Fr. Paul Edward Scanlon, O.P., 82, died on November 19, 2015. He attended St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA. He then entered the Dominican Order, receiving the habit in 1952 in Kentfield, CA. He studied for the priesthood at St. Albert's College (now Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology) and St. Thomas College in River Forest, IL. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco in 1959. His first assignment was at St. Peter Martyr Parish in Pittsburg, CA and then onto St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Berkeley, CA. At St. Mary Magdalen Parish he began his lifelong friendship with the Mission San Jose Dominican Sisters and a desire for collaboration with the Dominican Nuns and Sisters. He served in campus youth ministry at ASU in Tempe, AZ. He spent 40 years of his religious life in leadership positions beginning with the Friars in formation in Kentfield, CA. He was elected prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Oakland, CA in 1967. Two years later, he was elected Provincial of the Western Dominican Province, a role he served for two terms. He began his ministry as a missionary at the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary in Mexicali, Mexico. Between assignments in Mexicali, he was Student Master at St. Albert's Priory in Oakland, CA in charge of the Dominican Friars in their time of formation and study. After serving in Mexicali, he became the pastor of St. Dominic's Parish in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles. Later he was assigned to Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, AK. In Alaska he also served at St. Christopher by the Sea Church in Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, 850 miles west of Anchorage in the Aleutian Islands. The vigil will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. on December 3rd and the Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. on December 4th, both at St. Dominic Church in Benicia, CA. To honor the memory of Fr Paul, donations may be made to the opwest.org/frpaulmemorial for the education of future priests of the Western Dominican Province. (Source: ASU Foundation)