Gallery 214

1st September 1955, on the day of the official opening of St Augustine's, Blacklion,
We are most grateful to the following for the work involved in identifying the people in the photograph :
Olivia O'Dolan, Bud Greene, Patsy Smith, Fr O'Dowd (Kilmore diocese) and Eugene MacBride

Pat Gritton found an April/May 1988 edition of the White Fathers White Sisters
magazine in his loft recently, from which the following extracts have taken.

•Those of you who were at The Priory in the 50's will remember both the Editor
(Fr Richard Calcutt WF) and the Circulation Manager (Fr Alan Thompson WF)

(source : WF/WS Magazine No 279 — April-May 1988)

Staff and students of the White Fathers' Spiritual Year Centre (Noviciate) in Switzerland.
The students come from Ghana, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Zaire, Rwanda, Spain, France and Nigeria.

Donald Macleod writes (18th July 2005) : " Here is some information about the photograph of the Fribourg novitiate that year.
( L-R) : Fr.Andreas Goepfert, André Yumugabi RIP, Fr. Yves Masquelier (Staff), Guillaume Nock (ex), Fr Patience Tshombo (Cgk), Br. Jerome Kodjo (BF), Fr. Joseph Buholzer (Staff), J-B Boucu (ex), Fr. J-M Cantal (Alg), Cajetan Inwachuku (Nig.)(ex), Element Taktu (ex), Angelo Stoicu(ex), Gustavo Bertelli (ex), Fr Willi Ngumbi, Fr. Paul Hannon.

In the middle is Fr Richard Dandenault, Superior, and Brother Simon Gornah who provided the information."

"Missionary Movements" :

ARRIVALS

Father John Sandom (Reading) from Australia
Father William Brennan (Glasgow) from Kenya
Father Aylward Shorter (Ipswich) from Australia
Sister Marion Carabott (Malta) from Frascati

DEPARTURES

Sister Catherine McGrath (Glasgow) to Tanzania
Father John O'Donohue (Chorlton-cum-Hardy) to Jerusalem
Father Patrick Fitzgerald (Southsea) to Zambia

(source : WF/WS Magazine No 279 — April-May 1988)

New Provincial in USA

Congratulation to Father John Lynch WF who has been appointed as the new Provincial of the White Fathers in the United States. He comes from Newmills, Fife. Ordained in 1962, Father Lynch was first appointed to Uganda but due to ill-health was unable to go there. He taught for some years at the junior seminaries of the White fathers in England and Scotland before being appointed to Rutherglen for missionary promotion work where he served for six years until joining the United States Province in 1972. In 1986 Father Lynch attended the General Chapter of the Society as a delegate for the USA. Our very best wishes and prayers go to Father, as he begins his three year term of office.

(source : WF/WS Magazine No 279 — April-May 1988)

Some familiar names from the Obituary Column:

Fr Thomas Dooley WF Ratho
Br Alphonse Toland WF Eire
Fr Thomas Stoker WF 15 Corfton Road, Ealing London
Mr John Heath St Leonard's, Manor Road, Twyford, Hants
(Former Choirmaster at Bishop's Waltham)

(source : WF/WS Magazine No 279 — April-May 1988)

Our thanks to Pat Gritton for supplying this copy of the White Father/ White Sister Magazine