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My thanks to the many people who assisted me in so many ways in this project, and also in the compiling of the video narrative. Gathering information of this sort involves talking to many people and requesting old photographs. My thanks to all who contributed to this project, particularly our parish secretary, Margaret Kingsbery, for deciphering all of my handwriting and for hours of patient endurance in this task. Thanks, too, to Lola for researching many dates; to Clare Trahan for proof reading so many pages; to Anna DeMarco, Laura Haas, Kay Cerisier, and Marc Cerisier for their expertise in word processing and formatting the entire thing on the computer. Thanks also to Clem Acker for narrating the video script, Jim Jelinski and Gloria Burlette for providing their Cessna 172?s for the aerial photography.
Many sources, including many photos and facts, were supplied (for the video) by many parishioners. I thank Joan Howard, Birdie Mae Ladner, Larry Ladner, Eric Larsen, Elus and Estelle Depreo, Leo Garriga, Hancock County Historical Society, William Carey College (Genealogical Library ), Trinitarian archives, Silver Spring, Md., diocesan archives in Biloxi and Jackson, and especially Yvonne Ladner for providing a diocesan publication from 1937 commemorating the Centennial of the establishment of the Diocese of Natchez. My thanks too to anyone else who supplied any information contained in this booklet.
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warmly on your face;
The rains fall softly upon your fields And, until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His Hand.
(Old Irish Blessing)