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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, September 20,1979
Inside TV News
By John P. Zarrella
Last week I ended my column by
writing that, “If not for a bit of good
fortune, or the grace of God, covering
the storm of the century might have
become more a nightmare than an
adventure.” At that time, I had no idea
that while you would be reading about
Hurricane David, I would be living the
nightmare of Hurricane Frederic.
No one called Frederic “the storm of
the century,” or “killer hurricane.” He
sat sort of idly by while his older
brother David took all the infamous
plaudits. Frederic’s time would,
however, come and his place would be
the U.S. Gulf Coast. And for me, the
memory of Frederic will far outlast my
recollection of the Labor Day weekend
I spent on the beaches of South Florida
with David.
We had two crews on the Gulf Coast.
My group landed Wednesday about
noon at Panama City. That afternoon
and early evening were spent capturing
on tape the onslaught of the storm from
Fort Walton Beach to Pensacola. The
sight of 25 foot waves crashing over
fishing piers and thousands of people
jammed into evacuation centers made
for great pictures.
In the early evening, as Frederic
moved in, we finished shooting our
report and headed back the 106 miles to
Panama City to feed our report via land
line back to Atlanta. It was clear by
now that Fred’s eye would make
landfall directly over Mobile Bay.
Our report made the late news and
feeling confident, we aimed our sights at
Alabama Our crew never made it to
Mobile, not that night anyway. Let me
tell you why. Let me tell you about a
seven mile long bridge across Mobile
Bay and 20 minutes in the lives of four
men.
Reporter Scott Newell, Meteorologist
Steve Browne, Photographer Ray Young
and myself crossed that bridge during
the height of Hurricane Frederic with
winds blowing more than 100 miles an
hour, waves crashing over the sides of
the bridge, and a wind driven rain so
thick and hard that it could well have
dented the car.
What we had done was make a
mistake. We thought we could beat
Frederic to Mobile. He caught us on the
bridge. Our station wagon was pushed,
pulled and lifted off the ground. With
the high beam headlights on, all you
could see was driving rain and blackness.
We passed several downed light poles
and a couple of abandoned cars tossing
about in the hurricane force winds. At
first, there were lots of jokes. Let’s keep
the mood light, we thought. But, as we
crept along the bridge and the winds
grew stronger and the rain came harder,
the jokes ended.
I can’t tell you how close to death
we were. There is certainly no way to
gauge. We were in the midst of a natural
creation more awesome and powerful
than anything man could conceive, and
all of us did a lot of praying those 20
minutes.
Control over our lives was
completely taken from our hands. None
of us knew if, just maybe, there was a
gust of wind out there strong enough to
toss us into the bay; or if five feet in
front of us the bridge was washed out.
You always hear about people who
suddenly remember God when they’re
in a tight spot. Well, I can’t speak for
the others but I certainly made peace
with the Lord. What I felt most of all
during that 20 minute nightmare was
that God was right there with His hand
on the car. I felt that He had put all the
other problems of the universe out of
His mind to be with us. All we had to
do was trust Him. Believe me, no one
else was going to give us a hand!
We made it across the bridge and into
a tunnel where we stayed for the next
three hours while Frederic spent his
fury. In the early morning light, we saw
what was left of Mobile. We saw huge
trees five feet around, snapped like
twigs; interstate signs bent at 90 degree
angles; flood waters 20 miles from the
Gulf; portable classrooms demolished
and miles of roadway submerged.
We talked with people who told us
how they prayed as Frederic roared. I
smiled, knowing they were probably
thinking the same thing I was while on
that bridge: that God was right there
with them, His hand on their shoulders.
You know, they must have been right!
MARYKNOLL FATHERS
Exchange With Chinese Universities
MARYKNOLL, N.Y.
(NC) -- The Catholic
Foreign Mission Society of
America, better known as
the Mary knoll Fathers and
Sisters, has proposed an
exchange program
between its seminary in
New York state and
universities in the People’s
Republic of China.
Father John P. Meehan,
president of Maryknoll
Seminary, asked two
visiting Chinese
Protestants to explore the
possibilities of student and
faculty exchange when
they return to China. The
visitors were the Rev.
