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I'm back from my clergy retreat (at Salt Fork, down near Cambridge) and really enjoyed reading the Eppley files, especially the excerpt from your autobiographical writings.

It's amazing how slow bureaucracies move. And how sad!

Meanwhile, thanks for raising the issue of vetting our political candidates, and the process, the shift, that's been going on (for a long time) towards fame as opposed to depth.

I wonder what has to happen?

Mary Grigolia

Oh, George, many memories!!! Those were good years at HN - I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes - partly probably I was so young and just out of the Novitiate. Thanks for all you did there.

Katie Hoelscher

Hi George

I know I speak for all your readership when I tell you just how wonderful it is to have you back in our lives.

John Graafmeyer, D.O.

For some reason, I just did not remember that you were the Principal of Holy Name High School for 8 years after our seminary class graduated in June, 1960. You taught our senior English class and I do not remember you being away on retreat during May of 1960...why would you go on retreat during the academic year? And I never knew you were downtown at St. John College. I remember Msgr. Larry Cahill being the President there after leaving the seminary.

I can begin to appreciate what you went through. I graduated from Borromeo College of Ohio in 1964 and taught at St. John Cantius for 2 years and then moved to Elyria Catholic with Father Bob Donohoe. During my years at EC, Father John Fiala (associate at my home parish, St. Wenceslas) was the Principal at Cleveland Central Catholic or maybe it was just Our Lady of Lourdes at that time before the schools combined. I would see John whenever our 2 schools played each other.

All this was during the time you were Principal at Holy Name. I am glad I left when I did because I enjoyed being in education for over 40 years as a teacher and psychologist.

Dr. Joe Hoelscher

Still in great form. Thanks, George.

I know what you mean about the need to vet our candidates, George. But this presents a real challenge for me. I have always argued about too blithely voting for the other party. I have yet to see any inkling of "the common good" in their platform.

Bill Picard

Hello George,

I was delighted with your essay. An honest insight into the usual workings of the institution.

Paul Wysocki

Dear George:

Having lived through that tumultuous time at the “old” Holy Name as a high school student, I had little if any appreciation for your dilemma(s) in taking this assignment. All I knew was that you were changing an institution so dear to so many and not necessarily for the better, or so we thought in our ignorance and simplicity of understanding.

Thank God the years can be kind: long ago I came to see that, in fact, you were transforming it into a respectable, educational learning center to be proud of. And, as I’ve come to know you personally over these past 30+ years, I thank you heartily for your efforts, despite your vicissitudes in making it a reality.

Many thanks, Neighbor.

Steve DeJohn

George,

Thanks for sharing the Holy Name story with us. Only a man of your principle and stature could have dealt with such dysfunction and come out of it with the respect you so richly deserve. This is the kind of story I need to hear.

As for Edwards and Palin -- I can only shake my head in disbelief.

Eileen Teare