Appendix I
This section contains brief biographies of all the members of the Province who have died since the Seventh Provincial Chapter in 1964.
FATHER WILLIAM RAYMOND LAWLER, O.P.
He was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on August 8, 1876, and received his
elementary and high school education in St. Gabriel's, attending the Church which
Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P., had built in 1839 in honor of the Archangel. He
studied at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., and entered the Order at St. Rose
Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he made profession on September 10, 1897.
Following the completion of the humanities, he was sent the following year for his
philosophical and theological studies to St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio. He was
there ordained on August 21, 1902. Although he was considered to be "a frail youth,"
at the end of his life he lacked but six days to complete sixty-two years in the
priesthood.
Father Lawler's long and zealous apostolic life began in the parochial ministry, and he was numbered among the first professors of St. Patrick's High School, Columbus, Ohio, which later became known as Aquinas. In 1910, while at Holy Rosary in Minneapolis, he was assigned to the Mission Band engaged in preaching parochial missions and retreats. He labored in all parts of the United States and in 1919 was appointed Caput of the Western Mission Band. In recognition of his eminent talents he was elevated to the rank of Preacher General in 1926. Two years later he was appointed superior and pastor of St. Peter's in Memphis, and in 1933 he was elected Prior of St. Louis Bertrand's, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1936 he was again assigned to the preaching of parochial missions.
With the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great, he was affiliated to the new Province and was appointed Provincial Promotor of the Third Order and of our several Confraternities. After a few years he became Chaplain of the Dominican Sisters at Racine, Wisconsin. When the Novitiate of the Province was removed in 1949 to the newly constructed Priory of St. Peter Martyr, just outside Winona, Minn., he was the first priest to be assigned to it. There he furnished an eminent example of a Dominican whose fruitful ministry had ever sprung from his devotion to regular life with its monastic observances, to the choral office, to the daily celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and to the continued study of sacred doctrine. He died on August 15, 1964, and his body was interred in the community cemetery.
FATHER JAMES BERTRAND CONNOLLY, O.P.
Born in County Monaghan, Ireland, September 22, 1877, Father Connolly came to
America in early youth with his parents who settled in Buffalo, N.Y. There he received
his education in St. Agnes parochial school and in Lincoln High School, and then
studied in St. Joseph's College, Baltimore, Maryland. He entered the Order at St. Rose
Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he made profession on December 25, 1903, and
there began his philosophical and theological studies. With the opening of the
Dominican House of Studies, Washington, in 1905, he was sent there and was there
ordained on June 14, 1909.
His first assignment was to St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, where he was Socius to the Master of Novices, and in April, 1911, he became Master of Novices. Elected Prior in August, 1916, he served two terms during which he restored the historic Church and was called upon frequently to assist in preaching parochial missions. Upon the expiration of his term of office, he was loaned to the Province of the Holy Name in California to labor on the missions, but shortly after his recall in 1929 he was appointed Provincial of Holy Name Province by the Master General. His term of office having expired, he was assigned to Sacred Heart in Jersey City as a member of the Eastern Mission Band. Threatened with blindness in 1936, he was assigned to Holy Rosary, Houston, Texas, where he submitted to surgery for the removal of cataracts. After partial recovery he resumed the labor of preaching parochial missions, and with the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great he became affiliated thereto.
In 1941, unable longer to withstand the hardship of the missions, he was appointed Chaplain and professor of religion at Edgewood Academy of the Sacred Heart, Madison, Wisconsin. Four years later he was appointed Chaplain at the Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters, Sinsinawa, where for nearly twelve years he zealously served the community, teaching religion classes for the novices, postulants, and the academy students at St. Clara's. In 1952, his years of dedicated preaching were recognized when he was honored with the title of Preacher General. In 1956, he was assigned to Blessed Sacrament Priory, Madison, as special confessor, and there death came to him suddenly on October 13, 1964. His body was interred in the community cemetery of the Novitiate, St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER EDWARD BARTHOLOMEW RYAN, O.P.
He was born in Chicago on August 19, 1927, and secured his early education in the
Catholic schools of that city. Towards the end of World War II he saw service in the
Army of the United States and he was in the Medical Corps of the Occupation forces in
Germany. Following his discharge from military service, he matriculated at De Paul
University, Chicago. He entered the Order at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona,
Minnesota, and made profession there on September 30, 1950.
Having completed his philosophical studies at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest and his theological studies at St. Rose Priory in Dubuque, he was ordained on May 26, 1956. The following year he was assigned as Chaplain at the Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
In September, 1962, he was appointed pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas University Church, as also superior and director of the Dominican community at the Newman Center. He was loved and respected in both the campus and civic community and contributed much to the Newman movement nationally.
After preaching at all five Masses in the University Church on the Sunday before Christmas, he suffered a massive cerebral hemhorrage and died in St. Joseph's Hospital, Albuquerque, December 22, 1964. Following the obsequies in the University Church in Albuquerque and in St. Pius Church, Chicago, his body was interred in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
FATHER JOHN WILLIAM CURRAN, O.P.
He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on November 13, 1909, and received his early
education in Holy Rosary parochial school, Minneapolis. Having completed his
preparatory studies at La Salle High School, Minneapolis, Aquinas College, Columbus,
Ohio, and Providence College, he entered the Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield,
Kentucky, and there made profession on August 16, 1931. He made his philosophical
and theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, St.
Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and the Dominican House of Studies, Washington.
There in the Capital City he was ordained in St. Dominic's Church on June 11, 1937.
