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Father Mike Morrow

There are some very fine posts here, and some foolish and irresponsible ones as well. The Salesians operated a residential grammar school for boys grades 4 through 8 here from 1925 to 1961, then a residential high school seminary from 1961 to 1985. I was a sstudent here in the mid 1960s. I served on the summer camp staff, as a Salesian Brother preparing for the priesthood, in the summer of 1975. The closing of the seminary had nothing to do with the death of Paul Ramos. There were 102 students in my freshman year (1966-67). Enrollment declined in the 1970s and '80s, the result of fewer vocations and the fact that those who did enter the seminaries did so at an older age. This was part of a national trend. Some of the insinuations in some of the posts here border on slander. I was a student here at the same time as Paul, Tim, Terry and the late German Martinez of happy memory. Many of our Superiors and teachers are buried in the Salesian cemetery here, the only part of the property still owned by the Salesian Fathersand Brothers. I am in Goshen once a month because I serve as local delegate to the Goshen Unit of the Salseian Cooperators, a lay group or "third order" founded by St. Jofn Bosco, who founded the Salesians ans the Salesian Sisters as well.

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