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News

Urban Adventure Club explores St. Louis and its many points of historical and ethnic interest. Page 8

Roaming the River City

Sports

Jr. Bills begin play in CYC tournament as they prepare to play third-ranked team in the nation, Chaminade. Page 6

Soccer opens in CYC Tourney

News

Pax Christi and Students for Life send six to rally against the Death Penalty in sup-port of inmate Reggie Clemons. Page 3

Protest For Life

News

STUCO’s spirits soar in preparation for Spirit Week. Events include an all-school recess. Page 2

Spirit Week 2012

Alums prepare to tee off for scholarships, with a free two-year lease on Lexus to win-ner. Page 2

Scholarship Golf Tourney

BY John WebbEDITOR IN CHIEF

During Ralph Houlihan’s 60 years in the Society of Jesus,

he has held a wide variety of roles, including principal of St. Louis U. High. As he enters his landmark jubilee year, Houlihan continues to make a lasting impression on SLUH as a teacher.

Houlihan graduated from SLUH in 1952 and then entered the Society of Jesus. He later re-turned to SLUH as a scholastic.

Houlihan served as principal of DeSmet for five years before becoming principal of SLUH in 1974.

“I really enjoyed, probably of all the administrative posts I had, when I was principal here,” said Houlihan.

The SLUH of 1974 was very

BY Jack Godar and Leo HeinzCORE STAFF, REPORTER

Language classes have been hampered recently by the

breakdown of one of the language labs.

French teacher Jennifer Crespin discovered that the lan-guage lab in M220 was broken on August 21. The language labs are used for French, Spanish, and Russian. With the absence of one language lab, teachers have had to make adjustments to their sched-ules and work around the prob-lem.

Crespin explained that when both of the labs were operational, she typically used the lab at least

BY Jacob HilmesREPORTER

After a week of announce-ments, reminders, and bags

of canned goods, the Community Service Project (CSP) food drive concludes today. Led by the ju-nior class pastoral team, the drive had yielded more than 14,000 points through Thursday. A dona-tion of one can is worth a point; a donation of a dollar is worth two points.

“We get more organized ev-

ery year,” said junior pastoral rep-resentative Paul Fister. “Last year we were hoping to double what we got the year before, and we didn’t quite achieve that, but we’re hoping to get even more than that this year. And we’re already showing amazing results. We’ve just done a great job promoting it, and we’re making sure everyone is surrounded by reminders that this is a food drive.”

The food drive has been pro-moted with countless fliers in the

twice a week. Spanish teacher Katherine Toussaint said that she uses the lab about once a week.

The language lab allows stu-dents to hear native speakers and try to comprehend what they are

different from the one that Hou-lihan walks around in today. The upper field was mostly student parking. An auditorium occu-

saying. Crespin and Toussaint ac-knowledged that some of what is done in the lab can be done in the classroom via the SMARTboard, but it is much more difficult and

hallways and two trailers shown at morning prayer services and lunch. President David Laughlin has also been making announce-ments, to encourage students, both over the PA and in person, and students have received daily emails with the latest point tallies from CSP co-coordinator Simo-nie Anzalone.

“So, realizing how much planning, organization, and ef-fort goes into making sure that

Houlihan celebrates60 years in Society of Jesus

BY Jack KiehlSTAFF

St. Louis U. High’s efforts to publicize its mission and iden-

tity are anchored by a new tag-line this year, and the school has purchased advertising time on KMOX in addition to print and web outlets.

The three advertisements began after Labor Day and will run for seven weeks, featuring testimonials from Tim Cooney, ’10; Lee Fetter, the father of three alumni and President of Chil-dren’s Hospital; and Jim Knapp, S.J., a member of the class of 1969 and a teacher at Kenrick Semi-nary.

The three testimonials are each just over a minute long, and all three present a different perspective of SLUH. Cooney’s spot describes his excitement upon being accepted into SLUH and how, upon graduating, he left with a sense of purpose and a better preparation for college. Fetter’s describes the ways Jesuit education helped his sons lead successful lives after graduation, and Knapp’s encourages students to make the most of their time at

SLUH. While each have different messages, all three end with the words, “SLUH. Believe it. Become it.”

Talk of creating radio spots have been going on for a while now. This year, interest during marketing led to the decision to create the testimonials.

“We evaluate what are some avenues for exposure to our school … this opportunity arose, and after evaluating some of the options we thought it’d be a good one for SLUH to see what the re-sponse is,” said Admissions Direc-tor Anja Schmelter.

While fall is an important season for admissions and fun-draising, the radio campaigns aren’t designed for prospective parents and students alone, but also for alumni who are think-ing about attending their class re-unions. Schmelter also hopes the ads give the St. Louis community a sense of SLUH’s mission.

“(We’re) creating awareness, strengthening our brand of who SLUH is, and strengthening our presence in the community,” said Schmelter.

Response to the radio spots has already been positive. Ac-cording to Schmelter, parents have contacted the school saying the spots increased their pride in

Language lab falls silent, classes adjust

Record-breaking food drive fills kitchensMarketing efforts reach radio waves this fall

Juniors Paul Fister and Kyle MacDonald place their homeroom’s cans in the Commons. As of press time,bd gnt 14,495 points had been collected.

Three spots airing on KMOX

School exploring

alternatives

photo | Ben Banet

The language lab has been inoperable since August 21.

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Houlihan celebrates Mass.

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NEWS

BY Garret FoxREPORTER

This year, the St. Louis U. High student magazine and televi-

sion show Gadfly, moderated by English teacher Dave Callon, has some fresh ideas. The school has granted Gadfly a new budget to

BY Stephen Lumetta and Tom RigantiCORE STAFF, STAFF

A little more than a week after St. Louis U. High’s “Pack the

House” event showcased SLUH spirit to middle school students (see p.8), Student Council (STU-CO) will throw their effort into celebrating school spirit during this year’s Spirit Week, which will be held from, Sep. 24 to Thursday, Sept. 27.

STUCO already got SLUH students talking about Spirit Week when they released the design for Spirit Week shirts on Monday. The shirts were origi-nally designed without sleeves, but STUCO received requests for t-shirts with sleeves.

“It was a clever idea, just something that we thought the student body would appreciate,” said STUCO president Chris Gys, in reference to the “sun’s out, guns out” attire.

After a quick email to the ap-parel company, STUCO co-mod-erator Lauren Dickens gave the go-ahead for both designs; with sleeves and sans.

STUCO has an exciting line-up of activities planned for the ac-tivity periods during Spirit Week.

