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Scout pays tribute to historic ball team By KYLE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
TOM O’NEIL, RON Paracha, Nick Hoh, Alex Menachery and Ed Hansen gathered in the American Legion Cathedral Post after Menachery was officially approved for the Scout’s top rank, Eagle. His Eagle project spotlighted a historic local Little League team.
Alex Menachery’s years-long journey to Eagle Scout is finally nearing its conclusion: The 18-year-old West Hempstead resident has been officially approved for scouting’s top rank, a year after he began his Eagle project, to memorialize West Hempstead’s 1962 Senior League World Series champions. Senior League Baseball is a division of Little League Baseball for players 13 and older. Menachery, a June graduate of Chaminade High School in MineoCONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Accomplished missionary John Wymes is dead at 94 By KYLE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
The Rev. John F. Wymes, a Catholic priest who was deeply involved in West Hempstead and Malverne during his lengthy career as clergyman, died on Aug. 19. He was 94. The Maryknoll Society, a missionary group in which Wymes served as a priest for 68 years and spent his final years in its assisted living unit, announced his death. Wymes was born on Sept. 15, 1927, in New York City, the son of Thomas Francis and Elizabeth Wymes. Growing up with two sisters and a brother, Wymes
was never far from a church even in his earliest years, attending St. Peter and Paul Parochial School and Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. At 17, Wymes enrolled at Maryknoll Apostolic College in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, and earned a degree in philosophy at Maryknoll Seminary in 1953. All before being ordained a priest on June 12, 1954. As a Maryknoll priest, Wymes embarked on missionary work in Africa during a period of great transition for the continent, as post-war decolonization saw the rise of many new, independent states. Wymes was assigned to a
Maryknoll mission house in Musoma, an East African city on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, which was then called Tanganyika. There Wymes learned the languages of three different tribes he worked with. In addition, he took up Swahili, which the government of Tanganyika and other East Africa nations promoted as a unifying language for the many tribes within their borders. Wymes spent the 30 years following his ordination in 1954 travelling back and for th between the United States and Africa. “When I arrived in Africa, I figured, this is where I’m going
to be forever,” Wymes had said of his time across the Atlantic. Wymes also worked at a Maryknoll language school in Musoma, and as treasurer of the local dioceses. He was later assigned to Kenya, serving as headmaster of Isibania Secondary School and later chaplain of Kenyatta National Hospital in the capital city of Nairobi.
During his time on furlough in the United States, Wymes studied psychology and clinical studies at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts, and earned a doctor in ministry degree, among other achievements. In 1984, Wymes was assigned to Maryknoll’s development CONTINUED ON PAGE 12