On his decision to join the Jesuits

Yes, I hadn't known much about the Jesuits until then. And I remember that a group of us used to meet for daily prayers at the little chapel on the B.C. campus. That and the St. Francis Xavier Novena of Grace each year were what led me to keep the Jesuits in the back of my mind. So I finally went to the Jesuit superior at B.C. and said, "I want to go into the priesthood." And he said, "Where?" I said, "The Jesuits." That's when a big smile showed on his face, because, as he later explained, that particular year there were only fifteen candidates for the Jesuits, when in previous years there were generally thirty or so applicants.

On upgrading the phone system

at Weston/Campion

When I came back to Weston/Campion in 1978, the house looked out of date. So one of the first things I did was to put a telephone next to each bed and on each desk. The old system was bulky; it had come from Navy surplus and from the Boston subway system. I got rid of all of that outdated equipment. We gave them to a museum and to a school. Just then a big downtown store was in the process of closing. So I was able to buy the telephone system and set it up here at Campion. Managing that kind of thing was my main responsibility in that house at that time.