Appendix I
This section contains brief biographies of all the members of the Province who have died since the Tenth Provincial Chapter in 1977.
| GEARY, Cyril Andrew | July 5, 1977 |
| MALVEY, Joseph Bernard | September 23, 1977 |
| TOWNSEND, Anselm M. Thomas | October 30, 1977 |
| REARDON, Joseph Innocent | November 1, 1977 |
| REIDY, John Joseph Stephen | December 15, 1977 |
| DELLA PENTA, Daniel Mark | January 3, 1978 |
| LYONS, John Luke | January 6, 1978 |
| ANGERS, Joseph Sebastian | June 14, 1978 |
| GORSKI, Stan Edward | October 25, 1978 |
| BYRNES, William Richard | November 18, 1978 |
| CARTER, Daniel Louis | December 19, 1978 |
| GILLIS, James Raphael | March 13, 1979 |
| BALLA, David Adam Edward | August 2, 1979 |
| WEST, Peter James | December 18, 1979 |
| HOPKINS, Martin Keith | August 11, 1980 |
| McINERNEY, James Arthur | November 9, 1980 |
| CHERESO, James Cajetan | November 21, 1980 |
| BOJANIC, Innocent Maria | November 26, 1980 |
| MAHONEY, William Bertrand | December 16, 1980 |
| CLARK, John Richard | December 30, 1980 |
| KRISH, Laurence Frank | February 27, 1981 |
| SULLIVAN, John Edward | March 26, 1981 |
CYRIL ANDREW GEARY
Andrew James Geary was born on February 17, 1915, in Somerville, Massachusetts,
and received his elementary and secondary education in the parish schools of St. John
the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating with honors from
Providence College in 1937, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Rose Priory in
Springfield, Kentucky, where he took the name of Brother Cyril and made his first
profession on August 16, 1938. Philosophical and theological studies followed at the
Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, where he was ordained to the
priesthood on June 8, 1944.
In April, 1945, Father Geary completed the requirements for the Lectorate in Theology and was then assigned to St. Dominic's Parish in Denver, Colorado. In September, 1945, he was sent to Laval University in Quebec for graduate work in social studies. In June, 1948, he received the degree of Doctor of Social Science and was immediately assigned to the House of Studies in River Forest to teach Social Economy, Experimental Psychology, and Homiletics. At the sane time, he served as professor of theology at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois, and at the Sheil School of Social Studies in Chicago. Each summer he took part in a program of theological instruction for religious sisters at St. Theresa's College in Winona, Minnesota.
In 1954, Father Geary was appointed to the staff at the Shrine of St. Jude in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1959, he was named pastor and prior at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison. Wisconsin. In 1965, he was sent to teach theology at St. Catherine College in St. Paul, Minnesota, until 1966, when he returned to serve at the Shrine of St. Jude for two years. In 1968, Father Geary was appointed chaplain at St. Albert's Student Center for Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana.
In 1973, chronic health problems forced Father Geary to curtail his activities, and he was assigned as associate pastor at Holy Trinity (Croatian) Parish in Chicago, Illinois. He died on July 5, 1977, in Mercy Hospital in Chicago as a result of severe emphysema. Following services at Holy Trinity Church, he was buried in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
JOSEPH BERNARD MALVEY
Joseph Aloysius Malvey was born on March 5, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and received his elementary education at Holy Name School in Philadelphia. His
secondary education was taken at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia and at Aquinas
High School in Columbus, Ohio. Following two years of study at Providence College,
Providence, Rhode Island, he entered the novitiate at St. Rose Priory in Springfield,
Kentucky, in 1934 and made his first profession on August 16, 1935, taking the name
of Brother Bernard. Philosophical studies were taken at the House of Studies in River
Forest, Illinois, and theological studies both at River Forest and at St. Joseph's Priory,
Somerset, Ohio. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 7, 1941, in the chapel at
the House of Studies in River Forest.
After completing the requirements for the Lectorate in Theology in 1942, Father Malvey continued living at the House of Studies in River Forest and later at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago while teaching philosophy at De Paul University. He spent 1948 taking additional studies in River Forest for the Licentiate in Philosophy before being assigned to teach at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, from 1949 to 1953.
From 1953 to 1958, Father Malvey served as pastor and religious superior at Holy Rosary Parish in Houston, Texas. In 1958, he was sent to teach theology and philosophy at St. Theresa College in Winona, Minnesota, where he remained until 1962 when he returned to the faculty at De Paul University and the community at St. Pius Priory. From 1963 to 1967, Father Malvey served as an associate at St. Dominic Parish in Denver, Colorado. In all his assignments, Father Malvey also served as spiritual director of Third Order chapters.
Due to a serious loss of hearing and a degenerative respiratory condition, Father Malvey's parish activities were curtailed in 1975 although he continued to assist with services at the Shrine of St. Jude whenever possible. In January, 1977,lie underwent surgery and radiation treatment for cancer of the throat. Although the cancer seemed initially to have been arrested and a gradual return to health appeared possible, his condition grew worse during the summer of 1977. On September 23, 1977, he died of pneumonia at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Following services at St. Pius V Church, he was buried in the Dominican plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
ANSELM M. THOMAS TOWNSEND
Father Anselm Townsend died Sunday, October 30, 1977, in Houston, Texas, as a
result of a severe stroke suffered in early October. Following services at Holy Rosary
Church, he was buried in the community plot in Houston on November 2.
Thomas Archibald Townsend was born November 29, 1901, in Ardwick, South Manchester, England, and attended local schools in Manchester before studying for the Episcopalian ministry as a member of the Order of the Holy Cross at Knutsford Theological Seminary in Knutsford, Cheshire, England.
After emigrating with his family to the United States in early 1921, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church on February 7, 1924, at St. Patrick's Church in Corning, New York. Following a semester of study at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, he left his family's new house in Selma, Alabama, to enter the Dominican novitiate at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, where he took Anselm as a religious name and made his first profession on August 19, 1925. Philosophical studies followed in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a Dominican priest on June 15, 1931, at St. Dominic's Church in Washington.
