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VOL. 7 NO. 3 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 16.1969
One Day Cash Drive To 'Net $225,000
Goal Is Set For The Charities
And Development Fund Drive
The goal has now been set for the Archdiocesan Charities and
Development Fund Drive. The committee appointed by the
Archdiocesan Finance Council has set the goal at $225,000.00. The
Drive is to take place on Sunday, March 9. It will be a one day cash
drive and will be organized in each parish.
Atlanta Superintendent Comments:
Rawson Haverty
Drive Chm. *
Romney Talk Draws
National Criticism
Rev. Noel C. Burtenshaw
Chancellor
Rev. John D. Stapleton
On Sunday, March 9, this Drive
requests that each wage earner in
the Archdiocese donates a
minimum of $25.00 to the Fund.
Every parish will organize and
solicit this amount on this one
day. For some weeks prior to the
March date, every pastor and his
parish chairman will prepare the
program for their own people.
Meetings have now been
scheduled with the pastors and
their parish chairmen. These
meetings will take place the last
week in January. Archbishop
Donnellan will attend all of these
meetings where the program and
goals will be discussed. One
meeting will take place in Rome,
Georgia. Another two will be
held in Atlanta.
Since North Georgia became a
diocese in 1956, many drives
have been promoted. However,
this is the first non-pledge type
drive. No pledges and no
extended financial promises are
requested in a program of this
kind. Many dioceses in the
Southeast now annually promote
this kind of financial program
and they have found it most
successful.
The Committee appointed by
the Archdiocesan Finance
Council is now headed by-
Rawson Haverty, who is
Chairman of the Council. The
other members are Father Noel
C. Burtenshaw, Secretary of the
Council; G. Albert Lawton;
Father John D. Stapleton; and
Father Jerry E. Hardy. Paul
Rev. Jeriy Hardy
Sauerburger, who was appointed
Chairman of the Drive in
November 1968, has since been
transferred to New York where
he has taken up a new position in
the field of finance.
Priest To Preach To
United Presbyterians
G. Albert Lawton
As a part of their celebration of
The Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity, January 18-25, The
United Presbyterian Church of
Saint Andrew has invited Father
Donald Kiernan, pastor of St.
Jude’s Catholic Church in Sandy
Springs, to preach the sermon
this Sunday, January 19. This
will be an ecumenical first in the
Sandy Springs area, following a
community Christian Unity
Service at St. Jude’s December 1.
The worship service will begin
at 10:00 a.m. in the James L.
Riley School, 845 Mount Vernon
Highway, Northwest. The entire
service will be a celebration of
Christian Unity with hymns and
prayers emphasizing the unity all
Christians have in Christ. The
pastor, Rev. William E. Newton,
extends an ecumenical invitation
to share in the unique service this
Sunday.
The Church of Saint Andrew is
a new church development of
The United Presbyterian Church
in the Sandy Springs area, and as
a part of the national
Presbyterian Church is exploring
new forms of mission in
ecumenical relations. They are
using different affirmations of
faith each Sunday, the one used
this past Sunday being a Modern
Affirmation from the new
Methodist Hymnal.
The new congregation is
planning to begin building this
spring on their property at
Riverside Drive and 1-285.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL—Air Force Lt. Col. William
A. Anders received NASA's Distinguished Service Medal
from President Lyndon B. Johnson, together with his fellow-
astronauts on the epic flight of Apollo 8. Following Their
award ceremony at the White House (Jan. 9), the astro
nauts addressed a joint session of Congress. (NC Photos)
Gov. George Romney of Michigan has received
a critical response to his suggestion-given in his farewell speech
(Jan. 6) on leaving the gubernatorial post to become Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development—that
churches consider “leaving secular education to the state.”-
Speaking about a Michigan proposal that the state pay a
subsidy to children attending nonpublic schools, Romney said:
“To make private school competition with public education
effective, we would have to go much further down the subsidy
road.” He said he did, not think taxpayers would support such a
costly system.
said:
While not proposing any “j suggest we seriously
final solutions, Romney consider whether it would not
suggested that all educational
authorities reassess their
objectives for the future
before making new plans. He
First D.C.C.W.
President Dies
Funeral services were held on
Monday at the Cathedral of
Christ the King for Mrs. L. N.
(Mary) Chappell, first President
of the Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women when the
northern part of Georgia was
established as the Diocese of
Atlanta, in 1957.
Mrs. Chappell had been Atlanta
Deanery President in the Diocese
of Savannah-Atlanta, and at an
organizational meeting at which
the first Dialogue Mass in the
newly erected diocese was
celebrated by the late Bishop
Francis E. Hyland, at Sacred
Heart Church on September 21,
1957, Mrs. Chappell was named
President.
Mrs. Mary Chappell resided on
3543 Kingsboro Road N.E., and
was a member of Christ the King
parish.
The Rector of the Cathedral,
Father John D. Stapleton,
officiated at the Requiem, and
burial was in Westview.
Rev. Daniel J. O’Connor
Sec. for Education
“might...change mind”
be more desirable to leave
secular education to the state,
with the churches- all the
churches—concentrating their
efforts on expanding weekly
religious and moral instruction
on a more formal and
systematic basis for all the
children of their faith.”
In the archdiocese of
Atlanta, Father Daniel J.
O’Connor, superintendent of
schools, said: “I just don’t
believe that Mr. Romney has
looked at education as being
susceptible to monopoly.
When he does, I think he
might very well have a change
of mind.”
Commenting on the goal,
Archbishop Donnellan said “this
goal will substantially help the
many programs of education, of
welfare, and of missionary
activity needed in our young
Archdiocese. Working together as
we have done so well in the past,
we can make a glorious success of
this project and take a vital step
forward in many areas of need.”