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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, July 1, 1971
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Members of the senior class of Aquinas High School who maintained an average high enough to
graduate as members of the National Honor Society. Girls bottom to top: Grace Battery, Mary
Louise Menk, Susan Green, Lynda Walker, Mary Real and Rosemary Roper. Boys - bottom to top -
Timothy Mirshak, Leroy Washington and Anthony Colley. Absent from the picture are Janet
Moulton and Janet Villemain. (Rogers Photo)
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At recent graduation
exercises for the last
graduating class of St. Pius X
High School, the city of
Savannah presented a formal
resolution commending the
service rendered the
community by the school
since its founding. The school
has been phased out and its
facilities are now being used
as St. Pius X Community
Center. The resolution read:
WHEREAS, the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of
Savannah desire to record
their feelings and those of the
entire citizenry on the
occasion of the final
graduation of St. Pius X High
School.
We would be derelict
indeed if we allowed such a
fine and noble institution to
pass from the Savannah scene
without acknowledging its
great contribution to the
growth, well-being and
spiritual uplift of the
Community.
You cannot wipe away St.
Pius X High School as you
would erase a chalkboard in
the classroom. Pius has graven
its worth and accomplish
ments in the minds of the
young people who have
traversed its halls. Pius High
will never die. It will live
forever in the hearts of
Savannahians who subscribe
to the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man,
for that is the Lesson it
sought to instill in its
students. Its reputation for
scholarship likewise will long
endure in the score of
colleges and universities
across the land.
It is sad to contemplate
that this is the last graduation
of a Fine school -- small in size
but large in accomplishments.
And, it is only proper that
you graduates and those who
preceded you should
approach this last day with
moistened eye. By your
works in the business and
academic world, and your
relationships with your
fellowman you have justified
the faith of your devoted
teachers.
St. Pius X High School
needs no monument. Its
monument will be reflected
in the lives of its 491
graduates, their children and
their children’s children. To
the 1971 graduates - last of a
noble line -- we congratulate
you and urge you to go forth
from this Cathedral tonight
bent on making a success in
life, thus adding luster to the
monument of your Alma
Mater.
THEREFORE, NOW BE
IT RESOLVED that this
Resolution extending an
official “WELL DONE” be
spread upon the Minutes of
City Council and that a copy
be sent to the Sisters of St.
Francis, members of the
Faculty since the founding of
the school in 1952, and to
the Rev. Fred Nijem, present
Moderator.
LARGE AND APPARENTLY HAPPY graduation class of St. James Parish School, Savannah, pose for their group photo in
St. James Church. (Photo by Bob Ward)
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| Conclusion Of Mulherin J
1 Statement On Abortion I
Only 6.4% of these
indicated a preference to
amend the law. Obstetricians
and gynecologists are a
minority of practicing
physicians. These are
physicians who must perform
abortions. I read their
conservatism as reflecting
dislike of physicians for
anything other than
preserving life. The
questionnaire further
indicates there is still a failure
of Georgia physicians to
approve ABORTION ON
REQUEST.
Now I feel that I should
discuss with you the behavior
of the unborn child. There is
no scientific evidence which
would indicate that human
life begins at any other point
than the moment of
conception. From the
moment a baby is conceived,
it bears the indelible stamp of
a separate, distinct
personality, an individual
different from all other
individuals. Growth and
development is rapid and
dynamic in the FIRST month
of life, with the central
nervous system (the brain)
seeing its most important
growth spurt, and the
RHYTHMIC CONTRAC
TIONS OF THE HEART
BEGIN. Death is determined
in our society today by
electrocardiogram. This
method determines the time
of death because there is no
further heart beat. Why are
we liberalizing abortion laws
from 12 to 24 weeks when
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there is a heart beat by the
end of 4 weeks?
How can anyone agree that
at the end of 16 weeks there
is no life? The unborn child is
now a foot tall and weighs
about 1 lb. Hair begins to
grow on its head and
eyebrows and fringes of
eyelashes appear. The child
sleeps and wakes just as he
will after birth. The skeleton
hardens and the muscles
become strong. The mother
now perceives his many
activities.
The study of the unborn
child (fetalogy) is a relatively
new science and yet, in its
short existence, it has put
into perspective what the
obstetrician has known for
years Le. when working with
pregnant women there are
two patients to be
considered. Both patients,
mother and child, require and
challenge the fullest expertise
of the medical profession.
The American College of
Obstetricians- Gynecologists
has stated: The inherent risks
of a therapeutic abortion are
serious and maybe life
threatening. This fact should
be fully appreciated by both
the medical profession and
the public. In nations where
abortions may be obtained on
demand, a considerable
morbidity and mortality has
been reported.
