De Smet Jesuit Spring 2014 Odyssey

Open House 2013

In this issue:

Alumni Charity Trevor Bonat Odyssey Under the Spotlights: The Half Named New DSJ Sea Gala & Auction Fund and Robots for Principal Has Record Year Humanity

THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 1 A Letter From The President

uring a recent span of a De Smet Jesuit will see many couple of weeks, faculty changes in the fall. Trevor Bonat, Dmember Jim Saali and formerly principal of Bishop his wife Sallye welcomed their Brady High School in Concord, first child, a baby boy, into the New Hampshire, will become world; as a school community our new principal in July. Over we said goodbye to eight a dozen of our faculty and staff faculty and staff members who have retired, accepted positions retired from De Smet Jesuit, elsewhere or are simply moving among them long-time coaches on. As you know, next academic Hawkey, Cerneka and Vitello; year will be my last at De Smet and we lost Robin Davis, a co- Jesuit and a nationwide search is worker and friend, who died underway for my replacement. As after suffering a massive stroke. we experience the excitement and The question often asked, pain that comes with change, God especially when it comes to a is with us and is opening us up to sudden and unexpected death, the possibility of greater growth. that allows him to type with is: Where is God in all of this? God is also found in places his head. I, probably like you, find it we don’t always expect, like in The path of spiritual easy to find God in moments aspects of our work (p. 6), on the growth laid out by St. like the birth of a baby, the athletic field or arena (pp. 16 - 17) Ignatius challenges us to graduation of another senior or during a vacation period discern God’s presence class and the ordination of like Spring Break (p. 18). God in both the good and the a brother Jesuit, like Chris can be found in these ordinary bad, the ordinary and the Schroeder ’00, as a priest. activities of daily living, not unexpected events of our In moments like these the just in “churchy” moments but everyday lives – to find God presence of God is abundantly in the commonplace events literally in all things. We evident. But our faith teaches and humdrum activities of our then are called to respond us that God is not distant. God everyday lives. to God’s presence not only is present in every human Henry Evans ’80 and his by becoming more reverent experience – the good and the nephew, Henry Clever ’90, know and thankful but also by bad. firsthand how even a personal becoming more selfless and Finding God in all things is tragedy can lead to an experience serving. Please enjoy the at the center of the spirituality of God’s care and result in a stories and updates found that St. Ignatius blessed us with. greater concern for others. At in this edition of the Odyssey His worldview instills in us age 40, Henry Evans suffered magazine. I hope they help an awareness that we can find a stroke-like attack caused by you reflect on where God is God in every person, in every a hidden birth defect that left present in your own life. place and in every thing. God is him paralyzed and mute. What May you and your family present and active in our world. may have reduced many of us to have an enjoyable and safe As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, despair has provided Evans an summer. S.J. wrote: “God is not remote opportunity to help others. As from us. He is at the point of my he writes in his story on pages pen, my pick, my paintbrush, 10-11, “The ‘Man for Others’ my needle — and my heart and mantra makes you see yourself my thoughts.” When we are as a part of a larger whole; a Fr. Wally Sidney, S.J. able to discern God’s presence whole that you can and should in our daily lives, we become positively influence.” By the way, more devoted, more thankful he wrote his responses for the and more deeply in love. entire interview with a device

2 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 The ODYSSEY In This Issue: 4 New DSJ Principal Named Trevor Bonat, current principal of Bishop Brady High School in Concord, NH, will move to St. Louis and serve as De Smet Jesuit’s new principal for the 2014 - 15 school year. 8 Dan Duffy, an Accidental Activist Mission Statement 4 8 Alumnus Dan Duffy ‘90 reflects on surviving De Smet Jesuit High School is cancer, starting his own charitable foundation, and a Catholic, college preparatory his experiences at De Smet Jesuit High School. community whose members work together to build a challenging, academic environment set in the 12 Odyssey Auction Has context of the life and spirit of Jesus Christ. While members are Record Year constantly encouraged to develop The Odyssey Under the Sea Gala & Auction, held strong personal values and con- Mar. 29, raised more than $500,000 this year. victions, they achieve success by realizing their leadership potential through impacting the lives of those 20 Current Students Cheer, around them. They also learn to live 12 Volunteer, and Compete the values of St. Ignatius by being intellectually competent, open to The fall of the 2013-14 school year was a busy time growth, religious, loving, and com- at De Smet Jesuit High School. mitted to doing justice in generous service to the people of God.

