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Newsletter Until 1986 June 29 2015 1911 June 29 2015 Maryknoll Foundation 104 Years BROTHER FRANK Massachusetts as Physical Plant Manager, and from 1951 until 1961 he J. NORRIS, M.M. did boiler and general maintenance work at Maryknoll Junior Seminary th 65 JUBILEE (Venard), Clark’s Summit, Pennsylvania. Frank John Norris, one of five On March 28, 1961 he was children of Frank assigned to the Maryknoll Mission and Stella Reidy Region of Tanzania, East Africa. He Norris, was born on served in the Shinyanga Diocese for 14 February 14, 1926 years, doing construction work and in Cincinnati, Ohio. maintenance work in the various He attended St. missions of the diocese mainly in the Clare and St. Martin Parochial Schools, Buhangija mission. In September 1975 graduated from Elder High School, and he was assigned to the Maryknoll attended Xavier University for one and Brothers Mission Unit in Apia, Western a half years. Frank served with the Samoa, but withdrew from that United States Army Air Corps for two assignment and went to the Maryknoll and a half years, serving in the Asiatic Residence in Los Altos, California Pacific Theatre. He also spent one year where he was Physical Plant Manager in the Occupation Force in Japan for two years. In his early years as a immediately after World War II ended Brother, Brother Frank took specialized and was honorably discharged as a courses in carpentry and plumbing and sergeant on November 10, 1946. in 1977 took an intensive course in Photojournalism given by a former Life Frank became interested in magazine photojournalist. Also in 1977 mission through reading about and Brother invented and received a Letters spending time with people in foreign Patent for a miniature diode/battery lands and entered Maryknoll on power-pack device to illuminate various October 1, 1948. His Novitiate was beverage and cocktail glasses; however taken in Akron, Ohio where he took his he did not pursue its manufacture. first Oath of Allegiance on June 29, 1950 and chose the Religious Name of In August 1978, Brother Frank Brother Eric. He later went back to was again assigned to the Brothers Unit using his Baptismal name of Frank. in Western Samoa where he worked as Chancery Administrator and Technical Brother Frank was first assigned Director under Cardinal Pio Taofinu’u. to the Brookline Junior Seminary in The maintenance and up-keep of the School for five years and then various Archdiocese facilities were transferred to Grant School in included in his work schedule. Washington, D.C. He graduated from In October 1992 Brother Frank Western High School, Washington, D.C. entered the Special Society Unit, but During World War II he served in the remained working in Samoa until mid- U.S. Navy for three years in the Pacific 1997, when he returned to the United Theater and the Philippine Liberation States. In 2001 Society members who campaign and was discharged on at that time were in the Special Society March 3, 1946, as an Electrician's Mate, Unit were automatically considered to 2nd Class. He entered Maryknoll be members of the Retirement Society on October 1, 1948 at Community, which replaced the Special Maryknoll, New York. He attended the Society Unit. He was assigned to the Maryknoll Brothers Novitiate, Akron, Senior Missioner Community in Ohio, pronounced his First Oath of October 2014. Brother Frank now Obedience on June 29, 1950 and took resides in the Seminary Building in the religious name of Brother Luke. Maryknoll, New York, where he is near his many Maryknoll friends. After Novitiate he spent two years at Maryknoll Junior Seminary, Mountain View, California doing BROTHER LUKE R. general maintenance work and painting. In June 1952 he was BALDWIN, M.M. transferred to the Maryknoll Junior 65 TH JUBILEE Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, and during this assignment, studied for Thomas one year at the Wentworth Institute in Robert Baldwin, Boston. In 1953 he was assigned to the son of Andrew Maryknoll Junior Seminary (Venard), and Roberta Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. While Cassell Baldwin, there he studied at the Franklin was born in Mt. Technical Institute for automotive Rainier, service and management. His studies Maryland, on included training in electricity, welding, January 28, 1924. He has three machine shop, applied mechanics, brothers and three sisters. He diesels, construction and repair of attended East Riverdale Elementary motor power units. At the Venard he and considers this the highlight of his was also in charge of the boiler room. mission career. In January 1993 he was assigned to the Special Society Unit On April 9, 1957 he received his (Senior Missioner Community) and first Mission assignment to the returned to the United States. Maryknoll Mission in the Pando Although retired he worked for five Vicariate, Bolivia. Although he never years for St. William’s Parish in