All Hallows High School

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name = All Hallows High School


motto = "Pro Fide et Patria"
"For Faith and Country"
established = 1909
type = Private, Boys
religion = Roman Catholic
head_name = President
head = Paul Krebbs
city = The Bronx
state = NY
country = USA
conference = Catholic High School Athletic Association
mascot = The Gael
homepage = [http://www.allhallows.org/ 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, 98% of whom are minorities. [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/18642 Site that provides profiles of private schools.] 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." [Suskind, Ron. “A Bronx Tale: “College is Better Than No College, Period. You’ll Thank Me Later.” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 04/01/1999.] The Acton Institute recently named All Hallows as one of the top 50 Catholic high schools in the United States. [ Fowle, Noah. “All Hallows High School recognized as ‘Top 50’ parochial school.” BRONX TIMES REPORTER, 11/04/2004.] It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

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.

Academic program

Falcons

port and activities

All Hallows students participate in more than 40 sports and activities; these include a newspaper ("The Blue and White"), a chess team, 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 wielding a shillelagh.

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 primarily of All Hallows graduates who have achieved notable success in fields such as finance, technology, law, and television.

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 [http://e15minutes.com/archives/issue_76/mai_0607-03.htm] , 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.” [Cositore, Joseph. "The All Hallows Foundation: The Mission of the All Hallows Foundation" (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Foundation [2001?] .]

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. [Krebbs, Paul. "Good News Made Possible By You" (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Times, February 2007).]

Notable graduates

A non-exhaustive list of notable Gaels:
*Alfredo Alonso '78 - Senior Vice President Clear Channel Radio [Clearchannel.com]
*Ralph J. Acampora ‘59 – Author, "The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011" [http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Mega-Market-Now-Through-2011] ; Former President, Market Technicians Association; Technical Analyst, Knight Equity Markets [http://www.knight.com/] , Teaches at New York Institute of Finance [http://www.nyif.com/courses/tech_5001.html]
*Edward F. Arrigoni ’52 – Former President and Owner, New York Bus Service
*John E. Benevento ‘63 – 1st Senior Vice President, Washington Mutual
*Patrick A. Burns, Esq. '64 - Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Mutual of America [http://www.mutualofamerica.com/]
*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 Molloy
*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 [http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Digioia_Frank_11950525.aspx]
*Andrew J. Dolce ’57 – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dolce International
*Kevin P. Duignan '69 - Vice President for Institutional Advancement, St. Thomas Aquinas College [http://www.stac.edu/]
*Philip J. Eagan ’66 – Chief Operating Officer, Viking Global Investors [http://www.tiger21.com/presenters.htm?pid=863]
*Edward J. Grenier, Esq. '50 - Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan [http://www.sablaw.com/professionals/bio.aspx?id=7411] ; 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 [http://www.answers.com/topic/horsehead-corp] , a descendant of New Jersey Zinc Company
*David A. Haid '53 - Retired Director of Research and Development, Praxair
*James Hicks '78 - Director, Descap Securities [http://www.descap.com/]
*Michael J. Indiveri '70 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, City & Suburban Federal Savings Bank [http://www.csbankny.com/]
*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 [http://www.opco.com/public/about_oppenheimer/index.html]
*John J. McNally, Esq. ’45 - Retired Partner, White & Case
*Walter T. O’Hara ’52 – Managing Director, Allen & Company
*Donald O'Toole '69 - Senior Vice President, Petry Television [http://www.petrymedia.com/index.php?register=Petry]
*Olden Polynice: ’83 – Retired professional basketball player
*Ronald R. Ramon ‘04– Basketball player, University of Pittsburgh [http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/ramon_ronald00.html]
*William D. Rockford ‘63 – President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Primary Energy Ventures; formerly Managing Director, Chase Securities [http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedPersonId=864846]
*Ronald L. Schutte ’74 – President, Brooklyn Cheesecake Company [http://www.brooklyncheesecake.com/about_us.php?osCsid=e0ba0e12ed632b5497796b78468aeba0]
*Daniel C. Shedrick ‘60 – Sports Marketing and Real Estate Mogul [http://www.nysun.com/article/49279?page_no=3]
*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" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0314226761]
*Jackson P. Tai ’68 – Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, DBS Bank and DBS Group Holdings [http://www.dbs.com/dbsgroup/management/tai.html]
*John H. Timoney ’50 – Director, Applied Bioscience International, Omnicare Incorporated
*William O. Wheatley, Jr. ‘62 – Retired Vice President, NBC News
*Brian P. Wade ’70 – Global head of private placements, Lehman Brothers [http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Wade_Brian_8022156.aspx]

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