"Dr. Mike Wright was the best. He was fun, he was good and he cared for his students. I married when I was a junior and my wife (a sophomore, my high school sweetheart and a math major) attended Marymount (we merged before they did). She became pregnant in my senior year and Mike went crazy when she was in his class – he said he didn't know if he should boil water and wear rubber gloves!
On a more serious note, when I was applying to grad schools, I was getting accepted but [received] no assistantship offers. I applied to the University of Kansas because he went there, and went back for a symposium and asked why I had no offer? They said one of my professors had written a bad letter of recommendation. Mike told them he would send back five good ones from others, and I ended up at KU with an assistantship and an office in an old barracks next to the football stadium, with anti-Mike Wright graffiti on the men's room wall!! Apparently he was tough in the classes he taught there as a grad student. He died of cancer in my second year of grad school – not even 30 years old.
I could also mention Fr. Wallen, Dr. Wicker, Fr. Cooney and others."