Chen Chi-ming, dean of
the center for religious
studies at Nanjing
- University, and Dr. Han
Wen-chao, deputy
secretary general of the
Kiangsu provincial
committee of the Chinese
People’s Political
Consultative Conference.
They were in the United
States to attend an
assembly of the World
Conference on Religion
and Peace at Princeton
Theological Seminary.
“We are anxious to
open up again our contact
with the Chinese people,”
said Father James P.
Noonan, superior general
of the Maryknoll Fathers.
Maryknoll had about 150
priests and sisters serving
in China in the late 1940s.
Almost all of them were
expelled soon after the
communists came to
power in 1949. Others
were imprisoned.
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“GLAMOUR TODAY, TONIGHT
and Tomorrow” is the theme for this
year’s Accessory Seminar held
annually at Lord & Taylor for Marist
Mothers and friends. The program is
slated for Tuesday, Sept. 25, to be
repeated on Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. in
the Community room, Third Level,
of the Phipps Plaza store. The
VINCENTIANS
program is open to the public.
Tickets are $3 and may be obtained
by calling 266-0600, ext. 270. All
proceeds go to the Marist School.
Marist Mothers working on the event
are Mrs. Henry Harris, (left), and
Mrs. James Napier, shown discussing
plans with Mrs. Susan Gordy of Lord
and Taylor.
Central Office Serves Community
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The annual collection for
the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will be held in
the archdiocese the weekend of October 6 and 7.
This is the first of a series of articles the
BULLETIN will publish explaining various
aspects of the work of the Vincentians.)
BY MARY PARKER
I have just completed 11 weeks of
working at the Central Office completing a
requirement for my Bachelor’s Degree in
Social Work at Wright State University in
Dayton, Ohio. When I came to St. Vincent
de Paul, my main interest was to complete
that requirement. After my first day at the
office, my only interest was to be of some
help to the society and to the people that
i t serves and to learn how to more
effectively and professionally do this.
Very soon it all became a part of me,
not only the office itself, but every person
who walked through the door or called on
the telephone. Very often my feelings and
my desire to help got in the way of
professionalism. Instead of examining it
from a professional angle and looking at
the facts and checking out those facts; my
tendency was to sometimes jump in and
try to do everything and anything right
away.
I have learned more than I could have
ever imagined or could have hoped for. I
have not only grown as a person and
hopefully, as a professional, but as a
Christian. My faith and belief in God are
now more a part of my everyday life than
ever before. The 450 hours and the
requirement that I’ve completed are
personally totally insignificant now; in
terms of what I’ve learned and hopefully in
terms of what I have been able to
contribute to the Society.
On the surface, the Central Office of St.
Vincent de Paul is an organization which
helps in emergency situations with food
and clothing, but there is so much more
than that involved. The Central Office not
only serves those in its immediate area but
also works with putting the area
conferences in touch with the needy in
their specific area.
Not only are materialistic needs met but
spiritual and emotional - something very
lacking in most other social service
environments. It serves those who come
into the office itself with food, clothing, an
interested person to talk to, etc.; but also
serving those who call us and with area
agencies to help those in immediate need.
The Central Office works within the
nucleus of the inner city with those most
in need whether it might be someone who
is in need of food, clothing, lodging, rent,
utilities, a sandwich, a change of clothes,
furniture, or just someone to talk to that
cares, wants to listen, and to help.
So often, caring and interest are lost in
the “shuffle.” At St. Vincent de Paul, we
try to keep the PERSON in the services
that we are able to give. We are not just
working with a need; we are working with
people who are in need.
The unique aspect of St. Vincent de
Paul, not only at the Central Office but
within ail of the conferences, is that we are
a group of Christians joined because of our
deep faith in God and in His Word; we are
God’s witnesses to the poor. Whether it be
of a materialistic nature or of a spiritual
nature; we are there if we can be and we do
care! We are able to help by letting them
know that we do in fact care and that we
want to listen and to help and we aren’t
concerned about a quota that is needed to
be filled or alleviated.