In a few months he was sent to the Angelicum in Rome for the lectorate and graduate studies. On his return with the doctorate in theology he taught for one year in the Studium at Washington. Having become affiliated to the Province of St. Albert the Great, he joined the faculty at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, which was soon to be elevated to a Pontifical Faculty of Philosophy (1943) . At the same time he served the community as Subprior, assistant to the Master of Students, and a Moderator of the Studium Generale. In 1948, he received the degree of Praesentatus in Theology.
But Father Curran's zeal was not restricted to the studia of the Order. For two years he was also Chaplain and professor of religion at Trinity High School, River Forest, for three years professor at Mundelein College, and for fourteen years professor also at St. Xavier College. He founded and edited the Supplement to the Dominican Bulletin on the spiritual life for Sisters, and when the quarterly review Cross and Crown was established he was for it an editor and contributor. All the while his work as retreat master and director of souls flourished.
In the summer of 1952, he became the victim of a mysterious illness that threatened his life. Surgery relieved his condition but he was afflicted with partial paralysis. Nothing daunted, he patiently and with determination submitted to physical therapy in the expectation of recovering mobility. His hopes were realized to the extent that he could resume his teaching at St. Xavier's and lecture also to the student nurses at Mercy, St. Anne's, and St. Anthony's hospitals. He was professor also at Loyola University. Death came to him unexpectedly and suddenly on February 25, 1965, in St. Pius Priory, Chicago, and his body was interred in the community cemetery at the Novitiate, St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER VINCENT REGINALD HUGHES, O.P.
Younger brother of Father Leo Edward Hughes, he was born in Boston on August 13,
1898. He made his elementary and preparatory studies in his native city and followed
his brother into the Order. He received the habit at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio,
and there made profession on September 16, 1917. He pursued his studies in the Order
at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, where he was ordained on June 14,
1923, in St. Dominic's Church.
Being a gifted and responsive student, he early manifested interest in the history of the Church in America and the role our Order played in its development. His specialized studies at the Catholic University of America were completed in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he merited the doctorate in philosophy.
Assigned in 1926 to the recently established branch of the Studium Generale of St. Joseph's Province in River Forest, Illinois, Father Hughes began a career in teaching to which he was principally devoted for the remainder of his life. In recognition of these services, the Master General, Father Suarez, conferred on him the Master's degree in Sacred Theology.
His qualities of mind and heart gave him a versatility and adaptability that enabled him to undertake with confidence and discharge with competence various offices and responsibilities in the Order. In addition to his teaching in the Studium at River Forest, he was Chaplain at Trinity High School, professor also at Rosary College and at De Paul University.
With the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great, he transfiliated to the new Province. He was successively appointed Subprior at Holy Rosary, Minneapolis, superior and pastor of St. Dominic's, Denver, Colorado, professor at Loras College, Dubuque, and director also of the Loras students who were candidates for entrance into the Order. When the Novitiate was transferred to the new Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, Minnesota, he was appointed its first Prior. Subsequently he taught in Siena Heights College, Adrian, Michigan, Our Lady of the Plains, Dodge City, Kansas, and served as Chaplain and professor in St. Dominic's College, St. Charles, Illinois. There he died rather suddenly on October 30, 1965, and his body was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
BROTHER MANNES URBANC, O.P.
Born in De Pue, Illinois, of immigrant parents on January 2, 1912, Brother Mannes was
educated in the public schools of Bark River and Iron Mountain, Michigan. He
received the habit of the Order at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest,
Illinois, and there made his profession as a coöperator brother on May 23, 1934.
He was first assigned to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, where he served as engineer and janitor. In March, 1946, he was transferred to the recently erected Priory of St. Pius in Chicago, where he became responsible for general maintenance as well as fulfilling the duties of engineer. With the acquisition of the convent of the Good Shepherd in Dubuque, Iowa, as a temporary house of theology, Brother Mannes there served with distinction from 1950 to 1955 when he returned to St. Pius in Chicago, and where he labored until his death on December 4, 1965. His body was buried in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
FATHER LEO EDWARD HUGHES, O.P.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 1893, he received his early education in the
schools of his native city and matriculated at Boston College. He entered the Order at
St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and there made his profession on September 15,
1914. He was immediately sent to Washington where he made his studies at the
Dominican House of Studies and where he was ordained on June 17, 1920. He also
attended the Catholic University and was sent to the Collegio Angelico in Rome for
the Lectorate in Sacred Theology.
On his return from Rome, Father Hughes taught in St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, which was then a part of the Studium Generale of St. Joseph's Province. As a student he had manifested outstanding oratorical abilities and a keen interest in all forms of Dominican activities. He was one of the prime movers in initiating Dominicana, a quarterly review of the Dominican students in Washington. The rapid growth of the Holy Name Society soon brought him to New York as assistant to the National Director. He assisted in editing The Holy Name Journal and soon became National Director of the Third Order of St. Dominic and editor of The Torch, National Director of the Angelic Warfare and Blessed Imelda Confraternities, and founder and Director of the Blessed Martin Guild which contributed so much over the years to the propagation of devotion to the humble laybrother whose cause for canonization it espoused. He was also Director of the Rosary Foreign Mission Society charged with promoting the interests of the missions in China conducted by the Province of St. Joseph.
In 1938, he was appointed pastor and superior of St. Dominic's, Detroit, and on the expiration of his term of office, having become affiliated to the new Province of St. Albert the Great, he was appointed pastor and superior of St. Pius in Chicago. There he was also appointed Director of the Shrines of St. Jude Thaddeus and of Blessed Martin de Porres. Through these shrines Father Hughes' charity and compassion exercised a powerful and benevolent influence on the numerous clients of these two Saints who sought his counsel and comfort in interviews and by correspondence.
