One time, in around 2005, several of my friends from the St. Joe College football team were having a reunion in Chicago. The friends that I was meeting with had always been upset that some of them had been thought of by the faculty at the school as good athletes but marginal students. Yet here we were all with PhD’s and still feeling neglected as good examples of scholar-athletes by the college, a college which could use some favorable publicity. In fact, a college that has now closed completely because of its dept.

For our reunion, I decided to make up a factitious brochure from the college about us as, as a random selection of scholar=athletes, and their academic and athletic accomplishments. My brochure was a hit at the reunion and a copy follows:

 

The unappreciated careers of its scholar-athletes by St. Joseph College were:

Don Gorman – Professor of Geology, Bradley University,

Roland Meinert – Dean of College of Social Work, University of Missouri

John Thorp – PhD and DDS, executive with Blue Cross – Blue Shield

William Zimmer – Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico