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departments on campus before becoming president. From 1953 to 1959 he was the moderator of the Te Deum, a lecture program that provided adult education in the diocese. He was named the president of St. Ambrose in 1956, the same year that
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He was referred to as "Sailor Bill" since he had served in the
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List of churches in the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Davenport
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869:20th-century American Roman Catholic priests
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722:Lawrence Donald Soens
707:J. A. M. Pelamourgues
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672:Robert Dwayne Gruss
637:John George Alleman
370:Dennis Gerard Walsh
350:William E. Franklin
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150:Ralph Hayes
70:Nationality
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187:2007-03-05
168:References
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418:Cathedral
376:Auxiliary
248:President
137:economics
124:in 1929.
112:Biography
55:Davenport
428:Parishes
400:Churches
158:football
133:business
98:Catholic
74:American
625:Priests
310:Bishops
154:tuition
587:Former
406:List
135:and
129:Navy
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51:1981
48:Died
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