All Hallows High School

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All Hallows High School
Pro Fide et Patria "For Faith and Country"
Established	1909
School type	Private, Boys
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
President	Paul Krebbs
Location	The Bronx, NY, USA
Mascot	The Gael
Conference	Catholic High School Athletic Association
Homepage	www.allhallows.org

All Hallows High School is a Catholic boys high school in The Bronx, New York. Located near Yankee Stadium, at 111 East 164th Street, the school has an enrollment of approximately 580 boys, 99% of whom are students of color.^[1] Despite sitting in the poorest Congressional district in the country, All Hallows routinely places its entire graduating class in four-year colleges. The Wall Street Journal has called the school's success in this area "stunning."^[2] The Acton Institute recently named All Hallows as one of the top 50 Catholic high schools in the Unites States.^[3]

Contents 1 History and Philosophy 2 Academic Program 3 Sport and Activities 4 The All Hallows Foundation 5 Notable Graduates 6 References

[edit] History and Philosophy

All Hallows was founded in 1909 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. The order founded the school upon the principles of Blessed Edmund Rice, which center on providing moral and scholastic training, especially to the children of the poor. Originally located at 13-15 West 124th in Manhattan, the school moved to its current location in 1929. For much of its history, All Hallows was an elementary school as well as a high school, but it has been exclusively the latter since 1977. The school has more than 10,000 graduates.

All Hallows will celebrate its centennial in 2009.

[edit] Academic Program

All Hallows offers a college preparatory program, along with four years of religious study. The curriculum includes several innovative programs. Freshmen, for example, take a writing class developed in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History that delves into primary documents and that visits historical sites. The school offers its students advanced placement courses in English literature, Spanish and U.S. history; it also offers electives in physics, chemistry, African-American culture, Latin, marketing, psychology, political science, creative writing, mythology and epics, business law, as well as calculus. Students take classes not offered by the school through a videoconference center for distance learning.

Because service is central to the Edmund Rice view of education, All Hallows makes community service part of its curriculum. The amount of service that the school requires of students escalates with grade level: Freshmen give 10 hours, while seniors give 50. A tutoring program is also mandatory, as is a daily reading hour known as the Drop Everything and Read ("DEAR") program. The DEAR program was developed by principal Sean Sullivan and English department chairman Paul Fontana.

This DEAR program has garnered national recognition. On March 2, 2007, All Hallows was awarded a $50,000 Pageturner Champion Award in recognition of the program, as well as the high graduation and college matriculation rates at All Hallows.^[4] In explaining its decision, The Pageturner Organization, a charitable entity founded by James Patterson, pointed to gains in test scores made by All Hallows students since the program was instituted: verbal SAT scores went up 16%, while AP English scores went up 40%.

[edit] Sport and Activities

All Hallows students participate in more than 40 sports and activities; these include a newspaper (The Blue and White), Kendo and chess teams, Big Brothers, as well as "El Club Latino." In Spring 2006, the varsity baseball team won a Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) championship, and, in Winter 2007, the Freshmen basketball team also won a CHSAA championship. The teams are called The Gaels, although the mascot-emblem looks more like a leprechaun weilding a shillelagh.

[edit] The All Hallows Foundation

In 1997, graduates of the school set up The All Hallows Foundation, a 501(C)(3) organized for the purpose of supporting the school and the surrounding neighborhood. The board of directors for the All Hallows Foundation is comprised of All Hallows graduates who have achieved notable success in fields such as finance, technology, law, television, and potato farming.

The Foundation provides funds for a scholarship fund that allows talented, but impoverished young men to attend All Hallows. It also supports facility renovations and improvements, a faculty endowment and community outreach programs. Philip J. Eagan [1], the board chairman of the All Hallows Foundation applies his background in finance to bring "a bold, entrepreneurial, and creative approach to inner city education.”^[5]

In December of 2006, the Foundation received an anonymously donated check for 2 million dollars. The donation was made by a graduate of the school.^[6]

[edit] Notable Graduates

A non-exhaustive list of notable Gaels:

• Ralph J. Acampora ‘59 – Author, The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011[2]; Former President, Market Technicians Association; Technical Analyst, Knight Equity Markets [3]
• Edward F. Arrigoni ’52 – Former President and Owner, New York Bus Service
• John E. Benevento ‘63 – 1st Senior Vice President, Washington Mutual
• Ruben R. Brache ’66 – Founder, eBroadwayPlays [4]
• Patrick A. Burns, Esq. '64 - Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Mutual of America [5]
• Robert J. Cremins '65 - Head men's basketball coach, College of Charleston; Former head men's basketball coach, Georgia Tech
• John J. Curran ’48 – Head basketball coach, Archbishop Malloy
• John P. Curran, Ph. D. ’61 – President, Curran Capital Management
• Martin B. Daley '70 - Vice President, CBS News
• Frank G. DiGioia ’74 – President, Fort Productions [6]
• Andrew J. Dolce ’57 – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dolce International [7]
• Philip J. Eagan ’66 – Chief Operating Officer, Viking Global Investors [8]
• Edward J. Grenier, Esq. '50 - Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan [9]; lead counsel for the winning applicant in the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline proceedings before FERC
• William E. Flaherty '51 - Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Horsehead Industries[10], a descendant of New Jersey Zinc Company
• David A. Haid '53 - Retired Director of Research and Development, Praxair
• James Hicks '78 - Director, Descap Securities [11]
• Michael J. Indiveri '70 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, City & Surburban Federal Savings Bank [12]
• Brian M. Jones ’79 – Senior Vice President, Iverson Financial Systems
• Eamon M. Kelly '54 - Former President, Tulane University; Former Chairman, National Science Foundation
• John F.X. Mannion ’50 – Chairman of the Board, Unity Mutual Life Insurance
• Stephen M. McGrath '53 - Retired Managing, Openheimer & Company [13]
• John J. McNally, Esq. ’45 - Partner, New York Office of White & Case
• Walter T. O’Hara ’52 – Managing Director, Allen & Company
• Olden Polynice: ’83 – Retired professional basketball player
• Ronald R. Ramon ‘04– Basketball player, University of Pittsburgh [14]
• William D. Rockford ‘63 – President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Primary Energy Ventures; formerly Managing Director, Chase Securities [15]
• Ronald L. Schutte ’74 – President, Brooklyn Cheesecake Company [16]
• Daniel C. Shedrick ‘60 – Sports Marketing Mogul and Potato Farmer [17]
• Lawrence A. Sullivan '41 - Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law; Antitrust Lawyer of the Year, 1992, State of California; author, The Law of Antitrust [18]
• Jackson P. Tai ’68 – Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, DBS Bank and DBS Group Holdings [19]
• John H. Timoney ’50 – Director, Applied Bioscience International, Omnicare Incorporated
• William O. Wheatley ‘62 – Retired Vice President, NBC News
• Brian P. Wade ’70 – Global head of private placements, Lehman Brothers [20]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/18642 Site that provides profiles of private schools.
2. ^ Suskind, Ron. “A Bronx Tale: “College is Better Than No College, Period. You’ll Thank Me Later.” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 04/01/1999.
3. ^ Fowle, Noah. “All Hallows High School recognized as ‘Top 50’ parochial school.” BRONX TIMES REPORTER, 11/04/2004.
4. ^ http://www.pattersonpageturner.org/ Contest homepage where the award was announced.
5. ^ Cositore, Joseph. The All Hallows Foundation: The Mission of the All Hallows Foundation (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Foundation [2001?].
6. ^ Krebbs, Paul. Good News Made Possible By You (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Times, February 2007).