On Monday, STUCO is playing host to a game based off Where’s Waldo?; called “Where’s SLUHMO?”

“We obviously couldn’t have a Where’s Waldo?, but it’s … something that is fun to do,” said Dickens.

STUCO will hide SLUHMO on campus, and at the beginning of activity period, they will an-nounce a hint to help students find SLUHMO. Whoever finds SLUHMO will receive a prize.

The memories of elementary school recess will come back to SLUH students on Tuesday dur-ing activity period when STUCO will host an all-school recess of sorts.

“The thought was to have a

BY Paul FisterREPORTER

The first SLUH Scholarship Golf Classic will be held on

October 15 at St. Alban’s Coun-try Club. The event, which will be made up of alumni, parents, and other SLUH-affiliated golf-enthu-siasts, will benefit the scholarship fund at St. Louis U. High.

A committee of 18 golf-playing alumni is responsible for organizing the day. Among them is Jay Delsing, a member of the SLUH class of ’79 and a PGA Pro-fessional.

“This is an exciting new event for SLUH golfers of all skill levels,” said Delsing in a press release.

“Every participant will have a chance to win a brand-new car, while supporting the academic excellence at the city’s premier high school,” Delsing said.

“The goal of the tournament is to raise dollars for scholarships at St. Louis U. High,” said Don Beckerle, ’84, a member of the or-ganizing committee.

“We are fortunate to have so many SLUH supporters who sup-port this mission,” said commit-tee member Joe Jedlicka ’80 in an email to the Prep News.

“There are eight par-three holes,” Director of Leadership Giving Melissa Jones explained, “and an opportunity to win a car at each hole by getting a hole-in-

BY Jack SinayREPORTER

The Sodality Club is launching several new projects this year

with the aim of inspiring contem-plation in St. Louis U. High stu-dents.

Senior Mark Messmer is cur-rently president of the club and is excited about the next project on which they are working. He hopes to put together a prayer of Con-secration to Mary with the help of Tim Kieras, S.J., for the feast of the Rosary. The Consecration was originally invented in the 16th century by Pope Pius V in order to thank Mary for securing Europe from an invasion by the Ottoman Empire. The club plans to hold this Consecration on Oc-tober 9, even though the feast falls on October 7 this year.

Another thing that the club is trying to put together is an Inter-national Rosary. This would be the first time in about three years at SLUH in which the prayer would be recited in this style. In an In-ternational Rosary, each decade is prayed in a different language. The Solidality Club is asking each language department teacher for help, but would prefer if students prayed each decade rather than teachers. They hope to hold the event in early October, but have not designated a specific date.

Their lastest project is their most extensive. They are hoping to team up with Militia of the Im-maculata, or MI Youth and Young Adults, an organization approved by the Vatican and founded in 1917 through the teachings of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Kolbe was a friar executed during World War II for his religious beliefs who was honored and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1971, only 30 years after his death.

The MI Youth and Young Adults is a traveling evangeliza-tion team and is nicknamed MAX after Saint Kolbe. The MAX’s foundation and teachings are what originally inspired the So-dality club to try to do the Conse-cration in October. They hope to build a bond with this organiza-tion during the fall with Kieras’s help.

The Sodality Club currently consists of about 25 people but hopes to become more visible.

“Most people don’t know about us or what we do,” Messmer said.

McCarthy agreed, stating, “We look like a big group on pa-per, but in truth, are really quite small.”

improve and expand the program.“We’re kind of an institution

finally and … we are making in-vestments in long term projects,” said Callon.

The Gadfly team used some of its money to buy new equip-ment for the TV and magazine.

They also rearranged and opened up their first floor office to unify the two sides of the Gadfly opera-tion.

“The new computers (allow) us to have … both the magazine and TV show work in harmony,” said sophomore Gadfly member

Giuseppe Vitellaro. “We have new cameras, new

microphones, new computers,” said Callon. “The maintenance staff and facilities crew were awe-some in … redoing our space.”

Aside from its new bud-get, Callon wants Gadfly to be a student-led group and to enjoy full participation from the entire school.

“I personally would like to see every single person in the building involved somehow in something Gadfly does, whether it’s writing an article, having their picture taken and having it turned into a hyena, or just show up and put a smile on their face in an epi-sode,” Callon said.

“We’re really trying to incor-porate a lot of student music here at SLUH (this year),” said Vitel-laro.

The first episode of Gadfly TV this year came out Tuesday and the magazine is scheduled to be printed on Oct. 1.

Gadfly enters new year with new ambitions, budget

Gabe Newsham folds origami in the time-lapse credits of Gadfly television’s first episode of its new season.

photo | courtesy Giuseppe Vitellaro

big game of freeze tag or some-thing like that,” said Dickens.

Wednesday’s activity period event will showcase a hidden tal-ent of some students: rapping. The popular event from last year, the “Jr. Billy 8 Mile,” requires par-ticipants to submit their raps to Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson by Tuesday at the end of the school day. The winner of the “Jr. Billy 8 Mile” is selected by the students.

A pep rally in the Danis Field House will get students pumped up for the football game Thursday night against Jesuit rival DeSmet, which will be played at SLUH.

Some students might notice that Wet Billies, a SLUH Spirit Week staple, is missing from STUCO’s repertoire. As Dickens explained, the reason was that this year STUCO is a little more concerned about mission than chaos.

“If we’re trying to promote sustainability and providing for others … it seems counter-in-tuitive to waste food. It worked against the mission of our school,” said Dickens.

Wet Billies might seem espe-cially inappropriate right after the week of the food drive when stu-dents are asked to forego some-thing extra in their lives—such as an activity period snack—in or-der to help the less fortunate.

However, STUCO has put a lot of work into making sure that the week will be fun. STUCO has made sure that this year’s Spirit Week is well-publicized, a con-cern stemming from last year’s Spirit Week, which was criticized for a lack of advertisment.

Dickens wanted to make sure that all students especially en-joyed being a Jr. Bill during Spirit Week.

“Let’s actually be spirited and excited … about being a SLUH student,” Dickens said.

Spirit week plans add exciting activites, sleeves

one.”The Mungenast Auto Family

is sponsoring the event, furnish-ing a number of cars as prizes.

At least one car will be given away, as the golfer closest to the hole on each par 3 is entered in a shootout for a car.

The new car will be a two-year lease on a Lexus RX350 pro-vided by Mungenast Lexus.

The all-new golf tournament is important to the SLUH scholar-ship fund, which allows the school to continue its legacy of admitting any qualified young man regard-less of his ability to pay.

