Students, teachers and
administrators from the Father Ray Foundation donate blood for the
Red Cross to honor Father Ray’s legacy.
Chatchanan Boonnak
The Thai Red Cross helped marked the eighth
anniversary of the passing of Pattaya’s legendary Father Ray Brennan
with a blood drive that collected more than 42 liters of blood.
The Father Ray Foundation’s Pattaya Redemptorist
Center collaborated with the Red Cross for the Aug. 20 blood drive,
one in a series of activities during their co-sponsored “Father Ray
Memorial Week” Aug. 14-20.
Fr. Pattarapong Srivorakul (Father Peter),
president of the Father Ray Foundation, Vice-President Rev. Michael
Picharn Jaiseri and more than 90 students from the foundation’s
various schools all joined in the blood drive.
Fr. Brennan was born Dec. 7, 1932, in Chicago. He
came to Thailand in 1961 as a volunteer to assist impoverished and
disabled people and from that day until his last he devoted himself
to assisting Thailand’s poor.
He established the Orphanage Foundation in the early 1970s after
a baby was left in his care. In the early 1980s a young deaf boy was
left at the orphanage and Brennan was unable to find a local school
for him. This led to the opening of the Redemptorist School for the
Deaf in 1983.