Father Townsend was first assigned as an associate pastor to St. Dominic's Parish in Denver, Colorado, and then as an associate to St. Mary's Parish in Johnson City, Tennessee. After a year at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, as an associate to the parish and a special instructor in history and liturgy, he moved to St. Vincent Ferrer Priory in New York City to serve as editor of the "Dominican Library of Spiritual Works." In 1938, he was appointed professor of religion and history at Dominican College in New Orleans, Louisiana, until 1942, when he was named to the faculty of Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. At Fenwick he taught history, business law, economic geography, and sociology, in addition to serving as Dean of Studies from 1949 to 1952.
After serving as a special lecturer in political science at "Pro Deo" University in Rome, Father Townsend joined the staff at the Newman Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1954, and the faculty of St. Joseph's College and Regina School of Nursing. In 1955, he was named pastor and religious superior of the community in Albuquerque.
From 1958 until 1965, Father Townsend taught theology and biblical studies at Loretto Heights College near Denver, Colorado. In 1965, he returned to New Orleans as chaplain and professor of theology at Dominican College until 1967 when he was assigned as chaplain at Rice University in Houston, Texas. In 1968, he moved to St. Dominic's Villa in Houston as chaplain to the Dominican Sisters. In 1970, failing health indicated that he should limit his activities, and he returned to St. Mark Priory in Houston as assistant chaplain for Rice University where he continued to provide priestly service and counselling whenever possible until his last illness.
JOSEPH INNOCENT REARDON
Joseph Benedict Reardon was born March 21, 1904, in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and
received his elementary and secondary education at St. Thomas School in Braddock.
After three years of study at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he
entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Joseph Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and made
profession there on August 25, 1923.
After taking philosophical studies at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and at the House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, Brother Innocent Reardon continued studies in theology at the House of Studies in Washington, D.C, where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1929. In 1930, he completed work for the Lectorate in theology from the House of Studies and for a Master's degree in philosophy from Catholic University of America before being selected for two years' additional study at the Angelicum in Rome.
Father Reardon was first assigned to teach canon law on the theology faculty at St. Joseph Priory, Somerset, Ohio. In 1934, he was sent to River Forest, Illinois, to teach fundamental theology and church history in the Studium in addition to teaching philosophy courses at Rosary College and De Paul University and serving as chaplain for Trinity High School in River Forest. By 1938, he was named full-time professor of philosophy at De Paul University and continued to teach there until he volunteered for service as an Army chaplain in 1943. After his discharge from the Armed Forces in 1946, he returned to his faculty position at De Paul and his residence in River Forest.
In August, 1947, Father Reardon moved to the new priory building at St. Pius V in Chicago. In January, 1948, he was elected prior of the community and named pastor of St. Pius V Parish. When his term of office as prior and pastor ended in 1951, he taught for six months at Dominican College, Ursuline College, and Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being assigned to St. Dominic's community in Denver as professor of theology and philosophy at Loretto Heights College.
In 1953, Father Reardon was named professor of theology and chaplain at St. Theresa's College in Winona, Minnesota. In 1963, he moved to New Orleans to teach at Xavier University until he was assigned to Houston, Texas, in 1968 to serve as chaplain and instructor at the Dominican Sisters' Motherhouse in Houston. In 1970, the chaplaincy at St. Dominic's Villa in Houston was added to his list of duties while he continued to teach special summer courses each year for the Dominican Sisters in Springfield, Illinois. In spite of suffering increasing cardiac difficulties, Father Reardon continued to serve the sisters at St. Dominic's Villa to the best of his ability until he died of heart failure on November 1, 1977. Following services at Holy Rosary, Church, he was buried in the Dominican plot in Houston on November 4.
JOHN JOSEPH STEPHEN REIDY
Father John Joseph Stephen Reidy died in St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on
December 15, 1977, ten days after being admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit
for emergency treatment of bleeding ulcers. Following services at St. Pius V Church in
Chicago, he was buried in the community plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines,
Illinois.
John Joseph Reidy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 14, 1913, and attended the elementary and secondary schools at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1931, he enrolled at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, but a serious case of tuberculosis soon interrupted his study program. After returning to Providence in 1936, he graduated with honors in 1939 and joined the Dominican Order at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Kentucky, where he was given Stephen as a religious name and made his first profession on August 16, 1940. Six years of philosophical and theological studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and he was ordained to the priesthood in River Forest on June 18, 1946.
After completing the requirements for the Lectorate in Theology in 1947, Father Reidy was sent to the Angelicuni in Rome for additional graduate work. In June, 1949, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. When he returned to the States, he was immediately assigned to the Pontifical Faculty in River Forest to teach ethics and moral philosophy. During the years he taught in River Forest, Father Reidy also served as professor of theology at Rosary College in River Forest and De Paul University in Chicago, as Director of Cooperator Brothers, and as Chaplain to St. Joseph's Police Guild.
In January, 1965, Father Reidy was given a special assignment as Vicar of the Provincial for the Dominican religious community at Aquinas Newman Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the fall of 1965, he returned to his teaching duties in River Forest and to his editorial work on The Priory Press' college theology texts and McGraw-Hill's English translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica.
In 1969, Father Reidy moved to the campus of the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, as student chaplain and counsellor. After serving a year as Associate Pastor at St. Margaret Parish in Boyce, Louisiana, he returned to Chicago in 1972 to join the staff at the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus as editor of the St. Jude Chronicle. Despite the constant pain of a chronic arthritic condition aggravated by unsatisfactory surgery for a broken back and hip, Father Reidy continued to provide priestly ministry for the friends of St. Jude Thaddeus until the time of his death.
DANIEL MARK DELLA PENTA
Daniel Ernest Della Penta was born on December 10, 1895, in Buffalo, New York, and
received his basic education at local public acid parochial grade schools and at
Hutchinson Central High School in Buffalo. After two years of study at Aquinas
College in Columbus, Ohio, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Joseph Priory in
Somerset, Ohio, where he was given Marcolinus for a religious name and made his
first profession on September 16, 1917. Philosophical studies were taken at St. Rose
Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and theological courses at the Dominican House of
Studies in Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1923, at St.
Dominic's Church in Washington.
After completing a year of additional studies for the Lectorate in Theology, Father Della Penta was assigned to Providence College as an instructor in philosophy, religion, and Italian. In 1932, he was sent to Aquinas High School in Columbus, Ohio, to teach mathematics and religion. Five years later, he was named to the faculty of Purcell High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught Latin, English, and religion while also serving as chaplain to the Dominican Nuns at Holy Name Monastery in Cincinnati.
In 1938, Father Della Penta was sent to Mater Dolorosa Parish in Independence, Louisiana, as pastor. For twenty-four years he worked to foster the religious and educational growth of Mater Dolorosa and of Our Lady of Pompeii Parish in neighboring Tickfaw, Louisiana. In 1976, Father Della Penta's years of service in Independence and the Tangipahoa area were given public recognition at the annual Little Italy Festival in Independence, dedicated "with appreciation and affection to honor Father Daniel Mark Della Penta for his years of faithful service as a religious leader whose works promoted the intellectual, social, moral, and religious welfare of the people he served. His many achievements, spiritually and materially, will long be remembered as the contributions of a great leader and friend."
After leaving the parish ministry in Independence, Father Della Penta took up residence at Holy Ghost community in Hamniond, Louisiana, in August, 1962, while serving as chaplain to Seventh Ward General Hospital, Heritage Manor,and Bell Maison nursing homes in Hammond.
Although the enervating effects of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer gradually curtailed his activities during the last year of his life, Father Della Penta continued to minister to the sick to the best of his ability until the time of his death on January 3, 1978. Following funeral services in Mater Dolorosa Church, he was buried in the community cemetery in Rosaryville, Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
JOHN LUKE LYONS
John Francis Lyons was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21, 1914. After
attending Holy Name Grade School and Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, he
studied at Rockhurst College, where he earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in
1935. To gain the required language skills for seminary studies, he enrolled in a special
program at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, studying Latin and
working as a laboratory assistant before he entered the Order at St. Rose Priory in
Springfield, Kentucky, and made his first profession on August 16, 1938. Philosophical
and theological studies followed for Brother Luke Lyons at the Dominican House of
Studies in River Forest, Illinois, where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 8,
1944.
After completing additional studies for a master's degree in science at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and at the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, Ohio, Father Lyons was assigned in 1946 to teach general science and mathematics at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1950, he joined the Province's Preaching Band and served for nearly nineteen years on the Central, Northern, and Southern Bands with residence at St. Albert the Great Priory in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Holy Rosary Rectory in Houston, Texas: and St. Anthony. of Padua Priory in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In July, 1969, Father Lyons was appointed chaplain to St. Mary's and the University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals in Galveston, Texas. A heart attack in 1970 forced him to limit his activities, and he returned to his hone parish, Holy Name, Kansas City, Missouri.
In 1973, Father Lyons became Director of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima at Holy Name Church and supervised daily radio broadcasts of the rosary. He continued with this ministry after Holy Name Parish was merged into the new Church of the Risen Christ in 1975 by moving his residence to Our Lady of the Presentation Rectory in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
In September, 1977, Father Lyons underwent gall bladder surgery. A recurrence of heart trouble after this surgery led to circulatory difficulties and a series of paralyzing strokes. he died at St. Mary's Hospital in Kansas City on January 6, 1978. Following funeral services at Guardian Angel Church in Kansas City, he was buried in the priests' section of St. Mary's Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri, on January 9.
JOSEPH SEBASTIAN ANGERS
Joseph Rouville Laurier Angers was horn in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September
27, 1912, and attended public grade schools in Springfield for two years before being
sent to Mount Saint Louis, the Christian Brothers' boarding school in Montreal,
Quebec. He returned to Springfield to complete his secondary education at Classical
High School and then began studies for a degree in modern languages at Catholic
University in Washington, D.C. In 1937, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St.
Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was given Sebastian as a religious name.
After first profession on September 15, 1938, he pursued philosophical and theological
studies at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, where he was
ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1944.
Father Angers was first assigned to St. Joseph Parish in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, as associate pastor and business manager for the religious community. Subsequent assignments as associate pastor and business manager took him to St. Pius V in Chicago, Illinois, from 1948 to 1951; St. Dominic in Denver, Colorado, from 1951 to 1954; Holy Name in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1954 to 1957; Mater Dolorosa in Independence, Louisiana, from 1957 to 1962; St. Albert the Great in Minneapolis, Minnesota, front 1962 to 1965; St. Dominic in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1965 to 1967; St. Margaret in Boyce, Louisiana, from 1967 to 1969; and St. Patrick in Montgomery, Louisiana, from 1969 to 1970.
In the spring of 1970, Father Angers took a special course in Clinical Pastoral Education at the Boys' Industrial School in Topeka, Kansas, to focus his ministry on serving physically and emotionally handicapped children. The following summer, he was named Chaplain to the Hammond State School in Hanimond, Louisiana. Front 1974 to 1975, he served as Chaplain to St. Coletta School in Jefferson, Wisconsin. He returned to the Hammond chaplaincy in 1975 with added duties as Chaplain to the Dominican Sisters in Rosaryville, Louisiana, until 1976 when he was asked to supply in a temporary capacity as Chaplain at St. Mary's Rogers Memorial Hospital in Rogers, Arkansas.
During the spring of 1976, Father Angers suffered a breakdown front severe emotional stress and was sent to Villa Pius XII in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for treatment. By February, 1977, he was able to resume his ministry and was appointed Chaplain first at Mercy Medical Center in Durango, Colorado, and then at St. Joseph Hospital in Del Norte, Colorado. A serious heart condition began to trouble him a year later, and he returned to Albuquerque for special cardiac therapy. While recuperating at the Paraclete Infirmary in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, he suffered a massive heart attack and died on June 14, 1978. His body was sent to Ponchatoula, Louisiana, the site of his first priestly assignment. Following services in the chapel of St. Mary's Dominican Convent, Father Angers was buried in the community cemetery in Rosaryville, Louisiana.
STAN EDWARD GORSKI
Edward Otto Gorski was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 1930. He attended St.
Constance School in Chicago for his elementary education and graduated with honors
from Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, in 1948. After two years of college
studies at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St.
Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, where he was assigned Stanislaus as a
religious name and later made his first profession on August 31, 1951.
Philosophical studies followed in River Forest and theological courses in Dubuque until September, 1955, when Brother Stanislaus was sent to the College of St. Albert in Oakland, California, to complete his theological training along with a number of student brothers from St. Albert's Province assigned to studies in Holy Name Province at a time when the studia in River Forest and Dubuque were seriously overcrowded. On December 15, 1956, he was ordained a priest in San Francisco's Mission Dolores Basilica.
