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A Given Life

A Given Life: The Pioneer Four

September 23, 2015 By Carolyn

The Columbiad Masthead, 1933
The Columbiad Masthead, 1933

Our school was founded by Archbishop Alexander Christie and opened for business in 1901.   But from the first Archbishop Christie thought the school should be in the hands of educational specialists and so brought Holy Cross religious to Portland from Notre Dame, with the result that in 1902, Rev. Michael A. Quinlan,  C.S.C. became the second president of Columbia University.  The first team from Notre Dame was Quinlan, Fr. William Marr, C.S.C., Fr. Patrick Carroll, C.S.C., and Brother Wilfred Schreiber, C.S.C.  Marr and Carroll stayed two years, through 1904.  Fr. Quinlan was succeeded by Fr. Joseph Gallagher, C.S.C. in 1906.  Bro. Wilfred stoked the furnaces and ran the heating plant until 1933, when blood-clots and phlebitis side-lined him at the age of 60.

Over three decades, Bro. Wilfred’s ministry was dedicated, behind the scenes, invisible.  The understated tribute in the student newspaper announcing Brother’s retirement (shown here at the bottom) defines once more the particular and human meaning of a life given in consecrated religious friendship.  The students’ words, printed on PAGE ONE, show Bro. Wilfred present in the awareness of the students, who know his name, his humor, and his devotion.  Our second exhibit is the only extant photograph of Bro. Wilfred, near age seventy.

The Columbiad, November 10, 1933 (University Archives, Click to enlarge)
Brother Wilfred Schreiber, C.S.C., ca1949 (University Archives, click to enlarge)

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A Given Life: Flowering in the Rose City

September 11, 2015 By Carolyn

Spirit of Holy Cross Series by Steven Scardina (photographer) Crypt of Blessed Basil Moreau; Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, mother church of the Congregation Holy Cross; Moreau portrait
Spirit of Holy Cross Series by Steven Scardina (photographer) Crypt of Blessed Basil Moreau; Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, mother church of the Congregation Holy Cross; Moreau portrait

The Blessed Basile Anthony Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, died in 1873, a quarter century before the foundation of the University.  So he never served at the University of Portland, never even visited rain-rich Oregon.  But of course the Holy Cross Brothers and Priests in our Residence Halls and classrooms and administration are his spiritual heirs.

A priest from the French countryside in the nineteenth century, Fr. Moreau’s life work was the creation of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which is a confederation of Consecrated Religious meant to proclaim the Gospel and influence the world all out of proportion to the numerical size of the community.  How?  By getting to work outside of the cloister.  Moreau was a seminary professor, but he went throughout his district to preach parish missions and retreats.  Early on he sent Holy Cross religious from France on missions to India, Africa, and the Americas.   He was not impressed nor deterred by territorial borders.

Additional leaven came to the work from two multipliers: his Holy Cross religious would work and live side-by-side, and would work as educators.  Side-by-side is a method or attitude pointing towards common and mutual activity, it means collaboration, shared life, a strength in numbers drawing others in.  While education is the planting of seeds: “the particular goal of your institution is, above all, to sanctify youth.  By this, you will contribute to preparing the world for better times than our own, for these children who today attend your school are the parents of the future and the parents of future generations”.  (Christian Education, in Basil Moreau, Essential Writings (2014), p. 376).

Moreau’s work brought Holy Cross religious to Oregon in 1902.  A work always breaking out of the classroom and into the world.  A foundational ethos of reaching out that is today inscribed in lives at the University of Portland Moreau Center which coordinates student and faculty opportunities to serve local and international communities to improve the world through hope, compassion and solidarity.

Blessed Basil Moreau Beatification Prayer Card, 2007 (University Archives, click to enlarge)
Moreau Beatification Card, University of Portland (University Archives, Click to enlarge)
Prayer, Moreau Beatification, University of Portland, 2007 (University Archives, Click to enlarge prayer)
Portland Magazine, Summer 2000 (University Archives)
Statue of Blessed Basil Moreau, Le Mans, France (photographed by Steven Scardina)

Prints of the photographs decorate the 3rd floor corridor of Franz Hall outside the Holy Cross Lounge, Steven Scardina, photographer.

