Leahy
Americannoun
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Lisa Morris and fellow bereaved mother Melanie Leahy were instrumental in pushing for the full judge-led public inquiry.
From BBC
Father Edwin Leahy was barely a few years older than the students in 1972 when he was chosen by his colleagues to lead the school.
Mr. DePalma describes Father Leahy, who is still the school’s head, as having a “city-block-sized chip on his shoulder toward the monks who turned their backs on Newark.”
Father Leahy’s plan was for St. Benedict’s to be a “small, interracial school,” designed to address “the educational problems of our time,” that was “not going to shovel everyone into college.”
“Hearing that,” writes Mr. DePalma, Father Leahy “realized that his group may have been tainted by the same racism of lower expectations as the monks who left for Morristown.”
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