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Did Sacagawea’s son go to SLUH?

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The Housekeeper and the Professor selected as 2017 summer reading

It’s raining, men: Weeklong rainstorm brings highway closings and student absences

BY Matthew Book FEATURES EDITOR

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ere at St. Louis University High School we like to talk about our alumni, particularly the successful ones. For years SLUH has broadcast that Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, famous for being the son of Sacagawea and pictured on the U.S. Sacagawea dollar coin, was enrolled here in the school’s earliest days. While the school’s website and Admissions Office claimed this as a fact, some others have voiced their doubts about it, citing a lack of hard evidence and dismissing such claims about Charbonneau’s enrollment as based mostly on anecdotal evidence and guesswork.

I personally have always found the idea of such a historical figure such as Charbonneau attending SLUH very interesting, and so when I heard that there was some skepticism about the authenticity of this claim, I wanted to learn more.

This article is about what I discovered.

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born on February 11, 1805 at Fort Mandan in North Dakota in the middle of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

His parents, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, were both members of the expedition and so he spent the first 19 months of his life traveling across previously unexplored parts of the country. While on the expedition, co-leader William Clark gave the boy the affectionate nickname “Pomp.”

After the end of the expedition, Clark offered to set Toussaint Charbonneau and his family up in St. Louis, but Toussaint declined the offer and instead headed west again to pursue the rugged life of a fur trapper that he so loved.

Toussaint had a tenuous relationship with most people he interacted with. He was very unpopular on the Corps of Discovery Expedition and much preferred a solitary life in the wilderness. The relationship that grew between Pom-

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The intersection of Marshall Road and Timberbrook Drive along the Meramac in Kirkwood.

BY Joseph Reznikov NEWS EDITOR

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ain, rain, go away. Mother Nature has thrown just about everything (including the kitchen sink) at St. Louis this week, with eight and a half inches of rainfall in the last eight days.

The rainfall has caused road closures all over the St. Louis area, most notably all lanes of Highway 141 at Interstate 44, Tesson Ferry and Route 30 (Gravois), and the southbound lanes of I-55 between Butler Hill Road and 141 (now open). Over 100 roads and highways throughout Missouri have been

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closed, and these closures have made travel difficult for some students and faculty.

Though Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson was hesitant to give an estimate on the number of students absent from school this week because of the travel conditions, when pressed he guessed that somewhere between ten and 20 students had called in saying that they were unable to travel to school. It is unclear whether the days will be marked as excused or unexcused absences, but Kesterson hopes that regardless, teachers will “be accommodating, because this is

Freshman Dance

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

The Freshman Class Dance in the Si Commons last Friday night.

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College Spread Check out where the class of 2017 will be headed next year with list of colleges by student, students by college, and a map showing geographical distribution across the United States. Pages 4-7 Opinion

Dance Season The SLUH for Gender Equality Club has written a letter giving gentlemanly advice for all Junior Bills during this season of high school dances. Page 3

obviously something out of our control.”

However, some students and faculty have found alternative routes to get to SLUH. Physics teacher Eric LaBoube lives in Washington, Mo. and reportedly left at 5:00 a.m.

Wednesday morning in order to get to school on time. Some students have been forced to relocate for the week, living with family or other students away from the flood grounds.

Senior Teddy Schmitt is hosting senior Weston Baker, who lives in Labadie and reported that it was taking him nearly two and a half hours to get to school.

The rainfall has also affected SLUH sporting contests—around 40-45 contests have been canceled or postponed thus far this spring, according to Athletic Director, Chris Muskopf.

Director of Maintenance Rick Figge and his staff are working hard to make sure SLUH’s building can handle the storms. While there is no imminent threat of flooding for the SLUH campus, maintenance has been busy tracking down and sealing leaks throughout campus.

“Whenever I know that we’re going to have this

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Food Truck Friday

Holy Crepe Slice of the Hill Brasilia

Cha Cha Chow 2 girls 4 wheels

As part of the Junior Ring Day ceremonies, the above Food Trucks will be in the turnaround after school today.

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Departing faculty highlights Odes of farewell to Spanish teacher Charley Merriott, math teacher George Mills, and ASC English teacher Ryan McAnany share student and faculty experiences with these departing teachers. Page 2 Sports

photo | Joe Hillmeyer

Lacrosse Lacrosse drops two nail-biters to crosstown rivals, De Smet and MICDS. Page 9

Sports

Golf Wet weather and flooded courses made for a hectic Class 4 District 2 Tournament, where the golf team ended with a second place finish. They now focus on the road to State. Page 9 Sports

Baseball Baseball notched its second win against Vianney and lost in their first matchup against De Smet.

Next up to bat is Rockwood Summit on Monday.­­­­­­­­ Page 10

he Math and Computer Science Departments have teamed up to decide this year’s summer reading book.

After lots of thought and discussion, a general consensus was reached that the 2017 summer reading book will be The Housekeeper and the Professor, written by Yoko Ogawa.

Set in the summer of 1992, the book is focused on a young housekeeper who is taking care of an older math professor. Along the path, she learns valuable life lessons and lots of mathematics, while developing a strong bond with the professor, realizing he deserves respect and dignity.

The book combines two important features the departments were targeting: human dignity and mathematics. Math teacher Beth Kissel also thinks students will like that it is an easy read, compared to other books read in class.

“It’s an easy read, and it’s not that long, and it’s got some poignant parts to it, and it’s strongly related to math and human dignity,” said Kissel.

The Math Department had a preliminary list of books, before asking teachers from around the school to read them and offer their opinions and insights.

The two finalists were Hidden Figures and The Housekeeper and the Professor, which was ultimately chosen.

Hidden Figures received rave reviews from teachers, but some felt it wouldn’t be best suited for a summer reading book, citing its density as a concern, and that it felt more like a history book.

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Departing Faculty

3 Letter Crossword 4-7

College Spread

8 Features

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9-11 Sports 12

Around the Hallways

Calendar

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NEWS

Prep News

May 5, 2017

Volume 81, Issue 29

SLUH says Adios to the jokes, smile and leadership of Merriott

BY Zach Hennes CORE STAFF

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he best teachers go beyond the bounds of a simple classroom. Teaching, at its core, is a lifelong effort driven by action and example, and Spanish teacher Charlie Merriott has encapsulated these qualities over his extensive career. After 50 years of combined teaching at Bishop DuBourg High School and St. Louis U. High, Merriott, or “Profe,” will be retiring from his formal role as a teacher at the end of this school year.

Merriott began his teaching career in 1967 at Bishop DuBourg, where he taught Spanish for 24 years. After his tenure at DuBourg, he felt it was time for a change, and applied for an opening at SLUH. He was thrilled when he got the job.

“To come to SLUH was really a blessing,” said Merriott. “You can’t imagine how many teachers would love to be teaching here and when I was hired I was very humbled.”

times he has had with guys down there. He really cared.”

Originally, Merriott had no intention of becoming a teacher until his college counselor suggested it and he had a great experience during his student-teaching. He has stuck with the job because he believes it is what has made him truly happy all these years.

“Being a teacher has brought me all kinds of happiness,” said Merriott. “You need to be happy in what you do, and if you aren’t, you have to find something that you are happy doing. I found I was very happy in what I was doing so I knew I was in the right place.”

Merriott thinks that part of this happiness also comes from having fun and enjoying life’s little moments.

“I like to joke around a lot,” Merriott said. “You have to be a little silly sometimes.

That’s part of life. Laughter has to be a part of every day. It can help you get through your problems.”

artwork | Lancer Li

Merriott has taught every section of Spanish over the years and has found each class to have its own challenges. He taught seniors for 24 years, juniors for two years, and freshmen and sophomores for 12 years each. His love for being with the students has been what has kept him coming back year after year.

“There are just so many good things about this school,” said Merriott. “The interaction between the students and teachers here is just really good on both a formal and informal basis. That sets up a really good relationship for both inside and outside the classroom.”

Many students over the years have enjoyed the funloving attitude Merriott brings to class everyday. He is known as a great storyteller and someone who really cares for his students.

“He would always give the extra effort to make class fun while we were still learning,” said senior Jacob Safarian. “He would always tell stories about his time in Honduras and fun

Besides his time in the classroom, Merriott has left his mark on SLUH in a much bigger way: the Honduras Project.

Merriott began the project 23 years ago after going to Centro San Yves in Yoro, Honduras for the first time with a few seniors for their Senior Project.

Since then, he has brought six seniors to the center every January and started the Honduras table to sell candy, Ted Drewes, and Pretzel Boys to raise money for the trip and center.

His love for the children of Honduras drove him to create a project through SLUH to make a real difference in their lives.

“The Honduras Project is quite a legacy,” said Spanish teacher Magdalena Alvarado.

“When you step back and think about what the Honduras Project is, how unique it is, and all the work it took to keep it afloat for that many years, it’s an exceptional legacy. I don’t know of any other teachers who have left that kind of a legacy.”

“I think the Honduras

Project is the gem in his entire career and he has really become like an adopted father to the children down there,” said senior Tim Moritz.

The Honduras project has been an extremely formative trip for over 100 SLUH seniors over the years because of Merriott’s work to keep the project alive. His example of perseverance is inspiring to many around the SLUH community.

“He has had a huge impact on my life because he is the one who introduced me to Honduras,” said Alvarado. “If it hadn’t been for him, I would have never seen the Center. I would actually like to direct that Center down the line. It has really changed my life. He is definitely my mentor and I have learned a lot from him.

He has never given up and has fought an uphill battle for that center over the last 23 years.”

As Merriott’s days wind down at SLUH, he has reflected on his career and his decision to retire.

“I’m really sad knowing that I’m going to retire,” said Merriott. “I know it’s the right time for me. Somehow you just know it’s time. I’m not leaving here thinking, ‘Oh, thank God I’m retiring.’ It’s very bittersweet. It’s just time to start another chapter.”

“I think he will be remembered as a true Man for Others, both inside and outside the classroom,” said Safarian. “He is kind of like a second dad or grandfather to a lot of guys here.”

“There is something about him. There is just this goodness to him and a sincerity to him that you just don’t always see,” said Alvarado.

“Profe is one of those people that makes the world a better place just by being a part of the world,” said Moritz. “If more people were like Profe, I don’t know how there could be any problems in the world.”

Although Merriott is sad to leave, he is looking forward to new adventures.

“I am getting myself a nice present next April,” said Merriott. “I’m working on planning a 30-day tour of South America. I’m going to go to places like Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, and Buenos Aires as well as many others.

It’s on my bucket list and I’m still healthy and for years I’ve taught about these places but have never had a chance to go down there.”

Merriott feels lucky to have taught at a place like SLUH for so long and will always take a part of it with him as he moves on.

“My time here has been fabulous,” said Merriott. “I feel very blessed to have had the privilege to be a part of what SLUH really is. SLUH is always going to be a great place and I wish it the best in the future.”

Proofs, problems, and prayer: Mills retires after 42 years of teaching

Mills in his advanced geometry class.

BY Paul Gillam REPORTER

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t the end of the year, after 42 years of teaching and 32 years at SLUH, Advanced Geometry and Statistics and Probability teacher George Mills is retiring.

