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The Southern Cross, September 10, 1964—PAGE 3
Fourth In Family
Macon Girl To Study
This Year In Mexico
By Grace T. Crawford
Staff Writer, The Macon News
MACON — When Nina Bene*
d&tto left Macon recently for a
year’s study in a Catholic
school in Mexico, tucked in
with her dolls and games, was
a generous supply of rubber
snakes, spiders, alligators and
other such creatures.
These are a gift for Mother
Juana, the superior in the
school, who considers it a great
joke to drop one in the hand or
on the sleeve of an old friend
or some former student.
XAVERIO RONCALLI, 81-
year-old brother of late Pope
John XXIII, still works in
fields near his home in Sot-
to il Monte, near Bergamo,
Italy. In background is the
new Missionary Seminary
John XXIII, which will open
its doors to young seminar
ians in October, 1964. (NC
“I found a tarantula on my
arm when I went back a few
years ago,” laughed Nina’s mo
ther, Mrs. Joseph K. Benedetto.
‘‘It gave me quite a turn. Then
I realized my former teacher
was playing a joke on me.”
Nina, who has never been a-
way from home before, will be
the fifth member of her family
to attend Villa de Matel, a 53
year old school operated by the
Sisters of The Incarnate Word,
and located in Gomez Palacio,
an industrial center in northern
Mexico.
In order for their daughters
to speak Spanish and English
equally well, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
edetto felt that a year in a
school where no English is spo
ken, would be most beneficial.
They also felt it would make
the girls more self-reliant and
poised.
Mrs. Benedetto grew up in
Gomez Palacio, where her late
father, Dr. Theo Schwarz, man
aged an oil and soap factory for
more than 20 years. Because of
her close association with the
nuns in the eight-grade elemen-
tarv school, she wants her
daughters to share the life she
knew as a child, and, for a
short time, to become a part
of her native land.
The dark - haired little girl,
whose older sisters, Mary, Mar
garet, and Elizabeth, have al
ready completed their years in
Mexico, is determined she won’t
be outdone. Though only nine,
she persuaded her parents to
let her make the trip a year
earlier than they had anticipat
ed.
‘‘Oh no,” she said firmly. “I
won’t be homesick. I’ll be too
busy. Besides, I want to learn
Spanish so I can understand
what my sisters are saying.”
Nina already has some knowl
edge of the language, for she
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studied Spanish this summer at
Mt. de Sales High School, in
preparation for her trip. She
will have many roommates dur
ing the coming year. She will
live in a huge room with 15 or
20 girls from all areas of Mexi
co.
The school uniform is a red
and white checked pinafore,
worn well below the knee, and
a white blouse with a bow at
the neck. The dres<= uniform is
a pinafore of wine gabardine,
white blouse and white cardigan
sweater.
The girls help in the kitchen,
wait on tables, clean their quar
ters, and assist in other ways.
Boarding students are allowed
to visit friends once monthly,
and are taken for a ride in the
school bus on Sunday after
noons.
There is no television, no
jazz, no Beatles. There is only
the music of the chapel organ,
the hymns of the nuns, the
songs the students sing, and, on
clear nights, the distant music
from the village cantinas.
Nina, one of nine children, is
a typical little girl.
Making the trip with her was
her Little Miss Lourie doll, a
generous supply of crayons and
water colors, and her “Eight
Ball”, which foretells the fu
ture.
Centenary Of
Nun-Missioners
To Indians Noted
ST. IGNATIUS, Mont. (NO—
The Sisters of Charity of Pro
vidence weren’t being facetious
when they informed their Mon
treal headquarters their servi
ces were needed among the
Flatheads and they were going.
That was 100 years ago, when
a small band of the nuns came
here from Fort Vancouver to
serve as missioners among the
Flathead Indians. They were
the first nuns to come to Mon
tana.
Archbishop Edward H. How
ard of Portland, Ore., recalled
the event in his sermon at that
centenary celebration here of
the nuns’ arrival in Montana.
Bishop Raymond Hunthausen of
Helena, Mont., offered the com
memorative pontifical Mass in
St. Ignatius mission church.
“The missions work like a
magnet on the grace of God,”
Archbishop Howard said. The
Providence nuns, he related,
had come to Fort Vancouver
only eight years before from
their Montreal headquarters.
They learned they were needed
among the Indians who roamed
western Montana.
“The Sisters did not say, ‘We
have enough work in Vancou
ver.’ Instead they wrote to their
superior in Montreal, ‘Sisters
are needed among the Flat-
heads, so that the Indians may
have the same privileges as the
whites.’ This is the voice of the
Church that we hear speaking.
This is the breathing of the
Holy Spirit,” Archbishop How
ard declared.
Missions must be maintained
constantly to not only spread,
but also to sustain, the Gospel,
the archbishop said.
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NINA BENEDETTO is pictured packing her
case prior to leaving for school in Mexico. Little
sister makes sure essentials like dolls are included.