Father Gorski's first assignment after his return to the Midwest in 1958 was to teach philosophy at Loras College in Dubuque while serving as Assistant Director of Smyth Hall, a residence for students preparing to enter the Dominican novitiate. In 1964, he began full-time studies for a doctorate in theology at Aquinas Institute in Dubuque. After he completed the doctorate in 1967, he was assigned to the faculty of St. Xavier College in Chicago as an Associate Professor of Theology and Chairman of the Theology Department. During the time he served at St. Xavier, Father Gorski lived at St. Dominic's House (Euclid Avenue), St. Pius V Priory, Blackfriars, and with newly formed Dominican communities on South Oglesby in Chicago and Washington Street in Oaklawn.
Although chronic heart trouble marked his life, Father Gorski's physical condition never interfered with his ministry as a priest and teacher. However, in mid-October, 1978, he suffered a severe angina attack and underwent intensive treatment and tests at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park. As an additional precautionary measure, his doctor arranged for special tests to be administered in the cardiovascular unit at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Father Gorski died on October 25, 1978, of cardiac arrest while undergoing an angiogram test to determine possible arterial blockage. The best resources in medical equipment and expertise were immediately available but incapable of reviving him.
Following funeral services at Mercy Hall Chapel on the campus of St. Xavier College, Father G orski was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois, on October 28, 1978.
WILLIAM RICHARD BYRNES
Father William Richard Byrnes died in Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on
November 18, 1978, three weeks after being admitted to the hospital for emergency
treatment of severe internal bleeding. Following services at St. Pius V Church in
Chicago, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on November 21.
William Daly Xavier Byrnes was born in Chicago on September 28, 1903, and attended Visitation elementary school iii Chicago. His program of secondary education began at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, continued at St. Viator High School in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and was completed at Visitation High School in Chicago. Following two years of study at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Joseph Priory in Somerset, Ohio, in 1923 and made his first profession on September 23, 1924. After taking philosophical studies at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Kentucky, and at the new House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, Brother Richard Byrnes continued studies in theology at the House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 16, 1930.
Father Byrnes was first assigned to St. Vincent Ferrer Parish in New York City as an associate pastor. Subsequent assignments as an associate took him to St. Dominic in Denver, Colorado; St. Catherine of Siena in New York City; Holy Rosary in Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Peter in Memphis, Tennessee; St. Dominic in Youngstown, Ohio; Holy Name in Kansas City, Missouri; and Blessed Sacrament in Madison, Wisconsin.
In 1946, Father Byrnes was named community business manager and Director of Cooperator Brothers at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest. In 1949, he returned to Holy Name Parish in Kansas City until 1951 when he was appointed community business manager at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago. From 1953 to 1956 he served as pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. After a year assisting at Blessed Martin Mission in Amarillo, Texas, Father Byrnes returned to Holy Rosary Parish in Minneapolis as an associate pastor for ten years until failing vision forced hint to curtail his activities.
After two years with the novitiate community at St. Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, Father Byrnes returned to Chicago to reside at St. Pius V Priory. Except for one year spent with the community at St. Dominic's House on Euclid Avenue in Chicago, Father Byrnes continued in residence at St. Pius V Priory until 1975 when his need for special nursing care took him to Marian Manor in Lebanon, Kentucky, and Little Company of Mary Health Facility in San Pierre, Indiana, where he lived until the time of his last illness.
DANIEL LOUIS CARTER
Father Daniel Louis Carter was killed December 19, 1978, when the single-engine
plane he was piloting crashed on takeoff near Independence, Louisiana. Following
liturgical services at Mater Dolorosa Church in Independence, Louisiana, and at St.
Pius V Church in Chicago, Illinois, he was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints
Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on December 23.
Daniel James Patrick Carter was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 21, 1930. He received his early education at Howard, St. Joseph, and St. Francis Xavier Schools in Wilmette, Illinois; Bishop Quarter Military Academy in Oak Park; Hollandale School in Hollandale, Wisconsin; Platteville State Teachers' Elementary School in Platteville, Wisconsin; and St. Jerome Parish School in Chicago. Atfer graduating from St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, in 1949, he served in the Marine Corps Reserve while studying at the University of Notre Dame for two years. In 1951, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, and was assigned Louis as a religious name. After first profession on August 31, 1952, he moved to the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, for philosophical studies and to the College of St. Albert in Oakland, California, for theological courses. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1957, in San Francisco's Cathedral of St. Mary.
Father Carter returned to St. Albert's Province in 1958 to complete his final year of theology in Dubuque, Iowa; he was then given a temporary assignment at St. Pius V Parish in Chicago until October, 1959, when he left the States to work in the Provincial Vicariate of Nigeria. For seven years he served in the pastoral ministry in Northern Nigeria: Holy Family in Sokoto; Our Lady of Lourdes in Yelwa; St. Theresa in Funtua; St. Vincent Ferrer in Malumfashi.
In 1966, Father Carter returned to the States and was assigned to the Newman Center at the University of Houston. From 1967 to 1970, he served as associate pastor at Holy Rosary Parish in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then returned to campus ministry for a year at Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas.
By 1971, Father Carter had hopes of returning to the Nigerian missions, but political difficulties at the tithe put sharp restrictions on the number of visas granted to United States citizens. For two years, he served as a parish priest and hospital chaplain in Kumasi and Ashanti, Ghana, while waiting for authorization to return to Nigeria. Since his plans for resuming work in Nigeria failed to materialize, he returned to the States in 1973 and began a program of graduate studies in theology at Aquinas Institute in Dubuque, Iowa, where he completed the requirements for a Master's Degree in 1975.
Two years of preaching ministry followed with the Dominican Evangelical Preaching Team based in Oklahoma City. In 1977, Father Carter was assigned to serve as associate pastor at Mater Dolorosa Parish in Independence, Louisiana. There he devoted his free time to fulfilling a dream nurtured in Nigeria and Ghana of winning a license as a private pilot, a goal he achieved not long before his fatal accident.
JAMES RAPHAEL GILLIS
Father James Raphael Gillis died March 13, 1979, at the Chateau de Notre Dame in
New Orleans, Louisiana, where he had been a patient since May, 1978. Following
services at the Chateau and at Holy Rosary Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was
buried in the community cemetery in Minneapolis on March 17.