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A Given Life: A Center for Social Concern

April 28, 2015 By Carolyn

2005 (University Archives)
2005 (University Archives)

Reverend Richard Berg, C.S.C. is a Portland native, attending Columbia Prep ’54 for high school, Notre Dame for seminary, and the University of Portland for a PhD in Psychology ’69.  The career circle coming full and fulfilled by serving as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1978-1991; and as emeritus professor since 1998.  Except that for Fr. Berg, Consecrated Life means that your horizons sometimes expand when you are not looking and without consideration of the neat lines of your career-planning.

From 1952 onward, Pilots have been involved in volunteerism and social outreach to the poor, outcast and helpless through Blanchet House in the Old Town area of central Portland.

In 1991 while he was still CAS Dean, Fr. Berg was asked by the Archbishop of Portland to administer the Downtown Chapel in Old Town.  A package deal for the Archbishop.  An opportunity for UP.   Because through friendship, knowledge of the school, and administrative connections, the University created new student internships in Social Work and Nursing programs at the same time.  That is, Fr. Berg brought students right alongside him in direct collaboration working among the lost, sick, forgotten in Portland.  The UP Mission elements of Teaching and Learning operating in direct contact with the mission practice of Service and Leadership.

On June 18, 2008 Mary Sue Richen and Fr. Richard Berg received an achievement award from the Coordinating Committee to End Homelessness.  The award was presented by Portland’s mayor Tom Potter and Multnomah County Commissioner Ted Wheeler.  From the citation:

‘This brother-sister team has spent 20 years ministering to the frail and poor of downtown Portland.  Dick established the Macdonald Center with innovative financial and care models, including outreach to those isolated in residency hotels.  Mary Sue has been there since day one and has made overcoming social isolation one of the Center’s primary missions.  Dick’s vision and creativity are well complimented by Mary Sue’s gentleness and compassion.  Together they have made a lasting difference in the lives of the city’s most vulnerable residents.’

(The Macdonald Center was founded in 1978 by Maybelle Clark Macdonald; who together with her family, is a major benefactor of the Clark Family Library.)

Sources: The Beacon, February 22, 1990, p. 2; March 21, 1991, p. 4; October 10, 1991, p. 9; October 31, 1991, p. 7; November 18, 1993, p. 8.
(cf. Portland Magazine, Autumn 2008, p. 47)

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Rev. Richard Berg, C.S.C. in the Classroom, 1966
Beacon, February 22, 1990
Beacon, October 31, 1991
Rev. Richard Berg, C.S.C., 1992

Beacon, November 18, 1993, p. 8
Rev. Richard Berg, C.S.C., and Mary Sue Richen, 2008

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A Given Life: Return on Investment

April 1, 2015 By Carolyn

Rev. John Molter, C.S.C., 1948  (University Archives photo, click to enlarge image)
Rev. John Molter, C.S.C., 1948 (University Archives photo, click to enlarge image)

In the 1950s Rev. John Molter, C.S.C. (1905-1960) created a campus botanical garden beside Christie Hall.  Planted with his own hands, working together with students, the wild-flowers gathered representatives from every section of the state.  A zoologist by training, Fr. Molter was a man of science, inspirational in both the lab and classroom.  But in the most well-told story, Fr. Molter’s faith is balanced against scientific skepticism.  Don V. Romanaggi, M.D., class of 1956, claims he once won a silver-certificate dollar off Fr. Molter by beating the odds and earning an A in his science course (histology!).  Gaining not only the dollar, but also AP-credit later getting him exempted from tissue classes in medical school.  (Science Hall where the future physician studied with Fr. Molter was renovated in 2010 and renamed for Dr. Romanaggi.)

The University’s first endowed chair was established in 1995 supported by a cross section of alumni, and science graduates in particular.  Dr. Steven Kolmes, the first and reigning occupant of the Rev. John Molter, C.S.C., Chair in Science at the University of Portland, continues Fr. Molter’s legacy in the zoological sciences. Dr. Kolmes is Director of the Environmental Studies Program and Professor of Biology with interests in combining ethical and scientific analyses in environmental policy discussions, from salmon recovery to pesticide contamination.  Fr. Molter’s life — dedicated to science, faith, environment, and students — has given UP a harvest handed down across generations.

