Steven Lequire:  

Life Some of these names are still familiar to me, even though 40-50 years have passed since my St. Ed days. Heck, you guys must be senior citizens now, almost ready for the Home. I married at 28 yrs old, had two children (adopted Patrick, now 25, and Janine, now 22, a senior nursing student at U. of Portland.) I am and have been an English Lit/American Lit and AP instructor, and a Psychology teacher for 40 years -- 3 in Kelowna, B.C., 3 at the American School in (Tokyo,) Japan, and 34 in beautiful downtown Burien at John F. Kennedy High School. Some irony: as editor of the Levite in 1963-4 we commemorated JFK's life and death in the annual that year. As a teacher overseas in the 70's my wife and I traveled to some exotic places on holiday -- Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, then later Moscow, Greece, Austria, more of western Europe -- Venice, Paris, Normandy, London. What a ride it's been! I've still got plenty of spirit left but the flesh is getting slower on the draw. I think fondly of those seminary days and would not trade them for anything (well, maybe more sex). I am grateful for the chance to play sports in Fr. Healy's all-school programs -- 4th string football, 5th string basketball, 1st string softball, etc. Ordinary kids don't have that chance in today's high schools. I thank Frs. Farrell and McManus for my love of literature and believe they might be proud of me today, passing on the beautiful words of Shakespeare and Steinbeck and Whitman, et al. I thought of Fr. O'Neill teasing our Greek Civ class about going to Greece someday, then years later actually touring the Peloponese, Marathon, Delphi, Olympia, Epidaurus, Sounion, the Parthenon, etc. Silent meals, the Roman Martyrology, sneaking around to other's ro...Expand for more