Miss juju The Naughty LuvBug is Owned By...'s blog: "My lil island, Kwajalein"

In Memory of Father Leonard Hacker Father Hacker dedicated 50 years of his life as a Jesuit priest. Hacker 89, died May 31, 2003, while living at Jesuit nursing home at Fordham University, NY. He was a builder, an educator, a translator... and a musician," said Father William Sullivan, S.J. A memorial service is tentatively set at Ebeye's Queen of Peace church, June 30. In 1952 propeller planes brought Hacker to Majuro and cargo boats arriving no sooner than every six months was the rule. Hacker's connection with the Pacific started 11 years before he landed on Majuro when, as a young seminarian, he was assigned to the Philippines. Conditions in the Manila turned ugly when Hacker, along with other Americans, was imprisoned by the Japanese when the U.S. entered World War II. From 1952 to 1978 Father Hacker built schools, church, rectory and convent and the same institutions on Ebeye from 1978 to 1992. Father Hacker idea of keeping the kids off the street was to simply teach them a musical instrument and have them march in a band, which is no small thing, refer to Father Hacker's school band picture, taken at one of the Kwaj Carnivals in the late 70's. After the Ebeye memorial, Hacker's ashes will travel to Majuro for a July 3 memorial ceremony at the Assumption Cathedral which he built. The plan is to inter the ashes in the cathedral in some kind of protected view area. Your footprints will remain on the sands of time in the Marshall Islands for an eternity ......oooO............... .....(....)................ ......)../....Oooo..... .....(_/.....(...)........ ..............(_/......... ........................... ......oooO............... .....(....)................ ......)../....Oooo..... .....(_/.....(....)....... ...............)../........ ..............(_/......... ........................... ......oooO............... .....(....)................ ......)../....Oooo..... .....(_/.....(....)....... ...............)../........ ..............(_/......... ........................... ... I WAS ............. .......... HERE ...... ..Leaving my ....... Footprints in your ..............SAND'