Rev. Roy A. Drake, S.J.-Assignment

Rev. Roy Alan Drake, S.J.

Accused in 2005 of raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old boy in 1969 on an overnight before a ski trip, while on assignment at Fordham Prep in the NY archdiocese. Accused in 2014 of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy on 6/30/74 while Drake worked at Maine Maritime Academy, located in the Portland diocese. Also assigned in the dioceses of Boston, Seattle, Grand Rapids or Saginaw, Syracuse, Washington, and St. Louis. Worked at colleges and retreat houses and gave hundreds of workshops and retreats in the US and internationally. Spiritual director in the NY archdiocese. At Vianney Renewal Center 2006-2008. Died 8/21/08.

Born: 7/3/30
Ordained: 1963
Died: 8/21/08

Close-up of Roy A. Drake SJ in 1965-66 teaching physics at Fordham Prep

Roy A. Drake SJ in 1965-66 teaching physics at Fordham Prep

Roy A. Drake SJ in 1965-66, moderator of the science club at Fordham Prep

Roy A. Drake SJ in the 1990s at Murray-Weigel Hall on Fordham University's Bronx campus

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1963	1964	Weston Observatory	Weston	MA	Seismologist	See a history of Weston Observatory that mentions Drake's work.
1964	1965	Manresa Hall	Port Townsend	WA	Jesuit Tertianship	Jesuit seminary
1965	1971	Fordham Preparatory School	Bronx • Accused in 2005 of raping and sodomizing a 13-year old boy in 1969. See article. At the time, Drake was listed in the Directory as living at Loyola-Faber Hall (see next entry).	NY	For six years, Drake is indexed as being at Fordham Prep on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx. But Drake is listed on the faculty of the Prep only for 1965-66.	Fordham Prep is a boys' high school. It had between 746 and 878 students during these years. Drake was indexed and listed here in the 1966 Official Catholic Directory. In the 1967-71 Directories he was indexed as being assigned here but was not listed in the Fordham Prep entry of the NY archdiocesan pages.
1966	1969	Fordham University	Bronx	NY	Assistant Director of Seismic Observatory
1967	1970	Fordham University	Bronx	NY		In the 1968, 1969, and 1970 Directories, Drake is listed in the Fordham University entry. In the 1969 and 1970 Directories, within the Fordham University entry, he is listed in a subsection of the university entry entitled Jesuit Faculty Community, Loyola-Faber Hall. In these years, he continued to be indexed in the Directory as being at Fordham Prep. The Loyola-Faber buildings, where Drake is listed as living 1968-70, are in the middle of Fordham University's Rose Hill campus, adjacent to Hughes Hall, where Fordham Prep was then located. See map.
1969	1971	New York University	Manhattan	NY	Oceanography graduate student
1971	1977	University of Maine	Orono Drake was in Orono for at least part of this period.	ME	Graduate student. Drake received an Ed.D. degree in 1977. His dissertation was "An analysis of the effects of matching and mismatching learning styles and learning environments."	Drake is not indexed or listed in the Directories for 1972-1974 or 1977. In the 1975-76 Directories he is listed as absent on leave. A 2003 NY archdiocesan brochure confirms this Ed.D. and also mentions postgraduate work at New York University in geophysics, classics, and geophysical hydrodynamics (see previous entry).
1974	1977	Maine Maritime Academy	Castine • Accused in 2014 of sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy on 6/30/74, while Drake worked at Maine Maritime Academy.	ME	Teacher and project director.	Drake's affiliation with Maine Maritime Academy is also documented by a journal article that he co-authored there.
1977	1978		Rodney	MI		Listed in diocesan pages of Directory at Rt. 1, Box 82, Hillview Lake [Dr.], Rod[n]ey MI 49342.
1978	1979	Jesuits at Le Moyne	Syracuse	NY		Jesuit residence at Le Moyne College.
1979	1980	Leonard Neale House	Washington	DC		Jesuit residence.
1980	1984	John Carroll University	Cleveland	OH		Prefect of Dolan Hall. A former student who lived at the hall said that President Thomas P. O'Malley brought Drake in "to help shake things up institutionally and he was quite able." The student "heard Fr. Drake took ill and left the school, but was able to get better and had a new outlook on life." See 10/10/08 comment to I'm a Broken Hearted Deutcher (8/21/08).
1984	1986	Whereabouts unknown				Not indexed in Directories.
1986	1993	Jesuits at Le Moyne	Syracuse	NY
1987	1993	Le Moyne College	Syracuse	NY	Associate Academic Dean 1987-88, and Director of Institutional Research 1988-93.
1993		Gobind Sadan	Palermo	NY	Member of board of directors.	A Sikh interfaith community. See Parliament Participant, by Jim Reilly, Post-Standard (8/28/93).
1993	1994	Christ the King Retreat House	Syracuse	NY	Identified as "the administrator" in Parliament Participant, by Jim Reilly, Post-Standard (8/28/93).	Jesuit retreat house "for priests, nuns, laity, and youth of Upstate New York."
1994	2006	Murray-Weigel Hall	New York	NY	Directories list Drake as "Sub-Min."	A 9/8/03 archdiocesan brochure created by Ann Marie Wallace on 9/8/03 (see excerpt and the full brochure) states that Drake was a "speaker at national and international conferences on addiction in addition to over 500 workshops and over 100 retreats in the United States and Canada and also in many other nations." Among these were: a 1996 retreat at Manna House of Prayer, Concordia KS; a 1998 12-step retreat in Montreal, Canada; and a 12-step presentation at a conference in India discussed by Drake in 2003.
2003	2004	Center for Spiritual Development, Archdiocese of New York	Rye 96 Milton Road Part of the Spiritual Direction Program was conducted at: Trinity Retreat 1 Pryer Manor Road Larchmont NY	NY	Faculty	Drake is listed as faculty in the archdiocesan brochure referenced above, and was reportedly included in this online faculty list as recently as 2006. In 2003, Drake was one of six faculty teaching in the archdiocese's Spiritual Direction Program.
2006	2008	Vianney Renewal Center	Dittmer	MO	Patient	Vianney is a sexual abuse treatment center, operated by the Servants of the Paraclete. See Jesuit Directory listing. Drake is not listed in the 2007 or 2008 Directories.
8/21/08		Died	Bronx	NY		See Jesuit newsletter.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1964-2008).

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