Mills began teaching in 1975 at St. Margaret of Scotland Grade School, where he taught reading and spelling to seventh graders and math to seventh and eighth graders. In 1979, he taught Algebra I, Algebra II, one Geometry class, and coached girls varsity basketball at Cardinal Ritter High School. Four years later, he took up a position at Priory High School and immediately was given the Advanced Geometry course to teach. He stayed at Priory for two years and then in 1985 moved to SLUH. Mills’ friend, the Rev. Tom Valiquette, S.J., a SLUH

photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

science teacher at the time, told him that a position for a math teacher would be opening up at SLUH. Valiquette told Mills that at SLUH, he would find “kindred spirits.”

Mills looked for a position in the fall of 1984, but unfortunately, no positions were available. Valiquette advised him to wait, because he knew that a position would be opening up soon. Sure enough, a Jesuit Scholastic vacated the position of Advanced Algebra II later that year. Mills applied for the job, was interviewed by by then-Math Department chair Tom Becvar, and was hired.

Mills immediately got involved as a Statistics/Probability, Algebra II/Trig, and Geometry teacher and as the coach of B-team basketball.

Teaching statistics was something new for him, and he had only student-taught

a stats class. He coached Bteam basketball for seven years and then quit, returning seven years later to coach for four more years.

While getting adjusted to life as a SLUH teacher, Mills was also getting his Master’s degree in Mathematics at Saint Louis University.

He mostly took his Master’s courses in Geometry, focusing on non-Euclidian geometry. However busy he was, SLUH seemed to be a good fit.

“When I was a new teacher it was, ‘How am I going to get through this class without a riot happening.’

When I came to SLUH I was past that. By the time I got here I was very happy here.

I found that the kids were here to learn and not screw around, it was very nice.”

In his many years at SLUH, Mills has become accustomed to graphing calculators, AP courses, and several other new additions to SLUH life. On his arrival, the daily schedule did not include activity period but rather noon rec.

“The basement would fill with kids playing pool and wall ball,” says Mills.

“The Advanced Geometry probably hasn’t changed all that much,” said Mills, “The person who wrote the curriculum, I took his and wrote my own text.”

The previous geometry teacher, Bob Overkamp, used a geometry textbook written

by Harold R. Jacobs which

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“Man of many jobs” McAnany heading to Rockhurst High School

BY Jack Schweizer CORE STAFF

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ccording to an age old proverb, you can only get to know a person after you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. But to know departing Alumni Service Corps (ASC) teacher Ryan McAnany, you would have to run.

At the end of this year, after working as a sophomore English teacher, a tutor, a cross country coach, a track coach, advisor to the Prep News, and a part time landscaper, McAnany will be heading to Rockhurst High School, a Jesuit school in Kansas City, where he plans to continue teaching and coaching.

Since the first day of school, McAnany has consistently managed to find new ways to help out around St. Louis U. High. His work schedule would take a physical and mental toll on most people, but he handles it with ease.

McAnany was originally assigned to teach one sophomore English class, a challenge for any first year teacher discovering the complexities and requirements behind the job. But he wanted to do more.

When McAnany wasn’t teaching, he decided to start

photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

McAnany in his sophomore English class.

helping the maintenance crew with landscaping; he volunteered in the learning center, tutoring students for 3 to 4 periods a day; he started coaching cross country and track, running alongside the athelets in each of their daily workouts and helped manage the team; he worked alongside freshmen on their service projects and befriended them in the pool hall; he was an adviser of the Prep News,

often staying till midnight after school on Thursdays to make the school newspaper; he helped lead Kairos, a retreat for seniors; he filled in for fellow English teacher Kaitlyn Southerly when she was on maternity leave; and most recently, he signed up to have 11 one hour-long conversations with sophomores to help them reflect on their time at SLUH.

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OPINION

May 5, 2017

Prep News Volume 81, Issue 29

LETTER Dance season is an opportunity to live AMDG Gentlemen of SLUH, It’s dance season! Within a three week period, all four classes will have their class dance and many of us have been attending other schools’ dances as well. These evenings are a blast and hopefully everyone has a great time at them.

But as we prepare for these events, can we as Jr. Bills make sure that we do not use them to degrade others, but as opportunities to be gentlemen?

The theme of the year has been human dignity, a reminder to us that we should be seeing the humanity in each

person, interacting with compassion and love. That theme applies at dances.

When you are asking your date to the dance, can we make sure that we do so out of respect for that individual? Instead of using someone for your own glory, let’s genuinely desire to spend time with them.

When we talk about our dates, can we talk about them as humans and not objects?

They are not trophies, prizes, or accomplishments. Can we refrain from bragging about them as though we “scored” a hot date and refrain from

congratulating people on their dates as if they own them?

They do not exist just to make us happy. They’re humans.

They’re our friends. Let’s treat them like so.

When we are at the dance, can we set the standard that SLUH boys behave like gentlemen? Let’s refrain from inappropriate dancing, let’s not ditch our dates to be with someone better, let’s show genuine care to the people we come with.

Every day we end prayer by dedicating all of our actions to “the Greater Glory of

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God.” Let’s remind ourselves that this shouldn’t stop once we leave at the end of the day but should continue in all of our actions, even at dances.

It’s easy to get sucked into the mindset that we’re just acting like teenage boys but that’s an excuse for poor decision making. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard. We’re not “just one of the boys,” we’re better than that. As people who live our lives to be more like Jesus, we shouldn’t settle for what everyone else is doing but strive to be the standard.

This dance season, let us make an effort to set an example of what SLUH gentlemen are all about. Not only to impress your date and her parents but to start a trend of making SLUH boys the best dates in St. Louis.

Sam Goedeker ’17 James Pollard ’18 SLUH4GE

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Curriculum Institutes to foster connections

BY Jake Hennes and Reed Milnor CORE STAFF, REPORTER

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t. Louis U. High students move throughout the hallway between classes each school day, but behind the scenes, faculty and staff members work to facilitate student’s opportunities to make connections between their disciplines. The Curriculum Institute aims to bring together teachers from across departments to study a topic of interest together, and ultimately to shape a curriculum that encourages more student creativity and more connections between classes.

The first group of Institutes have groups of teachers focusing on STEM innovation, sustainability and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si, Civil Rights and Human Dignity, and the freshman experience.

Jim Linhares, the Assistant Principal for Mission and a member of a committee working to create the Institute, defined it as “a group of faculty who gather around a topic that cuts across the curriculum at SLUH.” The main goal of the Institute is to coordinate ideas across all of the departments at SLUH. “SLUH’s academic departments tend to remain in their disciplines. The idea of the program was that SLUH, in an intentional way, see what kinds of changes we should make,” said Linhares.

“Could SLUH be better at encouraging its students to be creative? Could SLUH encourage students to be working on projects with practical applications? Could we be better at encouraging the use

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Band Concert

photo | courtesy of SLUH Twitter crossword | Craig Grzechowiak

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1. _______ Alba 7. William 10. What you do to your paper before giving it to your teacher 11. Santa’s helper 12. Forming names of saturated hydrocarbons; suffix 13. Sergeant 14. Not me 15. Making a strong, affected, or pretentious display of being artistic or interested in the arts 17. United American Healthcare Corporation 18. When you give a _____ a cookie 20. Iridium 21. _-_ InBev 23. Rosati-Kain 24. Mild expression, typically of surprise, enthusiasm, or sympathy 26. In several programming languages, performs a one-way transfer of control to another line of code 28. Senior dance 29. In golf, the number of strokes a player should normally require for a particular hole or course 30. International Baccalaureate Organization 31. American Airlines stock symbol 32. Accompanied by (another person or thing) 33. Calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements 36. Used typically to indicate interrogation and often to ex-

press scorn, amusement, or surprise 37. Not you 38. Electronic Arts 39. Missouri 40. Abnormal, extraordinary 43. Coined by Comic Book Guy, I mock your opinion 45. Can be found behind your television, computer, etc.

47. Scott Pruitt directs this 49. Augmented/Alternate Reality Game 50. Stage of sleep; Band name 51. Biology; biography 52. Greek food, commonly mispronounced 53. Indian Space Research Organisation 54. Nickel 55. Black powder, usually antimony sulfide or lead sulfide, used as eye makeup especially in Eastern countries

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1. St. Ignatius was the first 2. First name of the author of The Raven 3. Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Darth Sidious 4. Saint; street 5. Chief Executive Officer 6. An alumnus or alumna 7. Star ____ 8. Necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental 9. Plural form of “the” in French 15. A bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes 16. (In the Big Bang theory)

the primordial matter of the universe, originally conceived as composed of neutrons at high temperature and density 19. Baltimore’s baseball team’s mascot is this type of bird 21. (Used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near 22. A fuel-burning apparatus or container for heating water, in particular 25. Encyclopedia of Life 26. Hunter-________ 27. Airport code for Worcester regional Airport 28. Friend, bud 29. American ___, movie 32. Used to express surprise, relief, or a feeling of being very hot or tired 34. United Airlines 35. Equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred (10100) 37. Military Occupation Specialty Code (___ code) 39. One of the gifts brought by the 3 kings to Jesus’ birth; resin gotten from trees 41. A movie is dedicated to finding this young clownfish 42. German for “my” 44. Mayonnaise; “Club, no ____” 46. Internal Revenue Service 48. Hawaiian dish made from the fermented root of the taro, which has been baked and pounded to a paste 52. _._. Chesterton, English Author

The SLUH fundamental band, Jazz I, chamber orchestra, and concert and symphonic bands performed their spring concert in the theatre on Wednesday night. Above, the finale, where all of the bands performed together.

Senior Follies

photo | Brendan Voigt

From left: Peter Hennessey as Mr. Don Steingruby, Blake Johnson as Mr. Matt Sciuto, Galen Bacharier as Mr. John Kavanaugh, and Evan Gorman as Mrs. Kathryn Whitaker in last weekend’s Senior Follies.

Math selects summer reading book (continued from page 1)

“We thought about what would be the most accessible to all of our students, and a lot of other teachers, and I really liked that actual math was often mentioned throughout the book,” said math teacher Tracy Lyons.

Initially written in Japanese, it was translated into English many years ago.

According to Lyons, it is a very sweet, fun, and beautifully written book thanks to

the author’s ways of phrasing lines.

“I like how we get to learn about another culture through reading the book, because a lot of it is very different than American culture,” said Lyons.

