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Show Be sure to stop in to see us if you a re in this area. We will welcome you and we can have a cold bottle of 1- pop together while taking in the view. It's great from here! J eannette and Catherine Susan Gnd Helen greet yo-u.... ..,,_. ....... ,.--. MISSION PORTRAITS-BROTHER JUNIPER "J ust for a year-to help Father Liebler get some Mission buildings up," the Superior of the Order of St. Francis in Long Island told Brother Juniper in October of 1943. So Brother dutifully packed his bag and took off for the desertlands of southeast Utah .. . for a year. Twenty-one years and nine months later . .. here's Brother Juniper - still in the desertlands of southeast Utah! That year must be just about the longest on record. Things have changed a bit, of course. There's a fine paved highway through Bluff, a good gravel road to the Mission; the sagebrush and tumbleweed have given way to trees and garden patches; the spring in the bluff behind the Mission has been replaced by an artesian well; and the tents in which the first missionaries lived have been replaced by many buildings. And for much of the growth of the Mission plant Brother Juniper has been responsible. Aside from helping in the building, Brother operated the power plant when the Mission graduated from candles and kero- ... ,,.,.. ..... - sene lamps to electricity; he ~:;Z:~iIir"" took care of the livestock, maintained the steadily increasing mailing-list, cooked, baked and was general handyman. In his spare time he has become an influential member of the Bluff Chamber of Commerce and the Canyonlands Highway Assn . .; Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 20, 1901, the son of Frederick and Harriet Ford, Charles Hillyer grew up in Milwaukee and in Waupun, where his family moved in 1918. H e attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisc., a nd Ripon College. His first job was with the Waupun Canning Company. He attended the first course given for radio servicemen by the Milwaukee School of Enginee ring was later employed by the Shaler Company in the printing department. He was invited by the Vicar of Trinity Church in Waupun to help start a Young Peoples' Fellowship, and was later elected Diocesan Advisor of the YPF for the Diocese of Fond du Lac, and then Provincial Advisor for the 5th Province. H e became interested in the religious life through the inspiration and encouragement of Father George Lewis, then Vicar of Trinity Church, and in 1933 he tried his vocation with the Society of the Good Shepherd ("It didn't take"), then transfe rred in 1934 to the Order of St. Francis at Little Portion, Mount Sinai, Long Island, N.Y. H e arrived there in time to help remodel the old farmhouse into the Monastery. He was clothed with the habit of the Order on July 14, 1934 and in 1938 was transferred to the Chicago Hou!e and put in charge of St. Philip's Church. In the fall of 1939 he renovated the Chapel of St. Timothy's Church and was later transferred back to the Mother House on Long Island, where he was put in charge of the print shop. He also played nursemaid to the Monastery's herd of goats and handled the purchase of property for the sister Order of the Poor Clares. So he re's a toast to the stay-at-home missionary, the one who "minded the store" and kept the home fires burning while others were away on field trips, who has always seen to it that a hot meal was waiting when they returned tired and hungry, who has been ready at all hours of the day and night to take off on rescue missions or " hospital runs," who beats the Mission drum each year with pioneer tales for churches and groups, who has been one of the mainstays of St. Christopher's Mission for most of its 22 years - in short, to our own Brother Juniper! Mission to the Navajo Bluff, Utah 845 12 Sumn1er Newsletter 1965 A Miss ion of the EPISCOPAL CHURCH |