Mount saint john deep river

Continue Mt. ST. JOHNS SCHOOL John William Tuohy Sitting majestically high above the banks of the Connecticut River in the Deep River is a huge building and expansive property that once housed the Mount Saint John School. Saint John's story began in 1904 with the founding of the St. John Industrial School on land in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of West Hartford. The school, which was actually an orphanage, was run by the Sisters of Mercy to begin in Ireland in 1831 dedicated to helping poor women and children around the world. The four members of the order arrived in Hartford, via coach, in May 1852 and were the first gathering of religious women to serve in the Diocese of Hartford, which then included both Rhode Island and Connecticut. Thomas Galberry, who was to become bishop of Hartford, asked the sisters to come to his thriving diocese to help the tens of thousands of Irish who came to New England. Galberry was an interesting man. He was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1833 and brought to the US at the age of three, with his family eventually settled in Philadelphia. There, Young Galberry witnessed violence against the church by members of the Indian Party (The Know-Nothings) and the atrocities left an indelible impression on the young man. He saw Catholic churches burned to the ground and witnessed breathtaking discrimination against the Irish. On January 1, 1852, he entered the Augustinian order in Villanova at the age of 16. Galberry, who has always been ill and rarely knew a long period of good health during his short life, was described as a serious but not grumpy disposition, calm temperament, meticulous, conscientious student..... he was given to retire and solitude, which was manifested in his love for long walks in the beautiful neighborhood of Villanova ...... a gentle and modest boy who avoided something like cruelty or anger - - always cheerful, collected and diligent. After holding a number of positions from New York to Massachusetts, he was appointed bishop of Hartford in February 1876. It was a job he didn't seek or want, mainly because of his poor health, and on 15 January 2013, he was arrested. As the fourth bishop of Hartford, Galberry quickly realized his diocese, like most others at the time in the United States offered a rare few schools or orphanages for Catholic boys and he was determined to solve this problem. With his help, Sisters of Mercy bought villa located on South Quaker Lane in West Hartford, an attractive and substantial structure in West Hartford in September 1877, and in 1883 the wing was added to the main building to accommodate a growing number of pupils. Bishop asked the nurse if they would begin the process of opening a temporary home for boys without parents in the property and they agreed and about 1879-1880 a home was opened for the boys. The huge responsibility for the organization of St. Augustine's School in the villa was handed over to M. Angelo's mother and later, in 1900, was taken over by Sister M. Genevieve. They both did an excellent job. The villa was thoroughly modern for its day and was surrounded by extensive grounds to give the boys, who were mostly from overcrowded rental slums, space for exercise and free running. The school could easily accommodate about seventy boys between the ages of four and fourteen, a large population at the time. The object boasted: Everything that contributes to the health, happiness and progress of pupils receives constant and conscientious attention. The discipline is maternal and uniform and the course of teaching is thorough and widespread. In an atmosphere as healthy as this, the boy gains physical strength while having his mind cultivated by a carefully planned education system. As for Bishop Galberry, in his short time as Bishop of Hartford... less than twenty months...... Bishop Galberry founded the Connecticut Catholic Newspaper , (Catholic Transcript.) confirmed 10,235 children and increased the number of priests in the small, swaying diocese by seventeen. On October 10, 1878, he retired to his beloved Villanova College. However, he was suddenly sick on the train from bleeding and died later in the evening. He was 45 years old. The very capable Michael Tierney followed as the fifth bishop of Hartford and more than anyone else, he is responsible for creating Mount Saint John's School. Born in Ireland but raised in Norwalk, he was ordined in May 1866. Bishop McFarland immediately made a young priest his chancellor and rector of his cathedral. Tierney was a force for himself. At least once a year he visited every parish and every school room in his diocese, at that time it was a boring trip. During his episcopal period, he confirmed 85,000 children and made a total withdrawal vow to each of them. (The Promise of The Pioneers) He was a strong supporter of literature and education and an enlightened Catholic population. A tireless builder at a time when a church in Connecticut needed builders, it was Tierney who funded the creation of Catholic hospitals Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury and Willimantic. He brought