Flanagan Timeline
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December 12 |
With a borrowed $90, rents a home at 25th and Dodge Streets in Omaha, Nebraska, and officially opens Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to five young boys assigned to him by the court. |
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February 3 |
Prints first issue of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home Journal. |
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June 1 |
Moves the home to the abandoned German-American Home on 13th Street. |
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March 29 |
Sends his first letter appealing for funds to support the Home to Catholic residents in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. |
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May 18 |
Purchases Overlook Farm, ten miles west of Omaha, as the future site of the Home. |
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October 22 |
Completes the Home's move to Overlook Farm. |
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January |
Begins weekly radio show with the Boys' Home Band on Mondays at 6 p.m. on WAOW. |
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February 14 |
Institutes first student government at the Home. Boys elect first mayor and vote to officially change the name of Overlook Farm to Boys Town. |
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March |
Meets with J. Walter Ruben and Dore Schary of MGM to review "Boys Town" movie script. |
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June 26 |
Welcomes the cast and crew of "Boys Town" to campus for ten days of location shooting. |
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April 7 |
At the invitation of the War Department, tours Japan and Korea to investigate the need for aid to war orphans and meets with Gen. Douglas MacArthur. |
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July 11 |
Reports the findings of his Asian trip to President Harry S. Truman at the White House. |
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May 15 |
Suffers a heart attack and dies in Berlin, Germany. |
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May 21 |
Following two funeral Masses on campus, his body is entombed at Boys Town. |
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June 5 |
President Truman visits Boys Town and lays a wreath on Father Flanagan's tomb. |
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July 14 |
U.S. Postal Service holds the first-day-of-issue ceremony for its new four-cent Father Flanagan stamp at Boys Town, 100 years after Flanagan's birth in Ireland. |
For more on Father Flanagan, read "Father Flanagan's Legacy; Hope and Healing for Children," available from the Boys Town PressSM.