Milwaukee Prelate Reaches the Top And Keeps Reaching

James R. Oestreich reported in The New York Times, January 4, 1996 on Archbishop Rembert Weakland's return to school.

So why is he returning to Columbia University to resume work on an unfinished doctoral dissertation in music?

I'm mostly Irish, and I'm full of guilt," he said recently at his residence in Milwaukee, the Brothers House on the campus of St. Francis Seminary near Lake Michigan. "Columbia University gave me $3,000 in 1956 to do the research on Ambrosian chant. I got all the manuscripts indexed and worked down through the music. And I did a fair amount of writing, which I've continued to work at intermittently since then."

Since, that is, the press of teaching and administrative duties intervened.