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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, -June 28. 1958 A. J. BOHN COMPANY Brick, Building Tile, Spectra Glaze Concrete Blocks CEdar 7-6461, Atlanta, Ga„ 3229 Cains Hill Place, N. W. In> YOUR/ JjFritl,pendent am nit m /AGENT S 5 H V E S / YOU if f R 5 T '* ---J Sutter & Mdellan 1023 Mortgage Guarantee Building JAckson 5-2086 ATLANTA, GEORGIA .... In Georgia The Finest in Food and Service SURE, CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME It was the "Luck of the Irish” for Alice M. Murphy, 23, nurse at St. Joseph Hospital, Paterson, N. J., and for her uncle, Father Donald J. Murphy, pastor of St. Pius X Church, Rochester, N. Y. Alice’s $3.50 ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes paid off $56,000 and she promptly donated $10,000 of it to help the parish build a new school. She is shown with her uncle and some future students, as she turns the first spadeful of dirt at ground breaking exercises. (NC Photos) — Atlanta — Courlland-Harris Sts. (Across the Street from St. Joseph's Infirmary) South Expressway — U. 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Dr. Shuster declared that “the only way a tradition of Catholic scholarship — or rather, per haps, of Catholic participation in scholarly activities — can be firmly established, is to use lay men and women as .the founda tion.” He made the statement in an address given at a two - day symposium on the Catholic con tribution to American intellec tual life, held at Rosary Col lege here under sponsorship of the .college and the Thomas More Association. Dr. Shuster is president of Hunter College, New York. Asserting that “it is wholly impossible to create a fraternity of scholars unless one first kindles the spark of coopera tion,” he maintained that Cath olic educators should ask them selves “some really incisive questions.” Among these questions he listed: “To what extent is a Catholic university ready to ac cord to those it has chosen to be its professors full equality of status, whether they be Relig ious or lay folk? Will it give the professor an opportunity to help shape the policies, of all kinds, for example, when a new president is chosen, or when new members of the faculty are to be recruited?” “Until such questions . . . can be answered affirmatively,” Dr. Shuster added, “there can come into being no tradition of Cath olic scholarship, which rests on a continuing progression of lay men and women through the generations.” He also contended that the ar gument that “a need for broader opportunities to exercise pastor al care” justifies the establish ment of more and more Catho lic universities will not “hold much water.” “In the long run,” he contin ued, “the only valid reason for going to a university is to ob tain what a university, with its traditions, professors, labora tories and library, has to offer. “To assume that, because able and sagacious Religious pour out their hearts’ blood in the effort to keep institutions going, the holiness of their graduates or their ability to move to the fore front of the scholarly procession will be guaranteed, is to run afoul of statistics.” Dr. Shuster warned that the result of the multiplication of Catholic universities is that “Religious admirably trained in important areas of learning are being tied to backbreaking ad ministrative posts. They wrestle manfully with budgets, stage ftmd-raising dinners, cope with faculties perennially underpaid. Meanwhile, Catholic enroll ments in public and other non religious centers of higher edu cation increase by leaps and bounds.” He suggested that it might be better to set up effective Cath olic centers at secular universi ties, rather than to try to estab lish still more Catholic schools. Dr. Shuster also examined Catholic elementary and sec ondary education in the United States. He declared that the sacrifices of the nuns who teach in Cath olic parochial schools are “no doubt as glorious and moving as anything in the history of the Church in the United States, but . . . also from many points of view very costly indeed.” The system, he said, “has with implacable permanence fed into the unending, burdensome pro gress of elementary education, a large number of the morally and intellectually gifted. More than that, whenever there have not been enough Sisters, the so lution of the problem has been -to add steadily to the load car ried by them as individuals.” Dr. Shuster added: “Does it . not sometimes seem that the quest for a quantitive attain ment of the educational goal appears to involve forgetting that not every Sister every where can be placed in a class room with confidence?” “Is it not obvious,” he asked, “that the maxim ‘every child in a Catholic school’ can be a perilous slogan — if only be cause the papal encyclical to which all of us hark back in the discussion of educational mat ters, that of the great Pope Pius XI, specifically stipulates that the quality of instruction must be of the most admirable tex ture?” The speaker remarked that the value of a good college is very great to a community of nuns, to whom it “gives institu tional expression to the com munity’s religious and educa tional ideals.” “Already it is true,” he de clared, “that, exception having been made for the Society of Jesus, the Sisters of college fac ulties are making the most not able contributions to scholarship directly fostered by Catholic ac ademic institutions, as well as to creative writing . . . “One can only hope that the major communities of Sisters can keep their colleges going. The trend is against them, pri marily it may be because of the lure of coeducation, which might, however, be offset by a well-considered policy of affil iation with nearby colleges for men.” Dr. Shuster then turned to a consideration of the Catholic high school. “Whatever may be averred in favor of such insti tutions from the point of view of the moralist and the teacher of religion,” he said, “the plain fact is that the basic education al problems posed by such schools are not solved under Catholic auspices any more than they are under public ones. “When one discovers — as I have — that seniors of a high school bearing proudly its dedi cation to Aquinas do not have the foggiest notion who he may have been, the prognosis is not less bleak than it is when one finds out that the seniors of Thomas Jefferson High School do not realize that he wrote the Declaration of Independence.” Dr. Shuster suggested that “the Catholic high school mus ters in young people who would in all likelihood find very well for themselves” in preserving their Faith in public schools, and turns over to the public au thorities those most in need of religious solicitude.” He declared that, if