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On the Cover: 2014 Open House Student Volunteers Features: In Every Issue: Photo by Kala O’Connor New Principal Named...... 4 A Letter from the President...... 2 Published Semi-Annually By: Bobby & Suzanne Keppel - “At Bat for Men”.... 6 Game Time...... 14-17 De Smet Jesuit High School Scott Phillips Promoted to Head of Kitchen...... 7 Around the Halls...... 18-21 Office of Institutional Advancement Dan Duffy, The “Accidental Activist”...... 8 Alumni Connections...... 22-25 233 North New Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 63141 Henry Evans, Robotics Pioneer...... 10 In Memoriam...... 26-27 Phone: (314) 567-3500 Odyssey Under the Sea Gala & Auction...... 12-13 Class Notes...... 30-31 Fax: (314) 567-1519 Andy Bauer Commits to Mizzou...... 17 Email: [email protected] 2014 Tradition Golf Tournament...... 28-29

THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 3 Search Committee Selects New Principal ev. Wally Sidney, S.J., announced in March University. He previously that Trevor Bonat, currently principal of taught religion and RBishop Brady High School in Concord, New theology before moving Hampshire, will serve as the new principal of De into leadership positions at Smet Jesuit High School, beginning July 1, 2014. Catholic high schools. “We are excited to welcome Mr. Bonat to De Smet “I am eager to return Jesuit High School,” said Father Sidney. “He brings to my Jesuit roots at De with him a long association with Jesuit apostolates, Smet Jesuit,” said Bonat. and a rich experience in leadership within a diocesan “St. Louis has a deep and high school. We look forward to his fresh perspective rich tradition of excellent as we continue our mission of offering a quality, Catholic education, and Catholic, accessible education to young men in the St. I’m excited to be a part Louis area.” of it.” Bonat earned a B.A. in Classics and Religious Dr. Ron Rebore, Jr., Studies at College of the Holy Cross, an M.A. in acting principal at De Smet Religion and Religious Education from Catholic Jesuit High School, will continue to serve De Smet University of America, and an M.S. Ed. in Secondary Jesuit as Assistant Principal for Staff Development.  School Administration from Johns Hopkins

Longtime Teacher, Coach to Retire after 46 Years reg Vitello, biology and physical education and day out, played their teacher and varsity soccer and baseball coach, sport as hard as their Gannounced his retirement, effective at the end of ability let them,” said this school year. Vitello. “I am so grateful for my time at De Smet Jesuit,” Father Wally Sidney, Vitello said. “Ever since I decided to coach, I wanted to S.J., President, wrote in an challenge every young man I encountered to love the email to faculty: “Greg is sport he chose. More importantly, I wanted to help the one of the true pioneers young men grow into good friends, good parents, and of our school. He began good citizens.” his teaching career here Coach Vitello is a member of the inaugural class the very first year after of the Missouri State High School Soccer Coaches De Smet Jesuit opened its Association Hall of Fame, the St. Louis Amateur doors. While the public Baseball Hall of Fame, the Missouri High School knows Greg as a coach Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, and the St. Benedictine and respects him for his (now Benedict) College Hall of Fame. accomplishments on the field, we are blessed to know Over his 46 years at De Smet Jesuit, Vitello coached him as a friend and colleague and have been inspired swimming, football, and track and field, in addition to by his sharing his faith with students on retreat, baseball and soccer. He coached two MLB players, Bob building the Marian grotto outside the cafeteria for the Keppel and 2003 AL batting champion Bill Mueller, mother of one of our cafeteria workers, visiting injured and five players who played on United States National players in the hospital after a game, and helping out Soccer Teams (Bill McKeon, Matt McKeon, Chris Klein, in selfless and generous ways, such as with the soccer Pat Noonan, and Will Bruin). shoe drive for kids in Haiti. Greg really models what it “While it’s an honor to be a coach to students means to be a ‘Man for Others.’”  who would become professional athletes, I am just as honored and inspired by those students who, day in 4 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 The gymnasium has been repainted, and new bleachers were installed last fall.

Composite photos of each graduating class have been printed, framed and hung in the freshly-painted The cafeteria boasts freshly painted hallway above walls in DSJ colors, as well as a school student lockers. shield and updated flooring. NEW PROJECTS AT DE SMET JESUIT HIGHLIGHT TRANSITION, TRADITION

The library has undergone a thorough reorganization; at the end of The newly-erected lacrosse wall sports the the school year, art students also painted a “Wall of Gratitude” that DSJ shield logo. Players have utilized the wall will eventually honor retired teachers and staff. throughout the entire year.

THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 5 high school and eventually graduating from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Disinterested in her faith as a teen, she didn’t want to go to Steubenville and only attended at the AT BAT urging of her father. “By the grace of God, I got in and got a room. It was one of the best experiences I have ever had,” she says. FOR MEN How do you incorporate your faith into The Nines magazine, while maintaining a “secular” presence? Suzanne and Bobby Keppel ‘00 bring Bobby: “In baseball, I am surrounded by a bunch of men who are looked to as role models. And often these men who faith and values to the mainstream have these large platforms are able to influence others… guys like Mike Sweeny and Jeff Suppan.” As a minor-league player, BY JENNIFER BRINKER, “I’m not going to be able to do that to a crowd. I can share these Catholic St. Louis Magazine inspiring stories to more people through this medium than just through me trying to talk.” obby and Suzanne Keppel have baseball in their The content they share in the magazine is meant to open blood. Bobby has played professional baseball for minds and hearts to new ways of thinking, he says. “So we B14 years and most recently signed a contract with might be talking about vasectomies, and we ask, ‘What’s the the Cincinnati Reds. The couple has lived in 15 cities in alternative to that?’ And there are other issues, like what do their seven years of marriage, women want from sex? We ask, and they’re expecting their fourth ‘What do they want within their child this summer. marriages and their relationships?’ If that wasn’t enough to keep You’re not going to see that them busy, the Keppels decided elsewhere. We do not do anything in 2012 to enter the world of that’s counter to the teachings of magazine publishing. By January the Catholic Church. The natural 2013, they published their first beauty of the world can still come issue of The Nines magazine, a out without even using the word men’s lifestyle publication – with ‘Christ.’” what they describe as a “fresh” “People say dress the nines; we take that as no one’s perfect, no twist. one’s a 10. We encourage (readers) The Keppels, active members to take whatever aspect of your life of St. Joseph Parish in Cottleville, and make that grow.” recently shared with us the mission behind their magazine How does your faith challenge and how faith has influenced you in the work that you do? their work. Bobby and Suzanne Keppel, photographed at the Suzanne: “A year ago, there 2014 Tradition Golf Tournament VIP Reception was a fertility center (offering How did you become involved in in-vitro fertilization and artificial the magazine business? insemination) who approached us, Bobby: “One of the reasons and they were all about our magazine and wanted to be in it. is because out there right now in America, you can’t find a And I had to say that we could not advertise for anyone that men’s lifestyle magazine that’s got clean content throughout. is against” – Bobby interjects – “the teachings of the Church. (The Nines) doesn’t offend women, it’s visually clean and That’s touchy stuff, but we will never promote something that the stories are uplifting, but also inspiring and entertaining. goes against the teachings of the Church.” Contemporary classic is a term that we like to use.” Bobby: “The big question is, how do you even start that Suzanne: “It’s helping men become better men, which, in conversation with people? How can you at least let them see the turn, makes better families and a better world.” other side and the beauty behind it?” Suzanne: “We also want to make sure we, as Pope Francis Describe your faith upbringing. has continued to say, put the judgment aside and let everyone Bobby grew up in Incarnate Word Parish in Chesterfield know they are loved by God. And everyone has an opportunity and is a 2000 graduate of De Smet Jesuit High School. He’s a to receive God’s love, as long as they are open to the graces that product of Life Teen at Incarnate Word. “But faith-wise, I really He gives us. We are not passing judgment … by any means.”  didn’t understand or become my own (person) until marriage prep,” he says. Reprinted with the permission of Suzanne was raised in Lake Villa, a small suburb north Catholic St. Louis Magazine, March/April 2014 of Chicago. She, too, is a cradle Catholic, attending Catholic

6 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 Balaban’s Promotes Catering, Banquet Chef D. Scott Phillips ‘88 to Head of Kitchen

