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St. Robert Bellarmine Award Honors Steve Anstett
Below are comments from the presentation of this award by Bellarmine President Jack Peterson at the June, 2012 Commencement. Congratulations to St. Robert Bellarmine award winner Steve Anstett -- longtime Bellarmine teacher, coach and administrator.
"The St Robert Bellarmine Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a member of the Bellarmine community. It is presented to someone who has exemplified for all of us the openness to growth, intellectual competence, religiosity, love and commitment to justice we seek for our graduates as they are about to graduate from Bellarmine, what we affectionately call the “Grad at Grad.”
One of the things our students love about this school is its rich tradition. They love finding aunts, uncles or parents in the pictures that line our hallways. They know they stand on the shoulders of those who went before them, and that generations to follow will stand on theirs.
Student & Alum Returns to School He Loves
This year’s St. Robert Bellarmine Award is presented to a man who is the very embodiment of that tradition. Steve Anstett graduated from Bellarmine in 1960 after a great career as a student, and a basketball and baseball athlete. He was a hall of fame player at the University of Portland and ended up playing with the LA Lakers before returning to teach and coach at the school he loved so dearly.
“Is Anstett Still Teaching?”
Over the years, no one has symbolized more for our students what Bellarmine is all about, and they felt their education was complete only if they could take an American Lit class with Stett. When I travel around the country meeting with alums, the most common question I get is, “Is Anstett still teaching?” For them, it wasn’t just the occasional tossed eraser, or the gruff humor and big stick he carried to hide his teddy bear heart. It wasn’t just the novels like The Scarlet Letter, The Sun Also Rises or Catcher in the Rye that he knew backwards and forwards.
“Do You Really Get It?”
It was the passion he had for excellence, what we like to call the “Magis,” for his students, for his athletes and for himself. He would use the characters in the novels to challenge students to reflect on their own character. One colleague and former pupil said he would ask the students, “Do you see what’s really going on here? Do you get this? I know you think you get it, but do you really get it?” In 2005, Steve was selected as Bellarmine’s Elizabeth Kelley Exemplary Teacher.
Teacher, Coach, Dean of Students, Sub
Steve has helped students at Bellarmine “get it” for 45 years, as a teacher, as a coach, as Dean of Students, as a substitute and in any way he could help them to experience the richness of Bellarmine’s Catholic and Jesuit mission.
Traditions Grow
It’s funny how traditions grow. When you were sophomores, we had to replace the old Booster Gym after 50 years because of seismic issues. Steve Anstett had played in the very first game in that gym, when Bellarmine was an all-boys school. Last year, it was our girls basketball team who played the first game in the new gym, which was such a great symbol of growth and change. But I wasn’t the only one to notice while everyone was whooping it up inside the gym, who was humbly taking tickets out in the foyer.
We Really Get It
My dear friends, help me honor the winner of this year’s St Robert Bellarmine Award, and give him one more chance to make sure we really get it -- Mr. R. Steven Anstett."