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.,. P khan. 'ii nNATIUS RICE, THE FOUNDER OF THE IRISH CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, SEVENTY-TWO YOUTHS DON THE LIVERY OF JESUS CHRIST. AND P PAL APPROVAL I 1820 endowed with almost divine patience and perseverence, Edmund Rice at the age of forty, established the New Street School, the first of many, which soon were spread from the acrid expanse of South Africa to the iey shores of Newfoundland. There at New Street, Waterford, were to be solved many-of the educational problems which would face the successors of Ignatius and also was the format of instruction procedures outlined and actually employed in everyday classroom techniques. The response when the school was once establish:-d was overwhelming and exceeded the most aspiring wishes and desires of that holy man. Eighteen short years after this gigantic step forward came another marked ad- vance in the educational and religious development of his infant society. Edmund Rice petitioned Pope Pius VII for his sanction to establish an order of Brothers devoted and dedicated to the teaching profession and spread of Christian doctrine to the outpost of the world. After due deliberation and much consideration of the accomplishments of this proposed organization during their two decades of existence, the Pontiff most will- ingly and eagerly granted Edmund's request. Thus was a new congregation initiated into the army 'of Christ and from that emblazoned date has served in the foremost ranks of that body, repelling and thwarting, by their Christ-like example, any attempts to captivate the young minds of Catholics who are becoming accustomed to the. vices and vicissitudes of life, under God's loving care. The burden of this great work cannot he placed upon one pair of shoulders, nor can all the credit be bestowed upon one man. Reverend Brother Rice always held the opinion that all mortal reward and concern should be borne by all. To the Herculean undertakings of Reverend Brother Eugene Finbarr Ryall, Superior of All Saints High School, and founder of our own Power Memorial Academy, and the efforts of saintly Brother Ryan, the first Superior of the primary founda- tion of the Christian Brothers of Ireland in America, is due a great deal of the credit for the faith and edu- cation of the youth of our great land during the past half century. Throughout their lifetime they exempli- fied the very principles that any Catholic educator should, while expressing the extraordinary zeal and charity that enabled them to become models in an order noted for its ability and optimism. It cannot he adequately expressed, the gratitude and sentiments of the multitudes of students under the loving and guiding care of the Brothers. There have been countless and conspicuous deeds done by individuals entrusted to their supervision and due to the excellent preparations given in their institutes of knowledge more and impor- tant things shall be accomplished by those instructed by them today. All the gold of the seven seas or all the jewels of creation's greatest empires are naught appre- ciated as much as a simple dictum, MThanks, Brother. 7 351' at

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FIRST IN THE STATES- All SAINTS... On a sunny morning in 1906, the White Star liner Majestic, arrived in a busy New York harbor from Liverpool and de- posited four lonely but eager gentlemen garbed in the habits of Christian Brothers of Ireland. Brother Joachim Ryan, followed by Brothers Sebastian Curtis, Ambrose Kelly, and Gilbert Molloy, led the way to a waiting carriage and Mon- signor Power. Wfelcomed by Brothers Titus Frisby and .Ter- ome Hennessy, guests of the Monsignor, they proceeded to go to a comfortable residence, prepared for the Brothers at 2081 Fifth Avenue. This site is one of historic significance in tl1e educational record of the city of New York as well as that of the Christian Brothers. It was to be in this, All Saints Parish, that the real test of the mettle that this religious community manifested was to be given. The single step that commenced the long jour- ney along the road of education expansion and progress was in the generous offer of Brother Ryan to assume the arduous tasks of the Dean of Boys Department. ln September of 1907 the Brothers began the school year by taking under their wing, the graduating class. This, indeed, was to be a care- fully scruntinized examination of the capabilities of these religious. All worked smoothly during the ureading 'and writ- ingn months, but the final credits were the important matter which would be considered as to the worth of their instruc- tors. Not only was this crisis passed with 'Iflying colors but also a dramatic presentation and a musical interlude were offered as entertainment and compensation for those who had usufferedw through the many classes with them. In fact so great was the accomplishment and so far surpassing the expectations and hopes of the 'ctestersv that the pastor of All Saints petitioned the Cardinal for permission to establish a badly needed high school. His superior granted the request I CLASS OF T909 the forerunner of countless numbers of other such classes. This was the first graduating class of All Saints School after the Irish Christian Brothers began teaching in the United States. almost immediately but with the emphatic and specific stipu- lation, that the Brothers be the sole educators. In fact not only one secondary was thus fostered in the community but three: All Hallows opened by Brother Ignatius Doorleyg Rice High School, founded by Brother Finbarr Ryallg and our alma mater, Power Memorial Academy, whose trail was blazed by the same Brother Finbarr. Not only was the establishment of educational centers of concern to the Brothers but also the foundation of a new province and a Novitiate. After the cornerstone of the Brothers first private elementary school was laid in New Rochelle, the present site of Iona College and High School, the work upon the great task of incorporating the United States into a religious province under the jurisdiction of the Christian Brothers, began. The timetable of these followers of Edmund Bice was a busy one and filled with activity, a sample of which went as follows: New Rochelle was the scene of the Brothers, first Novitiate, which was the center of their attention, their upet projectwg Brother Ryan's elec- tion to the highly esteemed office of first American Provin- cial, the foundation and propagation of the Brothers' Scho- lasticate, and the creation of 10, flourishing houses in the Archdiocese of New York, alone. As anyone may readily see the years of early growth and the Brothers, 'fmanifest des- tinyn were bursting at the seams with things to be done, places to be had and accomplishments needed. There is an old adage which adequately states the philos- ophy that: Fools live in the future, doters in the past, but men in the present. The Brothers who first set foot on the God blessed soil of America, much as did Columbus, expected a great deal and gained much more. They learned from the past, they lived in the present and they molded the future. REV. BRO. D. I. DOORLEY was the super- ior of All Hallows High School, the hrst high school of the Brothers in the U. S. 9