Founded in 1863, Boston College High School (also known as BC High) is an all-male Jesuit

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

 Roman Catholic college preparatory secondary school

Secondary school

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 with historical ties to Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

. It has an enrollment in grades 7-12 of approximately 1,500 students and is located on a 40 acres (161,874.4 m²) campus on Morrissey Boulevard

Morrissey Boulevard

Morrissey Boulevard is a six-lane divided coastal road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned and maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation .- Route description :...

 in the Dorchester

Dorchester, Massachusetts

Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents. Dorchester, including a large...

 section of Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

. A graduate of BC High who goes on to Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 is known as a "Double Eagle

Double and Triple Eagles

An Eagle, in general, is a nickname for a person who graduated from Boston College High School or a Boston College school, typically as an undergraduate, or as a graduate student, including Boston College Law School...

." If he then goes on to Boston College Law School

Boston College Law School

Boston College Law School is one of the six professional graduate schools at Boston College. Located approximately 1.5 miles from the main Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Boston College Law School is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts.With approximately 800 students and...

, he is then known as a "Triple Eagle

Double and Triple Eagles

An Eagle, in general, is a nickname for a person who graduated from Boston College High School or a Boston College school, typically as an undergraduate, or as a graduate student, including Boston College Law School...

."

History

On March 31, 1863, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 approved a charter for the incorporation of Boston College. Fr. Johannes Bapst

Johannes Bapst

Johannes Bapst was a Swiss Jesuit missionary and educator. He became the first President of Boston College.-Life:...

, SJ

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

, was selected first president and presided over the original grounds on Harrison Avenue in Boston's South End

South End, Boston, Massachusetts

The South End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.-Geography:The South End lies south of the Back Bay, northwest of South Boston, northeast of Roxbury, north of Dorchester, and southwest of Bay Village...

. For most of its early history, BC offered a singular 7-year program corresponding to both high school and college. Its first entering class of 22 students ranged in age from 11 to 16 years. The curriculum was based on the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum

Ratio Studiorum

The Ratio Studiorum often designates the document that formally established the globally influential system of Jesuit education in 1599...

, emphasizing Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

, Greek

Greek language

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, philosophy

Philosophy

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 and theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

. While BC's mission, as articulated by founder Fr. John McElroy, SJ

John McElroy (Jesuit)

John McElroy, SJ was born in Ireland in 1782, and came to the United States in 1803. Fr. McElroy enrolled in Georgetown University in 1806, the same year in which he joined the Society of Jesus as a lay brother. His brother Antony also became a Jesuit. Fr. McElroy assumed the management of...

, was to "educate pupils in the principles and practice of the Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 faith," its founding documents reflect the historical realities of the time. The great influx of immigrants to Boston in the nineteenth century corresponded with growing anti-Catholic sentiment among the city's aristocratic elite. As a result, BC's charter was revolutionary for its time in stating that "the profession of religion will not be a necessary condition for admission to the College."

By the turn of the century, BC's enrollment had reached nearly 500. Expansion of the South End buildings onto James Street enabled increased division between the high school and the college. The 1907 purchase of farmland for a new college campus in Chestnut Hill

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Chestnut Hill is a wealthy New England village located six miles west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity, but unlike most of them, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities, each of...

 allowed BC High to fully expand into the South End buildings, though it remained a constituent part of Boston College until 1927 when it was separately incorporated

Incorporation (business)

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. Nonetheless, traditional ties between BC High and BC have survived, and Boston College remains a leading destination for BC High graduates. Alumni who graduate from both institutions are called "Double Eagles

Double and Triple Eagles

An Eagle, in general, is a nickname for a person who graduated from Boston College High School or a Boston College school, typically as an undergraduate, or as a graduate student, including Boston College Law School...

" (with "Triple Eagles" going on to Boston College Law School).

Following the Great Depression

Great Depression

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, BC High was characterized by increasing enrollment and aging facilities. By the 1940s, the South End buildings proved inadequate once again. Overcrowding and a demand for athletic fields led President Fr. Robert A. Hewitt, SJ, to purchase 70 acres (28.3 ha) on Columbia Point, in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester in 1948, a move that was controversial at the time. At a cost of $240,000, critics warned that BC High would be abandoning its city roots and moving to an undeveloped part of the city. But Father Hewitt had a vision, and he dreamed of "a modern high school with a full range of scholastic facilities, including science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 laboratories

Laboratory

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, and a library

Library

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; the necessary ecclesiastical facilities, including a Jesuit faculty residence and a church; a wide range of athletic facilities, including a gymnasium, field house, and outdoor areas for a variety of sport

Sport

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s, both interscholastic and intramural, and areas for general recreation, faculty walks, parking and campus landscaping

Landscaping

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."