“In these tough economic times, we must push ourselves to reach out and achieve this goal-and continue to offer scholarship support,” said Beckerle.

Because of the importance of this fund, SLUH is trying this year to get as many people involved as possible.

“We’re trying to involve alumni and parents,” said Jones. “We are getting more sponsors as we get closer to the day, but we re-ally need more players.”

On the day of the event, reg-istration and lunch start at 11, shotgun starts at 12:30, a shootout at five. Those interested in playing should contact Jones or go online for information at sluh.org/golf-classic.

SLUH Golf Classic will raise money for scholarships

Sodality club plans new chances to worship

Any freshman, sophomore, or junior interested in writ-ing a mid-season article for an underclassman sport is welcome to come up to the Prep News office (J220) after school today. If unavailable tomorrow, feel free to email the Prep News at [email protected].

Underclassman Sports Writers Wanted

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BY Will SmithREPORTER

The Students for Life Club and Pax Christi recently joined

forces to work to save the life of one man.

Pax Christi and Students for Life together sent six people to a rally at Kiener Plaza last Saturday in support of Reggie Clemons, an inmate on death row. Clemons was sentenced to death for his involvement in the 1991 rape and murder of two young women on the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis. Jurors convicted Clem-ons despite what some viewed as a lack of physical evidence and charges of prosecutorial miscon-duct and police coercion. Clem-ons, who was sentenced to die in 2009, has appealed his convic-tion. This week he is appearing before a special judge appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to review the evidence and hear testimony about prosecutor mis-conduct, racial bias (Clemons is black), and police brutality. Clemons has consistently main-tained his innocence. Around 100 people attended the rally to show their support for Clemons. The rally included a number of speak-ers and a lot of music.

“The rally was more like a concert than anything else,” said junior Pax Christi member Gabe Miller, who attended the rally.

Members of Pax Christi and Students for Life attended the rally because both groups oppose the death penalty.

“This is the first thing we have really done as a communal effort this year, but hopefully, we

SLUH.SLUH also relies on print and

web advertisements to promote the school. The ads are especially prominent during the fall sea-son to advertise events like Open House in publications like St. Louis Magazine and the St. Louis Review.

The radio and print ads also feature SLUH’s new marketing ta-gline, “Believe It. Become It.” The slogan is the result of a year and a half long effort to strengthen the SLUH brand. The Rodgers Townsend Advertising Agency helped develop the slogan as well as consulting on SLUH’s market-ing and communication initia-tives. The tagline is featured on the cover of a new admissions brochure.

E-blasts such as the 1818

Insider are also sent out to par-ents and alumni to promote the school and tell people about what the SLUH community is doing to promote the mission.

“Our faculty are engaged in the community; our students are engaged in the community. There’s lots of ways we promote the mission,” said President Dave Laughlin. “We put out the good work that you guys do for the school.”

“We’re, as with any other campaign, excited about this one and I’m really happy how they turned out and with the response,” said Schmelter.

In addition to KMOX, the radio spots can be found on sluh.org.

will be able to do more things in the future. Since we have two groups, we could get more done,” said Students for Life president senior Joel Ocampo.

Although Pax Christi and Students for Life have similar views on some issues, the two groups have different focuses.

“We are separate groups with separate interests, although sometimes we do overlap,” said Students for Life moderator and Pax Christi member Dave Callon. Theology teacher Rob Garavaglia moderates Pax Christi.

Callon explained that Stu-dents for Life is focused on the life umbrella and protecting life from conception to natural death. The group tries to prevent threats to human life in many forms. Pax Christi also defends the dignity of human life, but it focuses on things such as world peace and nonviolence. Both groups derive inspiration from leaders such as Mohandis Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who advocated peaceful resistance.

Students for Life and Pax Christi try not to have a political allegiance but try to protect life and carry out God’s mission.

“We are trying to live out the Jesuit way and we don’t make dis-tinction between liberal and con-servative. We are trying to live out a Christian vision for the world,” said Callon.

The Students for Life Club hosted the Mass for Life last year and hopes to be able to coordinate another Mass with Pax Christi under the new title of “The Mass for Life and Justice.”

SLUH expands marketing to radio; new tagline debuts

From left to right: (Back row) Alex Tarter, Matthew Raeber, Brian Dugan, Owen Smith, Kurt Thiemann, Sam Chott, (middle row) Jacob Trokey, Blake Gibson, Nick Kocisak, Clark DeWoskin, Kieran Connolly, Reid Marshall, Andrew Robinson, (front row) Jackson Cummings, John Woeltje , Jackson Russo, Neil Gaynor, Nick Geiser, and Matthew Rechtien.

2013 National Merit Semifinalistsphoto | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Students for Life, Pax Christi begin collaboration with rally for Clemons

Pack the House brings 96 grade schoolers

Last Friday’s Pack the House admissions event attracted around 100 middle school student inter-est in St. Louis U. High. 96 middle school students registered at the event and received t-shirts.

STUCO encouraged the visi-tors to cheer in the stands with the SLUH students

Admissions department di-

rector Anja Schmelter was happy with the turnout, though she had been concerned beforehand that heavy traffic from the Forest Park Balloon Glow could keep people away.

The event was meant to pro-vide a more relaxed environment to introduce prospective students to SLUH.

“Our team’s intent with this was (to create) something where students could come and experi-ence SLUH spirit at an athletic event putting them through a presentation or anything like. We had no brochures, simply come in, take a t-shirt, make a donation, have fun,” said Schmelter

—compiled by Adam Thorp

photo | Ben Banet

photo | Ben Banet

Middle schoolers register at Pack the House. 96 students registered and received t-shirts.

A grade schooler dons his “Pack the House” t-shirt at last Friday’s football game.

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BY Matt Bates and Kieran ConnollyREPORTER, STAFF

Over the summer, rifle team members seniors Matt Ru-

dolf, Ian Stroube, David Ayeke, and sophomore Brennan Mc-Farland represented St. Louis U. High’s rifle team at the Junior Olympics in Anniston, Ala. The team shot a 4448/4800, with Ru-dolf leading the team in points with a 1164/1200. They did not place very high overall; however, the trip provided a great learning experience for the team, espe-cially McFarland, who filled in for senior Lucas Brooks, who was in Russia at the time of the competi-tion.

“I know that my nervous-ness made a big negative impact on how I scored,” said McFarland, the only JV member on the team, “It was really special to be able to participate at nationals, and I think that going puts me in a much better position to shoot bet-ter this coming year as well.”

