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lt;CNPriests of Notre DameK.NOOK-JQle^I^ourJlorsemen’, who are presenUy~~carryingr the-retreat ball for Notre Dame are Re-deraptorist priests with wide experience in many fields.So“D♦ M lb.LL.ocI—DO4)k_zoUsiFather Gerald J. Whelan* the new rector, was appointed to his post on April 26 this year to succeed the late Father Michael Downing. No' stranger to the Rochester area, Fa-thgr7v: Whelaa jJOSfL^sqffisLjag* rector for five years at downtown St. Joseph’s Church.A Boston native, Father .Whelan did graduate studies at Catholic University and served five years as a chaplain during World War II. He was one of the few rescued ift a disastrous troopship sinking in the North Atlantic.rHis priestly service includes being a teacher, Iatet rector of the Redemptorists’ minor semi* nary, a member of his community’s mission band and vocation promoter.For the past six years, he has directed the retreat and mission band based at Holy Redeemer College, Washington, DC.Father Richard Moran, also a Bostonian, is retreat director atFather Whelan Father Moran#Notre Dame. After his ordination he was assigned to parish mission work with a home base in Suffield, Conn.An effective retreat master with all age groups, Father Moran has pioneered in conducting high school and college age seminars for young people.In this ecumenical age, he has been instrun^ntal in encouraging ministers and laypecj-ple of all faiths to share in seminars and days of recollection at Notre Dame.wFather Donald Fearon is an old Brooklyn boy who has had a varied apostolicjcareer. He has been a teacher, a home missionary in the deep South, a mill iomry in the Vir-Father Fearti Fr. RuumiAtogin Islands, an assistant novice master and a hospital chaplain.He has also fitted in a wide experience in parish missions and retreats during his forty years in the phesthood.Father Carl Hammond, t new arrival at Notre Dame, has spent most of his priestly life in the Puerto Rican mission field. During his forty years on that island, he started several new missions and parishes*When Bishop Janies McManus, another Redemptorist, conceived the idea for Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Father Hammond was called upon to help design the new campus buildings.Ia this work, he was by turn, architect, builder, engjneter and contractor. He also taught fora time at the new university.An avid , “ham” radio opera tor, Father Hammond founded a radio station, WEUC, under —-the university’s auspices. It was a full time operation, beaming programs 17 hours a day, seven days a week.He also produced weekly TV programs in Spanish, in order to spread the good news of ChrStl^tO~fhe ^Pferto *Rifcmpeople.Father John Flick, who served as a retreat master for . Notre Dame in Rochester and at the new Canandaigua Lakehouse, has just been transferred to the Redemptorist minor seminary at North East, Pa.His career includes seven.years „jbrigh school......and coklege teaching, and many years of preaching missions in the eastern and midwestem states.Father Flick has also served in parochial work and was rector of a large parish in the archdiocese * of Baltimore. *The many retreatants who have benefitted from *his retreat conferences and gift of understanding,, wish. him_,wfcU in his. new assignment.JSincere Good WishesTO« « *NOTRE DAMERETREATCharles .Hughes Sons, Inc.FONEHAL HOMES+GOODWISHESnFROMMAPLE FARMS CREIGliTONALL STAR DAIRYELMIRA, N. Y.■+1* %iflt;5X
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Rochester Catholic Courier Journal
Rochester, New York, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1967
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