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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963
IN BASEBALL
Catholic Profiles
BY RONDEL
Lawrence Peter Berra now in his seventeenth season with the
New York Yankees is perhaps the greatest catcher and all-around
personality to ever don a baseball uniform.
The gnome shaped, squatty little backstop has been relegated
to the role of a player-coach now, but he still reigns supreme in
the hearts of Yankee lovers and haters alike.
YOGI, as he has affectionately been called since his arrival to
the Yankees some two decades ago,
has come a long way as a player.
Originally an outfielder, Berra
was converted to a catcher by the
former Yankee great, Bill Dickey.
A shy and uneducated kid when he
travelled from The Hill in St. Louis
;o the catacombs of New York, Yogi
has had the instinct, the desire and
the- skill to make more money from his trade than any other cat
cher who ever lived.
A dedicated ballplayer who loves the game and everything about
it, Berra has worked hard to master his trade. As far as being
a Yankee coach, Berra is not doing it for the money. Yogi has
enough outside interests and investments to live comfortably for
a long time.
YOGI, his wife Carmen and their three sons, Larry 13, Timmie
11, and Dale six, are an ideal family. They live in a beautiful split
level house just outside of New York.
In his peak years, Berra was perhaps the greatest hitting
catcher to play baseball and he was paid proportionately, earning
in the neighborhood of $60,000 annually.
Berra holds or share® at least sixty baseball records, in
cluding approximately thirty world series marks, among which
are most series played in and most base hits.
Lawrence Peter Berra has had a long trail to success as a major
league baseball player. In his initial season he almost hung up his
glove because of the severe ribbing hetookfrom the minor league
fans.
A WISE manager, Johnny Kane, persuaded the youthful Berra to
ignore the jibes and play ball. Yogi paid attention to his managers
advice and it led him to the major leagues. It wasn’t all peaches
and cream when he got to the stadium either. The fans were on his
back again.
Berra's unusual physical characteristics caused the jibes and
gave the fans something to needle him about. Short and squatty,
with rounded shoulders, bushy eyebrows and a rounded face, Berra
looked like anything but a ballplayer.
But. his intense desire to play kept him going. Yogi has often
been the butt of ,okes concerning his talkativeness. It's true that
Yogi talks to everybody about everything, and it's also true
that he still reads comic books and chews bubble gum, but these
are things that make him good copy.
YOGI is a good family man and attends many affairs with the
family. " I go to some affairs In the neighborhood, Communion
breakfasts, Holy Name meetings. I go to affairs for the local
Little League. You get so many calls from people, you could go
every night if you wanted to. I do these things when a friend asks,
not because someone wants to pay me.”
An avid golf fan, Yogi is finally beginning to master the game.
His closest friends on the Yankee squad, Mickey Mantle and
Whitey Ford are also golf fans, having been introduced to the
game through Yogi.
Many people have complained about Yogi’s stubbomess, but
Yogi remembers where he came from and what he was before. The
Berra's lived on The Hill, the little Italy section of St. Louis.
HIS father was a bridkyard laborer. Yogi quit school after the
ninth grade to go to work - in a coal yard, on a Coca-Cola truck,
in a shoe factory'. In order to play ball Yogi and a number of his
buddies cut their own field out of the city dump, after the Y had
levelled it off and weeded it, of course. One night an enemy gang
destroyed the field, and the next day, Yogi and his friends worked
and redug to put the field back in shape again.
This is the true picture of Yogi Berra, the man, of Yogi Berra,
the ballplayer.
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OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION Parish recently held its May Queen crowning and procession.
Picture shows Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan, V. G. pastor, Danny White and Chris
Kayser, altar noys; train bearers, John White, Patrick McCarthy; crown bearer, Pierre Schri-
chte: Queen, Judy Dieterle; Court, Jonquelle Jones, Sharon Moran, Katherine Andrin, Therese
O’Neil; Laurie Williams, Synn Szyperiski, Frances Janicek, Valerie Gercer, Martha Moorman,
Karen Long, Katherine Lanthier, Peggy Hines.
FAQ STJJDY
Substantial Food
Seen By
ROME (NC)—The United Nat
ions Food and Agriculture Or
ganization said that the world
wide potential for increasing
food production In this age of
acceleration population growth
is "very substantial indeed.”
But it warned that the reg
ions of the world where the
CENTURY AGO
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many ships for the Confederacy.
