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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963
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LOVING CARE
Education Plays Important Role
For Rehabilitation Of Retarded
Some years back, a specia
list in children’s allergies com
plained about the lack of re
search funds available. He was
heard to further remark: "Oh,
for somebody in the White House
whose family is affected by the
problem. We would soon have
money to do the job.”
The doctor was referring, of
course, to the national interest
and support for work on polio
during and after Franklin Roo
sevelt’s years in the White
House.
NOW, today we have a simi
lar situation in relation to men
tal retardation. President Ken
nedy has a sister who has la
bored under this difficulty. Un
der his urging, steps are being
taken nationally to do some
thing positive about the pro
blem. This, of course, is not
to say that the medical profes
sion has ignored the problem.
Indeed, great strides have al
ready been made, but greater
assistance and new discoveries
in relation to the problem are
expected in the future.
As always, the Church is ne
ver behind science and medicine
in its efforts to alleviate suffer
ing through modem up-to-date
methods. Hence, Our Lady’s
Day School, 44 Hunter Street,
S.W. in Atlanta, was establish
ed to cater for exceptional chil
dren who might otherwise miss
the opportunity of rehabilita
tion.
President Kennedy himself
placed the problem in its pro
per light when he said last
year, "Mental retardation. . .
disables ten times as many as
diabetes; twenty times as many
as tuberculosis; twenty-five
times as many as muscular
dystrophy; six hundred times
as many as infantile paralysis.
Approximately five million per
sons in this country are retar
ded. In this same talk he stat
ed, "Mental retardation is a
serious personal matter to at
least one out of every twelve
people."
BROKEN down into statistics,
it is disclosed that some three
hundred mentally retarded chil
dren are born every day. This
works out about 120,OCX) a year.
What is more, it transcends
social and cultural values. Both
rich and poor, city or rural
dweller, can be affected in such
a way that none can say, "It
won’t happen in my family."
We do not have the compe
tence to go into the causes of
mental retardation. We prefer
to leave that to the medical
specialists involved, but we do
know that many who suffer from
it are educable and capable of
much independent thought and
action.
In 1953, the National Asso
ciation for Retarded Children
adopted a five-fold Bill of Rights
for the retarded child. In brief,
this is what it asks:
1. The right to opportunities
for the fullest realization of his
physical, mental, and spiritual
potentialities.
2. The right to affection and
understanding from those re
sponsible for his care and gui
dance.
3. The right to a program of
education and training suitable
to his particular needs.
4. The right to help, stimu
lation and guidance from skill
ed teachers.
5. The right of a retarded
child’s parents to determine
for themselves, on the basis of
competent advice, the course of
care, training and treatment
among those open to themsel
ves. They also have a right to
have their decisions respected
by others.
HERE in Atlanta, steps are
being taken to implement this
so-called Bill of Rights, and
more, in relation to Catholic
children. Our Lady's Day school
was founded in September, 1957,
through the foresight of the late
Monsignor Cornelius Maloney,
Diocesan Superintendent of
Schools and Pastor of Immacu
late Heart of Mary Parish. It
is the only Catholic facility in
the area and in the state teach-
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah(NC)
_ The dean of the influential
Harvard Law School has sharp
ly attacked the U. S. Supreme
‘Court for leading Americans
into darkness on matters of re
ligion and public life.
Erwin N. Griswold also stat
ed flatly that the court was
wrong in ruling as unconsti
tutional the voluntary recita
tion in New York public schools
of a 22-word, non-sectarian
prayer recommended by the
State Board of Regents.
HE TOLD a University of
Utah audience that it would be
"sheer invention” if the court
reasons that the Constitution
requires that all traces of re
ligion must be kept out of pub
lic activities.
The high court is guilty of
narrow "constitutional abso
lutism" and this reasoning is
"more likely to lead us into
darkness than to light," he
said.
He cited Justice Hugo Black’s
decision for the majority
against public school prayer
as an example of the "absolu
tist" or "fundamental theolo
gical” approach.