“I just think it’s a different kind of book than we are used to reading. It is fiction, although as I said there is a lot of math in it, but hopefully people can get something out of it,” said Kissel. artwork | Ian Mulvihill

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Class of 2017 College Plans

Adams, Tony Lamont: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adrian, Benjamin Edward: Saint Louis University Albers, William Conway: University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Anderson, Benjamin David: University of Missouri – Columbia Anthony, Paul Lawrence: University of Central Missouri Ashford, Jaleel Javon: Kentucky State University Ashford, Jayson: University of Missouri – Columbia Augsburger, Christian Lee: Rochester Institute of Technology Ayala, Carlos Roberto Puno: Creighton University Bacharier, Galen Nathaniel: University of Missouri – Columbia Bailey, Jack Raymond: University of Denver Baker, Weston Troy: Lindenwood University Batschelett, Mitchell Allen: Rhodes College Baumer, Nicholas James: University of Notre Dame Bazzell, Drew Compton: University of Mississippi Behr, Charles F.: Saint Louis University Behr, Michael Joseph: Seattle University Bernabe, Niles Matthew: University of Alabama Berry, Carson L.: United States Naval Academy Book, Matthew: Fairfield University Borgmeyer, David James: Truman State University Bott, Benjamin Edward: Texas Christian University Bott, Samuel Reeves: University of Miami – Florida Boxdorfer, Christian Matthew: Loyola University – New Orleans Boyce, Joseph Xavier: Texas Christian University Bozikis, Ronald Edward: Saint Louis University Brinkman, Thomas Michael: University of Dayton Brock, Zachary James: Saint Louis University Brooks, Mark Winter: Washington State University Brotherton, Patrick Joseph: Rockhurst University Buescher, Nicholas Michael: University of Dayton Burke, Colin Patrick: John Carroll University Byrne, Henry: University of Notre Dame Ceriotti, Matthew Evan: Webster University Chechik, Samuel Joseph: University of Pennsylvania Cibulka, Philip Martin: Purdue University Cierpiot, James Ryan: Marquette University Clair, Andrew Domonique: Bowling Green State University Coen, James Kelly: University of Texas at Austin Cole, Aidan Garrett: Regis University Coleman­-Grayson, Robert Marcus Charles: Undecided Connaghan, Gordon John: Saint Louis University Connolly, William Morris: Truman State University Coriell, Jacob Thomas: University of Tulsa Corker, Nolan Ryan: Lindenwood University Coultrip, Xavier Joseph: Marquette University Covelli, Anthony Martino: Webster University Cox, Patrick James: University of Missouri – Columbia Crawley, John Patrick: University of Missouri – Columbia Dean, Mark Vincent: University of Nebraska – Lincoln Delgado, Nicolas Anthony: Saint Louis University Diers, Andrew Eugene: Vanderbilt University Ditto, Donovan Parker: University of Central Missouri Doehring, Chris: Indiana University – Bloomington Dolan, Michael Patrick: University of Missouri – Columbia Donato, Joseph Phillip: University of Missouri – Columbia Donnelly, Noah Francis: Missouri University of Science and Technology Elieff, Jacob Alexander: Truman State University Enslin, Mark William: Belmont University Esswein, Robert Matthew: Washington University in St. Louis Fakhryzada, Syed Ahmed Rashed: Saint Louis University Farroll, William Garrett: Villanova University Fentress, Joseph Gerard: Iowa State University Findley, Lucas Edward: Miami University – Oxford Fisher, Aaron Alan: Webster University Flack, Connor Ryan: University of Tulsa Floyd, Erik Gregory: Marquette University Forest, Robert T.: Saint Louis University Frailey, Benjamin Carl: University of Missouri – Columbia Gale, Bradley Tyler: University of Missouri – Columbia Gammon, Andrew M.: University of Missouri – Columbia Garavaglia, Louis Michael: Quincy University Gartner, Edward Joseph: Princeton University Gassett, Luke Anthony: Lindenwood University Gatewood, Thomas R.: University of Southern Indiana Gerstner, Kevin Anthony: University of Tulsa Gherardini, Dominick Joseph: University of Kentucky Gima, Nicholas Toshio: University of Southern California Glass, Derwin Maurice: University of Missouri – Columbia Godar, Matthew Stephen: Saint Louis University Goedeker, Samuel Gerard: University of Missouri – Columbia Gordon, David Joseph: Saint Louis University Gorman, Evan Matthew: Benedictine College Gould, Jacob Daniel: Loyola University – Chicago Grady, Matthew O’Neill: University of Missouri – Columbia Graman, Robert Joseph: University of Missouri – Columbia Grassi, Andrew Lawrence: Ohio State University Grasso, Samuel Anthony: Creighton University Green, Victory Anton: Saint Louis University Grzechowiak, Craig Joseph: Truman State University Hambene, Paul Bernard: Marquette University Harmon, Samuel Joseph: Boston College

(Listed by Student)

Harris, Michael Joseph: Saint Louis University Heard, Eric Webb: University of Kansas Hebenstreit, Ryan Thomas: University of Mississippi Heithaus, Dominic Joseph: Saint Louis University Hempstead, Peter Gerard: Indiana University – Bloomington Henken, Leo Joseph: Stanford University Hennes, Zachary Albert: Creighton University Hennessey, Peter Michael: University of Notre Dame Henning, Grant Michael: University of Missouri – Columbia Henty, Nathan Joseph: Auburn University Herzberg, Henry Robert: University of Oklahoma Hoffmeister, Peter James: Texas Christian University Hogan, Grant Michael: University of Mississippi Hohenberger, Andrew Frederick: University of Missouri – Columbia Horton, Miles Daniel: University of Tulsa Houghland, Ryan Dante: University of Mississippi Howe, Jerry L.: Indiana University – Bloomington Howley, Patrick Joseph: Rockhurst University Hruz, Sean Paul: John Paul the Great Catholic University Hughes II, Anthony: University of Missouri – St. Louis Hummel, David John: University of Missouri – Columbia Hunkins, Terence Jude: Mississippi State University Hunsaker, Finn Michael: Saint Joseph’s University Hymes, Alexander Robert: University of Notre Dame Inserra, Nathan Scott: University of Alabama Irvine, Kyle Joseph: Indiana University – Bloomington Jackson, Noah Samuel: Missouri University of Science and Technology Jefferson, William J.: University of Missouri – Columbia Johnson, Blake: University of Notre Dame Karagiannis, Angelo S.: Missouri University of Science and Technology Keeney, Connor James: University of Missouri – Columbia Kelly, Jack Anthony: Marquette University Kelly, William James: University of Wisconsin – Madison Kerwood, Adam Hale: University of Missouri – Columbia Kircher, Jacob Louis: University of Mississippi Kleffner, Adam Joseph: Indiana University – Bloomington Klein, Michael Vincent: Knox College Knapp, Joseph Patrick: Undecided Knese, Michael Joseph: Purdue University Knight, Daniel Neptune: Rockhurst University Knobbe, William Gerald: Saint Louis University Kramer, William Ryan: University of Kansas Krause, Joseph Daniel: Rockhurst University Kroll, Jonathan Richard: University of Kansas Krueger, Francis James: Saint Louis University L’Hommedieu, Joseph Leighton: Regis University Lally, Nicholas E.: Saint Louis University Lanter, Blaise Christopher: DePaul University Lanter, Jeffrey Blake: Washington University in St. Louis Laughlin, Joseph McCann: Saint Louis University Leeker, Thomas Patrick: University of Notre Dame Li, Lancer: Duke University Lindhorst, Kurt Albert: University of Mississippi Lipinski, Roman Alexander: Indiana University – Bloomington Loranger, Matthew James: St. Louis Community College – Forest Park Love, Chandler Hill: Claflin University Lymberopoulos, William Mark: Emerson College Marcouiller, Luke Padraig: University of Kentucky Mattingly, Daniel Matthew: University of Missouri – Columbia McArthur, Michael Thomas: University of Denver McArthur, Peter Daniel: University of Denver McCowan, Devin Joseph: Marquette University McDevitt, Michael Forest: Webster University McKendry IV, Robert Emmett: Missouri University of Science and Technology McKissic, Brandon Gerald: University of Missouri – Kansas City Megown, Michael Joseph: University of Mississippi Meissner, Daniel James: Iowa State University Menker, Andrew John: Webster University Milburn, Matthew Patrick: Loyola University – Chicago Millman, Samuel Thomas: University of Chicago Millman, Zachary: University of Mississippi Miner, Jack Christopher: University of Alabama Modde, Ian Lei: Saint Louis University Modder, Andrew John: Marquette University Moore­-Eston, Christian Nicholas: Loyola University – Chicago Moritz, Timothy Christopher: Creighton University Mulvihill, Ian Thomas: University of Miami – Florida Myrick, Peyton Matthew: University of Missouri – Columbia Nash, Davion A.: Iowa Central Community College Neuner, Ryan Patrick: Chapman University Nguyen, Christopher Matthew: University of Missouri – Columbia Nigam, Gaurav: Saint Louis University Nordmann, Thomas Collin: University of Alabama Northcott, Matthew Kevin: Auburn University Nunez, Ever: St. Louis Community College – Forest Park O’Toole, Joseph David: Texas Christian University O’Toole, Zachary Francis: Spring Hill College Ottenlips, Drew Frederick: Saint Louis University Owen, Samuel Josef: California Institute of Technology Pabello, Marlon Monsanto: Saint Louis University

Pace, Matthew Scott: Marquette University Palumbo IV, Peter C.: Undecided Patritti, Joseph David: University of Alabama Peccola, Nicholas John: Undecided Philipp, Chase Alexander: University of Missouri – St. Louis Piening, Cole Matthew: Rockhurst University Pitts, Daniel Francis: Ohio State University Plessner, Devin Michael: University of Missouri – Kansas City Pluff, Andrew Tyner: Texas Christian University Potter, Nathan Andrew: Saint Louis University Preusser, Klaus William: Northwestern University Price, Brian Mitchell: Xavier University Price, Jacob Paul: Kenrick-Glennon Seminary Prosperi, Maxim Polo: Loyola University – Chicago Pudlo, Brian Matthew: University of Dayton Putnam, Scott Alex: University of Tulsa Quinlisk, Liam Padric: Lindenwood University Quinlivan, Matthew Charles: University of Mississippi Rackers, Michael Ethan: University of Mississippi Rechtien, Derek William: University of Missouri – Columbia Reedy, Edward Matthew: Indiana University – Bloomington Reznikov, Joseph Michael: Saint Louis University Riley, Blake Matthew: University of Kentucky Robert, John Mitchell: Centre College Rogan, Joseph Xavier: Washington University in St. Louis Rueckert, Michael Stanley: Santa Clara University Ruggeri, Michael James: University of St. Thomas Ryan, Christopher Joseph: University of Missouri – Kansas City Safarian, Jacob Sarkis: Miami University – Oxford Sansone, John Gerard: University of Mississippi Schaefer, Robert Francis: University of Notre Dame Schmitt, Thomas Edward: Regis University Schulze, Christopher David: Rhodes College Schwartz, Joseph Greco: Saint Louis University Scott, Trevor Kenneth: University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music) Sevastianos, Thomas Steven: DePaul University Sextro, Luke Henry: University of Alabama Shaver, Jonathan Alfred: Webster University Shorey, Mitchell Henry: University of Tulsa Sieckhaus, Steven John: Auburn University Sitek, Daniel Joseph: University of Tulsa Slama, William Charles: Missouri University of Science and Technology Smith, Brent Joseph: Spring Hill College Smith, Luke Gregory: Indiana University – Bloomington Smith, Matthew George: Stanford University Sondermann, Nicholas: University of Missouri – Columbia Sosa, Alexander Joseph: Truman State University Spence, Cameron Scott: University of Southern California Spezia, Benjamin Louis: Loyola Marymount University Spezia, Peter Christian: St. Louis College of Pharmacy Stacker, Johnathon Geoffrey: University of Tulsa Stelzer, Martin Ambrose: Saint Louis University Stephens, Mitchell Patrick: Loyola University – Chicago Stewart, John: Lindenwood University Stobbs, Dale: Saint Louis University Sullivan, Jacob Patrick: University of Nebraska – Lincoln Swyers, Jacob William: Miami University – Ohio Szatkowski, Luke Daniel: Missouri University of Science and Technology Taaffe, Collin M.: Saint Louis University Taulbee, Casey: University of Missouri – Columbia Taulbee, Harrison: University of Missouri – Columbia Thomason, Cory Michael­-James: University of Kansas Thompson, Izaiah Dale: Georgetown University Thornberry, Christian Matthew: University of Missouri – Columbia Tramelli, James Patrick: University of Mississippi Trittler, Dan Oliver: University of Arkansas Trusler, Brandon Edward: Washington University in St. Louis Twardowski, Max Anthony: Saint Louis University Uhlenbrock, Adam Lamont: University of Dayton Uhlenbrock, Joseph Davis: University of Dayton Villhard, Peter Scott: University of Texas at Austin Visintine, Roman Michael: University of Mississippi Vitellaro, Salvatore C.: Kenrick-Glennon Seminary Voigt, Brendan Kenneth: Loyola University – Chicago Wagner, Andrew Christopher: University of Missouri – Columbia Wagner, Daniel Stephen: University of Colorado – Boulder Wahle, Ethan Thomas: Creighton University Walter, Jeffrey Joseph Eugene: Indiana University – Bloomington Waters, John O’Neill: University of Missouri – Columbia Webster, Daniel Louis: University of Kansas Wells, Ian James: University of Cincinnati West, Charles David: Saint Louis University Wiegers, Patrick Charles: University of Alabama Wilmsmeyer, Nicholas Joseph: Rockhurst University Wilson, Alan Bradford: Quincy University Winschel, John Adam: University of Alabama Witzofsky, Matthew Ryan: Creighton University Wobbe, Alexander James: Rockhurst University Wolf, Austin: University of Kansas Wulff, Matthew David: University of Alabama Zarky, Joseph Paul: University of Missouri – St. Louis Zawalski, Thomas Gerald: University of Missouri – Columbia

