- ST. NORBERT ABBEY
- DE PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Henry E. Zelinske, O. Praem.
- b. Sunday, Feb. 12,
1911 – d. Friday, Apr. 1, 1960
Our brother
Henry Zelinski was born in Menasha, Wisconsin
in 1911. After graduation from
St.
Norbert High and a year at the college, he joined the Order in 1930.
As
a frat in 1934, Hank was appointed to the first faculty at Southeast Catholic
before making his solemn profession in 1935.
He was named athletic directory of Southeast in 1938.
In
1941, Hank was transferred to Central Catholic.
He became an assistant pastor at St. Willibrord in
Green Bay
in 1945, at St. Martin in Tonet in ’47, then at
Brussels
the same year, before becoming pastor of
St. Hubert
’s in Rosiere with a mission at St. Michael in Misere (ME-zere) in 1951.
Hank
underwent surgery in Rochester, Minnesota
for cancer in 1957 and then was in and out of St. Vincent Hospital from 1959
until his death on Friday, April 1st, 1960.
He was 49.
