Chaminade must live up to its motto: Answers and actions needed following sexual abuse allegations

NEW YORK
New York Daily News

BY
CHARLES COWELL
ANTHONY VENTURA
ANTHONY CLARK
JAMES COTTER
CHARLES GIVENS
ED KLESS
ANTHONY NOTAROBERTA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, August 15, 2016

We are graduates of Chaminade, the Catholic boy’s high school in Mineola, L.I. All have, at one time or another, made charitable contributions to, or paid to attend events at or in support of the school.

We made lifelong friends there. The children of many of our closest friends are graduates or current students. Some of us worked there in the past. Some of our classmates are current or former teachers there, as well as at Kellenberg in Uniondale and St. Martin de Porres in Hempstead, schools also run by the same Marianist Province of Meribah that administers Chaminade.

We are not inclined easily to criticize publicly the school or its leaders; we are not detractors, opponents or enemies, but only seek answers to important questions.

We have been guided for decades by the ideals instilled in us during our four challenging years at Chaminade. We have tried to live up to the standards the faculty set for us as students and as men, and to which we believed they held themselves.

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