Curley Hall is a residence for priests and male religious, most are faculty or staff at The Catholic University of America. Built in “Deco Gothic” style, the building consists of two sections: Curley Main, which faces west, and Curley Annex, which faces south. The two structures are connected by a stone-paved, covered walkway. My study, bedroom, and en suite bath are in the annex.
There is a dining room for residents and their guests in Curley Main, as well as the Vincent P. Walter Jr. Boardroom, a large, finely appointed room used by the university’s president for special events.
Author: Richard
I grew up in Philadelphia where I graduated from La Salle University in 1968, the "Year of Revolting Students." I had changed my major from Philosophy to German to, finally, English (special interest: 1870-1914).
Having made solemn monastic vows as a Benedictine monk at Saint John's Abbey, I earned in Iowa City a masters of arts degree in Library and Information Science, 1974. A few years later I served as an intern in Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, 1979-80.
For almost five years I oversaw the microfilming of medieval manuscripts in Durham, UK, and several sites in Germany for the abbey's Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (www.hmml.org).
In August 2016 I completed seven years with the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Silver Spring, MD. I returned to the monastery in central Minnesota in a red 2007 Toyota Corolla from the abbey fleet.
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