When they had the ribbon-cutting for the new Loyola School, I noticed that Father Bill Watters stood in the background as another Jesuit priest, the Rev. Mario M. Powell, cut the ribbon with oversized scissors. “Deferred to the boss,” Watters said later, referring to Powell’s superior position as provincial assistant for pre-secondary and secondary education for the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus.

But it would not have been like Father Bill to insist on cutting the ribbon for the Jesuit elementary school in Mount Vernon, even though he’s the one who established it several years ago with the help of donors who believed in the mission: Opening a new school for some of Baltimore’s poorest children and providing full scholarships for each of them.

The Loyola School is the third fo

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