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Alumni News Most Poignant and Endur- a Person and on His Success BTNAA Easter rings joy to the troubled world… PO Box 2 there is no need for fear, for tears, nor Boys Town, NE 68010 heartaches. These we have left behind us. (800) 345-0458 – Father Edward J. Flanagan www.boystownalumni.org LUMNI EWS BOYSA TOWN NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NSPRING 2009 – VOLUME 48, ISSUE 1 ALUMNI MISSION: We exist to unite and grow our alumni family, and champion the dream and values of Father Flanagan through leadership. IN THIS ISSUE: From The Executive Director 2 Alumni Profile. 2 Stoughton Left Mark . 3 From The BTNAA President . 4 From The Senior Advisor. 4 Alum Volunteer Gives Back. 5 Dinner With Father Flanagan 5 Convention Pre-Registration 6 Convention Maps. 7 Convention Schedule. 8-9 EASTER REFLECTIONS FROM OUR KIDS Home Campus Map. 10 In this Easter Season, our boys and girls share with us I still have a lot of work to do, but a resurrection has Convention Accommodations 11 how Boys Town helps provide them with an opportunity happened in my life. I am looking forward to the many for a new life. The following reflections highlight the opportunities that await me. I can pray, I will pray, I Convention Photo Memories 12 positive changes our youth experience as they embrace do pray. A Scrapbook Comes Home . 13 a fresh start. Drew, 14 Gift Shop Alumni Specials. 13 God has helped me become a person respected by When you put your faith in God, you no longer bear the From The Auxiliary President 13 other folks… folks who once knew me as a bad young burden of the troubles in your life. They are in God’s girl. The Lord helped me get back my trust in Him that Storytelling Reflections. 14 hands. I, myself, am working on a new life. I lost so many years ago. In Loving Memory. 14 Michael, 15 Monique, 12 Where Are They Now?. 15 My struggle first began when I was held back in the Before I came to Boys Town, my mom told me I was Alumni Bio Form. 15 fifth grade. I had been so sick, I couldn’t catch up. My bad and always will be bad. She told me so many times classmates teased me that I would never catch up. that I started to believe it. But it turned out differently. They said I was dumb. When I came to Boys Town, I To get better, you first have to believe you can get bet- had the IQ of a fourth-grader. I have been working very ter and just follow the right path. If you believe in your- hard. I am now in the seventh grade, moving to the self, you can do anything with God’s help. eight grade, and I’m proud to say my IQ is now at the Anne, 16 eight-grade level. Jamie, 13 SM www.boystownalumni.org FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STOUGHTON LEAVES LEGACY OF TIMELESS PHOTOGRAPHS, Dear Alumni, homes. There is no better place for children to grow up than in a loving KINDNESS TO OTHERS Cecil Stoughton will be remembered as much for his love of family and he was chosen to photograph daily events in the Kennedy White House, At Easter time, a great sense of hope once home. We want that home to be with their family. If that is not possible, kindness to others as for his iconic photographs that defined some of a position that has since become a standard for presidents. During his again springs from the hearts of the boys then we can provide a loving home here at Boys Town to help break the our nation’s happiest and four years as the White House photographer, he became and girls at Boys Town. Easter brings the cycle of broken families through the care and love of dedicated Family- most tragic moments. close to the Kennedy family. Often accompanying them on belief that anything is possible, that new Teachers and staff. trips, Stoughton captured some of the First Family’s lighter beginnings bring new hope and that the Pray for us as we do the work of God and Father Flanagan for today’s chil- Stoughton, ’32, passed moments. Among them were Stoughton’s favorite – a shot sacrifice of the Son of God gives birth to a dren and families. There is no more important task than saving children away at his Merritt of the Kennedy children, Caroline and John Jr., dancing renewal of faith and strength. and healing families. Island, Florida, home last November 3 at age 88. in the Oval Office as their father claps – and one Jackie I see in the eyes and hearts of the children at Boys Town and our sites On July 24 through July 26, many of you will once again come home for He is survived by his wife, held dear of the Kennedy family leaving church on Easter