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Letter from David Kammer
October 22, 1986
MARIST FAMILY ** NEAR AND FAR
This note is coming to you from David Kammer. I hope the note will soon
became a newsletter, quarterly perhaps. Most of us appreciate the province
newsletters, whether we hear about the content indirectly, or get a copy through
friends in community, or are fortunate enough to be on a province mailing list. I
feel that we would be equally happy about a wider ranging newsletter
I have consulted with friends who are geographically near, both those who are in
and those who are out. The people around Poughkeepsie have been particularly
encouraging; for years they have been fostering mutual contacts and support
among all Marists. They have suggested that a newsletter might be printed and
mailed from Marist College.
Together, we have come up with these proposals. We would like to mail a
newsletter to every Marist community in the U.S. and to every U.S. address
where there is a Marist at heart. We propose to share news about all of us, that
we may rejoice with one another and be concerned about the distressed. Besides
brief news items, the newsletter might feature biographical accounts about
Marist Brothers and about brothers who are not canonically attached.
We have spoken with the provincials of both provinces to elicit their thoughts
and suggestions; they have been most encouraging. We have proposed that there
be an advisory group made up of widely representative people. For now, I will
coordinate the beginnings of the project from my Connecticut home.
So we need news ... obviously we won't get off the ground without news; we
need your suggestions, too. Of course, we have the addresses of all U.S. Marist
houses, but we need other addresses, your address and the addresses of your
Marist acquaintances.
Your response to this note will be a signal to us. A few addresses, a bit of news -
- on the run if necessary - - short and snappy if you're terribly busy.
I smile ... I'm now retired! Slowed down, but have not stopped much. Have the
luxury of walking for exercise, a mile and a half to Mass in the morning;
teaching a course on Income Taxes at the local community college twice a week.
Too old to do CCD work anymore. Visited the monks this summer at Camp
Marist, at Whitensville, and in Wheeling. Saw Pete Ostrowski there, too. Met
many from the Poughkeepsie and New York areas at the annual Greater Marist
Picnic in September. I hear brother Paul Ambrose is going to the missions in
Africa next year, to assist a bishop who has only four priests in his diocese. More
on this in the first newsletter, hopefully.
Would like to hear from you.
6/22/2021
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My address is: David Kammer
107 Woodland Drive Harwinton, Ct. 06791, 06791
Phone number: 203-485-1652
Sincere best wishes to you and yours,
Letter # 1
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Letter from David Kammer
October 22, 1986
MARIST FAMILY ** NEAR AND FAR
This note is coming to you from David Kammer. I hope the note will soon
became a newsletter, quarterly perhaps. Most of us appreciate the province
newsletters, whether we hear about the content indirectly, or get a copy through
friends in community, or are fortunate enough to be on a province mailing list. I
feel that we would be equally happy about a wider ranging newsletter
I have consulted with friends who are geographically near, both those who are in
and those who are out. The people around Poughkeepsie have been particularly
encouraging; for years they have been fostering mutual contacts and support
among all Marists. They have suggested that a newsletter might be printed and
mailed from Marist College.
Together, we have come up with these proposals. We would like to mail a
newsletter to every Marist community in the U.S. and to every U.S. address
where there is a Marist at heart. We propose to share news about all of us, that
we may rejoice with one another and be concerned about the distressed. Besides
brief news items, the newsletter might feature biographical accounts about
Marist Brothers and about brothers who are not canonically attached.
We have spoken with the provincials of both provinces to elicit their thoughts
and suggestions; they have been most encouraging. We have proposed that there
be an advisory group made up of widely representative people. For now, I will
coordinate the beginnings of the project from my Connecticut home.
So we need news ... obviously we won't get off the ground without news; we
need your suggestions, too. Of course, we have the addresses of all U.S. Marist
houses, but we need other addresses, your address and the addresses of your
Marist acquaintances.
Your response to this note will be a signal to us. A few addresses, a bit of news -
- on the run if necessary - - short and snappy if you're terribly busy.
I smile ... I'm now retired! Slowed down, but have not stopped much. Have the
luxury of walking for exercise, a mile and a half to Mass in the morning;
teaching a course on Income Taxes at the local community college twice a week.
Too old to do CCD work anymore. Visited the monks this summer at Camp
Marist, at Whitensville, and in Wheeling. Saw Pete Ostrowski there, too. Met
many from the Poughkeepsie and New York areas at the annual Greater Marist
Picnic in September. I hear brother Paul Ambrose is going to the missions in
Africa next year, to assist a bishop who has only four priests in his diocese. More
on this in the first newsletter, hopefully.
Would like to hear from you.
6/22/2021
Letter # 1
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My address is: David Kammer
107 Woodland Drive Harwinton, Ct. 06791, 06791
Phone number: 203-485-1652
Sincere best wishes to you and yours,