Fordham Preparatory School - Ramkin Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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RAM REVEREND JAMES J. REDMOND. SJ. Principal

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KIN iFnmmirii hi the tempestuous, historic year of 1941 Fordham Prep celebrates its hundredth anniversary. IPs a long time,—one hundred years; the world has changed, the earth's face has been redrawn by the force of man and then redrawn again, great men have died and new ones have risen to lake their place. History has been made in the last turbulent century. But Fordham Prep has remained the same. One hundred years have blown past its portals, rustled in and out of its windows, forced weary ivy up its sturdy walls. Put Fordham Prep has remained the same. True, the times have necessi- tated changes in its plant, and age has forced wholesale changes in its personnel, but, though the little building on Rose Hill might crumble and fall before the temper of the elements, the spirit that is Fordham Prep, the spirit that has been inculcated into the hearts and minds of its students by the Jesuits,—the wisdom, integrity, courage and love of (rod which makes the real Catholic gentleman,—that spirit, please God, will never change. It must live forever. It can falter, waver, stumble,—but it can never die. i 9 4 i

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KIN Sfiitrattnn AT THE OUTSET OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR, THE JESUIT LIST OF TRANSFERS SENT TO FORDHAM FREP A NEW PRINCIPAL. REVEREND JAMES J. REDMOND, S.J. HE CAME FROM A DISTANT CITY AND A DIF- FERENT SCHOOL TO A NEW CITY AND A STRANGE SCHOOL. THERE EXISTED FOR HIM THE TASK OF MEETING AND WINNING OVER FIVE HUNDRED NATURALLY HOSTILE YOUNG HEARTS. BUT THE TERM HAD SCARCELY BEGUN WHEN FATHER RED- MOND’S DISARMING SMILE AND HIS INIMITABLE, “HELLO FRIEND”, WERE FAMILIAR FEATURES AROUND SCHOOL. MINGLING WITH THE STUDENTS, ENCOURAGING THEM IN THEIR STUDIES AND AC- TIVITIES AND W'AXING EVER VIGOROUS IN MAT- TERS OF PREP SPIRIT, FATHER REDMOND HAS TAKEN OVER OUR CASTLE BY STORM. THEREFORE, TO THE MAN WHOSE PRIME DESIRE IS TO SEE FORDHAM PREP A RADIANT STAR IN THE HEAVEN OF SCHOLASTIC, ATHLETIC, AND SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENT—TO FATHER JAMES J. REDMOND, S.J., WE DEDICATE THIS CENTENARY ISSUE OF THE RAMKIN.