Mudslide Claims Life of California Academy’s Catholic Founder

MONTECITO, Calif. — Family and friends are mourning the tragic death of Roy Rohter, 84, co-founder of St. Augustine Academy in Ventura, California, and a generous benefactor to Catholic education, who was swept from his Montecito home in a mudslide along with wife, Theresa, early in the morning of Jan. 9 as the result of heavy rains. MORE