A CALL TO - Saint Joseph's College

which is due to be published by Taylor and Francis later
this year. He also is co-author of the book Control Theory
for Humans, which was published in 2005. John and his
wife Linnea have three sons and had their first grandson
in September. Linnea continues to teach 6th grade at St.
Luke’s School in Beavercreek, Ohio.
Sr. Barbara Ann Smelko, S.C. ’79 is Vocation Director of
the Seton International House in Chicago after five years of
ministering at St. James. She will reach out to the people
of Chicago in sharing the vocational call to religious life.
Sister Barbara’s ministry in Chicago began 7/12/10.
Roger G. Robins ’80 is an American Studies Specialist
teaching in the English Department at the University of
Tokyo. He has a book coming out from Praeger publishing
called Pentecostalism in America. Please visit
www.greenwood.com or www.amazon.com for more
information. A quote from Roger: “SJC was just the right
place for me, and the professors I had there made an
enormous contribution to my development as a person
and as a scholar.”
Martin E. Maher ’82 was promoted to Consultant
- Specialist Network Security Engineer at Kaiser
Permanente.
Brian Studebaker ’92 is the Director of Admissions at
Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., where he oversees the
processes for undergraduate and graduate admissions.
Sidnie Wilder, daughter of Deren ’94 and Karen Jung
Wilder ’94 and granddaughter of SJC Fellow Gail Evans,
received a bronze medal in the hammer throw at the
Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in
California.
Jason M. Quigg ’97 finished his 11th year as the varsity
boys’ basketball coach at River Forest High School in
Hobart, Ind. The team finished the season 15-7, which
tied the record for the second most wins in school
history. Quigg was also named the Greater South Shore
Conference Coach of the Year. He works as a guidance
counselor at the school and is the head coach of the boys’
golf team.
Jessica Pitstick ’02 obtained her master’s degree in
Management from Indiana Wesleyan.
Luke Hansen ’04, along with two other Catholics,
returned from a pilgrimage to Bermuda where they
visited with former Guantanamo prisoners and sought
relationships and reconciliation with the men.
Amanda Barnhart Senac ’05 graduated from Indiana
University School of Optometry on 5/7/10.
Sarah Wright ’10 accepted a position with the Portage
School Corporation as a General Music Teacher at Fegely
Middle School.
Drexel alumni are posting some memories
on the online forum. You can check it out at
“Forums” on the alumni website.
In the fall of 1957, my parents drove me to Saint
Joseph’s College to start what were to be some
of the best years of my life. Upon registering, we
learned that I was to be assigned to Drexel Hall,
and until that moment, we didn’t even know it
existed.
When we toured campus the previous spring,
none of our guides took us across the road to see
Drexel—it wasn’t exactly a “selling point.”
When we saw the place for the first time, that
late August day, and learned that I was to be in
a three-man room, I don’t know whether I was
more upset or my parents were. I learned many
years later that my parents had a heated discussion
as to whether they were going to leave me
there or take me back home to Chicago. Perhaps
one of the best decisions my parents ever made
raising me was to leave me to fend for myself
in the “godforsaken dorm across the road from
everything else.”
My time in Drexel with my terrific roommates
and fellow Drexel Pumas may have helped form
a sense of team, brotherhood, and true loyalty
that I would never have learned in any other
dorm on any other college campus. I can say
without any doubt that Drexel Hall helped form
men, citizens, and leaders—and it was only a
building...or was it?
–Frank Caccamo ’61
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