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From the EDITOR: It is with deep gratitude that we, the Marists
All team members, acknowledge your overwhelming response
to "fill the coffers," allowing for several more issues. Thanks
especially to John and Joan Brady, Jerry Byrne, Bernard
Connolly, Rich Foy, Pat Gallagher, Dennis Hartnett, William
Kawka, William Kelly, Marty and Ann Lang, Artie Lavigne, Br.
Bill Lavigne, George K. Mannix, Paul Maloney, Ed McElroy, Br.
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Please update us on changes to your email address.
Writers for this issue:
Bill Byrne
'52 reminisces about Brothers who influenced him
Brother Ben Consigli
, Provincial, announces new Marist e-news
publications for the United States province.
Richard Foy
'46 supplements Mike Kelly's thoughts on Brother
Nilus Donnelly and higher education
Richard Foy '46 (again!) submits information received from
Maurice Bibeau about the current status of the
Tyngsboro
property
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Bob and Ginny Grady
'53 share items about the future Marist
Spirituality Weekend July 8-10, 2011 at Marist College
Bob Hopkins
'52 thanks those who reached out to him during
his recent sickness
David Kammer
'42 tells us of how a group of former Marist
Brothers in Guatemala work together.
Mike Kelly
'50 comments on leadership in education and
suggests a book on Lower Higher Education
Gus Nolan
'48 tells us about Father Frank Gallogly OSA
Charles Scott
'50 sends news about Dick Brannigan '50, a
regular contributer to MaristsAll
Alex Senes
'64 updates his retirement status.
Obituary for
Stephen S Sheridan
(Bro Hugh Ephrem)
Obituary for
Brother Declan Murray
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From BOB AND GINNY GRADY ('53): I would like to update the
Marists All readers on this year's Marist Spirituality Weekend to
be held on July 8, 9, and 10 at Marist College. The theme for
the weekend is based on the book Gathered Around the Same
Table The Vocation of Champagnat's Marist Laity.
John Scileppi has made arrangements with the facilities
management personnel at Marist College to assure adequate
housing and meeting rooms. John and Lynn are off to Florence,
Italy, and the Marist College Extension SchooL They will return
in time to join us in July.
Br. Sean Sammon has accepted our invitation to return as a
featured presenter. He will address the topic "Vocation of
Champagnat's Marist Laity." A panel of guests will share with us
their experiences in "Marist Present Day Apostolates.". Members
of the panel include: Br, Dominick Pujia, Br. Philip Robert, Alice
Miesnik, Br. Leo Shea, and Br. Stephen Milan.
We extend an open invitation to all those interested in joining
us this summer.
Those interested in participating, please send a. twenty-five
dollar deposit to Br. Charles Marcellin at Archbishop Molloy High
School, 8353 Manton Street, Jamaica, NY 11435. The cost for
the weekend will be the same as last year, $185 for an
individual and $330 for a couple. If you have any questions
regarding the weekend, please call us at 516-796-4502 or email
us at RVGRADY@optonline.net.
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From MARIST LIFE: David Kammer ('42) sent the following item
describing the impact of a meeting held this past fall in
Guatemala of former Marist Brothers. It is published here
because Tomas Martinez, the writer, has chosen wonderful
words that should resonate among former Marists in the USA.
In the Marist tradition, there are no boundaries ... ,
It was with the prayer of praise (Laudetur Jesus Christus et
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Marie Mater eius) we greeted each new day. We had learnt it
from our first days in the houses of formation (Carrion, Pontes
and Miranda de Ebro - Spain). In thanking the good God and his
Mother Mary, who have always accompanied us, I wish to salute
the Marist Brothers and thank them for the invitation they
addressed us to a reunion on 17 October.
In the Marist house, we learned to love and praise God. The
formation we received, the education, the community and
personal prayer, and the love of work learned from those
Brothers wearing soutanes with the crucifixes on their breasts,
Sthose Brothers who gave their lives so that we might grow:
such is the foundation of our lives - a life of faith and of service
to others.
We know the Brothers as if they were our own. We know the
sense of belonging. We breathe in the refreshing air of the
Marist Family. We form part of this great network of the Marist
mission in the world of today. We who have been part of the
Institute carry in our hearts and in our lives the teachings of the
exemplary men who educated us.
We have integrated and made our own, thanks to what we lived
in Marist life, the Christian message: "He who wishes to become
great will be your servant," in the manner of Mary and in the
shade of the Marial virtues of simplicity, humility, and modesty.
Thank you for having made yourselves so close to us and for
having given us the opportunity to share with you the same
ideals and the same vocation. There we learned the values and
human and Christian principles which have inspired our ways of
doing and acting in our personal and professional lives ....
During the gathering, we listened, we were listened to, and we
shared part of our lives, what we are now and what we are
doing, and our desires to remain always united in the Marist
mission and educational work. They were moments filled with
joy, with union, with satisfaction for our common past. We
engaged ourselves to stay in contact, to remain in the tracks
and paths of Marial spirituality "ad Jesum per Mariam," to
reflect together about a new model which integrates us fully
into the life of the Institute.
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From AMERICAN MARIST, (e-news for Marist communities in
the U.S.): Br. Ben Consigli (benfms@aoLcom), Provincial,
welcomes readers to the new publication for the U.S. Province.
His opening paragraph summarizes the focus of the premiere
issue:
"The founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin
Champagnat, often said, "A Brother is a man for whom the
world is not large enough." Who would think that almost two
centuries later the Brothers and their colleagues minister in
over seventy-eight countries throughout the world? Here in the
U.S., there are so many wonderful things to report about the
good work our Brothers and lay colleagues accomplish each and
every day. In our schools and retreat centers, at summer
camps and overseas missions, we strive to live out Jesus'
Gospel in the way of Mary."
Items of interest include information on the video, "Live
Marist!", a short film that highlights the warmth and spirit of
the Marist community. There is a1so an announcement to "save
the date" October 8, 2011 - to mark the 12Sth anniversary of
the presence of the Marist Brothers in the United States. Plans
for a Mass and celebration at St. Jean Baptiste Church in
Manhattan are in the works.
