New Faces at the Mount
       “We try and bring in creativity from our own homes to the kitchen,” said Cyndi Bonow. Bonow is one of the three new additions to the Mount Michael staff for the 2005-06 school year. She will be primarily responsible for helping with breakfast and lunch, as well as menu planning. Bonow has worked around food for the past 25 years of her life. She worked everything from fast-food to hospitals to five-star restaurants. She most recently worked a daycare in Fremont serving around 100 kids.
       Bonow will be joined in the kitchen by John Farrar who comes to us from a catering company based out of Rosenblatt Stadium. Since he was 5 years old, Farrar loved working in his mother’s kitchen. He also enjoyed frequently working in his grandparent’s restaurant in Andale, Kansas and his aunt’s kitchen in Buffalo, New York. Farrar prepares and serves dinners to the students and staff at Mt. Michael. He has Thursdays off and prepares the monks’ meals on Saturday.
       When asked how he got the job, Farrar said, “I asked Mr. Spenner if he was hiring. He asked me to come out and fill out an application and several days later I was hired.”
       The third and final addition to the staff is John Mathews. Mathews will help Mark Robinson as the assistant freshman dean. Mathews went to school with senior dean Eric Crawford at St. John’s University in Minnesota. Mathews has no previous experience as a dean, but did work as an admission’s counselor at St. John’s.
       Mathews went to Cathedral High School in St. Cloud, Minnesota where he ran cross country and track, was on the ski team, and played the viola in the band. “I hope to follow in Crawford’s and Gathje’s footsteps,” said Mathews. Teacher/coach John Gathje also came from St. John’s to Mount Michael. For the year Mathews said, “I don’t really have any other responsibilities than assistant freshman dean, so I just do whatever they tell me to do.”

               -Article by Tim Huss, Photos by Tim Huss, Mrs. Ball, and Bro Luke