If you're a basketball fan, chances are you've heard
about St. Anthony High School, a small school in
Jersey City, N.J. It's the place where Bob Hurley Sr.
won 20-plus New Jersey state basketball
championships. It's the place where many former
basketball players have gone on to play Division I
college basketball, where several former players have
gone on to the National Basketball Association (NBA).
St. Anthony High School also had Sister Mary Alan
Barszczewski, New Jersey's first woman high-school
athletic director.
Sister Alan died the morning of April 7 at age 62 after
a long battle with cancer. Knowing Sister Alan and her
love for the church, it's somewhat fitting after all she
had gone through over the last decade that she would
wind up leaving this world during Holy Week--just a
few days before Holy Thursday, Good Friday and
Easter.
