Seven reach 40th year

* REV. JOSEPH ANSELMENT, a native of Watervliet, served at St. Vincent de Paul and St. Mary's, both in Albany, while on the faculty and administration of Cardinal McCloskey High, where he was a guidance counselor and vice principal from 1961-68. In 1968, he was appointed principal of Bishop Scully High School in Amsterdam.

As a parish priest, Father Anselment has been stationed at St. Peter's, Stillwater, and Our Lady of the Annunciation, Queensbury, where he has been pastor since 1994.

(Father Anselment will mark his jubilee on May 27 at 11:30 a.m. with a Mass at Annunciation. A picnic will follow from 1-5 p.m.)

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REV. DANIEL DEPASCALE, a native of Amsterdam, served at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Gloversville and St. Mary's in Frankfort before joining the U.S. Navy as a chaplain.

He has been stationed in Argentina, Newfoundland, Vietnam, Puerto Rico and Japan as well as stateside. He is now retired from the military and lives in Florida.

(Father DePascale will note his anniversary in Florida.)

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REV. PASCAL IANNOTTI, who was born in Amsterdam, has had only three assignments in his four decades as a priest:

* at St. Mary's, Little Falls, while teaching in the parish academy,

* at St. Joseph's, Amsterdam, while teaching at St. Mary's Institute and Bishop Scully High, and

* at St. Patrick's parish in St. Johnsville, where he was pastor from 1980 until his retirement in 1998.

(Father Iannotti will offer a Mass of Thanksgiving on May 27, 2 p.m., at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Amsterdam, the location of his first Mass.)

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REV. JOHN KELLY, a native of Albany, has been an assistant at St. Joseph's, Schenectady, and St. Mary's, Albany, and in residence at St. Michael's, Troy, while teaching at Catholic Central High School.

Additionally, he has been a chaplain at Rensselaer County Nursing Home and the Little Sisters of the Poor in Troy. He resided at St. Jean Baptiste in Troy.

After serving as an assistant at St. Pius X in Loudonville, Father Kelly was appointed pastor of St. John the Baptist parish in Greenville. That was followed by chaplaincies at Memorial Hospital and Holy Names Provincial House, both in Albany, his current assignments.

(Father Kelly will celebrate his jubilee with a Mass on May 26 at Memorial Hospital and another on May 27 with the Holy Names sisters.)

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REV. DONALD OPHALS, who was born in Woodside, N.Y., has been an associate pastor at St. Brigid's, Watervliet; St. Mary's, Troy; St. Mary's, Little Falls; St. Patrick's, Catskill; and St. Francis, Troy. After a stint as assistant superintendent of Catholic Schools, he was briefly pastor of St. Anne's, Waterford.

In 1976, Father Ophals was appointed pastor of St. Francis de Sales parish in Troy, where he remains. He is also dean of Rensselaer County.

(Father Ophals will note his anniversary with a Mass of Thanksgiving on June 3, 11 a.m., at St. Francis. A reception follows.)

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REV. DANIEL NUSBAUM, who was delivered by his father on a Michigan farm during a snowstorm, was ordained as an Oblate priest in 1961 and incardinated in the Albany Diocese in 1968. He was an assistant pastor at Immaculate Conception in Haines Falls.

He has been a teacher for the past 33 years at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he is currently a professor of professional accelerated courses and liturgical music. He is also director of pastoral care at Mountain Manor Rehabilitation Center and chaplain at St. Catherine Nursing Home.

(Father Nusbaum will celebrate Mass in Michigan on July 12 and then attend a family reunion.)

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REV. JAMES MACKEY, a native of Troy, has been an assistant pastor at St. Mary's, Hudson Falls; St. Patrick's, Albany; and St. Anne's, Waterford.

In 1966, he was appointed assistant director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the Diocesan Development Program (currently called the Bishop's Appeal). He was named director of the DDP in 1970 and remained in that role for 13 years. He was also vice president and then president of the National Catholic Stewardship Council, and director of development for the North American College in Rome, Italy.

Father Mackey has also been chaplain at St. Colman's Home for Boys and Girls in Watervliet, and for the New York Guard.

Since 1983, he has been pastor of St. Michael's Church in Troy.

(Father Mackey will mark his jubilee on Sept. 30, 11:15 a.m., at St. Michael's, the day after the feast of St. Michael the Archangel. A parish picnic follows.)

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