Miracle on High Street: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Downtown Monks and the Miracle on High Street 1 1. Newark’s Forgotten Riot 7 2. ‘‘Necessary, Useful, and Beautiful’’: Founding Fathers and a Catholic Day College, 1868–1900 18 3. The Making of a Modern Catholic Prep School, 1900–1926 36 4. St. Benedict’s Prep from Depression to War, 1926–1945 61 5. The Duke, Divine Comedy, and Discipline at St. Benedict’s Prep 82 6. Benedict’s Hates a Quitter: Athletics at a Catholic Prep School 108 7. ‘‘He Was Afraid of the City’’: Abbot Patrick, the Monastic Family, and Postwar Newark, 1945–1967 134 8. ‘‘Camelot Is Dead’’: The Newark Riots and the Closing of St. Benedict’s Prep, 1967–1972 156 viii | contents 9. ‘‘A Possible School’’: The Resurrection of St. Benedict’s Prep, 1972–1977 190 10. The Headmaster and the Street, 1977–1986 224 Conclusion 254 Notes 259 Index 303 ...