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From ALEX SENES ('64): Thank you for the labor of love that
you editors have been doing throughout the many issues of
Marists All. Even though I don't know personally some of the
people who write, I read the letters cover to cover. They serve
as a shot of spirituality Marist-style.
I have been retired since April and disabled as well -- early
symptoms of Parkinson's -- shuffling gait and other symptoms.
I had two episodes of angina and also urinary bladder stones. I
feel like my body is letting me down. I turned 65 on September
11.
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In spite of life's ironies, retirement has been good to me. I do
all the things I wanted to do and couldn't. I open my day as I
would any other gift God sends me. I go to Mass at 8 am and
try to go for a two-mile brisk walk. I watch one hour of Italian
TV to get back my lost vocabulary. I play the guitar along with
CDs to sit and jam as I did in Tyngsboro.
I have been feeling nostalgic about Cold Spring and would like
to walk around the property again. I graduated from Marist Hall
in '63. That year, along with the two years in the novitiate, have
been the best years of my life. (44 Orangeburg Road, Old
Tappan NJ, 07675-7441; 201-768-7883;
esenes@opttonline.com)
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From BOB HOPKINS ('52): First, I want to thank all for the
prayers, visits, and telephone calls at the time of my car
accident. Given what is happening in Tucson, it is clear that
people make a great difference in the recovery of a person with
a life-threatening injury.
In that car accident I didn't have a near-death experience. I
was conscious for a brief moment, and then everything went
black. I am not sure how to interpret that black hole, given that
most people experience light and brightness.
My recovery was nothing short of a miracle. A nurse driving
behind me on the highway phoned 911. The firemen phoned for
a helicopter and the jaws-of-life before they reached the scene
of the accident. Two of the firemen were former students of
mine; they must have passed my classes! I was air lifted to
Massachusetts General where the emergency room team saved
my life. Mary took a room in a motel near the hospital and
stayed in Boston from June 10 to March 15 when the insurance
company pushed me out of the hospital. Thank God for
Medicare!
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A tragedy like this brings out the best in people. Many visited
me in the hospital. I owe a great deal of thanks to Pat Gallagher
for literally organizing people to visit me in the hospital. I
received calls from China and Spain. I don't remember who the
persons were, but I appreciated the calls very much.
As I grow older, I become more grateful for what I was given by
the Marist Brothers. The year I went to Esopus as a tenth
grader, the gang I was running with landed in jail for stealing
from a radio and TV store. Up until that time we had done small
stuff. They were sent upstate. Would I have been with them? I
don't know. I was very immature when I entered the Brothers,
but the training years helped me grow up. My dad died when I
was six. The monks helped me to have male identification.
Later on, the opportunity to work on a doctoral program that I
never completed opened many doors when I moved to New
Hampshire with my family. I was able to teach at five of the
local colleges because of my MA and doctoral course work. I am
truly grateful.
Our children are happy and content. Colleen teaches Social
Studies in a new high school in Windham, a neighboring town.
Craig is a vet in Providence and is married to a medical doctor,
and Patrick is in Dubai teaching at an international American
school. (They actually pay their teachers!) We have four
grandchildren and another on the way. (603-434-1914 or
bobphopkins@comcast.net
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From MIKE KELLY ('50): I thought it was time to let Marists All
readers know how to track us down. Janet and I have been
married forty-one years, and we have moved seventeen times.
I just can't hold down a job! Our most recent move was to
Surprise, AZ. Now, instead of a rush to the airport and a six-
hour flight to Burbank, CA, to see our grandchildren, it is a six-
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hour drive across mostly desert at eighty miles an hour. What
brought us to Surprise? Our daughter, Jean, received her
master's degree in education at Long Island University. Since
finding a teaching job in NY was impossible, she applied for a
position in Surprise where she is enjoying teaching while not
having to shovel snow and cut grass. Surprise is really a
wonderful place to live. We still have our home on Long Island
to escape the "dry heat" of July and August. Y'all are welcome
to visit at any time.
It has been a while since I wrote a letter to Marists All. The last
letter may have been when we were living in California. The
biggest event at that time was the delivery of twin boys to our
daughter, Joan.
The twins are now eleven. We moved to Long Island about eight
years ago. The highlight of that move came when Joan had twin
girls. They are now six years old and back living in Burbank,
CA. She added a fifth child, Liam Desmond, three years ago. He
was named after my brother Des, who died at Mount St.
Michael last year. No one who knew Des has any trouble
remembering him, but it is wonderful to see Liam Desmond,
whom we hope will one day inherit Des's many virtues and love
of Irish music.
Saint James on Long Island, where we lived, is about a ten
minute drive from Stony Brook University. After arriving in Saint
James, I went to see my friend, the Dean of Engineering at
Stony Brook. I offered to teach a course in professional ethics.
Ethics was not taught in the engineering school, and t couldn't
convince the dean that it should be. He suggested I talk to the
dean of the school of business and management. Yes, ethics
was taught there. I recently wondered how many of the
graduates were hired by Wall Street. The dean asked me if I
would teach Strategic Management and a semester later Human
Resource Management. I had spent the previous thirty years in
management and felt more qualified to teach management
courses than engineering courses. I probably enjoyed teaching
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those two courses more than any course I taught at other
universities. I taught the classes and then left the campus,
avoiding all the bureaucracy and faculty meetings that could
raise my blood pressure.
I still love teaching, but after having been on the faculty at
seven different universities, I believe that it is time to ask, "Is
higher education really worth it?" I started thinking about
writing a book: Lower Higher Education, i.e. lower cost, lower
job expectations, lower graduate's debt, lower the time it takes
to get a BA, lower the number of required credits needed to get
a degree, lower the number who start college but never
graduate, and so on.
I keep hoping that the new program in Esopus to prepare
leaders might focus on preparing leaders to work in education.
Higher education doesn't need better administrators as much as
it needs better leaders and managers. It is disconcerting to
hear that universities are recruiting in foreign countries and
out_of_state not for better students so much as to get
freshmen who can pay full tuition. I get really bothered to hear
that 1200 colleges pay the College Board 32 cents a name for
students whose standardized test scores and grade-point
averages meet the criteria they seek. And what do the students
who apply get-rejection after rejection letters. How do all these
rejections affect the students, and do universities really care?
