Episodes
Browse Insignis episodes in their entirety below.
- Wilderness CEO
- Good Show!
- Spirit in Sport
- Ignatius 500
- Spotlight: Michael Mohr, SJ
- SLUH Remastered
- Finding a Voice
- Making Makers
- SJ @ SLUH
- Mission Improv
- World Learning (3 episodes)
Wilderness CEO
In this episode of Insignis, we meet alum Tim Bantle '95, a one-time wilderness guide and adventurer, now CEO of Seattle -based Eddie Bauer. Tim not only crosses between these worlds, but has made it his vocational and professional mission to hold them together. And he still rides his bike to work everyday. You don't want to miss his story or his insights. And we'll go "down the hall' to meet students and faculty who tell us how both wilderness and business programs are a vibrant part of their formation at SLUH.
Good Show!
Spirit in Sport
Insignis is celebrating one of the most important influences on young people: sports! Three extraordinary guests are our guides as we explore "Spirit in Sport."
Ben Rosario '98 is the Executive Director and Head Coach of Hoka NAZ Elite, a professional running team. In 2020, he coached Alaphine Tiliamuk to first place in the Women's Olympic Trials Marathon. That "mountain top" accomplishment capped a very competitive life, marked tremendous success in high school, college and professional running, as well as in business.
Murphy Troy '07 joins us from his home in Newport Beach, California, where he works in technology sales analytics. Competitive sports played a formative role in making him who he is as a person and a professional. His athletic career took him from cheerleader on the Blue Crew, to All State All-American, to professional volleyball player and an Olympic Bronze medal winner.
Steve Nicollerat is in his 42nd year of teaching at SLUH. But for 37 of those years he served as the SLUH head baseball coach. This winner of the Bob Broeg Award for Distinguished Service to High School Sports shows us why he's been called a "Jedi Master" – both of the game baseball and the game of life.
Ignatius 500
The latest episode is a celebration of the Ignatian Year. It's been 500 years since St. Ignatius was wounded in battle by an errant cannonball and experienced a profound conversation in recovery. You'll hear how his powerful, solitary experience still reverberates in the works and mission of the Jesuits, especially in education.
Matt Stewart, SJ '98 talks about his own vocation story, and what it's like to begin a third chapter of life at SLUH. Mr. and Mrs. Hap '82 and Mary Burke, parents of two SLUH graduates, discuss their work in adult spiritual formation. And Dr. Eric Clark '83, former SLUH Dean of Students and current President of Loyola Academy, gives moving and powerful testimony to a lifetime of commitment to Jesuit education. You'll also hear many student voices, some sharing what Igntatius and Jesuit education means to them and others raising their voices to celebrate that tradition in song.
Spotlight: Michael Mohr, SJ
Insignis in the Spotlight
Our first new and original Spotlight edition of Insignis – with departing Jesuit Regent Michael Mohr – gives you a preview of many more short programs coming soon taken from previous seasons of the podcast.
In a vivid and moving conversation, Michael talks about being raised in the rich stew of family, music, faith and service in Louisiana and the unfolding of his vocation to the Jesuits that has taken him from a remote village in Central America, to three years at SLUH and now on to Rome for Theology studies.
You'll find the new Spotlight logo on the SLUH website. When you click on the name and photo of one of our past guests, you'll hear that single interview on its own. These Spotlight programs will also be published on iTunes and Spotify. Be sure to subscribe and watch for more long form episodes on Sports and Entertainment in the year ahead.
Spotlight: Michael Mohr, SJ
SLUH Remastered
This Insignis episode features two programs on one of the most disruptive – but also creative and inspiring – chapters in SLUH's 203-year history. Like a classic music track updated and enhanced for new audiences with better technology, you'll not only hear how SLUH endured the pandemic, but how, thanks to the efforts of so many from every corner of the school community, our school will be richer and more mission focussed when the pandemic is behind us.
Program 1
CRISIS: Spring and Summer 2020
Both programs are anchored by an ongoing interview with the SLUH Faculty Panel that led our pandemic response: Kevin Foy (Social Studies Chair), Steve Missey '88 (English teacher and Prep News moderator), Megan Menne (Science teacher and STUCO moderator), Craig Hannick (Math teacher and Financial Aid Director) and Tim Curdt '90 (English teacher, Summer School Principal and Learning Center Director).