“I was honored (that we were) able to go for a third year in

a row,” said team captain Rudolf. “It gave the team another chance to experience shooting in a big competition like that … There’s lots of pressure, not just from shooting on a bigger range with up to 80 other competitors shoot-ing at the same time as you, but also from knowing that count-less other people are watching the

scores.”When asked of his hopes

for the club this year, sophomore team member Thomas Lally said, “I hope that we will have a large number of freshman club mem-bers … I also hope that we will be able to build a freshman team that is able to compete and win.”

From left: seniors Matt Rudolf, Ian Stroube, David Ayeke, and sophomore Brennan McFarland shoot at Nationals. The team shot 4448/4800.

Riflebills experience nationals, come back with high hopes for new season

not as beneficial for the students.Crespin noted that now she is

lucky to get to use the remaining lab once a week because of all the other classes using it.

“I have had to resort to do-ing language lab activities in the classroom,” said Crespin.

Russian teacher Rob Chura said that while many of the lan-guage lab activities can be repli-cated in the classroom, teachers have had to be inventive in find-

ing ways to do so.“We’re able to continue to

do the same things, we just have to find more creative ways to do them,” said Chura.

Information Technology Specialist Iain Foulds and Direc-tor of Information Technology Jonathan Dickmann said that the fix for the lab is not a simple one. The capacitors of the main board of the computer that runs the lab are blown.

“(Blown capacitors) are in-

we’re getting the ingredients that we need for these meals is pretty interesting. And then, seeing how different pastoral teams have re-ally gotten behind it. Like the se-nior team deciding to do the food drive belly brigade last Friday, or the junior team working hard on the prayer services,” said campus minister Meg Beugg.

The sophomore class has re-sponded with particular enthusi-asm, accounting for more than a third of the school’s goal of 15,000 points, double the 7,905 points collected last year.

“They brought a lot last year as freshmen, but I think the ex-pectation has sometimes been, ‘Oh, that just happens when you’re a freshman,’” said Beugg.

“The sophomores are doing really well this year. Last year they got more than any of the other classes combined,” said Fister, “And this year we were expect-ing kind of a slump, because I re-member our freshman year (my class) did really well, too.”

The goal for 2012 is to nearly double last year’s 7,905 points.

Most items will be used in

the various service projects sup-ported by SLUH, including Karen House, Shalom House, and Saints Peter and Paul. Donated money and gift cards will be used to buy food in greater quantities, com-pared to the restrictions of small or limited packaging that local groceries supply.

Donations are already be-ing used to provide food for the hungry, specifically in the Sha-lom House program, a shelter for women. Contributions were used this past Wednesday to prepare the meals.

“I actually went, took some off the stage in the Si Commons, because we’re using some of the stuff that was brought in (Wednes-day) to cook,” said Beugg. “The brownie mixes that were brought in this morning are being baked this afternoon, and then served over at Shalom House.”

The food drive concludes to-morrow.

“Hopefully, the people in homeroom will be invigorated with just some uncanny zeal, and they’ll really represent the class,” said junior Gabe Miller.

Language lab falls silent, classes adjustdicative of a main board failure,” Dickmann said.

The main board that the lan-guage lab uses is no longer manu-factured, so the fix would have to come from a used machine, or a main board that is similar enough to the old one to work.

Another possibility is a whole new lab altogether. Dickmann and Foulds said that this has been talked about in recent years be-cause of the labs age. The newer of the two, M220, was installed in

2004. M220 has had problems in the past. In November of 2009, a similar breakdown occurred, but a replacement was found.

“We have some older equip-ment here and it’s requiring more and more maintenance, so we as a department are looking into ways to possibly modernize what we’ve got,” said Chura.

According to Dickmann, the newer language lab cost $40,000. Dickmann and Foulds indicated that they would feel uncomfort-

able using $40,000 for the single purpose of a language lab, and said that iPads or MacBooks could do the same thing the cur-rent language lab does with the right software.

“We’re looking into ways to find cheaper technology that is much more efficient to replace (the language lab),” Chura said. “But we’re just in the fact-finding stage.”

Food drive fills pantries

Thursday 9/20 1 2 3 4 FChaminade 0 0 0 0 0 SLUH 28 7 13 0 48 Rushing TDs: Brendan Underwood (3), Dan IsomPassing TDs: Cam GunnDefensive TDs: Brilyn Britton (Int.), David Jackson (Fumble recovery)

- compiled by Sam Tettamble

Monday 9/17 1 2 FValley Park 0 0 0SLUH 6 2 8

Tuesday 9/18 1 2 FFrederick Town 1 0 1SLUH 5 3 8

Saturday 9/15 FSt. Dominic 0SLUH 1

Monday 9/17 1 2 FVianney 0 0 0SLUH 2 2 4

- compiled by Luke Thibodeau



JV Soccer (5-0)

Thursday 9/20 1 2 FHillsboro 0 0 0SLUH 4 0 4

- compiled by Michael Blood

C Soccer (7-0)C Football (3-1)

UNDERCLASSMAN SPORTS

Sophmore Perri Johnson receives a pass against Vianney. Junior Luke Robinson dribbles the ball up the field.

photo | Mr. Matt Sciutophoto | Ben Banet

photo | courtesy Matt Bates


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pied the space where the main and counseling offices are now; neither the theater nor the foot-ball field had been built, so SLUH played football games at Gateway Tech, then called O’Fallon Tech. The Prep News usually ran to four typewritten pages.

The changes, though, were not solely limited to appearances.

“In some ways, life was just simpler,” said Houlihan. “We didn’t have as many clubs and sports as we do now. Football and basketball were big, and we’d get big numbers of students at that.”

During Houlihan’s six-year tenure as principal, he ushered in a wide variety of changes, from activity period to the purchase of SLUH’s first computer.

“One of the ironies about (my time as principal) was (that) I started activity period,” said Hou-lihan. “The reason for activity period was to allow clubs to meet and have meetings with teachers. I think now it’s kind of become sacred homework time. It’s an in-teresting evolution.”

Houlihan had a more per-sonal relationship with students as principal. He spent a lot of time in the hallways talking with students. A smaller student body of 900 students helped make this easier than it is today.

“Particularly in those days, the principal had a lot of contact with students,” said Houlihan. “I used to sit out on that bench

(on the upper field) during ac-tivity period because they could smoke in those days so the smok-ers would be out there. I’d sit and chit-chat with them three or four days a week.”

Perhaps the most striking change from 1974 was that tuition was only about $750 (roughly $3,300 in today’s dollars.) In the years ahead, rising teacher sala-ries, the decline in the number of Jesuits, and inflation caused that number to rise to today’s $14,000.

