Vancouver College - Collegian Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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His Excellency, Most Reverend WILLIAM MARK DUKE Archbishop of Vancouver Archbishop Duke was consecrated Bishop of Fasis and co-adjutor to the late Archbishop Timothy Casey of Vancouver in his native St. John on October 18, 1928. The new bisho t p said his first Mass in St. Patrick’s church at Twelth and Main on November 23, 1928. He dedicated himself to assisting his superior who was in failing health. When Archbishop Casey died in 1931, Archbishop Duke was confronted with the responsibility of planning for the religious care of a diocese that was to have the greatest growth of any group of parishes in Canada during the next two decades. On October 4, 1953 Archbishop Duke celebrated his Silver Jubilee, a quarter century of service to the archdiocese of Vancouver, Divinely entrusted to his care. HIERARCHY His Excellency, Most Reverend MARTIN JOHNSON Co-Adjutor Archbishop of Vancouver Vancouver’s newly appointed Co Adjutor, the Most Rev. Martin John- son, D.D., was formerly Bishop of Nelson, B.C. Born in St. Francis Parish, Tor- onto, he graduated from St. Michael’s College High School and was or- uained to the priesthood June 24, 1924 after attending St. Augustine’s Seminary. In Toronto he served at St. Helen’s Parish and Weston before being bursar of St. Augustine’s Sem- inary. At the time of his appointment as First Bishop of Nelson, July 18, 1936, he was Chancellor in Spirituali- bus of the Toronto Archdiocese. Archbishop-elect Johnson was con- secrated in St. Michael’s Cathedral by His Eminence James Charles Car- dinal McGuigan on Sept. 29, 1936 and arrived in Nelson Oct. 22 of the same year. He came to Vancouver to be formally installed in March, 1955.

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REV. BROTHER J. C. BATES Principal of Vancouver College Bro. Bates, a native of Halifax, N.S., arrived from the U.S. to take over as principal of V.C. in Sept. ’54. He was Director of Personnel Ser- vices and Instructor in Psychology at Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y. prior to coming here. He was educated in St. John’s Nfld., and Halifax be- fore attending Fordham University in New York where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. He obtained his degree of Master of Arts in Guidance and Person- nel, and took post-graduate work for his doctorate at St. John’s University and New York University. His teaching career started in 1938 when he was first assigned to Sacred Heart School in Manhattan. Suc- cessive assignments took him to St. John’s, Nfld., for eight years, New York for four years, and finally to Iona College until his appointment brought him to Vancouver College.

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CHAPLAINS ! Very Reverend Msgr. M. T. NICHOL, V.G. Pastor, Sts. Peter and Paul REV. FATHER J. REITER Assistant Vancouver College has no chaplains it can really call its own, but two priests of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, Monsignor Nichol, the pastor, and Father Reiter, his assistant, have ably filled this position. Monsignor, a native of Saint John, New Brunswick, attended St. Joseph’s University there and was ordained at Saint John in 1925. In 1937, five years before coming here, he was named Papal Chamberlain, and in 1948, Domestic Prelate. Later in the same year he was selected as Vicar General of the Arch- diocese of Vancouver. Father Reiter, who hails from Tramping Lake, Sask., attended Laval University, Quebec, and was ordained here in Vancouver. Father came to Sts. Peter and Paul in 1952 to succeed Father Keilty. Both take a great interest in the school. Every Thursday preceding a first Friday finds them hearing con- fessions of the entire student body. They are always active for our spirit- ual welfare and in this we are ex- tremely grateful. 8