Father Hewitt's dream began to see fruition in 1950, with the opening of McElroy Hall and the relocation of the junior and senior classes to the new campus. By 1954, the entire student body had moved to Columbia Point, though members of the Jesuit Community remained at the South End Residence until 1957. In that year, Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...

 Hall, the new Jesuit residence, was completed. Successive building campaigns saw the opening of the Walsh Hall Science Center in 1965, the Student Training, Athletic and Recreation Complex (S.T.A.R.) in 1975, Corcoran Library in 1997, and the multi-use McNeice Pavilion in 1988. William J. Kemeza is the current president of Boston College High School. He was the founder of BC High's Renaissance Campaign.

"Renaissance" Campaign

BC High completed a 63000 square feet (5,852.9 m²) addition in the spring of 2005. The project included a new state-of-the-art science building, new administrative offices, a new cafeteria, and a general commons. Afterward, during the fall of 2005, President William J. Kemeza announced "Renaissance: The Campaign for Boston College High School," a $40 million fundraising effort. The campaign raised over $51 million at its conclusion in June 2008. As part of the campaign, the school underwent a $12.5 million renovation project which included the renovation of the Cushing, Walsh and McElroy buildings. The Corcoran Library has also been updated with the addition of a "Great Books Room", which alone is said to have cost $500,000. The same $12.6 million has also been used for an outdoor space with new entrance gates, a new road through campus, a second synthetic turf athletic field, and multi-purpose open spaces including plazas, athletic fields, and gardens. With the commencement of the 2007-2008 school year, the new performing arts center, the Bulger Center (formerly Dever Auditorium) will be available for use by BC High's numerous performing groups, as well as for small school functions.

Traditions

Boston College High School has many traditions including:

• Freshman Olympics
• Kairos Retreats
• Mr. BC High
• Unplugged concerts
• Ignatian Awards- Alumni awards for those who do service without being recognized
• Thanksgiving Football Rivalry with Catholic Memorial High School
• Hockey vs CM at Boston College
• Good Friday Walks
• Model United Nations Conferences
• Service trips to the Dominican Republic
• Mite Box- Every Thursday a donation box is passed around for a charity or cause in need every thursday. These often raise $1,500 and have raised in excess of $10,000
• Freshman Declamation- Each freshman remembers 25+ lines of The Odyssey by Homer and recites them to the class. The best one from each class presents his declamation in front of the school, where faculty picks the winner.
• Sophomore Declamation- Each sophomore remembers an American Poem and recites it to his class. The best from each class advances to the school final.
• Exalauno Day "March forth"- On Every March 4, the BC High Classics Department holds a declamation for students studying Greek or Latin.

Grades 7 and 8

On January 11, 2006, BC High announced the addition of a seventh and eighth grade to its high school program beginning in September 2007. These classes are conducted in the newly renovated Walsh building. These grades are in addition to the traditional 9-12 grade system and is known as the Arrupe Division. The name Arrupe comes from the late Father Pedro Arrupe

Pedro Arrupe

Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. was the twenty eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Bilbao, Spain.-Education and training:...

, who was a missionary living on the outskirts of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. In the aftermath, he turned his novitiate into a hospital in order to provide any medical attention he could. The Arrupe Division offers a variety of classes. The language classes are a mirror image from the high school courses, excluding Ancient Greek.

Buildings

• McElroy Hall (3 floors): The Classics (2nd Floor) and Modern Language (end of 3rd floor) departments and most History & English classrooms.
• Cushing Hall (2 floors): The Math Department and classrooms on the second floor; the Corcoran Library on the first floor.
• Loyola Hall (3 floors): Houses the Chapel, Faculty Dining Room, "Eagles Nest" faculty daycare center, Jesuit Residence, President's Office, the History, English, and Religious Education Departments, as well as many administrative departments.
• Walsh Hall (3 floors): Houses the Arrupe Division (7th and 8th Grades), formerly a part of the High School.
• McQuillan Hall (3 floors): Newest edition to BC High Campus in 2005. Houses the Admissions Office, Principal's Office, Bookstore, Guidance Department, Cafeteria, Campus Ministry, and many classrooms.
• McNeice Pavilion (Gym): Basketball courts, locker rooms, and training room.
• Gregory E. Bulger Performing Arts Center (Theater)

State Championships

The 2009 Indoor Track Relay Team won the Massachusetts State Relays.

