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PAGE 3—The Southern Cross, May 28,1981
St. Vincent’s Academy Graduation
One hundred sixteen seniors of the
Class of 1981 at Savannah’s St.
Vincent’s Academy received diplomas
from Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, D.
D., Bishop of the Diocese of
Savannah, in the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, in the one hundred
twenty-ninth commencement of the
Academy on Wednesday, May 27 at
5:00 p.m.
Tonya Leigh Lewis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Lewis, has
been named valedictorian of the class.
Miss Lewis plans to attend the College
of Charleston. Gretchen Ann Heidt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E.
Heidt, Jr. is salutatorian. Miss Heidt is
Tonya Leigh Lewis
Valedictorian
a National Merit Finalist and she has
received a scholarship to the College
of Charleston.
Gold honor cords indicating an honors'
average for four years were worn by:
Teresa Lynn Armfield, Margaret Catherine
Bel, Mary Patricia Buttimer, Terri Marie
Carlson, Amy Clare Craig, Hilda Maria de ta
Guardia, Suzanne Elizabeth Dillon, Dina
Marie Fogarty, Angela Elaine Gomez,
Margo Regina Harrington, Gretchen Ann
Heidt, Tracy Elizabeth Heyel, Tracey
Michelle Hood, Ann Marie Leech, Tonya
Leigh Lewis, Elizabeth Marie Madison,
Mary Ruth McCuen, Hannah McCord
Pinckney, LaJeana Nicole Roberts, Andrea
Virginia Robertson, Mary Elizabeth
Roughen, Kathleen Marie Smith, Michelle
Lynette Sommerset, Ann Catherine Stacy,
Elizabeth Frances Sury, Helen Jeanette
Tarver and Anne Elizabeth Ware.
Gretchen Ann Heidt
Salutatorian
Other members of the Class of 19 81 are:
Alexandra Adamcak, Lisa Marie Alonso,
Teresa Lyn Amerson, Karla Dawn Bejma,
Ann Marie Best, Gertrude Kehoe Beytagh,
Paula Jacqueline Bracco, Ja-Wanda Denise
Brannan, Marie Elizabeth Burke, Marian
Elizabeth Cafiero, Chanel Ann Cleary,
Suzanne Marie Coleman, Dana LaTrell
Conner, Pamela Elizabeth Crodell,
Katherine Ann Corns, Laura Marie Cowart,
Millie Carol Cummins, Nancy Anne Daly,
Robin Lee Deaux, Sharon Lee Delamater,
Diane Armella Embty, Karen Louise
Fleury, Lisa Floyd, Margaret Eleanor
Fountain, Tina Marie Greenfield, Carol
Lynn Groover, Lilly Ann Harms, Mary
Frances Hewett, Mary Angelica Hosti,
Katharine Stiles Howard, Tonya Renee
Howard.
Joan Marie Jameson, Monique Elizabeth
Jonas, Barbara Kay Jones, Tonya Elizabeth
Jones, Nancy Carol Johnson, Jacqueline
Marie Johnston, Penelope Sue Kemp, Julie
Michelle Kertey, Leslie O’Connell Leonard,
Katherine Ann Lisicia, Carol Ann
Lowenthal, Lisa Kim Markowitz, Kelly
Faye Martin, Jeanne Marie Mason,
Sridgetta Cecelia Mayo, Mary Teresa
McCarthy, Susan Marie McElroy,
Thomasina Helen McHenry, Erin Jo Ann
McLaughlin, Maureen Elizabeth McMahon,
Peri Teal Meyer, Kelie LaVerne Miley, Anne
Marie Minor, Margaret Mary Muller,
Gretchen Murray, Jane Guilford Nussbaum,
Lynn Marie O’Hayer, Hillary Lynne Olson,
Nancy Marie Owens, Joan Denise Pappas,
Carol Ann Patton, Dorothy Muriel Patton,
Catherine Anne Perreau, Joyce Marie
Pilkington, Theresa Clair Poe, DeAnna
Maria Poliak, Denise Michelle Polote,
Angela Lory Porzio, Angela Antionette
Powers, Mary Cecile Price.
