From the Archives 1952

On September 21, 1952, our beloved statue of St. Sebastian was dedicated on the School’s original campus on Nonantum Hill in Newton. Given in memory of Robert E. Higgins ’46, a Trappist Monk, the marble statue was a gift from the School’s alumni. Showing St. Sebastian in full dress uniform as a captain of the Praetorian Guard, the statue made an immediate impact on the entire school community. Forty years later, when the campus was moved to its current location on Greendale Avenue during the 1982-83 Christmas break, the statue came, too. For over 70 years, from one campus to the other, it has stood as a treasured symbol of the School’s patron saint and the values he embodied.