Catholic education is to do its share of the work imposed on the Ameri can school system, additional fi nancial help “must come t.o it from somewhere.” Americans should realize, he said, that “religious motivation can be of the greatest social val ue, and that therefore the com munity as a whole ought not to deal in a niggardly fashion with the social welfare aspects of a religious education conducted under whatever auspices.” Msgr. William McManus, su perintendent of schools for tha Chicago archdiocese, was chair man of the session at which Dr. Shuster spoke. He summed up his comments and the discussion which followed by saying: “Catholic education has the po tential for a deep and lasting contribution to American intel lectual life. But because it is spread too thin, largely through the proliferation of educational institutions, it isn’t reaching its full potential. “A dilemma is posed by try ing to carry out the pastoral mandate and the academic mandate.” Dr. James A. Reyniers, direc tor of the Lobund Institute and research professor of biology at the University of Notre Dame, addressed another session of the symposium and declared that “a very serious problem is the growing concern of the Catholic lay professor with his place in the Catholic universi ty.” “Unless this problem is fac ed,” he added, “there is danger of alienating the lay professor from the Catholic institution.” Dr. Reyniers suggested that an “objective group” be set up “to examine the structure and organization of our Catholic uni versities, their policies, and their records with respect to carry ing out the policies.” Dr. Reyniers cited what he called “shortsighted” admini stration of some Catholic schools and declared that “for all the public talk, I have failed to see the intellectual revolu tion which is supposed to be NCCW to Provide Medical Care For Mothers, Babies WASHINGTON, (NC) — The president of the National Coun cil of Catholic Women has an nounced that the initiation of the “Madonna Plan,” a fund raising effort of the NCCW Committee on Foreign Relief for a Vatican City “well-baby clin ic.” In a letter to presidents of the council’s 11,500 affiliates, NCCW president Mrs. Robert H. Mahoney, of Hartford, Conn., urged each member to contrib ute one dollar to launch the program in honor of the Lourdes centenary. She called the plan an effort to demonstrate in a concrete way the desire of American Catholic .Women to restore the Christian tradition of mother hood emphasized in the sym bol, “Madonna.” Funds, chan neled through Catholic Relief Services-National Catholic Wel fare Conference to the Dispen sary of St. Martha in Vatican City, will provide medical care along with health and nutrition education for mothers and babies. The NCCW hopes to receive sufficient funds to expand the program to establish or aid “well-baby clinics” in the Brit ish West Indies, Puerto Rico and Japan. “In countries where children are born into misery and dis ease, and where, for the mother, the advent of a new child is a cause for dread and even des pair,” Mrs. Mahoney wrote, “medical help, nutrition and ed ucation can serve to lift the bur den that lies on the bodies and spirits of so many mothers and their children.” This is the sixth major na tional project introduced since 1945 by the NCCW Foreign Re lief Committee in cooperation with CRS-NCWC. These in clude: “Children in Need,” col lections of new and used cloth ing for children; “F e e d-a- Family”; China doll sales; cloth ing collections for the store rooms of the Holy Father, and the sewing of First Communion dresses. Members of NCCW affiliates in 1957 sent more than $400,000 in cash gifts, and new and used clothing to 53 countries. In the past 10 weeks, the council’s af filiates have contributed $14,000 in cash gifts alone. underway in the Catholic uni versities as a whole.” He said the responsibility for Catholic universities’ failure to produce more scientific rests with the administrations of the schools. “With few exceptions,” he as serted, “in no institution is the weight of administration felt so heavily, or do administrators have such powers, as in Cath olic institutions. Nor does the faculty have less to say about the policies of the university.” Dr. Reyniers added: “If, as has been stated, Catholic uni versities want to become great . . . there must be a sharing of responsibilities and there will be a gradual loss of control,” PIANO SERVICE POLLARD PIANO TUNERS JA. 4-2548 Indian Sfafe 4 Exempts Schools From Socialization HYDERBAD, India, (NC) — Catholic schools have been ex empted again from, a proposed extension of the Andhra state government’s program for tak ing over privately-operated schools. The program was introduced four years ago. It provides for the “nationalization” of private primary schools in the region on the ground that employment conditions of teachers there could not be improved appreci ably without government own- ership. The scheme was first tried in the district of Nellore. But the many Catholic-owned schools in that area were exempted from the Socialization project. The groups whose schools were tak en over received monetary com pensation for their properties from the government. The exemption to Catholic schools was granted on the ground that they were “well conducted” and their teachers were contented. Following the promulgation of the education act, owners of Catholic schools petitioned the state education ministry, saying that there was no “teacher problem” in Catho lic schools. The proposed widening of the Socialization scheme is intended for the neighboring district of Vishakhatnam. Here, too, there are many Catholic and Christian primary schools. But the gov ernment exempted them from the Socialization. By so doing, it faced criticism of alleged “discriminatory treat ment.” The criticism was voiced by communists. The commun ist government now ruling Ker ala state had cited the Andhra legislation in support of its at tempt to grab all private schools there. Communist leaders had said at that time that the Kerala bill is not so rigid as the And hra legislation and, while the latter had received the consent of the nation’s president with out a hitch, the Kerala legisla tion was being blocked at every turn. The Reds charged bias on the part of the central govern ment in New Delhi in favor of the Congress party-controlled government in Andhra. Mrs. Ann Wilki ns Services In Savannah SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Ann T. Wilkins were held June 14th at the Ca thedral of St. John the Baptist with a Requiem Mass, Rev. Rob ert J. Teoli officiating. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Harry J. Middleton Sr.; two brothers, Charles M. 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