This is a photograph of Maryknoll fathers and seminarians playing a game. Frs. McCormack and Mullen are holding a pole with strings holding dangling food while the seminarian boys try to catch them in their mouths without using their hands. Rev. McCormack was born in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon, Eire. He joined Maryknoll in 1918, and was ordained in 1924. He was assigned to Fushun, Manchuria. Interned there at the outbreak of WWII, he was repatriated aboard the Swedish repatriation ship Gripsholm in 1942. Afterwards he worked in Latin America and the U.S. -- Rev. Mullen was born in Pittston, PA. He entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College, in 1919, and was ordained in 1928. He was assigned to Fushun, Manchuria, returning to the U.S. in 1937. He returned to Manchuria in 1939 and was repatriated aboard the Swedish refugee ship Gripsholm in 1942.
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