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Beacon, April 18, 1958, p. 4
Upbeat, October 23, 2006
Don Romanaggi, 1956 LOG
The Bet
Dr. Stephen Kolmes, Beekeeper, 1990

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A Given Life: Out of Exile

March 26, 2015 By Carolyn

Sisters of St. Mary of the Presentation, Arrival around 1903 (University Archives photo, click for full image)
Sisters of St. Mary of the Presentation, Arrival around 1903 (University Archives photo, click for full image)

For those in religious life, their life is not their own and they are often transported to areas or parts of the world where culture and language are not familiar.   Consider the journey of these religious sisters.  The Sisters of Mary of the Presentation were exiled from France in 1901 when an anticlerical government enacted legislation to weaken the influence of the Catholic Church in France.  Though just passing through, Rev. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., learned of the Sisters’ situation from the Holy Cross superior general in France, and Fr. Zahm offered the sisters employment at Holy Cross institutions in the United States, including the University of Portland.

Sisters of St. Mary of the Presentation in front of St. Mary's Convent, ca1930 (University Archives photo, click for full image)
Sisters of St. Mary of the Presentation in front of St. Mary’s Convent, ca1930 (University Archives photo, click for full image)

Thus Fr.  Zahm, arranged the Sisters’ travel and personally met the first contingent of Presentation Sisters in New York in June 1903.  Then from New York to Notre Dame.  Three sisters remained at Notre Dame while twelve traveled to Portland and the new University beginning there.   The sisters resided temporarily in West Hall until the construction of a Convent was complete.  The three-story convent building (with a porch) was semi-secluded, located in a grove of trees at a spot that today is green-lawn inside the Academic Quad — west of St. Mary’s and the Chapel of Christ the Teacher, north of the Commons.  The St. Mary’s Convent was meant to serve as a residence for the Sisters while also accommodating a small school for small boys (a plan which never materialized).  Instead, the children’s wing became the student infirmary.

The Sisters served the teachers and students through duties variously exercised in the kitchen, dining room, laundry, infirmary, and poultry yard.   Their wages in 1903: annual payment of only 300 francs, thus in American terms, about $58 a year, including room and board.  Jim Covert writes about the Sisters in A Point of Pride— “Various views have been recorded about their cooking.  Some claimed the meals were exceedingly frugal and the diet too frugal, but others took delight at their tables, especially praising the pastry”.    Brother David Martin, C.S.C., arriving at UP in 1928, recalled how “the waxed floor of their recreation room would always stay spick-and-span [because] they moved around in this room by skating along on small pieces of carpet when they needed to go from one part of the room to another. . . .  Despite their constant work they never seemed to get sick.  I asked them about this once or twice to which they responded that they didn’t have time to get sick.”

The Presentation Sisters (a rotating membership, renewed beyond the original twelve?) remained on the Bluff until 1940 when they were recalled by their religious community.

St. Mary's Convent, ca1940 (University Archives photo, click to enlarge image)
St. Mary’s Convent, ca1940 (University Archives photo, click to enlarge image)
Back of St. Mary's Convent, 1944 (University Archives photo, Click to enlarge image)
Back of St. Mary’s Convent, 1944 (University Archives photo, Click to enlarge image)

Sources:
Presentation Sisters in Holy Cross Apostolates 1903-1963 by Brother Franklin Cullen, C.S.C., p. 1-4

