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PAGE 8 — The Southern Cross, November 9,1972
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BY FR. MICHAEL SMITH
GUEST COLUMNIST
A TRIP I’LL LONG REMEMBER
On a recent weekend trip, I took a bus
from Savannah to Atlanta and ended up
having a frightening, but very educational
experience.
From Augusta on, the bus was filled to
overflowing, mostly with young black
soldiers. Two black girls got on and were
standing in the aisle. A few of the black
guys, also standing, began to urge
someone to give the girls a seat. One
white fellow did, but neither myself nor
the white man next to me made a move.
Someone asked, “Why don’t you
fellows stand up?” My companion
remained silent, but I -- brave liberal that
I am -- spoke up, “They’re equal to us
now. They can stand as well as we can ”
“All hell” broke loose. Those “wrong”
words (I see now) were the last of my
words they were to hear for quite a while.
I was referring to women’s lib and how
the girls should be willing to stand like a
man, if they want to be equal. But they
immediately thought I was talking about
race. They were sure they had uncovered
a real “honkie.” “We’ll teach you,” they
said, “when we get off in Atlanta. We’ll
get the Panthers after you and you’ll
learn respect.”
I couldn’t see a thing in the pitch dark
of the rear of the bus. All I could hear
were angry voices, threatening me,
refusing to listen to my explanation,
refusing to listen to me at all. A lighted
cigarette was thrown at me from behind.
My white companion was very very quiet.
I was really frightened but I tried to
keep calm, and kept trying to get them to
listen. I kept thinking, “I sure wish they
knew how much I’ve given to the
Savannah NAACP, how I used to teach in
an all black high school, etc.” At long last
the situation calmed down. While never
friendly a few did listen me a little. Near
the end of the ride the other white guy
and I let two black fellows have our seat.
The precise misunderstanding is not
important but the basic experience is.
Here I was -- a white minority -- alone,
considered an enemy by a large group of
blacks. I was completely helpless. They
could have done anything they wanted.
Any one of them was more than a match
for sedentary me.
What did I learn? My first reaction was,
“I’ll never ride a bus again, at least
without my clerical collar on.” Gradually,
though, it dawned on me, “This is what
black people used to go through with us.”
Everywhere they went white people were
in charge. White people held the power.
They were completely helpless. They had
to take whatever we gave them, both
good and bad. I remembered stories I had
heard of white gangs having “fun” by
“scaring the hell’ out of some poor
“nigger.”
Almost all of us whites have been
frightened at some time in recent years
when we found ourselves alone near a
large group of black youths. Most of us
ride black sections in town with windows
up and doors locked.
This state of fear is a tragic but real
situation. When we experience it,
however, we ought to remember that
blacks learned this way of acting from
whites. Our sins are now being visited
upon us. Even those of us who never
abused a Negro, allowed it to go on.
Many still tolerate verbal violence by
listening to bigots speak without rebuking
them. Simply to condemn either blacks
or whites is futile.
We must all struggle together to
redeem the situation. We must build up
the brotherly love which alone can cast
out the fear which now prevails.
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BLACK TOP POTATO SOUFFLE
By
Mary Doris
Thank
3 cups mashed potatoes (sweet) or one can
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/3 stick Nucoa
1/2 cup sweet milk
1 tsp vanilla
Mix all ingredients together. Put in casserole.
TOPPING
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
1/4 cup sweet milk
Mix all ingredients together in saucepan. Cook slowly stirring constantly
ingredients are melted.
1/3 cup flour
1/3 stick nucoa.
until
Pour over potatoes. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
POT POURRI YAMS
By
Mrs. Dallas E. Bahm
a native of Louisiana
2 cups yams crushed (or sweet potatoes)
1/2 cup crushed pineapple
1/2 cup chopped peanuts or cashews
1/3 cup cranberry sauce
3 tablespoons butter
1 egg well beaten
1 teaspoon nutmeg
salt & pepper to taste
PROCEDURE:
Mix yams with cranberry sauce, pineapple, nuts and butter. Stir in egg. Season to
taste. If too dry add V* cup milk (dry, or canned carnation will do) Butter custard cups
and pour mixture for individual servings.
Bake 45 minutes (approximately) in a 400 degree oven.
This is nice with pork roast or chicken if you are tired of turkey. You’ll have few
leftovers at holiday time with these delicious yams!
We can’t
make you save.
But we can
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if you do.
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Augusta Leadership Workshop
On October 19, at St. Mary’s on the Hill Parish Hall, the 1972 Leadership
Workshop, sponsored by the Augusta Deanery Council of Catholic women, was held.
Miss Helen Turner, a district director of American Red Cross, conducted the
workshop. The session began at ten o’clock and ended at two. Ladies from the
Sodality of Fort Gordon and the four local Catholic parishes were in attendance. Miss
Mary Daws is the President of the Augusta Deanery Council of Catholic Women.
Pictured in group picture are left to right, Mrs. Dave Eicher, Mrs. Billy Smith, Mrs.
Charles Turner and Mrs. Thomas Larren. These ladies were in a skit demonstrating the
do’s and don’ts of a leader. In the lower photo are Miss Helen Turner, Red Cross
Director and Mrs. Patrick O’Leary, Secretary-Treasurer of the Sodality. Miss Turner is
pointing out valuable bits of information to Chiquic O’Leary.
Shepherds in the Wings
Theology School Education
BY WAYLAND BROWN
After graduating from college the
seminarian must have specialized
academic training in theology. This
training takes four years; however its
form varies from school to school. Once
it was a standard four-year academic
theology course with little attention
either to pastoral training or to other
subjects. The emphasis was on learning by
rote a large body of material printed in
what we now call “theology manuals.”
Needless to say all this has changed.
The core of academic theology remains;
however, it is certainly less absolute in
nature. At the Catholic University of
America, the school of theology is very
much concerned with competent
scholarship. Memory is subordinated to
ability to understand the Word of God as
presented to man and the living process
of interpreting this word through the
Church to men who live in the world. The
fact of God’s revelation to men through
the Holy Scriptures and through the rich
heritage and tradition oi the Church is
ever before the C.U.A. theology student.
C.U.A. has one of the most active
pastoral programs in the nation. Courses
are offered in parish ministries,
counselling, hospital and geriatric
ministry, ministry to the dying, prison
ministry, youth ministry, liturgical
practices, catechetics, adult education,
and a wealth of other fields too many to
enumerate. Each student at the
Theological college must participate in
this program, and his courses are chosen
carefully in consultation with the faculty
to fulfill the needs of his area of service.
Courses are available in any of the
many other departments of the
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University. Presently Savannah
seminarians are taking or planning to take
courses in Philosophy, Greek, Latin,
Education, Religious Education,
Mathematics, Arabic, Hebrew, and
Psychology. Each course is chosen for a
well though out purpose and carefully
integrated into the seminarian’s overall
program.
It is the function of the seminary
faculty to act as guides and leaders in the
prayer life of the seminarian, to help him
know himself, his neighbor, his God and to
establish the proper ties with others and
with God. The seminary faculty members
not only teach university courses but
more importantly arrange prayer groups,
liturgies, retreats, and regularly scheduled
individual conferences with the
seminarians. Each seminarian and a
member of the faculty together work
throughout the year to keep abreast of
the seminarian’s personal development, to
evaluate his progress, to actualize all that
is good in him, and to work to overcome
the shortcomings he may identify in
himself.
At the end of each semester it is the
responsibility of each man to write a
paper detailing the work he has done with
his adviser, and, with the concurrence of
the faculty, that paper is sent the bishop
of his diocese as the seminary’s evaluation
of the man. The responsibility to be
honest and forthright in one’s
self-understanding is emphasized;
however, the faculty may and usually
does call upon the student for further
explanation and clarification before
forwarding the report to the bishop.
Next week we will present a column
which in a very vivid way shares with you
the experiences of a seminarian who has
just begun his theological studies.
Ladies Hold
Talent Show
On Sunday evening, Nov. 4, Sacred
Heart Council of Catholic Women,
Savannah, sponsored a Talent Show in
the gymn at Sacred Heart School. The
winners were 1st, Lenora Perzie, who
played the guitar and sang, “Jesus Met
the Woman at the Well” and “Until It’s
Time for You To Go”. A brother and
sister act won 2nd Place. Tim Persee
played the guitar while Ceci sang
“Vincent” and “Til Tomorrow.” Third
Place was won by Eric and Nancy
McGinn who did a ballet number to
“Waltz of the Flowers”.
As an added attraction, Father Ronnie
Madden sang and played his guitar to the
enjoyment of the sizeable audience.
The first prize winner, Lenora Perzie,
will compete in the city-wide competition
“Deanery Follies” which will be held at
St. Vincent’s Hall on Friday, December
1st at 8 p.m. This program is being
planned by the Savannah Deanery
Council of Catholic Women.
[Around The Diocese j
Obituaries
* Mr. Felix Del Toro of Columbus, October 15th
* Major John Wiest, Jr. of Columbus, October 23rd
Bradford Morin of Columbus, October 26th
Mr. Edward F. Morrison of Augusta, October 28th
Mrs. Maria Wiesler Banovec of Augusta, October 30th
Mrs. Madeleine M. Cafiero of Savannah, November 2nd
Mr. Mars Caldwell Dukes of Augusta, November 2nd
Mr. Louis Edward Hobbs of Savannah, November 3rd
Marriages
* Miss Marion Theresa O’Brien of Albany, N.Y. and Mr. Allen W. Walker Jr. of
Savannah, Ga., November 3 in Blessed Sacrament Church, Albany.
* Miss Mary Ann Eaton and Mr. James Ronald Thompson, both of Columbus,
at St. Anne’s Church, October 21st, Columbus.
Necrology
*Rt. Rev. William H. Gross, Fifth Bishop of Savannah, November 14,1898.
*Rev. Cornelius M. Sheehan, November 18,1875.
Youth Appreciation Week
The Optimist Club of Augusta will sponsor National Youth Appreciation Week from
Nov. 13 to 19. The student chosen by faculty vote to represent Aquinas High School is
Adele Usry. She is an active member of the American Red Cross and is a school
volunteer preparing and maintaining the school Chapel for services conducted there.
Ceremony at St. Anne’s
On October 29th, Father Cox officially installed the following members of St.
Anne’s Parish, Columbus, as Ministers of Communion at a ceremony taking place at
the 11:15 AM Mass: Jim Willis, Jan Swisshelm, George Brown, Max Nolan, Joe Cobis,
John Rogers, Sister Amalia, Steven Dorchak and Robert Haller.
Aquinas Students Cited
By Faculty, vote the following students of Aquinas High School, Augusta, have
been elected to Who’s Who Among Catholic High School Seniors: Janice Wilson, Jill
Rees, Danny Craig, Mike Hutchinson, Bill Real, Adele Usry, Terry Stuckart, Dennis
May and Jim Moss. The criteria for nomination is based on Scholastic achievement and
honors, membership in organizations and honor societies and offices held, athletic
accomplishments and activities not covered above, such as clubs outside of school and
church organizations.
Cathedral CCW
The Cathedral Parish Council of Catholic Women held its regular monthly meeting
on Sunday, November 5th, in the Rectory Meeting Room following the 5:30 Mass.
Final plans were made for the Cake Sale to be held on Sunday November 12th.
Proceeds from the Sale will be used for the purchase of Altar linens and all
parishioners are invited to participate. Plans were also finalized for the Council’s
Christmas project, and its entry in the Talent Show sponsored by the Savannah
Deanery CCW.
AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS in the second year French class are shown
with their teacher Brother Richard Michel, F.M.S. in the newly installed language lab.
Separate sound systems permit the individual student to work at his own level of
understanding of French. First row, left to right, are Stephen Douglas, Ann Marie
Logan, Jack Myers, Ginger Long and Joe Samulski.
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