Looking Back

Pennsylvania Governor David L. Lawrence, whose two (of three) sons had been students at Central Catholic HS in Pittsburgh, addressed a large gathering of loyal supporters of La Salle College and praised the Christian Brothers as educators.

It's a hit...over the head! Pittsburgh’s South Hills Catholic HS (now Seton-La Salle HS) staged a play entitled “The Desperate Hours”, which proved to be a show-stopper...literally. On opening night, one of the fleeing “convicts” failed to properly simulate hitting a victim over the head with a pistol, thus unexpectedly delaying the play for twenty nervous minutes as attendants quickly treated a three-inch scalp laceration.

The new president of Duquesne University, Rev. Harry McAnulty, comes from the Class of 1932 of Central Catholic HS, Pittsburgh.

The first Masses to be celebrated in the completed chapel at the new Novitiate building at Narragansett (RI) were on Christmas day.

Brother Charles Henry (Buttimer), the Visitor of the Long Island-New England District, came to the Novitiate at Barrytown (NY) and heard the redditions of the LI-NE Novices there. Later, he gave all of the New York and LI-NE Novices a talk on the developments of the new LI-NE District.

From St. Joseph’s Novitiate at Barrytown (NY), which for decades partially sustained itself because of its farm:

“The last of the animal farm—the chickens—have been disposed of because of their lack of cooperation; they did not lay a sufficient number of eggs to justify their existence…..There has been much activity in the Mansion cellar these days killing chickens by the hundreds. We claim to have the best chicken pluckers in the Hudson Valley.”

De La Salle College (Washington, D.C.) hosted the Junior Novices of the Baltimore District (from nearby Ammendale) during the Thanksgiving weekend and entertained them with dinner and movies.

The entire student body—boys and girls—of St. Mary’s (Yonkers) has been inoculated with the tuberculosis vaccine; St. Mary’s was the first in a program which will include all of the parochial, private, and public schools in the City of Yonkers.

The Toronto District is comprised 234 Brothers (170 of whom were in Final Vows), 20 Student Brothers, 18 Novices, 75 Junior Novices. The Toronto District consists of 17 communities and a total of 8,034 students.