Maybe the universities think they need to prepare students for
the number of job rejections they get before they have to
declare bankruptcy because they can't pay back their loans. The
universities claim to fame is the number of rejections against
the pool of applicants. I think I will write that book! The Marist
College Leadership Program could make a difference where it is
badly needed. I hope it will accept the challenge, and Marists All
should be there to help.
If anyone reading this would like to contribute to the book,
Lower Higher Education, all contributions are welcome. In your
experience, do universities realize who their customers really
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are? Does a class of 1500 students on-line compare favorably
with a campus class of twenty-five? Does an adjunct professor
with experience compare favorably with a tenured professor
with no work experience? Do better facilities attract more
students than scholarships and lower cost? Would it be more
effective for universities to hire researchers who don't teach
and faculty who teach with no requirement to subsidize their
salary?
Is the goal of universities to teach students or to provide the
opportunity for students to teach themselves? Should
universities be measured by the success of their graduates five
years after graduation rather than their GPA or success in the
sports arena? Will looking at the graduates after five or more
years provide universities with information on the moral
qualities and wisdom gained in pursuit of a degree? Instead of a
semester of remedial courses for no credits, should universities
be contributing to the institutions that provide them with
"customers"? Is specialization at the BA level superior to a
liberal and systems education?
How important is gaining public recognition in sports to the
goals of a university? Most universities require that professors
have a terminal degree. Are there any requirements that
professors have training as teachers? What is measured to
obtain tenure: ability to obtain grants, the number of
publications, leadership, influence on students, effective
teaching, or peer acceptance? Is tenure necessary?
Could a leadership program help answer many of the above
questions? Can a leadership program influence the professions
students select, including science, engineering, politics, and
teaching? Maybe together we can help answer some of these
questions and maybe make a difference in lower higher
education.
I had great teachers at Marist College, but the Brother who
most influenced my engineering career was Br. Nilus. He offered
me many challenges, and when I sometimes told him, "I have
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no idea how to do that," his response was, "You can learn."
Colleges can have great value if they give the graduates the
confidence that they can learn to accomplish whatever they
want.: and, hopefully, our graduates will choose to make a
positive difference. (42 Tillotson Street, St James NY 11780;
631-385-1062; kellv931@hotmail.com)
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From RICH FOY (in response to Mike Kelly's reflections above):
I think the emphasis at the new Marist College program in
Esopus on leadership will focus on corporate leadership, but this
is just a guess. It is Doctor Murray's project, and most of us are
wondering how he will fuse care of the Esopus property to a
leadership program when the vital energy for the program will
come from the faculty in Poughkeepsie. There has been no
leader named at this time.
Nilus' advice to you strikes a very responsive cord. Br. Austin
Lamprey fms is a scholar in France who has written about the
failure of the religious orders and the Church in France to adjust
to the changing views on education in the late nineteenth
century, including the Marist Brothers. (Bro Joseph Belanger
had told me that there was a Superior General who wrote a
circular letter to the Brothers telling them to adjust to the
changing and future demands for teaching; he died young, and
his directives were ignored.) As I read some of Lamprey's
writings, he has a section about Catholic education. He says the
purpose of Catholic education is to teach people to think, not to
tell them what to believe. I am not sure how he would be
treated by the American Bishops, who seem to have all the
answers already and get increasingly annoyed when U.S.
Catholics do not humbly accept their dictates.
In my own experience, I had an ethics teacher named Father
Halpin, PhD from Fordham, pastor of a little church in Milton,
NY. He had a strange way of presenting ideas, but he always
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made you think. After I became President, I invited him to give
the graduation speech. On the way back from the Marian Gym,
I told him I had a bone to pick with him. ''What?'' I told him his
final exam had five essay questions, and I was totally off on one
of them. How could he give me an "A" for the course? "Oh, I
knew you were wrong," he said, "but you were thinking, and I
was confident that you would arrive at a better answer
someday."
Many Brothers judged that Nilus marched to a different drum.
Of course it was; but in retrospect, it was a better drum.
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From GUS NOLAN ('48): I have received a letter from Rev.
Frank Gallogly OSA with the salutation, "Dear Family and
Friends." He is suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease so
much so that he needs special care. He has left Villanova and
been admitted to a facility. The letter came along with his
Christmas card.
Frank is not pleased with his situation but does what he can to
keep up his spirit. He is at peace and feels his spiritual life has
been deepened by these trials. He is solicitous about others
who are sick and finds great joy in administering to them, even
offering Mass every day.
I responded to Frank's letter on January 2, reminding him that
the day was special to Marists and that I had not forgotten his
Marist connections and that he was still a Marist in spirit. I also
reminded him that he was a " Stanner" (a student from St
Ann's Academy), a former Marist Brother, and a contributor in
writing and finances to Marists All. I assured him that he would
not be forgotten but would be remembered in our prayers.
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From BILL BYRNE ('52): Whether it is because of my
progressing age, my need to come to grips with issues from my
past and next life, or just the morbid curiosity with which I
scour the subject in the on line New York Times, I find myself
lately listening to "Pictures at an Exhibition" and reviewing the
"exhibits" of those in the obituary section of Marists All. As I
conjure up each person's image, I think of the impact each has
had on my twenty-year Marist life. More importantly for me,it's
what and who is missing in these accounts, which is of moment
to me. Here's what I remember of some.
Several monks we all knew were inflicted with what the Irish
call the curse. I felt that more could and should have been done
to help them fight their addictions.
I remember Br. Benedict in one context - Director of Camp
Marist. Did he have other roles in the order? I also remember
him for some unintentional humor he provided, although he
didn't see it in that light.
In late August 1957, just prior to Molloy's opening, several of us
decided on a pick-up basketball game, Br. Ben included. We had
waited anxiously for the go-ahead to christen the new gym.
