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Father George Jerry Hogan, a priest of the archdiocese since his 1974 ordination, died on May 5 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, at 75. The occasion of his death brought accolades for his kindness, his wonderful sense of humor, and his outstanding priestly service. More impressive were the tributes from his brother priests who, to a man, recounted Jerry s fraternal interest in priests and his evident happiness in any and all of his assignments.
A Woburn native born on April 13, 1946, and a son of the late George and Alice (Fitzpatrick) Hogan, he was an alumnus of Woburn High School s Class of 1964. Prior to entering the archdiocesan seminaries, he was a student at St. Philip Neri Seminary in Boston. This preparatory seminary had been established by the archdiocese and staffed principally by Jesuit Fathers as a first step for men entering the seminary who needed to add to
And more are coming, says her scoutmaster, Justine Gonzalez.
“This is a pretty big deal,” Gonzalez says. “This will be the first of many.”
Wolfe earned the rank in February after working on it for two years. She’s one of about 1,000 U.S. girls who made up the first wave of female Eagle Scouts awarded last month.
It wasn’t easy, Wolfe admits.
“It was a lot of work,” she says. “I actually didn’t think I was gonna make it.”
But she did. And her parents couldn’t be prouder. Especially her dad a former Eagle Scout, himself.
Poet, Beat-era titan Ferlinghetti dies at 101
American Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, on June 11, 1965. (M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS) M. Stroud
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller who played a leading role in West Coast literary history as a champion of Beat writer Allen Ginsberg and co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore, has died at his Bay Area home.
Ferlinghetti died Monday evening, according to Starr Sutherland, a friend who is working on a documentary on the fabled bookstore. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his son Lorenzo told The Washington Post. Ferlinghetti was 101.