Suit Brigade members bring new look to Missouri Catholic school

Published: 2006-04-10

MANCHESTER, Mo. (CNS) -- They call themselves the Suit Brigade. And they have brought a new look to a Catholic school in the St. Louis Archdiocese. Thanks to students Tim Cooney, Zach Gentile, Danny Hudson, Dylan Jungels and John Renick, eighth-grade boys at St. Joseph School in Manchester can now wear suits, sports jackets, slacks and ties to the twice-monthly all-school Masses. "It all started at picture day in the fall," St. Joseph principal Jeannie Dandino told the St. Louis Review, the archdiocesan newspaper. "These boys wore sports coats, ties and khaki pants for pictures." St. Joseph's standard uniform for the boys is a pair of dark-colored pants and a collared shirt. "The day before picture day, we were talking about what to wear," said Jungels. "We were the ones who wanted to wear suits or jackets." Picture day, when school portraits are taken, also happened to be an all-school Mass day, so the five boys naturally wore their dress clothes to Mass.

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