across the country a growing faith in the promise of their futures. Our the Biennial Alumni Convention. I encourage you to take this opportunity Faith; daughter, Sharon Sunday 1963. The JFK Library and Museum has about senior class is preparing to enter the world filled with the tools of suc- to return to your Home and renew your connections with this wonderful Houghton; and sons, 10,000 photographs taken by Stoughton. cess, and most importantly, with a faith in themselves that will help them place of hope. This will be my third Convention, and I look forward to being Jamie and Bill. Burial Following his retirement from the Army in 1967, Stoughton to achieve their goals. We are proud of their successes and the way they part of this great gathering with you. I especially anticipate seeing many was at Arlington National served as the chief photographer for the National Park have overcome their challenges. of you I’ve met before and meeting even more of the sons and daughters Cemetery. Service. He worked to update the Service’s photo files until I ask that you hearken back to the days of your youth at Boys Town and of Father Flanagan. As White House photog- retiring in 1973. remember how the coming of this special season and the bursting forth I ask God’s blessing on you and your families during this Easter Season rapher from 1961 to 1965, Stoughton came to the of spring opened your heart and your vision. Remember the joy of your and pray for your safe travel to the Convention in July. Stoughton covered the Village of Boys Town in youth as you shook off the heavy cloak of winter and the promise of your Blessings, Kennedy and Johnson 1930 when he was 10 life grew brighter with each lengthening day. Remember the small things, administrations, capturing years old. During his such as the first crocus peeking cautiously out of the ground, bringing to ABOVE Stoughton in his Army uniform images that have become two years with “the good your eyes that first glimmer of spring color. I ask you to say a prayer that with Father Flanagan in 1947. touchstones for that hope- Father,” as Stoughton the boys and girls of today will feel the same awakening you felt so many RIGHT Stoughton’s favorite photograph ful, and sometimes turbu- called Father Flanagan, years ago in your youth. from the Kennedy years. lent, era. BELOW The famous photograph of he had the chance to play, We continue to move ahead with the implementation of our Strategic Plan Lyndon Johnson’s swearing-in ceremony On Nov. 22, 1963, he learn and grow up with his and have begun to provide our recently updated In-Home Family Services Father Steven E. Boes aboard Air Force One. photographed Lyndon Boys Town brothers. to families in Nebraska and Iowa. This program brings the skills and National Executive Director Johnson being sworn in as Through all his success, tools troubled families need to help them heal and grow, directly into their president aboard Air Force Stoughton never forgot One as a stunned Jackie his “home” at Boys Town and the kindly Kennedy looked on follow- priest who became his friend and mentor. MAURICE BRAU, ’49 ALUMNI PROFILE Boys Town National Alumni Association ing the assassination of Stoughton passed on many Boys Town her husband in Dallas. The traditions to his family and emphasized As one of Father Flanagan’s boys, Maurice Brau has many fond memo- famous photo is one of the the great impact the Home had on him as ries of the kind but firm priest and the lessons he taught. ALUMNI NEWS most poignant and endur- a person and on his success. EDITOR “I was fairly close to him because I tended his rose garden,” he said. “He Terry Hyland ing of the day President “Dad thought very highly of Father taught me to tell the truth and that’s what I live by.” Kennedy was slain. GRAPHIC DESIGNER Flanagan. He certainly made an impres- Today, Maurice lives in Walsenburg, Colorado, with his wife Betty. They Mike Buckley Through all of his experi- sion on my dad,” said Jamie Stoughton. have been married 53 years and have two children, Barry and Brian. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS ences as a photographer Faith Stoughton remembered a story Stan Graeve of the famous and power- Shortly after graduation from Boys Town, Maurice attended Creighton John Mollison her husband told about one of his less- University and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1953 and a master’s ful, Stoughton remained than-pleasant encounters with Father Melissa Olson a devout family man.
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