ROGERS, WILLIAM GEORGE (1886-1950)

ROGERS, WILLIAM GEORGE, Catholic priest of the Basilian congregation and teacher, St Thomas College, 1914-19; b. Barrie, Ont., 29 Dec 1886, s/o George Rogers and Mary Dunn; ordained 1911; d. Bar Harbor, Me, 17 Aug 1950.

William G. Rogers was educated at St Michael's College, Toronto, and entered the Basilian novitiate in 1906. He was trained for the priesthood at Assumption College in Windsor, Ont., and remained there for a time as a member of the teaching staff. He was then an assistant priest in Detroit for a year before being appointed to St Thomas College in 1914. During his five years in Chatham he was an external student of the University of Windsor and satisfied the requirements for a BA in philosophy.

In 1922 Rogers withdrew from the Basilian congregation to be a secular teaching priest in the archdiocese of Detroit. In 1945 the University of Western Ontario awarded him an honorary LLD. He was visiting in Bar Harbor, Me, at the time of his death in 1950, at age sixty-three.