BY KRISTIN BRASHARES, FEAST Magazine fter nine months as Balaban’s catering and banquet chef, D. AScott Phillips is moving up to executive chef of the Chesterfield restaurant and retail wine store. Co-owners Steve McIntyre and Brian Underwood made the announcement in a press release: “Unique as a chef, Scott manages and cooks superbly. In a short time, he proved himself invaluable to our operation, so we reorganized the kitchen to take advantage of his talents and experience,” McIntyre says. Phillips joined Balaban’s last fall when Balaban’s expanded Photo courtesy of FEAST Magazine and renovated an additional 2,046 square feet of adjacent space in their training and academic levels but he says. Dierbergs Marketplace location on competency and individuals with “Foods from our kitchen—some Clarkson Road. integrity and a strong sense of pride rich, some less so—will reflect proper The owners’ plan at the time in their work,” he says. technique and represent foods cooked provided for Phillips to lead Balaban’s Phillips, a 1994 graduate of the way they were intended to be.” into the catering and event market Johnson and Wales University, Formerly an executive chef and and to build the variety of their Providence, R.I., worked as executive knowledgeable about pairing food offerings and services for their new chef and kitchen manager at the and wine, Phillips originally appealed private event space. respected Provisions Gourmet Market to Balaban’s owners for his specialty Commenting on his plan for in Creve Coeur for eight years before in sizeable groups, suited to the Balaban’s, Phillips says, “My joining Balaban’s. new space. In the new private event byword is consistency, consistency, His resume includes substantial space, Balaban’s created an intimate consistency. Balaban’s will highlight stints at Food Service Consultants and Wine Room for eight which houses fresh vegetables, fresh ingredients, their subsidiary, Specialized Catering, the older, library wines from the classic flavors and some different both in St. Louis and both involved original award-winning Café Balaban versions of the classics.” in preparing meals for large offices cellar. The other party space room Phillips aims to take Balaban’s and schools. seats 80 for dinner, 100 for cocktails back to its standard for the classic “We will get to where we want to and includes state of the art audio recipes: “We will focus on every go by creating a team, a team with video fittings.  element of every dish. That includes pride. As the coach, I’m building that the quality, the flavor and the team in the kitchen. Together, we will Reprinted with the permission of presentation.” make the food and rally around our FEAST Magazine, August 19, 2013. With nightly specials, Phillips great legacy. also wants to respond to customer “What I envision a year from requests. “I hope customers call and now consists of growing the business ask for what they want,” he says. to the point that Balaban’s receives In his first move as executive recognition in the marketplace for chef, Phillips hired two new kitchen banquets and catering. Our team will staffers. “I look not so much for take great pride in where they work,” THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 7 THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST

De Smet Jesuit alumnus Dan Duffy ‘90 reflects on his experiences surviving cancer, starting his own charitable foundation, and how his high school classmates have helped him through it all

