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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, January 7, 1982
SCHOOL S IN
Students Expand Horizons
BY BECKY LANGAS
Students in the Atlanta
archdiocesan schools have
numerous opportunities
for expanding the
knowledge gained in their
classroom activities. They
are encouraged to broaden
their lives with more than
the 3R’s.
Seventh graders at St.
Joseph School in Marietta
participate in a five-day
environmental studies
program each year. The
students attend the
Notchy Creek Program in
Tennessee and are involved
in various activities
including stream ecology
and astronomy. Eighth
graders incorporate a tour
of Charleston and
Savannah into their study
of Georgia history. They
visit the historic sites in
Savannah and learn about
the military history at the
various forts. In
Charleston they relive the
beginnings of the Civil War
at historic Fort Sumter.
Both eighth and seventh
graders participate in
“Readers Guild,” a
bibliotherapy project.
Through reading and
discussion of novels geared
to the adolescent, the
students are involved in
examining problems
experienced by young
people and finding
Christian solutions to
those problems.
Students of Saints Peter
and Paul School in
Decatur participate in the
Math-a-thon to help raise
money for St. Jude’s
Research Hospital. The
seventh and eighth graders
may take part in the IHM
Math Contest. This contest
is conducted in the over
100 schools in which the
Sisters, Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
teach throughout the
United States. Several
students have chosen to
zero in on the specialness
of their families by
entering the Archdiocesan
Oratorical Contest this
year. Many of the pupils
have decided to express
their views on the “right
to Life” by joining the
poster and essay contest
sponsored by the
archdiocese. The seventh
and eighth grade students
adopt grandparents at the
Glenwood Manor Nursing
Home. Each month the
classes write to the
“grandparents,” and
smaller groups take the
letters and spend time
with the elderly folks in
the community.
Pat Walsh, Lucy Cota,
and Sarah Clark have
organized field trips for
Christ the King School.
The entire student body
saw “Brigadoon” at the
Alliance Theater. The
Alliance Theater Umbrella
Players will bring The
Energy Show to the
school, and the Vagabond
Marionettes will perform
Hansel and Gretel. David
Ogletree will perform
“Abraham Lincoln.”
Margo Miller is teaching
Philosophy for Children to
the fifth and sixth grades.
Kathy Conroy is giving a
special Advanced Writing
Course to the gifted
children in grades one
through eight. This course
will produce a published
anthology of selected
works.
Junior high students at
Our Lady of the
Assumption School
publish a school paper,
“The Quarterly.” The
students write, edit, and
sell the paper which comes
out four times during the
school year. Eighth grade
students incorporate
two-day trips to Callaway
Gardens and the Huntsville
Space Museum into their
science programs. A
unique group of mothers
donate several hours for
training at the High
Museum of Art. Then
these “Picture Ladies”
visit classrooms, bringing
with them a large print of
a famous painting. They
discuss the painting with
the students and correlate
it into the art project.
Family Life Directors
Praise Papal Words
WASHINGTON (NC) ~
The most exciting
dimension of Pope John
Paul II’s recent document
on the family, according
to Father Thomas Lynch,
is the vision of families
ministering to themselves
and others.
Father Lynch, U.S.
Catholic Conference
(USCC) family life
representative, said the
key to the pope’s apostolic
exhortation, “Familaris
Consortio” (community of
family) “is the affirmation
of the power and grace
that belongs to married
couples and families by
their very vocation. The
pope sees marriage and the
family as a system with an
identity and mission of its
own.”
Father Donald Conroy,
director of the National
Institute for the Family,
called the exhortation “a
real breakthrough” and a
“shot in the arm for lay
people.”
He said the pope
presents families as “a
catalyst for social change,
not as passive recipients
but as active agents of
social transformation.”
Pope John Paul
“doesn’t see the family as
an afterthought to what
the church is,” Father
Conroy said.
Father Lynch also
noted that the pope is
calling families to be active
agents in the development
of society.
