Interviewee: Brother Richard Rancourt

Interviewer: John Ansley

Interview Date: March 14, 2002

Summary:  In the following interview, Brother Richard Rancourt speaks about the early days of Marist College as a student and as a professor. After studying in the Juniorate at Esopus, Richard Rancourt continued his studies by becoming a Brother at the Novitiate at Marian College. After being a Brother in the Novitiate, Richard Rancourt joined the Scholasticate and began teaching after that. In the interview, Brother Richard Rancourt talks about his daily life as a student in the Novitiate as well as the changes that took place in the college as lay students began to come on the campus. The interview also focuses on Richard Rancourt’s account of the physical grounds of Marist College in its earlier years before construction of several of Marist’s current buildings. The interview ends with Brother Richard Rancourt’s account of the transition of Marist’s student population from mostly Brothers to the majority being lay students.