Walsh immediately put an ad in "The Field Afar": "Youths or young men who feel a strong desire to toil for the souls of heathen people and who are willing to go afar with no hope of earthly recompense and with no guarantee of a return to their native land are encouraged to write.” In 1912, "The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (CFMSA)" was launched in a rented property Hawthorne, NY with a total of six men. Thomas McCann was the first candidate to become a full Brother member of the Maryknoll Society on Nov. 21, 1912.