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Marvelous Mothers
BY THEA JARVIS
Mothers are special all year long.
But on Mother’s Day, the deep bonds that link a mother and her child are
acknowledged with a warmth and openness not always expressed in the hurry
of daily routine.
The following thoughts only scratch the surface of those feelings sons and
daughters hold in their hearts when asked:
What do you like best about your mother?
Her laughter. She has a sense of humor and she’s understanding. She can put
herself in my place and remember when she was growing up.
-Tricia Ollinger, age 15, St. Jude’s, Sandy Springs.
Her cooking. She can cook really good. I like the Italian food she makes. Her
food’s the best!
--Cavan Shields, age 12, Holy Cross, Chamblee.
She takes me everywhere - like to dancing. She takes care of me. She feeds
me and when I’m sick she takes me to the doctor.
- Paulette Walshe, age 10, St. Thomas More, Decatur.
She’s good to me and gives me food that I like - cake, ice cream sundaes.
She’s pretty. She’s got curly hair and she’s kinda tan, too. When I’m going to
bed she hugs me and kisses me and says “Don’t let the turtles bite!”
-- David French, age 6, Ss. Peter and Paul, Decatur.
She takes an interest in things that we do. She wants to know the details and
how we feel about different things.
-- Steve Orr, age 17, Holy Cross, Chamblee.
She always kind of makes me feel like I’m loved.
- Donna Murphy, age 10, Corpus Christi, Stone Mountain.
She gets us stuff whenever we need it. She’s real nice. She makes me feel
good. If I do something wrong, she won’t get mad at me. She’ll help me to do
it right.
- Jimmy Keys, age 11, St. Michael’s, Gainesville.
When I have a problem she sits down and talks and tries to solve my
problem. She gives me some things I want if she thinks I really need them - like
a pair of blue jeans.
- Grene Baranco, age 9, St. Anthony’s, Atlanta.
She shows that she cares about everyone. If we’re hurt she doesn’t say “Ask
your sister to help.” She does it herself.
-- Katie Murphy, age 13, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta.
She gives me surprises. On my birthday she bought me a bike and surprised
me about that.
- Peter Kemer, age 6, Holy Cross, Chamblee.
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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 19 No. 19
Thursday, May 7,1981
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Maryknoll Asks Outside Probe
Into Priest’s Disappearance
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MISSING PRIEST - Maryknoll Father Roy
Bourgeois, who disappeared from a San Salvador
hotel April 26, is shown at Chicago’s Holy Name
CRITTENTON CLOSING
Cathedral last December when he took part in a
sit-in hunger strike in protest of the violence in El
Salvador.
BY NC NEWS SERVICE
Maryknoll Superior General
Father James P. Noonan said after
returning from El Salvador May 2
that he wants an independent
investigation into the disappearance
of Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois.
Father Noonan said El Salvador
President Jose Napoleon Duarte
agreed to the search but the priest
said he had been told by a U.S.
official that it was not likely.
Bishop Arturo Rivera Damas,
apostolic administrator of the
Diocese of San Salvador, voiced
cautious hope May 3 that Father
Bourgeois, would be found alive. The
American priest disappeared April
26. But the bishop stressed the lack
of progress in a government search he
requested.
Father Bourgeois, 42, had been in
El Salvador since April 23 as an
interpreter with a television team
from Chicago’s WBBM, a CBS
affiliate.
“An investigation or search for a
A Loss For Those Poor And Pregnant
BY GRETCHEN REISER
The closing in June of the eight-acre Florence Crittenton home for pregnant
women is seen by those working in shelter and counseling as a loss particularly
for women who are poor and pregnant.
Officials of the Crittenton home, and the parent agency of Child Service and
Family Counseling Center, officially announced last week that the 70-bed
residence, with dormitories, grounds, and an accredited high school program
operated by the DeKalb Board of Education, would be closed. Several buyers
are interested in the property, but it has not yet been sold, officials said.
The Crittenton service, which has operated in Atlanta since 1892, is located
in facilities off North Peachtree Road in Chamblee. While the facility will be
sold, somf type of Iiorence Crittenton service for pregnant women will
Archdiocesan Anniversaries
Silver Celebrations
Sister Marcella
BY MONSIGNOR NOEL
BURTENSHAW
The Diocese of Atlanta 'was
founded twenty-five silver years ago.
One priest in North Georgia will
remember that fact vividly. He
became a priest for the new diocese
that same year.
