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PAGE 3 — The Southern Cross, October 3, 1985
Albany ■ October 19
St. Teresa's School To Mark 40th Anniversary
BY MONA McARDLE
For those of you who have reached
“middle age” - do you recall how you
celebrated your 40th? Emotions seem to
run a bit higher on that birthday than most
others. Let’s hope that we can stir up your
emotions and enjoy the pleasure of your
company at the 40th anniversary celebra
tion of St. Teresa’s School. All priests,
nuns, graduates, and friends (9th grade
and up) who have served St. Teresa’s
School during the past forty years are in
vited to be present on October 19, for a
special Mass at 5:30 p.m., followed by a
dinner/dance at the Knights of Columbus
Hall. The evening will feature an Italian
buffet and forty years of music.
Other festivities marking the occasion
and especially honoring current students,
include a balloon launch on Monday, Oc
tober 14, Mass for the feast of St. Teresa on
Tuesday, October 15, and participation in
the Pecan Festival parade on Saturday,
October 19. A float, a cooperative effort of
all of the youth groups of St. Teresa’s com
munity, will have as its theme,
“Growing Up In the Catholic Faith”. A
banner, measuring 12 yards across, has
been hung over one of Albany’s major
thoroughfares. In part, it reads “40 Cheers
for 40 Years.” This slogan was submitted
by 3rd grader Michele Titorenko and the
banner design was created by Kristi Kohl.
Several other St. Teresa’s School children
participated in painting the banner.
As the oldest private school still in ex
istence in Albany, St. Teresa’s can be pro
ud of its offering of a fine education in
every sense of the word. The original St.
Teresa’s School began in September of
1945 with 33 students in a house on
Residence Avenue. The Sisters of the
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, led by
Father Daniel J. Bourke, established this
school, which was to become unique in its
academic excellence within a Catholic en
vironment. In 1952 the school opened in its
present quarters on Edgewood Lane.
The school has continued to have a great
impact on the St. Teresa community and
the entire Albany community as well. St.
Teresa’s School is widely respected for the
fine students it has graduated. They are
well-disciplined, academically prepared,
and equipped with that something special
that a Catholic eduction can offer.
Macon Workshop • October 8
Ecumenical Effort To Aid Georgia's Migrant Farm Workers
“People Of The Road”, a statewide
workshop to be held on Tuesday, October 8
at Mulberry Methodist Church, 719
Mulberry Street, in Macon will unite the
Catholic Dioceses of Georgia, the
Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian
Church, the Methodist Church and the
Jewish Synagogue in Macon for a common
cause: to form strategies to aid the
thousands of migrant farmworkers and
their families who reside in Georgia for
many months each year.
Many churches of all faiths have been
working with this underserved population
for years, but no coordinated effort has
been launched before to share resources
and ideas.
Co-Sponsors hope that this “Networking
Workshop For Change” as it is being call
ed, will have real impact for an improved
quality of life for the state’s migrant
population. A real grass roots effort, the
workshop is the result of common con
cerns voiced by several Macon clergymen,
religious and lay persons. Sister Pat
Brown, a Catholic nun who serves the
Diocese of Savannah, including south and
central Georgia, has been working with
migrant worker families for three years.
She is also responsible for the Church’s aid
to refugees. She sees a great many needs
too great for one person or one Church to
meet.
Rev. John Templeton of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church in Macon and Rev. Dan
Baltimore
Sr. Felicitas Assistant Chancellor
Sister Felicitas Powers, R.S.M., a native
of Savannah who has been Archivist for
the Archdiocese of Baltimore since 1982,
has been designated “Assistant Chancellor
for Archives.” She is the first woman to
hold the title.
The new title has been given to Sr.
Felicitas in accordance with the revised
Code of Canon Law.
A teacher and school administrator
before becoming archivist for the Sisters
of Mercy in 1975, Sr. Felicitas is highly
regarded in her profession. She is respon
sible for the documents of the first See to
be established in the United States. In ad
dition she works with researchers and is
an associate editor of the U.S. Catholic
Historian.
