Hi Ray –
 
Happy to meet you! 
 
I’ve grandkids also (7, I can hardly believe it!)  I feel so blessed that my life went in the direction it did.  Felix was especially close to his (our) daughter, who is 44 today.  Her family nickname is “Mosie”, she is very special as a person – a primary school teacher, in rural Vermont, married to a logger, Chuck, they have one child and live very simply, in the “way back” of the mountains there.  She was inspired deeply by her father’s commitment to the poor. 
 
Felix Jr. is divorced, for nearly 6 years now.  He and Mara have three children.  Mara & children live here in Mamaroneck / Larchmont, as does Felix.  All is working out, sadly but OK.  The kids are just wonderful.  I am so proud of their kindness, their loyalty all around – they’re very well cared for by their mother.  Felix has met another woman, but is taking it all very slowly.  The whole thing had been very traumatic, for him (and really for us all.)  I live in Mamaroneck, where I intend to stay;  I see the children seldom, as their mother feels this is best. 
 
My younger son, Michael, is an engineer also – Mechanical (aeronautical specialty) – He graduated from Clarkson in 1994 and when he took his first job, with the submarine in Mystic, CT, he found himself assigned to helping the older engineers adjust to the new CAD technology – from there, his life was drawn into the computer world and he know works in a troubleshooting capacity of some kind for Citigroup.  He is a very straight shooter, more or less on the conservative side of things, the only one of the three children to be interested in continuing to be practicing Catholic.  He and Krissy have three beautiful little girls – ages 7, 5 and 3.  They’ve been living in Ohio, past three years, but as I write are in process of returning to live in Glen Rock, NJ – where they’d lived before, and loved the town.
 
It’s nice to meet and share information with another member of our Maryknoll “family.”  Felix was one of the first men sent to Latin America following the closing of China in 1948, and he was shocked by the position of the Church (aligned with the wealthy) and with their attitude toward the poor.  He became very quickly ‘conscientizatiado” or however it’s best spelled – but was part of the revolutionary swell almost from the first month he was there.   He was 25 at the time, idealistic, and just unprepared for what he found when he arrived, after years of training, to begin his missionary work.  He never fully recovered from the shock of it – remained disillusioned, and eventually left the Church altogether, deeply embittered.  He was disillusioned with Maryknoll too, of course, as part of it all.  He was a good man – I loved him and honor him today. 
 
Enough out of me!  Thanks again for your wonderful putting-together of photos and information.  I’m sure it means much to a lot of people.
 
Maureen (Doherty) McGowan
MK Srs ’58-64