Class of 2017 College Plans (Listed by College)

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Auburn University (3): Nathan Henty, Matthew Princeton University (1): Edward Gartner University of Miami – Florida (2): Samuel Bott, Northcott, John Sieckhaus Ian Mulvihill Purdue University (2): Philip Cibulka, Michael Belmont University (1): Mark Enslin University of Mississippi (13): Drew Bazzell, Knese Ryan Hebenstreit, Grant Hogan, Ryan HoughBenedictine College (1): Evan Gorman Quincy University (2): Louis Garavaglia, Alan land, Jacob Kircher, Kurt Lindhorst, Michael Megown, Zachary Millman, Matthew Quinlivan, Wilson Boston College (1): Samuel Harmon Michael Rackers, John Sansone, James Tramelli, Regis University (3): Aidan Cole, Joseph Roman Visintine Bowling Green State University (1): Andrew L’Hommedieu, Thomas Schmitt Clair University of Missouri – Columbia (31): BenjaRhodes College (2): Mitchell Batschelett, Chris- min Anderson, Jayson Ashford, Galen Bacharier, California Institute of Technology (1): Samuel topher Schulze Patrick Cox, John Crawley, Michael Dolan, Joseph Owen Donato, Benjamin Frailey, Bradley Gale, Andrew Rochester Institute of Technology (1): Christian Gammon, Derwin Glass, Samuel Goedeker, MatCentre College (1): John Robert Augsburger thew Grady, Robert Graman, Grant Henning, Andrew Hohenberger, David Hummel, William JefChapman University (1): Ryan Neuner Rockhurst University (8): Patrick Brotherton, ferson, Connor Keeney, Adam Kerwood, Daniel Robert Coleman-Grayson, Patrick Howley, Dan- Mattingly, Peyton Myrick, Christopher Nguyen, Claflin University (1): Chandler Love iel Knight, Joseph Krause, Cole Piening, Nicholas Derek Rechtien, Nicholas Sondermann, Casey Wilmsmeyer, Alexander Wobbe Taulbee, Harrison Taulbee, Christian Thornberry, Creighton University (6): Carlos Ayala, Samuel Andrew Wagner, Jack Waters, Thomas Zawalski Grasso, Zachary Hennes, Timothy Moritz, Ethan Saint Joseph’s University (1): Finn Hunsaker Wahle, Matthew Witzofsky University of Missouri – Kansas City (3): BranSaint Louis University (29): Ben Adrian, Charles don McKissic, Devin Plessner, Christopher Ryan DePaul University (2): Blaise Lanter, Thomas Behr, Ronald Bozikis, Zachary Brock, Gordon Sevastianos Connaghan, Nicolas Delgado, Syed Fakhryza- University of Missouri – St. Louis (3): Anthony da, Robert Forest, Matthew Godar, David Gor- Hughes, Chase Philipp, Joseph Zarky Duke University (1): Lancer Li don, Victory Green, Michael Harris, Dominic Heithaus, William Knobbe, Francis Krueger, University of Nebraska – Lincoln (2): Mark Emerson College (1): William Lymberopoulos Nicholas Lally, Joseph Laughlin, Ian Modde, Dean, Jacob Sullivan Gaurav Nigam, Drew Ottenlips, Marlon Pabello, Fairfield University (1): Matthew Book Nathan Potter, Joseph Reznikov, Joseph Schwartz, University of Notre Dame (7): Nicholas BauMartin Stelzer, Dale Stobbs, Collin Taaffe, Max mer, Henry Byrne, Peter Hennessey, Alexander Georgetown University (1): Izaiah Thompson Twardowski, Charles West Hymes, Blake Johnson, Thomas Leeker, Robert Schaefer Indiana University – Bloomington (9): Chris Santa Clara University (1): Michael Rueckert Doehring, Peter Hempstead, Jerry Howe, Kyle University of Oklahoma (1): Henry Herzberg Irvine, Adam Kleffner, Roman Lipinski, Edward Seattle University (1): Michael Behr Reedy, Luke Smith, Jeffrey Walter University of Pennsylvania (1): Samuel Chechik Spring Hill College (2): Zachary O’Toole, Brent Iowa Central Community College (1): Davion Smith University of Rochester (Eastman School of Nash Music) (1): Trevor Scott Stanford University (2): Leo Henken, Matthew Iowa State University (2): Daniel Meissner, Jo- Smith University of Southern California (2): Nicholas seph Fentress Gima, Cameron Spence St. Louis College of Pharmacy (1): Peter Spezia John Carroll University (1): Colin Burke University of Southern Indiana (1): Thomas St. Louis Community College – Forest Park (2): Gatewood John Paul the Great Catholic University (1): Matthew Loranger, Ever Nunez Sean Hruz University of St. Thomas (1): Michael Ruggeri Texas Christian University (5): Benjamin Bott, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary (2): Jacob Price, Joseph Boyce, Peter Hoffmeister, Joseph O’Toole, University of Texas at Austin (2): James Coen, Salvatore Vitellaro Andrew Pluff Peter Villhard Kentucky State University (1): Jaleel Ashford Knox College (1): Michael Klein Lindenwood University (5): Weston Baker, Nolan Corker, Luke Gassett, Liam Quinlisk, John Stewart Loyola Marymount University (1): Benjamin Spezia Loyola University – Chicago (6): Jacob Gould, Matthew Milburn, Christian Moore-Eston, Maxim Prosperi, Mitchell Stephens, Brendan Voigt Loyola University – New Orleans (1): Christian Boxdorfer

Truman State University (5): David Borgmeyer, University of Tulsa (8): Jacob Coriell, Connor William Connolly, Jacob Elieff, Craig Grzechowi- Flack, Kevin Gerstner, Miles Horton, Scott Putak, Alexander Sosa nam, Mitchell Shorey, Daniel Sitek, Johnathan Stacker United States Naval Academy (1): Carson Berry University of Wisconsin – Madison (1): William University of Alabama (9): Niles Bernabe, Na- Kelly than Inserra, Jack Miner, Thomas Nordmann, Joseph Patritti, Luke Sextro, Patrick Wiegers, John Vanderbilt University (1): Andrew Diers Winschel, Matthew Wulff Villanova University (1): William Farroll University of Arkansas (1): Dan Trittler Washington State University (1): Mark Brooks University of Central Missouri (2): Paul Anthony, Donovan Ditto Washington University in St. Louis (4): Robert Esswein, Jeffrey Lanter, Joseph Rogan, Brandon University of Chicago (1): Samuel Millman Trusler

Marquette University (8): James Cierpiot, Xavier University of Cincinnati (1): Ian Wells Webster University (6): Matthew Ceriotti, AnCoultrip, Erik Floyd, Paul Hambene, Jack Kelly, thony Covelli, Aaron Fisher, Michael McDevitt, Devin McCowan, Andrew Modder, Matthew University of Colorado – Boulder (1): Daniel Andrew Menker, Jonathan Shaver Pace Wagner Xavier University (1): Brian Price Miami University – Oxford (3): Lucas Findley, University of Dayton (5): Thomas Brinkman, Jacob Safarian, Jacob Swyers Nicholas Buescher, Brian Pudlo, Adam Uhlen- Undecided (3): Joseph Knapp, Peter Palumbo, brock, Joseph Uhlenbrock Nicholas Peccola Mississippi State University (1): Terence Hunkins University of Denver (3): Jack Bailey, Michael McArthur, Peter McArthur Missouri University of Science and Technology Check the next issue of Prep News to see a list of (5): Noah Donnelly, Noah Jackson, Angelo Kara- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign all of the seniors’ accepted scholarships to their regiannis, Robert McKendry, William Slama, Luke (2): Tony Adams, William Albers spective colleges. All of the information is based off Szatkowski information given from the counseling department University of Kansas (6): Eric Heard, William to the Prep News by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Northwestern University (1): Klaus Preusser Kramer, Jonathan Kroll, Cory Thomason, Daniel Webster, Austin Wolf Ohio State University (2): Andrew Grassi, Daniel Pitts University of Kentucky (3): Dominick Gherardini, Luke Marcoullier, Blake Riley

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Seattle U. (1)

Lindenwood (5)

UMSL (3)

WA State U. (1)

Wash. U. (4)

Webster University (6)

STL College of Pharmacy (1)

SLU (29)

STL C.C. – Forest Park (2)

Kenrick-Glennon Seminary (2)

U. o

Iowa Cen Stanford U. (2) U. of CO – Boulder (1) Santa Clara U. (1)

U. of Denver (3)

By the numbers

Chapman U. (1) Loyola Marymount U. (1) Caltech (1)

Benedictine

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U. of

mi mi closest distance furthest distance (STL C.C. –Forest Park) (Seattle U.)

105 26 17 MO college students

USC (2)

Regis U. (3)

0.7

84 2104

total colleges

U. of NE – Lincoln (2)

Catholic colleges

Jesuit colleges

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of 50 states represented

U. of OK (1)

John Paul the Great Catholic U.(1)

TCU Loyola U. – Chicago (6) Northwestern U. (1)

U. of Notre Dame (7)

U. of T

DePaul U. (2) U. of Chicago (1) Knox Col. (1)

Purdue U. (2) U. of IL Urbana-Champaign (2)

Quincy U. (2) Indiana U. – Bloomington (9)

U. of Southern IN(2)

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U. of Rochester (1) (Eastman School of Music)

of St. Thomas (1)

Boston Col. (1)

Rochester Inst. of Tech. (1)

U. of WI (1)

ntral C.C. (1)

Fairfield U. (1) John Carroll U. (1) Princeton U. (1) Bowling Green State U. (1) (1) St. Joseph’s U. U. of Penn. (1)

Creighton (6) See bottom of page 6 for colleges in Illinois and Indiana.