Father Hughes was twice elected Provincial of the Province of St. Albert the Great (1948-1956), a period notable, among other achievements, for an extensive building program and the establishment of missions in Nigeria and Bolivia. In recognition of his accomplishments on behalf of the Province and Order, the Master General conferred on him the degree of Master in Sacred Theology, and Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, honored him with the degree of Doctor of Laws for his helpful interest in its welfare.
After the completion of his second term as Provincial, Father Hughes remained for four years Director of the Shrines of St. Jude Thaddeus and St. Martin de Porres. He was then appointed pastor and superior of St. Dominic's, New Orleans, Louisiana, but in consequence of his failing health he was obliged to relinquish his office a few months before his death. He died in Mercy Hospital, New Orleans, on March 18, 1966, and his body was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinios.
FATHER EDWARD CAMILLUS LILLIE, O.P.
He was born near Menlo, Iowa, on August 20, 1905. He received his elementary
education in his native village, began his high school studies at St. Mary's in Stewart,
Iowa, and completed his preparatory studies for entering the Order at Aquinas High
School and College, Columbus, Ohio, and at Providence College. He received the habit
of the Order in St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and there made his profession
on August 16, 1931. He made his philosophical studies in the Dominican House of
Studies, River Forest, and his theological studies in St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset,
Ohio, and in the House of Studies, Washington. He was ordained on June 11, 1937, in
St. Dominic's Church, Washington.
Father Lillie devoted his entire priestly life to the apostolate of Catholic education. He taught for nine years at Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, three years in extension work in Ponchatoula for St. Mary's Dominican College, New Orleans, Louisiana, seven years in the Dominican College of our Sisters in Racine, Wisconsin, and the last five years of his life in St. Mary's College, near Leavenworth, Kansas, with residence in Holy Name, Kansas City, Missouri. During the last ten years of his life he was also Provincial Promotor of the Blessed Imelda Confraternity and by his zeal contributed largely to its wide dissemination.
After a short illness and brain surgery in Rochester, Minn., he was transferred at the request of his family to Mercy Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa, where he died on May 29, 1966, and was buried in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
BROTHER RAPHAEL MONAGHAN, TERTIARY, O.P.
He was born on April 28, 1901, in Baxter, Iowa. Having completed his elementary and high school education in his native village, he matriculated at the Capital Commercial College in Des Moines, Iowa.
During the last World War he served his country in the United States Navy from December, 1942, to October, 1944, attaining the rank of Pharmacist's Mate First Class. He received a Commendation Medal while with the Seventh Amphibious Force of the Pacific Fleet. Following his term of service in the Navy, and desirous of dedicating himself to the service of God in religion, he received the habit of a Tertiary for the Province of the Holy Name, on October 1, 1949, in Immaculate Conception Priory, Kentfield, California, and there made profession the following year. In 1955, he transfiliated to the Province of St. Albert the Great and was assigned to St. Dominic's Priory, Oak Park, Illinois, where he served faithfully until his death on July 21, 1966. His body was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints' Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
THE MOST REVEREND EDWARD THADDEUS LAWTON, O.P.
The first bishop to be chosen from the Province of St. Albert the Great, he was born in
South Boston, Massachussetts, on October 12, 1913. He received his early education in
St. Francis de Sales school, Boston College High, and Boston College. He entered the
Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and there made profession on August
16, 1937. He made his philosophical studies in the Dominican House of Studies, River
Forest, Illinois, and in 1940 was one of four students sent to Washington for his first
year of theological studies. He completed them in River Forest and was there ordained
on June 6, 1943.
His first assignment was to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Ill., where he taught until early 1951 when he became one of the first three members of St. Albert's Province to be sent to its first foreign mission, Lagos in Nigeria, West Africa. While exercising his ministry as a member of the community of St. Dominic's at Yaba in Lagos, he became Director of the Thomistic Institute, Chairman of the Radio Committee of the Archdiocese of Lagos, and conducted numerous retreats for priests and religious in Nigeria.
When the Prefecture of Sokoto, Nigeria, was established, Father Lawton was appointed the first Prefect Apostolic, January 15, 1954. He resided in Gusau, the only residence for missionaries in the 46,000 square miles of the Prefecture, whose 1,200 Catholics were scattered among five million inhabitants, the vast majority of whom were Muslims. He carried on his arduous apostolate with one priest of the Society of African Missions until the arrival in 1956 of brethren from St. Albert's Province and of Dominican Sisters from Great Bend, Kansas.
Although he had several heart attacks in 1963, he had made satisfactory recovery and was consecrated first Bishop of Sokoto, August 15, 1964. As a simple priest he often ministered to his flock which had in ten years come to number more than 10,000. He was assisted by fourteen of his Dominican brethren, nine Dominican Sisters, and several lay missionaries. Despite his episcopal dignity and his incessant labors and fatiguing journeys, he was faithful to the practices of the common life of his brethren; choral celebration of the Divine Office with conventual Mass, daily meditation, and recitation of the Rosary in common. He died suddenly on December 19, 1966, of a coronary thrombosis while enroute in an auto from Sokoto to Gusau a few moments after completing the recitation of the Rosary with the driver, Brother Thomas Martin, as was customary "for a safe journey."
Following a concelebrated Pontifical Requiem Mass in Our Lady of Fatima Church, Gusau, the body of the Bishop was laid to rest in the Dominican plot of the cemetery adjacent to the Church.