Father Joseph Drohan, pastor of
Sacred Heart Church in Milledgeville,
was ordained on May 10, 1956. “I
was a bit late becoming a priest,”
says Father Drohan, “but that’s
okay. I had a war to win first.”
Lieutenant Drohan hit Omaha
Beach in June 1941 as the Normandy
invasion got underway. Under
General Mark Clarke, the future
Father Drohan took his men all the
way to Berlin. “I saw a lot of good
friends die,” says Father Joe, “but
the Lord was good to me.”
After the war Drohan worked as a
salesman for two years and then
entered St. Mary’s Seminary in
Baltimore. “My brother was already
a Jesuit priest for 10 years,” says
Father Drohan. Father James Drohan
teaches in Boston.
After coming to the United States
from County Waterford in Ireland,
Father Joe’s parents met and married
in Boston. The family settled in
Worcester, Mass, and five boys and
two girls were born. The parents have
died but the rest of the family are
well and “one day” planning a return
visit to Waterford. I’ve been there
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FATHER JOSEPH W.
DROHAN, pastor of Sacred
Heart in Milledgeville, will
celebrate 25 years of priestly
service in the Archdiocese of
Atlanta May 10.
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BY GRETCHEN REISER
In 50 years of service as a sister of
St. Joseph of Carondolet, Sister
Marcella Meyer has been to every
part of Georgia and, at one time or
another, taught every grade from
first through eighth.
Her eyes twinkle as she voices the
one mild objection she has to the
places she’s been and the work she’s
one. It’s the one year she spent
teaching in Kansas City, Missouri.
“I couldn’t wait to get back” to
Georgia, Sister Marcella said.
Her vocation was shaped here as
she grew up in St. Anthony’s parish,
attended the school and later Sacred
Heart, and saw the Sisters of St.
Joseph as teachers. The desire to
enter the religious life which she had
“early in life” crystallized in high
school. The example of her teachers
and the nearness of the order, which
at that time had a province in
Augusta, drew her to it.
She went off, the only daughter in
a family of three children, to the
strict discipline of what was then a
very cloistered order devoted to
teaching and nursing. “It was hard,
very difficult at times, Sister Marcella
recalled. “But when I look back on
it, I think the discipline of that
period was good.” Hinting that the
missing person in El Salvador at this
time is truly very difficult. I knew
this and I spoke of this very frankly
with President Duarte and I asked
him if he would be willing to have an
independent investigation . .. and he
said he would,” Father Noonan
reported in a May 2 press conference.
He had been in El Salvador for four
days.
However, in speaking to the U.S.
charge d’affaires Frederick Chapin,
“ ... he said it would probably not
be very likely that such an
independent investigation would take
place,” Father Noonan continued.
“He did not rule out the possibility
but said it would not be very likely.
“I still do hope that an
independent investigation team can
be arranged, one that would be
agreed upon by both governments
(El Salvador and the United States)
and one that would be acceptable
both to Roy’s family and to our
society,” Father Noonan said.
“I pray that we will have Roy
back with us very soon but if his life
has been taken, his blood will have
been given for the people of El
Salvador, a people that I realize he
has learned to love very deeply. I also
realize, knowing Roy, if that is what
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continue, in a different location, with a smaller group home as its only
residence. The emphasis will shift from 24-hour a day service to a program
primarily serving pregnant women who are living in the community. The group
home, which has not yet been established, is envisioned as serving from six to
eight girls at a time.
The decision to close the residence was announced “with a great deal of
regret,” by Mrs. Ruth Branch, president of the board of directors of Child
Service and Family Counseling Center.
The decision was “a financial necessity,” Mrs. Branch said. The Florence
Crittenton service merged seven years ago with Child Service and Family
Counseling Center, a United Way agency, in a move designed to help the service
survive financial difficulties. The service had a $100,000 deficit last year,
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only girl in the family might have
been a bit spoiled by her brothers,
she says “somehow or other, the
mistress got that message” and
assigned her tasks accordingly.
But if growing up with boys
affected her disposition, it also
shaped the teaching she would most
enjoy. In a career which included
teaching in Savannah, Augusta, and
Atlanta schools, she recalls as
highlights the years she spent at the
Boy’s Home in Washington, Georgia
and those as a teacher and head of
one of the cottages at the Village of
St. Joseph in Atlanta.
