Catholic Memorial School

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For the Wisconsin school, see Catholic Memorial High School.

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Catholic Memorial School
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Vince in Bono Malum.
Conquer evil by doing good.
Address
235 Baker Street
West Roxbury, MA, (Suffolk County) 02132
United States
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Information
Type Private, all-boys
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic,
Christian Brothers
Established 1957
Founder Br. Joseph G. McKenna, CFC
President Dr. Peter Folan
Principal Thomas Beatty '68
Grades 7–12
Enrollment 700 (2012)
Student to teacher ratio 12:1
Campus size 12 acres (49,000 m2)
Color(s) Red and silver         
Athletics conference Catholic Conference - B
Nickname Knights
Team name Knights
Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges[1]
Publication CM Magazine
Newspaper Knight Insight
Yearbook Talisman
Tuition $18,000 (2014-15 school year)
Alumni 10,000+
Vice principal for student life Andrew O'Brien
Admissions director Daniel Chisholm '03
Athletic director Craig Najarian
Website www.catholicmemorial.org

Catholic Memorial School is an all-boys college preparatory school (grades 7–12) located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, US. It is in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and is served by the Congregation of Christian Brothers.

Catholic Memorial High School, as it was called at the time, opened its doors on September 9, 1957 with 225 students and five Christian Brothers of Ireland in the former St. Theresa of Avila Parish School building. The building, now known as Donahue Hall, was donated to the Christian Brothers by Monsignor Charles A. Donahue, V.F., LL.D. who was the pastor of St. Theresa’s.

The school was named "Catholic Memorial" at the suggestion of Richard Cardinal Cushing, to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Archdiocese of Boston and as a memorial to Catholic donors.

Brother Joseph G. McKenna, C.F.C., was the first headmaster of Catholic Memorial; he opened a new school building which was dedicated by Cardinal Cushing on November 10, 1959. Three years later the classroom wing was opened and the enrollment increased to 1,110 students.

The Middle School opened in September of 1993 with 185 students in Grades 7 and 8. [2]

Principals and Presidents

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Board of Directors

  • Dr. Peter Folan, PhD (President, Catholic Memorial School, West Roxbury, MA)
  • Thomas Beatty '68 (Principal, Catholic Memorial School, West Roxbury, MA)
  • Dr. Robert Amrhein, MD '67 (Massachusetts Anesthesia Corp., Stoughton, MA)
  • Mary Coffey Moran (President, MCM Financial Consulting, Cambridge, MA)
  • Dana Babbin (President, Cadence Consulting, Hopkinton, MA)
  • Michael Hanley '72 (Managing Director, OTR Global, Purchase, NY)
  • John Mulhern '63 (Retired, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Gambrills, MD)
  • Br. Paul Hannon '71, CFC (Faculty, Msgr. Farrell High School, Staten Island, NYC, NY)
  • Joseph T. Brennan, Jr. (Principal, Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick, RI)
  • Jay Roche (Retired, Chairman, Roche Bros., Needham, MA)
  • Martin Joyce '64 (Retired, Senior Operating and Executive Management Consultant, Boston, MA)
  • Sr. Barbara Rogers, RSCJ (Headmistress, Newton Country Day School, Needham, MA)
  • Michael J. Costello '67 (Wellesley, MA)
  • Brian G. Leary '73 (Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, Boston, MA)
  • Paul Sheff ' 62 (President Emeritus, Catholic Memorial School, West Roxbury, MA)
  • William H. Curley, Jr. '79 (Managing Director, Deutsche Bank, NYC, NY)
  • Bill McCullen '83 (Director, Launch Capital LLC, Cambridge, MA)
  • Steve Skinner (Principal and Marketing Director, PGG, Inc., Boston, MA)
  • Michael Daley, '74 P'07 P'09 (President, Daley and Associates, Boston, MA)
  • Daniel '77 (Executive Director, Tremont Realty Capital, LLC, Boston MA)
  • Brent Williams P'09 (Senior Vice President, Managing Partner, Bolton Capital Management, Boston, MA)

College placement

Catholic Memorial (CM) is a college-preparatory institution. Students come from over ninety different towns and communities.[3]

CM students have been accepted at Boston College, Boston University, Babson College, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Bryant University, Carnegie Mellon University, The Catholic University of America, College of the Holy Cross, Cornell University, Duke University, Emerson College, Gettysburg College, Harvard University, Iona College, New York University, Syracuse University, Wake Forest University, University of Chicago, University of Connecticut, University of Illinois, University of Massachusetts, University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of Southern California.

CM's Catholic service

CM students carry out community service.[4] A senior service program begins in March each year, with seniors taking one day out of each week to work at inner-city grammar schools, hospitals, non-profit agencies, clothing distribution centers, food pantries, soup kitchens, etc. Volunteers from all grades also visit Casserly House in Roslindale each week to tutor at-risk children and the Golda Meir House in West Roxbury to help the elderly. Each year, CM students send large delegations to the Walk for Breast Cancer.

