Thoughts...

John Schork

Some of my rambling remembrances from 1968-72 (posted August 2, 2003):

• our intramural sports skills at Bellarmine, and the competition...

• cooking hot breakfasts for the community, and personal creativity therein...

• Fr. Blaise's projects: candles, guinea pigs, birds, flowers, etc....

• student (mis)behavior as chronicled by "Le Grincheau (?)"...

• walking/running to classes at Bellarmine, across the golf course, in the rain and snow...

• daily "offices" that tried to teach us sanitation, organization, community life, creativity...

• monthly home visits with local CP seminarians, food and drink and family...

• the pets we nurtured over the years: C.P., G.D., parakeets, etc...

• afternoon prayer/Vespers in the chapel, naptime as well...

• struggling with your personal budget, what a few dollars would buy...

• celebrations of the Eucharist in the chapel; singing "The Mountain Mass"...

• the hearty souls who slept outside on the 3rd floor back porch...

• "Gaudeamus" in the barn...special feasts...

• rock music working its way into recreation...

• student formation afternoons...

• the radio program, "Feeling Groovy"...

• the cool of the basement on those hot and humid Louisville summer days...

• the "bat alert" when there was a bat flying the corridors...

• the call bells...