A chance Steds...

Ray Wise '85, Bill Novack '85, David Oh '16 and Tom Pieronek '85

...encounter at Boston College. That's what Steds senior, David Oh, experienced when he decided to go to the proverbial lion's den, Boston College's campus, on game day. Crazy? Absolutely crazy, but what David experienced was even crazier. What happened? In David's own words...

                 As a photographer for the Scholastic, I decided to take a trip that would take me deep into

                 enemy territory. Yes. I decided to make a visit to BC's campus. Why not? What could

                 happen? After the long trek, I decided to get lunch at a restaurant frequented by BC

                 students. Why not? What could happen? Of course, I saw a lot of Eagles fans, but yet,

                 there was a table of Notre Dame fans!  What's more unbelievable was one of them was

                 rockin' a Steds sweatshirt- a bona fide old-school sweatshirt- the likes of which my

                 generation have only seen in past Hall class photos. Amazed, I couldn't help but go over

                 and introduce myself. It turned out they were all classmates whose freshman year was the

                 year AFTER the Great Fire of 1980.  Since graduating, they've been getting together every

                 year since 1996 for a "Guy's Weekend," seeing home and away games.  I was told that the

                 sweatshirt is worn only on those mini-reunion game weekends.  Well, now I know what

                 I'm going to start doing after graduation next year. Still, my chance encounter with these           
                 Steds alums further proved what I've always believed to be true--that St. Edward's Hall is 
                 home to a brotherhood for life!

Sounds like craziness runs in the Steds family and that a new tradition is about to be started!