Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 33 ALUMNI T HE Rev. FATHER THOMAS BRACKEN was. ordained priest оп Мау. 21st 1921. Our heartiest congratulations to the newly annointed- and to his beloved parents. · Nor can we neglect to extend similar greetings to all of the royal House of the O’Neills. With them, if with anybody, the old Irish proverb must be most true: There is no honor like having a Soggarth Aroon іп the family and.no re- ward like hearing T-as on Aifrean (Holy Mass). But Tommy was always а boisterous chap even before he reached his teens. Tradition depicts Біт as toddling over from St. Pat- rick’s School to the Drummond. St. College one September morn in 1909. Among his former teachers at St. Patrick's we must mention the Reverend Brothers Bernard and Walter. And of course, he had for principal, while. there; the Venerable Brother Prudent. Who of our business men, our brothers and our Priests for the last couple of generations have escaped this great edu- cator's goodly influence? After being on the college muster roll for a complete course in classics and science the future Father Tom graduated in 1917. A wiling supporter. of all college enterprises his name was ever well to the front in the accounts of Field Day sports, baseball games, dramatic and musical entertainments. Зо short, but oh my! So tall as he holds the college record for the Pole Vault. Father Bracken’s first clerical appoint- ment is as assistant pastor at St. Willibrod's. The good folks of Verdun will surely enjoy the sweetness of his manners and his voice. Perhaps his worthy pastor, Father Patrick McDonald, will give full scope to his energetic initiative. Loyola's tennis courts are last- ing monuments to the first outbreaks of his youthful energies when he and the others of Class 17 first blazed the trail from Drum- mond St. to Notre Dame de Grace. However, may hissowing of the Word of the Lord in suburban Verdün prove more successful than his supposed planting around the college grounds of some hundred valuable chestnuts which have yet to see the light of day. s Rev. Father Henry Frederick Bartley C.S.S.R., was born in Montreal іп December, 1893. He owes his primary education to the Brothers of St. . Leo’s School, Westmount. He was a student at Loyola College for four years. He also studied at St. Mary’s College, Northeast, P.Q. and at St. Anne de Beaupré. His novititate days were spent at Ilchester, Md. and his final preparation for the priesthood in phi- losophy and theology was gone through at Mount St. Alphonsus-on-Hudson, Esopus, N. Y. His ordination took place at the Mount on June 26th. He celebrated his first Mass at the Sacred Heart Convent, Sault-au-Recollet, where one of his sisters is a Madame of the Sacred Heart. He sang his first High Massin St. Leo’s Church, Westmount, Que. on July 3, 1921. It was because the new priest was a student of Loyola that Rev. W. H. Hingston, Rector of Loyola College, was asked to officiate as archpriest at the solemn High Mass. Rev. | Father Donnelly, C.S.S.R. and Rev. Father Flood, of St. Anthony’s, who assisted in the celebration, and Rev. Father Murray, C.S.S. R., who preached the sermon, are all gradu- ates of Loyola. For these happy events his parents came on from their home in. Van- couver, В.С. His. brother Lawrence was already on hand, being in Second Year High. In the. field of spirituality Father Henry will no doubt. often head the race at a rapid stride and save the day, as of yore he used to do for his class when on the track team and leader of its relay quartette: ` As regards Reverend Father Leo Зех- smith, C. S.S. R. and other Old Boys among the Redemptorist Levites who are being or- dained this year, the Review has to wait till our camera-man can catch them on their first missionary tour to Montreal. Harvey ` Dandurand, after. а lingering illness, died: шт. ‘Montreal on July. 28th, 1920. Не маз only twenty-four years ОЇ age. He attended St.: Mary's for several terms and Loyola for one. Well known to all baseball, lacrosse and hockey fans, he helped out our hockey team for a season; but his fame as an athlete rests with the

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32 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Father Gregory O'Bryan, first Rector of Loyola College, whose spirit of manly piety is still happily manifest in the student body. So he became, on the 10th of August, 1907, Rector of Loyola College, which he ruled with wise and fatherly skill for the six following years. In 1913 he was appointed Minister at St. Boni- face College, Manitoba, and in 1914 Vice- Rector. But his health had long been unequal to the strain and responsibility of superiorship. Even when he was only twenty-eight his lungs were becoming tubercular. It was by sheer care and buoyant energy that he managed to fulfil his arduous duties. In order to afford him a much needed rest he was transferred,in 