A photograph of Maryknoll Fathers in Guilin. Fr. Teat is standing, seated from left to right are Frs. Welty, F. Donnelly, Glass, McLaughlin, Brach, Elwood and P. Donnelly. The men are sitting in a row in a field of grass. Born in Iowa, Fr. Glass entered Maryknoll in 1931 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 16, 1935. After ordination he was assigned to Wuchow in Southern China and served all of his time in the Kweilin area. He served as pastor of Laipo in 1937 and in 1939 as pastor at Yunghi and director of the catechist school. During World War II he served as chaplain with General Chennault's Flying Tigers. After the war he conducted a boys' town in Guangdung Province where he fed, clothed and educated orphans. In 1951 he was placed under house arrest for 5 months before he was released and returned to the United States. In 1955 he went to Taiwan as Pastor of the Chu Nan Mission in TaHu. -- Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Donnelly came to Maryknoll in 1921 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1928. He was assigned to Kaying, where in 1934, he was named Rector of the minor seminary. Ill health brought him back to the United States where he served on the teaching staffs at the minor seminaries. -- Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Brack came to Maryknoll in 1935, after receiving a degree at Holy Cross College. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1939. After ordination Fr. Brack was assigned to the Maryknoll mission in the Wuchow Vicariate, South China. During World War II he remained in China and served first as pastor of the mission in Taiwan and later Chungking. Among his pastoral duties was service to the U.S. military personnel in that area, for which he was awarded the Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service. He was named procurator of the Maryknoll house in Hong Kong in 1946. He returned to the United States in 1948 and because he had a talent with financial matters, he served in several positions for the Society in the United States. -- Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Donnelly came to Maryknoll in 1929 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1932 and assigned to Wuchow in South China. In 1940 he was appointed Society Superior for the Wuchow mission. He was imprisoned by the
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