Rice High School - Edmundian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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BROTHER PATRICK B. LANE arrived from All Hallows to replace Br. Flaherty. An lona College graduate, he teaches re- ligion, social studies and English. He's Room 2-43's Official Teacher. Mid-Year Brings Three New Teachers ,Q 4' MR. PATRICK COYNE replaced Mr. Francis Byrne who is now teaching in Now Rochelle. Mr. Coyne is an Iona College graduate. He teaches English, social studies and World History to the Fresh- men and Sophomores. BROTHER FRANCIS E. KEARNEY came from Br. Rice High School in Chicago to replace Br. Kernan, now in Chicago. A religion, business and English teacher, Brother has also taught at lona and St. Cecilia's. Yearbook Lestilter Near Uemplehen The Edmundian you are now holding is literally School Yearbook Material Lost on N. Y.-Phila. Train Rice High School in New York may not have a yearbook this year. There won't be any Rice year- book unless whoever picked up the copy, pictures and layouts for the book brings them back. The material was taken, either accidentally or by design, from a luggage rack on a Pennsylvania Railroad train between New York and Philadelphia yester- day. the 1,000 boys at the school, run by the Christian Brothers at 124th st. and Lennox av., Har- lem. The material was packed in a department store suit box. Ur- sprung placed it with his brief- case on a rack at the end of his railroad car. When he went back to the rack as the train arrived here, he found the briefcase, but not the box. Most of the material in it was Students Beg Thief For Their Yearbook Philadelphia, Jan. 15 llPl.-A thief lifted a box from a New York-Philadelphia railroad coach today, and 1,000 New York high school students hope that hc'll return the loot quickly. The stolen box held pictures and articles for the yearbook of Rice High School of 124th St. and Lennox Ave., Harlem. John Ur- sprung of the Cooke Publishing Co. here was bringing the copy back for its planned May pub- lication. Ursprung put the box on the bag- gage rack. The train stopped at Newark and Trenton. When it reached here the box had gone. On behalf of the students who HERE ARE TWO of the many newspaper clippings that appeared in the vari- ous papers after the theft. The Associated Press car- ried the story and many papers found it a good human interest item. Ironi- cally, the thief gave us more publicity than we've had in years. a twice-told tale. lt's a story now familiar to all Rice students, but we include it here just for the record. By early January, the hard-working staff had completed over l2O pages of this 144 page book. The pictures, write-ups and layout were carefully packed in an old clothing box and given to Mr. John C. Ursprung, the Cooke Publishing repre- sentative. The tidy box contained the results of eight months of hard work that had begun last June. Mr. Ursprung left New York that evening for Philadelphia, and, upon his arrival, discovered that the box was gone. A thief, thinking that he had something of value to himself, took the box from the train's baggage rack at some point in the journey. COne wit christened it The Great Train Robbery. D Every effort was made to find the stolen work. Newspapers, radio stations, T.V., etc., were most co-operative, as were the railroad and state police. On the following evening the Penn Station police called and informed us that they had recovered some of the loot. The students and Brothers conducted a two night search of the vast Penn Station but nothing more was found. Discouraged but not defeated, the staff im- mediately set to work doing the book again. Pictures were all reprinted, the printer supplied a new layout and, with what had been found, the staff was able to piece the puzzle back to- gether again. We never heard from the thief. The book most likely was thrown in a refuse basket and burned. All were grateful to St. Anthony, patron of lost articles, for helping us find the portion we found. Perhaps, St. Dismas, patron of thieves, will look after the soul of the misguided man who took our book.

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'Y , bu t fllld 0-Unfit If And so-that's it. Such is the Rice story for 1957-58, or at least as much of it as we could tell you in 659 pictures and a tew thousand words. We pray that we have covered the story adequately, because a school is an ever-changing place and these moments can never be re-captured. Now, over QOO students will departfstill uncertain about their futures. In just a few weeks, an equal number will take their place at the bottom of the edu- cational ladder-and the cycle will begin again. Even the Brothersfin the manner of Christ, their model, may be sent to teach in other schools. We close this edition of THE EDMUNDIAN with the hope that we have provided an unchanging record of this passing parade. Keep and treasure this book. There can never be another like it.