One of the issues Houli-han had to begin to deal with as principal was the decline in Jesu-its and the resulting increase in lay teachers. In 1974, there were about 25 Jesuits at SLUH, result-ing in a Jesuit-to-student ratio of roughly 1:36, compared with the current ratio of roughly 1:183.

“It was a time of great change then, but I think the Jesuit Sec-ondary Education Association (JSEA) prepared the schools well for that. Even by 1970 when we still had 25 Jesuits, it was clear that that wasn’t going to last, and that the lay people were going to have to assume a dominant role in the schools,” Houlihan said.

Houlihan served two terms on the JSEA: a three-year term during his time at SLUH and an-other four-year one during his time as president of Regis High School. The JSEA was responsi-ble for crafting the Grad at Grad document and implementing the Ignatian training of lay adminis-

trators, both key elements of Je-suit secondary education.

Houlihan left his position as principal in 1979 when he was asked to become the first presi-dent of Regis High School in Colorado, a position he held for 16 years.

When Houlihan made the move to Regis, it had just broken its formal ties with Regis Univer-sity. As the first president, Hou-lihan was tasked with severing the ties with the university both administratively and financially. Colorado only had five Catholic high schools at the time.

Although the high school severed its ties with the college in 1979, it didn’t move to a separate location until 1990. Houlihan was instrumental in accomplishing this task.

“In a sense, he was a trouble-shooter and a school-builder—almost without debt. He was a very good manager of money, so we did not go into much debt at all,” said theology teacher Mi-chael “Marco” Marchlewski, S.J., whom Houlihan brought to Regis in 1984 to be chair of the foreign language department.

Marchlewski was two years behind Houlihan during his time as a student, but got to know him better when they were both at the seminary in Florissant. Marchlewski came to know him better when they both lived at the same Jesuit community in Colo-rado.

“He really works in bringing interesting young men to the So-ciety of Jesus,” said Marchelewski. “He’s been quite successful—not only here but wherever he’s been—because I think he’s a role model of what a Jesuit is and can be.” After he finished his time as president of Regis, Houlihan al-most didn’t make it back to SLUH. The Jesuit superior at the time suggested that he become the next director of Boys Hope Girls Hope, a charity funded by former SLUH president Paul Sheridan, S.J., that helps kids in troubled families. After finding out that the position would be another administrative one and required traveling three days a week, Houlihan decided that it wouldn’t be the best fit for him.

After nearly being as-signed to positions at St. Louis

University and in Burundi, Houlihan was placed in the environment he knew best. “I finally said, ‘I’ve spent all of my time working in high schools. Why don’t you just assign me to a high school?’ So that’s how I got back here,” said Houlihan.

Houlihan finally shed his ad-ministrative position to resume teaching. He currently teaches three sections of theology.

“I talk with his students, and they have high regard for him,” said John Lan Tran, S.J. “He’s al-ways well prepared. In my sense, he’s a solid teacher. He’s thought-ful and read up on stuff.”

Houlihan said he prefers teaching to his previous admin-istrative roles. Even though he’s 78, he doesn’t seem to slow down. He remains on SLUH’s Board of Trustees, and continues minister-ing to the wider SLUH commu-nity.

“We take it for granted, but

he does a lot of funerals and a lot of weddings still,” said Marco. “People come to see him for ad-vice. He’s a presence, not an icon.”

The 60-year celebration was smaller than his 50-year jubilee. After a celebratory Mass at Col-lege Church for all of the Jesuits celebrating significant milestones in the area, there was a small re-ception in the church basement. Theology teacher and SLUH Su-perior Carl Heumann, S.J., took him out to dinner at McGurk’s.

“I think the quality that stands out for me about Houli is that he’s a very faithful, constant guy,” said Tran. “Every day he’s going to be there. He’s going to do what needs to be done.”

“I’ve never seen him down,” said Marchlewski. “He’s always up. He’s always in a good mood, which is a good sign. He makes other people happy too.”

Other Jesuit JubileesJeff Harrison

25 years in the priesthood

Richard Hadel60 years in the

society

Steve Schoenig25 years in the

societyJeff Harrison, S.J., was a teach-er at St. Louis University High from 1996 to 2007, when he was assigned to serve as supe-rior of the Jesuit community in Belize. It was not Harrison’s first time leaving SLUH. He was a student here and graduat-ed in ’75. Harrison taught U.S. History and directed Senior Follies and Senior Project. Har-rison was the moderator of the Young Democratic Socialists.

Dick Hadel, S.J., served at SLUH from 1993 to 2005, when he moved to St. Cecilia’s in south city. Hadel taught English and Spanish during his time at SLUH. Hadel had been at DeS-met for seven years before com-ing to SLUH. During his time here at SLUH Hadel wrote a dictionary of grammar for the Carib language. He was one of the few Westerners to speak the language.

Steve Schoenig, S.J., arrived at SLUH in 1993 and then de-parted after three years here in 1996. Schoenig taught freshman Theology, sophomore Latin, and was involved in Latin Club and Sisyphus. Before coming to SLUH, Schoenig taught in Belize. Schoenig speaks Latin, German, Spanish, and Old Eng-lish.

Houlihan celebrates 60th year in the Society of Jesus

photo | 1976 Dauphin yearbook

Comic from Prep News volume 39 issue 18.

Comic from Prep News volume 39 issue 8.

Houlihan talks to a student during his tenure as principal. Notice the library on stilts, before the space underneath was bricked up, and the cars parked where the band rooms are now.

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SPORTS

BY Brendan BementREPORTER

After topping an unbeaten St. Dominic’s team 1-0 on Sat-

urday, the St. Louis U. High soc-cer team (5-4-2) kicked off at the annual CYC soccer tournament at the Soccer Park in Fenton. The tournament is set up as a round-robin tournament, with the win-ners of the four brackets advanc-ing to today’s semi-finals.

The Jr. Bills kicked off tour-nament play on Monday against Timberland and won handily. The Jr. Bills rocketed shots relentlessly as Timberland struggled to get the ball out of their half. Midway through the first half, the Jr. Bills capitalized on one of their chanc-es as sophomore Clark Conway beat the last defender for a goal just seconds after entering the game. Senior captain Zach Hoff-mann added to the score as he wove through two defenders for a goal, giving the Jr. Bills a 2-0 lead

heading into the half.The second half was a scor-

ing frenzy as Hoffmann scored a quick goal off a through-ball by senior Nick Kocisak. Freshman Matt Frein scored his first goal of the season off a bending cross by senior Teddy Thorpe, and Con-way scored two more goals as the Jr. Bills cruised to a 6-0 win.

