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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 54 No. 37
Thursday, October 25,1973
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Albany Woman Elected NCCW Vice-President
RESPECT LIFE: THE AGING -- An orb weaver Nov. 4 will be devoted to problems of aging in Respect
spider’s web seems to etch new lines of aging on the Life month programs around the county. (NC Photo
face of 86 yeard old Earl Sugden, a retired country by Ray Barth)
school teacher in Richland County, Wis. The week of
Bishop Names Newman Chaplains
A laymen and two Sisters are among
eighteen Chaplains appointed or
reappointed by Bishop Raymond W.
Lessard to work in the Newman
Apostolate on the campuses of
twenty-one colleges in the Savannah
diocese.
Mr. Michael Wayne will serve the
Catholic student community at
Columbus College, Columbus.
Sister Mary Julian of the Vincentian
INSIDE STORY
Lepers
Pg. 2
Fr. Reedy
Pg. 4
Book Review
Pg. 6
Cook’s Nook
Pg. 8
Sisters, and Sister Michelle Teff of the
Glenmary Home Missions will assume
Newman posts at Savannah State
College and Georgia Southern.
Statesboro, respectively.
Father Thomas Healy will serve as
Chaplain at three institutions in Macon
JAY PINKERTON
On August 25, Jay Pinkerton, son of
Lt. Col (Ret.) and Mrs. Jay Pinkerton of
Augusta, professed vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience before the
Franciscan community at St. Francis
Friary, Brooklin, Mass. Col. and Mrs.
Pinkerton, along with other parents,
were invited to sit in the sanctuary as
witnesses to the vows.
Brother Jay will live the Franciscan
life while continuing his studies for the
priesthood at Holy Name College in
Washington, D.C.
Brother Jay was a member of St.
Mary’s Parish, Augusta, and is a
graduate • of Aquinas High School,
- Macon Jr. College, Mercer University
and Wesleyan College
Two priests will minister to the
students of Valdosta State College.
They are Father Brendan Timmins and
Father Daniel O’Connell.
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Augusta College, and Siena College,
Albany, New York.
BRO. JAY PINKERTON
Augustan Takes Vows
The National Council of Catholic
Women (NCCW) has elected an Albany
woman, Mrs. Jack F. Hall, as First Vice
President of the organization. Mrs. Hall
was elected at the NCCW biennial
convention in New Orleans, Oct. 17.
Mrs. G. Sam Zilly of Grosse Pointe
Farms, Michigan, was named NCCW
President.
Mrs. Hall is well known to Catholics
in the Savannah diocese, having served
as President of St. Teresa’s Council of
Catholic Women in Albany, President of
the Albany deanery Council of Catholic
Women, and President of the Savannah
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.
A native of Elberton, Mrs. Hall
received her elementary and high school
education in Albany Public Schools.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in
busines education at Hampton Institute
in Hampton, Va. and has done graduate
work at Florida A & M University.
Mrs. Hall is presently working
towards a Master’s degree in Vocational
Guidance at Valdosta State College.
The new national Vice President has
taught at Monroe High School, Albany,
for 17 years, serving presently as
chairman of the Business Education
Department of that school as well as
Vocational Office Training Coordinator.
She is also a student teacher supervisor
of business education at Monroe High
School.
Mrs. Hall is a member of the
American Vocational Association,
Georgia Vocational Association, Georgia
Association of Educators, and is
President-elect of the Georgia Business
Education Association.
She is on the Board of Directors of
the Albany USO and is a member of the
Women’s Committee of the Albany
Chamber of Commerce and of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority.
In 1961, Mrs. Hall was named
“Teacher of the Year” at Monroe High
School and in 1967 was chosen
Catholic Mother of the Year by St.
Clare’s church in Albany. She was
Monroe High School’s STAR teacher in
1971. Her long record of
accomplishment won her a place in the
1972 edition of “Personalities of the
South.”
In commenting on her election,
Bishop Raymond W. Lessard declared,
“her selection for this high office is
both a tribute to Mrs. Hall’s dedication
to and work for the church in the
Savannah diocese and a great honor to
the Catholic community of Georgia.
“I know that the many members of
the Councils of Catholic Women around
the diocese are justly proud that one of
their number has been elected to the
second-highest post in the National
Council, and I feel that I speak for them
when I extend heartiest congratulations
to Mrs. Hall.”
