CRIMSON SHIELD THE ONLINE MAGAZINE OF BROTHER MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL
March 2012 Published Monthly September through May

News and Notes Brother Chris Sweeney, S.C., a former Brother Martin faculty member, has completed his first year in Mozambique as part of an international team of four brothers working at a school in Amatongas. The Brother Martin Library is dedicating all the fines collected during the 2011-12 school year to the mission in Amatongas. The library's goal is to pay the tuition for one student, which is equivalent to $350. Brother Chris blogs frequently. The librarians print out his latest blogs and display them in the display cabinet alongside geniune African artifacts. Brother Chris is also soliciting textbooks for the school. Link to Brother Chris's blog

Brother Chris Sweeney, S.C.

Each afternoon during the 1972-3 school year, three Mount Carmel girls attended the Computer Science class at Brother Martin. The three seniors were Mary Schneiders, daughter of Cdr. Joseph Schneiders of the Brother Martin ROTC Department, Laurie Suhr, now Laurie Leftwich, a longtime Guidance Department member at Brother Martin, and Pam Wood.

The three agreed that there were no major differences from attending Mount Carmel. "The only thing really noticeable," said Mary, "is the snide remarks some students make when we walk to class." When asked if their presence at Brother Martin had anything to do with the women's lib movement, one of the girls replied, "No, and I think you're a male chauvinist for asking that question."

The trio were actually not the first female students at BMHS. The year before, two seniors from St. James Major High enrolled in physics.

Senior Ed Lagucki gives assistance in Computer Science to Mary Schneiders
in 1972. Believe me, this was a staged picture. Mary didn't need any help.

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This 1990 photo shows the Brother Martin assistant principal who later became the principal and then the president of Dominican High School. Identify her.

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