St Augustine High School - Lance Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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GHUWTH UP EDUIIATIII 1909 St Augustme s wlth Faculty House 4 '1 R l 185 1 Old St. James Fxrst parochxal school m Brooklyn conducted by Christian Brothers. I il 1: A x . ' Y -wh., dw H yr. . ,W -fa, I .id Iv' I . . , .

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s., THOMAS E MOLLOY S T D Archblshop of Brooklyn In 1853 the Long Island part of the d1ocese of New York was severed from that d1ocese and 1nst1tuted as the d1ocese of Brooklyn under the eplscopal authorlty of the Most Rev John Loughlln In thlS the centenary of the 1nst1tut1on of our great d1ocese we can easlly w1tness the abundance of the blesslngs of D1v1ne Provldence 1n the Chr1st Today the d1ocese of Brooklyn has a populat1on of better than one m1ll1on three hundred thousand souls as agalnst the fifteen thou sand of one hundred years ago Numerous parlshes great churches excellent schools a well organlzed ser1es of welfare 1nst1tut1ons all of these bear test1mony that the falth the precepts and the counsels of Chr1st are professed and practlced ln accordance w1th the w1ll of Our Dlvme Savlour NELLNIIII SJ. U ru E o nf E o 2 FACULTY GRADUATES CLASSES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS , ' if , growth and development of this Long Island area, to the cause of

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Present St Augustme s Hxgh School and Faculty House Of fundamental xmport ln the growth of the Dlocese of Brooklyn 1S the develop development of these 1nst1tut1ons The Brothers of the Chrlstlan Schools were very much concerned These sons of St John Baptlst De La Salle have been ln the d1OC6Se for the one hundred years of xts exlstence They have taught ln a good number of 1tS grammar schools and pres ently conduct two grammar schools a m111tary hlgh school and two dlocesan hxgh schools Here at St Augustmes the Brothers are now roundlng out forty four years of servlce Motlvated by charlty and wlth great falth and zeal they have year after ness of Chrlst and have sent them forth qulte ldeally qualxfxed for the strlfe of lxvmg Accordmgly has St Augustme s gxven to the growth of the dxocese an ex emplary Cathollc manhood In vocations to the prlesthood to the rel1g1ous l1fe to the professlons to buslness and to polltxcs St Augustmes Hlgh School and the Chrlstlan Brothers are proud to have con trlbuted thelr part to the development of the dlocese ln the past 100 years ' . s 9 ment of edl1CatiOI'1a1 lI'lStitl.1tiOI'1S. In the year, fofrned young Characters to the like- I - . , . . . , s , . . . . . ' 7 '