Fr. Eugene J. Power, SJ
Served in Jamshedpur, India for 40 years

Fr. Eugene J. Power S.J. was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on September 29, 1919, the son of John Power and Helen Ciemneski. He was baptized into the holy Catholic faith in St. Mary's Church in Plainsfield, NJ, and graduated from St. Peter's High School, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1938. He entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on September 22, 1938 at St. Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville, PA, where he made his first ascetical and literary studies from 1938 to 1942. Weston College, Weston, MA, conferred on him an A.B. degree in 1948 and an MA on completion of his philosophy program there in 1945.
Fr. Power was then assigned to Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, MD, where he taught the sophomores mathematics and French from 1945 to 1948. He came to Woodstock College, MD, in 1948 to begin theological studies, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood on June 17, 1951 by Baltimore Archbishop Francis P. Keough. He completed studies in spirituality and ascetical theology at the Jesuit House at Auriesville, NY, in 1953, and made solemn profession in the Society at St. Mary's Church, Jamshedpur, India, on February 2, 1956.
Fr. Power's first priestly assignment, after a year of preparation for the Maryland Province Jamshedpur mission, was to Jamshedpur, India, in 1957. Here he taught both in Loyola School and in the Xavier Labour Relations Institute from 1954 to 1970. From 1970 to 1974 he functioned as teacher and administrator in De Nobili School, Dhanbad, India. The year 1995 saw Fr. Power return to the United States to undertake pastoral ministry and Jesuit Community services at St. Isaac Jogues Community at Wernersville. This he did until 2001, with a two year hiatus from 1997 to 1999 when he functioned as chaplain to the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Cherry Hill, NJ.
Health problems prompted Fr. Power's 2008 move to the Manresa Hall care facilities in Merion Station, PA, where he continued his prayerful support for the Church, his brother Jesuits, especially the several Jamshedpur colleagues there with him, and for all who sought his help, until God called him home on January 1, 2012.

Fr. Richard Norman, SJ
Served in India for 27 years

Fr. Richard W. Norman, a Jesuit who served for 27 years in India, died of cancer September 12 in the Jesuit Community of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pa. A Jesuit for 66 years and a priest for 53, he was 84.

The son of John A. and Helen Cooke Norman of Hemstead, Long Island, New York, he was born August 23, 1927. He entered the Society of Jesus August 14, 1945, following graduation from Brooklyn Preparatory School in New York. He pronounced his first vows August 14, 1947.

Following studies at Woodstock College from 1949 to 1952, he was assigned to Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. where he taught physics for a year. He continued his theological studies at De Nobili College in Poona, India, from 1955 to 1959.

Fr. Norman was ordained a priest at St. Joseph’s Church in Jamshedpur, India, March 25, 1958. He continued serving the people of India for the next 27 years. Many of his assignments were at the Xavier Labour Relations Institute, a large and influential university sponsored by the Jamshedpur Province, where he was a math and philosophy teacher, minister, administrator and director. Other assignments included serving as socius to the provincial, director and rector at Loyola School in Jamshedpur, and building a spiritual center for Loyola School.

He returned to the United States only briefly during that time, first on sabbatical and then to serve the community at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a year.

In 1985 Fr. Norman was assigned minister at the University of Scranton. He remained there until 1991, when he was assigned to Saint Joseph’s University and served as minister from 1991 to 1994, and guestmaster from 1994 to 1995. That year, he moved to the Jesuit Community in Wernersville where he served for five years as coordinator of the Brady Wing, the assisted living wing. In 2001, he became a minister for the Jesuit Community and served there until his death.

Fr. Edward C. Bradley, SJ
Doctor served the poor, counseled medical students

Fr. Edward C. Bradley, SJ,died of kidney failure June 8, at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine and taught for more than 30 years. A Jesuit for 37 years and a priest for 32, he was 82.

The son of Marie Cecilia Wood and Edward Charles Bradley of Philadelphia, he was born July 18, 1928. He was a graduate of St. Joseph's Preparatory School and earned his bachelors degree from Saint Joseph's College (now University) in 1951 and his MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1955.

Dr. Bradley interned at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia before going to the U.S. Navy School of Aviation Medicine in Pensacola, Florida, where he served as a flight surgeon and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander.

Additionally, he completed fellowships in cardiology at the University of Goteborg in Sweden and in cardiovascular research at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He joined the USC faculty in 1964 and was made assistant professor in 1966 and was co-investigator of the circulatory shock unit.