“The pope sees the
interdependence of all
systems,” he said and he
knows that “a healthy
family means a healthy
society and a healthy
society helps make a
healthy family.”
Father Thomas F. Lynch
Pope John Paul is
calling not only the family
to a new vision, but he is
calling church leaders to
support that new vision as
well, Father Lynch
continued.
Both Father Lynch and
Father Conroy cautioned
against overlooking the
positive aspects of the
pope’s exhortation and
focusing only on the
controversial issues of
contraception, divorce and
remarriage. The document
makes no changes in those
church teachings.
Father Lynch said some
people might have hoped
for a change in those
teachings and that hope
could lead “to a tendency
to assume the church has
withdrawn its compassion
and concern for those who
feel alienated from the
church.
“Don’t let that discolor
the whole document,” he
said. “Don’t take one
sentence out of context.
There’s a lot of
c o mpassion in the
document, look at the
context.”
The two priests also said
their organizations plan
responses to the
exhortation.
Father Conroy said the
National Institute for the
Family will sponsor a
convocation of family life
leaders in Washington in
April to study the
document.
Father Lynch said the
USCC is suggesting that
diocesan directors of
family life ask their
bishops to use Lent as a
time of study of the
exhortation and to use the
month of January as a
time of annual family life
renewal.
Paul Hallinan Award
To St. Xavier College
CHICAGO (NC) - The
Catholic Campus Ministry
Association has given its
Paul Hallinan Award to St.
Xavier College in Chicago
in recognition of the
college’s continuing
support of Catholic
campus ministry.
The award, named after
the late Archbishop Paul
Hallinan of Atlanta, who
was a campus minister for
11 years at Case Western
Reserve University in
Cleveland, has been given
only twice in the
12-and-a-half-year history
of the association of
Catholic campus ministers
in the United States and
Canada.
The award was
presented during
ceremonies at the
association’s Eastern
Study Week, Jan. 2-6, at
Barry University in Miami
Shores, Fla.
The national offices of
the association are located
on the campus of St.
Xavier College.
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1982 CALENDAR
IN BRAILLE
New York—The Xavier Soci
ety, for the Blind announces
the availability of its 1982
Braille Catholic calendar. This
calendar will be sent free to
any person in the United
States and Canada as long as
the supply lasts.
The only one of its kind, the
Xavier Society's Braille calen
dar provides the sightless per
son with a convenient means
of knowing each Sunday’s
feast, as well as all other im
portant feasts occurring with
in the month. It thus acts as a
companion to the Sunday
Mass Propers in Braille (also
available from the Xavier
Society).
To receive a Braille calen
dar and to obtain further in
formation on other free serv
ices in Braille, Large Print
and Tape, the-visually impair
ed should write to:
XAVIER SOCIETY
FOR THE BLIND
154 E. 23rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10010
GREETINGS FROM
JONESBORO were sent this year
by St. Philip Benizi parishioners to
five neighboring churches. Pictured
above, Tom Floyd (far left) parish
chairman of the Interfaith Council,
presents a poster-sized seasonal
greeting to Rev. John Swafford of
Southside Seventh Day Adventist
Church (center). Father John
Kieran, St. Philip’s pastor, looks on.
Youth Ministry Institute
Planned January 22-23
Christmas 400
A Parish Success
“Christmas 400,” in its fourth annual edition,
provided Christmas dinner, clothing and gifts for some
200 of Gwinnett County’s needy and 100 prisoners in
Gwinnett County jail.
Sponsored by St. Patrick’s Church of Norcross, the
project matched some 200 volunteer parishioners with
another 200 families who were previously screened by
the county welfare department. Parishioners were asked
to deliver before Christmas complete ingredients for a
dinner equivalent to the ones they’d enjoy. The
one-to-one relationship of entire families with those in
need put a new meaning on Christmas giving.
Many from St. Pat’s experienced not only a warm
glow in helping those less fortunate than themselves, but
also received in return warm hugs, sincere thanks and
offers of prayers for the donors.
