This is a photograph of retreatants at Fushun. [Back row] Frs. Flick, Henry, Escalante, Hewitt, O'Donnell, Donovan, Quirk, Bomber, Weis, Ziemba and Bro. Benedict. [Front row] Frs. Jacques, Michael Walsh [Korea], Geselbracht, Murrett, Bishop Walsh, Monsignors Lane and Morris, Chisholm [Korea], Kaschmitter, Ray and Mullen. Rev. Flick was born in Oswego, NY. After studying for two years at St. Michael's College in Toronto, he entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College in 1929, and was ordained at Maryknoll, New York in 1935. He was assigned that year to Fushun. In 1942 he was repatriated aboard the refugee ship Gripsholm. After a 3-year furlough working in the St. Augustine, FL diocese, he worked in Maryknoll's Bedford minor seminary. In 1947 he returned to Manchuria. When the Fushun mission had to be abandoned he was assigned to Kweilin (Guilin). In 1950 he returned to the U.S. -- Fr. Alonso M. Escalante was born in Merida, Mexico, educated in Catholic Schools in Mexico and the United States. He entered Maryknoll Preparatory Seminary in 1920 and was ordained a Priest on February 1, 1931. His missionary labors took him to Fushun, Manchuria, China and later to the Pando, Bolivia. In 1943 he was named by the Holy See as Vicar Apostolic of the Pando and Titular Bishop of Sora. He was consecrated a Bishop in Mexico City on May 9, 1943. In 1948, at the request of the Mexican Hierarchy, he was assigned to assist in the organizing of a Foreign Mission Seminary and Society for Mexico. He was the Mexican National Director of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, a member of the Commission and Post-Conciliar Commission on the Missions, and President of the Mexican Episcopal Commission on the Missions. He was in Hong Kong in 1967 to secure mission territory for his Mexican Priests, when he caught typhoid fever and died on June 21, 1967. -- Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Fr. Henry entered Maryknoll in 1922 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1933. He went to Manchuria and became a member of the famed "Manchu Dynasty" and spent from 1941-1942 in a prison camp. He was repatriated and returned to Maryknoll. He spent the remainder of the war years working with the "Field Afar" magazine. He returned to Manchuria in 1946 only to be forced out in 1948. He eventually was assig
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