The collection is available for research with the exception of the Correspondence with Students file, which contains information privileged under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and is restricted. These papers were separated from the main body of the Correspondence, which is unrestricted.
This collection includes materials mainly related to Brother Eugene Lappin's work on the faculty at Salve Regina University, particularly in the doctoral program in the humanities, from the 1990s to his death in 2005. There are also some materials related to an oral history project in which he participated related to brothers from his fraternity who taught in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Materials are arranged in one series, alphabetically by subject.
Various copying restrictions apply, according to the Archives' use policy. Salve Regina University owns the copyright to material produced by employees and trustees of the University and work for hire. Requests for permission to publish material from the University Archives should be directed to the Archivist. See also the Archives' copyright and publication statement.
[Identification of item], in RG21.8: Brother Eugene Lappin, FSC papers, Box 1, Folder [#], Salve Regina University Archives and Special Collections, McKillop Library, Newport, Rhode Island.
Additional accruals are not expected.
Brother Eugene Lappin's papers were transferred to the University Archives with other Graduate Studies records in 2011.
Genna Duplisea, University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, arranged and described the materials in spring 2022.
Brother Eugene Lappin, FSC was born John Peter Lappin September 27, 1935 to Patrick and Lena (Prior) Lappin in Brooklyn, New York. In 1953 he entered the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Brothers or Christian Brothers, in Barrytown, New York.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1958. In 1960 he pronounced his final vows, and then went on to earn Masters degree in French and Spanish from the Catholic University in 1961. He earned a Doctorate in Romance languages from Harvard University in 1975.
Brother Eugene's assignments took him all over the world, including service at the De La Salle Generalate in Rome. He taught at colleges in Illinois and Pennsylvania as well as at La Salle Academy in Providence and at schools in Ethiopia.
In the spring of 1992 he became an instructor in the Ph.D. program at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. He chaired the English and Languages departments for six years. He was on the faculty of Salve Regina until his death on May 13, 2005 at the Christian Brothers Center in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
This folder includes student information protected for 75 years under the Family Education Rights and Privact Act (FERPA) and access is restricted.