With his three goals on Mon-day, Conway is the only Jr. Bil-liken with a hat trick this season.

“I talked to him when I put him into the game.” said head coach Charlie Martel. “I told him to just relax, and play, and have some fun and he scored a goal in the first minute and then he scored two more goals. I thought Clark played great.”

“I thought it was a really good showing,” said Conway. “I thought we connected really well. Our offense really clicked. Our subs off the bench were fantastic.”

On Wednesday night, the Jr.

Bills faced off against a tougher opponent as they played last year’s State runner-up, the Oakville Ti-gers. The game started out with-out any scoring, despite both teams getting opportunities on goal. The first goal came midway through the first half as Hoff-mann shielded off his defender and blasted a shot into the lower right corner for the only goal of the half.

The second half saw plenty of action from the start as junior Tim Manuel sent a low cross into the box that was deflected for a goal, giving SLUH a 2-0 lead. The two-goal lead did not last long, as Oakville caught the Jr. Bills off-guard and stole the goal back within seconds. The remainder of the second half saw scoring chances for both teams and a questionable yellow card awarded to SLUH’s bench. Within only a few minutes to go, however, Oakville bent a free-kick in for

the game-tying goal as the game ended in a disappointing 2-2 final.

“The second half is usually our best half, so as long as we get ahead in the first half, we should be able to get a win,” said senior captain Chris Gys.

Before the game, Martel said he expected a win against Oakville. “We expect to keep playing the way we’ve been play-ing. We beat St. Dominic’s, which was a really good win for us, and then we played really well against Timberland.”

The Jr. Bills played their final game of the group stage yesterday against Kirkwood (see Nightbeat, page 7), setting up a match-up against the No. 3 ranked team in the nation according to the National Soccer Coaches As-sociation of America (NSCAA), Chaminade, on Friday.

“Our main goal going into the tournament is that we wanted to play Chaminade on Friday.

That’s the game that we want,” said Martel.

“I think we’ll come out fired up,” said Gys. “I don’t think we have to worry about not being ag-gressive enough or not working hard enough. The main thing will be staying organized against their skilled offense and then holding the ball when we’re on offense.”

“We’ll probably end up play-ing them in the district final down the road,” Martel said. “We will be able to play them Friday and, with our regular season game, it will give us two looks at them to de-cide what we have to do to try and beat them (in Districts).”

“I think we will definitely give them a run for their money,” said Conway.

The championship match for the CYC tournament is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday at the Soccer Park.

SLUH single-game football records

Rushing touchdowns: -6 (Ronnie Wingo, 2008)-6 (Raymond Wingo, 2012)

Points scored, SLUH: -83 (vs. Belleville Township, 1921)

-69 (vs. Vianney, 2012)

-65 (vs. Alton Marquette, 1969)

-63 (vs. Vianney, 2008)

Points scored, both teams: -105 (SLUH 63, Vianney 42; 2008) -104 (SLUH 69, Vianney 35; 2012)

--information courtesy of Frank Pawloski

compiled by Brian Dugan Tom Critchfield,Swimming

Andy Riek,Football

Zach Hoffman,Soccer

Tom Laughlin,Cross Country

BY Justin JellinekREPORTER

After a fantastic road trip to Columbia, Mo., to swim at

the previous home of the State meet, Hickman High School, the SwimBills are ready to begin tak-ing on St. Louis area teams once again.

Even with many of the top swimmers ineligible to swim over the weekend because of illnesses, most notably senior captain Chris Favier and freshman phenom Jus-tin Andrews, SLUH’s swim team still managed to beat one of the two top competitors in the Co-lumbia area that they faced.

Hickman High School lost to the Jr. Bills, 67-100, while the Jr. Bills lost to Rock Bridge High

School, 78-92. Despite the loss against Rock Bridge, the swim team still attained dropped times.

“It gave us a good chance to face competition that we haven’t seen before,” said senior captain Ryan Caselton. “We’re so used to seeing the Parkways, MICDS, DeSmet, and others that it was just very nice to get a change in competition. Obviously the team’s excitement was reflected in their dropped times.”

With a big meet coming for the swim team this weekend, the SwimBills are excited to swim at the home of the State meet, the St. Peter’s Rec Plex. Many dropped times are anticipated, along with several more State cuts. Among the hopefuls are Favier and his

Swimmers crawl toward State after weekend in Columbiafellow senior captain Nick Koors. Both nearly qualify in the 100 free, while Favier is a mere .02 seconds from State in the 50 freestyle. Also hoping to rack up his State cuts is Andrews, who will get the op-portunity to go for the cut in the 500 freestyle in the quick Rec Plex pool.

The DeSmet Invite this week-end is not the only thing the team has to look forward to. Starting next week, the team will start its consistent matchups in dual matches beginning with MICDS on Tuesday and Rockwood Sum-mit on Thursday.

Favier will get the opportu-nity next Thursday to show off his diving abilities, joining the likes of sophomores Ike Simmon, Kier

Verhoff, and Evan Schultz as a member of the SLUH dive team.

With a lot to look forward to, SLUH swimming hopes to con-tinue the improvements they’ve seen so far. With still half the sea-son to go, the team remains hope-ful for quite a few more State cuts along with some dual meet victo-ries to come.

The Swimbills took almost the whole team to Hickman, al-lowing many of the younger swim-mers an opportunity to swim. The team saw many dropped times as a result. At the DeSmet Invite, the team hopes tough competition will lead to greatness.

Biggest obstacle to State?

Best team bonding experience?

Heart of the team?

Lucky charm?

Favorite Olympic sport and athlete this

summer?

Staying focused on state even without the immediate satisfac-

tion most sports can give.

Sitting on the roof of FoPoCoCo everyday before practice.

Joe Goeddel

Lucky penny I keep in my Speedo.

Water Polo and Tony Azevedo

CBC

Team meals

Coach Buha

Will Greiner’s dice in his sock

Swimming, Michael Phelps

Our team’s main goal is to win a state championship, and we

have to play one of our biggest rivals, Chaminade in the district

finals.

Right after the game against St. Dominic’s the team went over to Joe Grady’s house and had a tailgate party. We played FIFA,

ping pong, pool, etc. And of course we celebrated our win

against St. Dominic’s.

As a team, everyone is the heart. Everyone has their indi-vidual part on the team and it

helps the team succeed.

Jack Walsh

Men’s soccer, but unfortunate-ly the USA men’s team didn’t make it. My favorite athlete is

Michael Phelps.

