This is a photograph of Bishop Lane giving a student a diploma on the occassion of graduation from the Dairen [now Dalian] High School. Fr. Edmond Ryan stands at the podium behind Bishop Lane. Born in Massachusetts, Bishop Lane came to Maryknoll in 1913 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1920. In 1923 he went to Hong Kong to become the procurator of that mission. Two years later he went north and inaugurated the Fushun mission in Manchuria. In 1932 Monsignor Lane was appointed Prefect Apostolic and in 1940 Vicar Apostolic. He was consecrated a Bishop in 1940. After Pearl Harbor, Bishop Lane was interned by the Japanese in Fushun. Within a year of prepatriation, Bishop Lane was elected to be the third Superior General of Maryknoll. His tenure led to the greatest expansion at home and abroad for Maryknoll. -- Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Ryan took his First Oath in September of 1930 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1934. He was assigned to Fushun, Manchuria in 1934. At the outbreak of World War II he was interned by the Japanese and repatriated to the United States on the S.S. Gripsholm. For the duration of the war he served as a chaplain at the Japanese internment camps in Watson, Arkansas. He returned to Japan as pastor of various churches on the northern island of Hokkaido.
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