Directing the project for the coordinating group, the
parish St. Vincent de Paul Society, were Ted and Lois
Stellern. About 10 families could not deliver their
groceries personally but the society did it for them. The
society also visited prisoners and handed out packages of
toilet articles and later joined inmates in singing
Christmas carols.
“At first, I was scared going into the jail,” confided
Lois. “But then, when we sang, I had a warm feeling.”
- Alice McCabe
Mr. John Roberto, nationally known
author, lecturer and pioneer in Youth
Ministry, will be the featured speaker at
the Youth Ministry Institute. The
institute will be held Janaury 22-23, 1982
at the Catholic Center and All Saints
Episcopal Church.
Dual tracks are scheduled. Mr.
Roberto will present “Effective Youth
Ministry Leadership for youth ministers,
catechists and interested adults. His
associate, Lucille Kreidler, will offer
“Peer Ministry” for youth and young
adult participants. The Institute will
begin with a keynote address by Mr.
Roberto at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January
22, at All Saints Episcopal Church
located adjacent to the Catholic Center.
Free parking will be available both at All
Saints and at the Catholic Center.
Security guards will be on duty
throughout the workshop.
Cost for the two-day event is $10 per
person for pre-registration. Cost will be
$12 per person for “at-door” registrations
or $10 per person for groups of five or
more if the group registers as a unit at the
door. In order to receive the
pre-registration discount, registrations
must be received by the Office Religious
Education no later than Friday, January
15. The fee includes conference materials,
continental breakfast and lunch on
Saturday. The Institute will conclude
Saturday, January 23, at 4:30 p.m. For
more information, call the Office of
Religious Education (881-6131).
COUNCIL
CONVENES - Officers
of St. Patrick’s Church
of Norcross parish
council are shown in
the photo at left as
they meet for the first
time. The new officers
are: (front row, 1-r)
Maureen O’Brien,
Joanne Wojcik,
Marilyn Rada, Susan
Rzepecki and
(standing, 1-r) Father
Gerard Gill, Father
Joseph Meehan,
Charles Parker, Kevin
Boyle and Mike
Bamick.
Father Carey Landry
Holy Family Hosts
Father Carey Landry
Father Carey Lan
dry will be in
concert at Holy Family
Church in east Marietta,
on Sunday evening
January 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Composer of THE
SPIRIT IS A-MOVIN:
ABBA! FATHER!,
PEACE IS FLOWING
LIKE A RIVER AND
ONLY A SHADOW, he is
also the composer of the
HI GOD religious
education programs for
children. The concert is
open to the public and
no reservations are
necessary.
Marshall J. Wellborn Sr.,
Noted Layman, Dead At 86
Marshall J. Wellborn Sr.,
whose service to the
church in Georgia was
recognized and decorated
by Pope Paul VI, died in
December at 86.
Mr. Wellborn, an officer «
of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia for
a period from the late
1940s through the 1950s,
had lived and worked in
Rome, Georgia for many
years until his retirement
from the brokerage firm of
Courts and Company. He
died in Atlanta on
December 10.
First elected treasurer
of the Laymen’s
Association at its
convention in Brunswick
in November 1948, Mr.
Wellborn went on to serve
as vice-president and, for
two terms, as president of
the organization, which
fostered understanding of
the church and its
teachings during a time
when Georgia’s few
Catholics faced
misunderstanding and
bigotry.
Through the offices of
Bishop Francis E. Hyland,
Mr. Wellborn requested
that then Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen come to Rome in
1951. Bisbop Sheen
agreed, celebrating Mass
and addressing the state
convention of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association.
From 1951 to 1953,
Mr. Wellborn was
president of the Laymen’s
Association. A decade
later in 1965, Pope Paul
VI awarded him the Cross
“Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice”
in recognition of his works
and service to the church.
He received the papal
decoration at the
Cathedral of Christ the
King in March 1965.
A native of New
Orleans, Mr. Wellborn was
born October 29, 1895.
He is survived by his wife,
Pauline de Give Wellborn
and a son, Marshall J.
Wellborn Jr.
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