Title	McAuliffe Hall Chapel, Solemn High Benediction (Blessing of McAuliffe Hall), with His Excellency Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe of Hartford
Photographer	Rev. Michael J. Ahern, S.J.
Date as Text	1942
Date	1942
High Resolution	http://digital.fairfield.edu/fuhp/hires/PR000062.jpg
Description	His Excellency Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe of Hartford presides over the Solemn High Benediction in the McAuliffe student's chapel. The blessing of the school took place on Wednesday, September 9, 1942, the opening day of Fairfield College Preparatory School.
Notes	McAuliffe Hall, formerly called the Mailands, was the forty-room French Renaissance style home of Oliver Gould Jennings, a businessman, philanthropist and politician. As World War II began in early December 1941, the Jesuits purchased the 76-acre Jennings estate for $42,089 to found Fairfield College Preparatory School. Renamed McAuliffe Hall in honor of His Excellency Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe of Hartford, the building was adapted to become the first classroom building for the college. The building included classrooms, laboratories, a cafeteria, a library and a chapel.
Original Format	Photographic print; black-and-white; 8 x 10 in.
Source	Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections
Digital Specifications	These images exist as archived TIFF images and one or more JPEG versions for general use. They were scanned at 400 dpi, 24 bit from the original using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner.
Date Digital	2007
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Identifier	PR000063