The Power Memorial Academy.com web site was maintained by Jose B. Rivera (Class of ''75) and Chris Novack (Class of '70), alumni of the school. We appreciate and offer our gratitude for all of their efforts. Our aim is to keep the memory of the school alive and to assist in connecting former students and teachers with each other. Chris also maintains the original Power Memorial Academy web site at : www.powermemorialacademy.8m.com . Both Mr. Novack and Mr. Rivera mutually collaborated on both sites.

Recently we hired a Professional Web Master (Filip "The Web Guy" Galiza). With his expertise & the input from our PMAAA Board of Directors we hope to vastly improve our look, feel, and security. Security, in this day & age has become an utmost concern.

More About Power Memorial Academy
PMA was founded sometime in the 1920's by Monsignor Power in All Saints Parish. It was originally located at 15 W 124th St. in a string of 5 attached Brownstones (#'s 13 to 21), and was called All Hallows at the beginning. Soon there was not enough room and in 1931 the brothers moved to a new home at 164th St. and Walton Ave. Many people requested that they make use of the old building at 124 St. also.

With the approval of the Archbishop of New York and the Superior-General of their order, a new community took residence there. They named it Power Memorial Academy after Monsignor Power who had originally invited the Irish Christian Brothers to this country to teach his boys and who had died in 1926.

By 1938 the rubber walls at 124th St. would stretch no more and a new residence was required. That's when they purchased an unused hospital at 161 W 61st St. which was the one we all remember right till the end. It's a rather involved and confused history, but that's what it is now...history. Let's try to keep it alive in our hearts and minds. --Vic Kaplan '52 <thanks Vic for the info - Jose>

Info from Bro Mike McCallion, '56:
I was just looking up something in my '56 yearbook and noticed that it has PMA being founded in 1931 vs. the 1938 shown on the PMA site. It was always my understanding that the school was founded in '31 in a group of knocked together brownstones at 15 W 124th ST. This building later became All Hallows and when they left it became Rice. PMA moved to the old hospital building at 61st and Amsterdam in '38. I could be missing something though.

Please don't take me wrong, the site is great and I love it. It is wonderful to have such a thing available even out here in the Sierra Nevada. It makes the memories even more vivid.

Regards Brother
Mike McCallion, '56