For 30 years, Father Ronald Stanley of Midland Park, a Catholic campus chaplain, has been traveling to a small village in the remote mountains of the Dominican Republic to help build a stronger community. About 10 years ago, he began taking groups of college students with him. Twice a year, they work in the community and live for with poor farming families, usually without electricity, flush toilets or paved roads. They work to rebuild homes and roads, provide electricity and fund education needs. They have distributed hundreds of pounds of clothing, vitamins, medicine, books and toys, all the while bridging First and Third World people.

Update 11/7/2002:  Rev. Ronald Angelus, O.P., age 72, of Midland Park, died Saturday, July 14, 2012. For over 20 years in his work as a campus minister, both in New Jersey and New York, Fr. Stanley led college students on mission trips to the Dominican Republic for community service, returning from his last trip only a week prior to his passing.