(Drinnon Photo)
Lists Priorities For
Newman Chaplains
MILWAUKEE (NC)—A bishop
here listed three top priorities
for Newman chaplains today—
the intellectual development of
students; their pastoral care,
and the formation of bands of
lay apostles.
Bishop James W. Malone,
episcopal moderator of the
chaplains, told a (Sept. 1) meet
ing of the National Newman
Chaplains Association here:
“The age of the self-made but
not formally educated leader is
over.”
“There is greater meaning now
to the adage that we can
change the world,” the auxiliary
bishop of Youngstown, Ohio,
said. “In exercising these three
tasks, the Newman Club chap
lain who is called reverently by
the name of Father, earns the
title in at least two spheres—as
a generator of knowledge and
as a generator of spiritual life.”
Earlier, Auxiliary Bishop Je
rome J. Hastrich of Madison,
Wis., told some 125 Newman
Club chaplains “I feel you’ve
failed the undergraduate stu
dents in the Newman Clubs.’
“We are neglecting our un
dergraduate stu d e n t s. We’re
paying too much attention to
the professors and instructors.
In Newman Clubs we’re trying
to entertain them a little, hop
ing that faith will rub off, but
we fail to impress that they
maintain their religious educa
tion,” Bishop Hastrich asserted.
Bishop Malone said the New
man Club chaplain’s first re
sponsibility is the intellectual
development of students as
Christians. He said this function
differs from the prime duty of
other priest-chaplains, whose
first job is pastoral care.
He noted that Newman Club
chaplains must stand alert to
assist students to define their
Christian roles in the future—to
apply their theological knowl
edge. The student who is the
product of Catholic education,
whether at a Catholic school or
through a Newman center, has
a distinct role in the future,
Bishop Malone said.
He said the student must be
ready to lend a sense of direc
tion and meaning to the gigan
tic progress which this genera
tion is experiencing.
“This is the intellectual task
which I propose as being first
in priority,” Bishop Malone de
clared. “If you do not execute
it, the intellectual task is left
undone. All other aspects of
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your work can conceivably be
performed by others.
“Other priests are hearing
confessions. Other counselors
are giving guidance. Other so
cial chairmen are sponsoring
dances. But if you do not pro
vide for the intellectual develop
ment of your students in the
Catholic tradition and show its
application to life, it will hard
ly be accomplished at all,” he
said.
Referring to the formation of
lay apostles, Bishop Malone said,
if the age of the laity is to be
dynamic and fruitful, it will
need not many leaders, but zeal
ous leaders.
“It is the vocation of every
Christian to be an apostle,” he
said. “However, in this third
task I propose to you I have in
mind the formation of a group
of the spiritually elite. I have
in mind those who would be in
fact apostolic leaders.”
While many factors combine
for the making of an apostle, I
would think,” he said, “that
these three are paramount: an
understanding of the social im
plications of Christianity; an
understanding of the doctrine of
the Mystical Body, and a love
for the world which is the scene
of our work.”
Bishop Hastrich charged that
the code of canon law which
requires Catholic parents to ed
ucate their children in Catholic
schools is not being enforced.
He said: “By our silence we
give the impression that they
can go to secular schools and
still maintain their Faith.”
Bishop Hastrich said under-
grduates have problems and dif
ficulties which are measured
along two lines of thought—
“their education on one line and
their Faith on another.”
“We have an obligation of
finding out their ordinary diffi
culties, developing a series of
textbooks for classes and the
development of an apostolic for
mation,” he declared. He added
this idea has worked out in
grade and high schools and
should work in colleges.
During a discussion period
following Bishop Hastrich’s talk,
a number of chaplains disagreed
with some of the points he ad
vanced, while others applauded
his views. One said the bishop’s
proposal to use professional
men to teach religion “would
create a mirage that is danger
ous and those not chained to the
Church would not buy it.”
Another objected to implica
tions that “secular campus”
and “Newman Clubs” are “dir
ty words”. The chaplain said:
“If we’re justiified in being
where we are and if ‘Newman
Clubs’ and ‘secular campus’ are
dirty words, then we have no
right to go there. The secular
campus should be the main ob
jective of our love. We should
join the secular campus to bap
tize it.”
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Catholic Secondary Education
Stronger Courses, Bigger
Schools Is Seen As Trend
WASHINGTON—Catholic secon
dary education this year will
step up movements toward
stronger academic content, few
er parish schools and closer
ties with Catholics in public
high schools.
It also will continue to wres
tle with the dilemma of admis
sion standards, turn away hun
dreds of applicants in many
places, and increase tuition
prices.
This outline was offered here
by Father C. Albert Koob. O.
Praem., associate secretary of
the secondary school department
of the National Catholic Educa
tional Association.
A member of the Norbertine
Fathers, Father Koob has held
the NCEA post since 1961. com
ing to Washington after seven
years as principal of Bishop
Neumann High School in his na
tive Philadelphia.
To Father Koob, there are
two major facts of life about
modern Catholic high schools.
