St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM During the Summer of 1959, three of our most beloved and revered educators passed on to their eternal reward. Absent from the halls of St. Francis are Reverend Brother Jerome, O.S.F., Professor Francis A. Delaney and Professor Patrick J. DeTuro. It is only fitting and right that we dedicate a small portion of the 1960 Franciscan to their memory, and in so doing offer the homage that is their due. Certainly we in our insignificance cannot properly evaluate them; only God is their Judge. We can measure them in relation to the good that they have done for us, their pupils. They gave a full measure . . . Reverend Brother Jerome, O.S.F. Educator, Administrator, Franciscan Brother Jerome Roese, O.S.F., combined these qualities skillfully and magnificently in a superb blend called the man of God. In his twenty-five years at St. Francis College, Brother Jerome assumed the duties of Dean, President, member of the Third Order Regular’s Board of Consultors and Superior General of the Franciscan Brothers. In tribute to Brother Jerome’s devotion to his Order and his students, a memorial scholarship was inaugurated to provide a deserving Catholic youth with a four year Franciscan education.