The Rev. Robert McCrief, C.SS.R, celebrated his silver jubilee of priesthood on Sunday, May 24, by offering a High Mass at Saint Gerard’s Church, Fort Oglethorpe where he is assistant pastor. A reception was held in the school hall for the parishioners after the Mass. The ladies of the Altar Society decorated and made arrangements for the affair.

Father McCrief, a native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., attended the minor seminary of the Redemptorist Fathers at North East, Pa. In 1934, he made his religious profession at the Novitiate in Ilchester, MD., and was ordained at Mount Saint Alphonsus, Esopus, N.Y., in 1939.

After spending five years on the foreign missions in Brazil, Father McCrief taught briefly before coming south as parish priest in Wilson, N.C. and Salem, VA. For the past four years, Father McCrief has been assistant at St. Gerard’s and priest-in-charge of Saint Peter Chanel Mission in Summerville.

At the jubilee Mass the sermon was preached by a classmate, the Rev. Bernard Krimm, C.SS.R., former pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Dalton and now pastor in Salem, VA.