James Clinton Thomas Gillis was born August 4, 1911, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Holy Rosary Grade School and De La S alle High School in Minneapolis before enrolling at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1928. On August 15, 1930, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned Raphael as a religious name and made his first profession a year later. Philosophical studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses at St. Joseph Priory in Somerset, Ohio, and at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a priest in St. Dominic's Church in Washington on June 11, 1937.
Immediately after ordination, Father Gillis was sent to Rome for graduate studies at the University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), where he was awarded a Doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1939. When he returned to the States in September, 1939, he was assigned to the theological faculties at tile Dominican House of Studies in Washington and at the Catholic University of America.
In 1941, Father Gillis transfiliated to the new Province of St. Albert the Great and joined the faculty at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, where he taught courses in both philosophy and theology for nearly ten years. During this tinge, he also taught theology at Rosary College and the Sheil School of Social Studies, while dedicating his summers to the Institute of Spirituality in River Forest and the theology program at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. From the time of its beginning in 1948 until 1964, Father Gillis also served as Associate Editor of Cross and Crown, now titled Spirituality Today.
In 1951, Father Gillis was assigned to the newly established House of Theology at St. Rose of Lima Priory in Dubuque, Iowa, as professor of dogma both in the Studium G enerale and at Mount St. Bernard Seminary.
In 1953, after being named Lector Primarius and Dean of Theology, he was granted the degree Master of Sacred Theology. His pioneering efforts to develop joint programs of ecumenical studies with the Presbyterian and Lutheran schools in Dubuque were recognized in 1960 with the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wartburg Seminary and again in 1972 by a special testimonial celebration sponsored by the consortium of theological faculties in Iowa.
In 1964, Father Gillis left the Dubuque faculty on loan to the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. A year later, he was named Prior and Pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin, where he also served as professor of ecumenical theology at Edgewood College. In 1971, Father Gillis completed his second term as Prior in Madison and joined a new apostolic venture in an experimental House of Prayer located at St. Joseph Priory in Dallas, Texas.
In September, 1972, Father Gillis was elected Prior of Holy Rosary Priory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and appointed an associate pastor at Holy Rosary Parish. In September, 1974, when medication no longer controlled the debilitating effects of Parkinson's Disease with which he was afflicted in the late 1960's, he resigned the office of Prior and retired to St. Albert the Great Priory on the campus of the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. He remained in Irving until May, 1978, when he was transferred to the Chateau de Notre Dame in New Orleans for the clinical care his physical condition required.
DAVID ADAM EDWARD BALLA
At noontime, August 2, 1979, Father David Balla died suddenly of a heart attack while
driving to visit friends on the south side of Chicago. Emergency pleasures provided by
the Chicago Fire Department Paramedics were incapable of reviving him, and he was
pronounced dead on arrival at Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Following services at St. Pius
V Church in Chicago, he was buried in the community plot at All Saints Cemetery,
Des Plaines, Illinois, on August 4.
Adam Edward B alla was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 12, 1907. He attended Cyrus McCormick public school and St. Casimir's parochial school and then began high school studies in the evening program at Harrison High School while working in the Chicago office of the New York Life Insurance Company. After graduating from Aquinas High School in Columbus, Ohio, he continued with college studies at Providence College and entered the Dominican novitiate on August 15, 1931, at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned David as a religious name and made his first profession on August 16 of the following year. Philosophical studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses at St. Joseph Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Dominic's Church in Washington on June 16, 1938.
Father Balla was first assigned as an associate pastor at St. Dominic's Parish in Detroit, Michigan, and, after two years, as an associate pastor at St. Dominic's Parish in Denver, Colorado. In 1942, he was assigned to Holy Trinity Parish in Chicago, which served as home base for him for the next six years while he worked as a preacher on the Mission Band and as a chaplain in the United States Army. During his tour of duty with the Army, he also taught at San Juan Letran High School in Manila.
When Father Balla returned to the States in 1948, he was assigned to Holy Rosary Priory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then to St. Dominic's House in Deliver, Colorado, as his residences while serving once again as a Mission Band preacher. In late 1960, he was appointed chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital in Osmond, Nebraska, where he served until 1963 when he was named chaplain at Rosary Hill Convalescent Home in Justice, Illinois.
In the fall of 1977, Father Balla moved from Justice, Illinois, to serve first as an associate pastor at St. Elizabeth Parish in Robinson, Illinois, and then as a substitute chaplain at the Sisters of Charity Motherhouse in Nazareth, Kentucky. In 1978, he joined the community at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he helped with duties in the local parish until a severe cardiac condition forced him to curtail his activities arid to return to Chicago, where he resided at St. Pius V Priory until the time of his death.
PETER JAMES WEST
James Leo West was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 5, 1925. He attended St.
Francis Xavier School in La Grange, Illinois, for his elementary education and
graduated with honors front Fenwick High School in Oak Park in 1943. After a year of
studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he fulfilled his military service as
a topographic draftsman in the United States Army Engincer Corps in both the
European and Asian theaters of World War II. In 1946, he resumed his college studies,
first at the University of Illinois in Chicago and then at Loras College in Dubuque,
Iowa. where he graduated magna cum laude in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in
history. He then entered the newly dedicated Dominican novitiate at St. Peter Martyr
Priory in Winona, Minnesota. The first novice to be vested with the habit in Winona,
he was assigned Peter Martyr as a religious name.
After first profession on September 30, 1950, philosophical studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses at the Dominican House of Studies in Dubuque, Iowa, until September, 1954, when Brother Peter Martyr was sent to the College of St. Albert in Oakland, California, to complete his theological training along with a number of student brothers from St. Albert's Province then sent to study in Holy Name Province. On June 10, 1955, he was ordained a priest in San Francisco's Cathedral of St. Mary.
Father West's first assignment after his return to the Midwest in 1957 was to teach theology at Rosary College while residing at St. Vincent Ferrer Priory in River Forest, Illinois. In September, 1964, he was elected Prior of the novitiate community in Winona. At the end of his term of office in 1967, he joined the theology and philosophy department at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where he taught until 1969 when he moved to St. Anthony of Padua Priory in New Orleans, Louisiana, while teaching at St. Mary's Dominican College and providing chaplaincy service at St. Mary's Dominican High School.
