John Dominic MaloneFather John Dominic Malone was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 6, 1904. Both his parents were immigrants, his father, Thomas Malone, having been born in London, and his mother, Emma McDermott, having come from Ireland. During his grade school years at St. Malachy Parish, John served Mass for Dominicans who came to the parish to preach, and it was not strange that he decided to pursue a Dominican vocation. Consequently he attended St. Charles College, a seminary preparatory school in Catonsville, Maryland. After two years at Providence College, he received the Dominican habit and entered the novitiate at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky. After making his first profession there September 11, 1927, he moved to the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, for his philosophical studies. St. Joseph Priory, Somerset, Ohio, and the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., were the sites of his theological studies. Along with his theological studies in Washington he earned the degree of M.A. in Economics from the Catholic University of America.

After his ordination to the priesthood, June 17, 1933, and the completion of his theological studies Father Malone served as chaplain and instructor of religion at Edgewood High School, Madison, Wisconsin. Following this brief assignment he moved to Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, to begin a twenty-eight-year career as a teacher of economics, social sciences, religion, and church history. During the time of his teaching Father Malone continued to take courses in his field to keep abreast of current ideas.

In 1963, Father Malone was assigned to Holy Rosary Priory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to parish ministry he began an extended career as Director of the Holy Name Society for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. During his tenure he was a regular contributor to The Vercellian News, the publication of the Archdiocesan Holy Name Society. After completing a quarter of clinical pastoral education at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital he served as chaplain in the same hospital.

During his teaching and pastoral careers, Father Malone received many honors. St. Louis University recognized him for his research in the socio-economic doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 1972 he received the Medallion Circle Award from the Holy Name Society of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Three years later the National Office of the Holy Name Society awarded him the Father McKenna Award, the highest award that the Holy Name Society can bestow on a priest working for the Society. In 1988 Father Malone received the Gregorian Award from the St. Paul and Minneapolis Holy Name Society.

The year 1981 saw Father Malone's return to Chicago. The Provincial of the Province of St. Albert the Great assigned him there to work with the Alumni Office of Fenwick High School, since his long years of work at Fenwick had made him a familiar figure to generations of Feiiwick students.

Father Malone celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood in 1983. He was looking to and planning the celebration of sixty years as a priest in June of 1993,butthis was not to be. The spread of bone cancer forced first hospitalization and then residence at Woodbine Convalescent Home in Oak Park, Illinois. He died peacefully there on Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1993. After a wake service on March 10 and the Mass of Christian Burial on March 11 at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory in River Forest, he was interred in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Two brothers preceded Father Malone in death. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Edward (Ellen) Diehl and nieces and nephews.