Assumption High School - Crusader Purple Raider Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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by DESIRE BA RATH PAGE TWENTY-SIX

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♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ With a keen wit and a keen mind, Father John McIntyre moved fast through life. Anyone who ever saw him mounting the four flights of stairs to the old Jews Flat at St. Michael ' s will vouch that there was a symbol of his spirit. He was a dying man during his last few years at Assumption, but he could not rest. He worked in the Bursar ' s office, handling the books and records: not an easy job at Assumption College. He was not in the public eye here, but before his breakdown, he was intensely active at Basilian schools in Detroit and Toronto. A good teacher, a tough teacher, he was always interested in the problem students, the boys on the verge of expulsion. Somehow, he under¬ stood them. He let them talk, let them bring their troubles in the open; then he made suggestions. They were practical suggestions too, bred of long experience, not impracticable theories or dry sermons. There are graduates successful today, who were once given up by other staff-members, even by their families. When you meet them they talk of one Basilian only: Father Johnny McIntyre. You could talk to him, they say. When people say that about a priest, they imply many things: understanding, patience, sympathy, charity, friendliness and generosity. Perhaps especially generosity. When death came, Father McIntyre fought it with little more than his nerve. He lay on his death-bed grinning weakly at the worried faces about him. The source of that final courage was an invincible faith. When he was blessed by priest friends, his right hand would creep weakly and slowly up to make the sign of the cross. He always found strength for that. Loyal himself, he had faith in the loyalty of Christ. It is perhaps more than coincidence that his skill at showing people how to meet problems successfully never lessened. He was practical even to the end: for by his own death he showed us how to die.

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