WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
dorm and decided to get [his] money
back."
Eddy and a weightlifter were as-
signed to carry the machine to an el-
evator and a storage room, where keys
to the machine were found.
"There was a bag of candy in there, a
coin box full of quarters mostly — and
so we just had a good ol' time," Eddy
said.
Before dinner that night, Eddy and
his cohorts were notified they would
have a meeting with Rev. A Leonard
Collins, C.S.C., the school's prefect of
discipline.
"I took the coins, even the bag of
candy, put them on his table and said,
'This is what we had taken and we just
wanted to let you know it's all here.
We were wrong and I apologize,'"
Eddy recalled. "[Father Collins] asked
me if I was going to rob the school
treasury next."
Despite coming clean on his own,
Eddy was dismissed from school but
was told he might have a chance to be
readmitted in the spring of 1964.
"I had opportunities to go else-
where," Eddy said. "USC called me
and wanted me to come there, but I
made a promise to my mom, and my-
self, that I would go back to Notre
After 25 years in the insurance industry, Eddy went back to school to earn his teacher accreditation and also
got a master's degree in education.
PHOTO COURTESY NICK EDDY