With a nod from Br. John Lawrence, Molloy's first Boss, and an
"ok" from Br. Francis Xavier, overseer of the school's
construction, the virgin gym floor was about to receive its first
test. When the games ended, everyone looked in horror at a
sea of black scuff marks up and down the court. It seems that
Br. Ben had unpacked his long forgotten leather basketball
shoes and liberally polished them prior to the games. I will
never forget the picture of that hulking presence, down on his
hands and knees, trying to erase the marks he left on the gym
floor.
My extra year of "seasoning" at Marist College, working for Br.
Tarcisius, the engaging gnome who ran the college print shop,
never sat very well with me. Tarcy had set his sights on
someone else and couldn't hide his disappointment that I was
his assigned helper. For the first six months, before Tarcy
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trusted me with using any of the printing equipment, I collated
printed jobs and sorted type by hand, a job a monkey could
have been trained to do. Later in my apprenticeship, as I was
working a press one day, Br. Paul, then head of the college,
suggested I think of every page I printed as a prayer offering. I
had to watch my fingers to prevent them from being crushed,
never mind worrying about the indulgences I was storing up. I
found him preoccupied with weightier matters than my
struggle. Having written that, I know he did great things for the
order.
Br. J.P. Luke touched many of our young lives. I will never
forget his kindness to me.
Big Br. Gilbert Osmund needs to be remembered. I spent seven
summers at Camp Marist listening to him. He was a source of
great wisdom and a fun figure to many of us. His laughter was
infectious - more a roar when anything struck him as
humorous. Many things, monk and otherwise, tickled him. [I
wrote this before I read John Tricamo's engaging account of
fourth-year Latin with Brother Gil in the November 2010 Marists
All. I smiled and loved every bit of the retelling.]
The last time I saw Br. Norbert Justin, or "Norbie" as we knew
him, was in the monks' home in Miami. He appeared to me to
be in the throes of dementia. He didn't recognize me, though I
reported to him for a dozen years. I was saddened by that last
picture I have of him.
Br. Teddy Morris and I enjoyed some unique episodes
together. I previously wrote a long remembrance of our
relationship and our encounters with some names from that
era. Once, Teddy wanted confirmation from Bishop Sheen for a
program he was running at Molloy. He confronted the Bishop in
a Queens' parish rectory after the Bishop had delivered his
signature "Seven Words from the Cross" Lenten performance,
and Ted got the answer he wanted from him - "Let the boys
help each other" - the core of his "Smile" program. Our meeting
at Floyd Patterson's training camp in Marlboro, New York, and
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Ted's subsequent encounters with the legendary heavyweight
champion border on the unbelievable, unless you knew Ted's
dogged determination to get the information he needed. I'm
glad to see he will join other notable Stanners in Molloy's Hall of
Fame. (This took place on November 6, 2010.)
Some things about Br. Terry Jones are indisputable. That he
was a great teacher every student of his would attest. In
community life, his kindness and personal care were always
evident.
There are some little known things about him that several of us
were privy to. Did you know that the students at Mt. St. Michael
had a nickname for him? They called him "Captain Tootsie" for
his uncanny resemblance to the character populating the
Tootsie Roll ad campaigns. That the "bleacher creatures" at
Yankee Stadium referred to him as the "crossword guy" for his
habit of spending summer Sunday afternoons at the ballpark
while quickly finishing the Times crossword puzzle? That while
he was teaching in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa (1956-1959),
he attended a yachting party thrown by the Hollywood actor
Errol Flynn? That evening a Life magazine photographer was
present at the party and photographed the gathering for the
magazine. That week's spread captured Flynn and Terry on
board, something he confessed worried him lest the Provincial
got wind of it. That when someone was "buzzing" St. Charles
College there late at night and destroying school property, Terry
positioned a sixteen-pound shot put on his window sill, hoping
to drop it judiciously and at least put a scare and a dent into
the offender's car? After a direct hit on the vehicle's roof, he
visited the local auto repair shops for several days and nailed
the elusive culprit. That "old boys" from South Africa, on their
customary year to explore the world, would stop by to see him
as a matter of course? That big as he was, he always seemed to
me to be a little bigger than life? I cherish my memory of him
As I patrolled the Esopus cemetery in 2006, I stopped at each
grave site to remember each monk who had been my teacher
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and mentor and some, as well, who had been my friends and
companions in community life I had a wish then, as now, that I
could know more about some of the ones who left and have
since untimely passed on and who would not be interred there.
Greg Ballerino, the multitalented one, and Ken Connell come
immediately to mind. We spent a few very good and productive
years together at Roselle Catholic. I would love to know more
about their post-monk life.
Listen to "Pictures at an Exhibition" with your eyes, mind, and
heart as you picture the monks who made a difference in your
life and write for us in Marists All about their impact on your
life. (byrne@oakland.edu)
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For MaristsAll readers who remember
Tyngsboro fondly by either visitiing the
campus or living there. here are a few
photos of the campus as it stands in
2011. On 18 November 2010 the Boston
Globe in its Globe North section published
photos of the Tyngsboro campus. The
Marist Brothers sold the property to Wang
Laboratories, who developed a Wang
Institute for training engineers and
clients. In 1987 Boston University set up
a branch to service the local area. About
14 years ago it was converted to a
charter school, named Innovation Academy. These photos were
scanned from the newspaper by the Marist College Archives. We
are grateful to Maurice Bibeau who sent us the paper.
Click here
or on the photo to see the other pictures.
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Addendum. Charles Scott '50 wrote to the editor shortly after
initial publication of this newsletter.
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Dick Branigan (Steven Aloysius), 1950, my classmate and good
friend, recently had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his
brain. He is now recovering nicely enough, taking some physical
therapy for right hand movement and also some speech therapy
for some slight slurring. His address is 1814 Fairview St.,
Oshkosh, WI 54901-2404 tel: 920-233-2954
branigan@uwosh.edu
I'm sure he would appreciate a card to
cheer him and a prayer to speed his recovery.
Charles
Charles T. Scott
Professor emeritus of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4737 Lafayette Drive
Madison, WI 53705
608-233-3995
ctscott@wisc.edu
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From the EDITOR: It is with deep gratitude that we, the Marists
All team members, acknowledge your overwhelming response
to "fill the coffers," allowing for several more issues. Thanks
especially to John and Joan Brady, Jerry Byrne, Bernard
Connolly, Rich Foy, Pat Gallagher, Dennis Hartnett, William
Kawka, William Kelly, Marty and Ann Lang, Artie Lavigne, Br.