the sisters of the Holy Ghost and the Little Sisters of the Poor to help create and run a number of charitable institutions. Tierney saw that there were few resources available in the church for the needs of young Catholic men. He acted quickly and built the Seminary of St. Thomas and approved the creation of St. Industrial school for boys within the St. Mary's Home for the Elderly run by the Sisters of Mercy. Finally, it was time to move St. John's Industrial School for its temporary reasons in West Hartford. But where to put the new school that was so desperately needed? The answer came from Monsignor Thomas Duggan, the Bishop General. Daniel Duggan and his wife Elizabeth lived at the foot of a hill in Connecticut's Deep River, locally known as Duggan Hill. Although Daniel Duggan ran the farm on the property, the land was in fact owned by his brother, John Duggan, a Catholic priest station first in Colchester and later in Waterbury. The family lived at 125 Kirtland Street, at the bottom of the hill, the property still stands. A 750-foot, three-bedroom home known then and now as Nathan Southworth's Homestead. (Kirtland Street was established in 1792 by Nathan Southworth) The house was later donated by Mt. St. Johns, as well as the historic home of Captain Calvin Williams at 131 Kirtland. Mt. St. Johns sold 125 Kirtland in 1982. Its owners since then include renowned author Richard Conniff and Hogan, a family known for their service to the United States Navy. The entrance to St. John's would be built to the right of the property. At that time, a narrow dirt road led up to the top of Duggan Hill, it would eventually be replaced by a wide and winding road that even today gives some of the best views of the Connecticut River and neighboring Gillette Castle. A second narrow dirt road, a road for wheelchairs, led to the landing, where David Humphreys operated a sawmill and a shipyard. The couple had five children, Lizzie and Maggie, who would eventually become teachers in deep river, Jeremiah (called Jerry) would be farming with his father and continued to work at St. John's until the late 1940s, tending to farm animals. Mary Duggan joined the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph and spent her entire career at St. John's. Mary and Jerry would have spent their years at 101 Kirtland Street. Thomas, later Monsignor Duggan, who as a teenager, created ivory piano keys at a local store. Thomas Stephan Duggan, born in Deep River on December 26, 1860, attended local schools and later joined St. Charles College in Ellicott City Maryland and then the St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. He was ored in 1892. In 1904 he was appointed vicar of Hartford Cathedral, and later, on 22 December 1904, he was appointed vicar of Hartford Cathedral. Multi- talented, a man for all seasons and a historian, as well as a gifted and prolific writer, he was the founder and first editor of the Catholic Standard and author of the Catholic Church in Connecticut. Duggan, Great, August, forbidding the man who called everyone captain, was known for giving away his money. He was said to rarely walk away from the fight, was widely as one of the best speakers in the state and a man who wields a superficial pen. Most people in the well-known Hartford assumed that Monsignor Duggan would take over as Bishop Tierney's successor when Tierney died in 1908, but for unknown reasons he was not. It was Father Thomas Duggan who, at Bishop Tierney's request, arranged the gift to the dioceses of Duggan's Hill, which has one of the most magnate views of the Connecticut River anywhere in New England. The school would eventually include 112 acres, about half of that tipping property. Father Duggan died on September 11, 2001. The cemetery is located on the grounds of St. Patrick's Church in the Brooklyn section of Waterbury, where he was the first rector. It is the smallest registered cemetery in the state and can be seen from Route 8. Father John Duggan actually donated deep river land to the care of the newly created Roman Catholic Protectorate office for boys, which was administered by the bishop's office. But the gift was not without controversy. Other members of the Duggan family in Ireland, England, Canada and the American Midwest sued Father Duggan's $US20,000 (about half a million dollars) property to prevent land and money from being given to the Boy Protectorate's office. Waterbury Judge was forced to execute the will as Duggan wrote, but delayed the dispersal of the land for a decade, as a result, the land at Duggan was donated to Mt St Johns School in two grants in 1906 and 1907. The first was 65 acres - bound north by Saw Mill Cove and east by the railroad line (then owned by The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad). The second 5-acre grant was tied north to Saw Mill Cove, east of the Connecticut River, south to the railroad. Between 1954 and 1955, the property of Margaret P. Duggan gave other land to St. Johns, as well as ownership of the Old Stone House. Father Duggan bought the land, just over 90 acres, from the estate of the heirs of Captain Calvin Williams in 1860 and completed a