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...Enter rentapriest.com, started back in 1992 (and moved online a few years later) by Louise Haggett, a marketing specialist and practicing Catholic who encountered a very personal need for more priests - and decided to address that shortage with a very unorthodox response...
When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided- missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report, Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched an investigation...
Still filled with remorse, Haggett, 57, stepped aside last week as chief executive officer, a position he had held since 1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy document...
...oldest member of the Class of 1941, which got its diplomas from George Washington University last week, is 78. Mrs. Isabelle Barnes Haggett, a small, frail, bright-eyed widow, settled down in the District of Columbia eight years ago, looked around for "something to do," decided to go to college. She found it "a little hard at first to keep up" with her young classmates, and an ill-fitting dental plate interfered with her French pronunciation, but she faithfully went to classes in good weather & bad, earned C grades...
Last week, having completed the required 120 hours, Mrs. Haggett donned cap & gown, seized her diploma, announced she planned to go on in the fall to get an M.A. in European history...