Funeral Mass will be celebrated April 17 at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel at Loyola Marymount University for Jesuit Father Herbert J. Ryan who died April 8 from complications of lung cancer at age 79.
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A member of the Jesuit order for 61 years, he was born in New York in 1931 and ordained by Cardinal Francis Spellman in 1962. Noted throughout his priestly career for his incredible memory and astonishing gift in languages, Father Ryan held graduate degrees from Loyola University in Chicago, in theology from Woodstock College and a Doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome.
We were in philosophy together at West Baden (Ind.) College in the mid-50s, he a transplanted New Yorker among us Midwesterners. Quite a bright fellow (even then!), he typified the Manhattanites who tended to give the impression that they knew more than the rest of us.
So what? We Oak Parkers, South Siders, Cincinnatians, etc. rubbed shoulders and minds with people from all over the country and world, in southern Indiana. Just by joining the Jesuits. We educated each other.
Blithe Spirit 