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Friday, June 24, 2011
New Derby Hall of Fame members announced
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DERBY – Mayor Anthony Staffieri has announced the selection of five new members to the Derby Hall of Fame.
They include William F. Durand, Rev. John Jordan Dillon, James McKenzie, Col. Holton Wood, and Major Wilbur Fiske Osborne. The five will have their bricks added to the Hall of Fame Plaza on Division Street in time for Derby Day.
Their induction brings to 29 the number of people in the Hall of Fame since it was started in 2007. The Derby Hall of Fame is made up of Derby natives and residents who have helped to shape the course of history through their achievements at the local, state, national or international level. Each of these individuals selected was either born in Derby or lived here at some point in his/her life.
“I am honored and privileged to recognize these Derby citizens who have helped shaped Derby’s unique and special history,” Staffieri said, in an announcement. “They are the very essence of what it means to be a Derbyite.”
Jack Walsh, chairman of the Greenway Committee, which selected the Hall of Fame members, said those selected have significant achievements in the education and literacy arenas.
“For a small city, the city has turned out an incredible number of talented men and women who have gone on to major achievements in their chosen fields, and this year’s class is no exception,” Walsh said.
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James McKenzie was another Franklin School student who went on to head a major Catholic University in America. After Franklin School, he attended a boarding school in Maryland run by the Brothers of Christian Schools. He went on to Columbia and Manhattan College and did post graduate work at Columbia and Harvard. He pursued a teaching career and taught at a variety of Christian Brothers schools before becoming president of Manhattan in 1932, a position he held until 1938.
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For more complete information on each of these new members of the Derby Hall of Fame, visit the city’s website at http://www.electronicvalley.org/derby.
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posted by Michelle Tuccitto Sullo at 2:27 PM
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McKenzie, James [MC????]
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Dear John,
I do not have a year for Brother (James) A. Patrick McKenzie FSC, but I do show that he was the President of Manhattan College from 1932 to 1938.
Mike
McEneney, Mike (MC1953)
[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated.]
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