FATHER RALPH DAMIAN GOGGINS, O.P.
Born near Chilton, Wisconsin, on June 14, 1898, he received his early education in the
District Township school and in St. Augustine's parochial school, Chilton. He
completed his elementary studies in Milwaukee and finished high school at Marquette
Academy there. He attended Marquette University during 1917 and 1918, and entered
the Order at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, in October of the latter year, making
profession on October 26, 1919. He was sent to St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky,
for the first year of his philosophical studies, but completed his education at the
Dominican House of Studies, Washington, where he was ordained in St. Dominic's
Church on June 17, 1925. He also made graduate studies in the school of Canon Law at
the Catholic University, but was obliged to discontinue his studies because of failing
health.
Father Goggins had an extraordinarily diversified apostolate even for an American Dominican. Having served for some months in the parishes of St. Antoninus, Newark, New Jersey, and Sacred Heart, Jersey City, he was assigned in the Fall of 1927 to the Eastern Mission Band. In 1929 he was appointed Master of Students and professor in the House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois. In 1931 he founded the summer camp for the students near Menominee, Michigan, and in 1934 was relieved as Master of Students and sent to Lincoln, Nebraska, in the expectation of establishing a parish. The attempt having proved abortive, he was in November, 1934, appointed superior and pastor of St. Pius' in Chicago. Having been called to Rome in 1936, he became Commissary and Visitator General to all the houses of the Order in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile. In June, 1939, he was appointed superior and pastor of Blessed Sacrament parish, Madison, Wisconsin. In 1945 he was sent to Holy Rosary, Houston, Texas, to assist in the parish and to be Newman Chaplain at Rice and Houston Universities, and to teach at St. Agnes Academy. In 1948, he was assigned as professor in St. Catherine's College, Racine, and in September 1950 he was directed to establish the Newman Center at Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he taught in the Center and at St. Joseph's College and St. Vincent's Hospital. In September 1955 he was appointed Subprior and Procurator of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, leaving there to become superior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's in River Forest, Illinois, in March 1960. Three years later he retired to the Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, and there died on February 18, 1967, and was buried in the community cemetery.
FATHER ROBERT PATRICK CARROLL, O.P.
He was born on June 17, 1889, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received his
elementary education in St. Paul's parochial school of his native city. He then went to
Cambridge High School and to St. Patrick's (later Aquinas) High, Columbus, Ohio. He
entered the Order at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, in September 1912 and made
profession there on September 18, 1913. He made his studies in the Dominican House
of Studies, Washington, D.C., where he was ordained on May 10, 1918. He completed
complementary studies in the Catholic University of America in 1920.
His priestly assignments included Providence College (1920-1923) ; the Eastern Mission Band (1923-1927) with residence first at St. Vincent Ferrer's, New York City, then at Holy Name, Philadelphia; pastor and superior at St. Dominic's in Denver, Colorado (1927-1933) ; prior and pastor at St. Dominic's, Washington (1933-1936), prior and pastor at St. Louis Bertrand's, Louisville, Kentucky (1936-1939) ; assistant in St. Dominic's Church, Detroit, Michigan, and in the following year he became affiliated to the newly erected Province of St. Albert the Great, and was appointed Head of the Mission Band with residence at Holy Rosary, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1948 he became Head of the Southern Mission Band, taking up residence at Holy Rosary, Houston, Texas.
When the health of this well-known and distinguished missionary began to fail, he was in 1959 transferred to St. Anthony's, New Orleans, Louisiana, where, despite a painful arthritic condition he assisted in the parish and was faithful in the fulfillment of choral and conventual obligations. He died in the Hotel Dieu Hospital on March 3, 1967, and was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr's, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER JOHN ALEXIUS SIMONES, O.P.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, on April 24, 1905, he received his early education in St.
Patrick's Academy, Sidney, Nebraska, and his secondary education at Regis College,
Denver, Colorado, and Creighton University, Omaha. In preparation for entering the
Order, he attended Providence College.
He received the habit at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and was there professed on August 16, 1928. He made his philosophical studies at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, and his theological studies at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and at the House of Studies, Washington, D.C. There he was ordained in St. Dominic's Church, June 14, 1934.
His first assignment was as Director of Chant in the simple novitiate at St. Lose, and in the following year he became assistant in the parish at Holy Rosary, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was then assigned to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, where he taught Latin and Religion for eighteen years. He was also Director of Music for some years. In the Fall of 1956 he was transferred to Minneapolis where he assisted in parish work for two years, and he was then assigned to St. John Vianney High School, Los Angeles, California, where he taught Latin and Religion until his sudden and untimely death on March 29, 1967. His body was taken to Denver, Colorado, where it was interred in the Dominican plot in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
FATHER CHARLES LEO GAINOR, O.P.
Father Gainor was born in Greencastle, Indiana, on April 30, 1885. He received his
early education in St. Lawrence parochial school in Muncie, Indiana, but after a year or
two in the high school department of Notre Dame University he discontinued his
studies and went to work, first in the steel mills, and then for the telephone company in
Muncie, and also in Philadelphia.
While employed in Philadelphia he attended high school in night sessions at Temple University and completed his studies at Aquinas College, Columbus, Ohio, in preparation for entering the Order. He received the habit at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, in 1919, and there made profession in August 16, 1920. After a year's study of philosophy in St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, he was sent to the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., where, having also matriculated at the Catholic University of America, he was ordained in St. Dominic's Church, June 4, 1926.
