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INDEPENDENT COLLEGE STUDENTS
Drive Seeking Federal
Tutition Grants Begins
BY JAMES M. SHEA
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NC) —
A national Catholic women’s
organization has launched a
campaign for state and
federal tuition grants to
students attending
independent colleges.
Kappa Gamma Pi, honor
society of Catholic women’s
college graduates, cited
“spiraling costs and declining
enrollment in the nation’s
independent colleges-many
of them Catholic,” as the
basic reason for the
campaign.
The society is enlisting its
14,000 members to take part
in the drive “to even the
academic score between
publicly financed state
universities and the private
DURING 1968
independent colleges.”
Coordinating the campaign
in Ohio is the Columbus
chapter of Kappa Gamma Pi,
with a committee headed by
Mrs. William H. Thorne. She
pointed out that the average
tuition at a state-financed
college in Ohio is $500,
compared with $1,200 to
$2,000 at private colleges.
Under the society’s
proposal, grants from state or
federal sources would
equalize the tuition
difference by granting to the
private college student the
amount of the difference,
thus enabling him to be free
of economic pressure in
choosing his college.
Mrs. Thorne cited a recent
Nation’s Church
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— About 43% of all adult
Americans attended church in
a typical week in 1968
compared with 45% in 1967,
according to the Gallup Poll.
This represents a
continued decline in weekly
church attendance from the
1955 and 1958 highs of 49%,
but it is substantially above
the 1940 figure of 37%.
The Gallup organization
said 65% of adult Catholics
attended church in a typical
week during the past year,
compared with 38% of
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It added, however, that
church attendance by
Catholics has dropped 9% in
the past decade, compared
with 5% among Protestants.
In the last 10 years church
attendance has declined more
sharply among young adults
in their 20s than among other
groups. While the overall drop
in the decade was 6%, among
young adults it was 14%.
An average of 48% of
adult women and 39% of
adult men attended church in
a typical week in the past
year, the Gallup organization
said. Church attendance was
highest among college-ed
ucated adults and among
those with a family income
over $7,000. The church
attendance figure for whites
was 43% and for non-whites
44%.
A Gallup international
survey of 11 countries
showed the U. S. to have the
highest church attendance
rate.
Figures for other countries
covered in the survey were:
The Netherlands, 42%;
Austria, 38%; Switzerland,
30%; Greece (Athens), 28%;
West Germany, 27%; France,
25%; Uruguay (cities only),
24%; Norway, 14%; Sweden,
9%; and Finland, 5%.
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study of Ohio college costs
made by the East Ohio Gas
Company of Cleveland, which
showed that a four-year
college education in Ohio
costs more than $10,000 for
a student attending a private
college and a little less than
$6,000 for one attending a
state-supported college.
A statement from national
Kappa Gamma Pi
headquarters acknowledged
that the tuition difference is
not the only reason for the
trend toward enrollment
increases at state colleges and
declines at independent
colleges. Higher rates of state
support, together with the
availability of federal funds
to large unviersities, the
statement indicated, “have
enabled these institutions to
raise faculty salaries and
improve facilities on a scale
with which it is increasingly
difficult for private colleges
to compete.”
“The student who selects a
state college in 1968,
therefore,” the statement
continued, “may have been
prevented from exercising a
real preference for a private
or church-related education
by his inability to pay higher
tuition. But he also may be
unwilling to exercise his
freedom of choice at the
expense of what he conceives
to be better facilities,
research opportunities, or
teachers.”
The statement also noted
that state tax funds
appropriated for higher
education had risen 44% in
the past two years and 214%
in the past eight years.
“Figures like these make the
concept of freedom of choice
steadily less meaningful,” the
statement said.
Mrs. Joseph Trivisonno of
Cleveland, a leader of the
campaign, said the decision to
launch it on a national basis
was made a year ago at a
meeting of the American
Association of Colleges, held
at Minneapolis. The campaign
was proposed to
representatives of the 121
colleges affiliated with Kappa
Gamma Pi as a means of
easing what many of them
called a “crisis” among
independent colleges.
Mrs. Trivisonno expressed
the hope that legislation will
be passed in Ohio in 1969 to
provide tuition grants for
students at private colleges.
“Private colleges and
u niversities are the
foundation of all higher
education,” she said. “They
must not vanish or take a
back seat. Until recently,
higher education was private
education.”
