Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — Early College Graduates [ARTICLE]

Early College Graduates

There has been quite a re-union of the earlier students of St. Joseph’s College, at that institution, this week. The most notable among these are the members of the first olass of graduates, that of 1890, who are now in tue priesthood, and who finished their theological studies and were ordained last June, These are Fathers J. F. Cogan, J. B. Fitzpatrick, T. M. Conroy and A, Seimetz. These are all most excellent and able young men, and their qualities have been very markedly recognized by the ohuroh authorities, in assigning them to pastoral positions. Father Cogan is assistant pastor at St- Raphael’s church, of Springfield O, the best assistant pastorate in the diocese of Ohio. ; Father Fitzpatrick is assistant pastor of the oathdral church at Fort Wayne and his is the best assistant pastorate in' the Fort Wayne diocese. Father Conroy is full pastor of the Catholic church at Portland, Ind , which is a most unusual circumstance for a priest in his first year. Father Seimetz is assistant pastor at Peru, Ind. A meeting of the collage alumni association was held Wednesday evening, and officers elected. High mass was oelebrated by the young priests, with Father Conroy as celebrant and Father Cogan preached the sermon. Father Cogan, by the way, was the first editor in chief of the oollege magazine, The St. Joseph’s Collegian. It took a high rank among oollege publications from the first, and a rank it has always maintained. Other early students here this week are L. Eberle, of Peru and W. D. Sullivan, of Lafayette, of the olass of ’97, both of whom will complete their course in the theological seminary next J une. Also Joseph Sulzer, of ’9B, who is now a ledaing business man of Chilicothe, Ohio.