While he was director of the
Naval Observatory, In the years
before the Civil War, Maury
was the close friend and col
laborator of Father Angelo Se-
cchi, the noted Jesuit astrono
mer who was then at George
town. Another collaborator was
Father Benedict Sestini, S.J.,
whose work at the Georgetown
observatory produced a series
of sun spot drawings which were
published (44 plates) as an ap
pendix of the Naval Observatory
Volume for 1847, printed in
1853. Fathers Sestini and Sec-
chi were exiled from Italy by the
revolution of 1848, and over a
two-decade period drew much
favorable attention to the local
school by their advanced work
in mathematics and the physi
cal sciences. Father Sesti
ni published a "Catalogue of
Star Colors”said to have been
the first work of its kind and
long a reference book.
Astronaut Cooper's orbiting
In space recalls the earliest
efforts in this country to pro
duce a heavler-than-air flying
machine. Samuel P. Langley,
then secretary of the Smithson
ian Institution here, was a real
pioneer In this effort late in
the last century. Among those
who encouraged him were two
Catholic priests at the Catholic
University of America in this
city.
The priests were Father Ge-
United
people are in the most urgent
need of better diets right now
are the very areas where the
populations are growing the fas
test.
THE FAO issued two sepa
rate reports on current and
projected future food needs.
They are part of its prepara-
orge M. Searle and Clarence
E. Woodman, both Paulists and
converts to the Catholic Faith.
Father Searle was born In
London, England, in 1839; was
graduated from Harvard at the
age of 18; entered tha Catholic
Church in 1862, and was an assi
stant to Langley at the Har
vard observatory when he de
cided to study for the priest
hood.
Father Woodman was gra
duated from Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn,, and received
an M.A. from Amherst in 1877,
He studied for the Episcopalian
ministry before entering the
Catholic Church;; was highly tr
ained as a mathematician, and
was interested in a number of
scientific societies.
The two priests became pro
fessors at the Catholic Univer
sity of America in that institu
tion’s early days, and Langley,
then at the Smithsonian Insti
tution, named Father Serle "of
ficial astronomer” and Father
Woodman "assistant astrono
mer” of the Astrophysical Ob
servatory. TTiey were associ
ated with the Smithsonian from
1900 to 1911, and took part In
several scientific expenditions.
Wire To JFK
NUTLEY, N.J, (NC) —More
than 125 persons here signed a
telegram addressed to Presi
dent Kennedy asking him to In
tervene to halt the flow of ob
scene material across state
lines. The telegram was sent
on behalf of the Nutley Decent
Literature Committee.
Braille Edition
LONDON (NC).. The Royal N»-
tional Institute for the Blind,
whose patron ia Queen Eliza
beth II, is to publish a Braille
edition of Hia Holiness Pope
John XXIII's peace encyclical,
Pacem in Terris.
Potential
Nations
tion for the World Food Con
gress in Washington June 4 to
18.
One study is a 223-page re
port entitled "Possibilities of
Increasing World Food Produc
tion." It projects food and po
pulation increases to the end
of the 20th century. The world's
current population of over 3,
061,000,000 will double to more
than six billion people by the
year 2000, it predicts.
The companion study, "The
Third World Survey" of FAO,
forecasts food needs at the end
of the century. It projects the
following needs:
• Asia and the Far East: a
fourfold increase.
• Latin America: three
to four times the present pro
duction.
• Near East; a threefold in
crease.
• Africa; three to fourfold
increase.
The study indicates FAO op
timism that Africa and Latin
America can meet their future
needs. For Asia and the Far
East, which today total close to
three-fifths of the world's po
pulation, the FAO voices doubt.
It questions whether it Is
possible to bring about the
needed 400 per cent Increase
In food production In the re
gion, with known resources and
techniques.
FAO Director General B. R.
Sen In commenting on the study
described the food-population
balance In the Far East as "pre
carious." He said further study
of the resources In various
parts of the world is needed to
determine "the most effective
pattern for putting them to
work." What may be needed,
he indicated, is changing the
whole pattern of land use in
the Far East and elsewhere.
THE report assessing world
potential to increase food pro
duction rules out mass trans
fers of foodstuffs from sgrl-
culturally richer to the poorer
regions as a permanent solut
ion.
