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Published on: 3/15/2005
Last Visited: 7/8/2006
The new group are: • Harry Collins Harry Collins was born April 18, 1933 in Sligo, Ireland.He attended St. Columban's Major Seminary in Ireland from 1950 to 1953 and St. Columban's Major Seminary in Milton, Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956.Collins is a sales representative for Sadlier Publishing Company.He has served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as president of the Legion of Mary and in the Diocese of San José as a parish council member at St. Lucy Parish, Campbell, and as president of St. Lucy's school board.Collins has also been active in training lectors, ministering to the sick and homebound, and as part of the Baptism catechesis team at St. Lucy Parish.He and his wife Ida have two children and three grandchildren.Collins noted that "the Church and Church ministry has always been a part of me. "I have always tried to bring people closer to God through His Word and through service.My goal is to be a person of service wherever I am assigned," he said. • Thierry Geris Thierry Geris was born Dec. 3, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium.He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France and a member of the first graduating class of the Institute for Leadership in Ministry (2000).