In the fall of 1972, Father West returned to the Chicago area with an assignment to teach religion at Fenwick High School with residence at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest. In 1973, he began to change his ministerial concentration from teaching to health care service with an associate chaplaincy at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Illinois. His growing interest in hospital ministry led him to a continuing education program that centered on clinical pastoral training at Foster-McGaw-Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, and eventual appointment there as a full staff chaplain in 1975. Certification by the United States Catholic Conference Board of Examiners as a General Health Chaplain Supervisor followed in 1978 and expanded Father West's ministry to include training deacon interns in the Chicago Archdiocesan Deaconate program and special chaplaincy service for the Madden Mental Health Center in Chicago.
Although frequently weakened by a serious diabetic condition, Father West continued to maintain a full work schedule until a severe angina attack in early December, 1979, sent him as an emergency patient to Oak Park Hospital in Oak Park, Illinois. While recuperating in the hospital's cardiac care unit, he suffered a second massive heart attack and died suddenly on December 18. Following liturgical services at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, he was buried in the community plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on December 21.
MARTIN KEITH HOPKINS
Keith Edward Hopkins was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on October 29, 1919. He
received his early education at the public school in Presho, South Dakota; Webster
School in St. Paul, Minnesota; Hawthorne School in Oak Park, Illinois; and at Holy
Family Academy in Beaverville, Illinois; and St. Edmund Grade School in Oak Park.
After graduating from Oak ParkRiver Forest High School in 1937, he worked to help
support his family until he Nvas able to begin college studies at L oras College in
Dubuque, Iowa, and at De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois. In 1943, he entered
the Dominican novitiate at St. Thomas Priory in River Forest and was assigned Martin as a religious name. After first profession on June 25, 1944, he continued with philosophical and theological courses at the House of Studies in River Forest and was ordained to the priesthood on May 30, 1950, at St. Pius V Church in Chicago.
Father Hopkins was first assigned to teach religion at Fenwick High School in Oak Park. In 1954, he was sent to Rome for special studies at Santa Sabina's school for novice masters while serving as secretary to Father Timothy Sparks, then Socius to the Master of the Order for North America. In 1955, Father Hopkins returned to the States to begin teaching theology and Scripture at St. Theresa's College and St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. In 1964, he published two college text books: God's Kingdom in the Old Testament and God's Kingdom in the New Testament. The following year, he began a program of studies at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, which led him to achieving a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture.
After completing his Scripture studies in 1967, Father Hopkins was assigned to the Theology Department at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1969, he joined the Theology Faculty at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, to teach theology at the University of St. Thomas and in 1974, to Atchison, Kansas, for theology and Scripture at Benedictine College.
In 1978, Father Hopkins was granted a year of sabbatical studies to research the possibilities for developing television programs in adult religious education. While working on this project at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, he also established a series of public lectures on current theological issues that proved to be of great benefit to both religious and lay participants.
Not long after beginning this new apostolate, Father Hopkins discovered thta he had contracted melanoma, a particularly virulent type of cancer. Though weakened by the spread of this disease and frequently in great pain, he continued to work steadily and without complaint on his educational projects and in directing the Catholic Biblical Association's seminar on Christology until he returned in early August, 1980, to Oak Park Hospital, where he died on August 11. Following services at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory, he was buried in the community plot in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on August 14.
JAMES ARTHUR McINERNEY
Father James Arthur McInerney died November 9, 1980, at the Spring View Hospital
Nursing Home (Marian Manor) in Lebanon, Kentucky. Following services at St.
Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, Illinois, his assigned religious community,
he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on November 12.
James Patrick McInerney was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 11, 1905. He attended St. Colunibanus Grade School and De La Salle Institute and then worked to help support his family before beginning advanced studies in 1925 at Aquinas College in Columbus, Ohio, and St. Charles College in Baltimore, Maryland. On August 15, 1930, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned Arthur as a religious name and made his first profession a year later. Philosophical studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses at both St. Joseph Priory in Somerset, Ohio, and the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood in St. Dominic's Church in Washington on June 11, 1937.
Father McInerney was first assigned to Aquinas High School in Columbus, Ohio, to teach Latin, English, history, and economics. In July, 1940, he transfiliated to the new Province of St. Albert the Great and was sent to Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin, where he served as an associate pastor while studying mathematics at Edgewood College. In 1942, he moved to St. Anthony of Padua Priory in New Orleans, Louisiana, to teach philosophy and theology at St. Mary's Dominican College and at Xavier University. From 1955 to 1957, he served as chaplain and philosophy instructor at Incarnate Word College in San Antonio, Texas, before being assigned to teach philosophy at De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, while residing first at St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park and later at St. Dominic House on South Euclid Avenue in Chicago.
In 1968, Father McInerney retired from teaching and moved back to St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park after the Euclid Avenue house closed. He continued to work with adult education programs and to serve as spiritual advisor and scholarship consultant for the national Catholic fraternity, Phi Kappa Theta, and the national Catholic sorority, Theta Phi Alpha, a position he maintained for over twenty years. In the late 1970's, his health began to fail and the debilitating effects of a series of strokes and near blindness eventually required him to move from St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest to the special nursing facilities in Lebanon, Kentucky, where he resided until the tune of his death.
JAMES CAJETAN CHERESO
James Cajetan Chereso, on leave of absence from the priesthood and the Dominican Order for over a year, was killed by an unknown assailant, probably on Friday evening. November 21, 1980. His body was found in his near southside Chicago apartment on November 24. Following private funeral services at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, he was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, oil November 26.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 15, 1924, James Charles Chereso attended Sheridan Grade School and Bowen High School in Chicago before beginning college studies at the University of Chicago. After serving for three years in the United States Army Signal Corps in North Africa and Southern Europe, he returned to the University of Chicago to complete his studies with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1948. On September 12, 1948, he entered the Dominican Order at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory in River Forest, Illinois; on September 19 of the following year, he made first profession at the newly completed novitiate at St. Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota. Philosophical studies followed in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses in Dubuque, Iowa, until September, 1953, when Brother Cajetan and three other student brothers were sent to Rome to coiilplete their theological training at the Angelicum. On June 29, 1954, he was ordained a priest in the Dominican Church of Madonna dell'Arco in Naples and then celebrated his First Mass in the nearby village of Altomonte, where his mother and father were born and baptized.
