(left to right) Lorn Davis ’90, Monsignor Frank Kelley ’63 and Patrick Jones ’73 have helped guide the evolution of Pine Street Inn from its beginning to today. (Photo by Michael Ivins/Holy Cross)
In the late 1960s, Monsignor Frank Kelley ’63 was assigned to a parish in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he witnessed the toll of alcohol abuse and addiction on the men of Boston. At the time, the Pine Street Inn, which is now New England’s largest organization providing emergency shelter, street outreach, job training and permanent housing, had just been co-founded by Paul Sullivan, a counselor in recovery from alcohol addiction, who was drawn to the work.