Truman U. (5)

Emerson Col. (1)

Marquette (8)

Iowa State (2)

Col. (1)

K.U. (6) UMKC (3) Rockhurst(8)

Miami U. –Oxford (3) OH State U. (2) Georgetown U. (1) U. of Dayton (5) Xavier U. (1) U. of Cincinnati (1) U. of Kentucky (3)

f Central MO (1)

Mizzou(31) MO S & T (5)

KY State U. (1)

Villanova U. (1) U.S. Naval Academy (1)

Centre College(1) Duke U. (1)

Vanderbilt U. (1) Belmont U. (1)

U. of Tulsa (8)

Editor’s Note

Rhodes Col. (2) U. of AK (1)

U. of MS (13)

Claflin U. (1)

MS State U. (1)

U. of AL (9)

U (5) Auburn U. (3)

Spring Hill Col. (2)

TX at Austin (2)

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Loyola U. – New Orleans (1)

College At Location (# of Students)

This map was created using the list of the class of 2017’s college decisions provided by the counseling department as of Thursday evening.

Students who are undecided were not included in the map creation, as they had to submit their decision to the counseling department by Monday, May 1.

All locations of the universities and colleges are approximate.

See the previous two ap this map for more detailed information about the class of 2017’s college decisions.

This layout spread was created by editor in chief Sam Chechik, features editor Matthew Book, and art director Joe Fentress; the data was compiled by core staff member Jake Hennes, staff memebr Riley McEnery, and reporter Stephen Ocampo; and the spread inspired by PN 79 members editor in chief emeritus Sam Fentress ’15, news editor emeritus Jack Kiehl ’15, and staff artist emeritus Giuseppe Vitellaro ’15.

U. of Miami – FL (2)

2nd College At Same Location (# of Students)

See List of Students by College Plan on Page 5

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Librarian and University Archivist Drew Kupsky and asked him if the school had records of his enrollment. He replied that while unfortunately there were not any original documents from that far back in SLU’s history, they did have photocopies of those American State Papers that I had been looking for all along.

In the scans you can beautifully see that, beginning in January 22, 1820, payments were made “For two quarters’ tuition of J.B. Charbonneau, a half Indian boy, and firewood and ink.” In the three scanned pages there are eight entries of payments made on behalf of Charbonneau for a variety of supplies ranging from a book of Roman history to a pair of shoes to 50 pounds of tobacco.

Here, I learned something very interesting about the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, the person who was paying for all of Charbonneau’s stuff.

Clark was appointed to multiple government positions as a reward for his contributions to the expedition. Going back to the citation from The Legendary Mountain Men of North America, it says the expenditures of William Clark as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. It turns out that in 1807 Clark himself was appointed by Thomas Jefferson to the position and apparently still held it in 1820, at which point he used the Congressional checkbook he must have had access to to pay for Charbonneau’s education. How he was able to get away with this is unclear, but my guess is that he was just about the most powerful guy around in the Missouri Territory and anyone in Washington who would have had the authority to shut him down wasn’t worrying about it. Or perhaps special allowances were made for Jean Baptiste, since he was technically a member of the Corps of Discovery.

Either way, here was some solid evidence that Jean Baptiste was attending school in St. Louis in 1820, two years after St. Louis Academy’s founding.

In January 1820 Charbonneau would have been fourteen years eleven months old, just the right age to be entering high school.

The list of expenditures was interesting, but the names under the “Payments to whom made” section didn’t mean anything to me and would be the most important part of the whole ledger. If one of the those names could be tied to St. Louis Academy then there would be real evidence that J.B. attended the school.

I knew that history teacher Tim O’Neil has been doing some research and archiving on the history of SLUH, so I went to talk to him to see if he recognized any of the names of the people that the payments were made to. Immediately, he saw the name F. Neil in the bottom quarter of the ledger and said he knew there was a connection to SLUH. Francois Neil, it turns out, was the first president of St. Louis Academy. He was a Lazarist priest (the Lazarists ran the school until 1823 when it was handed over to the Jesuits) and ran the school in its earliest days. If Clark was writing tuition checks to Neil, then he had someone going to St. Louis Academy.

There is one strange inconsistency though: under the column “Nature of the disbursements,” it lists the payment to Neil as for “one quarter’s tuition of Toussaint Charbonneau.” Toussaint, not Jean Baptiste.

I am not sure what to make of this entry. Toussaint Charbonneau would have been far too old in 1820 to be going to secondary school. O’Neil theorized that there could be three explanations: one, that it was a clerical error and that it was intended to be written as Jean Baptiste. Or the entry meant that the tuition was being paid as a favor to Toussaint, and it was implied that it was for J.B. Or that there was another son, a Toussaint Jr. There are no records to support that Toussaint had a son that shared his first name, or that he ever had a son at all.

That lends credit to the theory that it was really a payment for J.B., but it is impossible to say for certain that that is the case.

There will probably always be some mystery shrouding that entry, making it very difficult to call it either way.

So we have proof that in 1820 Sacagawea’s son Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was fifteen, living in St. Louis, and Clark was making payments to St. Louis Academy for someone connected to the Charbonneau family. There may not be that rock solid link between Jean Baptiste and SLUH, but very little is certain from that period of time when spending months alone in the untamed expanses of the west was considered a very viable profession. In this era, St. Louis was on the edge of wilderness and civilization, and some of the disorder of that wilderness seems to have made its way into everyday life in the city leaving us, in the comparatively organized modern day, at a bit of a loss. It may not afford us full closure, but it does give photocopy | courtesy of Drew Krupsky us a good story.

pey and Clark on the expedition made Clark happy to take care of J.B. and raise him like his own son when Toussaint decided to split. Jean Baptiste lived with Clark in St. Louis for the rest of his life and, once he was old enough, attended SLUH, though at the time it was called St. Louis Academy.

How do I know all this?

When I first started researching Charbonneau, I was told by a school administrator that Wikipedia had a page about him that mentioned his attendance at St. Louis Academy.

Sure enough, the Wikipedia page does say that, but it led me somewhere much more valuable. When I checked the listed sources for the section about Charbonneau’s schooling I found this in the footnotes: “Abstract of Expenditures

by Captain W. Clark as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1822, American State Papers, 2, USA: Department of the Interior, 1834, p. 289.”

A brief search of the internet for those papers brought me to a 2015 book titled The Legendary Mountain Men of North America by J. P. Walker which contained an entire section about Charbonneau, most of which had been plagiarized word for word on the Wikipedia page, including the statement “... he attended St. Louis Academy. Clark paid for his education.”

I was tempted to use this well-researched book and its testimony of his attendance as sufficient proof, but something was still bothering me. I wanted to to find those papers, the ones that led me to the book in the first place. They proved to be elusive. They were not available anywhere on the internet and the book gave nothing of them other than a citation.

Eventually I moved away from looking for them and I instead wondered if the St. Louis University Library Archives might have some official records of his attendance. I got in contact with Digital Resources

A page of the 1820 American State Papers, Class II. Indian Affairs.

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of space?”

The idea for the Institute came about in part from a committee that looked at changes other schools were making and tried to find where SLUH could improve.

“In the Imagining ’18 process, Mr. See led a committee that was called 21st Century Learning. They began to look at how schools were changing and they noticed that schools were trying to launch students into more creative work and that schools were trying to get departments to work together,” said Linhares.

The Institute was founded as a part of the Go Forth campaign, with the idea of encouraging students to be more creative in their ideas and approaches to problems.

This idea will hopefully be enacted through more hands-on experience and opportunities to be creative.

“One of the focuses is to see if we can begin to build toward an environment where people use their skills to solve problems and work on projects,” said Linhares.

Currently, there are four different projects.

The first project is a group focused on STEM innovation at SLUH. This committee is led by math teacher Dan See, and has three other faculty members who partici-

pate. Compared to the other groups, this is the smallest in size. “(The STEM initiative) was the first committee, so we didn’t even really know what the Curriculum Institute was going to be. It is probably going to get bigger,” said Linhares.

The next project is a group that is focused on Sustainability and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si at SLUH. This committee is led by social studies teacher Tom Zinselmeyer and has 14 other faculty members who are a part of it.

“Their main goal is to see how SLUH could be emphasizing sustainability education better. This group has and will continue to study both the written curriculum of the classes and in SLUH’s co-curriculars,” Linhares says.

The Institute on Civil Rights and Human Dignity, led by English teacher Frank Kovarik, looks to explore opportunities outside the classroom for student growth in this area.

Rather than “having teachers read books and try to pass the ideas along to implement them to the classroom, which is good,” this committee, according to Linhares, is looking for “experiences SLUH students can have to better understand the local context of civil rights and ob-

stacles to the particular problems.”

The final Institute project group is focused on the experience of freshman year.

This ten-person committee will be led by principal Craig Hannick and social studies teacher Kevin Foy. “This came about because a group of faculty came together and said that there are freshmen from many different backgrounds. They were wondering if we were doing a good enough job in guiding them, supporting them, and making sense of freshman year,” said Linhares.

“There is a sense that we could be helping out the freshmen more and that we could be coordinating the freshman curriculum better.”

The Institutes plan to consult with students throughout the process about changes to the curriculum, both before and after they are enacted.

“If this works, it will be a template for years to come,” Linhares said of a planned Institute.

The Institute’s long term goal is to encourage students “to move toward experiences in order for them to have a hands-on grasp of that knowledge they acquire moving through their school day,” Linhares said.

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amount of rain, we go through and inspect the whole facility,” said Figge. “We check roof drains, stairwell drains, and we have sump pumps placed periodically, and we make sure they’re all working.”

There are small leaks around the school, including a leak above the window in M216, but nothing that concerns maintenance too greatly. Figge attributes the lack of leaks to a sealant he bought last summer, which maintenance has used on a significant portion of the building.

“We’ve sealed some of the brick and that’s done a really good job, but doing

the whole building just takes forever, so we haven’t gotten to everything yet,” said Figge.

“We just have to work on it as we go.”

SLUH has been renovating the roofs over the last couple years in the hopes of decreasing the number of leaks.

A new roof over the Danis lobby was installed last year, and the science wing and the library will be receiving new roofs this summer. The main problem, however, is with the roof over the main building, which was built in the 1960s70s, according to Figge. Once that roof is replaced, Figge believes many of the leakage problems will be solved.

photo | Joe Hillmeyer

If a leak is found, maintenance has to wait until the rain stops before they can attempt to repair it. Because the rain has been fairly constant over the last week, maintenance has not had much time to repair the leaks. However, the forecast according to Fox2now.com calls for little to no rain for the next seven days, and Figge plans to take advantage of this.

“We’re running around trying to make the leaks pop up stop,” said Figge. “When we get this kind of rain, we’re going to get leaks regardless, especially on the older stuff, but it’s pretty good job security!”

Lacrosse loses Fr. Marco Cup to De Smet, stumbles against Nicollerat top-ranked MICDS honored Stephen Ocampo said junior Cooper Nichols. with Bob “But it was out of our control.” he St. Louis U. High laThe Spartans took advan- Broeg T crosse team’s six-game tage of this chance when they winning streak was put to a put up a buzzer-beater goal to Award halt this week after a heartsend the game to overtime,.