When he completed his studies for a doctorate in theology at the Angelicum and returned to the States in 1957, Father Chereso was first assigned to teach theology at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois. Subsequent teaching assignments took him to the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.; Aquinas Institute of Philosophy in River Forest, Illinois; and Loyola University in Chicago. From 1971 until 1975, he pursued special pastoral studies at McCormick Theological Seminary and George Williams College to win Master's degrees in Pastoral Counselling and in Social Work. In 1975, he obtained employment as a psychiatric social worker at the Mile Square Center in Chicago's inner city.
To resolve questions and issues about his future life and work as a Dominican priest, Father Chereso sought and was granted a leave of absence from religious duties in the fall of 1979 while continuing to serve as a layman those who were deeply troubled and in need of psychological aid. At the time of his death, he was preparing to take a new position with Homes For Children, an agency that provides special support services for families with children in the public school system.
INNOCENT MARIA BOJANIC
John Bojanic was born on January 26, 1890, in Vrisnik, on the Island Hvar, in
Dalmatia, Croatia (now part of Yugoslavia). He received his elementary education in
his home town and his high school and college training in Lokrun and Dubrovnik. In
1906, he entered the Dominican novitiate in Dubrovnik where he took Innocent Maria
as his religious name and made his first profession of vows on December 15, 1907.
After completing his philosophical and theological courses at the Dominican House of
Studies in Dubrovnik, he was ordained a priest on August 10, 1913.
Father Bojanic's first assignment was to the Dominican High School in Bol as a professor of German and Greek. In 1917, he became a military chaplain with the Austro-Hungarian Army. Captured by the Germans on the Albanian front, he spent ten months in Italian prison camps before he was able to return to work in his Province. In 1919, he was appointed professor of languages at the Realka State College in Split.
In 1921, George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, asked the Dominican Province of St. Joseph to assume responsibility for Holy Trinity Croatian Parish in Chicago, then under the temporary care of the Benedictines from St. Procopius Abbey. The Master of the Order assigned Father Bojanic to the pastorate at Holy Trinity. He arrived in Chicago on February 4, 1922, the first Dominican to take up permanent residence in the Archdiocese. Father Bojanic served as pastor of Holy Trinity for forty-four years, during which time he was able to put the debt-laden parish on sound financial footing and to provide a center of worship and Catholic education for the Croation people in the Pilsen neighborhood that enabled them to retain the best of the traditional art and culture of their homeland.
In 1966, Father Bojanic retired to St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, Illinois, where he spent his days in reading and prayer and in counselling his many former parishioners who stopped by for a visit. In early November, 1980, his health began to decline rapidly, and he had to move to the Oak Park Convalescent and Geriatric Center, not far from his Dominican community in River Forest, for special care. He died there of heart failure on November 26, 1980. Following services at St. DominicSt. Thomas Priory in River Forest, and at Holy Trinity Church in Chicago, he was buried in the community plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on November 29.
WILLIAM BERTRAND MAHONEY
William Thomas Mahoney was born April 19, 1916, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and
received his elementary education at Notre Dame Grade School in Chattanooga and at
St. Edmund's Grade School in Oak Park, Illinois, and his secondary education at
Fenwick High School in Oak Park and Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga. After
graduating magna cum laude with a degree in philosophy from the University of Notre
Dame in South Bend, Indiana, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Rose Priory in
Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned Bertrand as his religious name. First
profession followed on August 16, 1939, and he continued with philosophical and
theological courses at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, where
he was ordained to the priesthood on March 23, 1945.
In May, 1946, Father Mahoney completed tile requirements for the Lectorate in Theology and was then sent to Rome for a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Angelicum. In 1948, he returned to the States to teach philosophy in River Forest; in 1951, he was assigned to the Philosophy Department at the Angelicum where he served as a professor until 1958, except for the academic year of 1956-1957 when he taught once again in River Forest. From 1958 until 1970, Father Mahoney taught philosophy in the River Forest Studium while serving as Master of Studies, Academic Dean for Aquinas Institute, and as Subpriorfor the Dominican community. In 1970, he was assigned to St. Rose Priory in Dubuque, Iowa, to teach philosophy at Aquinas Institute after the School of Philosophy closed in River Forest.
During the summer of 1970, while celebrating his Silver Jubilee with his family in Chattanooga, Father Mahoney developed a severe lower intestinal disorder that led to colostomy surgery. Soon after that, a circulatory ailment and diabetic condition led to amputation of his right leg. While undergoing therapy at the Alexian Brothers Rehabilitation Center in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, the same condition affected his left leg, and a second amputation was required.
Although confined to a wheelchair, Father Mahoney returned to St. Rose Priory in 1972 and continued to serve the community to the best of his ability as Adjunct Professor of the History of Philosophy, Assistant to the President of Aquinas Institute, Subprior, and Assistant Business Manager, in addition to providing editorial assistance for Dominican Life (now U.S. Dominican) and Cross and Crown (now Spirituality Today). He died suddenly, of apparent heart failure, shortly after lunch on December 16, 1980. Following liturgical services at St. Rose Priory in Dubuque, his body was brought to Chicago for burial in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on December 19.
JOHN RICHARD CLARK
John Joseph Clarke was born October 5, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan. He attended
primary school at Sacred Heart Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, St. Martin's in
Detroit, Michigan, and St. Clare of Montefalco in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. After
graduating from St. Paul's High School in Gross Pointe Farms, Michigan, he worked
with his father's municipal gardening ser\,ice in Detroit until October, 1948, when he
began his postulancy as a Dominican cooperator brother at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory
in River Forest, Illinois. He entered the novitiate in River Forest on April 2, 1949, and
took Richard as his religious name.
Shortly after his first profession on April 3, 1950, Brother Richard was assigned to the maintenance staff at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago. There his talent for printing procedures soon led him to develop the small print shop at the Shrine of St. Jude offices into a highly professional service for helping to spread the prayer apostolate of the Shrine throughout the world.
Post-Vatican II changes in the Church and the Order affected Brother Richard deeply, and in 1970, he asked for a temporary leave from his assigned duties to assess his future as a Dominican brother. While on leave, he spent time with close relatives in Ireland. There he suffered a heart attack that required a lengthy period of careful treatment to restore his health.
