Dr. Joe\“ Schmiedicke has been a stalwart at Edgewood College for 46 years. He has taken on or advised nearly every leadership position imaginable. He has been a catalyst for important, nay crucial, growth of the college. One cannot think of the Edgewood College Education Department, now the School of Education, without thinking of Dr. Joe. Within this book one will see his unbending faith in the importance of education and in God, evident in the durable and resilient ethical and moral foundation that he found in the Catholic Church and the Dominican traditions within that church. They are the traditions and values that formed the basis of his servant leadership approach to his management and ministry of the preparation of future educators. His tireless toiling for the future of not only the profession of education, but for the safe future of the world, are evident in the pages of this text, as told by the many around him who shared his life and vision.