He was first assigned to teach at Providence College, but when Fenwick High School opened in Oak Park, Illinois, in the Fall of 1929, he served for six years as Principal of the school and as superior of the community of his brethren. Upon the expiration of his term of office, he was appointed pastor and superior of St. Dominic's, Youngstown, Ohio, in which capacity he served for three years. He then became successively Dean of Studies at Aquinas College, Columbus, Ohio, Prefect of Discipline at Fenwick High School, Subprior at Holy Rosary, Minneapolis, Minn., Chaplain for the Dominican Sisters, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, assistant in the parish at St. Dominic's, Denver, Colorado, and finally assistant at St. Pius, Chicago, where, aside from his parish duties, he devoted himself to writing for which he had a predilection from his student days and eminent talents, though previously he had had little leisure for such endeavors. He died quite suddenly on April 18, 1967, and was buried in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
FATHER JOHN ALEXIUS DRISCOLL, O.P.
Father Driscoll was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on December 29, 1902. For his early
education he attended St. Patrick's parochial school, and then entered St. Thomas
Military Academy and matriculated at St. Thomas College. In preparing for admission
to the Order, he went to Providence College for one year. He received the habit at St.
Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and there made profession on August 25, 1923. After
two years study at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, he completed his
philosophical studies in the newly instituted House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois.
He made his theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C.,
where he was ordained in the Crypt of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on
June 17, 1929. He matriculated also at the Catholic University of America, receiving
the M.A. in 1930, and was then sent to the Collegio Angelico in Rome where he was
awarded the Ph.D. in 1932.
Father Driscoll was first assigned to the House of Studies, River Forest, and there became Master of Students in 1934. During the scholastic year 19361937 he was a professor at St. Joseph's, Somerset, Ohio, but in the Fall of 1937 he returned to the Studium in River Forest where he taught until 1940, during which time he was also Chaplain and professor in Rosary College nearby.
Following the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great, he was elected Prior of the House of Studies in River Forest and served from early 1940 to early 1946. He then taught in the Studium for some years until appointed the first Prior of the house of theological studies (St. Rose Priory) in Dubuque, in May, 1951. Four years later he resigned as Prior to become Socius to the Master General for the North American Provinces of the Order.
During the years that followed, Father Driscoll represented his brethren of the United States in the Curia Generalitia with zeal, competence and gracious interest. He was appointed Visitator to the three American Provinces in 1957 and to the Province of Malta in 1959. He was also Promotor General of the Third Order for many years. When Father Aniceto Fernandez became Master General, Father Driscoll continued to serve the Order as Socius for the American Provinces. He was also appointed one of the periti in the Second Vatican Council.
Despite his declining health and most painful surgery, he was unfailing in his love of and dedication to the brethren and to his office. He died suddenly in Rome of heart failure on May 1, 1967, and his body was brought to America for burial in the community cemetery at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER REGINALD RABADAN, O.P.
He was born in Kastel Luksic, Yugoslavia, on January 31, 1897. Having received his early education in his native village, he pursued higher studies in Bol, entering the Order at Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, where he made profession on October 5, 1913. One of his brothers was a Dominican and two of his sisters were also in religion. After his ordination to the priesthood in Rome, March 26, 1921, where he had been sent in 1916 to complete his theological studies, he matriculated at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where, in 1924, he received the doctorate in the sciences.
Having served as professor and vice director of the Dominican High School in Bol for thirteen years, he was sent to the United States in 1937 as a missionary for the Croatian people and was assigned as assistant in Holy Trinity Church on South Throop Street in Chicago. There, and for many years in other communities, he ministered with great zeal and eloquence to people of Croatian origin in our land and especially after World War II when he also sought to relieve the sufferings of the people in his native and ravished land. Becoming suddenly ill in July 1967, he died in Mother Cabrini Hospital on August 18, 1967. His body was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
FATHER ROBERT WILFRED MULVEY, O.P.
He was born in Chicago on March 26, 1896. He received his early education in the
parochial schools of Chicago, but his high school studies were not completed until
after his service in the United States Navy during World War I. He was honorably
discharged on September 30, 1921, and entered Aquinas College High School,
Columbus, Ohio. He completed his preparatory studies for entering the Order at
Providence College. Having received the habit at St. Rose Priory, Springfield,
Kentucky, he there made profession on September 9, 1926. He completed his
philosophical studies at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, and
began the study of theology in St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, which had been re-opened as a branch of the Studium in the Fall of 1929. After a year he was sent to the
Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., where he was ordained in St.
Dominic's Church, May 20, 1932.
His first assignment was to the Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, where he served as Chaplain and professor in St. Clara Academy for six years. In early 1939, he became Socius to the Master of Novices at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, but with the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great he was affiliated to the new Province and served as assistant in Holy Rosary, Houston, Texas, for four years. He was then sent to Blessed Sacrament Church, Madison, Wisconsin, where he assisted in parish work, but in August, 1947, he was assigned to the Motherhouse of the Sisters at Sinsinawa as assistant Chaplain until 1955, during which time he also taught in St. Clara Academy. When St. Dominic's Villa was opened in Dubuque in 1949 he served there for one year as Chaplain in addition to his duties at Sinsinawa. In the Fall of 1955 he was appointed Chaplain to the Dominican Nuns at the Monastery of the Infant Jesus, Lufkin, Texas. There as in all his former assignments he was the personification of simplicity and paternal kindness.
Father Mulvey died on October 4, 1967, of a heart attack and his body was buried in the community cemetery at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER GEORGE RAPHAEL CARPENTIER, O.P.