After returning to the States and the Province, Brother Richard asked to be assigned to the Vicariate of Nigeria where he could use his skills as a printer while training others in the same field. Since political difficulties at that time sharply restricted the number of Nigeria visas granted to United States citizens, he joined three other members of the Province in Kumasi, Ghana, in January, 1971, where he worked for Bishop Peter Sarpong to expand the work of the Catholic Mission Press for the Diocese of Kumasi. In 1975, he was able to join the Dominican Community in Ibadan, Nigeria, while working for the Claverian Press and helping with the maintenance needs of the priory.
While on a Statesice quies in 1979, Brother Richard went to the House of Affirmation in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, to take advantage of special programs for spiritual renewal. To retain his resident visa for Nigeria, he returned to Ibadan in August, 1979, but was re-assigned to St. Pius V Priory in Chicago in January, 1980. In May, 1980, he went back to the House of Affirmation for an extended renewal program while he lived with the Eastern Dominican Community at St. Stephen's Priory in Dover, Massachusetts. Shortly after returning to Dover from a Christmas visit with his family in Detroit, Brother Richard was stricken with a heart attack. On Tuesday, December 30, while in the cardiac intensive care unit at Leonard Morse Hospital, a second severe attack ended his life. His body was brought back to Chicago for funeral services at St. Pius V Church and for burial in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on January 3. At the time of his death, he hoped one day to be able to resume the apostolate he loved best at the Mission Press in Ghana.
LAURENCE FRANK KRISH
Brother Laurence Krish, assigned to the Vicariate of Nigeria for nearly twenty years,
was killed in an automobile accident on February 27, 1981, when a large truck crashed
suddenly into the car he was driving on the road between Funtua and Malumfashi.
Following funeral services on March 3, he was buried in the community cemetery near
Our Lady of Fatima Church in Gusau, S okoto State, Nigeria.
Franz Joseph Krisch was born in New York City on September 30, 1931. He attended public primary schools in Brooklyn and Fly Creek, New York, and Richfield Springs Central High School in Richfield Springs, New York. Soon after graduating from high school in 1949, he joined the United States Air Force and spent four years at various air bases as a Senior Aircraft Mechanic and Ground Crew Chief. While in the service, he met several Dominican priests who encouraged him to consider becoming a Dominican when his tour of duty ended. Six weeks after his discharge from the Air Force, he began his postulancy as a Dominican cooperator brother at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory in River Forest, Illinois. He entered the novitiate in River Forest on April 30, 1954, and took Laurence as his religious name.
Shortly after first profession on May 1, 1955, Brother Laurence was assigned to the maintenance staff at St. Rose Priory in Dubuque, Iowa. After his solemn profession of vows in 1961, he was sent to the Vicariate of Nigeria where he immediately began serving the mission stations in the northern part of the country by tending to maintenance of buildings and vehicles, by helping with the construction of new buildings, and by developing job training programs in automotive mechanics.
In 1975, Brother Laurence became interested in concentrating his efforts on teaching religion, especially to young people on a secondary level of studies. He taught classes at Holy Family Cathedral in Sokoto, St. Theresa in Funtua, and St. Vincent Ferrer in Malumfashi. A Certificate in Religious Studies, granted by the University of Ibadan in 1976, gave him a position with the Nigerian public school system that made it possible for him to return to the States each year to continue his studies. At the time of his death, he headed the Department of Christian Religion at the Boys' Government Secondary School in Malunlfashi. He hoped soon to begin work for a Master's degree in theology and to devote his entire life to this educational apostolate in Nigeria.
JOHN EDWARD SULLIVAN
John Louis Sullivan was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on September 15, 1922. He attended
Sacred Heart, Holy Ghost, and St. Mary's parochial schools in Dubuque, and graduated
from Loras Academy in 1939. His studies at Loras College were interrupted in January,
1943, for service in the United States Marine Corps. After three years of military
action in Iwo Jima, Guam, and Japan, he left the service as a First Lieutenant and
returned to Dubuque and a job with the John Deere Company. In 1950, he resumed his
college studies at Loras as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Friendship
with Dominican preparatory students on the Loras campus stimulated his interest in the
Dominican Order, and eventually he entered the novitiate at St. Peter Martyr Priory in
Winona, Minnesota, soon after graduating from Loras magna cum laude with a
bachelor's degree in philosophy. With Edward as his assigned religious name, first
profession followed on August 31, 1953, and he continued with philosophical studies
in River Forest and theological courses in Dubuque, where he was ordained to the
priesthood on May 23, 1959.
Shortly after ordination, Father Sullivan was sent to Washington for graduate studies leading to a Doctorate in Theology. In 1961, he was assigned to St. Rose Priory in Dubuque to teach patrology and historical theology in the Studiuin and at Mount St. Bernard Seminary. He also served the Dominican community in Dubuque as Subprior, Master of Cooperator Brothers, Assistant Dean of Studies, and as Secretary of Studies.
To pursue his interests in teaching, research, and writing in a more pastoral setting, Father Sullivan was assigned to St. Thomas More Newman Center in Tucson, Arizona, in 1968, as Co-Director of the Center and as a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Arizona. Increasing cardiac problems interrupted his work at the Center and in April, 1969, he underwent surgery for a coronary arterial bypass. Two years later, he was assigned to the Western Dominican Province and the theology faculty at St. Albert's College in Oakland, California, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Close association with Mortimer Adler in the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago led to the publications of his research on the nature of religion in the 1976 and 1977 issues of The Great Ideas Today.
To help his sisters care for their aging parents, Father Sullivan moved to the faculty of St. John's College Seminary for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in Camarillo, California, in August of 1975. There he was able to continue his research on the philosophy of religion, and his book entitled Ideas o n Religion: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Religion was published in 1979.
During a meeting on accreditation at the Seminary on March 26, 1981, Father Sullivan was stricken with a severe heart attack. Emergency efforts to revive hint were not successful, and he died the same day at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo. Following funeral services on March 30 at his family's parish church of St. Justin Martyr in Anaheim, California, and on March 31 at St. Albert's Priory in Oakland, his body was taken to B enicia, California, for burial in the Western Province's cemetery at St. Dominic's Church.