When Dr. Bradley learned of a Jesuit priest in Vietnam in dire need of medical supplies and assistance, he gathered equipment and took it to two Vietnamese villages. He opened clinics there, focusing on tuberculosis and polio cases. He appealed to President Richard Nixon for supplies. Nixon responded with supplies and personnel to inoculate some 8,000 villagers, virtually eradicating the disease in these areas.

In 1974, he resigned from USC to enter the Society of Jesus at the novitiate at Wernersville, Pennsylvania. He professed first vows Sept. 11, 1976. He continued the practice of medicine and in 1975 joined the faculty of Jefferson Medical College. In 1977 he went to study for a master of divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California. During his studies he practiced medicine at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco and the USC/Los Angeles County Hospital.

Fr. Bradley was ordained a priest June 9, 1979, and served a pastoral year at Old St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia. The following year, he opened a medical practice in North Philadelphia to care for the poor and rejoined the Jefferson faculty. In 1987, he began serving as a counselor to faculty and students at Jefferson, a position he held until last year.

The medical school honored Fr. Bradley's work several times. The graduating class in 1991 presented his portrait to the university. He received the Clarence E. Shaffrey SJ award from the medical alumni of Saint Joseph's University in 1999. And in 2008, the year after he retired from teaching, Saint Joseph‚s University Medical Alumni Chapter established the Edward C. Bradley, S.J., M.D. '51 Medical Alumni Award.

Fr. Edward H. Nash, SJ
Jesuit missionary served in India for 57 years

Fr. Edward H. Nash, SJ, a Philadelphia native who spent 57 years ministering in India, died May 11 at Manresa Hall, near Philadelphia. A Jesuit for 77 years and a priest for 64, he was 94. A Mass of Christian burial was offered at Manresa Hall Monday, May 16.

Edward Nash, son of Frank M. Nash and Mary Harley, was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 29, 1916. Following graduation from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia in 1932 at age 15 and a year of employment at a brokerage firm, he entered the Society of Jesus on Aug. 14, 1933 and pronounced his First Vows on Aug. 15, 1935. He made his Final Profession in the Society on Aug. 15, 1950 in Jamshedpur, India.

As a Jesuit Scholastic, Fr. Nash went to teach English to Juniors at Gonzaga High School, Washington, D.C. (1940-1941) and math, English and aeronautics to sophomores at Loyola High School, Towson, (1941-1943), Fr. Nash pursued theological studies at Woodstock College, Maryland from 1943 to 1947, where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 23, 1946.

In 1948, along with two fellow Jesuit priests and three scholastics, Fr. Nash set sail from New York to India, where, as a Jesuit missionary, he engaged in various ministries for 57 years from 1948 to 2004. Upon his arrival in India, he stayed only one day in Bombay and then left for Gomah, where he acted as treasurer of the Jesuit Community at De Britto House and studied Hindi. The following year, Fr. Nash was assigned to St. Xavier’s Church in Chaibasa, a parish with two orphan homes started by nuns in the 19th century. He served at St. Xavier’s in Chaibasa as minister, parochial vicar and prefect of the school from 1949 to 1954, minister and treasurer 1959 to 1961, spiritual father and teacher of religion and physics in the high school from 1966 to 1968, at the Tribal Center: Language & Culture from 1982 to 1987 and as house and school treasurer from 1982 to 2004.

Between and after his assignments at St. Xavier’s in Chaibasa, Fr. Nash was appointed pastor at St. Michael’s Church, Bandgaon (1954-1959), Sacred Heart Church, Adra (1961-1964), St. Joseph’s Church, Anandpur (1964-1965), and St. Anthony’s Church, Dhanbad (1968-1972), a “railroad parish” in industrial town where he started two schools, one for students with leprosy and also a middle school that is now a high school. While at Dhanbad, he often traveled 50 miles by motorcycle on Sundays to offer Mass in villages of lepers — sometimes offering as many as 22 Masses a week. Fr. Nash also served as parochial vicar at Christ the King Church, Chakradharpur (1972-1978), pastor at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Telco Colony, Jamshedpur (1778-1980), and acting pastor at Catholic Ashram, W. Bengal (1980-1981).

Upon returning to United States, due to age and failing health, in 2004, Fr. Nash was assigned to Manresa Hall, Merion Station, where he prayed for the Church and the Society until his death.

