Bro.Eugene came to Montfort School, Yercaud in 1917 and for the remaining 30 years of his life, he lived in and about Montfort, perfecting the work he had begun, and returning to it frequently, even when higher responsibilities had been entrusted to him…. Generations of young men, who have passed through Montfort and have acquired a new vision and a new courage to face life, have him to thank for it. His spirit is written on every stone and corner and the customs and traditions of the school were his creation.

Says the student of his days – “His love for us, his fairness, even when he punished us rarely, because there was no need for it: love and veneration for him secured obedience from his boys, are things which remained in the mind of the Montfort Boys. Any boy could go to him with his little worries and be sure of a hearing. He followed each one individually with more than a parents’ solicitude”.

In 1926, Bro.Eugene was back at Montfort as Principal. The first School Annual Magazine was published in 1927 and the House System was introduced the following year. From January – September 1936, Bro.Eugene was the Principal of St.Patrick’s high School, Secunderabad.

He was a model educator of the young and as he had always in view a high standard of efficiency, he never slackened in his efforts. A man of grand vision, very magnanimous and a charitable person!

Bro.Eugene died on 24th December 1946 at Bagneux (Paris). Bro.Eugene had wished to be buried in Montfort, but was not granted to him. The plaque to his memory in the sanctuary of the Montfort Chapel, and the Memorial Cross erected in his honor in 1953 will ever recall him to the memory of all Montfort Boys, past, present and future. But the greatest and most lasting monument erected to his memory is ‘MONTFORT’, and as long as Montfort exists Bro.Eugene will stand out as the Genius who founded it.