Red Mass Dinner Reception

The Most Reverend Peter A. Libasci, D.D.

Bishop of Manchester and

The Catholic Lawyers Guild of New Hampshire cordially invite

all associated with the study and administration of justice

to join them for the celebration of the

RED MASS

Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 5:15 p.m.

St. Elizabeth Seton Church

190 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, NH

Reverend Raymond B. Kemp
Homilist

DINNER

6:30 Dinner at Manchester Country Club

Honoring Daniel E. Will, Esquire

2016 Saint Thomas More Award Recipient and

Lieutenant John Thomas, Concord Police Department

2016 Saint Michael Award Recipient

*If you are planning on attending only the Mass and not the dinner, registration is not required.

Please e-mail or call Annette Desmond with questions or for more information

at adesmond@rcbm.org or 603-663-0110.

Rev. Raymond B. Kemp is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and serves as a Special Assistant to the President of Georgetown University, where he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Theology. He currently serves on the DC Mayor’s Interfaith Council, the DC Special Olympics Board of Directors, as well as the boards of College Campus Kitchens and the Grassroots Project. He is also a DC Community Fellow in Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice, and a thesis advisor for Peace and Justice Studies and American Studies.

Father Kemp has had an active urban career with service as a member of D.C.’s Elected Board of Education in the 1970’s, the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia in the 1980’s, a non-lawyer member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors, a founder of the 14th and U Streets Coalition and a member of the D.C. Central Kitchen’s Board of Directors. A native Washingtonian, he received seminary and theological training at Saint Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, MD.

Dan Will, Esq. is a shareholder at Devine Millimet, where he chairs the firm’s litigation department and is a member of the firm’s management committee. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Boston College Law School. After spending two years as a judicial law clerk, first in the United States District Court for the District of Maine and then in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Dan joined Devine Millimet and has enjoyed a business litigation practice for the past 20 years.

Dan and his family are parishioners at Christ the King Parish in Concord. Dan has been an active volunteer at Christ the King, through baptism and marriage preparation ministries, as well as the parish’s Pastoral Council and Future Planning Committee. Dan also serves on and is a past chair of the Advisory Board of Bishop Brady High School. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Humanities Council and was recently elected to the New Hampshire Bar Association Board of Governors.

Dan and his wife Laurel have two daughters, Emma and Samantha.

Lieutenant John Thomas serves with the Concord Police Department, where since 2015 he has been a Lieutenant in the newly-created Community Services Division. He graduated Cum Laude from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and a minor in Political Science in 1993, and began his career as a Patrol Officer with the Concord Police Department in 1994.

John and his family are parishioners at Christ the King Parish in Concord. His children attend Saint Catherine of Siena School in Manchester, where, inspired by an idea from his 10-year-old son, JJ, the family created the Kids Caring For Kids program, now in its third year. With the support of grant funds and private donations, the students donate and assemble care packages for homeless elementary school children in Manchester during the season of Lent. Last year the program distributed 200 packages.

During the past year, Lieutenant Thomas has initiated programs like the New Americans Safe Driving Program and Coffee With a Cop, both designed to familiarize members of the local community, especially recent immigrants, with the police force. In partnership with the Concord School District, he created Police Readers, a program in which police officers visit public schools and read to children in grades K-2, and Lunch with a Cop, in which officers visit local schools to have lunch with students in grades 1-8. He currently serves on the Coalition to End Homelessness and is a board member of the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial. In 2015, he was given the Modern Woodmen of America Hometown Hero Award for his work in the community.