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A 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. (Continued on page 2) l Iorgia i Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 19 No. 19 Thursday, May 7,1981 $8.00 per year Maryknoll Asks Outside Probe Into Priest’s Disappearance P N „ uH6ER 1 (T 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 (Continued on page 6) FATHER JOSEPH W. DROHAN, pastor of Sacred Heart in Milledgeville, will celebrate 25 years of priestly service in the Archdiocese of Atlanta May 10. I 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 (Continued on page 6) 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, (Continued on page 6) 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 (Continued on page 6) « 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.