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The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 56 No. 16 Thursday, April 17, 1975 Single Copy Price - 15 Cents
SAVANNAH APRIL 25-27
Convention Program Completed
HISTORIC BELL -- A convent bell which never rang in a convent is
preserved in this former slave marketplace in Louisville, Ga. Cast in France
in 1772, the bell was being shipped to Sisters in New Orleans when
captured by pirates and disposed of near Savannah, Ga. It was taken to
the slave market where it was rung to warn settlers of Indian uprisings and
to announce the founding of the U.S. in 1776. (NC Photo by Michael
Cameaux)
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INSIDE STORY
Augusta Lecture Series Pg. 2
New Publication Norms Pg. 3
'Know Your Faith’ Pg. 5
Entertainment Pg. 6
BY TICKI LLOYD
Approximately 300 women from the
six Deaneries of the Diocese of
Savannah, including Albany, Augusta,
Columbus, Macon, Valdosta-Brunswick
and Savannah will gather at the DeSoto
Hilton Hotel in Savannah for the 36th
Annual DCCW Convention on April 25,
26 and 27.
The theme for the Convention hosted
by the Savannah Deanery under the
leadership of Mrs. William Schneider,
general chairman, and Mrs. Thomas
Fultz, Jr. co-chairman, will be,
“Reconciled by the Christ Who Renews,
Frees and Unites.” Since this is the Holy
Year of Reconciliation and Renewel,” it
is meaningful that the Convention be
held in the See of the Diocese.
Registration begins on Friday, April
25 from 5 until 8 p.m. A second
registration will be held Saturday from
10 a.m. until 2 p.m. At 9 a.m. on
Saturday an optional Mass will be
offered in the Pulaski Room of the
hotel, followed by two interesting tours
set for 10:30 a.m. One is a tour of the
historic waterfront area, and the other
to St. Mary’s Home and other sites.
Conventioneers will be accompanied by
car on the tours by members of
Savannah Deanery.
Entertainment for the Convention
abounds with true Savannah hospitality.
A buffet dinner is planned at 8 p.m. on
Friday, April 25th at St. Vincent’s
Academy Gymnasium, 311 Lincoln
street for all out of town guests and
local women attending.
A Sharing Session, led by Mrs.
Eugene V. Smith, Diocesan
Organization Services Chairman, and
Mrs. J. Harry Persee, will be held at the
Harborview Room of the hotel on
Saturday, April 26th at 1:30 p.m. The
subject will be “Natural Family
Planning.” This session affords an
opportunity for presidents and
chairmen on all levels, as well as
members interested to discriminate
between right and wrong, wisdom and
growth.
A business session, scheduled for
Saturday at 2:30 p.m. will have Mrs.
William A. Kempton, president DCCW
presiding. The president and treasurer’s
reports will be read. Mrs. Thomas 0.
Fultz will give the address of welcome
with Mrs. Carlton Ussery responding.
Reports will be given by the six vice
presidents who are the Deanery
Presidents: Mrs. Thomas A. Fultz, Jr.,
Savannah; Mrs. Clifford Herzbert,
Augusta; Mrs. Robert Slocum, Macon;
Mrs. Ann Walker, Valdosta-Brunswick;
Mrs. I. J. Terry, Columbus, and Mrs.
Carlton Ussery, Albany.
At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday Mrs.
Patrick (Betty) Tisdale, president of
An-Lac Orphanage, Inc., in Saigon,
Vietnam will conduct a Workshop in the
Harborview Room.
Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., Miss
Margaret Mealey, Executive Director of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, will be the principal speaker at
the banquet. Her subject will be, “The
Year of the Catholic Woman.”
On Sunday, a brunch is slated at
10:30 a.m. following a Mass at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 9
a.m. celebrated by His Excellency, The
Most Reverend Raymond Lessard,
Bishop of Savannah.
Mayor Pro-Tern of Savannah, Mr.
Francis Patrick (Frank) Rossi ter, will be
the guest speaker at the brunch. His
topic will be, “Savannah’s History.”
At the brunch a message from the
National Council of Catholic Women
will be given by a representative of that
organization.
Mr. Rossiter is a native Savannahian
and a graduate of Benedictine Military
School in Savannah. Married to the
former Inez Coleman, they have six
children. He has served as Mayor Pro-
Tern of the city of Savannah for the
past five years.
A lector and communicant of the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, he is
also a member of the Knights of
Columbus, president of the St. Vincent
de Paul Society and immediate past
president of the Hibernian Society of
Savannah.
