HOW THE YEARS GO BY...............

I'm sure all of us look back on the years of our life and wonder "Where have all the years gone?" It seems to me that people born around my time and earlier have seen so many changes in our society and certainly in the area of technology. I was born in 1933, still during the great depression. In so many ways all of us were poor in those days, at least poor as far as not having much money. But, perhaps we had many other things that people today do not have. They were happy years until the 2nd World War came along.

There were five boys in our family (no girls) This is one of the earliest pictures I remember of my younger brother and I. He was two years younger than me and the youngest of the family. He died of cancer in 1955

In the early part of September, 2010, it came to my mind that it was 62 years ago that I came to Conception as a sophomore in high school A very home sick boy for sure but here I am still here today. There have been a lot of changes in those years.

This was our sophomore high school class in 1948-49. I am in the 2nd row, far right.

I made my first vows in 1954 and was ordained a priest in 1959. So I have been professed for 56 years and ordained for 51 years. They have been happy years but of course many crosses too along the way.

Three friends and classmates in the early years of college:
from left, Bill Dunphy, Ralph Steffensmeier and myself .

I have worked many years in the seminary since my ordination but have also served in the Indian Missions in South Dakota and had many other jobs and positions in the monastery.

Below are a couple pictures from my days of working in the seminary.

Paul Vowell and Richard DeMeulenaere (now Fr. Martin OSB)

Dennis (Cassian) Heath and Ronald Montgomery (now Brother Bernard OSB)

Well, I think that's enough reminiscing for this time. We older people like to do that, don't we?

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