Bill Lavigne, George K. Mannix, Paul Maloney, Ed McElroy, Br.
Jim McKnight, Ray Morrissey, J. Perring_Mulligan, John (Buddy)
Nolan, Alex Senes, Anne Sheridan, Frank Sutton, Br. Hugh
Turley, Gene Zirkel
For those others who wish to help, kindly send checks directly
to Gus Nolan, making out the checks in his name. Also, those
who would like to have us send your copies of Marists All
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electronically rather than in printed version, kindly let us know.
Please update us on changes to your email address.
Writers for this issue:
Bill Byrne
'52 reminisces about Brothers who influenced him
Brother Ben Consigli
, Provincial, announces new Marist e-news
publications for the United States province.
Richard Foy
'46 supplements Mike Kelly's thoughts on Brother
Nilus Donnelly and higher education
Richard Foy '46 (again!) submits information received from
Maurice Bibeau about the current status of the
Tyngsboro
property
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Bob and Ginny Grady
'53 share items about the future Marist
Spirituality Weekend July 8-10, 2011 at Marist College
Bob Hopkins
'52 thanks those who reached out to him during
his recent sickness
David Kammer
'42 tells us of how a group of former Marist
Brothers in Guatemala work together.
Mike Kelly
'50 comments on leadership in education and
suggests a book on Lower Higher Education
Gus Nolan
'48 tells us about Father Frank Gallogly OSA
Charles Scott
'50 sends news about Dick Brannigan '50, a
regular contributer to MaristsAll
Alex Senes
'64 updates his retirement status.
Obituary for
Stephen S Sheridan
(Bro Hugh Ephrem)
Obituary for
Brother Declan Murray
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From BOB AND GINNY GRADY ('53): I would like to update the
Marists All readers on this year's Marist Spirituality Weekend to
be held on July 8, 9, and 10 at Marist College. The theme for
the weekend is based on the book Gathered Around the Same
Table The Vocation of Champagnat's Marist Laity.
John Scileppi has made arrangements with the facilities
management personnel at Marist College to assure adequate
housing and meeting rooms. John and Lynn are off to Florence,
Italy, and the Marist College Extension SchooL They will return
in time to join us in July.
Br. Sean Sammon has accepted our invitation to return as a
featured presenter. He will address the topic "Vocation of
Champagnat's Marist Laity." A panel of guests will share with us
their experiences in "Marist Present Day Apostolates.". Members
of the panel include: Br, Dominick Pujia, Br. Philip Robert, Alice
Miesnik, Br. Leo Shea, and Br. Stephen Milan.
We extend an open invitation to all those interested in joining
us this summer.
Those interested in participating, please send a. twenty-five
dollar deposit to Br. Charles Marcellin at Archbishop Molloy High
School, 8353 Manton Street, Jamaica, NY 11435. The cost for
the weekend will be the same as last year, $185 for an
individual and $330 for a couple. If you have any questions
regarding the weekend, please call us at 516-796-4502 or email
us at RVGRADY@optonline.net.
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From MARIST LIFE: David Kammer ('42) sent the following item
describing the impact of a meeting held this past fall in
Guatemala of former Marist Brothers. It is published here
because Tomas Martinez, the writer, has chosen wonderful
words that should resonate among former Marists in the USA.
In the Marist tradition, there are no boundaries ... ,
It was with the prayer of praise (Laudetur Jesus Christus et
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Marie Mater eius) we greeted each new day. We had learnt it
from our first days in the houses of formation (Carrion, Pontes
and Miranda de Ebro - Spain). In thanking the good God and his
Mother Mary, who have always accompanied us, I wish to salute
the Marist Brothers and thank them for the invitation they
addressed us to a reunion on 17 October.
In the Marist house, we learned to love and praise God. The
formation we received, the education, the community and
personal prayer, and the love of work learned from those
Brothers wearing soutanes with the crucifixes on their breasts,
Sthose Brothers who gave their lives so that we might grow:
such is the foundation of our lives - a life of faith and of service
to others.
We know the Brothers as if they were our own. We know the
sense of belonging. We breathe in the refreshing air of the
Marist Family. We form part of this great network of the Marist
mission in the world of today. We who have been part of the
Institute carry in our hearts and in our lives the teachings of the
exemplary men who educated us.
We have integrated and made our own, thanks to what we lived
in Marist life, the Christian message: "He who wishes to become
great will be your servant," in the manner of Mary and in the
shade of the Marial virtues of simplicity, humility, and modesty.
Thank you for having made yourselves so close to us and for
having given us the opportunity to share with you the same
ideals and the same vocation. There we learned the values and
human and Christian principles which have inspired our ways of
doing and acting in our personal and professional lives ....
During the gathering, we listened, we were listened to, and we
shared part of our lives, what we are now and what we are
doing, and our desires to remain always united in the Marist
mission and educational work. They were moments filled with
joy, with union, with satisfaction for our common past. We
engaged ourselves to stay in contact, to remain in the tracks
and paths of Marial spirituality "ad Jesum per Mariam," to
reflect together about a new model which integrates us fully
into the life of the Institute.
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From AMERICAN MARIST, (e-news for Marist communities in
the U.S.): Br. Ben Consigli (benfms@aoLcom), Provincial,
welcomes readers to the new publication for the U.S. Province.
His opening paragraph summarizes the focus of the premiere
issue:
"The founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin
Champagnat, often said, "A Brother is a man for whom the
world is not large enough." Who would think that almost two
centuries later the Brothers and their colleagues minister in
over seventy-eight countries throughout the world? Here in the
U.S., there are so many wonderful things to report about the
good work our Brothers and lay colleagues accomplish each and
every day. In our schools and retreat centers, at summer
camps and overseas missions, we strive to live out Jesus'
Gospel in the way of Mary."
