Download TO: Beth Dobkin, Provost FROM: Valerie Burke, Chair Academic

TO:
Beth Dobkin, Provost
FROM:
Valerie Burke, Chair
Academic Senate
DATE:
May 20, 2015
RE:
Senate Action S-14/15-39
Commendation of Brother Robert Schieler, FSC
At the April 8, 2015 meeting of the Academic Senate, the attached Commendation of
Brother Robert Schieler, FSC was unanimously approved. This action was assigned
Senate Action # S-14/15-39.
Attachment
cc: President James A. Donahue
Vice President Carole Swain
The Academic Senate
Saint Mary’s College of California
In Commendation of
Brother Robert Schieler, FSC,
Superior General, Brothers of the Christian Schools,
on behalf of the Faculty, Students, and Administration of
Saint Mary’s College of California,
in Convocation assembled, the 22 nd day of April, 2015.
Mindful of Brother Robert’s original and enduring vocation to education in the light of faith,
under the charism of the Founder, a vocation pursued in the United States and in the Republic
of the Philippines, in secondary and university classrooms, and cultivated through
baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral studies at LaSalle College, the University of Notre Dame,
and the University of Pennsylvania; and
Mindful that Brother Robert’s organizational talents, early manifest, induced his superiors to
invest him with supervisory responsibilities of increasing scope and consequence: school
principal in the Philippines and the United States; Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of
Iligan, the Philippines; then, at age thirty-eight, responsibility for all Philippine schools in the
Institute’s charge; and
Mindful that, recalled to the Baltimore Province, where he had received the Brothers’ habit in
1968, Brother Robert embarked on a course of leadership which would take him from
Assistant Provincial and Director of Education, to Director of Education for the Institute’s U.S.Toronto Region, to Provincial of the Baltimore Province, and thence to Rome, as General
Councilor for the U.S.-Toronto Region, then as Superior General of the Brothers of the
Christian Schools; and
Mindful, that, as General Councilor and as Superior General, Brother Robert has especially
promoted solidarity in loving service to all among the Institute’s students, through the
movement of Young Lasallians, and among the Brothers and their Partners, “Associated for
Mission”; and
Mindful, above all, that Brother Robert’s manifold contributions to the Work, respondent ever
to the diversities of the Lasallian world and to the signs of changing times, nonetheless testify,
as one, to evangelical humility radiating evangelical zeal:
We, therefore, the Members of the Academic Senate of Saint Mary’s College, on behalf of this
Lasallian community of learning, extend to Brother Robert Schieler, FSC, deep gratitude for his
exemplary service to the Lasallian community worldwide; and, through the intercession of his
brother and preceptor, Saint John Baptist de la Salle, we commend Brother Robert and his
continuing work to the sustaining Grace of Almighty God.
Given at Saint Mary’s College of California on this, the 22nd day of April, in the year of Our
Lord, 2015.
Valerie Burke
Senator and Chair
Hisham Ahmed
Senator and Vice-Chair
Keith Ogawa
Senator and Past-Chair
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
Senator
Ronald Olowin
Senator
Suzy Thomas
Senator
Berna Aksu
Senator
Steven Cortright
Senator
Chris Ray
Senator
Aaron Sachs
Senator
Mark Lingwood
Parliamentarian