1915, to the beautiful Church of Our Lady in Guelph, where he found means, as assistant to the able and devoted Rector, Father Doyle, to do a great deal of good among the people who flocked to him for advice and direction, as he was too weak to go about the parish. However, as the comparative rest of the . Guelph Rectory gradually produced a con- siderable improvement, and as he was once more needed at Loyola, in June, 1917, Father Alexander Gagnieur was again appointed to the rectorship of this college, which had been transferred by Father MacMahon from the cramped quarters of Drummond Street to the new building with its fifty acres at the western extremity of Sherbrooke Street. | But there soon occurred a final break-down. In 1918 he had to spend several months in the sanatorium for tuberculosis at Gabriels, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, where the scientific treat- ment of the physicians in charge and the de- voted ministrations of the Sisters of Mercy succeeded in adding three more years to his truly apostolic life. These years he spent in Guelph, and they were the most edifying of all. His patience and cheerfulness in spite of a con- stant, hacking cough, were positively marvel- lous. Regret at giving so much trouble, grati- tude for the care his brethren took of him, were the salient features of his last days. They brought out unsuspected depths of virtue. After receiving the last sacraments with great fervor, he almost literally died upon his feet, having risen to greet a friend with his ever kindly smile. The end came on February 12th, 1921. R.I.P. Fr. Kavanagh (Labrador Eclipse Expedition).

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34 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW PP X————————— Championship National Lacrosse Club. Loyola joins with the many friends of the sorrowing relatives in offering sincerest sym- path‘es. HARVEY DANDURAND During the year sad bereavements befell many of Loyola’s former and present stu- dents. Thus we have to lament the death of Mr. Daniel СаЛегу, for long years. one of our truest and most generous friends; of Mr. William Holland, father of John, Rupert, Daniel, and Lonsdale; of Mr. С. -Plunkett Magann, father of George, Allan and Hu- bert; of Mrs. Michael Cunningham, mother of Alexis; of Mr. Charles A. Phelan, father of Charles, Horatio and Louis; of Mr. Daniel Fregeau, father of Albert and Raymond; of Mrs. M. J. Boyle, mother of Francis, and of Mrs. McDonnagh, mother of Rev. Father McDonnagh. May our proof of gratitude to all these dear departed be to labour well while the life that they helped to give to us is still ours. Could our mortal ears hear their warnings, such, we are sure, would be the earnest request they would make to us. For well they now know that short are the hours of toil and eternal the reward. + $ Special words of condolence are also due to Messers Harry and Herbert Нуіапа оп the occasion of the death of their father, Mr. John Hyland, and to Mrs. Dunphey on the occasion of the death of her husband, Mr. Barney Dunphey. Mr Dunphey was опе of Montreal’s most famous lacrosse and hockey trainers. In the days of “Оше” Baxter and “Chubby” Power, he spurred on the Loyola septette towards the goal of highest honors in amateur hockey. It was in great part thanks to another Shamrock man, Mr. Harry Hyland, that Loyola be-. came a power in City League circles. Their whole-hearted, clean and skilful coaching was ever a labour of love for the moral and physical betterment of their youtaful charges. Whatever sorrow overshadows them or theirs they must ever have every right to our heartfelt sympathy. + + Leo Leboutellier, D.C.M., whose gallant death we had to chronicle most sorrowfully and who had made such a name for himself amongst all his companions in arms for his daring and wonderful skill in scouting ac- quired in part at least by his hunting in Gaspé—had another side to his character which we hope may be revealed. From France he had sent home a note-book care- fully sealed and bearing the legend: To be kept unopened until I return. Grief and a feeling of reverence for this relic of the de- parted son caused his parents to refrain for over a year from opening the note-book. When they did so there was unfolded before them such a revelation of a beautiful soul that we are tempted to express the desire that his friends also may be privileged to read this diary. Ф Ф Our latest Bachelors of Science at McGill are John М. Cuddy, В.А. '17, and Gaston Fortin. The former specialized in Chemical Engineering and the latter, in Civil. + + Michael Tansey should be one of the most prosperous business men of the day. He is a member of the T. P. Tansey Button and Tag Firm. The name appears on the hundred and one tags with which we have been decorated during the year. Congratu- lations, Michael, you were wise when you went into the business of tagging the taggers.