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Brother Vincent B. Moriarty, F.M.S., who served as a high school teacher and dean, and as a college administrator, died Feb. 25 at Baptist Hospital in Miami. He was 80.
He began his professional career at Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, where he taught history and served as dean of discipline in the late 1960s. He later served at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, his alma mater, where he was director of students awaiting entrance to the novitiate.
Brother Moriarty later taught history and economics at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, and was a teacher and later assistant principal for academics at St. Agnes High School in Manhattan. While in Manhattan, he also became one of the alternate delegates to the United Nations for the Movement for a Better World-Protection of Children. And later in Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan, Brother Moriarty became principal of Marist Brothers International.
He took a sabbatical year and then went to Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie to assist in moving the school to a new location, and to teach history and serve as dean of admissions. He served in academic administration in Miami from 2001 until his retirement in 2015.
Born in Westfield, Mass., he entered the Marist Novitiate in 1955 and made final vows in 1962.
A Funeral Mass was offered Feb. 27 at St. Brendan’s Church in Miami. Plans were being made for his cremains to be transported to the Marist Brothers in Esopus.
