Brother Edmund Alphonse was a model of propriety. He was always well dressed, and when he drove off campus was dressed in his clergy suit with never a hair out of place. He drove a large black auto which had been donated by Archambeault, the undertaker in Lowell, Mass, who was very friendly with the Brothers. Gasoline being at a premium during the war, trips were made only when necessary: every day to pick up the priest from Mt St Alphonsus for Mass, and otherwise to purchase groceries and other items needed to run the place. Brother Edmund was the treasurer who had to run the place on a very limited funds, so we considered him a pinchpenny. He was also a fine organist, and taught us singing. We had singing in the oratory, the room in the southeast corner of the mansion which had lost its character (I later found out because the fine woodwork had been ordered painted over by Harry Payne Bingham's wife.) We would prepare the singing for Sunday's High Mass, and special items for Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, and other feast days. He lived in the mansion, with a large room in the northeast section of the second floor. The room was so big he used it to store non-food items; occasionally we would be sent there to pick up a can of cleanser or a mop and we would marvel at the size of the room.