Providence College - Veritas Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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25 The Most Reverend Russell J. McVinney was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Providence in 1948, and since that time he has demonstrated an active interest in Providence College. In one sense he might be said to begin each academic year at P.C., for every fall Bishop McVinney is on hand to celebrate the Mass of the Holy Ghost and to impart his episcopal blessing for the con- tinued success of the college. It is largely due to the efforts of His Excellency that P.C. retains such a large percentage of students from the Providence area, and he has often played an im- portant part in contributing to the direction in which P.C. has proceeded. His Excellency is currently contributing, with the same measure Very Reverend Robert L. Every, O.P. The Very Reverend Robert L. Every, O.P., was elected as Provincial of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph on November 13 of this year, at the Provincial Chapter meeting in Washington, D. C. At the age of 36, Father Every is the youngest Provincial in the entire Order of Preachers which comprises thirty-seven Pro- vinces throughout the world. Despite his young age, however, Father Every brings to his new office a wealth of experience that would rival that of many older men, After serving two years in the United States Navy, he enrolled in Provi- dence College where he received his degree of Artium Baccalaureus, He entered the Order of Preachers in 1948, and was ordained June 9, 1955. Since that time, he has served in the Dominican Mission in Beirut, Lebanon, until 1958 when he was assigned to St. Vincent Ferrer Priory, New York City, as Secretary to the then Provincial, The Very Reverend William D. Marrin. In 1961 he was elected Prior of St. Vin- cent's and appointed Pastor of St. Vincent Fer- rer Parish by His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Father Every deserves to share largely in the prayers of P.C.'s faculty and student body, for it is he who, to a great degree will be responsible for the College's con- tinued success. of devotion, to the success of the history-making Second Vatican Council, In gratitude for his contributions to the College, the students of P.C. offer their prayers for the benefit of the Bishop in his role as Providence's representative to the Council. Most Reverend Russell J. McVinney .1-.,,,,. LH

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