Mission Continues: Monsignor Nicholas Wegner of Boys Town
Wegner, Nicholas H. / Lonnborg, Barbara / Lynch, Thomas J.
Boys Town's founder, Father Edward Flanagan, had a dream of expanding his Home to care for boys in new directions. His untimely death in 1948 could have marked the end of his remarkable mission, but chosen to be his successor was Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, a priest who gladly carried on Flanagan's passionate concern for homeless and disadvantaged children. Under Wegner's watchful care, Boys Town doubled in population, expanded educational, ...