St. Michael's Church

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

So many have helped the editor and compiler of this history in one way or another that he hesitates to list their names, lest through a faulty memory, some be unintentionally omitted. Yet he feels he must run that risk. For helpful information and research we are indebted to: Father James Kearns, Sister M. Ursula, Sister M. Philippa, Sister M. Monacella, Sister M. Dolores, Mrs. C. C. Campbell, Mrs. George Robinson, Mrs. John Collins, Frank A’Hearn, James Cullinan, M. M. Callahan, Joanne Shoaff, Staff of the Record Argus, Paul Larkin, Joseph Matovic, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Collins, Mrs. William O’Grady, James Doran, Evelyn Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kane, Mrs. Pasquale Giardina, Mary W. Junk, and Fred Smith; for help in securing photographs, to: Rt. Rev. Msgr. James F. Murphy, Father James Kearns, Father Andrew Weschler, Father Charles Hacherl, Father Alfred Watson, Father Felix Feilner, O.S.B., Sister M. Ursula, Mrs. D. F. Driscoll, Mrs. Robert Fordyce, Mrs. Fred Dambacher, Paul Moss, Fred Smith, Lucy Junk, and Mrs. Earl Stone; for proof reading and correction of the manuscript, to: Sister M. Edana, Sister M. Philippa; for valued assistance in typing the text, to: Mary Theresa and Jane Bronder, Joanne Shoaff, Ann Luciani and Roseanne Collins; for photography, to Edwin Lininger, Mr. & Mrs. Hank Morgan & Paul Davis, Shenango Metalcraft; for a neat job of lay-out, to: Victor Printing Company and Joseph A. Mulvey Advertising Service. Special thanks are due to Mr. Frank A’Hearn, who from the depth of a phenomenal memory, drew a sufficiently accurate rough sketch of the exterior and interior of our original church, to enable Mr. John Luptak, the artist, to furnish us with the fine drawings we have in this booklet.

Special thanks, too, are due to Father Charles A. Costello, pastor of St. Venantius’ Parish, Rouseville, Pa. and Historiographer of the Erie Diocese, for the account of Bishop Michael O’Connor’s visits to Greenville.

A final and heartfelt word of thanks is due to the many men, women and children of the parish who, under the supervision of Father James J. Kearns, Father Francis J. Johnston and Lloyd Reeher, our Sexton, cleaned, painted and completely redecorated our church so that it would be worthy of our Centennial services. Would that we had a list of all their names, for we should like to honor them by including them here. 

Our Centennial Fund Committee likewise deserves special mention for a job well done. At this moment, the men and women of this committee have raised over ten thousand dollars which will be used to liquidate our convent debt and to defray the expense of our Centennial Celebration. Fortunately we have their names and we are proud to list them below.  

Clerical Chairman - Father James J. Kearns

Clerical Co-Chairman - Father John C. Cronin

Clerical Co-Chairman - Father Francis J. Johnston

Lay Co-Chairmen - Paul Moss, Joseph Matovic, Joseph Delett

Under the leadership of the above were the following teams with their Captains, Co-Captains and team members:

Captain—Paul Moss; Co-Captain—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bova; Mrs. F. E. Hoovler, George Lawrence, Joseph Stanfa, Mrs. Edward Pinch.

Captain—Joseph Matovic; Co-Captain—John Bayuk; Peter Petcoff, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Holdos, Joseph Galus, Mrs. Evon Godinich, Roy Hagarman.

Captain—Joseph Delett; Co-Captain—Anthony Cianci; Phillip Scibetta, John Millero, Mike Isaaco, Thelma Donato, Paul DeLaureutis, Anthony Daniello, Nicholas Cianci, Marian Lorenzi.

Captain—Bernard Collins; Co-Captain—William Welton; Mrs. DeWitt   Ebbert, Mary W. Junk, William J. Saxe, Mrs. William Minnis, M. F. Mannion, Mrs. J. F. Baskin, Hugh Becker, John Strosser, Mrs. G. H. Myers, Mrs. C. O. Cowan, Miss Helen Hawes.

Captain—F. M. Brown; Co-Captains—-Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pierotti; Frank Cannon, Frank Catalona, D. J. McDonald, Robert B. McDonald, Joseph Neustupa, Mrs. Albert Deitz, Lenora Callahan, Mrs. Leo Frazier.

Captain—Dr. T. V. Holleran; Co-Captain--M. F. Callahan; Theodore Husted, Frank J. Mayer, L. E. Shaffer, Frank Daniello, Mary Donate, Robert Driscoll, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, W. C. Hawes.

Captain—Robert E. Stevens; Co-Captain—James F. Brown; Mrs. Charles Reuff, D. J. Addison, Norbert J. Ray, Mrs. F. J. Clavin, Albert G. Allgeier, Jack Hawes.

Captain—Norbert Mechenbier; Co-Captain—Gerald Whiteman; Mrs. John Driscoll, Mary Barrett, George Dunworth.

Captain—Ed Hughes; Co-Captain—George Callahan; Edw. Collins, Mrs. Leo Considine, James Cullinan, J. J. Fitzmartin, Mrs. Harold Geist, F. W. Reagle, Lawrence Sigler, Robert Jaxtheimer.

Captain—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gillman; Co-Captain—John Gedeon; Mrs. John Connelly, Mrs. Frank Stumpif, Joseph Haines, Mrs. C. A. Patterson, Mrs. Ralph Zimmerman.

From the 100th anniversary booklet on the church, 1950. 

Submitted by Linda Doyle-Genik.

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