St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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12 THE ARCHIVE VVILLIAM J. KINSELLA, Esquire . Member of the University Advisory Board. A leading merchant and successful citizen of St. Louis, closely associated with many of its most important enterprises and institutions. Mr. Kinsella's public-spirited activities are second only to his religious and charitable zeal and interests. He is associated in an executive or advisory capacity with the new Cathedral board, the Calvary Cemetery Association, the Orphans' Board, Father Dunne's Newsboys' Horne, the Saturday and Sunday Hospital Collections Association, and'with many other important organizations. Mr. Kinsella is a recognized and able representative of Catholic interests in every civic undertaking in which they are included. He is espe- cially a good friend of the University. X

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. LOUIS UNIVERSI REV. BERNARD J. OTTING, S. J. President of the University

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ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY 13 HONORABLE RICHARD C. KERENS Member of the University Advisory Board United States Ambassador to Vienna, under President Taft's administration. Served in the Union Army, 1861-1863, Delegate at large to Republican National Convention in 1892. Member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee under three Presidents and through twelve consecutive years. U. S. Commissioner for the Inter- national Railway Commission. Received complimentary vote of his party for United States Senate in 1900. Capitalist and railway magnate throughout the United States. Recipient of Laetare medal of Notre Dame University, Indiana, for distinguished services to religion and country. Trustee of Catholic University of America at Wash- ington, D. C. A founder of Extension Society of Chicago. Church builder in Virginia and Arkansas. Benefactor of St. Louis University and New St. Louis Cathedral. Mr. Kerens has been honored by His Holiness Pope Pius X. for his benefactions to religion. His name is eminent in Hnancial, political, and religious circles throughout the United States. It would be impossible in a short sketch to outline all the benefactions, offices, and honors accredited our most distinguished citizen. He is a devoted friend to the Uni- versity and watches with practical interest its development and expansion to meet the ever-increasing demands on its growing departments.