second purchase for the remaining land in 1869 and 1878, which included all the property south along the highway from Deep River Village to Steamer Landing, & West Captain John Saunders Interesting note on the property is that part of it is that part of it , the southern end of where today is a complete baseball field, was once a farm owned by an escaped slave named William Winters (1808-1900). He took the surname Winters to protect his identity from slave hunters. Winters was born into a family of slaves and worked on a Virginia plantation until he was sent to Richmond, where he was sold to a South Carolina cotton plantation for $550. There, Winters and other young Escaped on a stolen horse one of us rode a horse while the other ran next to him, and in this way we changed until the morning. After three weeks of driving at night to avoid capture, they crossed the Rappahannock River by stealing a boat and heading to the plantation where Williams was born and raised. The plantation owner was a kind man who took them inside and protected them for weeks. The plantation owner learned that the bounty hunters were ready for the boys and knew they had to move north to be safe. The only safe route north was by boat, but there were few ships headed in that direction and for the next three months they lived in hand-dug caves near the plantation until they managed to settle on a ship heading north to the slaves of the free states. The captain discovered them, but according to Winters he was a kind man and when they arrived he gave them good food and two loaves of bread and told us how to get out of town and start north. Eventually, they arrived in Philadelphia, went to New York, and then to New Haven, where he was told to travel to deep river and see either Deacon Reed or Judge Warner. He was assured that both men would help him. I went all the way. Winters explains: And [he was] so scared that I hid in the woods when I saw a team of men coming down the road. I was travelling along the old stage road from New Haven to Deep River and stopped at a pub held by landlord Redfield while passing Through Killingworth but was taken away...... When I came to Winthrop, I didn't know which way to go, and I couldn't read the sign, and the woman I asked for drove me away, but she called out, 'Go that way', and pointed to it. In Deep River, Winters finds Deacon George Read, a prominent civic leader and businessman who gave him the name William Winters and told him never to reveal his true identity and gave him the long white wig he wore for most of his life. Still, Winters was relatively safe in deep river, described as a kind of out-of-way location and all abolitionist. After passing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required northerners to capture and return escaped slaves, Winters went to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where refugees were safer than in Connecticut. Stayed there for 12 years and returned to Deep River in 1862, with the passage of the emancipation declaration. Eventually, after the Civil War, Secretary Deep River wrote letters to help Winters find his family in the South. His sister Nancy and other family members followed him to the Deep River area. Winters became a businessman, real estate investor and contractor and bought land at the southern end of duggan dump (then called Williams Hill), where he sucked up apple orchards and experimented with growing cotton and tobacco. William Winters died at Hartford Hospital in 1900 at the age of 92. he's buried in Fountain Hill Cemetery. After the country was officially given to the diocese, on September 17, 1907, an unusually warm day, a special train, arriving in the Deep River at 1:30 a.m. at the foot of the school's main driveway, brought 120 guests, mostly priests from virtually every city in the state. The price of a train ticket from Hartford and New Haven was one dollar. The Bishop of Hartford, Michael Tierney, who was born in Ballylooby Ireland, spoke, followed by the energetic Monsignor John Synnott of the Baltic Sea, President Saint Thomas seminary in Hartford and later rector of St. Peter's Church in Higganum and the Rev. John Gregory, waterburian and son of Irish immigrants and who would have served as auxiliary bishop of Hartford in 1920. The founding of the new school was blessed, while students from the St. Thomas seminary sang the Gregorian Chant (Miserere) and the boys' choir at Hartford Cathedral sang America during the laying of the school's cornerstone. At 14:00 a reception was held at Riverside Lodge, which was later used as a monastery building and still stands today. The food was served by Long Caterers from Hartford and cooked by chefs Louis Schastz and Thomas Doud of Hartford. The menu included soup, scalloped oysters, chicken, roast beef, ham, lamb, potato salad, coffee, ice cream and cigars. At 4:15 a.m., the group returned from Duggan Hill and took the 4:00 train back to Hartford. It would have been another two years before the building was completed and ready for students and staff, but by the end of 1909 the impressive building on the west side of the Connecticut River was ready. The completed