Carla Lorise Ranta, Rhonda Renee
Rayburn, Holly Maria Rogers, Patricia
Theresa Ryan, Susan Marie Sharpe, Colleen
Anne Sheils, Donna Marie Sievers, Tracie
Ann Sims, Deborah Ann Slater, Bridget
Mary Smith, Glenda Verna Smith, Margaret
Harriette Stone, Robin Louise Teeple,
Jeanmarie Tocheny, Marie Margaret
Valentino, Joye Suzann VonWaldner, Stacy
Lee Wasdin, and Angela Faye Wolfe.
At 11:00 a.m. on graduation day a
Baccalaureate Mass was offered for the
graduates and their families in the
Cathedral’s Chapel of Our Lady.
S.V.A. Awards Assembly
Members of the junior, sophomore
and freshmen classes of St. Vincent’s
Academy. Savannah, were honored
May 15th at an awards assembly
held in the school hall. Sister M. Jude,
principal and Sister Michael Mary,
assistant principal, presided.
Certificates for having achieved at least
the 90th percentile on the National
Educational Development Test were
awarded to freshmen: Suzanne Feuger,
Magan Haslam, Donna McKeown, Kathleen
Powers, Denise Troxclair and Maura
Vincent; sophomores, Cindy Christiansen,
Susan Dillon, Kim Fergerson, Leigh
Madison, Patty Roach, Kathy Robbins,
Lorln Robinson and Mary Ware.
University of Georgia Certificates of
Merit were awarded to juniors: Margaret
Jurger^sen, Stacy Lawson, Patti Podres,
Aimee Stacy and Susan Trees.
Journalism awards were presented to:
Stacy Lawson, Debbie Thomas, Betty
McDonald, Laura Trapani, Barbara
NeSmith, Dawn Pierce and Mary Ring.
Yearbook awards went to: Missy Wrenn,
Mary Zeigler, Margaret Jurgensen, Patti
Podres. Kevin Roughen, Susan Trees, Patty
Wrenn, Karen locovozzi, Ann Marie Behr,
Rosemary Ware, Susan Maher and Alice
Mathews.
S.V.A. Service awards were presented
to: Melanie McNamara, Eileen Foran,
Daphne McGuire, Tracy Polite, Katie
Mulligan, Kathleen Russo, Amy Pierce,
Kelli Manning and Connie Van Hook.
Other honorees recognized included:
Leigh Madison -- Hugh O'Brien Leadership
Seminar; Mary Ware and Megan McMonigle
- Savannah Science Seminar; Maureen
Lovett -- Girls' State; Susan Trees and Patti
Podres -- Propeller Club Essay Contest;
Stacy Lawson -- Governor’s Honors
Program; Mary Ware and Beth Dulohery --
District and State History Competition.
FATHER BEDE LIGHTNER, O.S.B., was honored on the
occasion of his 40th anniversary to the Priesthood by Mt. de Sales
High School and Saint Joseph’s parish in Macon. On Friday evening,
May 1, the concelebrated Mass and reception following was attended
by several hundred friends. Shown during the Mass are 1. to r., Father
Conan Feigh, O.S.B., Father Bede, Father Andrew Doris, Father
Robert Cushing, Father Thomas Campbell, and Father Thomas
Healy. Homilist was Father John Cuddy. The first reading was given
by Sister Lourdes Sheehan, R.S.M., former principal of Mt. de Sales.
Special music was offered by the Saint Joseph’s Adult Choir, directed
by Dennis O’Connor with John O’Steen the organist, and Sister Mary
Fidelis, R.S.M. the song leader. Mount de Sales students served as
ushers and offered the Prayers of the Faithful, and special friends and
relatives of Father Bede presented the Offertory Gifts. At the
reception following the Mass, speakers included Father Cuddy,
Father Healy, Father Campbell, Patrick Hutto, Joe Ebberwein, Gerry
Brenner, and Mrs. Rosa Shaheen. Father Cuddy, who emceed the
happy occasion, presented Father Bede with a check from many
well-wishers.
