Diocese of Madison Director of Vocations Msgr. James Bartylla spoke at the St. Ambrose Academy benefit dinner on December 11, 2009. He said that "what I find with St. Ambrose is they prepare them for a professional career in a very good way with the academics and so on, but they are also helping them to find their happiness in their vocation. And they form them so that they can move very quickly forward into that. So I’m very grateful for them, It’s not only college prep it’s holiness prep, and that’s something we very much need in Catholic schools."