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Buffalo Pre-Novice Graduates and Heads for the Novitiate

  
     
 

 

Ben Roberts, an Oblate Pre-Novice from Bishop Fallon Community in Buffalo, NY, received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude) from D’Youville College on May 22, 2004.  The college, named in honor of St. Marguerite D’Youville, granted Bachelors and Masters degrees to more than 500 students in health sciences, education and the liberal arts.

 

Ben is a convert to Catholicism from North Carolina and has been a member of the Bishop Fallon Community, under the direction of Fr. George Kirwin, OMI, since 2002.  He will enter the Oblate Novitiate in Godfrey, IL in August after working at St. William’s parish in Tewksbury, MA, this summer.

 		  
 

The Bishop Fallon Community: l-r - Fr. Dwight Hoeberechts, OMI, Ben Roberts, Webert Merilan, Fr. George Kirwin, OMI.

The graduate

With Professors Robert Nielsen and John Abbarno of the Philosophy Faculty

With Sister Denise Roche, GNSH, President of D'Youville College

Receiving the diploma

Family time, l-r: Fr. Dwight, grandparents Herb and Anne Roberts, parents Patti and Herb Roberts, Pastor Andrew Wiesner, fellow pre-novice Webert Merilan

With Fr. Gene Tremblay, OMI, of the Religious Studies faculty

With Fr. Dwight

With some of the youth group of Holy Angels Parish