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Supreme Commitment to Faith & Family The remarkable story behind the story of Amy Coney Barrett's appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States
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BY CHRISTIAN BAUTISTA ’06
s Blue Jays eagerly streamed into unairconditioned halls for the start of school in the fall of 1962, there was no denying that change was in the air. In the first few weeks of the school year, 8 | JAYNOTES | FALL / WINTER 2020
President John F. Kennedy declared that “we choose to go to the moon,” the Cuban missile crisis threatened to heat up the Cold War, and The Jetsons premiered on ABC. Amidst the shifting of these
(above) Mike Coney's ’63 family gathers to celebrate his 70th birthday. (opposite, clockwise) Michael Coney’s senior photo; Coney and fellow alter servers in the Chapel of The North American Martyrs; Coney at Grand Coteau during his time in the novitiate.
sociocultural tectonic plates, a young Michael Coney walked into Homeroom 4B his senior year at Jesuit High School without an inkling that his life would one day be changed by another, less well-remembered political event: the recent appointment of Byron White to the Supreme Court of the United States. Some 58 years later—after White would be replaced by Ruth Bader Ginsberg—Coney’s firstborn daughter, Amy Coney Barrett, would ascend to that very seat