BY DAN DUFFY ‘90 of my Jeep at 60 mph. I was hit and spun Bobby Holthaus, also class of 1990. i. My name is Dan. And I’m an out by a guy who had slowed his brand It wasn’t twenty minutes after send- accidental activist. new Mitsubishi Eclipse to 105 before ing out that email when I got a reply from I did not start out my life’s impact. I flew through the air, skipped Ron Johnson ’90, a man I hadn’t talked H like a rock across a lake down the median to since the day we graduated. I had no journey with the mission of becoming an activist. It just kind of happened that of I-70 near Riverport (it will always be idea how he’d even gotten my email. And way. Like most of you who went to De Riverport), and stood up 10 seconds after then I checked the entire body and real- Smet Jesuit, I had my ups and downs in my last “thud.” When I looked back at ized that Bobby had forwarded my note high school. I’m not exactly sure how I that incident, I thought, “I’m invincible.” to every single member of our graduat- graduated in 1990, and I am even more And eight years later, I found ing class for whom he had an address. I shocked that it was my only year to the lump. started hearing from people that, to be escape summer school. But hey, even a On the surface, it felt like a golf ball. honest, I never thought I’d hear from. blind pig finds a truffle. That Titleist ended up being the tip of I was so shocked and humbled. Since Throughout my life, I’ve had good a very large iceberg of a tumor. It had that day, Bobby has become one of my fortune like that which I did not deserve. started in my left testicle, and moved favorite people, and it started the day I got my dream job in radio by simply throughout the left side of my abdomen. he saw a fellow Spartan in need of noth- writing a letter to the show. Some scrib- My mortality came completely crashing ing but a prayer, and he made it happen. bling on a paper got me a three-month down around me. That day, and many times since, he’s been internship, which turned into a full time Thankfully, I had an amazing oncolo- a Man for Others. gig doing sports on Steve and D.C. be- gist named Burt Needles at St. John’s, and After surviving cancer, I realized that cause the news reader couldn’t pronounce he assured me that I was going to be okay. battling the disease was one of the most a single last name of any Blues player. While those words were reassuring, they reactionary experiences of my life, which “And in the Blues contest last night, didn’t come from someone I fully trusted. made the fight that much harder. For Keith Tuh-Kay-Chuck pulled off a trick So I did what any rational human being instance, I would love to have known that with a hat to beat Quebec Nor-Dee-Q’s 2 would do: I sent a bulk email to all of my one of the major side effects of my chemo to 1. Back to you in the studio.” friends and confidants, letting them know drugs was constipation. After a week, I In 1996, I survived being thrown out of my situation. One of those friends was stopped eating because everything inside 8 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 basically stopped, and there was literally Anyone who gets money from us must collect shoes for us, but they also volun- no room. You know how you feel after agree to split all net-profits in half: half teered themselves and their sophomore eating a big meal, like having a bowling going to any charitable cancer organiza- sons to work at our inaugural Movember ball in your gut? Picture it for a solid tion of the artist’s choosing, and half com- 5K this past October. week and a half and you will feel my ing back to us where we do it all again. And not only that, but fellow 90’er pain. You know what finally worked? A It’s actually a self-regenerating fund. Matt Horwitz’s two sons held a massive prescription. Know when I could have We are currently in the process of shoe drive at their middle school right used it? Maybe the day after I started raising funds for the first project, a feature around Christmas. 450 pairs were raised. chemo. I will spare you the details of the film tentatively titled “Half.” One of the And another 90’er, Tony DiFranco, sheer suffering when the “electricity” things we are doing to raise funds is col- continues to help us spread our message was restored. lecting shoes. For each pair we collect, we while working on his own initiative to But the physical was only part of it. receive a fee. And the shoes end up in the change the world, The Cries of a Child The mental minefield is even worse. With poorest regions on earth, where people (www.thecriesofachild.org). so many messed up things, I thought to can use them for safety, sanitation, and De Smet Jesuit students continue to be myself, “There has to be a way to warn more importantly … currency. Men for Others. It’s so refreshing to see, people about these sometimes scary, And believe it or not, shoes not only because that’s why we’re here, anyway: sometimes silly aspects of my walk with save lives, they enrich them. While I was to leave the world a better place than we cancer. But how?” in Port Au Prince, we went to a shoe dis- found it. They don’t just know it. They So I did what every accidental activist tribution at a school. I was fortunate to be live it. does: I used what I know. I had gradu- asked to sit in and put shoes on three chil- It’s one reason why I am always so ated from radio to video and film, so I dren. The final child was a girl who could honored to take part in the Mentorship wrote a screenplay. And with the help of not have been older than seven. She sat Lunch each year. I had my second such some great advice from some wonderful event a few weeks ago with my dear writers, especially the immensely talented friend Bart Baker as one of the speakers. and accomplished Bart Baker ’77, we have The goal of The Both Bart and I have seen a lot in the en- a much better script with which to make “ Half Fund is simple: tertainment business, and we are passion- our film. ate about a few things: don’t settle in your And originally, our only goal was to to further cancer career, take initiative, and remain true to make a film. But as time went on, we re- education through yourself, your principles, and your desire alized that this could be so much bigger. commercially to be a Man for Others. So we started on a path that was definite- Since the lunch, I have been contacted ly the road less traveled. viable art forms, by a few of the students who attended, I reached out to the local office of the such as movies or asking advice on blogging, writing, and American Cancer Society to tell them that documentaries or really just telling their stories. I’m huge we wrote a script, and were interested into telling stories, because it’s through in sharing some profits with the ACS. books or music. stories that we are given clues about life: Two hours after sending the email to a ” about the life we want to make for our- lady named April Dzubic, she was able selves, the life we want to make for oth- to navigate our crazy idea all the way down and I washed her feet. I then put ers, and the legacy we want to leave. to the national headquarters, where we socks on them, and then put on a pair I thank my Maker for a great many befriended and partnered with them in of black shoes about three sizes too big. things every day, and many of them had a our goal. When she stood up, everyone cheered. I direct link to De Smet Jesuit… my friends, But then we went even further. We realized that they weren’t clapping for my desire to help others, and my grati- found a fantastic lawyer, applied for me, so I asked what had just happened. tude for all that I’ve been given. If I leave 501(c)(3) status, and nine months later, “She gets to go to school now.” the world with one thing, I hope it’s that a bouncing baby charitable organization In Haiti, there is no money for school. I’ve been able to live my life as a Man for called The Half Fund was born. Wayne In order for a child to be able to attend, he Others. It is so much more than a saying Elsey, the man who started Soles4Souls, or she must have a pair of black, closed- or slogan. Hopefully, I’m living proof.  took us under his wing to mentor us. An toed shoes. This girl just got the oppor- editor for the Huffington Post came across tunity to attend classes for the first time Dan Duffy ’90 is filmmaker and video editor one of our blogs on our website. He liked in her life because of a single pair of black living in St. Louis. He is married with it so much that he asked us to submit one shoes. And because they were so big on two young sons, and hopes that The Half to HuffPo. Thirty-five blog posts later, her, she will be able to attend for at least Fund will eventually become irrelevant we’re still writing for them. three years. once cancer is finally eradicated. For more The goal of The Half Fund is simple: Never underestimate the power of a information on their efforts to lift the veil on to further cancer education through com- pair of shoes. cancer, please visit www.thehalffund.org. mercially viable art forms, such as mov- I was able to tell the Men’s Club about ies or documentaries or books or music. our idea, and not only did they agree to

THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 9 ROBOTICS AID PARALYZED ALUM A Conversation with Henry Evans, Class of 1980

At age 40, Henry Evans, Class of 1980, was left mute and quadriplegic Your have two Bachelor’s after a stroke-like attack caused by a hidden birth defect. Years of degrees from Notre Dame – therapy helped him learn to move his head and use a finger, which one in Accounting and one allows him to use a head-tracking device to communicate with a in German – plus an MBA from Stanford. You went on computer using experimental interfaces. Evans completed this interview to become a CFO in Silicon using this technology. Valley, but that doesn’t mean you were a hands-on engineer. A co-founder of Robots for Humanity (www.r4h.org), Henry has become When did you get bitten by the a pioneer in adaptive robotic tech to help him, and other disabled technology bug? people like him, navigate the world. In November 2013, Henry was a I have always liked technology, featured presenter at a TED event, a nonprofit devoted to spreading but I am an engineer by necessity, ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began as a not by formal education. Most conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, of what I do now is inspire and today covers almost all topics, from science to business to global engineers, versus doing hands-on issues, in more than 100 languages. engineering myself.

TELEPRESENCE  Henry Evans addresses the crowd via a robotic video monitor on stage at the TEDxMidAtlantic Conference, Oct. 2013. The device allowed him to speak to the assembled crowd in Washington, D.C. from his home in Los Altos Hills, CA.

10 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 Your TED bio describes you as How did your experience at De HENRY CLEVER ‘09 a “robotics activist.” Can you Smet Jesuit shape you into the DEVELOPS NEW define that for us? man you are today? Basically I’m making sure that I always valued my Jesuit educa- TECHNOLOGY TO ASSIST the latest robotic technologies are tion. The ‘Man for Others’ mantra QUADRIPLEGIC UNCLE being used to help disabled and makes you see yourself as part of a elderly people, whose own bodies larger whole; a whole that you can BY ANNE STEFFENS don’t perform well anymore. and should positively influence. he head-tracking device Henry TEvans used to answer our ques- You’re a drone pilot. Drones What is your next project? tions was created and designed by have a reputation as spying tools I am currently involved in his nephew Henry Clever ’09. Clever and weapons delivery systems. numerous ongoing projects with grew up in St. Louis, and was 11 Do drones have an “image researchers from almost a dozen years old when Evans had his stroke. problem”? If so, what will it take universities. The one project I will Clever’s relationship with Evans was to correct that? talk about is the World Tour of challenged, then, by distance and age. But it was Clever’s interest in Museums for quadriplegics and Yes, drones have an image technology that brought them closer. problem. We need to show the other mobility-impaired individuals “I’d always been fascinated with world that drones are just like any that I am organizing. Using tech companies and since he (Evans) other technology. They can be used telepresence robots, several other worked with many of them, I’d travel for good or for evil: ever since man quadriplegics, including one from out to California and hang out with first picked up a rock, he has had to Lithuania and one from England, him and his friends and learn from decide what to throw it at. and I will tour museums all over them,” said Clever. “I made these visits after he had his stroke, so I the world. We have already been don’t really remember much about You said that drones offer to museums in Mountain View, him before then.” the potential for bedridden California and Sydney, Australia, Clever remembers how the idea people to explore the outside and have plans to tour museums in came up about the new technology world. What advice can you San Francisco, Washington, D.C., his uncle uses now: “He (Evans) offer to bedridden people or and London. The point is to bring bought the sensors that read head their caregivers? attention to this groundbreaking movements, but they had to be configured, some things had to be technology and its ability to open The basic concept is that all soldered, and then we had to hook you need to transport around to the world’s museums to paralyzed them up to the microcontroller. He experience the world are your people, residents of nursing homes, said ‘Build it,’ so I built it!” sensory organs [in this case your students of all ages and able-bodied The University of Kansas student retinas], not your whole body. people who can’t take afford to credits De Smet Jesuit The advice is, never stop thinking travel. All you have to be able to teachers for his desire of alternative ways to do things, do is manipulate a mouse cursor, not only to help his uncle, but others regardless of how. I do it with now that your body is broken. who may be able to Remember, if you want something, my head. In fact, if you know an benefit from his new you look for options. If you don’t individual or group [school class, technology. want it, you look for excuses. elderly, disabled] or museum who “They always would like to participate, please encouraged Part of your college studies email me at [email protected]. service work included studying in Austria. How They can physically be located and empha- sized reach- has that overseas educational anywhere in the world.  ing out to experience influenced you? our com- It shattered my provincial view To see Evans’ TEDTalk in its munity, just of the world and made me realize entirety, visit because that people are the same everywhere http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_ it’s the – they have just adapted to their evans_and_chad_jenkins_meet_the_ right thing Photo courtesy of environments differently. robots_for_humanity to do.”  Dorie Clever

THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 11 The 2014 Odyssey Under the Sea Gala & Auction was a smashing success! The sold-out event, held at the Frontenac St. Louis Hilton, featured both silent and live auctions and raised over $500,000. Sponsorships alone totaled over $100,000, and the Fund-A-Need portion of the auction grossed the highest amount in the program’s history.

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1 - Emcee Chris Higgins ‘88 informs Judy Schnoebelen that she has won the trip to Cabo. 2 - Mike Stumpf, Amy Stumpf, Jim Ortbals, Eileen Ortbals, Diane Kavanaugh, Jim Kavanaugh, Auction Co-chair Kim Koenig, Joe Koenig, Bill McKeon ‘79, Kathy McKeon 3 - Bob Ferguson, Ann Ferguson, Libby Wolf, Andy Wolf, Catherine Brown, Michael Brown 4 - John Goessling ‘71, Tom Eschen ‘71, Ken Luecke, Larry Linkul ‘71 5 - Student Guest Speaker Alec Muhr ‘14 5

It’s a sea anemone!

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Missouri State Cross Country meet for the 19th consecutive season. 2013 - 2014 Fall and Winter Our team, which included our captains and Tyler Blechle, Nick Dolan, Nick Trunko and Blake Spartan Sports Recaps Waters, finished a respectable 14th place. Austin Del Rosso broke our school record with a time of 15:53 and a sixth- responsible citizens. This team is well place finish. This year’s FOOTBALL on its way to continue the success of team proudly contrib- Success in the football season is this season in their personal lives uted to the Spartan measured by the growth of the team and will carry the experiences of cross country team’s as they bond and form relationships, the season for the rest of their long-standing tradi- especially as they face hardships. We lives. In twenty years, they tion of excellence. were a very talented team, with ten will remember the struggles, — Coach Bryan of our players signing letters of intent the relationships, and the Traughber to play college football. We had a spirit of “The Family” that winning season (6-5), with the losses they created. to state-ranked teams by a total of 22 — Coach Pat Mahoney points. However, we define success by the closeness of our team members SOCCER just as our theme, “Only the Family,” The season pretty much started would exemplify what a family should CROSS out as an unknown. In typical do in times of trouble. The evidence De Smet Jesuit soccer fashion, of their bonding is how they have we started out slowly. As the COUNTRY season progressed, this group began supported each other after the death of The senior lead- to develop its own personality and senior defensive back Adrian Bowman, ership of Austin style. In the last half of the season, and the work they have done to help Del Rosso, Stephen this team performed well beyond the each other and Adrian’s family. This is Plassmeyer, and Matthew Barkofske expectations of the coaches. Victories the true measure of this year’s team’s proved to be the cornerstone of the over Vianney and Chaminade success. It is far more 2014 De Smet Jesuit cross country highlighted the end of the season. The important to see how season. These Spartan captains led the season ended with a tough loss, 2-1, these young men have way for a season that included a first- to CBC in the district semifinal. We matured and become place finish at the Webster Warmup finished with a record of 15-10. This and second-place finishes at team learned to focus on team play The Fleet Feet Kickoff, rather than individual performances Missouri Catholic Con- and statistics. They truly played for ference, and Section- the name on the front of their jersey. als. Throughout the There were a number of players on this season, the team ma- team that may not have been able to tured on and off the crack the starting lineup on teams in field. Each and every the past, but, by turning their efforts to day the team members team play, they were most effective for worked to improve and this year’s squad. compete in accordance with — Coach Greg Vitello our school’s motto – AMDG – for the greater glory of God. The season finished with BASKETBALL Henry Ford wrote, “Coming together the team earn- is a beginning; keeping together is ing a trip to the progress; working together is success.” 14 | THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 GameTime