Fr. Frederick A. Homann, SJ
Math professor at Saint Joseph's, Loyola, ministered in Manitoba

FR. Frederick A. Homann,SJ, a math professor at Saint Joseph’s University and Loyola University Maryland who spent several years ministering in a Manitoba parish, died of a heart attack on Aug. 24, 2011, at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.A Jesuit for 63 years and a priest, he was 82.

Fr. Homann, son of Frederick Adolph Homann and Lauretta Augusta Keene, was born in Philadelphia July 3, 1929. Following graduation from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia and a year of study at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, he entered the Society of Jesus Sept, 7, 1947 and pronounced his First Vows on Sept. 7, 1949. He studied philosophy at St. Louis University in Missouri, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1951, followed by a licentiate in philosophy in 1954 and a master’s degree in mathematics in 1956.

He earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1959. As a Jesuit Scholastic, he taught mathematics at Loyola College (now University), in Baltimore from 1958 to 1959. After studying theology from 1959 to 1963 at Woodstock College in Maryland he was ordained to the priesthood June 17, 1962, and received a Licentiate in Theology in 1963.

He returned to Loyola as professor of mathematics and chairman of the department from 1964 to 1970. He made his final profession in the Society of Jesus at Loyola on August 15, 1965.

In 1970, Fr. Homann was assigned to Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia where he spent 27 years as professor of mathematics and department chairman.During this period, he was also appointed rector of the Jesuit Community from 1971 to 1974.

During a sabbatical, he went to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada to do pastoral work at Holy Canadian Martyrs Church, from 1994 to 1995. He returned to spend three years as pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Mission, Iqaluit Mission, NW Territories, beginning in 1997, and also engaged in pastoral ministry in the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba.

In 2000, Fr. Homann was transferred to Loyola Center, Saint Joseph’s University, where he served as a pastoral minister, house librarian and assistant chaplain to the Jesuits at Manresa Hall until his death.

Fr. Homann is survived by a brother, Alfred J. Homann of Medford, New Jersey.

Fr. Leigh Fuller, SJ
Jesuit for 57 years ministered in parishes, hospitals

Fr. Leigh Fuller, SJ, died May 16 in Merion Station, Pa. A Jesuit for 57 years and a priest for 44 years, he was 76. A Mass of Christian burial was offered May 19 at St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Church in Woodstock, Md.

The son of Leigh A. and Margaret Ely Fuller was born in Hawaii Feb. 2, 1935. Following graduation from Western High School in Washington, D.C., he entered the Society of Jesus Aug. 4, 1953, and pronounced his First Vows Aug. 15, 1955. He was ordained a priest at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland, June 11, 1966. He professed his Final Vows in the Society April 22, 1981.

Fr. Fuller studied at Woodstock College where he earned a bachelors degree in sacred theology in 1967. He earned both M.A. (1970) and a Ph.M. (1978) degrees in political science from New York University and completed clinical pastoral education at Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia.

His first assignment in 1960 took him to Georgetown Preparatory School where he taught English, Latin and civics until 1963. Following ordination, he went to Bronx, New York, in 1976 where he served at Sts. Philip and James Church for a year before focusing on local apostolates in the area through 1982. He then spent a year as a pastoral minister at St. Joseph’s Prayer Center in Albuquerque, N. M., before beginning ministry as a chaplain.

He was an assistant chaplain from 1983 to 1984 at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, chaplain at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore from 1984 to 1986 and then chaplain at Franklin and Marshall College from 1986 to 1987. He later spent 12 years as chaplain at St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington, W.V., from 1997 to 2009, until failing health forced him to retire to Manresa Hall in Merion Station where he prayed for the Church and the Society until his death.

In the intervening years he was an assistant pastor, first at St. Agnes Church in Baltimore from 1987 to 1994 and then at St. Gabriel Church in Charlotte, N.C., from 1994 to 1997.

Fr. Joseph Alminde, SJ
Philadelphia native was teacher at St. Joseph's Prep, Loyola, associate pastor at Old St. Joseph's

Fr. Joseph M. Alminde, SJ, a Jesuit for 61 years and a priest for 48, died of respiratory failure March 25 in Philadelphia. He was 80.

Fr. Alminde, a Philadelphia native, was born to Agnes A. Haughey and Frank Alminde February 14, 1931. Following his graduation from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in 1949, he entered the Society of Jesus. He earned his bachelors degree in classics from Bellarmine College in Plattsburg, New York, in 1955. He was ordained to the priesthood June 17, 1962, and pronounced his final vows February 2, 1981.

