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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, June 1,1972
MACON SCHOOL
Mt. de Sales Mounts
Drive For $123,000
BY GRACE T. CRAWFORD
Macon News Staff Writer
Mt. de Sales High School in Macon has
begun a drive to raise $123,000 for
additional facilities in order to maintain
its accreditation by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, Dr. John O’Shaughnessey,
chairman of the school’s board of trustees
announced.
Dr. O’Shaughnessey said the drive will
continue through Aug. 1, under the
leadership of Mike Garvin, Mt. de Sales
athletic director and chairman of its math
department.
Garvin said solicitation will be made to
some business firms as well as people who
have an interest in the school.
These, he said, will include Mt. de Sales
Alumni, parents and grandparents of
children currently enrolled, and parents
of prospective students, mainly those
attending St. Joseph and St. Peter Claver
Elementary Schools.
“And the entire Catholic community
in both Macon and Warner Robins”, he
said.
Brochures, explaining the school’s need
have been mailed to approximately 200
persons through the country, plus appeals
to numerous charitable foundations.
Mt. de Sales Principal, Sister Fidelis,
said the money raised in the drive will be
used in several areas of expansion of
Macon’s only Catholic High School,
which is beginning its second century of
operation.
“In order to maintain accreditation,
library facilities must be provided for the
students attending Mt. de Sales”, she said.
“When the original convent and
classroom building were torn down in
1971, the library, housed on the second
floor, was temporarily moved into the old
laundry building. The space provided
them has proved totally inadequate to
meet the demands of an ever-increasing
enrollment. Unless the current library is
expanded and renovated to meet the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary School standards, Mt. de Sales
cannot maintain accreditation by that
body.”
Still another pressing need is a school
administration office in order to release a
classroom now being used for that
purpose, Garvin said.
In addition, there are problems about
locker rooms and physical education
facilities in McAuley Hall, constructed
several years ago. “Currently there are
just 39 lockers to take care of 180 boys
and girls participating in the physical
education program. Over and above the
necessity for more lockers, the PE and
athletic programs need a landscaped
outdoor recreation area. The lack of
outdoor facilities coupled with the
shortage of locker space makes operation
of a successful program extremely
difficult for the staff as well as for the
students.”
Garvin will be assisted in the effort by a
steering committee including Sister
Fidelis Dr. O’Shaughnessey, William J.
O’Shaughnessey, Dr. Jimmy Cassidy,
Robert Wys, and Art Barry Sr.
The fund drive will not be conducted
on mass visitation, Garvin said, but on a
“pyramid basis”. He said this will start
with five persons being solicited. “Then,
they in turn will solicit five more, with
the workers building up from there.” He
said the plan has been used with great
success by other institutions conducting
drives. He said with the successful
completion of the drive, no additional
ones are planned in the foreseeable
future.
Mt. de Sales, the community’s first
existing school, was founded in 1871 by
the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. It was
chartered in 1876. Sister Fidelis said
enrollment now is 335, with 360
expected for the coming school year.
The improvements to the school will
provide for an eventual enrollment of 500
students.
“People are very enthusiastic over our
plans to improve facilities”, she said.
“There are many people who love Mt. de
Sales and welcome an opportunity to give
to the school. We are emphasizing in the
drive that the school needs its friends as it
begins the second century of operation.”
MIKE GARVIN
Summer
School
St. Vincent’s Academy will offer
developmental and remedial work for
students of grades three through eleven in
a summer session spanning June 26 to
Augusta 4.
Faculty for the summer work will
include: Sister M. Charlene, principal,
Sister Michael Mary, Mrs. Jack Dressel,
Sister M. Gilbert, Sister M. Brigid, Sister
M. Jogues, Sister M. Christine, Sister M.
Thomasine, and Sister Martina Joseph.
All class sessions will run Monday
through Friday, June 26-August 4.
For grades 9-11, remedial English will
be offered. Class hours are 9:00-1:00, and
the cost for one credit is $45.
Typing will be offered from
9:00-11:00, carrying one-half credit. The
cost for the typing course is $30.
A special high school preparatory class
of developmental reading, review math,
and English will be offered to students
entering the ninth grade this fall. The
time is 9:00-11:30 and the fee is $35.
