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Left to right: Members of the Class of 1986 celebrated 2021 inductee Terrence Rouse ’86. From left are Matt Gilfillan, Sam Rosenhaus, Pete McGratty, Terry Rouse, Steve Cozine, Paul Maguire, John Polakowski and Damon Goodwin.

Terrence Rouse ’86

Terrence Rouse is Executive Vice President, Group Strategic Planning Director at FCB Health. He manages a team of strategists to drive growth of the agency’s oncology brands. He helped drive the strategy for multiple life-extending, billion-dollar brands, including Eloxatin®, Sprycel®, Zytiga®, Darzalex® and Opdivo®. He secured his first job in the industry through a Delbarton connection. While caddying at Baltusrol, he networked his way into former trustee Thomas G Ferguson’s P ’87, ’88’s namesake agency. In 2003 Terrence left the supplier side to join Sanofi, where he was US marketing manager for new oncology products. In 2007 he moved to Boulder, CO to lead the market research, competitive intelligence and forecasting group at Pharmion Corporation until it was acquired by Celgene. He learned to sing Delbarton’s praises as a tour guide for Father Donal. He was a tackle on the football team, where he proudly shared a locker with fellow Hall of Honoree and classmate JP Flynn. The duo was able to boost morale by closely guarding a special pair of sneakers, which became a “team spirit trophy” awarded annually into the 1990s. He held various student government positions and was a leader in the Council of Seniors/Deanery System pilot program. A regular for The Courier, Terrence penned an elaborate April’s Fool Day article about co-education at Delbarton that garnered a call from the Star-Ledger. He shared a Delbarton Medal for his work on the paper, and another one for reviving the Creative Arts Festival.

Former Association President Tim Fitzsimmons ’95, pictured here with his family, served as Master of Ceremonies and summarized each Hall of Honor inductees’ contributions to Delbarton. 2021 Delbarton Hall of Honor inductees included Terrence Rouse ’86, Fr. Andrew Smith, OSB and Michael Rosenhaus ’80.

From the top: Inductee Michael Rosenhaus ’80 and his family including his brother Sam Rosenhaus ’86, daughter Morganne Rosenhaus, Michael Rosenhaus ’80, Lori Romero and son-inlaw Christopher Gresham. 2021 Hall of Honor inductee Terrence Rouse ’86 with his family. From left are Fiona, Terry, Aoife, Oona and Cormac Rouse. At Bowdoin College, Terrence majored in history and government, with a minor in economics. He won the 1989 Coach’s Award for the men’s rugby team and somehow lettered in golf. He was a class president, served on the recording committee, the student affairs funding committee, and the executive board. He was an ‘active’ member at theta delta chi where he held various leadership positions and managed the fraternity’s kitchen. As an alumnus, he was a regional coordinator of the Bowdoin Regional Admissions Volunteer Organization (BRAVO), and is currently a class representative and homecoming organizer. He joined the Delbarton Alumni Association board in 1994 as assistant annual giving chair. By actively recruiting class representatives, organizing telethons and embracing new technology (e-mail!), he helped drive alumni annual giving participation from the mid-teens to nearly 40% over the next 20 years. As president from 2012-14 he restructured the board, allowing for greater participation, diversity of engagement, and clarity of succession. He led a series of town hall and small dinner engagements to address era-specific challenges. His tenure on the board is the longest in Association history. He is the father of Aoife (19), Oona (18) and Cormac (16). In his hometown of Berkeley Heights, NJ, where he is an extraordinary minister at the Church of the Little Flower, his identity is strictly defined by being married to Fiona McDonnell.

Michael Rosenhaus ’80

Mike Rosenhaus first arrived at Delbarton as an anxious freshman in the fall of 1976. During the next four years, he participated in a variety of sports including football, basketball, track and skiing but he also developed a love for cycling. Whether riding, racing or rebuilding bicycles, Mike pursued this new passion with a singular focus. Although he enjoyed many of his Delbarton classes, French, American history and physics to name

a few, after graduation he deferred enrollment to college in order to race full time.

