- OUR
LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ABBEY
- DAYLESFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.
- Rev.
John V. Cimino, O. Praem.
- b. Saturday,
July 27, 1935 – d. Saturday, July 6, 2002
Our
brother John Cimino was born in
Philadelphia
in 1935. After graduating from
Southeast Catholic in 1953, he joined the Order that fall.
After professing solemn vows in 1958, he began work on a Master’s
Degree in English at
Marquette
University
. He taught at
Abbot
Pennings
High School
from 1960 until 1962, after which he became an instructor in English at Bishop
Neumann in
Philadelphia
. Here he was also Athletic Director
and Moderator of the Parent-Teacher Associations until 1969.
From
1969 until 1972, John was a member of the faculty of
LaSalle
College
in
Philadelphia
where he also was Chaplain and a Counselor.
During the summers of 1971-72, John was an instructor at the
Lakota
Higher
Education
Center
on the Pine Ridge Reservation in
South Dakota
.
After
receiving a Lewis Fellowship to attend the
University
of
Notre Dame
from 1972 until 1975, John remained in that area until his retirement.
From 1975 until
1979, John was the Director of the Criminal Justice Planning Bureau for the city
of South Bend and from 1977 to 1979, an adjunct instructor at Indiana University
in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
He became the Project Director the Criminal Investigations Project in
South Bend in 1979 and a Law Enforcement Consultant in 1980 during which time he
also acted as the Director of the Domestic Relations Counseling Bureau of St.
Joseph County in Indiana, working with the circuit, probate and superior courts.
John
was a member of many national and civic criminal justice organizations,
including Affirmative Action programs and Family Conciliation associations, for
many of which he was chairman, coordinator or director.
Suffering
from an acute heart condition, John retired to Immaculate Conception Priory in
Delaware
, where he died Saturday,
July 6th, 2002.
