Father Thomas B. Hogan, S.M., of the Marist School faculty, celebrated his Silver-Jubilee of Ordination at Marist School Chapel October 18.

Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan presided at the Mass and the sermon was given by Monsignor John Stapleton. Following the buffet supper at Marist residence, Father Thomas Gilroy, S.M., was the toastmaster for the celebration.

Father Hogan was born in Chicago and received his elementary education at Holy Cross School. After 13 years of seminary training, he was ordained in 1945 by the Marist bishop, Michael J. Keyes, S.M., the former bishop of the Diocese of Savannah.

The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific was the scene for Father Hogan’s labor during 17 of his 25 years of priestly ministry.

He had also been assigned to parochial work in the Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia, and this year was spent in obtaining his master’s degree in divinity at St. Meinrad’s Seminary, Indiana.

Currently, Father Hogan is in charge of the senior and junior religious departments at Marist School.