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breaking 10-9 overtime loss to rival De Smet in the Fr. Marco Cup followed by a 12-6 loss to top-ranked MICDS. Last Sunday, the Jr. Bills matched up against the De Smet Spartans in the 13th annual meeting of the Fr. Marco Cup, a varsity game between two Jesuit schools in honor of our the Rev. Michael Marchlewski (Fr. Marco), who spent years teaching at both schools. Every year, not only does the winning team of the game receive the Fr. Marco Crystal Cup, but all proceeds of the game go to charity.

“It brings together two teams who use their competing skills, whether winning or losing, to promote our motto, which is Men for Others,” said Marchlewski.

“That atmosphere is unlike any other game we play that year,” said junior Peter O’Malley. “It gives off an aura of excitement.”

Marchlewski emphasizesd though, that the key point of the game is to raise money for the poor, saying, “There’s no distinction between De Smet and SLUH when it comes to helping others.”

Over the past five years, the Fr. Marco Cup has raised over $170,000 for various charities.

This year, because of a lightning delay, the varsity

Senior Anthony Hughes against Vianney last Tuesday.

game for the Cup had been moved from Saturday night to Sunday night, but both teams came out to play. However, due to missing practice for personal reasons, leading goal-scorer senior Will Farroll was benched for the majority of the first half and stripped of his captaincy.

“It’s a tough call when you have to bench a player that brings so much to the table in such an important setting like the Fr. Marco Cup,” said O’Malley “I think that I made a decision and I was ready to face the consequences for it,” said Farroll, “I knew that I would be putting those spots in jeopardy, but I had made up my mind and we went from there.”

The two schools seemed evenly matched throughout the first half, going back and forth with goals. SLUH’s biggest lead of two goals came late in the second quarter, after an empty-net goal off of a saved out of bounds from Farroll made the score 6-4.

However, De Smet answered right back with a goal of their own before heading to halftime.

In the third, the Spartans tried pulling away from the apparent stalemate as they scored the next three goals, for an 8-6 lead. However, the Jr. Bills did not budge as junior Austin Hannah intercepted a pass and gave it to a wide open Farroll for an easy goal with just a few seconds left in the quarter.

photo | Brendan Voigt

Down by one, the Jr. Bills upped the intensity of their play, allowing only a few shots on goal from the Spartans and increasing their physicality.

Eventually, with only four minutes left in the game, Farroll struck again to tie the game. Moments later, senior captain Anthony Hughes fired a hard shot past the opposing goalie to give the Jr. Bills a 9-8 lead with less than 30 seconds left.

After winning the following faceoff, all the Jr. Bills had to do was stall for a few seconds and the victory would be theirs, but after an offsides call, the Spartans had one last chance.

“The call had a huge impact of the game, and it doesn’t sit right with anyone,”

But this overtime was shortlived as, just a few minutes in, the Spartans found a man wide open right in front of the net for an easy goal and a 9-8 win over the Jr. Bills.

Two days later, the SLUH lacrosse team suffered another tough loss, this one to the topranked MICDS Rams.

The last time SLUH matched up with MICDS, the Rams crushed the Jr. Bills 7-1 in the State Championship game, their third straight.

However, the Jr. Bills were not intimidated and stayed motivated to win.

“The preparation in our mind was to think, ‘We’re going to be the best team out there and it doesn’t matter who we’re going up against.

We’re going to win,’” said O’Malley.

Coming off the faceoff, the Rams showed why they are ranked so highly, gaining an early 3-0 lead, but Hughes put up SLUH’s first point on the board late in the first.

In the second, both teams kept up with their high, fastpaced level of play, and the Jr. Bills were able tie the game at three with 2:35 left in the half before letting up another goal just a minute later.

“I think for some people, that was the first time they believed that we could keep

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Golf battles through rain for second place, readies for Sectionals Andrew Modder SPORTS EDITOR

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oming off a huge victory against rival De Smet last week in the Jesuit Cup, the St. Louis U. High varsity golf team splashed around Forest Park on Wednesday en route to a second place finish in the Class 4 District 2 Tournament, losing to champion Chaminade by a mere five strokes.

Districts were originally scheduled to be played on Monday at the Quarry at Crystal Springs, but got pushed back to Wednesday because of substantial rain over the weekend, and the venue fortunately changed to the Jr. Bills’ home course.

“With all the rain that came Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, there were concerns

for flooding potential. Apparently there were two holes (at the Quarry) that were flooded,” said head coach Scott Gilbert. “Tuesday morning, they called CBC and said ‘Hey, we can’t do this, we’re shutting the course down for the whole week.’ I threw out the idea of Forest Park, and they loved the idea.”

Going into the tourna-

The golf team after the second place finish at Districts on Wednesday.

ment, the golfers knew they would have to play smart and consistent golf, with only two teams and the top 15 individuals not on those teams advancing out of a District jampacked with talent, including Chaminade, De Smet, CBC, and Ladue.

Representing SLUH were seniors Max Twardowski and Andrew Modder and juniors Jack Wachter, Sam Bricker, and Louie Perotti.

“I think overall going into Wednesday we had no idea what to expect, we had a much harder district this year than in recent years so we knew it was going to be tough to qualify,” said Twardowski.

“However, we went undefeated in the season and knew we were capable of beating every team out there.”

Even though the tournament was held at SLUH’s home course, all of the competitors faced a steady dose of rain that lasted the entire round, creating numerous puddles and rivers throughout the golf course that led photo | Mr. Scott Gilbert to frustration and fatigue for many.

“Coach Gilbert kept talking about how we needed to be mentally strong and at the end of the day, that was key,” said Wachter. “Just approach the round like you would any other regardless of the conditions.”

Eventually, once all groups had finished the first nine holes, play was halted for the day, and everyone’s front nine score represented their total for the day.

“The rain certainly came into play, when you’re hitting off soft ground and we’ve got rivers and streams going through fairways and all of a sudden standing water around greens, and people are trying to putt and chip through this stuff,” said Gilbert. “Fortunately, I think (the front nine) was a little better than what (the back nine) was, and we collectively made the decision that (the back nine) was not playable, and to make the back groups play that back nine just wasn’t in anyone’s best interest.”

Chaminade ended up on

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n April 13, head baseball coach Steve Nicollerat received the Bob Broeg Award, which is given to a high school coach who exemplifies excellence in the teaching and coaching of baseball, according to the Hall of Fame website.

Nicollerat had been inducted into the Missouri High School Hall of Fame in 2010, joining an illustrious group of coaches.

This award is named after Bob Broeg , who covered Missouri football and St. Louis Browns and Cardinals baseball for the St. Louis PostDispatch, and was one of the newspaper’s sports editors.

Broeg wrote the most articles for the Post-Dispatch in the paper’s history, continuing to write occasionally even after he underwent bypass surgery in 1985. Broeg is also a member of the Missouri High School Hall of Fame, inducted in 1978.

“I was very humbled and honored to win this award. I realize that good players make good coaches, and I have been blessed over the years. I have had the opportunity to coach many good players and good kids,” said Nicollerat, who hadsbeen head coach for 38 years.

Throughout his career at SLUH, Nicollerat has led the Jr. Bills baseball squad to 28 District titles including the past 25. His teams have played their way into the State quarterfinals 18 times and the semifinals three times.

“I think one of the great things about coach Nicollerat is that he’s consistent,” said Athletic Director Chris Muskopf. “I mean he’s competitive, and I don’t know that you’re going to walk by him in the hallway and know he’s competitive, where if you do see him on the field you’re going to know he’s competitive, but in terms of his demeanor, in terms of his approach, he’s about teaching, as this award indicates.”

Although winning baseball games is important to Nicollerat, he does not allow the competitive nature of the game to keep him from teaching his players lessons that will help them in the future.

“Steve is a master teacher and true Ignatian educator. He is someone who always tries to use what he is teaching, whether computer coding or bunt defenses, to engage kids to think more thoughtfully

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Baseball splits with Volleyball slams its way to second in Lafayette Tournament, loses championship game to Lancers MCC foes, heads for

Sophomore Dalton Ennis against Chaminade last night.

Nathan Langhauser STAFF

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he Lafayette High School volleyball tournament is the most competitive in St. Louis, and the St. Louis U. High volleyball team had a good showing. The team finished second overall, its only loss coming in the championship match to a talented Lafayette team.

The Jr. Bills started off Saturday morning with pool play against Eureka, Belleville West, and Marquette. Despite being without senior Jake Swyers and sophomore Dalton Ennis, the Jr. Bills rolled through the pool. Eureka posed no real threat and the Jr. Bills put them away 25-19, 25-15. Next up was Belleville West, a team that SLUH is not used to seeing; the strong offense kept its rhythm and led to a 25-19, 25-17 victory.

Due to the record of other teams in the pool, splitting sets in the next match against Marquette would put the Jr. Bills into the gold bracket guaranteed. The top lineup for the day played the first set, defeating Marquette, whom the

Jr. Bills had already defeated earlier in the season, 25-18.

For the second set, some of the starters rested and gave way to the players on the second line. The second set was a battle, but the unusual lineup fell just short, losing 29-27.

“I love the way our backups played,” head coach Jeff Cheak said. “They were everything they were trained to be. Just be aggressive and confident where you are. And they did that the entire tournament.”

The gold bracket was set and Marist High School from Chicago stood in SLUH’s path to the championship match.

Marist had finished higher than the Jr. Bills in the Brother Rice Tournament, but SLUH came out strong, jumping on Marist early and not letting the lead slide, winning the first set with ease, 25-14.

Marist seemed to wake up, though, and their offense played smarter, reducing some errors, but their push was not enough and the Jr. Bills took the second set 25-23 to advance to the finals.

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and ultimately help them develop personally,” said assistant coach Tom Zinselmeyer.

Nicollerat has garnered over 600 wins in his career, reaching that milestone last season in a 6-3 victory over Bishop Dubourg High School.

In addition to his work as the SLUH baseball coach, Nicollerat played college baseball for St. Louis University and has been running a youth baseball camp for nearly 30 years. His experience has allowed him to develop a unique way to teach his players that incorporates fundamentals and skill development, both on and off the field.

“There’s the notion of learning specifics about the game, but there’s also the notion of learning and carrying those lessons with you for whatever’s next,” said Muskopf. “A lot of his teaching is preparation and doing things the right way, and if you develop habits in preparing to do things the right way, you can apply that when you go to college, whether you play

baseball or not, you can apply that in your career, your family life, all those situations, and so I think that’s what makes him such a successful coach.”

Outside of SLUH, Nicollerat has been very involved with Challenger Baseball, a program for children in St. Louis ages five and older who have developmental disabilities, for them to learn the game of baseball and to make friends with other kids.

Nicollerat has made it a priority in his career to stress the importance of learning through the game of baseball, and not solely tactics or strategies, but important personal life lessons.

“He’s about getting the most out of his group of guys and his coaching staff that he possibly can, and I think that’s been a characteristic over his entire career,” said Muskopf.

“He loves the game of baseball, he loves teaching, and that’s one of the biggest things his players walk away saying, that they learned while they were playing for him.”

done for this matchup in the future.

