How Fr. James Reuter started me on my love affair with the microphone
By Celeste Legaspi Gallardo
I first became aware of Fr. James B. Reuter SJ when I was in high school in St. Paul College Manila. It was 1963. I was 13 years old.
I first became aware of Fr. James B. Reuter SJ when I was in high school in St. Paul College Manila. It was 1963. I was 13 years old.
“What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul?” (Mark 8:36) Fr. James B. Reuter SJ kept on pounding this thought into our brains during our high school retreat a few decades ago. Being young and impressionable, we couldn’t help but swoon over Fr. Reuter’s a la Marlon Brando looks.
It was June 18, 2011, when I was commissioned to photograph Fr. James Reuter at the Our Lady of Peace Hospital in Parañaque City, where he had retired and was receiving hospice care. It was for an Asian Eye Institute photo exhibit. For the shoot, he was brought out by a caregiver to the hospital chapel.
“Camote” is really a term of endearment, not even a nickname, and if you were part of the Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club, stage crew, an actor from any of the Catholic schools, or in athletics, you would know who this referred to.
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