Elementary school offerings include
reading and arithmetic, grades three
through seven, and English grades five
through seven. Class hours are 9:00 to
10:15, and 10:30 to 11:45. Fee for one
course is $30; two courses $45.
Courses on both the high school and
elementary levels will be cancelled if
there is insufficient demand, so early
registration is requested. Registration will
be accepted by mail or phone. Call
236-5508 or 786-4001.
ADULTS FROM SEVERAL PARISHES received the Sacrament of Confirmation at
rites in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist last Sunday (May 21). They are shown
ON MAY NINTH THE SIXTH GRADE CLASS at St. James assisted by Monsignor Burke, Reverend John Cuddy, Pastor of
School, Savannah, received the Sacrament of Confirmation. St. James, Reverend Liam Collins and Reverend John
Most Reverend Gerard L. Frey administered the sacrament Kenneally.
COLUMBUS
Bishop
F acing
Revolt
ROERMOND, The Netherlands (NC) ^
Bishop John M. Gy sen of Roermond,
whose nomination in January stirred
widespread controversy in the
Netherlands, now faces a rebellion by his
diocesan staff.
The deans of the diocese, the central
committee of the diocesan pastoral
council and the clergy working in the
administration of the diocese have
decided to end all collaboration with the
bishop.
The cathedral chapter of the diocese,
saying that it had failed in its effort to
mediate the dispute between the bishop
and the diocesan staff, announced that if
is “going to invoke the mediation of the
Holy See in order to find a way out of
the present deadlock.” The chapter said it
hopes that this step would not deepen the
division.
Palestine
Refugees
Get Help
By Dick Mauter
NEW YORK (NC) - From its
headquarters here a Catholic agency deals
with one of the most sensitive and
agonizing aspects of the Israeli-Arab
conflict - the Palestinian refugees.
“People make war and people can
make peace,” notes Msgr. John G. Nolan,
president of the Pontifical Mission for
Palestine, and the mission tries to make
peace by aiding 1.5 million refugees.
Special Liturgy At St. Benedict’s
On May 14th, Mother’s Day,
Columbus’ St. Benedict’s Parish
sponsored its annual Mother’s Day
Liturgy which was presented by the
students of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine Program.
The Committee was formed from the
Teachers of the Program along with the
Pastor, Reverend Thomas Leannah, and
Choir Director, Mr. Edward Cox.
The Liturgy featured the parish’s new
Communion Minister, Mr. David Lee,
who was formerly from St. Mary’s
Church in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He was
invested with the cassock, surplice, and
stole as symbols of his office.
The duty of the Communion Minister
is not only to assist the priest with
Communions but also to visit the sick,
distribute Communion to them, and to
cover the rectory in his absence.
Within the Liturgy of that day he gave
communion to Monica Moring, who had
her first experience in receiving Our Lord,
thus her First Communion. He also gave
Communion to all the mothers of the
Parish, and then Father Leannah joined
him in the distribution of Communion to
the Parish family.
After the Eucharistic Celebration the
Parish Community joined together in the
hall for a social hour to share their
experiences of the day and to exchange
ideas about the new concept of
Communion Minister. Mr. David Lee has
applied to the diocese to become a
Deacon.
“Food and clothing do not answer all
of the refugee’s needs,” said Msgr. Nolan,
“and this year the Pontifical Mission is
involved also in the more lasting and
costly work of rehabilitation and human
development.”
Rehabilitation involves efforts with the
blind, deaf and crippled human
development centers on education.
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“The Pontifical Mission keeps to its
original policy of serving the refugees,
according to needs, country by country;
on the basis of need, not creed; in
cooperation with the United Nations and
voluntary agencies; and whereever
possible, through existing institutions,”
Msgr. Nolan says.
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“Our idea is to bring people together.
Remember the role of the priest as well as
the Christian is to be a mediator.”
Much of the mission work supplements
that of the United Nation’s Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East. That agency, however, is
facing financial difficulties, and that may
increase the service role of the Pontifical
Missions.
The Pontifical Mission has been
providing its service since just after the
1948 Arab-Israeli war, when some
900,000 Palestinians fled their homes.
Reverend Thomas Leannah - Monica Moring - Mr. David Lee