“We have to do some work towards the end of the season, and work along with each other,” said senior Leo Henken. “We finished second in the most competitive tournament in the state and that just shows how Jack McGrail, Nathan Langhauser, and Brian Pudlo stepped up big.

I’m really proud of our team for coming back from down a few people and competing hard and getting better in the tournament.”

“Now we have a mindset they aren’t going to work as hard and we are going to push ourselves harder,” said junior Kyle Cohan.

Monday, the Jr. Bills hosted Francis Howell Central, a team that, if seeding holds, SLUH could see again in state quarterfinals. The Jr. Bills got fired up at Francis Howell Central due to their invasion of the third floor of the Field House and the SLUH locker room. The Jr. Bills wanted to send a message that “come playoff time, you don’t want to see us,” according to Henken.

SLUH didn’t exactly get to send that message fully though, allowing Howell Central to stick around throughout the match despite not being able to touch middle hitters junior Matt Coplen and senior Nick Sondermann.

SLUH coasted along and won 25-19, 25-20.

“We found some areas we could exploit. They are a little stronger than we originally thought they were, so we will be able to use what we learned in this match if we see them again in the quarterfinals,” said Cheak.

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he St. Louis U. High baseball team had a busy week of MCC play, splitting games against rivals Vianney and De Smet.

The Bills took on the Vianney Griffins last Thursday on the road with senior Weston Baker back on the bump.

Vianney got up on the Jr. Bills early. In the bottom of photo | Brendan Voigt the first inning, they rattled their bats and brought in four of two straight years of State quick runs to jump ahead 4-0. championship matches and SLUH started the comeback in the top of the second last year’s tournament final, SLUH versus Lafayette. The inning, picking up a lone run on a key base hit to left field by matchup wasn’t a surprise, with both teams establishing senior Donovan Ditto. themselves as volleyball powBoth offenses were silent erhouses over the past few until the Jr. Bills rallied the years. This matchup was difbats again in the top of the sixth and seventh innings. ferent though: with two starters out, the Jr. Bills had to find The Bills picked up a pair of a different kind of energy and runs in both innings to put toughness to try to win. them in the lead by a score of The match started well 5-4.

This would be enough for SLUH, which shut down Lafayette’s powerful outside for Baker and reliever Matt hitters Alex Gettinger and Bauer.

Kade Bontrager to take the After a four-run first infirst set 25-19. ning, Baker settled down and was lights out for the rest of Lafayette fought back though and found a strong the game. He ended up pitchoutlet in right side Clayton ing five innings, while only Mathison. He kept finding allowing three earned runs the court and gave the Jr. Bills off of six hits. He left the game with the score still 4-1. trouble, sparking Lafayette to victory in the next two sets, Bauer came in as relief 25-18 and 25-17. in the top of the sixth inning, “Clayton was the differand he was flawless, shutting ence-maker in that match,” the Griffins out for two innings without allowing a hit Cheak said. “He’s an exceptional player. He’s a big guy and only giving up two walks. and he’s really smart with how “It was really good for us to get a win like this,” said sehe plays.”

The loss gave the Jr. Bills nior Louis Garavaglia. “It was awesome to see us come back a glimpse of what needs to be after getting down early.”

The Jr. Bills took down Vianney for the second time this season, putting them in photo | Courtesy of @SLUH_Tennis a great spot to nab the No. 1 seed for their district.

Next, the Bills went up against Jesuit rival De Smet at the Palace on Ballas. This was the first time the two teams have met this year as inclement weather had forced them to reschedule their last game.

Baker was back on the mound to start the game after

Doubles take 1st, tennis finishes 3rd at MCCs

The tennis team at the MCC Tournament on Tuesday.

Blake Lanter REPORTER

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he SLUH varsity tennis team played a match against Parkway West at Dwight Davis Tennis Center last Friday. SLUH went down 2-1 after doubles matches were played and eventually lost 5-4, but the last two singles matches were forfeited by Parkway West after a confrontation between the two head coaches.

The MCC tournament began on Tuesday after being postponed on Saturday due to rain. Singles matches were played at Chaminade, and doubles were played at Visitation. Each individual team was placed in its own

bracket, placing anywhere between first or fifth place.

SLUH’s three doubles teams played well, each receiving a first place finish to give SLUH six points overall.

“It was awesome to have everyone finish first in the doubles,” said senior Sam Bott. “Singles players all did well.”

The four singles players at Chaminade each finished fourth to give the team two points overall. After all matches were played, SLUH ended in third place in the MCC tournament, a disappointing finish after having won the tournament last year.

having a five-day rest in between games.

The Bills opened up the scoring in the top of the second inning. Ditto led off with a double into the gap, and junior Nick Dimmit brought him in with a base hit of his own.

The Spartans came back in their half of the second to tie the game up at one, then picked up a pair of runs in the bottom half of the third to make the score 3-1.

The Bills rallied back in the top of the fifth inning. Junior Danny Favazza crushed a triple in the left-center field gap, and senior standout Adam Kleffner drove him in with a single. Kleffner then advanced to second thanks to a wild throw by De Smet’s catcher in a pickoff attempt. Kleffner took third on a passed ball before senior Jacob Safarian then brought him home with a dribbler down the third base line to tie the score three.

However, the Spartans bounced back in their half of the inning, plating a pair of their own to jump back out to a 5-3 lead.

The Bills threatened again in the top of the sixth when they loaded the bases.

They would only get one run though, thanks to a sacrifice fly by Favazza to make the score 5-4.

But, De Smet would respond in the bottom of the sixth with a run to extend their lead to 6-4, which would prove to be enough to secure the win.

Baker gave another solid outing, pitching 4 1/3 innings, and allowing three earned runs.

“I didn’t have a very good first inning,” said Baker. “But I felt pretty solid about the rest of the game.”

The Bills now stand with a respectable record of 9-5 heading into the end of their season. They will play Rockwood Summit next Monday at Rockwood Summit. Summit is ranked No. 1 among large schools according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Rugby State Championship Preview This weekend, the St. Louis University High Rugby team will travel to Jefferson City for the State Championship Tournament. SLUH will be one of three St. Louis teams traveling to State, including CBC and the Eureka-Marquette joint team, and one of eight in Missouri, including the Kansas City Junior Blues. The Ruggerbills will seek to lay claim to the State title and wrest it away from the Junior Blues, who have beaten the Bills the past two years in the Championship match, which will take place this Sunday, May 7. SLUH’s first game takes place Saturday morning at 9:00 at Blair Oaks High School against Jefferson City.

—compiled by Matt Quinlan

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top once all the scores were added up, coming in at a total of 148. The Red Devils were led by Joe Terschluse, who tore up the front nine with an unheard of 2-under par 33, thanks to four birdies in his first five holes and a putter that didn’t let him down.

SLUH was able to slide past De Smet into the second qualifying spot at 153 strokes, edging out the Spartans by just one to move onto Sectionals.

Twardowski fired the low score of the day for SLUH, carding a 1-over par 36, grinding through the rain and striking the ball well consistently to lead his team.

“I was happy with the way I played considering the brutal conditions, I was pleased to make it through the front nine with only one bogey,” said Twardowski. “My putter and short game saved me on a few holes. I found it easier to hit putts and wedges on the course because you could be a little more aggressive from close range.”

Wachter came in the

second position for the Jr. Bills with a 2-over 37, relying on strong execution of shots from tee to green.

“I just stayed mentally tough. I just stuck to my game and did my best to block out the fact that it was cold, windy, and rainy,” said Wachter. “I’d love to have a few putts back, but at the end of the day, we advanced and that’s all that matters.”

Perotti added a 4-over 39, and Bricker rounded out the U. High squad with a 6-over 41, bouncing back from a couple of rough starting holes. Modder shot a 7-over 42, which ended up being the team’s dropped score.

“It is a treat year after year to watch our golfers play and score consistently, either win tournaments or place high in tournaments. The depth we have in the program is great,” said Gilbert.

SLUH looks to refocus and mentally prepare for the next step in the road to State, taking positives out of the strong play they showed in the sloppy conditions.

“I was very pleased with the way the boys battled through the conditions,” said Wachter. “We didn’t get rattled and we just stuck to our game. We had the upper hand being that it was playing at Forest Park, and I think we took advantage of that.”

The Jr. Bills will head to the Class 4 Sectional 1 Tournament this Monday to compete with the likes of Chaminade as well as others at the Landings at Spirit Golf Club in Chesterfield. De Smet will also be in the field with a team made up of four individual qualifiers from Districts.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the best from this team yet. We’ve seen a lot of great things, but the scary thing about this team is that I don’t think we’ve seen the best out of this team yet from everybody,” said Gilbert. “If we at some point see the best from all of (the team) on one particular day, no one’s going to touch us. If we have a day where everybody is on, watch out. I’m hoping that day is Monday.”

Volleyball Nightbeat

The St. Louis U. High volleyball team faced off against Chaminade last night in a game prepping for upcoming playoffs. From the match earlier in the season, the Jr. Bills knew the game wouldn’t put up as much competition, yet the team had to push strong to prepare for upcoming matches.

The match started slow, but after a few points to get acclimated, the Jr. Bills began to challenge Chaminade with the serve, leading to big runs. The team was challenged to reduce their errors and make strong defensive plays to get ready for tighter situations in big matches. By forcing many errors on the Chaminade side, the Jr. Bills won the first set 25-14.

In the second set, all seniors took a seat on the bench, and head coach Jeff Cheak challenged the younger guys to find a way to win and be leaders while gaining some experience. The team also wanted to have some fun by playing out of position and running special plays. The younger lineup found some success, giving senior Danny Meissner a chance to sub in at outside hitter. However some errors allowed Chaminade to stick around, forcing the Jr. Bills to sub in senior setter Sam Grasso to finish out the set. After regaining some composure, SLUH finished the match with a 25-20 victory.

—compiled by Nathan Langhauser

Prep News Editor in Chief Sam Chechik News Editors Andrew Pluff Joseph Reznikov Sports Editors Will Farroll Andrew Modder Features Editors Galen Bacharier Matthew Book Core Staff Liam Connolly Matt Godar Sam Goedeker Jack Schweizer Jack Waters Zach Hennes Jake Hennes

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Junior Austin Hannah last Tuesday against Vianney.

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up with top caliber teams like MICDS and that gave us energy throughout that half,” said Nichols Coming straight out of halftime, though, O’Malley found sophomore Charlie Carse for a quick bouncing shot that went between the legs of the goalie. The Rams broke the tie less than 20 seconds later, putting up two consecutive goals to make the score 6-4. Although senior Jerry Howe tried fighting back with a goal of his own, after

quarter.”

“We lost a lot of energy going into the fourth quarter not being tired, but we let our morale go down,” added O’Malley. “We let two goals go to three goals, three goals going to four, and we let that get in the way of our morale and keeping it together.”

The Jr. Bills’ next game is Monday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. at Westminister.

—Yoda, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back Today in Sports History May 5, 1935

Jesse Owens of the United States sets the world long jump record at 26’ 8.5”.

Volume 81, Issue 28 Reporters Sam Ortmann Paul Gillam Reed Milnor Stephen Ocampo Adam Kleffner Ben Klevorn Blake Lanter Ryan Neuner Nick Prainito

Art Directors Ian Mulvihill Joe Fentress

Contributing Artist Jackson DuCharme

Staff Photographer Brendan Voigt

that, the Rams broke away.

