{"id":4028,"date":"2007-12-21T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:44:35","slug":"note-to-msgr-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Note to Msgr. Shelley, my A.P. history teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the local Gannett newspaper had a nice feature story on one of my former high school teachers, now Monsignor Thomas Shelley. the article was about his just-published history of the NY Archdiocese. It&#8217;s a good article &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>A new history of the Archdiocese of NY tells the Catholic story of the last 200 years<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2007712180343\">http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2007712180343<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s really a very nice article. Yesterday I sent the Journal news a letter with a mea culpa to Monsignor Shelley &#8211; here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">To the Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I was very pleased to see the feature article by Gary Stern on Monsignor Thomas Shelley and his recently published History of the Archdiocese of NY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I have good memories of Monsignor Shelley, going all the way back to my senior year at Stepinac H.S., in 1968-69, where the then Fr. Shelley taught Advanced Placement European History. It was the first time that particular course was offered at Stepinac. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Fr. Shelley was an excellent teacher with great command of the subject and a very dry sense of humor. As the school year wound down and we headed toward the exam, Fr. on several occasions said that he wouldn\u2019t be receiving a transcript of our exam performance and to please contact him with our results. However I spent the summer out of the area as a camp counselor, and never did contact him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I always felt guilty about that, so I\u2019m glad to be able to today write and say \u201cFr., I ace\u2019d it. 5 out of 5.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Sincerely<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Thomas G. Faranda<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Stepinac class of \u201869<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I doubt if Fr. lost any sleep over my not contacting him, but it&#8217;s good to get it off my chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the local Gannett newspaper had a nice feature story on one of my former high school teachers, now Monsignor Thomas Shelley. the article was about his just-published history of the NY Archdiocese. It&#8217;s a good article &#8211; A new history of the Archdiocese of NY tells the Catholic story of the last 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}