MRS. JACK HALL
ONE ASPECT OF RESPECT LIFE’ MONTH
The ‘Not-So-Golden’ Years
Late last summer, the Catholic
bishops of the United States designated
October as “Respect Life” month.
Through educational materials sent to
parishes all over the nation, they hope
to marshal the resources of the Catholic
community to promote greater
understanding of the value of human
life and to enact action programs
directed toward the welfare of the
unborn, the mentally retarded, youth
and the aging.
This article will outline some of the
difficulties facing older people in what
is sometimes referred to as their “golden
years.”
There are, to be sure, “Golden Age”
clubs springing up everywhere, but for
very many aging persons the term
“golden agers” evokes only bitter
cynicism. For the facts indicate that the
rate of poverty among the elderly is
nearly double that of the nation as a
whole.
One-quarter of the elderly in the
nation’s major cities and one-third living
in rural areas live in poverty. For many
of them, poverty was unknown during
their “productive” years and they have
become embittered by the reward
society seems to mete out to men and
women who have contributed much,
over the years, to the stability and
welfare of their communities.
In recent months, there have been
recurring stories of retired elderly
people being forced to eat pet foods
because their meager incomes cannot
meet the cost-of-living demands of
today’s inflated economy.
People who have owned their own
homes for many years, retired and
unable to shoulder the spiraling costs of
maintaining their property, are forced
to give up what has been their most
prized possession.
A large number of older persons live
in substandard housing. Six million of
them live in unsatisfactory quarters,
while nearly one million live in housing
which lacks plumbing facilities.
Poor health takes a fearful toll of the
elderly. Fifteen million people over 65
years of age living outside institutions
are afflicted by at least one chronic
health problem. Four of the major
health hazards, heart disease,
hypertension, diabetes and arthrities,
are found more in the ranks of the
elderly than in any other age group.
Another problem of the aging is the
lack of adequate and low-cost
transportation. Many old people can no
longer drive an automobile. Many
simply do not own one. For them, daily
visits to a doctor or a clinic via public
transportation can be a costly venture.
The problem is compounded for the
elderly living in rural areas, far from the
cities and towns where they must
conduct pressing business.
For many of the elderly, the financial
problems which have come
coincidentally with their retirement, are
not of their own making.
Because of various regulations
controlling government retirement
programs, many beneficiaries face a loss
of income retirement payments in
proportion to the money they could
earn by part-time employment.
Countless numbers of people are
forced into retirement against their
wishes simply because they have
reached a certain age, not because they
can no longer work.
The elderly represent 40% of the
long-term unemployed in the United
States. Having little or no opportunity
to work, poverty becomes chronic
among them, condemning them to an
economically vulnerable existence.
To simply state the problems of the
aging, and to lament them, is not,
however, to contribute to their
solutions.
With this in mind the American
bishops have suggested programs which
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Savannah Ecumenical Service
Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal bishops will lead an Ecumenical Prayer Service in
Savannah Oct. 28th at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 127 Barnard
Street. They are Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, Episcopal Bishop Paul Reeves and
Methodist Bishop William R. Cannon. Bishop Cannon was an official observer from the
Methodist Church at Vatican Council II. A combined choir will furnish special music.
All participating clergymen will meet in the church’s social hall at 7 p.m. with their
vestments to prepare for the processional. The public is invited to participate.
Catholics Aid Algeria
BERLIN (NC) - Catholics in Communist-ruled East Germany raised about
$250,000 last year for overseas relief projects. They are permitted to provide aid,
however, only for socialist-controlled countries. Last year’s beneficiary was Algeria,
which received agricultural machinery and school equipment.
Chile to Oust Priests
OTTAWA, Canada (NC) -- About 500 clergymen, representing 40 percent of the
priests in Chile, will probably be expelled by the military junta there, according to an
official of the Canadian Catholic Conference. Eight Canadian priests have been ousted
by the junta, and other priests and Religious have been forced to flee after being told
that their safety could no longer be assured. Many worked in the slums, mines or in
universities and were sympathetic to the leftists.
War Statement Hit
NEW YORK (NC) - A National Council of Churches resolution on the new Mideast
War was criticized by Jewish representatives. The resolution said that the flow of arms
to both sides should be stopped, hostilities halted, and the United Nations continue to
seek peace. The NCC rejected an amendment which spoke of “recognizing the right of
the state of Israel to exist,” but the resolution spoke of the rights of Palestinian .