Robert J Wickenheiser

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American educational administrator who served as president of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland from 1977 to 1993 and of St. Bonaventure University in New York from 1994 to 2003. The first layman to hold the position at St. Bonaventure, he oversaw the university as it implemented a new core curriculum and expanded its University of Ministries, among other achievements before resigning his position during a scandal over the acceptance of an ineligible basketball player. An avid collector of the works of 17th century poet John Milton for decades, Wickenheiser sold his collection to the University of South Carolina in 2006, helping it establish what was declared at that time to be among the largest collections of Milton in the world. Wickenheiser grew up in Strasburg. He was a Benedictine monk for four years, having entered a monastery in 1962. He attended St. Benedict's College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1965, and the University of Minnesota, where he earned a doctoral degree in English Literature. Link to Wikipedia biography