He was born in Rennes, France, on March 28, 1887. At an early age he came to
America with his parents and was educated in the College of St. Louis de Gonzague,
Quebec, Loyola College, Baltimore, and St. Charles College, Endicott City (now
located at Catonsville), Maryland. He entered the Order at St. Joseph's Priory,
Somerset, Ohio, where he made profession on December 3, 1908. He was then sent to
the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., where, having also matriculated at
the Catholic University of America, he was ordained in the Chapel at Caldwell Hall,
June 25, 1913.
His first assignment was to Aquinas High School, Columbus, Ohio, where he taught for ten years, interrupting his teaching to serve as Chaplain in the Fourth Ohio National Guard Regiment which came to be incorporated in the famed Forty-second or Rainbow Division in World War I. For service beyond the call of duty, he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Cross. Father Carpentier never wearied of talking about his military career and he carried on a zealous apostolate among fellow veterans of the war for many long years after hostilities had ceased.
Beginning in 1924, he served as Chaplain at Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, for two years, but in November, 1926, he became pastor and superior at St. Mary's in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he was a veritable apostle in the eastern counties of the State. In 1937, he was sent to St. Margaret's in Boyce, Louisiana, where he exercised his zeal in north central Louisiana-territory where the Faith had all but been forgotten or neglected. Having become affiliated to the newly created Province of St. Albert the Great, he became pastor of the Church of the Nativity, Campti, La. In 1946 he was called upon to establish in Guthrie, Oklahoma, a mission for colored people which was dedicated to St. Catherine. There he devoted the remainder of his active life.
He entered Mercy Hospital, Dubuque, Iowa, in 1964 where he submitted to surgery for cancer. Although he made rather notable improvement he was not able for long to continue his labors in Oklahoma to which he desired to return. Consequently he was obliged to take up residence in St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, where, despite his debility he attended choir in a wheelchair and was able to concelebrate Mass almost daily. He died on November 3, 1967, and his body was interred in the community cemetery at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER RAYMOND JUDE NOGAR, O.P.
He was born of Christian Science parents in Monroe, Michigan, November 19, 1916.
He received his early education in the public schools of Monroe and his college
education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. There he also pursued graduate
studies in the social sciences for three years.
While at the University he was received into the Catholic Church and entered the Order at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, where he made profession on September 15, 1942. There also he received the Lectorate in Sacred Theology, and there too he received the Doctorate in Philosophy from its Pontifical Institute of Philosophy.
Father Nogar specialized in the philosophy of nature and was a member of the Albertus Magnus Lyceum. He taught in the House of Studies in River Forest until his death, except for a year when he was professor of Natural Philosophy in the Angelicum, Rome. He also taught theology in summer schools for the Dominican Sisters, Springfield, Illinois, and during six years gave Thomist lectures there for the benefit of the Sisters and lay members of the Thomist Association. For several years he also taught philosophy at St. Xavier College, Chicago, and figured largely in the St. Xavier Plan of Liberal Education.
Besides his teaching apostolate and many articles in scientific journals, he wrote two highly successful books: The Wisdom of Evolution and The Lord of the Absurd. It was the first of these works which brought him into national prominence in the rô1e of lecturer and preacher, especially among university and college students. His book on evolution has been translated into French and Spanish.
Father Nogar's quiet and retiring disposition was not changed by the publicity attending the fame of his publications. He remained ever humble and always available to his students whose minds he was table to reach and whose hearts he knew how to raise to the Author of nature and to the mysteries of the supernatural life. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the House of Studies in River Forest on November 17, 1967, and was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill.
BROTHER GLENN KOCCHI, O.P.
He enjoyed the unusual privilege of making his religious profession on his death-bed. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 6, 1945, and after completing his elementary education he entered the minor seminary of the Salvatorian Fathers at St. Nazienz with the intention of entering the Society. Although he completed his preparatory studies he did not enter the novitiate but returned to the world where he found satisfying employment. Two years later he came to us and entered as a postulant to become a coöperator brother at St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, Iowa, on October 16, 1966. He completed the preparatory and formation program for the novitiate, but in June, 1967, he was found to be seriously ill with cancer. Treatment was ineffective at Xavier Hospital, Dubuque, and the cancer research center at University Hospital, Madison, so he was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, to be near his family. He was there clothed with the habit of the Order and, taking advantage of the privilege of making profession granted to those who are seriously ill, he made his vows in the hospital on September 30, 1967, in the presence of several of his brethren and of his family. He died on December 23, 1967, and after the obsequies in his native church of St. Joseph, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, his body was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER MICHAEL THOMAS McNICHOLAS, O.P.
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on April 8, 1918, he received his early training in the
elementary and high school of St. Robert's in his native city and completed his high
school education at Aquinas in Columbus, Ohio. For two years he studied at
Providence College (1934-1936) in preparation for his entrance into the Order.
Simultaneously, a younger brother, Timothy J., was preparing for the priesthood in the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati of which his uncle, His Excellency, the Most Reverend John
T. McNicholas, O.P., was the Metropolitan. He had another uncle who was a
Dominican, Michael Thomas McNicholas, who was at that time superior and pastor of
Holy Name in Philadelphia.
Our Brother Thomas entered the novitiate of the Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, in the summer of 1936, and on August 16, 1937, he made profession and was at once sent to the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois. In the Fall of 1940, with three other students of the newly erected Province of St. Albert the Great, he went to the House of Studies in Washington, but returned the following year for the completion of his studies in River Forest, where, with his brother Timothy J., he was ordained to the priesthood by his uncle, Archbishop McNicholas, on June 6, 1943.
