People from Gratiot County, Michigan - People from Alma, Michigan, Joseph Victor Adamec, Ralph Rapson, Edward Hartwick, Emil Lockwood (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Alma, Michigan, Joseph Victor Adamec, Ralph Rapson, Edward Hartwick, Emil Lockwood, Robert D. Nesen, Dan Goggin, Chris Patrick, Bob Allman, Tim Moore. Excerpt: Joseph Victor Adamec is Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. Adamec was born on August 13, 1935, in Bannister, Michigan, and baptized in the village church of St. Cyril on September 1, 1935. His parents immigrated from Slovakia, his father Michal in 1913 and his mother Alzbeta in 1921. As his father made his way to Michigan, he worked in various coal mines, including one at Scalp Level, Pennsylvania. During that time, he attended Mass at SS. Cyril and Methodius Church in Windber, within the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. His early education took place at various public schools, starting with a one-room country school house. These included Ashley High School, during which time he served as president of his class for three of the four years and graduated Valedictorian in 1953. During his two years at Michigan State University, studying journalism and foreign languages, he served as co-editor of the dormitory newspaper. The decision to study for the priesthood was facilitated by his contact, while at Michigan State University, with Jozef Tomko, later Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, who was then Vice Rector/Economo of the Pontifical Nepomucene College in Rome. There he studied for six years, earning a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University. He was ordained by Cardinal Luigi Traglia in the Church of Saint Anselm in Rome on July 3, 1960, for the former diocese of his parents, the Diocese of Nitra in Slovakia. Following the completion of his studies, Father Adamec returned to Michigan where ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9408582