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I agree.FATHER TOOMEY ron erickson 5/17/66 A Silver Jubilee celebration, commemorating twenty-five years in the priesthood, will be held for Father Patrick J. Toomey, C.S.V., Sunday afternoon in the Sands Hotel Grand Ballroom. The event will begin at 6 p.m., and is being held by members of St. Viators parish. More than 500 persons of all faiths and walks of life are expected to attend. Father Toomey was bom in Butte, Montana in 1916. He attended grade school at St. Gabriel's in Chicago and later high school at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in the same city. His college education was obtained at St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, 111. He later attended graduate school at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and was graduated from seminary school in 1941. Father Toomey's first parish as a young priest was at St, Viator Church in Chicago. He was ordained by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archr* bishop of Chicago. Soon after, began service as an instructor at St. Ambrose College at Davenport, Iowa, and from here his life as a priest took on a new challenge. At the outbreak of World War II, Father Toomey began his work chaplain as a U. S. AxmyAand served both in the United States and overseas. In the years that followed, he attained the rank of major and saw duty in Guam, Japan and the Philippine Islands. During later years, this experience dealing with other peoples in foreign lands would serve him in good stead. Following the war. Father Toomey again returned to the classroom teaching at DePaul University in Chicago, Burst College in Lake