Franciscan Brothers, Faculty and Staff Hall of Fame Honors for Bro. Robert Kent Bro. Robert Kent O.S.F., our Alumni Director, Math Teacher and the Varsity Baseball coach, was honored by the Frank McGuire Foundation at their Annual Hall of Fame Dinner on November 18th. Frank McGuire was a coach who instilled in his players a desire to achieve in both academics and athletics, and honorees selected by the Foundation mirror these same values. Bro. Robert has been a teacher, coach and administrator at St. Francis Prep for more than 40 years and is known and loved by generations of alumni. More than 200 SFP alumni, faculty, family and friends of Bro. Robert’s were in attendance in his honor. Pictured: Representatives of the Foundation present Bro. Robert Kent, O.S.F. with the Hall of Fame honor.
Photo © Maria R. Bastone
Five Weddings and a Football Game for Father Bill Sweeney As a priest, Father Bill Sweeney’s entire year is filled with so much. But if you had to ask the Prep’s Chaplain to name a few “high points” of the 2009-10 academic year, there is no doubt that he’d mention performing the wedding ceremonies for Phyllis Gambino ‘90 and Bill Skody (July 18th); Jean McEvoy ‘90 and John Callahan (April 24th); Geraldine Armesto ‘03 and Oliver Chadenat (April 17th); Elizabeth Giordano ‘00 and Brian West (April 16th), and Christine DeMarco ‘01 and William Ng ‘01 (July 19th). Next on his list would have to be travelling with Alumni Director Bro. Robert Kent, SFP alumni and friends out to Notre Dame for the Michigan State game last September (which was organized by Notre Dame grad Jack Cahill, SFP Class of 1967).
Bro. Ed Kent is Profiled in “Irish Voice,” Celebrates his Jubilee Year, and Wins Track Medals Bro. Ed Kent celebrated his Golden Jubilee this past year with a host of family and friends at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston. In addition, he was profiled in the Irish Voice newspaper. He also won three Gold Medals in the Empire State Games: Masters Division in the Triple Jump, the long jump, and the 100-yard dash, plus a Silver Medal in the 200 meter dash. Brother Ed is currently teaching continuing education courses on Joyce and Yeats at Queens College and Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus.
Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn bestowed Francis Medal by Order of Friars Minor The Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn were presented the Francis Medal on the occasion of their 150th Anniversary by the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor at their 800th Anniversary Convocation. Pictured at left is our former Alumni Director and present day Superior General, Bro. William Boslet, O.S.F. (left), who accepted the Medal from Very Rev. John F. O’Connor, OFM (far right), Provincial Minister. Inset: A program from the Francis Week 2009 which proclaims the Franciscan Order’s 800th Anniversary! 58