Why do we want this in
our state? Not one country
has seen a decrease in the
criminal abortion rate as the
result of adopting weak
legislation. Some countries
have seen an increase in
criminal abortions.
The most practical
consideration is the strain
legal abortions may place on
our hospital facilities and on
those people who work in our
hospitals. The Soviet Union,
only 10 years after legalizing
abortion, reported they had
227,100 beds available in
their hospitals for abortion
patients. In Budapest 52.3%
of all beds in their largest
hospital were being occupied
by abortion patients. Do we
want this trend to develop in
Georgia?
What are the alternatives to
abortion? Human alternatives
are available: these
alternatives redirect our
ingenuity and imagination
from the logistics of
increasing the availability of
abortions, toward abolishing
the social and economic
pressures which lead some
women to seek it. When we
support the woman and her
family in times of distress, we
then, with the help of
creativity, fulfill the keystone
of the art and science of
medicine.
Based on the knowledge
that the majority of women
who have a negative or
ambivalent reaction to their
pregnancy during its early
states do, in part, as the
pregnancy advances, develop
a more positive acceptance of
their pregnancy, supported
care of the pregnant woman
becomes all the more
reasonable. Much has been
said of the unwanted child,
yet the majority of the
women who expressed
rejecting attitudes toward
pregnancy in the early
months, now, in the third
trimester, express positive or
at least more accepting
attitudes toward the baby.
Knowing then that support of
the pregnant woman is a solid
principle, we must be willing
to change social policy and
extend our help to those who
need it.
Choosing abortion as a
solution to social problems
would seem to indicate that
certain individuals and groups
of individuals are attempting
to maximize their own
comforts by enforcing their
own prejudices. Ass a result,
pregnant school girls continue
to be ostracized, mothers of
handicapped children are left
to fend for themselves, and
the poor are neglected in
their struggle to attain equal
conditions of life. And the
ONLY solution offered these
people is abortion. It
becomes very distrubing
when we think that this
destructive medical technique
may replace love as the
shaper of our families and our
society.
We MUST move toward
creating society in which
material pursuits are not the
ends of our lives; where no
child is hungry or neglected
where even defective children
are valued because they call
forth our power to love and
serve without reward. Instead
of destroying life, we should
destroy the conditions which
make life intolerable. Then
every child, regardless of his
c a pacities or the
circumstances of his birth,
could be welcomed, loved
and cared for.
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closely to a pre-determined
curriculum.
David Connell, vice
president and executive
producer of the workshop,
said the series will probably
employ more modem
electronic devices than any
other program on the air.
“It is truly a program
designed for the medium,” he
observed.
Each member of the
repertory company will play
a wide variety of roles. The
names of the characters hint
at the show’s somewhat zany
approach to education: Fargo
North, Decoder (a word
detective), Julia Grownup (a
TV chef), Easy Reader (a
hip-talker who is obsessed
with the written word,
including the printing on
mathebooks and clothes
labels), and others. A rock
group named the “Short
Circus” will also be featured
on the show.
Samuel Gibbon, producer
of “The Electric Company,”
said there are differences in
the viewing tastes of grade
school children, as contrasted
with their preschool juniors,
“While a second grader
may not yet be literate in the
sense of being able to read
the English language,” he
said, “his visual literacy index
is very high because of TV,
which has shown him subjects
ranging from the Vietnam
war to game shows and from
cartoons to complexly
plotted adventure programs.”
“As with ‘Sesame Street,’
the target audience will be
the judges of what we finally
broadcast, and their opinions
will shape the format of the
series we hope they will
watch next fall,” he stated.
The half-hour reading show
will be seen daily for 26
weeks on the more than 200
stations affiliated with the
Public Broadcasting Service,
and probably on some
commercial outlets in
communities lacking public
TV facilities. The program
premieres Monday, Oct. 25.
SCHOLARSHIPS awarded to seniors of Augusta’s Aquinas High
School, left to right: Joan Harvey - full academic scholarship to
Augusta College awarded by the William Lester Scholarship of
the Exchange Club of Augusta; Leroy Washington - full
academic scholarship of $4000.00 to Lafayette College and
$4600.00 academic scholarship to Brown University in New
Jersey; Mary Dee Real - academic scholarship to St. Mary’s
Dominican College in New Orleans; Lynda Walker - $1000.00
scholarship to the college of her choice as finalist and scholar in
the National Achievement Scholarship Program; Kathie Johnson
- full academic scholarship to Spelman College as finalist in the
National Achievement Scholarship Program; Jonnie Ray
Williams - $3900.00 scholarship to Rollins College in Florida;
and Kathie Sheppard - $1000.00 scholarship to the college of
her choice that is renewable each year awarded by the Schenley
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