CHURCH: SOUTH GEORGIA
BENEDICTINE GRADUATION - Pictured are
members of the 1981 Graduation Class at
Savannah’s Benedictine Military School. The 110
graduates received diplomas from Savannah’s
Bishop Raymond W. Lessard in ceremonies held on
May 16. The Commencement Address was
delivered by Dr. Joseph M. Petit, President of the
Georgia Institute of Technology. The Benedictine
Medal of Excellence was presented to Mr. Bernard
W. Harper and Mrs. Jane Mulherin Lyons. Patrick
W. Butler was Valedictorian of the Class and Daren
E. Chase, Salutatorian. (Pollack and Daly Photo)
The Baby Formula Debate
BY JIM LACKEY
WASHINGTON (NC) - Final
adoption by the World Health
Organization May 21 of a new code on
the marketing of infant formula
comes as the latest action in a
several-year-old debate over the use of
breast milk substitutes, especially in
the Third World.
It is a debate in which the religious
community has become a leading
actor, promoting a boycott of Nestle
Co. products and urging tight
restrictions on formula promotion.
The infant formula industry, on
the other hand, has participated in
several counterattacks, often
launching aggressive public relations
campaigns to blunt criticism that it is
more concerned about profit than the
health of babies.
Both sides to the intense debate
agree on a single premise: that
breast-feeding is the best form of
infant feeding for most people. But
from there, the two sides part
company.
Critics of the infant formula
industry contend that the four major
formula producers promote their
products in such a way as to subtly
encourage families to replace
breast-feeding with formula use. The
industry responds that it is only
making families aware of infant
formula products so that women who
do not want to breast-feed can turn to
formula as a healthful alternative to
other less than desirable substitutes,
such as animal milks, sugar water or
teas.
Into this sea of controversy have
waded a number of Catholic groups,
including several religious orders and a
handful of dioceses backing the
boycott of Nestle, the Swiss-based
company accused of being the most
aggressive marketer of infant formula
while remaining free of U.S.
stockholder pressure.
Nestle’s critics charge that
prepared infant formula sold by
Nestle and other companies causes
malnutrition and sometimes death to
children because poor women
frequently overdilute it or fail to keep
it sanitary because they cannot afford
the formula or understand its
instructions.
In 1979 representatives of health
organizations, governments and the
baby food industry, adopted a set of
recommendations on breast feeding
and infant nutrition at a meeting
sponsored by the World Health
Organization and the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Opponents of Third World marketing
of infant formula considered the
action a major victory but also
charged that the companies would not
keep promises kept at the meeting.
That led to the latest World Health
Organization action, in which the
United States was the lone dissenter in
a 118-1 vote adopting the new code.
In the weeks leading up to
adoption of the code, one of the issues
was whether the critics’ charges of
Third World formula use could be
substantiated. The industry and other
opponents of the code pointed to
studies showing no “causative
relationship’’ between marketing of
infant formula and the decision not to
breast-feed.
They also said the problems of
infant malnutrition are much more
profound than simply a question of
breast-feeding or infant formula and
remarked that contaminated water
which critics charge is mixed with
formula also gets mixed with other
baby foods as well.
But the industry critics also roll out
their own studies, one of which cites a
relationship between promotion of
substitutes, lower levels of
breast-feeding and malnutrition in
Brazil, Canada and Papua New
Guinea.
The critics also cite their own list of
horror stories, such as the recent
report of a Bangladesh family of 13
with a monthly income of $34 that
had been convinced to bottle-feed its
youngest at a monthly cost of $28.
Now that the coee has been
enacted, there are mixed reports on its
ultimate effect. The code merely sets
non-binding advisory guidelines which
will not by themselves force the baby
formula marketers to change their
methods. But nations which voted for
the code also are urged to adopt it in
legislation or regulations of their own,
which in the long run could mean
country-by-country restrictions on
the infant formula industry.
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