MUHS

This weekend is the celebration of the 50th anniversary of my class at Marquette University High School (MUHS) here in Milwaukee. Marquette High School was and is a school for wealthy and well connected. I was and am neither. I was from a middle class working family, had no family that had attended Marquette but somehow got in. Actually a number of boys from my parish school got in to Marquette but for various reasons, money or grades, dropped out the first year. I was a quiet ‘outcast’ in high school but somehow made it through. The 50th anniversary weekend includes an expensive get together at a local country club which we will not be attending. But there is a ‘free’ Mass or Liturgy tomorrow afternoon which we will attend.

The older I get the more I feel in solidarity with poor, sick and other outcast of society. I just would not feel comfortable at a country club with all the doctors, lawyers, academics and wealthy the class of 61′ produced.

However, I deeply appreciate that I did get a chance to attend this Catholic Jesuit high school. It was in high school that I felt this strong need to bridge the gap between what you say and what you do. This “being the change you want to see” has gotten me trouble over the years, even with the Jesuit religious order that were my teachers in high school. But no matter how many mistakes I make or how imperfect I am, I feel an overwhelming passion to be a ‘truth seeker’ and to put my faith into action.

If that means being an outcast, like I was in high school, so be it. This lesson of trying to practice what one believes has done me well. Thank you Marquette University High School.

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