The search for a successor to the fired Rev. Julio Giulietti at Wheeling Jesuit U. is approaching the wire. Now two candidates: Joseph Bascuas and Richard Beyer.
Both will be on campus next week, and an announcement will follow after a final review on Oct. 20.
Beyer is vice president of Trimble Navigation Ltd., based in Sunnyvale, California, a company that develops global positioning systems.
Trimble provides positioning solutions enabling professionals in engineering and construction, surveying, agriculture, fleet management and field service to be more productive by revolutionizing their work processes.
Trimble is transforming the way work is done through the application of innovative positioning. Trimble uses GPS, lasers, …
He’s also served as chairman of the board at [his alma mater] Michigan’s Olivet College, [affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches] and he’s currently on the board of the Wash. DC-based Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Bascuas was most recently the interim president of Becker College [private, apparently nonsectarian] in [Worcester] Massachusetts. Before that, he was president [’02–’06] of Medaille College [private, nonsectarian] in Buffalo, N.Y.
The two are not Jesuit, as previously understood. Catholic? Ready to move forward in the Jesuit tradition?
Blithe Spirit 
Last year Joseph W. Bascuas, candidate for WJU president, wanted to be president of Becker College where he was interim president, but he was rejected when the faculty senate of Becker College, in a 2/18/9 letter to trustees, said: “Bascuas has circumvented the accepted and normal administrative processes which are meant to ensure transparency and goodwill and has created an unnecessarily contentious relationship with members of the faculty, staff and administration.”
Joe Bascuas sounds like a perfect match for the clandestine WJU regime where Jesuit President Julio Giulietti was fired by a secretive board with the specter of Davitt McAteer lurking behind every stonewall. Glasnost and perestroika brought the U.S.S.R. to its knees, but WJU will not be subjected to openness and reform. No open inquiry on McAteer’s campus!
As for the Catholicity aspect, WJU’s search committee chairman is Maryland resident David C. Haddad, who as Interim President of Loyola College (Baltimore) intentionally violated Church law, and was severely scolded by Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore for conferring an honorary degree upon Rudy Giuliani (pro-abortion and homosexual rights) at the 5/20/5 commencement in disregard of the U.S. Bishops’ expressed policy that “Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles” and that such persons “should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”
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