Rev. Barry Hagan, C.S.C. recollections

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A Given Life: Naming rights

March 17, 2015 By Carolyn

University of Portland seal
University of Portland seal

The Cross and Anchors rests at the center of the University seal, the symbol of the Congregation of Holy Cross who were intended for the University from the beginning.  The Seal is fixed to the right hand pillar of the main campus entrance on Willamette Boulevard.  As consecrated religious Holy Cross members live by the three vows of the evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity, and obedience.  One consequence of obedience is not having a choice of career ambition or in selecting your job.  Meaning that competence is often rewarded with greater burdens.  The University of Portland has long been a training ground for leaders in the larger Holy Cross community.   The current leadership team for the United States Province includes the just ‘retired’ Rev. E. William Beauchamp, C.S.C.; 19th president of the University of Portland, and also Brother Donald Stabrowski, C.S.C., who was poached from the Provost’s Office in 2012.  Past UP Presidents, Frs. Mehling, Kenna, and Tyson (the 11th, 14th, & 18th presidents, respectively) were promoted to province leadership from the UP president’s office.  Fr. Paul Waldschmidt, C.S.C., was translated direct from the UP presidency to the office of Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.  With the new Recreation & Wellness Center advancing toward completion, Brother Donald (acting president, fall semester 2003) is the last of these distinguished academic leaders lacking a building on campus.

1946-1950 Rev. Theodore Mehling, C.S.C., 11th President
1955-1962 Rev. Howard J. Kenna, C.S.C., 14th President
1962-1978 Rev. Paul E. Waldschmidt, C.S.C., 15th President
1990-2003 Rev. David T. Tyson, C.S.C., 18th President
2003 Brother Donald Stabrowski, C.S.C., 1997
2004-2014 Rev. E. William Beauchamp, C.S.C., 19th President

For more pictures and history of University Presidents visit the Clark Library’s Digital University Presidents Collection, displaying images of photographs and objects held by the University Archives and Museum (with descriptions from the Archives and Museum).

Related post:  In the Beginning: Rev. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Name-dropper, Promise Keeper, which shows how during the first year of the University’s existence, Archbishop Christie was actively courting Holy Cross.

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A Given Life: Exuberant & Overflowing

March 11, 2015 By Carolyn

A genial and irrepressible Holy Cross priest, Fr. John Delaunay’s life had a tendency to spill-over into the lives of peers and students, and across borders, national and academic.  A consecrated religious and UP professor who was hard to sum up or contain.

Rev. John Delaunay, C.S.C., 1941
Rev. John Delaunay, C.S.C., 1941

Fr. Delaunay was born in Paris, educated at the Sorbonne, came to the United States as a refugee in 1903, and after studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. became a Holy Cross priest in 1909.  One of his first assignments, therefore (?), sent him to the mission territories that are now Bangladesh.  He arrived at UP to teach languages, moving thence to the Departments of Philosophy and Education, and in 1949 became Professor of Psychology — having had to found the Department of Psychology to achieve this goal.  The faculty and students of the Psychology Department immediately created a pioneer program in clinical psychology, the Child Guidance Center, to provide counseling services for the greater Portland area community.  At first housed on campus, the community services section evolved into an independent organization.  After a half-century of family counseling, this legacy of Fr. Delaunay closed in 2003.

Delaunay Institute Brochure Cover, 1987
Delaunay Institute Brochure Cover, 1987

Fr. Delaunay died in 1953.  His name survives in a building we never built, and hundreds of alumni lives.  In 2012, alumnus E. John Rumpakis ’54 endowed a Professorship in Hellenic Studies at UP, remembering Fr. Delaunay, who “believed in educating the whole man,” Rumpakis said.  “It still resounds in my mind.”  (Furey, 05-22-2012); http://www.up.edu/shownews.aspx?id=4605 ).

Fr. Delaunay’s services to the University are legend; see the profile of the man in Portland Magazine, Winter 1998, pp. 14-19.  For a history of the Delaunay Institute, see The Beacon, 30 March 1973, p. 4; for a personal history and account of the Center’s closing, see also the note from Dr. Paul Myers, Director, University Health Center, in Portland Magazine, Summer 2003, p. 8; who quotes Fr. Delaunay as writing: “My life ambition is to make my psychology department the leading social work center in the Catholic West.  I am very hopeful that it shall do its share toward child delinquency prevention.  I shall have a special room for the direction of parents, since there are more problem parents than problem children . . .”