Noting that in 1950 half
the college students were in
private schools while in 1968
the figure was 35% Mrs.
Trivisonno declared: “This
trend must be halted.”
Kappa Gamma Pi, which
has chapters in some 40
metropolitan areas in the U.
S., is asking its members to
promote the tuition grants
program by informing their
state and federal lawmakers
about the problem.
TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS BLESSING — Standing on a balcony, Pope Paul VI raises his hand
in a Christmas salute to some 200,000 persons crowded into St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City for
the Pontiff’s traditional Christmas blessing to the world. Pope Paul wished the world “Merry
Christmas” in a half dozen different languages, and issued a plea for justice for people who are
“little, poor, slaves, fallen.” (NC Photos)
’WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN’
150,000 Hear Pope Paul
Give Christmas Greeting
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
An estimated 150,000
persons gathered in St. Peter’s
Square at noon on Christmas
to receive Pope Paul Vi’s
traditional blessing to the city
and the world.
Following his return from
Taranto, the Pope slept a few
hours but was up in time to
celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s
basilica at 11 a.m. The Mass
was simple and the thousands
in the basilica from all parts
of the world joined in
answering the Latin
responses.
As soon as the Mass was
finished, Pope Paul left the
altar and went to the central
balcony overlooking the
square. The day was one of
warm sunshine. The
enormous crowd cheered the
Pope’s appearance on the
balcony. Honor guards of the
Italian Marines, Alpine
troops, Navy, Air Force and
Army and Carabinieri as well
as detachments of the
Vatican Gendarmeria and the
Palatine Guards presented
arms and bands played brief
extracts of the Papal March
and the Italian National
Anthem.
The Pope delivered his
Christmas greeting in a strong
voice, showing no weariness
from his long night.
Essentially the message was:
“We must be born again, we
must start over again, be born
again today, recommence
today.
“Today’s feast, so glad and
so profound,” the Pope said,
“gives us this hope and shows
us the way. We must be born
again by the criteria,
principles and energies which
Christ places at our disposal
still today.”
Following is the text of
the Pope’s speech:
Beloved sons, brothers, and all
men who hear our voices: It is
Christmas, the birthday of Our
Lord Jesus Christ. Accepting the
usual computation that the birth
took place 1,968 years ago, today
we celebrate its memory. Today
we recall with emotion and
wonder that extremely humble
event. Today we think again, with
serious and intelligent reflection,
of that extremely important
event.
Many things took their
beginning from that event. From
it, by the fact of the birth (cf.
Col. I. 15), the dignity of human
nature has been re-established and
exalted. From it, the potential
unity of the human race became
manifest. From it, the history of
the world took its focal point.
From it, the beginnings of human
brotherhood were proclaimed (cf.
Rom. VIII. 29). From it, every
human being has become sacred,
worthy of every care and respect.
From that event, arose this
criterion, that he who suffers,
who is little, poor, a slave, fallen,
merits care, help, respect and
greater justice. From it, this
despair which fills the depths of
the heart of the deceived and the
sinner obtains a right to hope, to
live again.
From it, a source which
became a river, of which the
Church is intended to be the
principal and authentic channel, a
cooling, fecundating and
regenerating river, sprang up in
Bethlehem: namely, love-the new
inconceivable and unrestrainable
love of God, who became our
brother, our model, our teacher,
our friend, our Saviour and
Redeemer, our head, our life.
That love poured itself out on the
earth, still floods it, and today
covers us all like a lake, filling us
with the love of Christmas, the
love of Christ.
Let us seek for an instant,
brothers and sons, to be aware of
this, to experience interiorly, then
we shall be happy and have a
truly happy Christmas.
We shall thus understand a
vital mystery which affects us all,
personally and socially. The
mystery is this: that the feast of
Christmas is not merely a
memory. It is not only the
celebration of rites, of gay and
affectionate customs, of family
joy or public rejoicing. Instead, it
is a repetition, a renewal. The
birth of Christ, both natural and
divine, must be also our spiritual
and Christian rebirth. This fact is
a marvelous element of our faith,
a vital fact.
