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ON CAMPUS
Jubilant Time | By Mike Thee President Sundborg among notable Jesuits marking major milestones this year Four Seattle University Jesuits are celebrating significant milestones this year. Pat O’Leary, S.J., chaplain for faculty and staff, is marking the 50th anniversary of his ordination; Stephen Sundborg, S.J., president, and Pat Howell, S.J., rector, are both celebrating 50 years as Jesuits; and for Dave Anderson, S.J., chaplain for alumni, it is his 25th anniversary of entering the Jesuit Order.
ordained. As for the ordination itself, O’Leary remembers it mainly as one of the hottest days in Spokane history. Sundborg and Howell joined the Jesuits the same year. Sundborg remembers taking a flight from Washington, D.C., and then getting on a Greyhound bus from Portland to the novitiate, which was 50 miles southwest in Sheridan, Ore. The bus left him off at the base of a hill where he was met Collectively, the four have served strong sense of the presence of God nearly 200 years as Jesuits. It’s a stagfrom when I was age 7 onward. It was at by a pickup truck that took him up to the farm on which the novitiate sits. gering statistic, especially when you that time that I thought I would really stop and think about all the lives they be a priest and that never diminished.” Sundborg and another novice jumped in have touched through the years in their The North Dakota native wound up the back of the truck with their suitcases. various ministries. at Gonzaga University, which, he says, “For me it was just a totally different world. I’d never been on a farm,” he Recently, the four jubilarians, as they “was quite a leap when you consider says. “I never will understand how I ever are known, sat down for a conversation we lived 1,100 miles from Spokane.” got on that airplane in Washington, about why they decided to become Father Anderson says he’s a Jesuit D.C., a month after my 18th birthday priests, what they remember about today because of “God’s persistence. and left my family behind. I don’t know the day they entered the Jesuits—or in I always felt a sense of attraction to how I did it.” Father O’Leary’s case, his ordination— being a Jesuit and there was just this Most of the novices, like Sundborg, and what they treasure most about the feeling that God kept calling me. I were fresh out of high school. At 21, lives they’ve chosen. remember my grandmother, when Howell was considered the “old man” of O’Leary’s call to the priesthood I was five or six, looking me in the the group. He remembers getting to the had a lot to do with family, he says. eyes and saying, ‘I want one of my His mother died when he was young grandsons to be a priest.’ I don’t know novitiate and hearing about this fellow and so he moved in with relatives in if she ever said that to anyone else, but that he just had to meet nicknamed “Borg.” It wasn’t long before the future Tacoma. He lived a half a block from I never forgot that.” SU rector would make the acquaintance St. Leo’s parish and went to Bellarmine In high school, Anderson made a of the man who would become the Prep. Search Retreat where he had “a deep “The example of the Jesuits I knew experience of God’s presence and a call university’s 21st president. A quarter century later, Anderson there and the faith of the family I’d to the priesthood that was really clear took a somewhat different route to come from were the seeds of my vocato me.” the Jesuit novitiate. After attending the tion,” he says. O’Leary has vivid memories of 1986 World’s Fair in Vancouver, B.C., he The Jesuits, too, influenced Father his ordination 50 years ago. “You’d and his parents drove down I-5 to the Sundborg. In his case, the Jesuits of think I’d have all kinds of pious and novitiate. “...Once I arrived, there was a Alaska. spiritual thoughts of that day,” he connection with the six of us in our class “I always had this sense that they says, with a laugh. “The night before and the three in the class ahead of us. were already welcoming me (as a the ordination, all of a sudden I get a young person),” he says. knock at my door and it’s one my best There was a lot of laughter and a lot of joy, and I felt that I was really at home.” In high school at Georgetown Prep, friends who was to be ordained with Reflecting on his life as a priest, Howell he found himself identifying particularly me, and he said, ‘I can’t go through says, “I look back now, 50 years after with his young Jesuit teachers who were with it.’ So, I was more concerned entering the Jesuits and think, ‘Wow, what not ordained yet and only about a about what he was going to do than a great decision to have made at 21.‘ I’ve decade his senior. my own ordination.” never had any doubts about my vocation.” Father Howell says, “I had a very In the end, O’Leary’s friend got
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