Conversation Cube: fall sports seniors

Conway gets hat trick as soccer prepares for Red Devils in CYC semis

Quote of the Week

“We are the President’s men.”

-Henry Kissinger, 1974

Everyone staying healthy.

Just racing and doing workouts together.

Mr. Flanagan giving loud, inspirational

speeches.

Never had one.

I didn’t really watch them, so probably

just Michael Phelps.


SPORTS

BY Will GreinerREPORTER

It only took the Jr. Billikens nineteen seconds to score their

first touchdown against the Vi-anney Griffins last Friday night. From that point on, the Jr. Billik-ens never surrendered their lead, punishing the Vianney defense for nine more touchdowns on the way to a 69-35 victory.

“After CBC everyone was feeling kind of down, and this was a great way for us to come out, play together as a unit, and help us realize the potential that this team has,” said senior captain Andy Riek.

Following a disappointing 51-7 loss to the CBC the previous weekend, the Jr. Billikens man-aged to turn around their offen-sive struggles against the Griffins to find the end zone ten times, good for 69 points. This number is in stark contrast to the 14 points the Jr. Bills scraped together in their first two games combined. The Jr. Billiken offense was in fact so efficient that they only punted once.

“It was a nice way to get the ball rolling,” said senior captain Alex Mackin.

But on Friday, it wasn’t only the the offensethat made the night special for the Jr. Billikens.

The Jr. Bills put up 48 points in the first half—including a 20-yard pick-six by junior Dan Ev-ans, which was one of the five Vianney turnovers on the night—and an 80-yard touchdown run

from junior multi-purpose player Raymond Wingo. Wingo added three more touchdowns and ju-nior Mike Hall tacked on two scores before the half.

“Our offensive line did a great job of opening up holes on the field throughout the game for both Raymond and Mike,” said senior captain Matthew Hinke-bein.

But the beatdown did not fin-ish there. Wingo added two more touchdowns in the second half,

while Hall added after the break.By the end of the night, the

Jr. Billiken offense had raked in 507 offensive yards, including 463 rushing yards and 46 passing yards. Along with these impres-sive offensive numbers, the Jr. Bil-likens also forced five turnovers on the defensive end of the ball, and were able to sack the Vianney quarterback twice.

But the most impressive per-formances of the game came from juniors Wingo and Hall, who to-

gether scored nine of the Jr. Bil-likens’ ten touchdowns.

Wingo’s six-touchdown, 312 rushing-yard performance stands as one of the greatest performanc-es in SLUH history, with his six touchdowns tying the U. High’s single-game record set in 2008 by his brother, Ronnie Wingo ’09.

Hall also had an outstanding game, rushing for 149 yards while scoring 3 touchdowns.

In response to both Wingo and Hall’s performances, Riek

said, “It was amazing. Whenever one person can run for 300 yards and another for 150 it obviously shows a lot about the guys and the skills they have. They just keep go-ing and fighting for that last inch.”

On the flipside of the ball, the Vianney offense by no means struggled in Friday’s game. By the final horn the Vianney offense had compiled a total of 424 yards of offense with 252 rushing yards and 172 receiving.

The backbone of Vianney’s offense on Friday proved to be their star running back Markel Smith, who rushed for 230 yards on 34 carries. The division-one recruit also scored two of Vian-ney’s five touchdowns.

“The defense has some things they still need to work on and will need to step up the intensity for future games,” said Mackin.

For the Jr. Bills a win is a win, and they have now switched their focus onto this Friday’s game against Chaminade.

With another MCC confer-ence game on the line, the Jr. Bills hope to improve their MCC re-cord to 2-1 against a 1-3 Chami-nade team. They go into this Friday with high hopes and big expectations of delivering the Red Devils their fourth loss on the season.

“We’re hoping to go out there on Friday and both look good and play good,” said Mackin. “It’s go-ing to be a great white out.”

BY Brian SuhreREPORTER

As the top seven runners took a week off from racing in

preparation for the Palatine Invi-tational this Saturday, the second and third varsity squads showed that the St. Louis U. High cross country team has depth.

SLUH’s top seven did not run at the Parkway Central meet nor at Sioux Passage Park this past week. While the team’s second-and-third string squads finished middle of the pack in both races, impressive performances from a large group of underclassmen showed that the team has a con-siderable amount of young up and coming talent.

Only seven runners raced at Parkway Central last Thurs-day. Sophomore Garret Fox was SLUH’s top finisher, coming in 22nd place with a time of 17:56. Fox was followed closely by se-niors David Arredondo and Tom Laughlin, and sophomore Jordan Sosa, all within five seconds and places of each other.

“(The course) was surpris-ingly hilly for a high school cam-pus, said Fox who found himself “more tired” than he expected to be at the end of the race.

The hills at Parkway Central are no match for the high peaks of Sioux Passage Park, home of the infamous “Manmaker” hill. The

Manmaker is an extremely steep, 400-meter hill that the race starts on and then climbs again at the start of the third mile. The course provided a rude awakening for the freshmen, who were experiencing their first five kilometer race.

The coaching staff again rested the top seven for the Paul Enke Invitational at Sioux Pas-sage, emphasizing youth over experience. The young squad finished ninth out of 22 teams. Senior captain Alex Groesch led the way finishing in 18:31, good for 43rd place in a tough field. Ju-nior Alex Sextro and sophomore Thomas Hogan finished close behind Groesch at 18:36 and 18:38 respectively. Freshmen Billy Balossi and Joe Butler, and sopho-mores Jack Schroeder and Kevin Murphy rounded out the youthful varsity squad.

Groesch thought that the team fought hard.

“I was really proud of Alex Sextro and Thomas Hogan for pushing me during the race and really giving it their all,” Groesch said.

Groesch has considerable experience with the hilly intrica-cies of Sioux Passage, and said the team’s “tactic was to keep cadence on the hills and then pass people at the top.

The JV and freshman team also had standout performances

at the meet. Sophomore Jacob Marty and junior Peter Charles had fast enough times to be con-sidered among SLUH’s top seven finishers overall, including varsity. Freshmen Ethan McIntyre, Cade Dernlan, and David Stolz led the way for the freshman squad, fin-ishing in the top 14 overall for the team. JV finished third overall and the freshman finished sec-ond, slightly weakened by the loss of Balossi and Butler to varsity.

Head coach Joe Porter said the key for both races was “getting some quality varsity experience and teaching the young guys how to race at a high level.” Despite middle of the pack varsity finish-es, Porter said he was impressed by the team’s resilience.

