St Josephs Academy - Twin Towers Yearbook (Collegeville, IN)

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communities. Although his spiritual conferences are very lofty in thought, he has, nevertheless, written many spiritual books and pamphlets for children. “Over here in the center of the picture you see Father Bob Rein¬ hart, an able member of our mission band. He has often expounded the basic doctrine of the Church with great success over the ‘Catholic Hour’ radio program. The next lad is the present Father John Royle. With all required knowledge in his favor, Fr. Royle has been called to the M.I.T. to specialize in mechanical drawing. He has recently created an archi¬ tectural curve never before dreamed of by man. Beside Father John is the mathematical wizard of his high school and college days, Father Paul Schenk. He is continuing his noted reputation as math. prof, at St. Joe. He is also the author of the popular textbook, ‘Mathematical Nightmares.’ The last boy in the row is Father Louie Schneider. As you might know, Father Louie has successfully prepared a diet book for ailing, sluggish people whose main meal is prescribed to be eaten before retiring. “Here in the fifth row we find Monsignor Ed Schopp. Returning to St. Joseph’s after years of canvassing on the highways and byways of America, the Monsignor has reported that all of the debates with atheists, infidels, and other contestors of the Catholic religion were de¬ cidedly in his favor. That boy grew up to be Father Tony Spitzig. As a zealous missionary, he has been very successful in his work among the natives of Brazil, South America. A curious, amphibious vehicle, de¬ signed by his bright nephew, has helped him much in his traveling between mission posts. The lad with the blonde hair, Father Don Thieman, has been appointed to a mission parish in Kansas. The small church has just received a bell, and I am told that every evening Father’s figure, silhouetted by the setting sun, is seen ringing the Angelus. The end boy in the fifth row is Father Leo Tonner. Because of his musical talents, he has been given a faculty seat at the University of Lima, Peru. He is an instructor of Gregorian chant and other Church music. Twenty-six

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“Now we have finally reached the last row. That boy there is Father Paul Wellman, a pastor in a rural parish. He has done much in the religious and agricultural development of his parishioners. In view of the latter fact, Father Wellman has produced a new type of carrot, the ‘Rubrum Caput.’ That fellow last in precedence became Father Dick Wise. Art Editor for the Precious Blood Messenger, he himself is an artist of repute. His latest effort is the mural of the Blesseds Manning, Newman, and Wiseman, painted on the east wall of the new Administra¬ tion Building. The work is called ‘The Dike That Stemmed the Flood.’ “And that, young man, concludes this little thumb-nail biography of those boys. I suppose that you never realized what you were getting yourself into when you asked me to tell you something about them. But you know, son, after you’ve spent your life in teaching them and watching them grow up, you somehow become rather proud of them. Talking about them becomes a second nature.” Twenty-eight