“First, it is imperative that we
increase our academic chal
lenge for students. Secondly, we
must accept the truth that we
are not going to educate more
than 50% of the eligible stu
dents.”
In an interview on the eve of
the new school year, Father
Koob said the drive to raise
academic standards has amount
ed to almost a crash program
in the past three years.
“We have made big strides to
ward getting in the mainstream
of ongoing academic movements'
and we will take more,” he
said.
He cited the success of his
department’s new consultant,
Brother E. Anthony of La Salle
College, who joined the NCEA
in May as an expert in evalua
tion' of schools and teachers.
“We invited schools to have
him visit them, study their cur
riculum, the background of the
teachers, and recommend im
provements. The response has
been overwhelming. He is book
ed solidly—and I mean solidly—
until next spring,” said Father
Koob.
The Norbertine thinks last
year’s NCEA convention and its
tumult over Mary Perkins
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Sister M. Bartholomew, R.S.M.
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Bishop
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Classrooms
(Continued from Page U
four centuries ago denied Papal
Supremacy and tried to over
throw God’s Church. “The
Church is not, however, tied to
any language or culture,” the
bishop declared, “While Latin
has served nobly and usefully
for centuries as the official lan
guage of the West it is not
something essential. What mat
ters is the well being of the
People of God.” He called for
enthusiastic participation in the
Mass by prayer and song. Such
participation would bring a
greater appreciation of the beau
ty and sublime dignity of the
Mass.
At the conclusion of his talk
the Bishop was given a stand
ing and rousing ovation. The
crowd thronged towards him to
shake his hand and wish him
well on his road to Rome and
the Third Session of the Coun
cil. • \
Ryan’s book. “Are Parochial
Schools the Answer?” gave the
academic improvement drive “a
good shot in the arm.”
said. Under shared-time plans,
students can split their school
days between Catholic and pub
lic schools.
The federal government will
give it another push forward,
he said, when it corrects a le
gal defect that has kept large
numbers of private school teach
ers from taking rart in federal
ly sponsored summer institutes
for teachers.
“We will see far greater par
ticipation bv Catholic secondary
school teachers, especially the
lay people, if Congress passes
the bill which propo c es they get
the same stipend now given on
ly to public school instructors
erjoilpd in the institutes.” he
said. The stipend is $75 a week
plus $15 for each dependent.
Father Koob also said his de
partment is publishing a series
of curriculum reports by special
national committees. The sub
jects are science, mathematics.
English, social studies, foreign
languages and religion.
“These are having a strong
impact not only on our educa
tors. but on other professionals
too.” he said. The NCEA’s mod
el science curriculum was prais
ed by the influential American
Institute of Biological Sciences
and copies were acquired by
the institute for distribution to
all its committees.
T h e Modern Foreign Lan
guage Association, he said, was
attracted by the NCEA study on
language courses and has taken
the lead in making certain all
U.S. Catholic high schools are
regularly getting the associa
tion’s published materials.
“Shared-time is going to blos
som. I am convinced of it.
There will be more and more
as the climate changes toward
acceptability of- high schools. I
think the day will come when
new Catholic high schools will
be built on close proximity to
the public schools,” he said.
As for tuition, Father Koob
sees it as going higher. “I’m
sure it will. The whole question
is what the school must have
and what the traffic will bear.”
Admission procedures will con
tinue to be troublesome, espe
cially in those areas where high
schools already are unable to
enroll all graduates of Catholic
grade schools.
“Every diocese handles this
problem in its own way,” he
explained. “The challenge is not
to limit enrollment only to the
brightest kids. To avoid this,
some diocesan superintendents
have divided the standard IQ
rankings into divisions and ac
cepted a set quota for each di
vision from applicants.
“I’m afraid we will have to
get used to the idea that not ev
eryone is going to get in any
more,” he commented.
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As part of this general drive,
he said, the days of the small
parish school are numbered.
“You cannot today run a good
high school with less than 500
pupils,” he said.
“Academically and economi
cally it doesn’t work,” he main
tained. “Even a school with 300
pupils complicates things enor
mously. You cannot offer all the
courses you should and the
back-breaking cost of acquiring
equipment such as is needed for
good laboratories is not worth
it for a small school.”
But even with big, new
schools, he said, students will
still be turned away for lack of
space.
Because of this, Father Koob
sees the day when the Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine
and Catholic high schools will
work hand-in-hand on the high
school level under direction of
the diocesan superintendent of
schools.
He predicted that Catholic
high schools will make their fa
cilities available to CCD pro
grams and will invite Catholics
in public schools to join their
activities. “I’ve done this my
self when I was a principal. We
invited the public school stu
dents to our retreat and includ
ed them in social events, such
as Saturday dances,” he said.
Father Koob thinks that the
CCD and Catholic high schools
will coordinate religious instruc
tion programs, using the same
textbooks and perhaps often the
same teachers.
Shared - time education will
further this coordination, he
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