The Central Office is, as are the
conferences, an essential element in helping
the poor in this community. In 11 weeks, I
have been witness to the needs that we
fulfill and the good that we as individuals
and as a society contribute. I only wish
that more people would share in our work
with the poor.
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Networks Set Coverage
For John Paul’s Visit
America’s three commercial television networks are
planning extensive live reporting of the visit of Pope John
Paul II to the United States, juggling their schedules with
major league baseball and football coverage.
By Sept. 17, NBC had announced the most ambitious
plans for papal coverage, scheduling live reports on a
number of papal activities as well as other prime-time and
late night reports.
But an NBC spokesman indicated plans could change
because the network also has scheduled full coverage of
the American and National League baseball playoffs,
which will be taking place the same week as the pope is in
the U.S. In Atlanta, WSB-TV, Channel 2 is the NBC
affiliate station.
Sports also figured into the plans for telecasting the
pope’s final U.S. Mass Oct. 7 in Washington. ABC, the
only network without regular Sunday afternoon
professional football games, will be the only network
carrying the Washington Mass live. That Mass is scheduled
to begin at 3 p.m. (Eastern time). WQXI-TV, Channel 11,
is the Atlanta ABC-TV station.
According to an NBC spokesman, the network plans to
inaugurate its papal coverage with a live report on the
pope’s arrival in Boston Oct. 1. That same day, NBC plans
to preempt the “Tonight Show” at 11:30 p.m. (Eastern
time) with a 90-minute special on the pope.
The next day, NBC - as well as CBS (Atlanta’s TV-5)
and ABC - plan live coverage of Pope John Paul’s address
to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Spokesmen for ABC and NBC both said their U.N.
telecasts would begin at 12 noon (Eastern time).
The NBC spokesman said while the pope is in New
York, the network also plans to cover live the pope’s
arrival late in the afternoon of Oct. 2 at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral and his address at Battery Park the morning of
Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, NBC plans live coverage of the pope’s arrival
at the White House in Washington, and on Oct. 7, the
network will show the pope’s meetings with nuns, with
academic leaders and with leaders of other religions at the
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and
Catholic University of America.
NBC’s “Prime Time Sunday” newsmagazine show
Sunday evening, Oct. 7, according to the NBC official,
will be devoted entirely to the papal visit, although its
starting time will depend on whether there is a baseball
playoff game to be covered the same evening.
NBC coverage on Oct. 4 and 5, the days the pope visits
Des Moines, Iowa, and Chicago, will be announced later,
the spokesman said.
ABC and CBS spokesmen said their networks had not
yet determined which events they would cover other than
the U.N. speech and ABC’s planned broadcast of the
Washington Mass. (NC)
Honors For Griffin Bell
Former U.S. Attorney
General Griffin B. Bell has
been named recipient of
the 1979 Brotherhood
Award of the National
Conference of Christians
and Jews.
The award -- given
annually to a civic leader
w ho has s h o w n
outstanding leadership in
human relations activities
- will be presented at a
dinner on September 24 at
Atlanta’s Peachtree Plaza
Hotel.
In announcing the
award, conference officials
said, “Griffin Bell is a man
of integrity and vision. As
attorney general he was
wise, fair and compassio
nate, and by his actions
and example he has
enhanced the quality of
life and expectations of us
all.”
Judge Bell was attorney
general from January 1977
until August, when he
resigned to resume his
partnership in King and
Spalding, Atlanta law firm.
From 1961 to 1976 he
had served as a judge in
the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Judicial
Circuit.
L. Edmund Rast,
president of Southern Bell,
has been named general
chairman of the awards
dinner.
Participating in the
awards dinner program
will be Rabbi Robert
Ichay of Congregationn or
VeShalom; Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson; Vernon
E. Jordan, Jr., president of
the National Urban
League; Alex W. Smith,
Christ the King
parishioner, who is a
co-chairman of NCCJ, and
Dr. Monroe F. Swilley, Jr.,
former pastor of the
Second-Ponce de Leon
Baptist Church.
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