Father McNicholas was assigned in the Fall of 1944 to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, where he taught for some years and where he was also Director of Discipline. In 1949 he was commissioned as Chaplain in the United States Air Force and served in both home and foreign bases. On his return to civilian life in 1953 he became assistant in St. Anthony of Padua parish, New Orleans, and successively served in the Priory as Subprior and Prior until the late Fall of 1962. He was then assigned to the House of Studies, River Forest, as Procurator in early 1963, but was shortly appointed superior and pastor of St. Dominic's, Denver, Colorado. There, after a brief illness, he died of cancer on June 1, 1968, and was buried in the community cemetery at St. Joseph's, Somerset, Ohio, where the body of his uncle Michael Thomas had been interred in 1947.
FATHER LOUIS EMMANUEL NUGENT, O.P.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 20, 1901. Having completed
his elementary education in the parochial schools of his native city, he graduated from
West Philadelphia Catholic High School in 1920. He then went to Providence College
for two years in preparation for admission to the Order. He received the habit at St.
Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and there made profession on August 25, 1923. He
made two years philosophical studies in St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and
completed them in the newly erected Dominican House of Studies, River Forest,
Illinois. In Washington, D.C., at the House of Studies he completed his studies in the
Order and matriculated also at the Catholic University of America. He was ordained in
the Crypt of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on June 17, 1929, and the
following year he was granted the Master of Arts degree in the field of social science
by the University.
Father Nugent's first and only assignment was to the newly completed Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. From 1930 until he became broken in health, he devoted himself unstintingly to the instruction of youth. For many years he was also the Director of Religious Activities and Director of Discipline, and for some time he taught in the night school of the College of Commerce at De Paul University, Chicago. During the summer months he was occupied in giving retreats. It is little wonder then that when his health broke in 1951 he was no longer able to continue his zealous and apostolic ministry. After a long and lingering illness he died of cancer in Mercy Hospital, Dubuque, Iowa, on June 5, 1968. His body was interred in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
FATHER JOHN PETER HOULIHAN, O.P.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 2, 1916, he received his elementary
education in Ascension parochial school, graduated from De La Salle High School, in
his native city, and received the A.B. degree from Providence College in 1940. He
entered the Order at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, which was
then the novitiate for the newly erected Province of St. Albert the Great. He made
profession there on August 5, 1941, and there made all his studies in the Order. He was
ordained also at the House of Studies on June 5, 1947, and in the Fall of the following
year he was assigned to St. Dominic's in Denver, Colorado, as assistant in the parish.
In the expectation that the Province would have a mission in Japan, he was in 1951 sent to the Institute of St. Thomas in Kyoto where he devoted himself assiduously to language studies. He was recalled in 1955 and assigned as assistant in the parish of St. Pius in Chicago. In the following year he went to the mission of the Province in Bolivia where he taught in the seminary at La Paz for five years. In 1961 he was transferred to Cochabamba where he became moderator of Catholic Action in high schools of the city.
Returning to the United States because of illness in 1966, he died of cancer in Minneapolis, June 14, 1968, and was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minn.
FATHER EDMUND CHARLES HAYES, O.P.
He was born in Waltham, Massachussetts, on November 20, 1915. He received his
elementary education in St. Joseph's parochial school and graduated from St. Mary's
High School in his native city. He made his preparatory studies for entering the Order
at Providence College and received the habit at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky,
on August 15, 1935. On August 16, a year later, he made profession and was sent to the
Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois for his philosophical studies. With
the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great on December 2, 1939, he chose to
remain in the new Province. Hence he completed his studies in the Studium at River
Forest and was there ordained on July 11, 1942.
In the Fall of 1943 he was assigned to Blessed Sacrament, Madison, Wisconsin, as assistant, and two years later became a professor in Sacred Heart College (Edgewood) in that city. By his warm-heartedness he quickly won the confidence and affection of young and old. Having served with distinction at Edgewood, he was in the Fall of 1950 assigned to St. Dominic's, New Orleans, Louisiana, as assistant in the parish. He also taught in St. Mary's Dominican College and in Mount Carmel Academy. In the Fall of 1955 he was transferred to St. Albert's, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as assistant, where he served with zeal and devotion until March 25, 1960, when he was appointed superior and pastor at St. Joseph's, Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
Having served two terms in Ponchatoula, he was called to St. Pius Priory, Chicago, where he assumed the duties of Director of St. Dominic's Mission Society which had been instituted to promote and support the foreign missions of the Province. His untimely death of cancer on September 11, 1968, was a great loss to the Province. His body was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.
FATHER CHESTER ADRIAN MYERS, O.P.
He was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on January 29, 1917. Having received his
early education in St. Thomas elementary and high school at Braddock, he made his
college studies in Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He entered the Order at St. Rose
Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he made profession on September 15, 1938. His
philosophical and theological studies were made at the Dominican House of Studies,
River Forest, Illinois, and he was there ordained on June 8, 1944.
He taught at Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, for eight years. He was then assigned to Blessed Sacrament Priory, Madison, Wisconsin, where he assisted in the parish and served for one year as professor at Edgewood College and for seven years as chaplain and professor at Edgewood High School. He exercised a profound influence on the students by reason of his warmth, understanding, and humor.
He became Prior and pastor at St. Anthony's, New Orleans, Louisiana, in December, 1962, and at the beginning of 1966 he was assigned to Bishop Lynch High School, Dallas, Texas, as Assistant Principal, Counsellor, and professor. He died suddenly in Pittsburgh on December 28, 1968, from whence his body was conveyed to Winona, Minnesota, where it was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory.