Track 2008-2009 season MA State Champions

MIAA State Championships
Season	Sport	Number of Championships	Year
Fall	Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...	3	1977, 2000, 2008
	Soccer	1	2004	Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....	1	2011
Winter Winter Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.-Meteorology:...	Hockey (Super 8) Super Eight For information on the second round of the Cricket World Cup, see Super 8 .For the film format, see Super 8 mm film.The Super Eight is the name of the Massachusetts hockey tournament that determines the state champion. The tournament is technically called the Division IA tournament. Both public and...	4	1996, 2002, 2006, 2007
	Basketball, Boys Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...	2	1917, 2007
	Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...	4	1997, 1998, 1999, 2005
Spring Spring (season) Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of the exact timing of "spring" varies according to local climate, cultures and...	Sailing Sailing Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...	5	2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008
	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	3	2001, 2008, 2009
	Rugby Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...	2	NERFU Champs 2004,2005,2006. National Championship Runner up 2004 placed #10 in the country
Total		21

In 2008 after a 83 year absence rowing returned to BC High.
The rowing "Crew" team has been in the Head of the Charles since the rebirth in '08. The team just finished 4th in the country, placing 8th at the 2011 HOCR.

School Facts

• 1,500 student enrollment
• 15,000-plus living alumni campus on Boston Harbor
  Boston Harbor
  Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeast.-History:...
  
  
• 13:1 student to faculty ratio
• 35,000-plus hours of community service performed by juniors each year
• 99% of students go on to attend 4 year colleges
• 85 elective courses are offered to students
• 24 Advanced Placement Program
  Advanced Placement Program
  The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
  
   (AP) courses are offered each year
• 50 students earned National Merit Commendations
  National Merit Scholarship Program
  The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation , a privately funded, not-for-profit organization. The program began in 1955...
  
    from 2004 to 2006
• 28 students earned National Merit Commendations or Semifinalist Designation
  National Merit Scholarship Program
  The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation , a privately funded, not-for-profit organization. The program began in 1955...
  
   in 2007
• 4 class maximum for faculty
• 85%-plus of the faculty hold masters degrees
• Students scoring in the 90th percentile and above on HSPT entrance exam awarded some level of academic scholarship.
• 45% of students receive some form of financial aid
• 65% of total students are from the South Shore notably Quincy
  Quincy, Massachusetts
  Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
  
  , Weymouth
  Weymouth, Massachusetts
  The Town of Weymouth is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, Weymouth had a total population of 53,743. Despite its city status, it is formally known as the Town of Weymouth...
  
  , Braintree
  Braintree, Massachusetts
  The Town of Braintree is a suburban city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a town, Braintree adopted a municipal charter, effective 2008, with a mayor-council form of government and is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 35,744...
  
  , Milton
  Milton, Massachusetts
  Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...
  
  , Scituate
  Scituate, Massachusetts
  Scituate is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population was 18,133 at the 2010 census....
  
  , Norwell, Hanover
  Hanover, Massachusetts
  Hanover is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,164 at the 2000 census.-History:The area of Hanover was first settled by English settlers in 1649 when William Barstow, a farmer, built a bridge along the North River at what is now Washington Street...
  
   and Hingham
  Hingham, Massachusetts
  Hingham is a town in northern Plymouth County on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and suburb in Greater Boston. The United States Census Bureau 2008 estimated population was 22,561...
  
  .
• 30% of total students are from urban areas
• 16.5% of total students are minorities
• 120 Extracurriculars currently offered
• Sister school, Notre Dame Academy
  Notre Dame Academy (Hingham, Massachusetts)
  Notre Dame Academy is a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school in Hingham, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.-History:...
  
   serves as BC High's cheerleading squad for football season, although it is not run by the Jesuits.
• Fierce rivals with the Scarlet Knights of Catholic Memorial High School, from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
  West Roxbury, Massachusetts
  West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston bordered by Roslindale to the north, the Town of Dedham to the east and south, the Town of Brookline and the City of Newton to the west. Many people mistakenly confuse West Roxbury with Roxbury, but the two are not connected. West Roxbury is separated from...
  
   and Xaverian Brothers High School
  Xaverian Brothers High School
  Xaverian Brothers High School , founded in 1963 by the Xaverian Brothers, is a private, Catholic secondary school for boys on a campus in Westwood, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston....
  
   from Westwood, Massachusetts
  Westwood, Massachusetts
  Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,618 at the 2010 census. In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Westwood 13th on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States. Boston Magazine listed Gay Street in Westwood on its...
  