Round acquired a great command of Spanish, Rock, Texas as Plant Engineer. In he did excellent maintenance and September 1999 Brother Luke retired mechanical work in the missions of the from this ministry and took up Vicariate. While on home furlough in residence in Los Altos, California where 1963 he was assigned to Maryknoll was active in the Veterans of the College, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, for a brief American Legion in the Los Altos area time. On March 25, 1964 he was posts. In May 2015, Brother came to transferred to Maryknoll's Mission in Mission St. Teresa in Maryknoll, New the Guatemala-El Salvador (Central York. America) Region. Brother Luke continued with his excellent service work of maintenance and teaching of mechanical trades in the Mission. He BROTHER was of great assistance to a group of DePORRES STILP, five Mexican Sisters who worked among the poor and the Indians and M.M. staffed a dispensary and a school for 60 th JUBILEE 700 students. Although his time in South and Central America changed Frederick from Bolivia, Honduras and El Salvador, Lawrence Stilp was born on August 6, the great majority of Brother Luke’s 1932, in Wilkes- mission work was in Guatemala. Barre, Pennsylvania, Brother Luke taught many Catholicism the son of George A. classes to the children of Guatemala’s and Mary Bakesz- rural areas. Tribsky Stilp. He attended St. In March 1983 Brother Luke was Boniface Grade School and G.A.R. Memorial High School, both in Wilkes- granted special leave to attend the Barre, Pennsylvania before entering the Spiritual Renewal Program in Israel, Maryknoll Brothers' Novitiate at Brookline, Massachusetts on September Catechetical Committee of Korea, which 27, 1953, where he took the religious developed many catechetical textbooks name of Brother DePorres. and visual aids. The most important of these works was an elaborate set of He took his First Oath of Sunday School textbooks for all grades. Obedience to the Maryknoll Society on June 29, 1955 and was assigned to In 1987 Brother DePorres was Maryknoll, New York, in 1957 as one of assigned to Rome, Italy. The following the Brother-trainers at the newly year he joined Fr. Thomas Forrest, an established St. Joseph's Training Institute American Redemptorist priest and for Maryknoll Brothers. He was founder of Evangelization 2000 , in assigned to Korea in May 1960. Rome to assist him with his international magazine. From 1962 to 1971 Brother worked as a member of the secretarial staff of Since 1991 he has been working on Bishop James V. Pardy of the Cheong Ju an eight-volume book project entitled, Diocese. During those years he was also Catholic Evangelization for the 1990’s: responsible for some of the diocesan An Evangelization Reader , which he youth activities. hoped to distribute to all the bishops of the world. Brother DePorres was From 1971 to 1973, he was part of assigned to the U.S. Region in 1994, and the St. John Bosco Vocational Training he joined the Retirement Community in Institute staff in Seoul, where September 2000. He currently resides at underprivileged teenagers were afforded Mission St. Teresa at Maryknoll, New free training in practical skills. From York and is a member of the Senior 1973 to 1974 he was assigned to Pusan, Missioner Community. where he worked with the Maryknoll Catechetical Committee in Korea developing catechetical textbooks and BROTHER JOHN J. visual aids. In 1971 Brother DePorres became involved with the new Catholic BLAZO, M.M. Charismatic Renewal which first came to missionaries in Korea. By 1974 this new 50 th JUBILEE spiritual program was introduced to the entire Korean Catholic Church, where it John spread to the entire Church. Brother was Joseph Blazo was the International Coordinator responsible born in Rockville for inviting leaders of the Renewal to Centre, New York Korea annually. on October 18, 1945, son of In 1974 he moved to Seoul to Joseph and Helen continue the work of the Catechetical Uliano Blazo. He Committee in that city. He was also an has two sisters. active member of the National He attended Our Lady of Loretto Parochial School and access to reading materials. graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York in Brother John was recalled to the June 1963. He entered Maryknoll United States in July 1982 for work in Brothers Novitiate in Brookline, Maryknoll’s Development Department. Massachusetts on June 29, 1963 and From 1985 to 1988 he worked on the pronounced his First Oath of Obedience staff of the Brothers’ Formation Team on June 5, 1965. He took a two-year in the South Bronx, New York and in Liberal Arts course with a major in Westchester County at the Kitchawan Social Service at Westchester Brothers’ Formation House. In 1988 he Community College, Valhalla, New returned to the Development York and received an Associate in Arts Department, working in the degree in June 1969.
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