Assignments took Fr. Alminde to Philadelphia four times, to the Jesuit novitiate at Wernersville, Pennsylvania, and to Baltimore. As a scholastic, Fr. Alminde went to Philadelphia where he taught English and Latin from 1956 to 1959 and then again as an English teacher from 1964 to 1966. He was sent to St. Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville in 1966 where he was socius to the master of novices for brothers from 1966 to 1969. In 1969, he returned to St. Joseph’s Prep to teach religion and language. He remained there until 1985 when he was assigned to teach English and Latin at Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. He taught high school students there until 2000, also serving as minister there from 1985 to 1987.

After a sabbatical at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California, Fr. Alminde returned to Philadelphia in 2001. He was associate pastor of Old St. Joseph’s Church from 2001 to 2004 and then he was send to the Loyola Center where he was minister from 2004 to 2009. Until his recent illness, Fr. Alminde has continued to live at the Loyola Center, which is located at Saint Joseph’s University, serving as chaplain at the Visitation Convent. He was chaplain of the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers from 2005 until his recent illness.

Fr. John Martin, SJ
He served on Washington tribunal, faculties of Regis College, Georgetown University

A Mass of Christian burial was offered Feb. 17 for Fr. John F. Martin, SJ, who died Feb. 13. A Jesuit for 50 years and a priest for 36, he was 68.

Following ordination in 1974, Fr. Martin began his priestly ministry at Georgetown University, as a professor of theology from 1974 to 1976. In 1976, Fr. Martin began the study of canon law at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and continued his studies from 1977 to 1981 at the University of St. Paul in Ottawa, where he received a Licentiate degree in Canon Law. During this period, he made his final profession in the Society of Jesus Feb. 2, 1979, at the University of Ottawa.

From 1981 to 1986, while in residence at Holy Trinity Church, in Georgetown, Fr. Martin served as a member of the Archdiocesan Tribunal in Washington, D.C., and, from 1986 to 1997, held the position of professor of Canon Law at Regis College in Toronto, Canada. In 1997, Father Martin returned to Georgetown University, where he served as a canon law consultant and campus minister and prayed for the Church and the Society until his death.

Thomas E. Peacock, SJ
Philadelphia native taught in India, Burma, Washington, D.C.

Fr. Thomas E. Peacock, SJ, a Jesuit for 60 years and a priest for 47, died Jan. 12 in Merion Station, Pa.

A Philadelphia native, he was ordained to the priesthood June 16, 1963, and pronounced his final vows in Jamshedpur, India, in August 1980.

Except for short assignments at Gonzaga College High School and St. Ignatius Church in southern Maryland, as well as two years teaching in a seminary in Burma, Fr. Peacock spent most of his ministry in India. He spent 11 years at DeNobili School in Binhar where he taught chemistry and served the Jesuit community as minister and treasurer. In 1979, he moved to Jamshedpur to teach chemistry and serve as a student counselor at Loyola School. He remained there until 1996.

Fr. Peacock returned to the United States in 1996 and after studying at St. Mary’s Seminary began his ministry at St. Ignatius Church, St. Thomas Manor in 1997. He served there as associate pastor and pastoral minister through 2007.

Allen Paul Novotny, SJ

Gonzaga president had also taught at his alma mater, Loyola High School

A Mass of Christian burial was offered for Allen Paul Novotny, SJ, president of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 3, at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church. Fr. Novotny died suddenly Oct. 26. A Jesuit for 40 years and a priest for 28 years, he was 58.

Fr. Novotny, son of Edgar J. Novotny and Marie C. Gruss, was born in Baltimore, June 22, 1952. He entered to Society Sept. 5, 1970, and was ordained a priest June 12, 1982. Fr. Novotny made his Final Profession in the Society April 21, 1990. Fr. Novotny began his priestly ministry at Loyola College (now University) as assistant director of resident life from 1982 to 1983 and director of campus ministry from 1983 to 1989. He returned to Loyola High School to teach religious studies and German in the lower school from 1990 to 1994, after participating in the Jesuit Secondary School Administration Program at Fordham University from 1989 to 1990. He was province representative on the Commission of Provincial Assistants for Secondary Education from 1992 to 1996. In 1994, Fr. Novotny went to Gonzaga College High School where he served with distinction.