Items of interest include information on the video, "Live
Marist!", a short film that highlights the warmth and spirit of
the Marist community. There is a1so an announcement to "save
the date" October 8, 2011 - to mark the 12Sth anniversary of
the presence of the Marist Brothers in the United States. Plans
for a Mass and celebration at St. Jean Baptiste Church in
Manhattan are in the works.
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From ALEX SENES ('64): Thank you for the labor of love that
you editors have been doing throughout the many issues of
Marists All. Even though I don't know personally some of the
people who write, I read the letters cover to cover. They serve
as a shot of spirituality Marist-style.
I have been retired since April and disabled as well -- early
symptoms of Parkinson's -- shuffling gait and other symptoms.
I had two episodes of angina and also urinary bladder stones. I
feel like my body is letting me down. I turned 65 on September
11.
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In spite of life's ironies, retirement has been good to me. I do
all the things I wanted to do and couldn't. I open my day as I
would any other gift God sends me. I go to Mass at 8 am and
try to go for a two-mile brisk walk. I watch one hour of Italian
TV to get back my lost vocabulary. I play the guitar along with
CDs to sit and jam as I did in Tyngsboro.
I have been feeling nostalgic about Cold Spring and would like
to walk around the property again. I graduated from Marist Hall
in '63. That year, along with the two years in the novitiate, have
been the best years of my life. (44 Orangeburg Road, Old
Tappan NJ, 07675-7441; 201-768-7883;
esenes@opttonline.com)
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From BOB HOPKINS ('52): First, I want to thank all for the
prayers, visits, and telephone calls at the time of my car
accident. Given what is happening in Tucson, it is clear that
people make a great difference in the recovery of a person with
a life-threatening injury.
In that car accident I didn't have a near-death experience. I
was conscious for a brief moment, and then everything went
black. I am not sure how to interpret that black hole, given that
most people experience light and brightness.
My recovery was nothing short of a miracle. A nurse driving
behind me on the highway phoned 911. The firemen phoned for
a helicopter and the jaws-of-life before they reached the scene
of the accident. Two of the firemen were former students of
mine; they must have passed my classes! I was air lifted to
Massachusetts General where the emergency room team saved
my life. Mary took a room in a motel near the hospital and
stayed in Boston from June 10 to March 15 when the insurance
company pushed me out of the hospital. Thank God for
Medicare!
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A tragedy like this brings out the best in people. Many visited
me in the hospital. I owe a great deal of thanks to Pat Gallagher
for literally organizing people to visit me in the hospital. I
received calls from China and Spain. I don't remember who the
persons were, but I appreciated the calls very much.
As I grow older, I become more grateful for what I was given by
the Marist Brothers. The year I went to Esopus as a tenth
grader, the gang I was running with landed in jail for stealing
from a radio and TV store. Up until that time we had done small
stuff. They were sent upstate. Would I have been with them? I
don't know. I was very immature when I entered the Brothers,
but the training years helped me grow up. My dad died when I
was six. The monks helped me to have male identification.
Later on, the opportunity to work on a doctoral program that I
never completed opened many doors when I moved to New
Hampshire with my family. I was able to teach at five of the
local colleges because of my MA and doctoral course work. I am
truly grateful.
Our children are happy and content. Colleen teaches Social
Studies in a new high school in Windham, a neighboring town.
Craig is a vet in Providence and is married to a medical doctor,
and Patrick is in Dubai teaching at an international American
school. (They actually pay their teachers!) We have four
grandchildren and another on the way. (603-434-1914 or
bobphopkins@comcast.net
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From MIKE KELLY ('50): I thought it was time to let Marists All
readers know how to track us down. Janet and I have been
married forty-one years, and we have moved seventeen times.
I just can't hold down a job! Our most recent move was to
Surprise, AZ. Now, instead of a rush to the airport and a six-
hour flight to Burbank, CA, to see our grandchildren, it is a six-
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hour drive across mostly desert at eighty miles an hour. What
brought us to Surprise? Our daughter, Jean, received her
master's degree in education at Long Island University. Since
finding a teaching job in NY was impossible, she applied for a
position in Surprise where she is enjoying teaching while not
having to shovel snow and cut grass. Surprise is really a
wonderful place to live. We still have our home on Long Island
to escape the "dry heat" of July and August. Y'all are welcome
to visit at any time.
It has been a while since I wrote a letter to Marists All. The last
letter may have been when we were living in California. The
biggest event at that time was the delivery of twin boys to our
daughter, Joan.
The twins are now eleven. We moved to Long Island about eight
years ago. The highlight of that move came when Joan had twin
girls. They are now six years old and back living in Burbank,
CA. She added a fifth child, Liam Desmond, three years ago. He
was named after my brother Des, who died at Mount St.
Michael last year. No one who knew Des has any trouble
remembering him, but it is wonderful to see Liam Desmond,
whom we hope will one day inherit Des's many virtues and love
of Irish music.
Saint James on Long Island, where we lived, is about a ten
minute drive from Stony Brook University. After arriving in Saint
James, I went to see my friend, the Dean of Engineering at
Stony Brook. I offered to teach a course in professional ethics.
Ethics was not taught in the engineering school, and t couldn't
convince the dean that it should be. He suggested I talk to the
dean of the school of business and management. Yes, ethics
was taught there. I recently wondered how many of the
graduates were hired by Wall Street. The dean asked me if I
would teach Strategic Management and a semester later Human
Resource Management. I had spent the previous thirty years in
management and felt more qualified to teach management
courses than engineering courses. I probably enjoyed teaching
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those two courses more than any course I taught at other
universities. I taught the classes and then left the campus,
avoiding all the bureaucracy and faculty meetings that could
raise my blood pressure.
I still love teaching, but after having been on the faculty at
seven different universities, I believe that it is time to ask, "Is
higher education really worth it?" I started thinking about
writing a book: Lower Higher Education, i.e. lower cost, lower
job expectations, lower graduate's debt, lower the time it takes
to get a BA, lower the number of required credits needed to get
a degree, lower the number who start college but never
graduate, and so on.
I keep hoping that the new program in Esopus to prepare
leaders might focus on preparing leaders to work in education.