Mike won the Junior National Pursuit Championship just months after graduating from Delbarton and went on to represent the USA at the Junior World Championships in Mexico City later that year. Based on those results, Mike was invited to train and compete with the US National Team leading up to the 1984 Olympics. Highlights from those years included two National Championship Bronze medals, over a dozen State Championship titles and numerous open race victories. Mike also spent half a season racing for the Bianchi sponsored amateur team in Italy before turning his attention to full time undergraduate studies. Mike immediately immersed himself in Classical Studies at Drew University, taking every mythology, Latin and Ancient Greek course available. He was first introduced to the teaching profession as a student assistant at the New Jersey Archaeological Museum on campus, providing lectures and hands-on excavation demonstrations for visiting elementary school groups. During his time at Drew, Mike was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and received the Bruke Prize in Language and Literature upon graduation. Graduate school in Los Angeles was the next stop and, in the fall of 1986, Mike accepted a University Fellowship and teaching assistantship at the University of Southern California. Two years later, he earned his Master’s in Classics and embarked on his teaching career. Mike returned to Delbarton as a Latin teacher and cycling coach in 1989. He became the Classics Department chairperson the following year, a position he held until 2012. In 2001, Mike gladly accepted the offer to serve as an apprentice under Abbot Giles Hayes in the College Counseling Department. In 2003, he assumed the role of Director of College Counseling, a position he holds to this day. In addition to counseling Delbarton seniors and juniors, Mike serves on the administrative team, edits the new Guidance e-Newsletter, coordinates the online financial literacy program and mentors many of his younger colleagues. He has two daughters, Colette who recently moved to Denver, Colorado and Morganne who lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Christopher and their son, Emerson.

Fr. Andrew Smith, OSB

Fr. Andrew Smith, OSB, Benedictine monk, teacher of French, and friend to so many Delbarton alumni and parents, was born in Orange, NJ in 1938. He attended St. Benedict’s in Newark, NJ from 1953 to 1954, then completed his high school education at Cathedral Latin school in Cleveland, Ohio. Fr. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with a minor in Classics from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN. and a master’s degree from Seton Hall University. He served his novitiate at Saint Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas and professed vows as a monk of Saint Mary’s Abbey in 1958. He was ordained to the priesthood at Saint Brendan’s Church, Clifton, on May 23, 1964. H O M E C O M I N G 2021

From the top: A group photo of Hall of Honor members who joined us for the October 8, 2021 ceremony in the FAC Theater. 2021 inductee Fr. Andrew Smith, OSB was touched to see alumni friends like John Gelson ’73, there to honor Fr. Andrew’s many decades of contributions to Delbarton and its young men. Fr. Andrew’s tenure on the Delbarton faculty dates from 1960 and, except for a four-year assignment at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Elizabeth and teaching at St. Benedict’s from 1964 to 1965, he taught continually until his retirement after 53 years of teaching in 2013. During those years, he also held many positions at Delbarton including dormitory prefect, Associate Dean of Discipline, Director of Admission, as well as Bookstore Manager, Moderator of the Bicycle Club and of the Fathers and Friends of Delbarton.

As Ski Club Moderator for many years, he introduced spring ski trips to both Europe and the western United States. A program inaugurated by Smith and one that remained dear to his heart was an informal exchange program between Delbarton students and their counterparts in France. In 2004, he was honored by the Delbarton Lay Board of Trustees with their annual Trustee’s Award which recognizes a faculty member who is an inspiration to fellow teachers and whose service is seen as flowing from and nurturing the Benedictine concepts of community, the very heart of the school’s philosophy and program. Fr. Andrew’s work as a weekend parochial vicar since his ordination is extensive and includes parishes in the Archdiocese of Newark, the Dioceses of Trenton, Paterson and Metuchen. In addition, as a passionate Francophile, for many years Fr. Andrew replaced the parish priests on the Ile Saint Louis in the heart of Paris while they enjoyed their annual August vacations.

A skilled skier and biker, Fr. Andrew continued to stay physically active well into his late 70s. When medical issues circumvented his physically active life, he became an avid walker around campus with the reassuring support of a trusty, hand-carved cane. His ready smile, enthusiasm and love of life are contagious, and many Delbarton alumni and their families have benefited from his warm welcome both to Delbarton and to St. Mary’s Abbey.

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