The special guests applaud at the assembly. Seated, from left, are Brother Alvaro; Brigadier Gen. Timothy Trainor, dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point; and Yvonne Murphy, Toledo’s daughter. Also seated in the second row behind Brother Alvaro is Dabney Montgomery, one of the famed Tuskegee airmen.
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Brother Alvaro Rodriguez Echeverria, F.S.C., superior general of the Christian Brothers, left, speaks with Bill Toledo, World War II veteran and one of the renowned Navajo code-talkers, and Val Lehr, chairman of the LaSalle Academy board of trustees and 1958 alumnus, during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Manhattan school Nov. 10. Brother Alvaro was visiting the United States from Rome to tour the Brothers of the Christian Schools’ District of Eastern North America. In the archdiocese, Brother Alvaro also visited Manhattan College.
