Leadership Program ‘Graduates’ 113 People

One hundred and thirteen people completed the Diocesan Pastoral Institute’s Lay Leadership Formation for Ministry Program and were formally commissioned May 9 during a Mass and ceremony at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston.

Ed Wilkinson Photos 

LAY LEADERS SENT FORTH: Bishop Frank Caggiano presents certificates to 113 men and women from Brooklyn and Queens who recently completed the Pastoral Institute’s Lay Leadership Program.

A story about the program appears on page 10 and more photos from the evening can be found online at www.thetablet.org.

The newly commissioned ministers are:

Blessed Sacrament Center
Jackson Heights

Maria I. Alick
Adriana Cruz
Lourdes Y. Lazo
Adalgisa V. McKinney
Consuelo A. Méndez
Ruben C. Méndez
Bertha L. Newman
José Sandoval
Susana Villegas

Immaculate Conception Center
Douglaston

Bruce Brown
Rosemary M. Burchik
Cecilia M. Canlas
Helen T. Collins
Ann Marie Dass
Marcelle Maxine Dinnall
Veta J. Griffith
Thealma L. Guerrero
Michael J. Hancock
Dianne M. Harris
Bárbara A. Hehman
Gordon Heiser
Dawn A. Hewitt
Thomas R. Lynch
Beatrice P. Mills-Henry
Marian N. Ogbuli
Reginald L. Previl
Rosa L. Tan
Rosita L. Tan

Our Lady Help of Christians Center Midwood

Ana H. Adorno-Rivera
Sharon J. Andrews
Enid Blas-Rosas
Marie A. Corkhill
Rosemary Coyne
Rita Damato
Helen L. Franki
Carmen R. Freeman
Patricia A. Glassman
Joel S. Hannays
Kathleen Lauria
Edward Manassa
Martha Manassa
Jacqueline A. Newton
Patricia M. Pennea
Wilner Pierre-Louis
Leona J. Ritchie
Mary F. Romano
Carol Ann Salamone
Carlos A. Scott
Eulalia B. Sentino
Judith Tolbert
Carmelina M. Vilardo
Terrence A. Whiteman
Lisa Zuercher

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Jamaica

Minoles Almanzar
Maria Luisa Batres Campos
Susan Brown-Thompson
Lastenia Adalina Calle
Ana M. Cristian
Melida Díaz
Nora A. Escobar
Rolando Escobar
Marco Tulio Felipe-Segura
Leslie Jeanette Marroquín-Soto
Oscar J. Nava
Susana Nava
José A. Quiñónez, Sr.
José H. Ríos
Sergio R. Rojas
Heleyda J. Saavedra
José Luís Santiago
Elías Socop-García
Ángel Odilio Tiu Yax
Dianixia Valdés

St. Bartholomew
Elmhurst

Louella R. Armstrong
Eugene J. Cassidy
Lourdes M. Cipolla
Zandra R. Cuzo
Grace DeLaRosa
Corazon C. Dioquino
Catherine V. Donohoe
Jacqueline Ferraud
Joseph Freda
Shirley F. Lascano
Edwin A. Márquez
Kairy R. Márquez
Linda S. Mitchell
Nancy E. Pardo
Jocelyn Rodríguez
Eugenia M. Rudmann
David Troncoso
Melody A.Troncoso
Maria S. Walkuski

SS. Peter and Paul Spirituality Center
Brooklyn

Jacqueline Amezquita
Sister Margarita Barrera, HFI
Teodula S. Bravo
Nydia de Jesús de Merlos
Maria F. Díaz
Alejandro F. Echeverría
Elizabeth Ferraro
Lilian M. Flores
Alicia Lucero
Lucino Lucero
Lucia Medina
Sister Irix Mejia, HFI
Juan Mercado
Ireneo Morales
Zoilo R. Reyes
Carmen M. Romero
Maria C. Salas
Gloria C. Solís
Domitila Torres
José Francisco Tzunun-Vázquez
Juvencia Velázquez