Personnel 

Bro. Tom Giardino (Chambers Street Marianist Community) has been assigned to the Maryland Avenue Marianist Community in St. Louis as he takes up his new position as assistant for education for the Province of the United States. Tom will move to St. Louis in late June or early July. We wish Tom well as he takes up these new responsibilities of service to the Province and to the wider church.

 

On April 12, Fr. Manuel Cort�s, superior general, ratified the recommendation of the Provincial Council to admit Bro. Brandon Alana to perpetual profession of vows as a lay religious in the Society of Mary. We offer Bro. Brandon our fraternal congratulations, and promise of prayers as his prepares for this great event in his life and ours.

The celebration of Brandon's perpetual vows will take place within the anticipatory Sunday Eucharist on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, at Mystical Rose Oratory on the campus of Chaminade University of Honolulu. The liturgy at 4 p.m. will be followed by a reception and dinner at Eiben Hall on the Chaminade campus. 

Sponsorship Commission   

The Sponsorship Commission - Chair Dr. Steve Neiheisel and members Dr. Marge Cavanaugh, Tim Fallon, Bro. Ed Brink and Dan Donnelly, director of the Office of Sponsorship - met yesterday in St. Louis to discuss the group's strategic planning process and recommendations from the General Administration report.

The Sponsorship Commission: Dan Donnelly, Marge Cavanaugh, Bro. Ed Brink, Steve Neiheisel, Tim Fallon and Pat Stephens, administrative assistant

Province Archives

We are excited to announce that Fr. Marty Solma and Dr. Tom Mengler, president of St Mary's University, signed a lease agreement on April 9 to use a campus building at Saint Mary's as the permanent repository of the National Archives of the Marianist Province of the United States. The 8,000-square-foot building is located at the Culebra entrance to the university and was formerly used by the City of San Antonio for adult education. In a separate lease agreement, the Province and university agreed to the continued use of space in Treadaway Hall where St. Louis Province materials have been archived since 1974. The Culebra building will be available for use in early 2016.  

 

Mary Kenney, Province archivist, is excited about the new space. "We are establishing a public, living archive for the entire Marianist Family. This will be a place of memory, honoring the Marianist brothers and priests who have built the physical, educational and spiritual architecture in the United States since 1849. It also will be a forum for research and interchange, supporting the Catholic intellectual tradition."  

 

Bro. Earl Leistikow, Mary Kenney, Bro. Brian Zampier, and volunteer Bro. Louis Ernst

Materials from the Pacific Province archives were moved to San Antonio in early April. Materials from Dayton and from Treadaway Hall will be moved to the new space over the next 8 months.   

  

Mary and Bros. Earl Leistikow and Brian Zampier are on the archives staff in San Antonio. Bro. John Habjan remains on the archives staff in Dayton. 

 

    

Preparation for construction of the Chaminade Center at Mount Saint John will begin in the next two weeks, with completion scheduled for January 2016. The Chaminade Center will be the new home of the North American Center for Marianist Studies and will include a "Marianist Family Room" for meetings.     

The center, which will be about 12,000 square feet, will be located between Meyer Hall and the Marianist Mission. View a sitemap of Mount Saint John. The parking lot in front of Queen of Apostles Chapel will be closed to store construction materials. 

Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati has begun a search for a new president. Saint Louis School in Honolulu has an opening for a campus minister. Please send these job postings to people who may be qualified. And please keep these schools in your prayers as they fill these positions.