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Delaunay Institute for Mental Health Brochure, 1987
Delaunay Mental Health Center, 1968
Artist's Sketch of Proposed Delaunay Memorial Center, 1961 Log
Fr. John Delaunay with Students in Front of Christie Hall
Alumni Bulletin, October 1976

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A Given Life: How are they paid?

March 3, 2015 By Carolyn

Holy Cross religious call themselves Educators in the Faith, and are consecrated to their students’ good.

Rev. E. William Beauchamp and Bro. Donald Stabrowski, 2005
Stephen Colbert at Senate with Rev. Claude Pomerleau, December 2014
Rev. Richard Berg in the Classroom, 1992
Rev. John Delaunay, 1942
Holy Cross Group singing with Fr. George Dum, 1962
Rev. Howard Kenna, 1962
Rev. James Lies, Rev. Pat Hannon, Rev. Gary Chamberland, 2010
Bro. Paul Loos, 1970
Rev. John Molter, 1959
Rev. Raymond Pieper with student, 1966
Rev. Mark Poorman, University Alumni Reunion, 2013
Rev. Chester Prusynski with his niece, Rachel Prusynski, 2009-02-10 with niece Rachel Prusynski '09, 2009
Rev. Art Schoenfeldt, 1979
Bro. Wilfrid Schreiber, steam plant operator, ca 1949 M1 steam plant operator
Rev. Roland Simonitsch, 1960s
Rev. Paul E. Waldschmidt, 1967
Bro. Raphael Wilson parcourse, 1980
Holy Cross Group on Steps of West Hall, 1950

At the University’s Centennial, 1901-2001, the Board of Regents offered thanks to the more than four hundred Holy Cross religious who have served on the Bluff throughout that history.  Some were just passing through, on their way to other posts and assignments.  Some stayed long, and are part of the very roots of the University.

The Proclamation of Recognition voted by the Board accents how the character of the University and the Holy Cross religious have twined together in a century of living together, writing: “the University would be much reduced without the character and personality and courage and energy of the Holy Cross men who have been the best and brightest among us for a century”.

And indeed there have been many characters among the religious over the last century.  For more than a century, the Holy Cross community has stood behind the University as a living endowment offering teaching and services (and refusing salaries too!) to keep the place going (see the interesting arithmetic in the remarks of the fourteenth president, Fr. Kenna, The President’s Message to Alumni, Academic Bulletin, 1956).  How were they paid?  By always holding first that the health, life, treasure and purpose of the University is the student — the student as individual, and the student body together.  The same students who become our graduates.

A value cleanly expressed in a 1949 letter to Alumni from Fr. Mehling, the eleventh president, “You are our best salesmen’; repeated in 1956 by Fr. Kenna who reminds alumni that the tree is known by its harvest, ‘You are the criteria and the critic.’

Fr. Mehling letter to alumni, March 18, 1949 (University Archives, BG81x4, file 7, document 109)
Fr. Mehling letter to alumni, March 18, 1949 (University Archives, BG81x4, file 7, document 109, click to enlarge)
Fr. Howard Kenna text, University of Portland Bulletin, February 1956 (University Archives)
Fr. Howard Kenna text, University of Portland Bulletin, February 1956 (University Archives, click to enlarge)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These two notes from two middle presidents in UP history state the Holy Cross educational philosophy in brief.  The service of Holy Cross instructors and residence hall chaplains ought to disappear into the background of memory (a sort of humility of purpose); but it is not against the Catholic mission and values to recruit new students by encouraging the alumni to brag about themselves!

Holy Cross Group on Steps of Waldschmidt Hall, September 2014
Holy Cross Group on Steps of Waldschmidt Hall, September 2014 (click to enlarge)

 

[sources/notes] The text of the Board of Regents proclamation is on display in the Holy Cross Lounge, 3rd floor, Franz Hall.  There you will also find the list of names of Holy Cross brothers and priests who have spent some part of themselves in this work from 1902 to today.  Archives reference for Mehling letter, BG81x4, file 7, document 109.  Kenna letter, Alumni Bulletin, February 1956.

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A Given Life: Organic Chemistry?