It states that Its assessment
of production capacity and land
resources is of a "Sketchy” and
preliminary nature. But It holds
surface could be extended, es
pecially In the equatorial re
gions of Africa, Southeast Asia
and Latin America. The climate
of these regions would allow for
two or three harvest* every
year on lend that is now scar
cely used at all, according to
the study. But this would re
quire solving the problem of
maintaining soil fertility, it
said.
The FAO report hold* out the
prospect of threefold crop In
creases in such developing re
gions. It also envisions e 500
per cent Increase in livestock
production and it least a doubl
ing of fish catches In these
areas.
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CATHOLIC OBSERVERS TO ATTEND
Mount Athos Celebrations
An Ecumenical Highlight
But for a king's sudden
illness, this week would have
witnessed the opening of reli
gious celebrations on a history
-rich Grecian peninsula stretc
hing into the Aegean Sea that is
one of the great shrines of Eas
tern Orthodoxy.
When King .Paul of Greece
was forced to undergo an appen
dectomy^ the Athens govern
ment immediately decided to
postpone until June 22 obser
vances marking the 1,000th
anniversary of the first monas
tery on Mount Athos which were
originally planned to begin on
May 25.
THE POSTPONEMENT was
ordered because of the kiilg’s
wish personally to participate
in the celebrations not only as
ruler of the country of which
Mount Athos is a part, but as
the world’s only Orthodox mon
arch.
The change of plans caused
disappointment both to high-
ranking Orthodlx prelates In
many countries, and Protestant
and Roman Catholic represent
atives who had been invited to
share in the millenary obser
vances.
However, it is still expected
that the Mount Athos celebrat
ion, when it finally gets under
way, will be one of the ecumen
ical high-lights of the year and
an event of great historical in
terest to all Christians.
SINCE THE first monastery,
the Great Lavra, was founded
by St. Athanasius the Athonlte
in 1963 Mount Athos has been
regarded as the mainspring of
spirituality in the Orthodox Ch
urch and Orthodoxy’s greatest
pilgrimage center. But its his
tory actually goes back beyond
the time of the Eastern break
away from Rome.
The Orthodox prelates gat
hering at Mount Athos were to
have been headed by Ecumeni
cal Patriarch Athenagoras in
Istanbul, the supreme spiritual
authority on Mount Athos, pro
vided he was granted permis
sion to leave Turkey by the
government there. He would
have been joined, among others,
by Patriarch Alexei of Moscow,
head of the Russian Orthodox
Church: Archbishop Chrysos
tom of Athens, Primate of the
Orthodox Church in Greece; and
Archbishop Iakovos of New Yo
rk, head of the Greek Ortho
dox Archdiocese of North and
South America.
Among those attending as In
vited guests were to have been
three off icials of the World Cou
ncil of Churches and the Lut
heran World Federation, and
two Catholic monks from Jeru
salem.
They were Dr. W. A. Visser't
Hooft, WCC general secretary;
Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New
York, president of the LWFand
chairman of the WCC’s Central
Committee; Dr. Kurt Schmldt-
Clausen of Geneva, LWF execu
tive secretary; Father Benedict
Stoloz, O.S.B.S, prior of the
Benedictine Abbey of the Dor-
m it ion on Mount Zion; and Fa
ther Albert Rock, O. F. M.,
representing Father Lino
Cappiello, 0. F. M., Francis
can Custodian of the Holy Land.
The celebrations have a spe
cial Interest for Catholics since
St. Athanasius is one of the sai
nts of Asia Minor whose, cult
Is approved by the Catholic Ch
urch. He ruled over some-'60
communities of monks living on
Mount Athos, and. It was not
until his death In 1,003 that the
Great Schism saw the monks
separate from Rome. Before St.
Athanasius other monks and
hermits had lived in the peni
nsula, but it was he who in
troduced the cenobitic or com
munity rule, derived chiefly
from that of St. Theodore of
Constantinople (759-826), one of
the great figures of monastic
history.
ALTHOUGH a part of the
Greek state, Mount Athos— of
ficially known as Haglon Ores
(Holy Mountain) — is a theo
cratic republic with a certain
amount of autonomy. Its govern
ment is a council of 20 monks
elected annually from each at
the 20 monasteries— all but
three of them Greek— on the
peninsula that stretches 35
miles into the Aegean from the
main Peninsula of Chalcidice.
Besides the Great Lavra, the
other monasteries are those of
Vatopedi, claimed to have been
founded by the Byzantine Em
peror Theodosius: Rossikon,
the Russian monastery of St.