In addition, you'll hear in-depth interviews with Music Director Jeff Pottinger and Admissions Director Ann Murphy, as well as short takes with a number of school leaders and taking a trip "down the hall" to hear from students. And in the spirit of our "Remastered" theme, you'll hear great music from students in our band programs and from two alum-rich musical groups, local rising stars The Mighty Pines and Chicago's Folk Options.
Program Two
OPPORTUNITY: Fall 2020, Present and Future
The conversation with our panel continues as they describe not only the "Hyflex" mode of the past semester, but the profound ways this crisis will influence the future of SLUH. There's more great music from our student and alum groups and another trip "down the hall" that includes a preview of the "New Spoonriver Anthology" drama on the Schulte Theater stage, coming to you soon on video!
Featured interviewees include Spanish Teacher Maria Paz Campos, Science teacher Mary Russo and more short takes with school leaders and a closing reflection with Principal Fr. Ian Gibbons.
SLUH Remastered Gallery
About our musical guests
The Mighty Pines include graduates John Hussung '07 (son of English teacher Chuck Hussung) and Neil Salsich '07. The group also includes Gerard Erker (husband of Maria Paz Campos) and Mike Murano.
>>> Learn more about the group and their music
Folk Options is Will Linhares '10 (son of Jim Linhares).
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Finding a Voice
Our new INSIGNIS podcast explores issues of authenticity, creativity and diversity in the context of high school education and formation. Among the questions we consider: How can we encourage and support young people (as well the adults who work with them) to find their own voices? You'll hear from: Mrs. Addie Akin and the SLUH Chorus; Dan Cornell '94, a national leader and entrepreneur in software security; Daniel Heard '04, a PhD statistician and risk analyst for USAA and recent speaker at our Black History Month assembly; Senior and Presidential Leadership Award winner Antwine Wills '19; and SLUH Director of Equity and Inclusion, Frank Kovarik '94. This show also features original music by Ramon Ortiz '20 and a reading from a recent essay in Sisyphus by Matt Friedrichs '20.
Pictured (from left): Antwine Willis '19, Dan Cornell '94, Daniel Heard '04 and Frank Kovarik '94
Making Makers
SJ @ SLUH
Mission Improv
Fine arts teacher Kevin McKernan '01 draws from his experience and passion to reveal more about the art of improv.
World Learning (3 episodes)
Episode 1
World Learning: Episode 1
The first episode takes you to a cafe table in Paris for a conversation with Joe Dickmann '00, now a French citizen who, among other pursuits, had a gig as an American-style football coach despite never having played the game in the States himself! You'll hear the moving story of how our President, Alan Carruthers, went from a boyhood in rural Canada to his leadership role here at SLUH. And you'll meet the remarkable Tom McTigue '55 who directed the dawn of digital computing in Boeing aircraft and came to be a globe-trotting educator on the importance of understanding other cultures.
Episode 2
World Learning: Episode 2
In the second episode, we'll get a sense of the panorama of Global Ed programs at SLUH from Director of International Education, Rob Chura and go 'down the hall' to Russian class to listen in on the 'comprehensible input' approach to language learning. We'll also visit with Human Geography teacher Sarah Becvar for a look at a recent innovative approach to Social Studies. And you'll meet Matthew Stauder '18, who is studying Economics and International Development in the same program as Venezuela's Juan Guiado and approaches his future with the literal goal of making the world a better place.
Episodes 1 & 2 Gallery
Episode 3
In the third episode, you'll hear from Sam Owen '17, who is in his final year at Caltech. His experience on Senior Project at San Yves Nutrition Center in Yoro, Honduras set him on a path that led to an internship at NASA and, in a surprising twist, to Iceland.
Our two other guests also take us to "The Center" in Honduras. Retired teacher Charley Merriott, the founder and patron saint of the project in Yoro, gives moving testimony to what his many years of service meant to him and how he saw it transform a generation of young men.
Next, we catch up with the current Director of The Center, SLUH alum Patrick Mulligan '13. His service to malnourished children got him thinking about why so many were hungry in a land of plenty and that question ultimately drove him to found Nutrifund--a Nonprofit with a mission of addressing the root causes of hunger in Honduras.
Along the way, we'll go "down the hall" to visit foreign language classrooms and join alums who came by SLUH last year on a "Fund the Need" evening event. They share why their own SLUH experience many years ago, moved them to extend that experience to present and future students at SLUH.
