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niscing, however,
for Vose,
whose work at
Saint Mary’s
also included
spending time
capturing and
radio-tracking
deer, turkeys,
swans and
geese, studying
river vegetation
from the
ground and the
air, and wandering
around much of Puerto Rico and
Alaska.
“I have been involved in so
many things that have gone way
beyond the classroom,” Vose said.
“But the friendships and the
many outstanding
people I’ve
come
in
contact
with at Saint
Mary’s is something I
will most cherish. Having the opportunity
to work with Brother Charles
Severin, the founder of the biology
department and a true mentor, is one
of my fondest memories. My time
with him, especially our walks in the
fields, forests and marshes of the
area, will always be fondly remembered.”
DR. PAT COSTELLO ’54
YEARS AT SAINT MARY’S: 39
DEPARTMENT: English
PLANS FOR RETIREMENT: Read, spend
more time in the weight room, write
long (probably unanswered) letters to
Harold Bloom, author of the best-selling Shakespeare:
The Invention of the Human, and watch coach Bob
Biebel bring the SMU men’s basketball team to the top
of the MIAC.
Fond memories are the norm
with these seven.
And when you’ve been around
as long as they have, there are plenty
to go around.
“One of the most outstanding
features of Saint Mary’s
through the years has been the
friendliness of everyone on
campus — administration, faculty,
staff, and especially, the
student body,” said Costello, the
elder statesmen
of the
group, having
spent four
years making a
name for himself
on the basketball
court as a student
(he’s among the
school’s top five
all-time in five
individual and five
career categories
— including No. 1 in single-season
scoring average and No. 4 in career
points) and 39 years making a name
for himself as one of the most passionate
teachers of literature the
school has ever seen. “What has
delighted me most has been talking
with serious students about the great
books we have read together. Occasionally
I will receive a card from an
ex-student who wasn’t so wonderful,
but who just saw a production of a
Shakespeare play and enjoyed it
more for having read it in class. That,
too, is heartwarming.”
Whether it was the serious student,
as Costello called them, who
just wanted to talk, or the not-soserious
student whose card was a
way of saying “thanks,” these seven
individuals have touched the
lives of so many
“We now have great physical facilities, programs and
departments that simply did not exist ‘back then.’
Our students’needs are met much more fully.
Saint Mary’s has been a wonderful place, and I will miss it.”
RORY VOSE
— Dr. Orest Ochrymowycz
YEARS AT SAINT MARY’S: 31 1 /2
DEPARTMENT: Science
PLANS FOR RETIREMENT: Writing,
drawing, painting and photography,
while spending more time with his
wife — “something that has been partly neglected
over the last several decades.”
over the
years.
DR. OREST
OCHRYMOWYCZ ’57
YEARS AT SAINT
MARY’S: 38
DEPARTMENT: Modern
languages
PLANS FOR RETIREMENT: Fish, hunt,
garden, read, play with his
granddaughter.
And vice-versa.
“I cherish all the student contacts
I have made. I feel so enriched
because I have learned so much from
working with the students,” said Jane
Ochrymowycz, who is leaving SMU
after 20-plus years, the majority in the
academic support services department.“The
students have always challenged
me to broaden my horizons,
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