This is a photograph of "a Manchu scene-and it tells, by the overhanging straw roof on the new building that more Koreans are coming. With the great increase in the number of Koreans in Manchuria the missions here have another problem. Father Coffey, one of the three newly arrived priests, has been assigned to study the Korean language - to start work among them here next year." Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Coffey came to Maryknoll in 1934 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1937. He was assigned to Fushun, Manchuria, and after internment at the start of the War in 1941 was repatriated to the United States in 1943. He served in many positions in the United States before being assigned to Korea in 1949. Hurt in an auto accident in Korea, he eventually returned to Maryknoll.
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