Fr. James A. Devereux, SJ
Former Maryland Province Provincial

DEVEREUX, REV. JAMES A., S.J., age 83, died Dec. 19, 2011 in Manresa Hall of St. Joseph's University. He was born in Phila., the son of the late Ashton and Elizabeth (Clark) Devereux. He entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at St. Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville, PA on July 30, 1945. He was the former Provincial Superior of the Maryland Province from 1984 to 1990. Reverend clergy, religious, relatives and friends are invited to his viewing on Mon., Dec. 26 in Manresa Hall Sunroom, 261 City Ave., Merion Station, PA from 2 to 4 P.M. and also on Tues., Dec. 27, from 10 to 10:45 A.M. in St. Matthias Church, 128 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bala-Cynwyd, PA, followed by a Concelbrated Funeral Mass at 11 A.M. Interment Jesuit Center, Wernersville, PA. In lieu of flowers, donations in Father's name may be made to the Gesu School, 1700 W. Thompson St., Phila., PA 19121.

Fr. Lawrence Madden, SJ
Jesuit for 59 years, liturgy scholar at Georgetown

Fr. Lawrence J. Madden, SJ, died of a heart attack May 29 in Washington, D.C. A Jesuit for 59 years and a priest for 46 years, he was 78. A Mass of Christian burial was offered at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C., where he was pastor from 1993 to 2000, June 4.

The son of Lawrence J. Madden and Maria Agnes Scally, he was born May 18, 1933, in Philadelphia. Following graduation from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia he entered the Society of Jesus July 30, 1951, at the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pa. He pronounced his First Vows July 31, 1953. He earned a B.A. degree in 1957 and M.A. in 1959 from Loyola Seminary at Fordham University.

As a Jesuit Scholastic, he taught English, mathematics and religion at Scranton Preparatory School from 1958 to 1961, before continuing his studies of theology in preparation for ordination. He was ordained a priest June 14, 1964, and made his final profession Nov. 6, 1971. Fr. Madden went to Germany in 1966, where he earned a doctorate in theology from the Liturgical Institute of the Theological Faculty at the University of Trier.

His first assignment in higher education from 1968 to 1971 was at Woodstock College, at both the Maryland and New York campuses where he was a professor of pastoral theology for three years and superior of the Jesuit community for two.

In 1971, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he remained for the rest of his life. He took on varied ministries at Georgetown University and Holy Trinity Church. He was director of campus ministries and professor of pastoral theology at Georgetown from 1971 to 1981. In 1981 he became director of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy (originally called the Georgetown Center for Liturgy, Spirituality and the Arts) and served as parochial vicar at Holy Trinity.

He was named pastor at Holy Trinity in 1993, a position he held until 2000. While he was there, he led restoration efforts of the original 1792 church and construction of a parish center.

After a year’s sabbatical at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fr. Madden returned to the Georgetown Center for Liturgy in 2001 where he again served as director. The center has sponsored Form/Reform: the National Conference on Art and Environment for Catholic Worship 13 times. Fr. Madden also was editorial director of Envision Church, a website on liturgy, spirituality and the arts. In May, he received the Elbert Conover Memorial Award, a national honor given to non-architects for contributions made to religion, art and architecture. He was also editor and co-author of several books on liturgy and American spirituality.

In addition, he was a professor of theology and professorial lecturer in theology at Georgetown until he died.

Fr. Joseph A. Kemme, SJ
Philadelphia native served as teacher, hospital chaplain, retreat director

A Mass of Christian burial was offered for Joseph A. Kemme, SJ, Jan. 31, at St. Matthias Church, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Fr. Kemme, who was 79, died at the Jesuit Center, in Wernersville, Pa., Jan. 26, of complications from pulmonary fibrosis. He was a Jesuit for 59 years and a priest for 46 years.

Fr. Kemme, son of Joseph A. Kemme and Margaret McDonough, was born in Philadelphia, on Feb. 27, 1931. He was ordained a priest June 14, 1964 and made his final profession in the Society April 22, 1974.

His priestly ministry included assignments in the classroom as well as in pastoral and spiritual ministries, such as directing retreats and programs in prayer, discernment and liturgy in local parishes. From 1969 to 1972, he served as an assistant chaplain at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. This was followed by an internship in directing the Spiritual Exercises from 1972 to 1976 at the Jesuit Center, Wernersville, before being assigned to Wheeling Jesuit University, in West Virginia as minister and treasurer of the Jesuit Community from 1976 to 1981 and retreat director and pastoral minister at the university from 1981 to 1989.He was later pastor of the Nativity of Our Lord Church, Wayne, WV, and retreat director at Loyola Retreat House, in Faulkner, Md, and then at the Jesuit Center, Wernersville, Pa.

