Maryknoll - Other Notable Maryknollers

Other Notable Maryknollers

• Maryknoll Seminary alumni
• Ron Hennessey, Maryknoll missionary
• James Keller, founder of The Christophers
• Thomas Frederick Price, one of the two Maryknoll founders. Fr Price was one of the first four Maryknollers to arrive in China in 1918. Price Memorial Catholic Primary School was founded in Hong Kong for the his labour in missionary work.
• Bernard F Meyer, Maryknoll missionary. Fr Meyer was one of the first four Maryknollers to arrive in China in 1918.
• Bishop James E. Walsh, Maryknoll missionary. Fr. James Edward Walsh was one of the first four Maryknollers to arrive in China in 1918. After the 'liberation" of China, Bishop James Edward Walsh was imprisoned in Shanghai by the Communist Chinese. He was suddenly released into the English controlled Hong Kong on 10 July 1970 due to the improving US - China relationship. He became the last American missionary to be released by the Communist Chinese government. A primary school named Bishop Walsh Primary School was set up by the Maryknoll Fathers in Hong Kong in 1963. The school is now run by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
• Bishop Adolph John Paschang, Maryknoll missionary. A primary school named Bishop Paschang Memorial School was set up by Fr. John M. Mcloughlin, M.M. in Hong Kong in 1969. The school is still run by the Maryknoll Fathers in Hong Kong
• Everett Francis Briggs, Maryknoll missionary, studied the history of the Monongah Mining Disaster of December 6, 1907 described as "the worst mining disaster in American History". After discovering there was no memorial, he sought to ensure that the victims of the tragedy were not forgotten.
• Brother Albert Staubli Bro. Albert was a lay Maryknoll missionary from Switzerland and was a very capable builder. Besides participated in the design and construction of the Bishop Ford Primary School in Hong Kong, the many buildings he erected in the Gate of Heaven Leprosarium in Kongmoon (the district is now called 崖門倉山Cang Shan, Ai Men, Guangdong Province, China) still stand there today. In particular, Bro Albert invented an opener for the windows in the community that allowed the lepers who had damaged or no fingers to open and shut the window by pushing on the head or the tail. The window opener also has a steel band attached that allows the person to use his arms to open or shut the window. These windows and their unique openers had to have been done in the final building phase of the late 1940s and are still in use today.
• Roy Bourgeois was ordained to the priesthood in the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in 1972, after which he worked with the poor in Bolivia until 1975. An outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America, he founded the non-profit human rights organization, School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) in 1990. In 2005 he was awarded the Thomas Merton Award for his work. Following his participation in a women's ordination-to-the-priesthood ceremony in August of 2008, he was warned of possible excommunication latae sententiae, marking the beginning of a four-year-long period of discussion and negotiation between Bourgeous and the Church, through the Maryknoll Society. Finally, on November 19, 2012, it was announced that Bourgeois had been officially canonically dismissed from both the Maryknoll Society, and the Roman Catholic priesthood, effective October 4, 2012.
• Fr. Vincent Robert Capodanno former Maryknoll missionary, Servant of God, and Medal of Honor winner during the Viet Nam War as a Navy Chaplain attached to the US Marines. He did his missionary work in Taiwan.
• Fr. Joseph G. Healey serves in Kenya. He is noted for his innovative use of proverbs and other local verbal arts in ministry.