“I like boys. I guess I knew how to
get along with them,” she said, and
her memories quickly spill over to
certain boys, now grown men, who
got a push from the sisters, and some
encouragement when things were bad
at home. Some of them made it and
they’re well remembered.
Sister Marcella stopped teaching
about three and a half years ago, and
with Sister Roberta Sutton, accepted
an invitation from Father Jacob
Bollmer of Catholic Social Services
to work among the elderly poor in
Atlanta. Their work with Service for
the Elderly keeps them on the road,
delivering food and visiting people
isolated by age and changing
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New Assignments
For 23 Priests
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan announces the following
appointments. Unless otherwise noted, all are effective Wednesday, June
10.
FIRST PRIESTLY ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEWLY-ORDAINED PRIESTS:
REVEREND BRENT A. BOHAN - Assistant Pastor, Church of Saint
Jude, Atlanta - effective Wednesday, July 15. REVEREND AUSTIN
FOGARTY - Assistant pastor, Church of Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Alpharetta - effective Wednesday, July 29. REVEREND BRUCE W.
WILKINSON - Assistant Pastor, Church of Saints Peter and Paul,
Decatur - effective Wednesday July 15. (They will be ordained to the
priesthood this summer.)
ASSIGNMENTS AS PASTOR:
REVEREND ANTHONY T. CURRAN - from Saint Thomas More,
Decatur to Saint Joseph’s, Dalton. REVEREND ALAN M. DILLMANN
-- from Church of the Good Shepherd, Cumming to Holy Spirit, Atlanta.
REVEREND WALTER J. DONOVAN - from Saint Thomas More,
Decatur to Church of the Good Shepherd, Cumming. REVEREND J.
DOUGLAS EDWARDS - from Saint Joseph’s, Dalton to Saint Thomas
More, Decatur. REVEREND HENRY C. GRACZ - from Saints Peter and
Paul, Decatur to Church of the Transfiguration - effective Wednesday,
May 20. REVEREND LEO P. HERBERT - from Saint Bernadette’s,
Cedartown to Church of Kennesaw (newly-established). REVEREND
RAYMOND F. HORAN - from Church of the Transfiguration, Marietta
to Saints Peter and Paul, Decatur effective Wednesday, May 20.
REVEREND E. PETER LUDDEN - from Holy Spirit, Atlanta to
newly-established parish at Roberts and Colonel Drives, Atlanta.
REVERNED VINCENT M. MULVIN - from Saint Oliver Plunkett,
Snellville to Saint Bernadette’s, Cedartown.
ASSIGNMENTS AS ASSISTANT PASTORS:
REVEREND JOSEPH D. CAVALLO - from Newman Chaplain,
Emory University to Saint Anthony’s, Atlanta; also, Newman Chaplain,
Atlanta University. REVEREND JOSE L. FERNANDEZ-SOLIS -
from Corpus Christi, Stone Mountain to Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Atlanta. REVEREND GERALD F. GILL, M.S.F.S. - from Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Atlanta to Saint Patrick’s, Norcross effective Monday,
May 4. REVEREND ANTHONY R. GREEN - from Saints Peter and
Two New Parishes Created, See Pg. 2
Paul, Decatur to Corpus Christi, Stone Mountain. REVEREND
STANLEY D. IDZIAK, S.A.C. - from All Saints, Dunwoody to Corpus
Christi, Stone Mountain. REVEREND JOHN P. KELLEY - fromSaint
Jude’s, Atlanta to Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta effective Monday,
May 4. REVEREND DANIEL J. McCORMICK - from Saint Thomas
Aquinas, Alpharetta to Saint Thomas More, Decatur. REVEREND
LOUIS NAUGHTON - from the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta to
Saint Jude’s, Atlanta. REVEREND JOHN A. OZAROWSKI - from
Corpus Christi, Stone Mountain to Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta.
REVEREND MICHAEL J. REDDEN - from Saint Mary’s, Rome to All
Saints, Dunwoody.
ASSIGNMENT AS TEACHER.
REVEREND RICHARD J. LOPEZ - from Saint Jude’s, Atlanta to
Saint Piux X Catholic High School.
RESIDENCE ASSIGNMENTS:
REVEREND PATRICK A. BISHOP - from Saint Anthony’s, Atlanta
to Holy Spirit, Atlanta. REVEREND RICHARD J. LOPEZ - from Saint
Jude’s, Atlanta to Saint Oliver Plunkett, Snellville.