Victor Anthony Feltrop was born on February 15, 1899, in Breese, Illinois, the third of the eight children in the family of Herman and Margaret Feltrop. His primary education took place in St. Dominic's School in Breese, and his secondary education at Benedictine High School in Conception, Missouri.

Following two years of college education at Conception, Missouri, and at Columbus, Ohio, he entered the Dominican Novitiate at Somerset, Ohio, at which time he was given the name Sylvester in religion. Professed on August 17, 1921, he began his philosophical and theological studies in Springfield, Kentucky, and completed them in Washington, D.C.

Father Feltrop was ordained to the priesthood on June 9, 1927, in Washington, D.C. During the academic year of 1928-1929, he studied at Manhattan College in New York City and was awarded the Master of Arts in languages.

What Victor Feltrop will be most remembered for is his service and dedication to Fenwick High School and the young men who studied there from the time it opened in September of 1929. Along with the other Dominican men on that first faculty, he began a distinguished career as Professor of Languages and of Religion. From 1929, until he left the classroom in 1951 to serve full-time as Prior of the Dominican community, Father Feltrop was known for bis teaching of Latin and of German. He will also be thought of by Fenwick graduates as a priest at the altar and in the pulpit, especially at the Church of St. Paul of the Cross in Park Ridge, Illinois, and as a willing tutor in sports after class hours at Fenwick.

At the conclusion of his term as Prior of St. Dominic's Priory in Oak Park, he continued teaching in Jackson, Mississippi, at St. Joseph's High School, from 1953 to 1956. He remained for two years as Diocesan Director of the Holy Name Society in Jack son until his reassignment to the Dominican Novitiate in Winona, Minnesota, from 1959 to 1961. He

served also as Associate Pastor of St. Albert the Great Parish in Minneapolis from 1961 to 1964. In 1964, he resumed teaching languages, this time at Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Texas.

Declining health began to take its toll and Father Feltrop was able to assume only limited service in his remaining years. From 1970 until 1981, he resided in St. Anthony of Padua Priory in New Orleans, and thereafter at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago. In need of intermediate health care, he moved to the facility conducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago. Under their attentive care, he was able to continue until the crippling effects of a stroke brought him to a peaceful death at St. Joseph Hospital on December 15, 1984. The Mass of Resurrection was celebrated by the Provincial at the Priory of St. Dominic and St. Thomas, River Forest, Illinois, on December 18, 1984, with Father Thomas C. Donlan, one of Father Feltrop's former students, as homilist. He was buried in All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.