Monsignor Reuben Michael Haller
Inducted In
1975
Monsignor R.M. Haller built a record of long and distinguished service for God, his church and his country. Educated at St. Clement’s Separate School, Preston, St. Jerome’s College and the Grand Seminary of the University of Montreal, he was ordained in 1912, serving at Mildmay, Macton, St. Clements, New Germany (Maryhill), Walkerton, Deemerton and Hanover.
His great achievement was establishing St. Joseph’s parish, Kitchener, and the building of a church during the depressed thirties. He continued as a very revered pastor until his retirement in 1968.
An army Chaplain during the Second World War, he was a member of the K-W High School Board for twenty-three years and Chairman of the Catholic High School Board for ten years.
He was raised to the dignity of Monsignor, a Domestic Prelate on appointment by Pope John XXIII in 1959. In 1972 the Waterloo County Separate School Board named a Kitchener elementary school, Monsignor R.M. Haller School, in his honour.