Panteleimon; Chiliandari, foun
ded by Serbian Prince Steph
en Namanya (1159-95); Iveron,
established by Iberinas or Geo
rgians; Esphigmenu; Kullum-
ush; Pa.ndocratoros; Philotheu;
Caraculla; St. Paul; St. Denis;
St. Gregory; Sfmopetra; Xero-
potamu; St. Xenophon: Dochi-
ariu; Constamounitu; Zo-
graphy (Bulgarian); and Sta-
vronikutu, founded in 1545.
In addition, there are 12 ske-
tes, or monastic settlements,
dependent on the monasteries
and some of considerable size;
and many sancturies and hemi-
tages. In 1749, the monks of
Vatopedi established a large ac
ademy which for a long time
attracted students from all
parts of the East, but eventu
ally it proved a failure and is
now In ruins.
ONLY MEN may set foot on
Mount Athos. By an imperial
edict of one of the Byzantine
emperors in 1046, women were
forbidden the peninsula, and this
prohibition has ever since been
strictly enforced; Several years
ago, however, an American
woman tourist boasted upon her
return from Greece that she had
visited one of the monasteries
by dressing In slacks and ac
companying a party of male pil
grims.
A visitor to Mount Athos must
have a written permit issued by
the Ecumenical Patriarchate
and endorsed by the Greek For
eign Ministry. One erf the visi
tors last year was a U.S. pai
nter, David G. Asherman, who
later reported that Mount Athos
"probably has more murals
within its territory than any
other community of its size in
the entire world." But he noted
that many of the mural master
pieces, even some painted dur
ing the 19th century, had de
teriorated badly because the
artists used faulty techniques.
BESIDES being noted for their
wonderfully picturesque appe-
rance and the natural bea
uty surrounding them, the mon
asteries of Mount Athos are
famous for their libraries, col
lections of valuable and historic
documents and other treasures.
The Great Lavra has 2,200
manuscripts, the richest col
lection of all. In the monas
tery of Xeropotamu are pre
served a fragment of the Holy
Cross presented by' Byzantine
Emperor Romanos L and a fifth
or sixth century icon of St.
Demetrios that once reposed in-
the Great Cathedral at St. So
phia in Constantinople.
There have been frequent
complaints that, despite the
rich libraries at their disposal,
only comparatively few of the
monks on Mount Athos seem
interested in scholarly re
search and many, in face, are
poorly educated.
It was with this situation In
mind that the "Athonias," a
school of higher education hous
ed in the Russian skete of St.
Andrew In Karyes, capital of
Mount Athos, was opened under
the direction of Bishop Nath
aniel, the only bishop on the
peninsula. His consecration
took place in 1956, and was the
first on Mount Athos for L000
years.
number of young monks wishing
to join the communities. One
reason alleged for this is the
refusal of the Greek govern
ment — except in some exce
ptional cases — to permit non-
Greeks to enter the community
as . novices. One non-Greek
monastery that had 2,000 monks
at the turn of the century now
is reported to have 67. The Rus
sian Monastery which once had
1,500 monks living there to
day has only a few dozen.
Serbian Orthodox sources in
Belgrade have charged that the
Greek authorities are reluctant
to admit monks from Yugosla
via, fearing that the Soviet
Union and Bulgria might also
seek to send citizens there.
Archbishop Nlcodim, head of the
foreign church relations of the
Moscow Patriarchate visited
Mount Athos in 1961, but this
was only after he had run Into
strong Initial oppositionfrom
the Greek authorities. When the
Russian Ambassador to Greece
visited Mount Athos in 1954,
the Greek monks there lodged
a vigorous protest with the At
hens government.
Meanwhile hopes that Mount
Athos will continue to be "not
only a source of great histori
cal pride for the Ecumenical
Patriarchate but also a foun
tainhead of glory for the entire
Orthodox Christian world” have
been voiced by Archbishop Iako
vos in New York.
IN A special message in which
he noted that the Mount Athos
celebrations will continue In the
Western Hemisphere until May
1964, he urged that the anni
versary of the first monastery
there be marked by appropriate
lectures and sermons by Orth
odox priests, articles in the
Orthodox press, and special
radio and television programs.
"Those of us who will not
be able to join the pilgrimage,"
he said, "will surely share in
the unity of prayer in which we
shall ask Almighty God to bless
all the members of the reli
gious communities of Athos
who maintain the cycle of prayer
throughout the days and nights
on behalf of all of us.”
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