"If one thinks of the Consti
tution as a God-given text stat
ing fixed law for all time, and
*then focuses on a single pas
sage, or indeed on two words
—'no law’ — without recog
nizing all the other words in
the document and its relation
to the society outside the docu
ment, one can find the answers
very simply,” Griswold said.
THIS apparently was a refer
ence to Black’s comment as he
read the opinion. Black noted
that the First Amendment says
Congress shall "make no law
respecting the establishment of
religion..."
Black commented that "when
it says 'no law,’ that is what it
means — 'no law.’ ”
Griswold said the First
Amendment does not mean that
religion must be taken out of
public life. America, he said,
is historically a Christian na
tion with a spiritual and cul-
Commissioner
Cathy Pace
Miss Cathy Pace, daughter
of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Pace, was
recently elected to Academic
Commissioner of St. Mary’s
College Student Council at Notre
Dame, Indiana. Cathy is a Junior
and has maintained an "A"
average, throughout.
She also has a one-hour Radio
Show through the Notre Dame-
St. Mary's Station every Sunday
afternoon entitled "The Very-
Thought of You".
tural tradition related to Chris
tianity.
"We ought not be be depriv
ed of this tradition by judges
carrying into effect the local
implications of absolutist no
tions not expressed in the Con
stitution itself and surely never
contemplated by those who put
the constitutional provisions
into effect,” he said.
DEFENDING traces of reli
gion found in public life, he
said:
"Our history is full of these
traces; chaplains in Congress
and in the armed forces; cha
pels in prisons; 'In God We
Trust' on our money; to men
tion only a few.
"God is referred to in our
National Anthem, and in 'Ame
rica* and many others of what
may be called our national
songs.
"Must all of these things be
rigorously extirpated in order
to satisfy a constitutional ab
solutism?"
ON THE New York prayer
case, decided by the court in
June, 1962, Griswold said the
prayer practice did not con
flict with the First Amend
ment's requirements.
"Those who wrote the 'es
tablishment of religion’ clause
might be perplexed by the use
which is made of it in 1962,"
he said.
ing students who are mentally
retarded.
The prime purpose of this
education is to develop the whole
child, fulfilling all the talents
each child possesses. When
Monsignor Maloney, with his
great interest and love for
children of exceptional abili
ties, asked Sister M. Vernard
R.S.M, to be the principal of
this school, Sister explained
her meaning of "exceptional”
as "genius of the heart." For
the students do indeed bring
forth the love, tenderness, pa
tience, kindness and thoughtful
ness of everyone.
The school, which has a stu
dent body of 15, is presently
housed in the Immaculate Con
ception School. Already child
ren are moving forward from
Sister Mary Venard’s able care
into the regular school system,
destined to take their places in
the community as useful, happy
children.
FIFTEEN Is a pathetically
small number of children, when
the great need of hundreds who
have been tested and await ad
mission is considered. But even
fifteen is a start toward bigger
and better things to come.
And it is this ardent hope for
bigger and better things that
inspires the enthusiastic moth
ers associated with the school.
Each year they give a gala
bridge luncheon and fashion
show for the benefit of the
school. But their work does
not stop there.
Knowing from experience
how much the mother of an ex
ceptional child needs to be able
to talk to someone who under-
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Sister M. Vernard and Friend
stands the special problems
she confronts, the mothers of
Our Lady’s Day School have
formed themselves into an in
formal group that meets for cof
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month. Here, where all moth
ers of exceptional children are
welcomed regardless of reli
gious affiliation, they can talk,
as mothers do, about their
children, and from each other
they gain insight and strength,
as well as enjoying the com
panionship that comes when
people
rest.
share a common inte-
The goal of Our Lady's Day
School is to develop the whole
child , to help him fulfill his
abilities, both mental and spi
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gether, school and parents, ano
ther small candle is being light
ed againsi the darkness of ig
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