We must be born again, we can
be born again. Who among us
does not feel the inexorable
voraciousness of time? Who does
not see that every human progress
is insufficient to itself, bearing
within it, by reason of its very
development, the sentence of its
own fall. Who does not observe
especially today that every
manifestation of life is the target
for its own pitiless and, in a way,
logical contestation? Who among
us does not bear deep in his heart
the wound of mistrust: lack of
confidence in himself, weak and
sinful as he is, mistrust in others,
in society, in civilization, in the
world?
Christmas, as we said in our
recent message, conquers this
mistrust and convinces us that we
can, we must have hope. We must
be born again, we must start over
again, be born again
recommence today.
today,
Today’s feast, so glad and so
profound, gives us this hope and
shows us the way. We must be
born again by the criteria,
principles and energies which
Christ places at our disposal still
today. In Him, with Him, we can
always start over and recommence
the construction of our personal
life, our family, social and civil
life. Christ’s birth is everlasting.
He is infancy. He is youth. He is
the new manhood of the world.
With Him we can celebrate, not
only His bygone birth, but also
our new birth.
This is our wish for you,
brothers and sons, for those who
hunger and thirst for justice, for
those who suffer in pain and
poverty. Our wish, that peace and
concord may be born again
among men who are still engaged
in unending conflict, is a wish for
the Church, a wish for the whole
world.
SISTER ANN PATRICK
WARE, S.L., who has been
named assistant director in
the Faith and Order
Department of the National
Council of Churches. The
Sister of Loretto, who
studied in France, Israel and
Spain, formerly taught at the
U. of North Dakota. (NC
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The Southern Cross, January 2, 1969 - PAGE 3
MESSAGE FROM POPE
World Leaders
Hail Apollo 8
WASHINGTON (NC) -
President Johnson was joined
by many world leaders,
including Pope Paul VI, in
sending congratulations as the
Apollo 8 crewmen splashed
down in the Pacific, back
safely from man’s first trip
around the moon.
“You have made us very
proud to be alive at this
particular moment in
history,” Mr. Johnson told
the astronauts.
He said their feat had
made “us feel akin” to those
Europeans of five centuries
ago who had learned of the
New World for the first time.
“There is just no other
comparison that we can make
that is equal to what you
have done or to what we
feel,” the President said.
Warm messages of
congratulation also came
from the Pope, Secretary
General U Thant of the
United Nations, President
Nikolai V. Podgomy of the
Soviet Union, Queen
Elizabeth II, Spanish Chief of
State Francisco Franco, and
many others.
In Prague, President
Ludvig Svoboda cabled good
wishes to President Johnson
and the astronauts, and
Czechoslovaks proudly
recalled that spaceman James
Lovell’s mother had
emigrated from the Czech
town of Pilzen to the United
States nearly half a century
before.
strength and inspiration for
the moon flight.
“All of us know that a
man’s wife is an integral part
of his every act,” the
President said. “Except for
the strength and comfort that
we get from them, few of us
could really measure up to
what people expect of us.”
Mr. Johnson said the
astronauts, Col. Frank
Borman and Maj. William A.
Anders of the Air Force and
Capt. James A. Lovell Jr. of
the Navy, “have given us so
much pride that I wanted the
womenfolks to know how the
nation felt about it.”
In Texas, meanwhile, the
wives of the crewmen made
their own prayers of thanks
for the safe return of the
spacecraft.
Mass was celebrated in the
home of Maj. Anders just
seven minutes after the
splashdown in the Pacific.
Thick, green Christmas
trees stood tall in the living
rooms of the Anders house
and at the homes of fellow
astronauts Borman and Lovell
as their families waited to
celebrate a late Christmas
with the men who circled the
moon 10 times on their
holiday trip into untraveled
space.
Pope Paul
message to
Johnson:
sent this
President
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the successful completion of
the magnificent enterprise of
the Apollo 8 mission, we
congratulate you and the
people of the United States
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the intrepid space travellers,
and invoke the divine blessing
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The Soviet Union, through
its news agency Tass, hailed
the “courage and skill” of
the astronauts who made “this
outstanding scientific and
technological experiment.” It
added: “The success of the
flight opens a new stage in
the history of space
research.”
When Moscow television
showed the Apollo crew
emerging from the helicopter
onto the carrier Yorktown’s
flight deck, a Russian
commentator said: “We all
wished this successful
landing. We admire their
courage.”
At a news conference at
the White House, President
Johnson said he had
telephoned the crewmen’s
wives in Houston and had
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