These words outline the journey of the Andrew Marino and Andrew Jackson time in the 100 butterfly and 500 2013 - 2014 basketball season. With improved steadily throughout the year freestyle events, respectively. The the graduation of four starters, four and will be top players next year. season culminated in a strong showing seniors new to the basketball program, Competing in the U.S. High School by all our swimmers at conference and three sophomores new to the Nationals in Portland, Oregon, De and an outstanding solo effort by Zach varsity team, the early season focused Smet Jesuit placed 15th out of 30 teams Holtgrewe at the MSHSAA State Swim on coming together as a team. As nationally. Otto, Lane, Sanchez and Meet. The 2013 De Smet Jesuit swim the season progressed, finding Jackson represented the Spartans. team exceeded expectations and has victory on the scoreboard was With a talented group of sopho- laid an excellent foundation for future difficult, and the task of keep- mores and juniors on the JV teams, success. ing together had just begun. the future looks promising. The — Coach Doug Maitz Injuries like a broken leg, a Spartan trademark this year concussion, and a severe was continual improvement, leg injury kept some of our complemented by a strong players off the court. De- team camaraderie. A WRESTLING spite making obvious gains constant compliment As a first-year wrestling coach at De in play on the court, the from our opponents Smet Jesuit High School, my goal was grind of the season began was “what incred- to simply get young men interested in to take its toll. After ible sportsmen” we wrestling. Nine freshmen started on the sudden death were – “Men For Oth- varsity, with little wrestling experience, of senior classmate ers” in “deeds more than and 18 young men stayed with the Adrian Bowman, words”! program through the entire season. the guys came togeth- — Coach Ken Luecke Many of these student-athletes tried er, supported each other and something they either thought they found a way to keep together. would never do, or tried something In the final weeks of the sea- that was a bit out of their element. Our son, their efforts to work to- SWIMMING season finished with a 5-7-1 record. gether began to bear fruit. The 2013 De Smet Jesuit We’ve made many changes this year The team worked together swim team entered the and the student-athletes are excited for to win four of the final six season having lost many next season. These wrestlers are close games against quality oppo- talented leaders to graduation. and they all really want to succeed. We nents. The effort of this team to come Captains Zach Holtgrewe, Billy did well not only on the mat, but in the together, to keep together and to work Donley, and Sean Oca led a team classroom as well. We finished with a together is commendable. They gave dominated by seniors and freshmen, 3.45 cumulative GPA, which is the best everything they had to give. who were largely untested as I have seen in all my years as a coach. — Coach Kevin Poelker swimmers. Three months and over a — Coach Colby Robinson million collective yards later, several individuals emerged as leaders on the team. Veteran seniors Taylor Dalske RACQUETBALL and Zach Holtgrewe led the team as With seven of eight positions manned two of the hardest workers in practice, by first time varsity players, the rac- setting a tone of dedication and quetball team posted a 4 and 6 record, effort. Junior Sam Davis, in his beating teams from all four Metro first year on the De Smet Jesuit Catholic Conference schools. Re- swim team, surfaced as a standout turning letterman senior Adam Otto sprinter and was second in the team’s brought leadership to the program, high-point standings. Sophomore serving as a co-captain with senior Marc Schneier was Most Improved, Patrick Hannegan, who was half of and will be a cornerstone of the team the doubles’ team paired with fellow in coming seasons. Freshmen Mitch senior Ryan Lane. Seniors Matt Sul- Orf and Ben Kinnison demonstrated lentrup and Merritt Harvey performed just how much strong work ethics strongly, while juniors Ray Sanchez, pay off by consistently dropping THE ODYSSEY Spring 2014 | 15 GameTime

Photos by Conrad Dorn ‘15 SPARTAN HOCKEY HEADS TO MID-STATES CHAMPIONSHIP he De Smet Jesuit hockey team had a tremendous a part of the season’s success as the players on the ice. The year. Four years ago, the team won only three games support of the entire student body was beyond what anyone Tthe entire season. With hard work and dedication, expected – the team and coaching staff were overwhelmed the team was able to completely turn the program around, with the creative videos made to support the team and the closing this year with a record of 25-4-2. De Smet Jesuit sales of golden t-shirts and hoodies that created a “Gold faced many formidable opponents this year, but maybe Rush” in the stands. The team fought hard despite tough none more exciting than SLUH in the Jesuit Cup game. The obstacles and played with great heart and perseverance. players worked diligently, without giving up, to overcome a Although the team was not able to bring home the Cup this two-goal deficit twice in one game and claim the Cup. It was year, the future of the hockey program is extremely bright the first Jesuit Cup victory for De Smet Jesuit in four years. – the current freshmen, sophomores and juniors are strong The team hit their stride going into the Jesuit Cup and players, and the incoming freshmen have great promise. set their next goal: to win their 15th Challenge Cup Mar. The program is destined to compete for state championships 2. The team finished the season ranking second in the state for many years to come. and headed to the Scottrade Center. The fan support was — Coach John Mattingly exceptional – the team felt that the fans were just as much

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