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Show avajo Mountain Boarding School; then Saturday morning was the Eucharist for school children, workers and trading post people. Led by Larry the Vi ta worker, one group of men posed at home just before leaving for a work project. Navajo Mountain People are remote and isolated from 20th Century America. Yet the younger people speak English better t han most on the reservation. For many years there has been a good school. They have retained traditional ways of deep value and have chosen the better values of today's world while rejecting false ones. The grazing is better there and the need to change from a sheep-herding economy has not been so necessary up to this time. So t he old ways are still good and t he good new ways are in keeping with the old. Fat her Campbell was called February 9 by the Bishop to new work in Utah; four Frontier Corps workers departed that date also. Father Mitchell left March 1 to develop a priest-entertainer ministry in other areas of the Church 's work. Father Wayne and many faithful workers remain but regular visits will have to be s pread out over at least 2 months until priestly help arrives. Alta sends her love and thanks for your prayers. She will soon be back from the hospital. A joyous Easter to you all! MISSION PORTRAITS: Father Wayne and Jo Father Wayne, Jo, Alice, Mary Jane, Ann, John and Mark take a few minutes to pose in front of the fireplace. After meeting Father Liebler in Chicago in 1954 Father Wayne found a yearning for the prie thood and St. Christopher's Mission; Jo, a Registered Nurse, shared this calling and finally in 1958 both visited the Mission over a Thanksgiving Day weekend . Stepping off the opera stage in Chicago where he was playing trumpet, Father Wayne drove to the airport; Jo left from Michael Reese Hospital where she was working; together they fl ew to Bluff late at night. Brother Juniper greeted t hem next day with deer meat sandwiches. That weekend was all too short! In 1959 the family moved to Wisconsin - Father to begin three years of seminary at Nashota House. During summers of 1960 and 1961 t he family returned to help out at t he Mission; at t he end of 3 summers, Jo had delivered 27 babies! Finally in 1962, upon Father Liebler's official retirement, all arrived July 13 as Vicar and family at St. Christopher 's Mission. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "- ~ ~ |