building was designed by John J. McMahon (1875– 1958) of Hartford. McMahon, the son of Irish immigrants, was a native of Hartford who created many Catholic churches and schools. Between 1901 and 1942, McMahon's architectural work in Connecticut alone included 24 large churches, 23 religious and public schools, 12 parishes, 11 monasteries, 6 institutional buildings, and 17 smaller church projects. The finished property, laid on one sheet of concrete, is four storeys high. The building is 100 feet wide and 74 feet long and is made of fieldstone and is topping with brass, granite and brick ornaments with a slate roof. The tower is 112 feet high from the ground to the tip of the cross at its point. The tower ornaments are brass and have an open dome that provides one of the most beautiful views in all of New England. The formal stairs in the front hall are 38 by 48 feet. Iron fire escape staircases and steel escape ladders coming down from the tower in front of the building were never installed. All the ceilings were covered with ornamental metal. The basement, which was intended for full use, has a class that has been completed so that a series of windows allows light to every corner. Teh The porch, originally referred to by its architectural name, loggia, is 20 by 44 feet and made of reinforced concrete. The original main corridor on the first floor, which leads north and south, on the first floor was eight feet wide. All floors were originally built of 3x4 yellow pine beams and covered with heavy asbestos paper (making the floor semi-fireproof, ceiling on 4. All interior partitions are made of brick and terracotta and supported by streel. The original layout of the building contained a school library, administrative offices, a children's dining room, a staff and teacher's dining room and a kitchen on the first floor. The school would be like the agency of the Diocese of Hartford and would eventually be administered by the Xaverian Brothers to pursue a Roman Catholic education that, at the invitation of Bishop Tierney, the Xaverian Brothers came to West Hartford to run an industrial school inside the Sisters Mercy complex in Hamilton Heights, West Hartford, which was originally run by the Christian Brothers for a very short period of time. The building that McMahon designed is almost identical to the office building (the original building) of another Xaverian Brothers school for boys, also called St. John's, in Danvers Massachusetts, which was also built in 1907 on a property that also once belonged to a large Catholic family.) In 1904, the order, which came to the United States in the late 1860s, opened boys' schools in New York, Baltimore Louisville, Massachusetts, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Xaverian is also run by st. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore, where in 1902, Babe Ruth, age 7, was enrolled with more than 600 other homeless boys. The boys at St. Mary's were trained to become tailors, printers, painters, florists, steamers and farmers. Mount Saint Johns would be based on the St. Mary's model. Bishop Tierney, who led St. John into existence, will die October 5, 1908, and will never be able to witness his success. But thanks to his efforts, more than 6,000 otherwise homeless boys have called Mt. St. Johns home since the school doors opened. In the same year, 1908, the Rev. Michael Lynch School's first pastor and administrator hired the first layman to work on the property, a local woman named Lottie Edsall, who was hired on as parish housekeeper. Her salary would be paid from a fund created by Senator Garvan, who left school in 1910. (About $25,000 worth today) Although Garvan's gift was generous, St. John's grew and needed a contagious source of funding. Recognizing the need to be Reverend Joseph a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Hartford and was ordified on 28 January 1948. The diocese inherited included 375,000 Catholics, 350 priests, 1,253 nuns, eighty-two parish schools for 3,500 students and a number of other institutions. In 1913, Bishop Nilan organized a group of business men from Hartford to help further develop St. John's. The group was called the Saint John's Industrial School Improvement Association and set to die at $100 per member (about $2,500). Its chairman would be Patrick McGovern, who in less than two years has tripled the original membership from 40 to more than 150. The group's annual dinner raised $25,000 for the school. (About $500,000 today) The school chapel, located on the second floor, would provide seating for 150 people. Opposite the chapel, on the south side of the building, was a library and study. These rooms were later converted into the director's office, the nurse's office, and the third room outside the stairwell was the infirmary. On the west side of the second floor is the apartment of a visiting chaplain, who later became the director of a residential suite. Two rooms on the south side of the third floor were designed as living quarters for school teachers, and a large room overlooking the river was a community living area for staff. Rooms in the west were to be used for storage and four