Remembering St. George, an opera-loving basketball fan

…and mentor to a Hall of Famer

Fr. Raymond B. St. George, a French professor and band director at Providence College in the 1950s, loved opera music and was also a big basketball fan. St. George was also a great athlete in his own right—a 1990 inductee to the Providence College Hall of Fame as a baseball player (Class of 1950).

One of Fr. St. George’s students, a prominent Providence …