Michael Anthony Rosick '67

Michael Rosick was born September 13, 1949, in Washington, D.C., the first child and only son of Joseph Anthony and Virginia Sands Rosick. He was an excellent student and athlete, a caring son, and a protective brother to his sisters, Patti, Catherine and Teresa.
He challenged himself from an early age, taking Russian classes while a student at St. Catherine Laboure grade school, earning his senior lifesaving and water safety certificate while in high school, as well as enjoying intramural basketball and other sports. Mike was valedictorian of the Good Counsel class of 1967, and was given the Award for General Excellence “For the highest grades over a period of four years in all subject areas.” He received a letter of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program and was awarded an Army ROTC scholarship, an Echols Scholarship to the University of Virginia, and a 4 yr. Navy ROTC scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.

He chose to attend the University of Notre Dame and jumped right into academic and campus life. He again excelled academically in his field of engineering. He was cited as the top midshipman in his ROTC Class at the end of his freshman year and had finished his first semester as a sophomore with a 4.0 average. There was a picture of him in the Chicago Tribune in March of 1969 accepting the Midshipman Award when he placed highest academically in his unit. He was posthumously awarded the Chicago Tribune Gold Medal Award as an outstanding sophomore.

Mike also loved teaching swimming in South Bend and earned his water safety instructor certificate during this time. He enjoyed playing intramural basketball at the Knute Rockne gym and enjoyed a great friendship with Dick Roderick ’66 and many other guys from his dorm. He had a great sense of humor! His parents loved to tell their favorite stories of Mike’s humorous take on life. He was very respectful of his parents, and he looked out for his mother whenever his father was away on his business trips.

The Rosick family hopes that this scholarship will be another good way to keep Mike’s memory alive by recognizing those students who have excelled in life. They are looking to honor students who, like Michael Anthony Rosick, make the best use of the gifts given to them by God and their families, who have learned to balance their lives while excelling academically, and who give back to the community in thanks for what is given to them. The scholarship recipient should be someone who exemplifies Mike’s qualities listed above, and who might not be a Varsity athlete, but who participates in the intramural sports that are offered at Good Counsel and the community, and is a role model for other students.