rooms in the north were classrooms. The children's dormitory was located on the spacious fourth floor and had 60 children. The third floor provided sleep above the guest parents room and the second floor was the infirmary, chapel and office and the director's apartment. On the first floor there was a library, a boys' dining room, a teacher's dining room (connected south of the boys' dining room) a kitchen and office space for employees. The 4th floor will continue to be used as a dormitory until 1953, when two new dormitories were built. Upper dorm, as it was called accommodated robots between the ages of ten and 12 years. The lower dorm was for boys from 13 to 15 years old. Both dormitories have eight large rooms that slept with four boys. The older boys were accommodated on the third floor in semi-private rooms. The building was surrounded by 50 acres of grassy land and forest with another 30 acres, which was also donated later by the Duggan family, which awarded the school an original 50 acres. Mount Saint Johns was built on duggan farm and the family donated their livestock to school as part of a land donation. The animals were kept in a large barn and a row of pens located on the eastern side of the property opposite the monastery. Although some of the pens remain today, the barn was demolished in the early 1960s. Livestock remained on the farm until the late 1940s, when automation the food industry has an abundance of fresh food at affordable prices available to the American public. The small pool was opened in the basement where the school laundry was located and later the music room (the first large room to the left of the basement). On October 24, 1916, when the school housed 116 boys, the St. John Association pulled out a $15,000 bill to build a new chapel, as well as an indoor recreation room where they could play during bad weather. By the end of the year, the group would receive $35,000 in improvements (about $803,000). It was also the year when the school chapel will have a new Chaplin, the Rev. John A. Mahon and a new principal, Brother Jerome of the Xaverian Order. At this point, the school was almost exclusively used to house homeless children from European mining, mostly from the Hartford area. According to one history of the Xaverian Order, the school never came to expectations, the only industry was the press, for the simple reason that buildings, men and boys are mistakenly assumed to form an industrial school. Equipment, traders learn, and money to supply all are often not taken into account when the plan is conceived ...... When the boys' orphanage was overcrowded, Bishop Nilan, Bishop Tierney's successor, decided in 1919 to close the industrial school and use the building as an orphanage. In fact, documents from Hartford to the order show that funding was lacking just because the school was under populated, and the bishop preferred to put funds in place when the school was at its expected capacity. Instead of the Xaverians, in 1919, Bishop Nilan gave the administration of St. John to the sister of St. Joseph of Chambery. Initially a French order, the sisters arrived in Connecticut in 1885 and established themselves in the city of Danielson. Four years later, at the bishop's request, the sisters moved to Hartford with a mission to train teachers and nurses. At Mt. St. Johns, the nurse would not only administer the school, they would take care of the children and teach them as well. There was a good reason for the change. In 1919, attention to childcare began to divert from institutions and back to family, and the state withdrew from institutional care by providing financial and other assistance to families so that they could stay together. However, the lack of free foster homes, combined with the personal and psychological problems of individual children, most of whom have been traumatized by their conditions, and the lack of a proper placement system in the state have resulted in a significant proportion of low-income children still needing to be hospitalized. The population of these places swelled during the Great Depression and increased again during the World War II however, after that, starting in the mid-1950s, the state began to place more children in foster homes. The population has declined and children in institutions like St. John's and other places have stayed for a shorter period of time, about two and a half years on average. The provision of care established during this time integrated an all-inclusive approach. Therapeutic interventions were achieved by spiritual motivation reduced in practice to daily life; coordinating intellectual progress with moral, physical and social development; preventive and corrective health measures; under the supervision of recreation and broad opportunities for cultural development and individualised training in the principles of social adjustment. Until then, the school was home to 120 boys aged 8-16, mostly from inner cities, almost exclusively of Catholic and European ethnicity, although the school had an open-door policy of race and creed. There were, on average, only 12 boys enrolled at St. John's at the end of 1919 with 87 