Father Douglas L. Brown, 1956 - 1964
    Father Brown was a man of vision and also a man who was prepared to take the action to see that it was accomplished.  Without a doubt he will always be remembered as the man who brought the long time dream of a separate school to reality.  He oversaw the building of St. Stephen's School as well as the Bishop McCarthy School on Highway 56, in Seneca Township.   With change always comes uncertainty, and St. Stephen's was to go through a troubled time until the community accepted the change to a two school system.  A benevolent person, he often used his own resources to achieve what the parish or diocese could not afford at the time.  This included a free dental clinic in the basement of the rectory, as well as major and beautiful changes to the sanctuary and church as a whole.  Along with an addition to the sacristy, Italian marble and beautiful art work adom St. Stephen's today.  Father Brown also worked hard to increase attendance and return those to the fold who had drifted away.  He was a very social person and had many functions like the Open House at the new rectory in September of 1956, as no formal ceremony had been held since its erection.  A community-minded priest, he gave land for the new Scout Hall and underwrote the cost of many church, school, and community project.  In the midst of his active priesthood, he was diagnosed with cancer and became ill in 1963 and was assisted by Father Cartwright.  Father Brown passed away in 1964 and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hamilton.  Bronze plaques commemorate this priest and his achievements and are mounted in the entrance to St. Stephen's Church as well as St. Stephen's School.