As a graduate of two great Jesuit schools (the University of Detroit and Loyola University) and as an educator, I was dismayed to read of the unseemly zeal for money of Rev. Donald Rowe, president of St. Ignatius College Prep (Page 1, March 6).
Like Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby,” Father Rowe speaks with a “voice full of money.” Sadly, his great gifts as a fundraiser have transformed him into the George Steinbrenner of Catholic education: firing five principals in nine years and trampling on the desires of St. Ignatius faculty.
I can’t imagine the Jesuits who have taught me squeezing people for a buck like Father Rowe. Yes, he has restored and added to a great building, but at what cost to Jesuit and Christian values? “For where your treasure is, there is your heart also.”
