Annals of St. Ann's Hermitage: 1928
On January 2nd, funeral for Bro. Zepheriny. Rev. Father Fox, his godchild, officiates.
Rev. Father John Tetreault, pastor in Washingtonville and Rev. Father Jacolucci from Newburg were present.
Also came: two Marianists from Beacon, Dr. Charles McCambridge, Mr. McCann, the Sisters from St. Francis Hospital, and representatives from our four communities in New York.
We decide to admit to the Novitiate only those Juniors who have completed two years of High School.
Mr. Bennett, professor at New Paltz Teachers College comes every week to teach literature to our Scholastics.
The course in Philosophy is given by Rev. Bruce McLean from the Oblate Juniorate in Newburg.
At the beginning of April the construction of a new building at Mt. St. Michael is begun. Mr. O'Hare is chosen as contractor general, even though his bid was high; he offers better guarantees than the other bidders.
Plumbing and heating are given to Mr. McLaughlin.
The house occupied by our Brothers teaching at St. Peter's in Poughkeepsie being too small for the ten Brothers of that community, we decide to enlarge it. The work will be done by our Brothers in the Provincial House. The St. Peter's community will pay $600 rent per year.
The Brothers of the St. Peter's community will have to pay the Provincial House for the fruits and vegetables they pick on the property.
April 15. Brothers Heribert and Ptolomeus leave for Europe; they should be back by mid-July.
Authorization for changes in the Scholasticate building [i.e. Greystone] having been obtained, the work is confided to Michael Bogo, contractor in Poughkeepsie.
The changes consist of adding a storey, adding windows, putting a stairway in the tower, replacing the wooden floors by reinforced concrete resting on iron beams. This entails moving the laundry, installing a new furnace, etc.
The cost of this work for the Scholasticate only:
- Transformations in the building: $10,000
- Heating and plumbing: $2000
- Steel and putting in the beams: $2600
- Labor and materials for electric lighting are estimated at $1000. Bro. Paul Acyndinus who has taken an ad hoc course will do the latter work.
The sale to the Dutton Lumber Company of 150xl00 feet of river front on the south is settled. Cost of the sale: $10,000 net.
Retreat for the Novices and Postulants from July 16-26 preached by Rev. J.F. Cox, S.J. 17 Brothers make their First Vows and 2 make Perpetual Profession.
August 21. Closing of the retreat preached by Rev. Richard Fay, C.P. 46 Brothers renew their Annual Vows.
The last retreat from August 23-30 is preached by Rev. Philip M. Finnegan, S.J. 6 Brothers renew their Temporary Vows, 2 of them for the fifth time, and another makes Perpetual Profession.
The old plumber's shop located under the Scholasticate dormitory is changed into a laundry, a building on the outside will house the furnace which has to supply hot water to this laundry and heat the 3 storeys of the new laboratories and library of the Scholasticate.
A cement roof our Brothers put up over the building for the new furnace collapses because the planks holding this roof up were removed too soon.
Mr. Champagne, House employee, is slightly hurt; he has to spend a few days in St. Francis Hospital.
Finally, the walls which were lightly damaged are rebuilt in part with artificial blocks, together with a reinforced cement roof. Mr. Bogo is paid $300 for this work.
At the end of the retreat Brother Heribert is named Econome of Mt. St. Michael high school in NY. He has to be replaced by Bro. Pierre Vincent as Director of the House.
Bro. Pierre Vincent happening to be in Europe and not returning to America, Brother Ptolomeus is Director of the Provincial House whose personnel is as follows:
Bro. Leo, Prov.
Bro. Ptolomeus, Dir.
Bro. M. Anicetus, Prov. Econ.
Bro. Altin, Sub-Director
Bro. Abelus
Bro. Pierre Augustin
Bro. Louis Sanctus
Bro. Armand Desire, tailor
Bro. Alexander Joseph
Bro. Charles Ernest
Bro. Bassus, Chef
Bro. Tarcisius
Bro. Robert Francis, laundry
Bro. Jerome Vincent
In the Infirmary:
Bro. Marcellien Louis
Bro. Marie Cephas
In the Scholasticate:
Bro. Emile Nestor
Bro. Joseph Abel
and 17 Scholastics
In the Novitiate:
Bro. Adolph Leo
Bro. Paul Acyndinus
Bro. Leo Camille
Bro. Philippe Joseph
Bro. Victor Hilaire
Bro. John Berchmans
In the Juniorate:
Bro. Paul Stratonic
Bro. John Philibert
Bro. Victor Albert
Bro. Victor Baptist
Bro. Joseph Albert
December 11. Death of dear Brother Angelicus, A.G.~ in Grugliasco, Italy.
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