Higher education doesn't need better administrators as much as
it needs better leaders and managers. It is disconcerting to
hear that universities are recruiting in foreign countries and
out_of_state not for better students so much as to get
freshmen who can pay full tuition. I get really bothered to hear
that 1200 colleges pay the College Board 32 cents a name for
students whose standardized test scores and grade-point
averages meet the criteria they seek. And what do the students
who apply get-rejection after rejection letters. How do all these
rejections affect the students, and do universities really care?
Maybe the universities think they need to prepare students for
the number of job rejections they get before they have to
declare bankruptcy because they can't pay back their loans. The
universities claim to fame is the number of rejections against
the pool of applicants. I think I will write that book! The Marist
College Leadership Program could make a difference where it is
badly needed. I hope it will accept the challenge, and Marists All
should be there to help.
If anyone reading this would like to contribute to the book,
Lower Higher Education, all contributions are welcome. In your
experience, do universities realize who their customers really
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are? Does a class of 1500 students on-line compare favorably
with a campus class of twenty-five? Does an adjunct professor
with experience compare favorably with a tenured professor
with no work experience? Do better facilities attract more
students than scholarships and lower cost? Would it be more
effective for universities to hire researchers who don't teach
and faculty who teach with no requirement to subsidize their
salary?
Is the goal of universities to teach students or to provide the
opportunity for students to teach themselves? Should
universities be measured by the success of their graduates five
years after graduation rather than their GPA or success in the
sports arena? Will looking at the graduates after five or more
years provide universities with information on the moral
qualities and wisdom gained in pursuit of a degree? Instead of a
semester of remedial courses for no credits, should universities
be contributing to the institutions that provide them with
"customers"? Is specialization at the BA level superior to a
liberal and systems education?
How important is gaining public recognition in sports to the
goals of a university? Most universities require that professors
have a terminal degree. Are there any requirements that
professors have training as teachers? What is measured to
obtain tenure: ability to obtain grants, the number of
publications, leadership, influence on students, effective
teaching, or peer acceptance? Is tenure necessary?
Could a leadership program help answer many of the above
questions? Can a leadership program influence the professions
students select, including science, engineering, politics, and
teaching? Maybe together we can help answer some of these
questions and maybe make a difference in lower higher
education.
I had great teachers at Marist College, but the Brother who
most influenced my engineering career was Br. Nilus. He offered
me many challenges, and when I sometimes told him, "I have
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no idea how to do that," his response was, "You can learn."
Colleges can have great value if they give the graduates the
confidence that they can learn to accomplish whatever they
want.: and, hopefully, our graduates will choose to make a
positive difference. (42 Tillotson Street, St James NY 11780;
631-385-1062; kellv931@hotmail.com)
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From RICH FOY (in response to Mike Kelly's reflections above):
I think the emphasis at the new Marist College program in
Esopus on leadership will focus on corporate leadership, but this
is just a guess. It is Doctor Murray's project, and most of us are
wondering how he will fuse care of the Esopus property to a
leadership program when the vital energy for the program will
come from the faculty in Poughkeepsie. There has been no
leader named at this time.
Nilus' advice to you strikes a very responsive cord. Br. Austin
Lamprey fms is a scholar in France who has written about the
failure of the religious orders and the Church in France to adjust
to the changing views on education in the late nineteenth
century, including the Marist Brothers. (Bro Joseph Belanger
had told me that there was a Superior General who wrote a
circular letter to the Brothers telling them to adjust to the
changing and future demands for teaching; he died young, and
his directives were ignored.) As I read some of Lamprey's
writings, he has a section about Catholic education. He says the
purpose of Catholic education is to teach people to think, not to
tell them what to believe. I am not sure how he would be
treated by the American Bishops, who seem to have all the
answers already and get increasingly annoyed when U.S.
Catholics do not humbly accept their dictates.
In my own experience, I had an ethics teacher named Father
Halpin, PhD from Fordham, pastor of a little church in Milton,
NY. He had a strange way of presenting ideas, but he always
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made you think. After I became President, I invited him to give
the graduation speech. On the way back from the Marian Gym,
I told him I had a bone to pick with him. ''What?'' I told him his
final exam had five essay questions, and I was totally off on one
of them. How could he give me an "A" for the course? "Oh, I
knew you were wrong," he said, "but you were thinking, and I
was confident that you would arrive at a better answer
someday."
Many Brothers judged that Nilus marched to a different drum.
Of course it was; but in retrospect, it was a better drum.
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From GUS NOLAN ('48): I have received a letter from Rev.
Frank Gallogly OSA with the salutation, "Dear Family and
Friends." He is suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease so
much so that he needs special care. He has left Villanova and
been admitted to a facility. The letter came along with his
Christmas card.
Frank is not pleased with his situation but does what he can to
keep up his spirit. He is at peace and feels his spiritual life has
been deepened by these trials. He is solicitous about others
who are sick and finds great joy in administering to them, even
offering Mass every day.
I responded to Frank's letter on January 2, reminding him that
the day was special to Marists and that I had not forgotten his
Marist connections and that he was still a Marist in spirit. I also
reminded him that he was a " Stanner" (a student from St
Ann's Academy), a former Marist Brother, and a contributor in
writing and finances to Marists All. I assured him that he would
not be forgotten but would be remembered in our prayers.
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From BILL BYRNE ('52): Whether it is because of my
progressing age, my need to come to grips with issues from my
past and next life, or just the morbid curiosity with which I
scour the subject in the on line New York Times, I find myself
lately listening to "Pictures at an Exhibition" and reviewing the
"exhibits" of those in the obituary section of Marists All. As I
conjure up each person's image, I think of the impact each has
had on my twenty-year Marist life. More importantly for me,it's
what and who is missing in these accounts, which is of moment
to me. Here's what I remember of some.
Several monks we all knew were inflicted with what the Irish
call the curse. I felt that more could and should have been done
to help them fight their addictions.
I remember Br. Benedict in one context - Director of Camp
Marist. Did he have other roles in the order? I also remember
him for some unintentional humor he provided, although he
didn't see it in that light.
In late August 1957, just prior to Molloy's opening, several of us
decided on a pick-up basketball game, Br. Ben included. We had
waited anxiously for the go-ahead to christen the new gym.