newly arrived story cases up to. The cost of housing a boy at school that year was $12.00 a month (about $207.00). Schools gross revenue was $17,794, with costs running $24,664.00 a year. The boys spent five hours a day in class, and the rest of the day dedicated to performing useful professions with a responsible contribution to recreation, which included training six boys a year in printing, the school had its own printing office. The boys also farmed 12 acres of vegetables. Until this point, the school was legally called St. Joseph's Asylum Industrial School, a name change that occurred sometime after 1907 from Saint John's Industrial School. However, the name never took hold and the school was always just as simple as St Johns. A special act of the Committee on founding documents of the State General Assembly agreed to the official change of the name by a special act in 1921. Another name change will come in 1964, when the official school designations were changed from St. John's to Mount Saint John's. The resourceful father, Francis J. Kuster, became the school superintendent in 1921 and remained in that position until his death in 1936. Born and raised in Connecticut, the son of French immigrant parents, Father Kuster in high esteem in the Connecticut River Valley, he was once a chaplain at St. Joseph, in nearby Chester and was in demand as a speaker at war bond rallies across the state during World War I. He was chaplain at St Joseph's in Bristol before being transferred to the Connecticut River Valley, where he rebuilt St Mary's Church in Essex after it was destroyed by fire in 1925. He then transferred to St. Joseph's in Chester, where he doubled the number of parishioners. Father Kuster wrote in the school's annual report in 1928; The school cared for 129 boys who including 38 new admissions and 50 boys left school, two to foster homes and 49 were returned to parents or guardians. The official capacity of the school was 95 boys. The school now has eight elementary classes with 7 boys graduating this year. We purchased playground equipment for the first time consisting of see-saw, slide, slide, rock and sandpit (which was located where the outdoor basketball court stands today) All this, plus an annual Christmas dinner and gifts, was paid for by the Saint John's Improvement Association, which is now in its twenty-two year old serving the boys of St. John's. The best and latest films are screened weekly in the recreation hall, one of two holiday halls now available to boys, both of which are equipped with games, books, victrola and radio. Otherwise, in good weather, the boys play football and baseball or go swimming in the bay. The school also has a uniformed 22-member orchestra, which is very popular in the local community and is invited to play at most public social events and parades in the area. The health of the children is cared for by The Sister of St. Joseph, who is a registered nurse. (St. Joseph's Sister ran St. Francis Hospital in Hartford) Otherwise, Dr. Chase from Deep River is a doctor who's on the phone at school. In all, Dr. Chase treated 12 boys that year for various diseases. Dr. Larson, local dentists attend school every Saturday afternoon. Home as an atmosphere permeates this institution Birthday celebrations were held once a month and gifts were given and much thought is given to the cultural development of boys. He also boasted that the boy had to read at least one new book a month, at night, in his spare time from school an extensive library on the first floor (Now the principal's office), where the monthly subscription included popular mechanics, a Catholic messenger, an American boy, a youth companion, classmates, current events, illustrated current events, geographic reviews, a country gentleman and Sunday companion Father Kuster was ill in the last ten years of his life and his proof. heavy losses for Mt St John because, as Monsignor Duggan pointed out, St John was always taxed beyond his capacity in the needs of boys and funding and he was right, of course. As Father Kuster noted in the 1930s, some boys arriving at school malnourished are placed on a special diet and all boys are weighed and measured every month in this regard. Under-heeded boys are fed lunch at 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and dinner at 3 and 6 p.m. . Bishop Nilan, a devoted supporter of St. John's and his mission, ordered additional living spaces added to the school's existing structure, which was so desperately needed. In 1932, there were 156 boys St. Johns, including 25 new admissions and 35 were returned home. The films, a popular pastime with boys and staff, were screened every Sunday night and the boys built an artificial ice rink on the ground. This was also the year that the school introduced the tradition of Thursday dinners on a picnic on the vast lawn. Three years later, in 1935, there were 76 boys at the school, 44 of which were admitted that year and 25 returned home. The Scout program began, the school administrator wrote, and in the summer st. John's unit takes ten days of camping all the way to the Green Mountains. The boys have built a Scout club house