NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord Monitor
By ALYSSA DANDREA
Monitor staff
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
A graduate of St. Paul’s School in Concord recently accused a former school chaplain of sexual abuse dating back several decades.
St. Paul’s contacted the Concord Police Department on Thursday about the allegations involving the Rev. Howard “Howdy” White, who worked in the private school’s Sacred Studies Department from fall 1967 to spring 1971.
The sexual abuse allegations are not the first to surface against White. He was fired from St. George’s School, an Episcopal school in Middletown, R.I., in 1974 for admitted sexual misconduct, which was not reported to law enforcement at the time, the Providence Journal reported.
News that St. George’s had hired a private investigator this past January to look into decades-old allegations of sexual abuse raised concern among St. Paul’s administrators, the school’s rector, Michael Hirschfeld, wrote in a letter to alumni Friday. The Rhode Island investigation prompted St. Paul’s to retain its own lawyer, former Massachusetts attorney general Scott Harshbarger, to investigate any misconduct by White during his time in Concord.
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