Sr. Felicitas was the first woman to
become chairperson of the Religious Arch
ives Committee of the Society of American
Archivists, and was the first to receive the
society’s Claude Lane Award, in 1979.
Doctorate For Aquinas Teacher
Augusta teacher, Sylvia Littlejohn, of
Thomson, was awarded her doctoral
degree in International Studies from the
University of South Carolina at the close of
Sylvia Littlejohn
the 1985 summer session in Columbia. A
South Carolina native, Ms. Littlejohn had
earned her bachelor’s and master’s
degrees at USC several years earlier.
Ms. Littlejohn, who chairs Augusta’s
Aquinas High School History Department,
is a specialist in intra-German relations.
In 1978, she served an internship at the
United Nations in New York City as a part
of her study of international relations.
Ms. Littlejohn has taught on both high
school and college levels, including one
year at the University of Heidelberg in
West Germany. Locally, she taught for six
years at Evans High School in Columbia
County and four years at Georgia Military
College at Fort Gordon. This is her second
year at Aquinas where she teaches World
History, US History and Economics.
Ms. Littlejohn joins two other members
of the Aquinas faculty who hold doctoral
degrees. Dr. David Miller received his
PhD in Physiology from Ohio State
University in 1972, and Principal Sr. Laura
Ann Grady received her D.Ed in Ad
ministration and Supervision from Indiana
University in 1979.
Hamby of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church in Macon and Rabbi Ron Goldstein
of Temple Beth Israel in Macon, agreed
that the problem is a statewide
one...perhaps even a national one, since
Georgia’s migrant workers are part of the
major migrant streams that travel the
East Coast, the West Coast and the
American Heartland each year. Together
they have joined with Rev. V. L. Daultry of
Mulberry Methodist Church and several
Baptist ministers to put together a
statewide meeting that will provide a
forum for ideas and the foundation for an
Ecumenical Task Force.
“The human needs of these people are so
great,” Sister Pat explains. “They need
day care for infants and small children
who are left unattended in open trucks in
the hottest days of the Summer. They need
alternative health care. Many of these peo
ple are two or three hours away from a
medical facility that will accept them.
Many do not qualify for government aid or
insurance benefits because they are illegal
aliens and all of them are too poor to afford
health care. They are alone, vulnerable
and almost completely without access to
the most simple services most of us take
for granted.”
“Many are young men, traveling alone
and sending whatever wages they make
back home to wives or families. Others
travel with their wives and many children.
There are virtually no recreational ac
tivities for the men. When they are not
working, they drink. That results in
domestic violence. They often speak very
little English so their feeling of aliena
tion...of being strangers in a strange land
is very complete.”
Sister Pat works with migrant workers
with the cooperation of manv of the
farmers who employ them. She does not
paint the farmers in the roles of villains.
“These are good people who are pursuing
the same course their families have used
for generations. Their lives as farmers are
difficult as well. They depend on the inex
pensive labor of migrants in order to sur
vive,” she quotes from a recent National
Governors study of migrant farmworkers
which notes that it is the system that is un
fair, not the farmers.
“These same people are very involved in
medical missionary work in Haiti and
other foreign countries with their own
churches,” she said. “We just hope they’ll
offer the same kind of cooperation and
Christian charity to the migrants who are
in their own back yards.”
Church representatives, ministers,
religious and lay people with an interest in
making a difference in the lives of
Georgia’s migrant workers are invited to
attend the workshop, scheduled from 10:45
a.m. till 3 p.m. A lunch will be available for
$4.00 per person.
RECEPTION — At a reception attended by 400 people, Father
Michael J. Kavanaugh was welcomed into the parish family of St.
Mary’s on the Hill, Augusta. The new assistant pastor comes to
Augusta by way of Sr. Anne’s Parish, Columbus. Giving his family a
tour of his new home at St. Mary’s, Fr. Kavanaugh is shown with (1-r)
his brother, Patrick Kavanaugh, his mother, Mrs. Celeste Michel
Kavanaugh and his Uncle, Brother Richard Michel of Aquinas High
School, Augusta.