and a camp on the edge of the river, and in better weather, the army will be out every weekend. Other clubs included an accordion band with 35 members, a tap club with 29 members, a juggling club with 16 members, a rehating club with 20 members, a 15 piece Mount Saint John marching orchestra continuing to be popular, as well as the annual Amateurs Night, which hosts 25 artists from among the boys. Also that year, the pig pen was repaired, the sand was placed on a ball field to replace harder dirt, and the coal burner was improved, as was the water pipe. Dr. William Joyce of Middletown, who dedicated his services to the school, equipped nine boys with glasses and paid for glasses out of his own pocket, and at Christmas, the Moose of Middletown provided each boy with a Christmas present, and the Conklin Bell store in East Hampton provided each boy with a handmade bell. (Dozens of bell manufacturing companies operated in East Hampton form in the 1800s until the mid-1950s) There was a long and warm relationship between parishioners of St. Joseph's Parish in nearby Chester and Mt. St. Johns. Hundreds of boys sr. Johns received their first holy communion and confirmation in St. Josephs. Father Kuster was followed as Chaplin's father by David Reed, also of St. Joseph, and in return, Father Reed was followed by Patrick Killeen, who served St. Joseph's. Josephs and St. Johns, in fact Father Killeen stayed retired in school for many years. According to sister Marie Florentine's annual report, sister superior and director of St. John's through most of the 1940s, St. John's has completed a very successful year if success is measured by the amount of happiness bestowed on others or help to those who would otherwise have strayed. It should be noted that the birthdays of each boy were recognized and celebrated at Mt. St. Johns. Ninety-five boys lived in the school in 941, almost all of them from broken homes. Sixty-two were adopted during the year and another thirty-six returned to their homes. Half a dozen boys graduated from school that year joined the army. In 1942, tuition at St. John's was $36 a month The 168 boys at that year's school and the war time rationing was out in force. Sister Florentine said He was one of the troubles and victims this year. The needs of the boys have increased due to the unease of time. The basic needs of children have not changed during the war, but the increasing pressure on adults has made for a large increase in emotional tension in children Announced that the school was plagued by staff, food and clothing shortages as well as still present financial problems and that 73 boys were admitted to school and 85 boys were returned to their homes , but the request for placement far exceeded our facilities and we are loath to accept children if we can give them the specialized care they need to reduce the burden of war rationing is the fact that the school still has a productive farm and livestock based on the tendency of hired hands trained by Jerry Duggan. According to Sister Florentine, by 1944 about 1,177 boys had passed through St John's since it opened in 1907. In mid-1944, the school band, the pride of St. Johns, is now 32 pieces strong. The boys are learning dance and social decor from local volunteers in the home and a series of dances has been scheduled for next year with the school's popular swing band. In September of that year, a youth council was set up to allow boys to comment on how the school is run. A 1945 report by the state Department of Child Welfare criticized the 28 institutions that tend to have children in need, and found that more than a third restricted entry by race or religion. Mount St. John was not among these places. In fact, throughout its history, the school has never had any restrictions on race, creed or national origin, nor has the Catholic faith ever been imposed on children who have not been baptized into church. The children were adopted on the basis of need. It was that simple. With the war time rationing released in late 1945, the school was able to build a small pool in the basement, where the school laundry pick-up room was located in the 1950s and 1960s and later a music room. During that time, the school was home to the Rev. Donald David Lynch, S.J. Lynch was born into a troubled family in New Britain Connecticut in 1929, but was orphaned at the age of 12 when he joined Mt. St. Johns in 1940. He graduated from class valedictorian and entered Fairfield Preparatory as a member of the first school graduating class. On July 30, 1946, he became a Jesuit. He received his doctorate in classics and in 1961 became professor emeritus of English literature at Fairfield University. In 1963, Father Lynch led the famous underdog Fairfield Four (John Horvath, John Kappenberg, Joseph Kroll and George Greller) to three consecutive victories over older, more prestigious schools, on nationally broadcast Electric College Bowl popular quiz show broadcast live nationally on the NBC television network. The victory brought national recognition to the university along with a total grant of $5,000. Later, Father Lynch created the Shakespeare Library software