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~ Leopard Special Memories & Stories ~ |
Leopard Memories:
Oak Cliff Memories______These days teens in my city complain about having nothing to do. In my teen days in Oak Cliff, we ............read more
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Leopard Memories:
The "Queen of the Wallflowers" - class of 1956 (at least that's how I thought of myself back in the good ol' days)...........read more
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Growing up, my world revolved around Wynnewood Village. My earliest memories of Wynnewood were one row of stores, beginning with a Skillens Drug Store and ending
with...........read more
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Leopard Memories:
Graduated 1972
I still have fond memories of growing up in Oak Cliff. Swimming @ Kids Springs during the
summer months. Waiting for the ice cream man Mr. Reed.........much more
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Fr. Denis Edward O’Brien, M.M. Inspiring Alum
October 8, 1923 - August 29, 2002
 Fr. Denis Edward O’Brien, M.M. (Maryknoll Missioner) was born in old St. Paul’s Hospital in Dallas, October 8, 1923. He was in
danger of death and was baptized in the hospital. After the ceremonies his godparents went to the Blessed Virgin altar and committed him to her care. Later, at our Lady of Good
Counsel elementary school in Blessed Sacrament parish, the nuns said that must have saved him from reform school.
After graduation from W.H. Adamson High School in 1940,
Father, a child of the depression, found work as an errand boy at Neiman-Marcus and later as a clerk at the Dallas Power and Light Company. In 1941 he went to St. John’s
Seminary in Little Rock, and after Pearl Harbor he decided to serve his country. He returned for a while to the Light Co. and when he was 18 was accepted by the U
.S. Marine Corps. After boot camp he was sent to Camp Elliott, CA for training as an artillery forward
observer. Father was very privileged to join the First Marine Division FMF (Fleet Marine Force) in Melbourne. The veterans of Guadalcanal were still recuperating from wounds, starvation and malaria.
He participated in three campaigns, Café Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. There were no desk jobs
during campaigns! After he was mustered out with an honorable discharge in November, 1945, Father
applied to Maryknoll, a mission society. He had seen the results of missionary activity in the Pacific
islands. The Catholics in Peleliu had been denied the sacraments for at least twenty years. When they assisted at their first Mass their reverence was awe inspiring.
After ordination on June 13, 1953, Father was assigned to Tanganyika. In 1957 he was recalled for
vocation and fund raising activities. In 1957 he was assigned to the Maryknoll Missions in Yucatan,
Mexico. He lived mostly in the jungle area where modern facilities were almost unknown, especially running water and light. During those years he was able to obtain by correspondence post-graduate
studies in the Social Doctrine of the Church and the History of the Ecumenical Councils. In 1972 he was
elected the Mexican Region’s delegate to the Maryknoll General Chapter. After the chapter closed in
January of 1973 he was assigned as pastor of the Parish of the Resurrection in Mexico City. Life was
fairly easy there. (In 1971 he had taken on the Parish of San Camilo de Lelis in Mexico City—110,000 parishioners, at times without an assistant!)
Father served as the National Chaplain of the First Marine Division Association, Spiritual Director of the
American Life League and Chaplain for the K.C. Council 799. Fr. Denis enjoyed watching documentaries
on TV, steak and mashed potatoes, Hershey’s and studying. He always knew what it meant to say,
"Get your gear on, boys, we’re moving out again. Make your packs light and keep your voices thin."
courtesy of: Burch Lovely click-here for complete story
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