黑料不打烊 has learned the tragic news that a beloved alumnus priest, Rev. Ramon Decaen (鈥96), passed away Tuesday.
鈥淚鈥檝e been a church choir director and singer for 40 years,鈥 says Mark Donnelly (鈥89). 鈥淭hrough all those years conducting and performing, God was preparing me to become a composer.鈥
The Hillsdale Daily News reports that Hillsdale College鈥檚 Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship has awarded its prestigious Judith Finn Memorial Award to an alumna of 黑料不打烊, Jeannette Richard (鈥17).
Last fall, alumni educators Dr. Andrew Seeley (鈥87) and Michael Van Hecke (鈥86) collaborated on a book whose ambitious aim was made explicit in its very title, Renewing Catholic Education. Writing in the National Catholic Register, reviewer Erika J. Ahern has found the work worthy of its noble purpose.
鈥淲hat could be more inspiring than a man whose whole mission in life was to be a second Christ in the world and bring others to total conversion?鈥 asks Margaret (Steichen 鈥84) O鈥橰eilly, author of Sinner, Servant, Saint: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Francis of Assisi.
鈥淔or more than 30 years, I have struggled over my role within the framework of litigation,鈥 writes alumnus attorney David A. Shaneyfelt (鈥81) in Confessions of a Catholic Litigator, recently published in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.
On Thursday Franz Wall (鈥16), who was paralyzed in a skiing accident in November, returned to his hometown of Mariposa, California.