class of '70 to help fill out a
golf foursome at the upcoming all class reunion in Pensacola at the end
of this month. Information is available under "Reunions" at this website.
You snowbrds should get off your derriers, fly down, and join us telling
lies about how great we were!
Sat Feb 1 11:39:11 2003 [joe egan 1971]: Hey Joe: I remember
that old fire hose we used for the hockey rink...and that was after we
cleared away the snow. By the time the rink was ready, I was too tired
to skate. We beat the heck out of eachother... No helmets,no pads and dull
blades. Man was that fun!
Tue Jan 28 12:52:36 2003 [JOE ORRICO 1971]: Egan, the only hockey
you played was holding the fire hose to water the rink and that's because
we let you. Do you still hold the hose?
Mon Jan 20 10:50:56 2003 [Joe Egan 1971]: I just discovered
this site and find it very interesting. I played hockey with some of you
by the old boiler house and was on the swim team. I look forward to revisiting
this site.
Sat Jan 11 15:22:25 2003 [C.C. Althoff 1970]: Yup. I still think
the "Old School" was one heck of a ride, My class ring with me and I will
wear it the next time I drive down to Prairie of the Dogs. To my brothers
of 1970, I want you to know that you are all there with me....like before...trying
to throw butter pads up onto the cieling of the chow hall (I never did
that but I thought that was neat), also I can remember a few forks stuck
into the ceiling. That must have taken great skill. Yup. I am still in
the Army, I guess you get used to the structure. At least there is no Jug
Hall! When will the "get together" occure in Prairie this Spring? Ya know,
we are the few true prepies, and what my family and and my life at Campion
has taught me is that it is a great and honorable thing to be a gentleman,
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