‘Mr Carroll, master and prefect of discipline at Kostka from 1937 to 1940, slept in St John’s with the boarders. “Once we were ready for bed, we would sit on our beds in a circle around him. He would read us something like ‘The Lives of the Saints’ and then something humorous, usually Wodehouse.” He was also in charge of maintaining law and order at night and would walk around the house for about half an hour after ‘lights out’ until he was sure all the boys were asleep. Brian McCarthy remembers that “he could lose his temper and he could hand out the strap indiscriminately, so if you though of mucking about in the boarding house after lights were out with Carroll, you knew that if you were caught you were going to get slammed.’