The tuition charge for the 2013-2014 school year was US$16,125. Scholarships are awarded upon admission to students in Catholic Memorial's middle school and high school programs. The CM admissions committee selects students for scholarship eligibility based upon their past academic performance and the results of the entrance exams. No applications are available for CM scholarships; instead, every application for admission is reviewed for scholarship potential. Financial aid is available for qualifying CM families.

School facts

  • Opened on September 9, 1957
  • 750 student enrollment in grades 7-12
  • Over 10,000 alumni
  • 10-acre (40,000 m2) campus in West Roxbury
  • 12:1 student-faculty ratio
  • 15 varsity sports, 48 athletic teams
  • 75% faculty with or attaining graduate degrees, 4 Ph.D.s on staff
  • Over $1 million annually given in financial aid
  • 35 after-school clubs and activities
  • Over 90 cities and towns and 20 foreign countries from which students come to study
  • $9.0 million in college scholarships and grants offered to 2012 graduating class
  • 31 Honors and AP courses
  • Clubs: Speech/debate, drama, chess, yearbook, newspaper, recycling, art, broadcast journalism and others.
  • 95% of faculty coach or moderate extracurricular activities.
  • Over 10 community service clubs contribute hundreds of hours of service each year, with the Class of 2012 Senior Service Project contributing over 5,000 hours alone.
  • Annual Blessed Edmund Rice Solidarity Initiative (B.E.R.S.I.) school trips are taken to El Salvador, Europe, Peru, Dominican Republic and, most recently South Korea and Canada.[5]

Forensic program

At Catholic Memorial, nearly every student participates in "forensics", or speech and debate, at one point in his academic career.[6] CM's faculty work teach students to public speaking through various classroom activities; in the Speech and Debate club students perform and compete interscholastically as they recite speeches, dramatic acts and original oratory. Since 1961 the school's Speech and Debate program has produced over twenty-five state and three national champions. The 2010 team won the "Founder's Award" at Nationals.

Athletics

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Catholic Memorial athletes are known as the Knights. It is a member of the Catholic Conference, along with the Boston College High School Eagles, the Malden Catholic Lancers, the St. John's Preparatory School Eagles, and the Xaverian Brothers High School Hawks. St. John's is the sixth team in the conference in some sports.

Between 2005 and 2012, Catholic Memorial students' athletic accomplishments include:

  • 2006 National Champions in Boy's Ice Hockey [7]
  • 2006 State Champions in Boy's Ice Hockey
  • 2007 All-New England champion in wrestling - Craig Carpenter
  • 2007 All-American and All-State champion in track - Matthew Dewey
  • 2008 State Champions in basketball
  • 2008 New England Rugby Football Union champions - rugby
  • 2008 State champion in wrestling - Rich Wingert
  • 2009 State champions in ice hockey
  • 2009 All-American in American football - Brennan Williams
  • 2009 State champions in soccer
  • 2010 State champion in track - Donovan Henry (300m)
  • 2010 State champion in golf - Joe Harney
  • 2010 State record holder longest field goal - Dan Holmes (63 yards)
  • 2011 Massachusetts Baseball Gatorade Player of the Year - John Gorman (50th round MLB draft pick by the Boston Red Sox in 2011)
  • 2012 All-American in Football - Camren Williams, Armani Reeves (both committed to Ohio State)
  • 2012 All-American in Boy's Lacrosse - Thomas Stanton
  • 2012 All-State champions: 4x100 meter relay team of Donovan Henry, Hanif Conrad, David Berment, Curtis West.
  • 2012 Track & Field, Donovan Henry - 200m state champion
  • 2012 Catholic Conference champions in Lacrosse

Ice hockey

Catholic Memorial's boy's ice hockey team is regarded as one of the premier high school ice hockey programs in the country. They compete in the MIAA as a part of the Catholic Conference, one of the premier high school ice hockey conferences in the United States. Catholic Memorial retains a bitter rivalry with nearby Boston College High School, another national power. They are one of only three teams to have won the Massachusetts Super Eight Tournament on multiple occasions (CM has won 17, while BC High and Malden Catholic have won 4).

Catholic Memorial has won thirteen Super Eight tournaments, which pits the best eight Division 1 teams in the state against each other in a round-robin tournament to determine the Division 1A Massachusetts state champion. Catholic Memorial has consistently been ranked #1 in Massachusetts boys' ice hockey by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the United States High School Hockey Online (USHSHO) polls. Catholic Memorial has also been nationally ranked as the #1 team in the United States a number of times, most recently in 2008. Catholic Memorial was declared as the high school hockey National Champions during the 2005-2006 season by the USHSHO. [8]

Notable alumni

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References

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External links

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