After Howe’s goal, the Rams immediately responded, and in the fourth quarter MICDS put up another three goals, extending their lead to five, before the Jr. Bills were able to put up another point.

With a 10-6 lead, the Rams were able to put up another two to coast to a 12-6 victory over the Jr. Billikens.

“I feel like as a team, we thrive when we can get our offense rolling,” said Farroll.

“And they just didn’t give us a chance to do that in the fourth

Sports Quote of the Week “Do or do not, there is no try.”

Staff Nick Gima Ben Frailey Matthew Quinlan Nathan Langhauser Riley McEnery Niles Bernabe Ben Dattilo Nathan Wild

Staff Artists Lancer Li Will Kramer Jack Bailey

photo | Brendan Voigt

Advisor Mr. Ryan McAnany Moderator Mr. Steve Missey

Varsity Sports Briefs Water Polo 4/29 SLUH St. Patrick (IL)

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SLUH Ladue

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SLUH St. Xavier (OH)

9 12

next game: 5/6 vs. TBD Inline Hockey 4/28 SLUH Lafayette

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key stat: The Jr. Bills mercied Lafayette with six minutes left in the game to clinch first place.

4/29 SLUH St. Mary’s

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4/29 Columbia 9 SLUH 7 4/30 Lafayette 4 SLUH 12 key quote: “Everybody was involved in the play...we created lots and lots of really good opportunities. I think that’s going to be the way in which things will play out the rest of the playoffs, if we continue to play together as a team,” said head coach Tim O’Neil. next game: 5/5 @ Washington in playoff quarterfinals —compiled by Ryan Neuner and Nick Prainito

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Around the Hallways Photographer takes pictures around SLUH The mysterious Photo Dude’s identity and purpose has been uncovered. Dan Gill, a freelance photographer, stepped in on some classes and the all-school Mass of Praise and Gratitude last week, capturing a few snaps of the students and faculty along the way, and causing some students to turn their heads.

“Our students here take really good photos. They do a great job with the Photography Club. But, obviously, our students are in class every day, so it’s hard to get the in-classroom shots,” said Director of Communications Ben DuMont. Gill will more than likely visit us again, as the school hires him every semester to take promotional pictures.

Iron Chef II planned After a successful inaugural Iron Chef contest in February, the committee, headed by social studies teacher and Sustainability moderator extraordinaire Anne Marie Lodholz, has already started planning for the second edition, which is set to occur sometime next year. The committee hopes to attract more people to participate and attend the event, showing off more of the foods that people enjoy throughout SLUH. Fine Arts Fellowship The Fine Arts Fellowship met for their final meeting of the year on Wednesday. They traveled to art teacher Joan Bugnitz’s classroom to learn more about printmaking.

They watched the printmak-

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Friday, May 5

Half-day schedule

V Rugby state tournament championship in Jefferson City Post-season tournament water polo AP Snack—mini tacos Lunch Special—Domino’s pizza Vegetarian—fries 1:30pm Jr. Ring Mass 4:15pm C baseball vs. Eureka 6:00pm Inline hockey vs. Washington in Quarterfinals ing process and learned about ent departments talked about 8:00pm Jr. ring Dance the demands of the process.

STARS Students and Teachers Association for Racial Studies (STARS) met in J121 on Thursday to begin discussing their new book, The Fire Next Time.

the ways Canvas has been successful in their classroom. Juniors Thomas Curdt and Allen Shorey also gave a demonstration about how they have used Canvas. After the demonstrations, teachers had instructions about and time to begin using Canvas.

Saturday, May 6

JV volleyball tournament @ De Smet

Monday, May 8

Regular Schedule 9:00am V golf in sectionals AP Snack—turnovers Lunch Special—Chick-fil-a Vegetarian—burrito V golf in sectionals V tennis district tournament Faculty Day ­—Complied by Ethan Schmidt, 4:15pm C baseball vs. WCA in CBC tournament 4:30pm V baseball @ Rockwood Summit The faculty met on Steven Zak, Joe Reznikov Monday during an off-day Tuesday, May 9 Regular Schedule of school to discuss the CanAP Snack—chicken bites vas Learning Management Lunch Special—taco bar System, which will be impleVegetarian—grilled veggie mented in all classes next year.

4:15pm B baseball @ Parkway South Different teachers from differ4:15pm C baseball vs. Borgia in CBC tournament 4:15pm V baseball vs. Parkway South 4:30pm C/JV/V volleyball vs. Vianney Regular Schedule Wednesday, May 10 AP Snack—chicken rings and language is what you use. ery class, he says the ‘Bless us Lunch Special—hand breaded chicken strips And when you can use the O Lord’ prayer. In this way, he

Vegetarian—black bean burger language to describe it, you incorporates the Jesuit ideal 4:15pm C baseball vs. De Smet in CBC tournament got it,” says Mills, “If you can’t of ‘finding God in everything’ 4:15pm V baseball vs. Ladue Horton Watkins use the language to describe it, into his class.

4:30pm C/JV/V volleyball vs. De Smet then you probably don’t have “My dad died about two it. That’s a lot of why I teach years ago and in his last year, 4:30pm B baseball @ Granite City High School

Mills plans on enjoying the outdoors in retirement (continued from page 2)

unfortunately went out of print. Mills decided to take action and used his sabbatical in 2008 to write his own textbook, based off of the teaching of Overkamp and the textbook.

“What I saw here when I came, I saw teachers like Mr. Becvar, Mr. Schulte, and Mr. Busenhart, and if they wanted to teach something, they would just figure out a way to teach it,” said Mills. “Now, you don’t ever go sideways, you don’t ever go real deep, you just have to keep moving

forward teaching your curriculum, teaching your AP test.

Mr. (Tom) Becvar is responsible for this, but the school is really good about letting me do what I want to do. I had real freedom.”

This freedom allowed Mills to write his own textbook and delve into the parts of geometry that he deemed more important.

“Mathematics is the expression of ideas and the expression of ideas is mathematics. If you’re a mathematician, you don’t accept things, you want to know what’s behind it

George Mills and Dan See horsing around in photo | Mrs. Beth Kissel the math office.

the way that I teach. There is no doubt that always I wanted kids to understand. So (Mr. Overkamp) in a way was my mentor.”

Overkamp and Mills still stay in contact with each other and they are common paddling partners. “(Mr. Overkamp) said that every day in his class, everybody learns one thing and he felt like that was a successful class. I like that motto,” said Mills, who clearly incorporates it into his teaching.

“He always challenges us to learn something new. Every time I come into his class, I know that I will learn something new,” says sophomore Nick Dendrinelis.

Mills’s care for his students is clearly shown in the way that he teaches and helps his students.

“He is always willing to help you out and you know that he wants to see every student succeed,” says sophomore Cam Glynn.

One of the unique aspects of Mills’s Advanced Geometry class is that before ev-

that’s probably when I started (saying the prayer). We would sit down for a meal and we would say that prayer and he would change the words. He was older and maybe forgetful, but I thought maybe not.

Because usually the way he said it was more meaningful in that moment than the way it had been said before. But, that prayer got more and more meaningful to me because of him,” says Mills. “Some people look at the Golden triangle as proof of the existence of God. It in no way is proof, but to be awed by it gives it a deeper meaning. We say that prayer every day for a meal but we take it for granted. Only because my Dad was dying that I noticed it myself.”

“I learned that it’s more than a prayer about food, it’s a prayer to see everything in life as a gift and blessing from God,” says sophomore Ryan Juergens.

Along with incorporating Jesuit ideals into his class, his life is also an example of the faith and justice. “He’s had a big impact in the area of ser-

Thursday, May 11 AP Lunch 4:15pm 7:00pm

Regular Schedule Snack—mini corn dogs Special—Papa John’s pizza C baseball Final in CBC tournament Jazz band concert

Friday, May 12

Regular Schedule V district baseball tournament @ Vianney AP Snack—cinnamon rolls Lunch Special—nacho bar 4:15pm B baseball vs. Vianney

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vice. He is one of the faculty members who has been involved in the CSP program after school. Social justice is really a core value of his,” says math teacher Tom Flanagan.

Before Mills’s father became sick and he had to care for him, he was very involved in service around SLUH. He helped to lead several Service Learning Retreats and oversee many of the after school service sites.

In his retirement, Mills plans on working on his house, visiting with his grandchildren who are spread all across the country, riding his bike, and paddling rivers with mentor and long time friend

Bob Overkamp.

“My wife is really happy that I am retiring. The other thing is is that I don’t know what will happen going forward. I don’t know what it is going to be like. There is an adventure to it in that sense,” said Mills.

Mills has spent nearly three quarters of his professional career teaching at SLUH, leaving a larger-thanlife impact on the school and those in it.

“I am thankful that I have gotten to work alongside him all these years. I think that he has challenged me to be a better teacher and a better person,” says Flanagan.

Students and faculty say goodbye to McAnany after year of ASC (continued from page 2)

“I think of Mr. McAnany as a border collie,” said English teacher and Prep News moderator Steve Missey. “He’s got boundless energy and you know border collies are not happy unless they’re doing work. You can’t just let a border collie lie around or he’ll go bananas. And so Mr. McAnany just loves to jump in, get his sleeves rolled up and get to work.

McAnany came to SLUH with a unique skill, including past experience as a cross country runner and sports editor, which enabled him to

maximize his talents for the SLUH community.

“I was certainly aware of Mr. McAnany as Ryan McAnany, the number two runner on a very good Rockhurst team,” said Flanagan.

“And when I say he was the number two runner, the number one runner was the state champion that year. So his teammate was really good, and so Ryan was a really good runner in high school.”

McAnany’s athletic ability continued to help him as a coach. Unlike the other coaches, McAnany was able to run with the fastest atheletes

on the team during practice, pushing them to speed up or slow down depending on the type of exercise for that day.

Having been the sports editor for his college newspaper at the University of Dallas, McAnany was able to offer insightful advice while editing and shaping the Prep News.

He has also formed close relationships with the staff members of the Prep News, including news editor Andrew Pluff.

“He has a unique level of approachability that is unlike any other teacher I have experienced,” said Pluff. “I never have felt hesitant to talk about

literally anything with him.”

After finishing his undergraduate degree, McAnany was planning to go to grad school and become a college professor. But during the application process, McAnany discerned that God was calling him to be a high school teacher, a job that would allow him to have a greater impact on shaping and helping people’s lives.

“Being an English teacher this year was definitely an affirmation from God about my ability to live up to that vocation,” said McAnany, reflecting on his experience at

SLUH. “This year has made me feel more like myself than anything I’ve ever done.” He added, “If you see me running in the hallways that means I’m comfortable where I am, and I do that a lot here.”

In the classroom, McAnany tries to make personal connections with students, while also encouraging them to enjoy their work.

“He’s really young and he relates to the entire class really well, and I’ve never been in a classroom environment where the teacher outright wants you to enjoy class and Mr. McAnany tries to do that every day,”

said sophomore Luke Alfaro.

Sophomore Jacob Nelson noted McAnany’s willingness to help students outside of the classroom.

“At activity period I asked him to talk about my essays and he was really open and willing to help me out,” said Nelson.

“Rockhurst is lucky they’re getting such a good teacher and coach,” said Flanagan.

“He’s comfortable, humble, and fun, and we’re going to miss him,” said Missey.