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Fr. Braden Honored by St. Thomas High School
4/14/2008
UST President Emeritus Fr. Patrick Braden, CSB, has been named to St. Thomas High School’s Hall of Honor, which recognizes alumni who best model the spirit of St. Thomas in their life and work and personify the Basilian motto, “Teach me Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge.”
 Fr. Braden, who is an adjunct professor of physics and mathematics at UST, graduated from St. Thomas High School in 1941. Immediately after, he went to Rice University, earning a Bachelor of Science before serving in the U.S. Navy for two years during WWII. He taught at Rice for a year before he joined the Basilian Fathers in 1947. After becoming ordained in 1952, he earned his master’s degree and later his doctorate in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1954, he came to UST as an associate professor of physics and also taught courses in mathematics and engineering. He served as president of UST from 1967 to 1979, and then as president of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York from 1980 to 1986. He worked in West Africa for a year and later taught at Sir Arthur Lewis College on the island of St. Lucia. Since 1995 he has been teaching at UST and serving on the board of directors.
Fr. Braden, who grew up in Houston, says St. Thomas High School has always been close to his heart. He even taught there for a few weeks in 1991 when the school needed a physics teacher.
“It was certainly some of the great Basilian teachers at St. Thomas High School that influenced my decision to become a priest,” he said. “I wanted to study and teach and the Basilians I knew were down to earth, real men and real priests and teachers.”
The St. Thomas High School Hall of Honor was founded in 1975 to recognize alumni who exemplify the essence of St. Thomas and the Basilians in their life and work. Fr. Braden will be officially inducted into the Hall of Honor on Thursday, April 24, during a ceremony at the high school.
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