As secretary of the Georgia Historical
Society, Mr. Rossiter has written
numerous historical articles on the
Catholic history of Savannah, and is
well qualified to relate the richness of
Savannah’s heritage.
For 33 years, he was city editor, daily
columnist and managing editor of the
Savannah Morning News. He is presently
connected with Texas Transport and
Terminal Company at Savannah.
MACON RAISES $3000
Community Fast for World Hunger
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND giving free concert
on the Mercer University campus on Good Friday
afternoon. A collection was taken for the fund to
alleviate world hunger An cooperation with tl: 1
community effort on that day.
BY MRS R.W. HURLEY
Catholic churches joined other
churches in Macon as well as the three
colleges - Mercer University, Wesleyan
College and Macon Junior College - in a
Good Friday fast on behalf of the
starving people of the world. Collections
totalling $3000 were taken up in various
ways and the money sent to Church
World Service, earmarked for immediate
food relief.
Father Tom Healy of St. Joseph’s
Macon, worked with other Macon
clergymen and Mercer’s Dean of
Students to encourage wide
participation.
Macon Interparish Social Apostolate,
for Macon’s poor.)
At Mercer University, 150 students
fasted and turned in their meal tickets.
The University contributed the amount
saved.
Two well publicized collection
stations were set up all day on Good
Friday. Located at Mercer University
and St. Joseph’s Rectory, they made it
possible for every interested individual
to take part in this very effective
community effort.
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The purpose was threefold, according
to the committee:
Support Orphan Evacuation
1) to remind ourselves of the 2 billion
hungry people in the world,
2) to learn the causes of this
unprecedented world hunger, and
3) to act concretely by praying and
collecting offerings in churches and
other places to be sent for direct aid to
these hungry people.
Response to the idea was
spontaneous and widespread in the
community. The nationally known
Allman Brothers Band which is based in
Macon approached Father Healy with
an offer to help. As a result, they, and
other bands, gave a free concert on the
Mercer University campus from 2-6 PM
and contributions to the fund were
accepted during that time.
A downtown restaurant, Le Bistro,
donated its total lunchtime receipts (not
just profit) amounting to $350.
Three of the large downtown
Protestant churches, First Baptist, First
Presbyterian and Mulberry Street
United Methodist, held a joint Holy
Thursday service and the $200 collected
was contributed to the fund.
Macon Catholics who are accustomed
to fasting on Good Friday, gave their
contributions at Good Friday services,
totalling about $700.
The Catholic schools participated
also. Mt. de Sales High School
contributed $100 and St. Joseph’s
elementary school children gave half of
the $550 they had saved during Lent.
(The other half went to SERVE, the
CHICAGO (NC) -- Catholic Charities directors meeting here approved a policy
statement April 10 emphasizing that they support the evacuation of orphans from
Vietnam but also urge local agencies to promote the adoption of children in this
country. The Catholic Charities directors said they “continue to support the concept
of strong family life throughout the world and only when it is impossible for the child
to be nurtured within the family and his own environment do we seek a solution
through adoption. The adoption process is designed to assure the most appropriate
placement for the child.”
Oppose Evacuation of Orphans
ROME (NC) - The Church in South Vietnam and Caritas Intemationalis, an
international Catholic relief organization, both oppose any plans for evacuating
orphans from South Vietnam, according to the Vietnam expert for Caritas. In an April
11 press conference here, Father Charles Grange, a Vietnam specialist who has visited
that Asian nation frequently called the recent airlifts of orphans from Vietnam
“mistaken initiatives prompted by fear or by misunderstanding of the problem.” In
the United States, U.S. Catholic officials sought to refute Father Grange’s charge that
the airlift of orphans was a mistake. Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director
of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, said that
the “standards employed in the screening, processing and placement of Vietnamese
orphans have been, and will continue to be, of the highest professional level with the
best interests of the child considered paramount.”
Pessimistic on Middle East
AMMAN, Jordan (NC) - A very pessimistic view of the Middle East conflict was
taken by King Hussein of Jordan when he received in audience April 10 at his palace a
delegation of Catholic editors from the United States on a fact-finding tour of the
area. “I am extremely worried about the future,” the king said. “Our worry is because
if it is not possible to achieve disengagement when Egypt has expressed a willingness
for peace, what use is Geneva? The choice has always been territory or peace. You
cannot have both at the same time. The scales will tip in the Arabs favor. We have more
resources. We are richer and can develop faster. While the Israeli advantage is military
it is also limited. Something sinister appears to be planned in Israel’s favor, but in view
of the human suffering that has gone on for so long, where do we go from now? I
really don’t know.”
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