FATHER THOMAS PATRICK GAYNOR, O.P.
He was born in Athea, County Limerick, Ireland, on March 31, 1892. Having received his elementary education in Ireland, he came to the United States and entered the Juniorate of the Holy Cross Brothers at Notre Dame, Indiana, in March, 1907. He received the habit of the Congregation in July, 1908, and on July 4, 1910, he was admitted to profession. Having completed his education at Notre Dame University and at Loyola University in Chicago, he taught for some years in Central Catholic High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cathedral High in Indianapolis, and at Holy Trinity in Chicago. He was dispensed from his vows on May 23, 1929.
Some years after returning to the world he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and became Instructor at the Coast Guard Institute, Groton, Connecticut. Following his discharge from the service, he pursued graduate studies for two years at the University of California, and in August, 1951, he entered the Dominican Novitiate at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota. He was there professed on August 31, 1952, studied at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, Iowa, and at the House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he was ordained on February 4, 1961.
Father Gaynor's only assignment after ordination was to St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, where he served as Assistant Librarian and Archivist. He died on January 22, 1969, and was buried in the community cemetery of the Priory.
FATHER DOMINIC HENRY BARTHELEMY, O.P.
He was born in St. George Township, Benton County, Minnesota, on September 3, 1892, and received his early education in the public school of his native village and at the Cathedral School of St. Cloud, Minnesota. He then completed his education in the Preparatory Seminary at St. Lawrence College, Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, but desiring to become a Dominican he received the habit of the Order at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, where he made profession on September 30, 1920. He began his studies in the Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, but after one year he was sent to the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., where he was ordained in St. Dominic's Church, June 4, 1926.
He was first assigned to St. Vincent Ferrer Priory, New York City, in mid-1927, where he served as assistant in the parish until the Summer of 1933. He was then appointed pastor and superior at Blessed Sacrament, Madison, Wisconsin, where he remained until the Fall of 1939, when he became pastor and superior of St. Dominic's, New Orleans, Louisiana, for the following six years. From the Fall of 1945 until the Summer of 1948, he exercised his ministry in the parish of St. Pius in Chicago, and he was then appointed pastor and superior of St. Margaret's, Boyce, Louisiana. In the Fall of 1952 he labored as pastor and superior of Holy Spirit church and community for six years and was then transferred to Houston, Texas, where he served in like capacity for six more years in Holy Rosary of that city.
Transferred to Holy Name, Kansas City, Missouri, in the Fall of 1964, he suffered a stroke shortly after his arrival. Afflicted with partial paralysis, he was taken to Mercy Hospital, Dubuque, Iowa, where he lingered until the Lord called him on March 19, 1969. Following the obsequies at St. Rose Priory, his body was taken to Winona, Minnesota, for burial in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory.
FATHER FRANCIS JEROME BARTH, O.P.
He was born in Watertown, Minnesota, on January 3, 1907, and received his early education in Ascension parochial school and at De La Salle Institute, Minneapolis. As a candidate for the Order he completed his preparatory studies at Aquinas College High School, Columbus, Ohio, and at Providence College. He made his novitiate at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and there made profession on August 16, 1928. In the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, he pursued philosophical studies and in Washington, D.C., he made his theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies. He was ordained to the priesthood in St. Dominic's Church, Washington, June 14, 1934.
Father Barth's first assignment was to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, where he taught from the Fall of 1935 to January, 1938, when he became Secretary to the Provincial at St. Vincent Ferrer's in New York. With the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great in late 1939, he became affiliated to the new province and resumed teaching in Fenwick High School. From the Fall of 1940, however, he was engaged in serving in our parishes: successively in St. Dominic's, Denver, Colorado; Blessed Sacrament, Madison, Wisconsin; St. Albert's and Holy Rosary in Minneapolis; St. Anthony of Padua, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Blessed Sacrament, Madison. For the last twelve years, however, he was stationed at St. Pius, Chicago. Just recently he was appointed Assistant Director of the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus at St. Pius.
He died in Alexian Brothers Hospital, Elk Grove Village, of respiratory complications and heart failure on the evening of April 27, 1969. Following the obsequies in St. Pius Church, Chicago, and in Holy Rosary, Minneapolis, his body was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minneapolis.
FATHER JAMES JOACHIM PENDER, O.P.
He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on August 19, 1923, and received his early
education in the parochial schools of Detroit, Michigan. There he also made his
preparatory studies for entrance into the Order. He received the habit and began his
novitiate in June, 1943, in the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois,
which was then the only house of formation in the Province of St. Albert the Great.
There he also made profession on June 25, 1944, and was ordained on May 30, 1950.
He was first assigned in the Fall of 1951 as Procurator in the newly established and temporary House of Theology (St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, Iowa), which was formerly the Convent of the Good Shepherd Sisters. On the expiration of his term as Procurator in 1954, he was appointed Procurator in the House of Philosophy, River Forest, and served also as professor of religion and chaplain in Trinity High School in the same village. In the Fall of 1957, he was appointed Master of Coöperator Brothers and Socius to the Master of Novices in the Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, Minnesota. Two years later he was transferred to the Church of the Holy Name, Kansas City, Missouri, where he was assistant in the parish and chaplain of Queen of the World Hospital. In the Fall of 1962 he became Chaplain and instructor of novices and postulants in the Convent and Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters, Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he served for four years. He was then assigned to Roncalli Central High School of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aberdeen, South Dakota, as professor of religion. There he died quite suddenly on May 20, 1969. Following the obsequies in the Church of the Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, he was buried in the community cemetery on the grounds of the Priory.