Fr. Joseph Monaghan, SJ
He was chaplain at Philadelphia hospital for 30 years

A Mass of Christian burial was offered Feb. 4, for Joseph F. Monaghan, SJ, who served as chaplain of St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. Fr. Monaghan died January 29. A Jesuit for 71 years and priest for 58 years, Fr. Monaghan was 89.

Joseph Monaghan, son of Francis J. Monaghan and Catherine Delaney, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 12, 1921. He was ordained a priest June 22, 1952, and professed his final vows August 15, 1979.  
Among his early assignments were teaching at Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown Preparatory School, and at the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues, pastor of St. John Francis Regis Church, in Hollywood, Maryland, and parochial vicar at the Church of the Gesu in Philadelphia. In 1979, Fr. Monaghan was appointed the chaplain at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Philadelphia, an office he faithfully served for more than 30 years until 2010.

Fr. Joseph Hamernick, SJ
He was professor, dean at University of Scranton for 33 years

Fr. Joseph Michael Hamernick, SJ, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease Feb. 9 in Towson. Fr. Hamernick, who was 82, was a Jesuit for 61 years and a priest for 48 years. He spent 33 years at the University of Scranton, where he was chair and professor of communications an dean of the communications department for nearly a decade.

Fr. Hamernick was born in Stamford, Connecticut, July 16, 1928, the son of Joseph M.H. Hamernick and Margaret O'Rourke. He entered the Society of Jesus July 30, 1949, and taught English and history at St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia from 1956 until 1959. After theological studies at Woodstock College in Maryland, he was ordained a priest June 17, 1962. He made his final profession in the Society at Wernersville on August 15, 1965. He also earned two bachelor’s degrees from Bellarmine College in Plattsburgh, New York, in 1955, and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia in 1960. Fr. Hamernick taught elocution and speech to Jesuit students at the novitiate in 1964-65 prior to starting a Master's program in speech and drama at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Upon receiving his MA degree in 1967, he began teaching at the University of Scranton.

He taught in the English department until he became chair and professor of the communications department in 1984. His teaching and administrative work at the university continued until his retirement in 1996. Then for three years, he served as guestmaster welcoming visitors to the Scranton Jesuit community. Health problems forced Fr. Hamernick’s retirement in 2000.

Fr. Joseph E. Henry, SJ
Baltimore native was teacher of classics, administrator at Vatican Observatory

Fr. Joseph E. Henry, SJ, a Baltimore native who spent many years in Scranton, Pittsburgh and Tucson, Arizona, died May 5 of complications from pneumonia. A Jesuit for 63 years and a priest for 50, he was 82.

A Mass of Christian burial was offered May 9 at Madonna della Strada Chapel at the University of Scranton.

The son of Mary L. Murphy and Albert J. Henry of Baltimore, he was born April 4, 1929. He entered the Society of Jesus June 30, 1947, and was ordained to the priesthood June 19, 1960. He professed his final vows in the Society August 15, 1963. Fr. Henry entered the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues following his graduation in 1947 from Loyola High School in Baltimore.

He earned his BA in classics and Master’s degree in teaching, both from Bellarmine College in Plattsburg, New York. He earned his S.T.B. (Bachelors in Sacred Theology) from Woodstock College, Maryland, and lastly a Master’s in classical literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1974.

His first assignment in 1954-1957 took Fr. Henry to Scranton Preparatory School where he taught Greek and Latin. He returned there in 1984 as minister, a position he held for four years.

In 1962, Fr. Henry went to the Bishop’s Latin School in Pittsburgh where he taught Latin, Greek and religion for nine years before he was named principal in 1971. He remained there until 1974.

In 1984, he was named regional secretary of the American Assistancy at the General Curia, the international governing body of the Society of Jesus in Rome.

He returned to the States in 1988 and had ministerial assignments at the novitiate and Georgetown University before going to Tucson to serve the Vatican Observatory Community there from 1992 to 1997. He was treasurer, minister and assistant director, administrator, and vice superior. In 1997, he returned to Wernersville, where he was assistant to the minister.

In 2000 he served as a liaison to graduates of Bishop’s Latin School. He continued to serve in pastoral ministry at the University of Scranton community until his recent illness.