  . Also fierce rivals with St. Johns Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts.
• In Boston Magazine's
  Boston magazine
  Boston is a monthly magazine concerning life in the Greater Boston area and has been in publication for more than 40 years.-About the magazine:The magazine is self-described as:...
  
   "The Best High Schools 2006" BC High was chosen as the best high school for "Politician
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  s in Training" for the local and state government level.
• Jazz/Rock Ensemble won the Silver Medal at the All State Jazz Competition in 2006.
• Ranked #10 on SI.com
  Sports Illustrated
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  's list of Top High School Athletic programs-the only school in New England to be ranked.

Notable alumni

• Andrew Broduer, VP of Operations, Fleming Entertainment Enterprises
• William M. Bulger
  William M. Bulger
  William Michael "Billy" Bulger is a retired American Democratic Party politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts, who for many years was President of the Massachusetts Senate and president of the University of Massachusetts...
  
  , politician, ex-president of the University of Massachusetts system
• Francis P. O'Connor, justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Tim Bulman
  Tim Bulman
  Timothy Ryan Bulman is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
  
  , NFL Defensive lineman, Houston Texans
  Houston Texans
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• Joe Callahan
  Joe Callahan
  Joe Callahan is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and is currently playing with the Montreal Canadiens-Playing career:Callahan was drafted 70th overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes...
  
  , NHL defenseman, New York Islanders
  New York Islanders
  The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• General George W. Casey, Jr., four star general, Chief of Staff
  Chief of Staff of the United States Army
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  , U.S. Army
  United States Army
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• David Chiu
  David Chiu (politician)
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  , President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
• Lt. John P. Connors, Navy Lieutenant, one of the first US fatalities in the United States invasion of Panama
  Panama
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   in 1989
• Dr. Thomas E. Cronin
  Thomas Cronin
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  , political scientist and educator
• Richard James Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
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• Most Rev. John Michael D'Arcy
  John Michael D'Arcy
  John Michael D'Arcy is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the eighth diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, and holds the title of bishop emeritus. He was succeeded as diocesan bishop by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, who was named to the post by Pope...
  
  , Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
• Jason Delaney, current minor league baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
• Brendan B. Downes, noted democracy advocate and scholar at the National Democratic Institute
  National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
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  .
• Maxwell Drummey, member of music duo Chester French
  Chester French
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• Fred Gibbons, pioneer in growth of personal computer industry.
• Paul Guilfoyle
  Paul Guilfoyle
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  , actor, as seen on CSI
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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• Rev. John J. Hanwell, S.J., president, Fairfield College Preparatory School
  Fairfield College Preparatory School
  Fairfield College Preparatory School is a Jesuit Prep School located on the campus of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is an all male school of about 900 students, first founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942...
  
  
• Patrick Francis Healy
  Patrick Francis Healy
  Patrick Francis Healy was the 29th President of Georgetown University known for expanding the school following the American Civil War. He was accepted as and identified as Irish-American. Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed during Healy's tenure and is named after him...
  
  , Pulitzer-prize nominated The New York Times
  The New York Times
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   political correspondent
• General Joseph P. Hoar
  Joseph P. Hoar
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  , former Commander in Chief, United States Central Command
  United States Central Command
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• Lawrence Hyde, former president, Jeep
  Jeep
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   and AM General
  AM General
  AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. It is best known for the civilian Hummer and the military Humvee, that is assembled in Mishawaka, Indiana...
  
  , developer of the Hummer
  Hummer
  Hummer was a brand of trucks and SUVs, first marketed in 1992 when AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 Humvee. In 1998, General Motors purchased the brand name and marketed three vehicles: the original Hummer H1, based on the Humvee; and the H2 and H3 models that were...
  
  

• Thomas G. Kelley
  Thomas G. Kelley
  -External links:* at the Pritzker Military Library...
  
  , Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   recipient and Secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services
• Pat Leahy NHL hockey player
• Dennis Lehane
  Dennis Lehane
  Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy...
  
  , author of Mystic River
  Mystic River
  The Mystic River is a river in Massachusetts, in the United States. Its name derives from the Wampanoag word "muhs-uhtuq", which translates to "big river." In an Algonquian language, "Missi-Tuk" means "a great river whose waters are driven by waves", alluding to the natural tidal nature of the...
  
  , Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American crime drama-mystery film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
  
  , Shutter Island
  Shutter Island
  Shutter Island is a best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be an homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp. He described the novel as a hybrid of the...
  
  
• Drew Locke
  Drew Locke
  Drew Locke is a Rugby Union player for both Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership and Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship. Drew is officially duel registered with the Rugby Football Union and is therefore able play for both sides...
  
