 For one year, in 1962, he attended Carver High School, moving on to St. Lawrence Seminary High School for the remainder of his high school years.Perry undertook undergraduate studies (1967) at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana and the Capuchin Seminary of St. Mary, Crown Point, Indiana, graduating in 1971 with two B.A.degrees in Philosophy and Theology, with a minor in Education.