THE INTERPRETER, THE NURSE AND THE SOLDIER...

ACHANCE encounter five years ago aboard the transatlantic liner "Queen Elizabeth" between an American Catholic bishop and an English ship's interpreter has led to the Englishman becoming a priest for the bishop's diocese.
He is the Rev. Kenneth John Roberts, 35, whose mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Seagrave, lives at Bitterne, Southampton. A student at Rome's Beda College for late vocationists for the last four years, he will be ordained tomorrow week, March 26, for the Diocese of Dallas, Texas, a part of the world he has not yet seen.
The Rev. Roberts, who speaks French, Portuguese and Italian and is now learning Greek, was interpreter for first class passengers in the "Queen Elizabeth" when he met Bishop Thomas K. Gorman, of Dallas, who was returning to America from a visit to Europe. The bishop agreed to accept him for training as a priest for his diocese.
In Dallas, he will meet another former Beda student accepted by Bishop Gorman. He is Fr. Brindley Mills, at one time a member of the U.S. Marshall Plan organisation in Italy and the owner of Rome's only American dry cleaning establishment when he decided to become a priest.
The Rev. Roberts is one of 16 men whose ages range from 29 to 64 who are to be ordained from the Beda on March 26. Ten of them, including the Rev. Roberts, will be ordained by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Arnie° Cicognani, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. Five others will be ordained ia England and one in Malta.
Two days after his 64th birthday, the Rev. George Fenech, of Qormi, Malta, a former chief electrical engineer of the Malta Electricity Department and lecturer in engineering and professor of mathematics at Malta's Royal University, will be ordained in St. John's Pro-Cathedral, Valetta, by Archbishop Sir Michael Gonzi. The Rev. Fenech was educated at H.M. Dockyard School and the Lyceum, Valetta. He is a B.Sc. Eng. (London); M.I.E.E. and A. M .I.M ech.E.
A former president of the Sheffield Association of the Catholic Teachers' Federation, the Rev. Dennis Kennedy, whose mother, Mrs. A. M.
Kennedy, lives in Sheffield, will be ordained for the Leeds Dio cese by Bishop Ellis, of Nottingham, in his home parish church, St. Patrick's, Sheffield. He is 39.
Two new priests for Brompton Oratory, London, will be ordained there by Bishop Frederick Hall, formerly bishop of Kisumu, Kenya.
They are the Revs. John Stanley Fordham, whose parents, Sir Stanley and Lady Fordham, live at Melbourn Bury, Royston, Herts., and Charles (Sebastian) John Wentworth Dunce, whose mother, Mrs. S. Phipps, lives in North Devonshire.
The Rev. Fordham, an Old Etonian, who read law and languages at Cambridge for his M.A., was born in Lima, Peru, and went to school in the United States and Central America before going to England to complete his education. He spent two years teaching African boys at a Mill Hill Fathers' mission school in Kenya. He joined the Oratorians in 1961. He is 30.
The Rev. Dilke, a Londoner, is 28. He was educated at Winchester and at King's College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in architecture, He did his national service in the Royal Navy. He became a Catholic in 1960 and joined the Oratorians a year later.
Well-known author, teacher and lecturer, 45-year-old Rev. Stanley Luff, is being ordained in Rome for the Southwark archdiocese. His work. both verse and prose, on literature. art, travel and pastoral renewal, has appeared in most Catholic and several other reviews and newspapers in Britain, and he has also written several hooks.
He was for some time warden of the guest house at Pluscarden Priory and many pilgrims will remember him as a guide to Rome and Lourdes and in Britain as a lecturer in Christian archaeology. While studying at the Bede, he attended the Pontifical Institute of Archaeology and was awarded its diploma.
The Rev. Luff, who was born in Wimbledon, served in the Royal Artillery and the R.A.S.C. during the last war, ending his military service as a French language interpreter with the Military Government in Germany. He was master for three years each at Thomas More School, Frensham, Surrey; Burstow School, Sussex, and at Ramsgate Abbey School in Kent. He has been caving in Yorkshire and was with the party that brought the Mass back to the island of May, off the Scottish coast, after a lapse of 400 years. In 1959 and 1961, he produced the Ramsgate Abbey Passion Play. which was later produced in Hong Kong, and was also instrumental in founding the Abbey School museum.
Others to be ordained are:
The Rev. Barrie Holmes, whose father, Mr. H. Holmes, lives in Elland, Yorks. Aged 32, he is a State Registered Nurse and Gold Medallist of Halifax General Hospital. He also studied at Brampton Chest Hospital, London, in thoracic and cardiac diseases and is a member of the British Tuberculosis Association. He is going to Leeds diocese.
The Rev. Donald Kevin Breen, 43, a veteran of the famous 14th Army Burma campaign and a former sales representative in the Yorkshire area. He is for the Northampton diocese. Bishop Grant, Auxiliary of Northampton, is making a special journey from Norwich to ordain the Rev. Breen in his old parish church of the Holy Family, Pontefract.
The Rev. Donald Charles Logan, 35, a former costing clerk and army sergeant instructor, who served for a time in Gibraltar, was born in Staffordshire. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Logan, live in Higher Broughton, Salford, Lancs. He is for the Northampton diocese and will be ordained by Bishop Parker at East Bergholt Franciscan Friary, near Colchester, Essex.
The Rev. Cyril Francis Webber, 60, a freelance commercial artist who worked for much of his life in Haywards Heath, Sussex, is known for designing book jackets, greetings cards, decorative maps for books of travel, and historical and archaeological works. He is going to the Arundel and Brighton diocese.
The Rev. Carl A. Camponovo, 35, former guidance counsellor of Haverford School District, Havertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He is a B.Sc. and M.A. of Villanova University, Pennsylvania. and served two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Before going to Rome, he attended seminaries in Canada and New York. He is going to the diocese of Camden, New Jersey.
The Rev. Joseph K. Lowry, 44, of Ellicottville, New York, is a former senior executive of two major, internationally famous companies. He worked abroad for 15 years and visited 60 countries. He started a business career with the National City Bank of New York in South America' He then moved to the Far East, being successively Pepsi-Cola territorial supervisor. Japan, and executive vice-president in the Philippines. Later, he became senior sales representative of Canada Dry International. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War and in the Korean war as an officer in the Amphibious Forces of the Pacific Fleet. He goes to the Buffalo diocese.
The Rev. Glenn Warner Paul Wilton, 33, a former U.S. Naval Reserve officer who saw service in the Pacific and Mediterranean, is going to Seattle Archdiocese. He conies from Wisconsin.
The Rev. Frederick Joseph Edwards, 34, a former science teacher at Canberra and Narrabri High Schools, Australia, is a B.Sc. and Dip. Ed. of Sydney University. He studied for the Anglican ministry at Moore Theological College, Sydney, got his Th.L., and was for a year curate in Quirindi, New South Wales. After becoming a Catholic, he resumed his teaching at Canberra High School until coming to Europe in 1962. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwards, live in Sydney. He is going to the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese.