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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, March 1,1973
PAROCHIAL LEAGUE BASKETBALL TOURNEY
CHAMPS. Top photo, Blessed Sacrament girls team.
Lower picture, St. Mary boys five. (Photo by Pollack
and Daly.)
Parochial Basketball
St. Mary boys and Blessed Sacrament
girls won the championship rounds in
their respective divisions at the
Savannah Parochial School League
basketball tournament last weekend at
Benedictine High School’s gym.
Blessed Sacrament boys dropped a
39-36 squeaker to St. Mary, taking
second place behind the champion St.
Mary squad. In the tournament’s
consolation game, the boys five of
Sacred Heart took third place by
defeating St. James in another very
close game, 31-29.
The girls division championship
didn’t come easy, either, to Blessed
Sacrament who eked out a two point
win over second place St. James 31-29
in overtime.
Third place in the girls division went
to Nativity in Our Lord who downed
Sacred Heart 25-19.
Eight players finished the tournament
with a scoring average in double figures.
They are Angela Von Waldner of St.
James, 17.0; Dean Moesch of St. James,
15.0; Linda Wolfe of Nativity, 14.3;
Theresa Williams of Blessed Sacrament,
12.0; Paula Helmey of Nativity, 11.6;
Timm McGrath of Blessed Sacrament,
10.6; Reggie Walker of Sacred Heart,
10.6.
Black Sisters Keep Schools Open
PITTSBURGH (NC) - An agency
established a year ago by the National
Black Sisters’ Conference has succeeded
in helping two inner-city parochial
schools avoid closing and is currently
helping eight other such schools find
ways to continue operation.
The agency, DESIGN (Development
of Educational Services in the Growing
Nation), aims at assuring the
continuance of parochial schools in the
black community as an alternative to
public school education, even if the
institutional Church can no longer
afford to maintain the schools.
DESIGN, located at Carlow College
here, has a staff of six persons under the
directorship of Sister M. Martin de
Porres Grey, founding president of the
National Black Sisters’ Conference. The
Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation in
Columbus, Ind., a non-sectarian
foundation assisting religious
associations and Protestant churches,
has funded DESIGN’S first year
operational budget of $117,261 and
agreed to fund 50 percent of the
projected second year budget.
The schools that contact DESIGN are
in danger of closing because of the
ending of diocesan subsidies, the
withdrawal of white Religious
personnel, low achievement by students
because of insufficient funds for
educational materials, lack of
community participation or transient
staff.
After receiving a written request for
assistance, members of the DESIGN
staff visit the school to evaluate its
facilities, program, budget, accounting
procedures, relationships with parish
and diocese and the need for such a
school in the area.
If DESIGN decides to help the
school, its staff assists those involved in
the school to locate, define and redefine
their needs.
DESIGN offers models and programs
to adopt and adapt, but emphasizes
helping the school staff, students and
parents plan to operate the school as a
business and develop a financial base for
it by choosing an instructional program
that makes the best use of the abilities
of the faculty and best meets the needs
of the students. In this way they seek to
increase the school’s usefulness to the
community.
DESIGN has a list of black Religious
and laity who want to work in
inner-city schools and seeks to place
them in schools that need personnel.
DESIGN also works with the parents
of students in an effort to deepen
community involvement with the
school.
The agency’s staff and consultants
assist teachers in the areas of reading
and language arts, math and science,
social studies and values.
Among the fund-raising possibilities,
DESIGN staffers suggest, are setting up
a laundromat, showing movies on
weekends, or obtaining a franchise for a
hot dog stand or other food service
stand.
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Refugees’ Plight ‘Shameful’
BY GERMAINE SWAIN
HONG KONG (NC) - The omission
of any reference in the Vietnam
cease-fire agreement to the rights of the
country’s refugees was called “shameful
and shocking” by an official of Catholic
Relief Services (CRS), U.S. Catholic
overseas aid agency.
“Vietnam’s refugees have become the
political and military pawns of all
sides,” Father Robert Charlebois,
regional CRS director for Southeast
Asia, told NC News. He was interviewed
while on a visit here from Saigon.
“Victims of the horrendous fact of
war, they had the greatest personal
concern in the cease-fire-that of the
right of man to live. But the cease-fire
agreement was only a military and
political document. It carried no
mention of the moral responsibility
leaders and nations have to protect the
rights of refugees.
Deanery Pastoral
Council Meets
BY SARA LLOYD
Savannah Deanery Pastoral Council
met Feb. 20 at Rose of Sharon Apts.
Mr. Gerald Hagan, Director of the
Chatham County Day Center, spoke to
the parish representatives of the vital
need for volunteers to aid in the work
of the center. The Day Center is a
delinquency rehabilitation program of
the Ga. State Dept, of Human
Resources.
It provides an alternative to the
institutionalization of delinquent boys
committed to the State’s custody by the
local juvenile court. Volunteers are
needed to serve as tutors, big brothers
and sisters, and to provide general
voluntary services.
Mrs. Alida Smith spoke on the
purpose and activities of the Right to
Life Committee; she urged parish
councils to appoint members to serve
a liason between the parish and the
committee in the important work of
fighting abortion.
Mrs. Smith also announced that the
Deanery Council of Catholic Women is
sponsoring a party for Sernor Citizens
on Friday, March 16th at Blessed
Sacrament gym. A covered dish supper
will be held from 7:00-8:00 P.M., then a
floor show and dancing to a live band
till 11:00 P.M.
Fr. Michael Smith of the Dept, of
Christian Formation announced Irvin
Steinmetz, noted author, lecturer and
authority on human sexuality, will
lecture in Savannah may 11th. Time and
place will be announced later.
Father Francis Nelson spoke to the
group on the Diocesan Tribunal. It is
expected that the Savannah Tribunal
will merge with the Atlanta Tribunal in
order to facilitate the processing of
marriage cases.
“In order that the sounds of war may
give way to the works of peace, refugees
must be considered a priority concern.
And unless the Church directs its
collective services to this problem, it
will have failed.”
The Church’s presence in Vietnam,
according to Father Charlebois, must be
that of the universal Church giving
material assistance and sharing in
long-range planning in the area of
reconstruction of land and people. This
could range from providing a bus ticket
to a village or to building a new one,
“complete with church,” he said.
He proposes a new thrust on the part
of the Church-a committee or
organization representing all agencies oi
the Church concerned with the welfare
of man in the works of justice and
peace, together with the Church in
Vietnam.
“There should then emerge,” he
added, “a Vietnamese representative
agency of the universal Church, as well
as of the local Church, that will concern
itself and devote itself entirely to thi.;
area. And instead of the resources
provided bearing a label American or
Swiss or German or French and so
forth, they would coome through a
AUSTIN, Tex. (NC) - The Texas
Conference of Churches called for
ecumenical cooperation in studying the
problems brought about by the U.S.
Supreme Court decision on abortion.
The conference, which includes
Catholic dioceses as well as Protestant
and Orthodox churches, also voted on a
boycott <?f clothing produced by the
Farah Company in El Paso.
In action taken at the closing session
of the conference’s fourth annual
assembly the delegates voted
overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution
acknowledging “the distress that now
strains us,” and giving “support to
legislative efforts in our state that
initiates or increases maternity services,
childcare and assistance to pregnant
women, undergirding their choice to
give birth.”
The resolution also called for the
conference to prepare an ecumenical
education program “that highlights our
common moral dedication to the value
of life.”
A resolution screening committee had
removed a clause from the original
resolution that would have commended
the Texas attorney general for chastising
the high court for having acted “in a
legislative manner, a role that does not
suit the supreme court nor respect the
role of our State legislature.”
Delegates to the assembly later
sidestepped taking a stand on tax credits
by referring a resolution supporting
them back to the board of directors to
responsibility given Caritas
Internationalis (the international
Catholic charities agency), the
important thing being that the Church
take the concept of self-determination
that was supposed to be one of the
bases of the military struggle and enable
it to be realized by the individual. And
it is the responsibility of the Church in a
very real way that the principle of
justice and peace have a role in this
self-determination so that the refugees’
willingness to work and to decide will
be made possible.”
Father Charlebois described the
situation of the thousands of refugees
generated by the Vietnam cease-fire as
“delicate and confused.” He srJ that
the people were somewhat ambivalent
about returning to their own villages or
remaining in the refugee camp where
they feel secure.
They have gone through this pattern
so many times before only to lose their
land and have to start over again, he
said. As much as many want to return
to the land of their ancestors, they are
worried and concerned that in an
unstable world they will again be put in
the position of being “professional
refugees,” Father Charlebois said.
be studied, redrafted and resubmitted to
the assembly in 1974.
Earlier the delegates had voted to
support the boycott of the Farah
Company, El Paso slacks manufacturer,
following an intervention by Bishop
Sidney M. Metzger of El Paso, a delegate
and member of the conference’s board,
who told the assembly that the issue
was a simple one . . .“social justice,”
and that the strikers “have a just and a
good cause.”
A letter from Bishop Metzger in
support of the strikers’ cause had been
published widely last fall.
Delegates acted on a total of 29
resolutions dealing with a variety of
local, state and national issues. The
resolutions:
-Called for “alleviation of the
suffering of the victims of the war (in
Vietnam) including political prisoners
and conscientious objectors.”
-Favored increased pressure on
Russia to end discriminatory and
punitive actions against Soviet Jewry.
-Asked President Nixon and Congress
to give “first priority” to programs
“meeting human need” including the
Office of Economic Opportunity now
being phased-out by executive action.
-Opposed efforts to reinstate capital
punishment.
-Called for legislation to protect the
confidential sources of newsmen.
Ecumenical Abortion Study
Group Studies Life of Widowed
MILWAUKEE (NC) - About 180
widows and widowers attended the first
Naim Conference in the Milwaukee
archdiocese and heard a team of
clergymen and laymen from Chicago
present an orientation program on the
problems of the widowed.
One member of the group from
Chicago - where the Naim program has
grown - was a widow with four children
who explained some of the emotions
the newly widowed feel:
-Something akin to hatred of the
deceased for having deserted the spouse.
-Resentment toward family and
friends able to carry on.
- Religious depression.
-Fear and loss of self-confidence.
-Deep regrets and guilt feelings
towards the deceased spouse.
-Psychosomatic pain and a desire to
die.
Another widow from the Chicago
Naim program-which takes its name
from Jesus’ raising a widow’s son from
the dead in St. Luke’s Gospel - urged
those attending the meeting to try to
resume a single status identity.
The woman, who has five children,
also advocated that the widowed make
an overall plan for the future,
highlighting desires and talents they
never had an opportunity to fulfill.
A lawyer-widower, who has
remarried, discussed the developmental
stages of trauma of widowhood. During
the first six months or year, he said, the
bereaved reacts in shock, almost
automatically. He urged the widowed to
“live with the memory objects about
the house, don’t run away.”
When the immediate problems and
arrangements are completed, the
widowed then feels “oppressive
loneliness,” he said. “We wind up with
too much time. The tendency is to turn
inward, reflect on how you feel. You
have to project to others or you’ll
become a recluse.”
He added:
“Finally, when you get past the hurt
stage, you’ve got to make a life plan as
though you will never remarry. This is
especially true of women. Widows
outnumber widowers eight to one.”
The lawyer also listed some wrong
solutions to widowhood: excessive
alcoholism, overwork, hasty remarriage,
life of immoral relationship with
someone else, and neglect of religion to
“get even with God.”
Other participants included Father
Edward Corcoran, director of the Naim
conference in Chicago who conducted
the social part of the conference and the
group discussions; and Father Donald
Weber, director of the Catholic family
life program in Milwaukee.
Father Weber explained the
Milwaukee program would have two
thrusts; an ongoing group that would
have membership dues, officers and
spiritual, social and cultural
opportunities; and the one-shot type of
conference geared for those who want
to gain insights but do not want to join
the organization.
(Readers may obtain more information
about NAIM by writing to: Father Edward
Corcoran, NAIM, Room 901, 109 North Dear
born Street, Chicago, III. 60602.)
AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-TYPIST Barbara O’Leary looks
puzzled as Sister Ruth Marie, O.S.F. typing instructor, helps her to adjust
her machine. In the background, from left to right are Beverly Renick,
Theresa Culledge, Jack Matthews, Beth Moxley and Brigid O’Brien.