February 24, 2015 By Carolyn

Pope Francis has dedicated 2015 as The Year of Consecrated Life.  Many associations flow from the term: one lucid and joyful specification of Consecrated Life widely familiar to our University community is Sister Angela Hoffman, OSB.

Sr. Angela Hoffman, O.S.B., 1995 (Click to enlarge photo)
Sr. Angela Hoffman, O.S.B., 1995
(University Archives photo, Click to enlarge)

Professor Hoffman, a sister of St. Benedict, has taught Chemistry at the University since 1989, as full professor from 2008.  Through her initiative UP has a stand of yew trees planted for research on the river campus.  And also hundreds of inspired students planted well beyond the campus grounds.  As to her practice as a teacher, she says: “Teaching students how to fail well is an important aspect of my teaching.  They make a lot of mistakes . . . experiments and models don’t explain how life works . . . . I am always telling them that failing is the surest chance of learning, and not to waste a chance to learn by failing to learn from your mistakes.”

Sr.  Angela Hoffman planting yew tree, 2006 (Marketing & Communications photo, click to enlarge)
Sr. Angela Hoffman planting yew tree, 2006
(Marketing & Communications photo, click to enlarge)
Sr. Angela Hoffman and students, 2006 (Marketing & Communications photo, Click to enlarge)
Sr. Angela Hoffman and students, 2006
(Marketing & Communications photo, Click to enlarge)

 

In her own life, Sr. Angela appears to have continually ‘failed-upwards’ earning honors and distinctions through service given to God, science, and the University of Portland community.  An innovator in pharmacological medicine (holding multiple patents), 2014 Oregon Academy of Science Outstanding Higher Education Teacher, 2012 American Chemical Society Fellow, 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.

 

UP News, February 24, 2014    http://www.up.edu/news/showNews.aspx?id=4967

The Beacon, March 6, 2014      http://upbeacon.com/2014/03/06/sister-angela-hoffman-wins-teaching-award/

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Sr. Angela Hoffman, O.S.B., 2006
Sr. Angela Hoffman, 2009
Sr. Angela Hoffman and Yew Trees, 2013

 

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A Given Life: Padre

February 17, 2015 By Carolyn

Pope Francis has dedicated 2015 as The Year of Consecrated Life.

Many meanings and associations flow from the term ‘Consecrated Life’, one of the first would be the thought of those men and women who pursue the vocation of religious life as nuns, brothers, monks, priests.  Another association is the way in which a person might consecrate or bless life by using the gift of our days as a blessing in life.

Consider this University of Portland legend. Rev. Arthur M. Schoenfeldt, C.S.C.

Schoenfeldt Series Tribute to Wallace Stegner. Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, William Kittredge, Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC, Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, CSC, John Daniel, George Venn, James Hepworth, 1993 (University Archives)
Schoenfeldt Series Tribute to Wallace Stegner. Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, William Kittredge, Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC, Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, CSC, John Daniel, George Venn, James Hepworth, 1993 (University Archives)

Born in Portland, “Padre” first ventured onto the Bluff as a student at Columbia Prep (’48).  He went on to become a Holy Cross priest serving in educational works, and returned to the University in 1978; for the next thirty years he served our community as pastoral resident, hall director, and counselor-at-large.   For all the fame of the Schoenfeldt Writers Series [named for his parents], Father Art’s true legacy at UP is his extraordinary grace as a counselor.  His oceanic patience, his gentle nature, his willingness to listen as long as necessary, his quiet wisdom, his shy playfulness, his remarkable generosity, his wry humor, his sweet selflessness made him a trusted and beloved counselor, advisor, and spiritual confidant to many, many  men, women, and children.  His University community, his Holy Cross brethren, and the thousands of people whose lives he touched with such wit and grace mourn the loss of such a sweet, kind, gentle man now at home in the hands of the Lord.

Memorial Mass program
11 January 2008

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Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, C.S.C., Ordination, 1959
Fr. Schoenfeldt presides over a Hall Mass, no date
Fr. Art Schoenfeldt, Steens Mountain, 1983
Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series, 1993
Fields & Schoenfeldt Halls, September 2009

 

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