  , minor league baseball player in Houston Astros
  Houston Astros
  The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...
  
   organization
• Phil Lynch, former CEO, Reuters
  Reuters
  Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
  
   America; current CEO, Asset Control Systems
• Chris Marinelli
  Chris Marinelli
  Chris Marinelli is a free agent American football offensive tackle who last played for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Denver Broncos in 2010...
  
  , NFL football player, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts
• John A. McNeice Jr
  John A. McNeice Jr
  John A. McNeice Jr of Canton, Massachusetts is a noted philanthropist and the former Chairman and CEO of the Colonial Group. As of 27 June 2006, he serves on the Board of Trustees of both Boston College and Boston College High School. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Weston Jesuit...
  
  , philanthropist
  Philanthropy
  Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...
  
  , former Chairman and CEO, Colonial Group
• Paul J. Murray, Director of Music and Organist, Church of the Holy Family, the United Nations Parish, New York City
• Joe Nash
  Joe Nash
  Joseph Andrew Nash is a former professional American football player. He played his entire career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League as a defensive tackle from 1982 to 1996...
  
  , NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
  
• Jake O'Brien
  Jake O'Brien
  Jacob Allen O'Brien is an American mixed martial arts fighter from Indianapolis, Indiana. O'Brien attended Franklin Central High School where he wrestled for four years, while earning IHSAA 215 lb. State Champion honors three years in a row from 2000–2003; holding a record of 125-4 over that...
  
  , Boston University Basketball player, 2009 America East Rookie of the Year
• Joseph T. O'Callahan
  Joseph T. O'Callahan
  Joseph Timothy O'Callahan was a Jesuit priest and, during World War II, a United States Navy chaplain. He was awarded the U.S...
  
  , Catholic priest and recipient of the Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
  
• John M. O'Hara, political commentator, author of A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes
• Pietro Pezzati
  Peter S. Pezzati
  Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.-Early life:He was born Peter S...
  
  , painter
• Mike Ryan NHL hockey player
• Walter Robinson
  Walter V. Robinson
  Walter V. Robinson is an American journalist and journalism professor.He led the Boston Globes coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winning journalist
• Paul Sally
  Paul Sally
  Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. is a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago,where he is the Director of Undergraduate Studies.His research areas are p-adic analysis and representation theory....
  
   Professor of mathematics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  
• Francis X. Shea
  Francis X. Shea
  Francis Xavier "Frank" Shea was an American Jesuit priest and educator who served as president of the College of St. Scholastica and, after leaving the Jesuit order, as chancellor of Antioch College.-Biography:...
  
  , Jesuit academic who served as president of the College of St. Scholastica and chancellor of Antioch College
  Antioch College
  Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...
  
  
• Jim Sullivan, author of Over the Moat:Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam
• Mike Sullivan, former NHL hockey player, former Boston Bruins
  Boston Bruins
  The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
  
   head coach
• Steve Trapilo, NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   football player
• Erik Vendt
  Erik Vendt
  Erik Vendt is a retired American swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics...
  
  , Olympic swimmer, gold medalist 2008
  2008 Summer Olympics
  The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
  
  ,silver medalist in both 2000
  2000 Summer Olympics
  The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
  
   and 2004
  2004 Summer Olympics
  The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
  
   Summer Olympics
  Summer Olympic Games
  The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that...
  
  
• Jerry York
  Jerry York
  Jerry York is the Men's Hockey Coach at Boston College. He graduated from Boston College High School in 1963 and BC in 1967. York is currently the winningest active coach in NCAA hockey, and is 2nd on the all-time list with 889 wins behind retired Coach Ron Mason...
  
  , Boston College
  Boston College
  Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
  
   Men's Hockey head coach; has over 800 wins, 4 National Championships leading all active coaches, played hockey at both BC High and BC.
• Al Jack Yanuts, former Mayor of Brockton, Massachusetts
  Brockton, Massachusetts
  Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County...
  
  
• Kevin Vigneron, Former CFO of Thomson Financial
• Eric Turner
  Eric Turner
  Eric Ray Turner was a defensive back who played for the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens and the Oakland Raiders. He died of intestinal cancer at the age of 31, two weeks after claiming he was not gravely ill...
  
  , singer, featured in Written in the Stars
  Written in the Stars
  Written in the Stars may refer to:* "Written in the Stars" , from Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida and Rimes' 2002 album I Need You*"Written in the Stars" , from Disc-Overy...
  
  

• Brian Concannon, Jr., human rights lawyer and director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
• Ed Forry, writer for the Boston Irish Reporter

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