With a nod from Br. John Lawrence, Molloy's first Boss, and an
"ok" from Br. Francis Xavier, overseer of the school's
construction, the virgin gym floor was about to receive its first
test. When the games ended, everyone looked in horror at a
sea of black scuff marks up and down the court. It seems that
Br. Ben had unpacked his long forgotten leather basketball
shoes and liberally polished them prior to the games. I will
never forget the picture of that hulking presence, down on his
hands and knees, trying to erase the marks he left on the gym
floor.
My extra year of "seasoning" at Marist College, working for Br.
Tarcisius, the engaging gnome who ran the college print shop,
never sat very well with me. Tarcy had set his sights on
someone else and couldn't hide his disappointment that I was
his assigned helper. For the first six months, before Tarcy
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trusted me with using any of the printing equipment, I collated
printed jobs and sorted type by hand, a job a monkey could
have been trained to do. Later in my apprenticeship, as I was
working a press one day, Br. Paul, then head of the college,
suggested I think of every page I printed as a prayer offering. I
had to watch my fingers to prevent them from being crushed,
never mind worrying about the indulgences I was storing up. I
found him preoccupied with weightier matters than my
struggle. Having written that, I know he did great things for the
order.
Br. J.P. Luke touched many of our young lives. I will never
forget his kindness to me.
Big Br. Gilbert Osmund needs to be remembered. I spent seven
summers at Camp Marist listening to him. He was a source of
great wisdom and a fun figure to many of us. His laughter was
infectious - more a roar when anything struck him as
humorous. Many things, monk and otherwise, tickled him. [I
wrote this before I read John Tricamo's engaging account of
fourth-year Latin with Brother Gil in the November 2010 Marists
All. I smiled and loved every bit of the retelling.]
The last time I saw Br. Norbert Justin, or "Norbie" as we knew
him, was in the monks' home in Miami. He appeared to me to
be in the throes of dementia. He didn't recognize me, though I
reported to him for a dozen years. I was saddened by that last
picture I have of him.
Br. Teddy Morris and I enjoyed some unique episodes
together. I previously wrote a long remembrance of our
relationship and our encounters with some names from that
era. Once, Teddy wanted confirmation from Bishop Sheen for a
program he was running at Molloy. He confronted the Bishop in
a Queens' parish rectory after the Bishop had delivered his
signature "Seven Words from the Cross" Lenten performance,
and Ted got the answer he wanted from him - "Let the boys
help each other" - the core of his "Smile" program. Our meeting
at Floyd Patterson's training camp in Marlboro, New York, and
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Ted's subsequent encounters with the legendary heavyweight
champion border on the unbelievable, unless you knew Ted's
dogged determination to get the information he needed. I'm
glad to see he will join other notable Stanners in Molloy's Hall of
Fame. (This took place on November 6, 2010.)
Some things about Br. Terry Jones are indisputable. That he
was a great teacher every student of his would attest. In
community life, his kindness and personal care were always
evident.
There are some little known things about him that several of us
were privy to. Did you know that the students at Mt. St. Michael
had a nickname for him? They called him "Captain Tootsie" for
his uncanny resemblance to the character populating the
Tootsie Roll ad campaigns. That the "bleacher creatures" at
Yankee Stadium referred to him as the "crossword guy" for his
habit of spending summer Sunday afternoons at the ballpark
while quickly finishing the Times crossword puzzle? That while
he was teaching in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa (1956-1959),
he attended a yachting party thrown by the Hollywood actor
Errol Flynn? That evening a Life magazine photographer was
present at the party and photographed the gathering for the
magazine. That week's spread captured Flynn and Terry on
board, something he confessed worried him lest the Provincial
got wind of it. That when someone was "buzzing" St. Charles
College there late at night and destroying school property, Terry
positioned a sixteen-pound shot put on his window sill, hoping
to drop it judiciously and at least put a scare and a dent into
the offender's car? After a direct hit on the vehicle's roof, he
visited the local auto repair shops for several days and nailed
the elusive culprit. That "old boys" from South Africa, on their
customary year to explore the world, would stop by to see him
as a matter of course? That big as he was, he always seemed to
me to be a little bigger than life? I cherish my memory of him
As I patrolled the Esopus cemetery in 2006, I stopped at each
grave site to remember each monk who had been my teacher
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and mentor and some, as well, who had been my friends and
companions in community life I had a wish then, as now, that I
could know more about some of the ones who left and have
since untimely passed on and who would not be interred there.
Greg Ballerino, the multitalented one, and Ken Connell come
immediately to mind. We spent a few very good and productive
years together at Roselle Catholic. I would love to know more
about their post-monk life.
Listen to "Pictures at an Exhibition" with your eyes, mind, and
heart as you picture the monks who made a difference in your
life and write for us in Marists All about their impact on your
life. (byrne@oakland.edu)
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For MaristsAll readers who remember
Tyngsboro fondly by either visitiing the
campus or living there. here are a few
photos of the campus as it stands in
2011. On 18 November 2010 the Boston
Globe in its Globe North section published
photos of the Tyngsboro campus. The
Marist Brothers sold the property to Wang
Laboratories, who developed a Wang
Institute for training engineers and
clients. In 1987 Boston University set up
a branch to service the local area. About
14 years ago it was converted to a
charter school, named Innovation Academy. These photos were
scanned from the newspaper by the Marist College Archives. We
are grateful to Maurice Bibeau who sent us the paper.
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or on the photo to see the other pictures.
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Addendum. Charles Scott '50 wrote to the editor shortly after
initial publication of this newsletter.
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Dick Branigan (Steven Aloysius), 1950, my classmate and good
friend, recently had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his
brain. He is now recovering nicely enough, taking some physical
therapy for right hand movement and also some speech therapy
for some slight slurring. His address is 1814 Fairview St.,
Oshkosh, WI 54901-2404 tel: 920-233-2954
branigan@uwosh.edu
I'm sure he would appreciate a card to
cheer him and a prayer to speed his recovery.
Charles
Charles T. Scott
Professor emeritus of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4737 Lafayette Drive
Madison, WI 53705
608-233-3995
ctscott@wisc.edu
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