Notre Dame graduate Erik Egner (’14) is with head of school Fr. Leon Olszamowski, s.m. On October 3, Egner spoke to juniors and seniors about ROTC opportunities in college.Notre Dame Prep graduate Erik Egner ('13) was on campus Friday and gave a presentation on ROTC opportunities to current students. Egner, who is an Army cadet attending Loyola University in Chicago, told the juniors and seniors in attendance about the many opportunities available to young men and women interested in pursuing careers related to the U.S. military and defense industries.
Egner said that ROTC is a great way to gain critical leadership skills even if a student does not end up in the military. In fact, he said, Army ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) is one of the best leadership courses in the country and offers classes as electives within a normal college curriculum. He said students can take up to the first two years of the program without having to contract to serve in the Army.
When Egner was a senior at NDP, he spent part of his summer investigating the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, during two week-long leadership seminars. "We slept in the actual academy barracks and were up at 5 a.m. every day," he said at the time. "And we had a full regimen of daily physical training and academic activities. Some of the classes I took were in history and physics."
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Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.