I associate the name “F Michael Perko” with a well-known RC professor at Loyola University Chicago. He commented on a paper of mine on Episcopal church schools at a conference in Toronto back in the late 1980s, and I cited him in an article published in the J of Ecclesiastical History in 1991 (“The High Church Origins of the American Boarding School”—for people interested in that sort of thing; and on this blog, who knows?). This is not the same person, is it? The name—simply a coincidence? Or what?

Boy, i wouldn’t bet against it being the same person . . .

David, this should answer your question:
http://www.stjohnsabq.org/staff.php?id=5

Terry:

Thanks very much! The same person, indeed. I thought the name was too much of a coincidence—and the age seemed to fit. (The business about “his wife, Lisa” might have had something to do with Perko’s change. I doubt that the assorted dogs made much difference one way or the other.)

Btw, that Web page’s author / editor is not a great speller, is s/he? And is “offices” now a verb? That’s a new one; I think I’ll wait a while to use it, though. But then I’m still not using “reference” as a verb. The world is most definitely passing me by.