The top 14 travels to Palatine, IL outside of Chicago this Friday. They will be competing against two teams in the national top 25 and the defending Illinois State champions.

“The quality of the field is just outstanding,” said Porter. “We’re consistently towards the top of the state, but the next level we need to reach is to be one of the top teams in our region and in order to do that we need to keep racing na-tional top 25 teams and close the gap to them.”

The rest of the team will com-pete at the Hancock Invitational at Jefferson Barracks Park on Sep. 22. Hancock is a late addition to the schedule, replacing the can-celed Fox Warrior Invitational.

Young runners emerge as Top Seven rest

Junior Raymond Wingo breaks a tackle en route to racking up 312 yards and six touchdowns.

photo | Kyle Vogt

Wingo shines, leads football to record-tying win over Vianney

Soccer NightbeatSenior Zach Hoffman scored the game-tying goal in the middle of the second half on a ball from junior Tommy Hill to put the Jr. Bills through to the next round of the Bob Guelker CYC Tournament. Se-nior Tony Bright scored the other goal in the 2-2 tie. SLUH will face Chaminade, ranked third in the nation, in a semifinal matchup to-night at 8:00 at Soccer Park.

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Prep NewsVolume 77, Issue 5Younger squad takes on Parkway

Central course, “Manmaker”

“Roman Emperors”Credits

-compiled by Justin Sinay


CAP’N K SAILS AGAIN

Friday, September 21V Soccer @ CYC Tournament8:30am Rhodes College (Sign up in Naviance)AP Sophomore Class Mass University of Alabama—M108 Christian Brothers University—M110 University of Dallas—M112 University of Mississippi—M114 St. Louis University—M11610:30am DePauw University (Sign up in Naviance)2:15pm Colorado State University (Sign up in Naviance)4:30pm C Soccer @ Granite City7pm V Football @ Chaminade8pm V Soccer @ CYC TournamentLunch Special—Strips & Fries Healthy—Chicken Parmesan

Schedule R

Saturday, September 229am V, JV XC @ Palatine Invitational11am Fall Basketball League3pm V Swimming @ DeSmet Invitational8PM V Soccer @ CYC Tournament

Sunday, September 2312pm KEEN

Monday, September 24

STUCO Spirit Week (through Sep. 27)8:30am Murray State University (Sign up in Naviance)9:15am Missouri Western State U. (Sign up in Naviance)AP Senior Project Meeting10:30am Lehigh University (Sign up in Naviance)1:30pm Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Sign up in Naviance)2pm Hillsdale College (Sign up in Naviance)4pm B Soccer vs. Duchesne C Soccer vs. Duchesne4:30pm JV Football @ Chaminade6pm V Soccer vs. DuchesneLunch Special—Lil Charlie’s Healthy—Baked Mostacciolli

Schedule R

Tuesday, September 258am Pitzer College (Sign up in Naviance)AP Baker University—M108 Bradley University—M110 Butler University—M112 Cornell College—M114 Susquehanna University—M1164pm V Swimming @ MICDS C Soccer vs. Vianney7pm Pax Christi Movie ScreeningLunch Special—George’s Chicken Healthy—BBQ Burger

Schedule R

Wednesday, September 26AP Freshman English Tutorial Yale University—M11210:30am Ball State University (Sign up in Naviance)4:30pm JV Soccer vs. Granite CityLunch Special—Brunch for Lunch Healthy—Pancakes

Schedule R

Thursday, September 27AP Sports Pep Rally11am Mix-it-up Lunch12pm Seton Hall University (Sign up in Naviance)1:30pm Knox College (Sign up in Naviance)4pm C Soccer vs. CBC V Swimming @ Rockwood Summit4:30pm C Football @ DeSmet7pm V Football vs. DeSmetLunch Special—Flatbread Pizza Healthy—Cheese Flatbread

Compiled by Sam Fentress

Schedule R

BY Keith ThomasREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High Urban Ad-venture Club (also known as

Staycation Club) is one of the newer clubs at SLUH. Founded last year, the Staycation Club has traveled around the city and surrounding areas, trying to find points of historic and ethnic interest.

Spanish teacher Suzanne Renard moderates the Staycation Club.

“We have one human race, and many ethnic groups with many won-derful complexions. It’s almost like a salad, people of different cultures need to come together to make this metro-politan area thrive,” Renard said.

Sophmores Brian Seckfort, Matt Hennessey, and Giuseppe Vitellaro are all what Renard calls “ambassadors” of the Staycation Club.

“We are looking for something unique and one-of-a-kind because that’s what makes St. Louis an inter-esting town,” Hennessey said. Vitella-ro explained that where he lives, there is a lot of Bosnian influence. Vitellaro added that a goal of the club is to ac-knowledge the many kinds of cultures that makes up the city of St. Louis.

Additionally, Renard believes that the diversity of infrastructure and architectural style of building in St. Louis is the main difference between St. Louis and other cities around the United States and even around the world.

“In a study about ten years ago, architects from all around the world traveled to different cities, and St. Louis was ranked fifth among all the cities that were looked at, in both ar-chitectural diversity and beauty,” Re-nard said. “In some cities, people pay to live within the view of a bridge, where in St. Louis, we have a bridges right in front of our eyes. Not only that, but we live by one of the rivers (Mississippi) that has shaped this na-tion.”

Along with culture, food has been a popular topic of discussion in the

Staycation club. “Food can make a difference in

culture, and how it influences the city of St. Louis today,” Seckfort said.

“Personally, I would like to go to Mexican restaurants and explore the different ones in St. Louis,” Vitellaro said.

The club’s first trip was to the Eads Bridge in downtown St. Louis. “It is really interesting to see the ar-chitecture of the many bridges in and around the city,” Vitellaro said.

Some possible trips include trav-eling to to the Old North St. Louis, Old

Waterloo in Illinois, Old St. Charles; venturing to the Hill to play bocce ball; and exploring the infrastruc-ture of public transportation around the area. There are no boundaries to where the club will travel, but Renard said that the club will try to stay closer to the Mississippi River, as St. Louis is a river town.

Renard explained that the club is always open to new members. Vitel-laro, Seckfort and Hennessey strongly encourage interested students to e-mail them or Mrs. Renard.

Urban Explorers discover St. Louis treasures

photo | Giuseppe Vitellaro

photo | Mrs. Suzanne Renard

Urban Explorers with their pioneer day equivalents. The Eads Bridge is in the rear.

The Urban explorers walk along the river front on their trip to the Eads Bridge last Friday. This was their first excursion.

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