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in 1973 as a six-year survivor. All four of his brothers attended the
School up on Nonantum Hill.
It was fitting, Dr. Mulroy says, that all four of his brothers
attended the School.
“I really felt it was a family school,” he said. “The Headmaster
was Monsignor Harney, and he used to always talk about the
St. Sebastian’s Family. And it really was a family—from your
classmates, to the parents, to the teachers. So having my real family
in the St. Sebastian’s Family really made sense.”
At that time, The St. Sebastian’s Family was literally comprised
of students from large families, making, in many cases, your
brothers… your brothers.
“There were several families there with six or seven boys,” he
recalled. “I came from a family of six, and I really felt I was average
when I was at St. Sebastian’s. We all came from large families, and St.
Sebastian’s was just one large extended family. We talked about it,
and we lived it…Our connection to each other was one of the things
that was impressed upon us, and it was fun to be a part of it.”
He continued, “A lot of relationships overlapped. For example,
somebody in my class had a brother in my brother’s class, or I was
going out with a girl whose brother was on the hockey team with
me. And a lot of the families were related. A lot of the parents were
sisters and uncles and brothers and cousins.”
Dr. Mulroy and his brothers have all gone on to great success
following graduation from St. Sebastian’s. Richard is an orthopedic
surgeon specializing in total hip and knee replacements. His brother
and business partner John ’74 is an orthopedic surgeon who
specializes in sports medicine. Jim ’76 works for Thomson-Reuters
as a real estate property consultant, Bill ’78 is an orthopedic surgeon
who works in Weston, and Bob ’82 is the CEO of a biotech company
in Cambridge called Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.
-- First Impressions --
“When I first arrived on campus, I didn’t know a single soul,”
Mulroy remarked. “No one from my family had gone there yet,
no one from my neighborhood. I didn’t know anything about the
School until the day I started. Back then there was no interview or
tour of the school. Basically you took an examination, your parents
filled out an application, and you showed up the first day.”
His first impression of the School involved the good-natured
humor so many alumni recall about their time as a student.
Pictured: Headmaster Bill Burke with the Mulroy Family Matriarch, Anne,
during the Leadership Reception in September 2012.
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