of Mountain View Shortly after the war ended, Krumpelmann suffered from tuberculosis, and had to return to the United States in April 1947. He continued to serve as a Maryknoll priest after his return to the States, and was Vice Rector at Mountain View between 1949 and 1958. Founding the parish of Kwun Tong In 1958, Krumpelmann was assigned by the Maryknoll to Hong Kong. After having seen Kowloontsai (now Tai Hang Tung) transformed into a thriving, well-established, active Parish and Centre, Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy, Maryknoll’s Regional Superior of Hong Kong and Taiwan, asked Peter Alphonsus Reilly and Krumpelmann in 1959 to found a new parish in the then government planned satellite industrial town, Kwun Tong. They rented a room on in the then new Housing Society public housing on Ngau Tau Kok Road called Garden Estate, organized catechists and catechumenates, and obtained government approval for a new clinic. For two years, Reilly and Krumpelmann lived in a cramped single, tiny room adjacent to the clinic in the first housing estate on Ngau Tau Kok Road and so developed a strong bond of friendship, respect and mutual understanding with the residents of the apartment blocks. This eventually turned into St John the Baptist Parish of Kwun Tong in June 1962. In 1959 Krumplemann, aware of the demand for medical service in the poor neighbourhood, asked for assistance of the Maryknoll Sisters in running a clinic in the Kwun Tong area. He hoped the Sisters’ clinic would replace the existing one managed by the Reilly and himself. In Nov 1959, Monica Marie Boyle and Helen Kenny opened the clinic in Room number 1, first floor of Orchid House. The local Precious Blood Sisters once helped them with their initial needs. While the Hong Kong Government had planned to erect factories and housing for 300,000 people in that area, the government requested the clinic to provide emergency treatment to injured workers in factory accidents. In 1960, the clinic moved to Lily House. The address was Catholic Mission Clinic, Maryknoll Sisters, Ground Floor, Lily House, 293 Ngau Tau Kok Road. As more people moved into Kwun Tong, the problems Krumpelmann faced increased. One of the key problems was education for the children. Solace and comfort sprang from plans for the building of a large 24-classroom school with living quarters on Yee On Street. Within two years, all formalities with the Hong Kong