program, which is still in operation today. Retired due to illness (He was a lifelong victim of diabetes) Known for his affable nature, it was said about him Most notably during his time at Campion was his permanence of temperament, his cheerfulness, and continued enthusiasm for his own computer work and his interest in others and their work, along with his sociability and lively acceptance of visitors. The visit with Don was a positive and encouraging experience and the nursing staff would easily have voted him the best patient of the year. Father Lynch died at the age of 74 on April 25. During the late 1940s, psychiatry and social work began to develop greater respect and influence, paving the way for the development of residential treatment programs. By 1950, these programs began to resemble an upgraded version of residential treatment centers. In line with national trends, Saint John's Has evolved from a Home for Boys into a residential treatment center. Around the same time, in 1953, the Diocese of Hartford (which at the time included the entire state of Connecticut) was divided into three dioceses and Mount Saint John came under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Diocese of Norwich, as well as all Catholic establishments in the counties of Middlesex, New London, Tolland and Windham. The first bishop of this new diocese, Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan, immediately carried out a substantial building and renovation in an institution called the Thomas Duggan Wing. The new wing would cost $250,000 (about $2,300,000 today) and will house a complete, full-size gymnasium named after Bishop Reilly, a school with six classrooms and two office offices and two dormitories that allow the school's 92 boys to move out of convulsions in fourth-floor living quarters. Duggan Wing was completed and was dedicated on October 25- 26, 1957. In 1958, Bishop Flanagan also appointed Father Kenneth Macdonald executive director of the school. Father Macdonald served in this position for 35 years. Although the Sisters of St. Joseph no longer managed the school, members of the order remained here until 1969 in teaching positions and continued to live in the monastery building, which still stands on the eastern side of the land. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and completed his philosophy and theological studies at Passionist Fathers (The Congregation of the Passion of Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ) in preparation for his emorcratic priesthood. On February 27, 1943, he was ord in Union City, N.J. He was assigned as chaplain mt. St. in 1955 and officially appointed its director in 1959 Most Rev. Bernard J. Flanagan, the first bishop of Norwich. Under his leadership, Father Macdonald sent employees to graduate from school for his master's degree in social work, and many became licensed social workers. Finally, therapeutic treatment was provided through a network of services that were set up. In 1958, after the opening of a large addition to the original building for new hostels, classrooms and gym / auditorium. From the late 1960s to June 2013, Mount Saint John operated as a residential treatment center providing services to boys from all areas of Connecticut. Macdonald Hall was dedicated on Monday, October 18, 1993. The hall has 30,000 feet of office and living space. The former hostels at Duggan Hall have been converted into classrooms and a learning centre that has a science room, a math centre, an art room and a computer learning centre. The school was now home to 77 boys, out of the 120 or so that lived there from the 1950s to the 1970s. Until then, the daily lives of boys had changed radically. Macdonald Hall houses six residential units that house 11 to 12 boys each and offered a shared dining area, a small kitchen where breakfast was served. Lunch is still served in the main dining room, but guests were served in units in a family setting. The central laundry room was gone and the boys were trained and washed their own laundry in their housing units. In 1997, the school received a $5 million renovation, much needed after 90 years in continuous operation. Father Macdonald left Mount Saint John School in December 199o and lives on the grounds of the Holy Family Motherhouse in the Baltic Sea, died July 18, 1991, in Rorvik, Norway, while on vacation. He was 55 years old. In 1988, to mark the 80th anniversary of the school's founding, Father Macdonald, headmaster of Saint John for more than 35 years, was awarded the Norwich Diocé patrici-anne prize for outstanding service to Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich. He distinguished himself as a priest, serving the homeless and oppressed, serving the estranged and comforting the neediest of our brothers, Bishop Reilly said. He gave up his responsibilities with all his heart and inspired all who knew him and served with him. After 104 years of operation, a residential program on Mount Saint John's was closed in June 2011 and a Clinical Day School, Mount Saint John's Academy, was opened to serve teenage boys and young men. Men.

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