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PAGE 16 — The Georgia Bulletin, July 16, 1987 North Family Part Of "Renewed Episcopal” Parish In Va. BY SISTER MARY ANN WALSH WASHINGTON (NC) - Lt. Col. Oliver L. North’s teachers in the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., remember the star of the televised hearings into the Iran- contra affair as a “good stu dent” and an altar boy who “looked like a doll.” North, who was baptized a Catholic but who now at tends an Episcopal church, lived in the Albany Diocese in his youth and got an early taste of soldiering during his first year of high school at Christian Brothers Academy in Albany in the 1957-58 academic year. His nationally televised testimony, which began Ju ly 7, was at the heart of con gressional investigations into secret arms sales to Iran and secret funding for the contras in Nicaragua, operations North admitted to being involved in through his National Security Coun cil job at the White House. The U.S. Marine was “a good student,” Christian Brother William Martin, currently principal of the military academy, said in a telephone interview. North attended the school, about 30 miles from his childhood home in Phil- mont, N.Y., for only one year before transferring to his local public high school and is not well remembered by academy classmates. “I recall his face,” said James Coyne, an academy graduate and now Albany County Executive. The notoriety surround ing North since he was fired from the National Security Council by Presi dent Reagan has brought up his name among class mates a lot, said Coyne, but “not too many remember him.” North is better remem bered at Sacred Heart Parish in Philmont, a hamlet south of Albany, where he made his first Communion in 1951 and received the sacrament of confirmation in 1953. He was baptized in 1943 at St. Peter Prince of the Apostles Parish in San An tonio, Texas, where he was born. North was an altar server at the Philmont parish. “He looked like a doll up ''Quest For Peace" Gathers $50 Million For Nicaragua BY JULIE ASHER WASHINGTON (NC) - Organizers of a ' true humanitarian aid” cam paign for the people of Nicaragua announced July 9 that they were halfway to a $100 million goal. They said they hoped to repair damage inflicted by the Reagan administra tion’s “violent and sleazy” Central America policy. At a press conference supporters of the cam paign, orgainized by a coalition of Catholic, Pro testant and Jewish groups, called their effort “legal, moral, democratic, ac countable, and life-giving.” Speakers included Jesuit Father William Callahan, a coordinator; Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gum- bleton of Detroit; U.S. Sen. Thomas Harkin, D-Iowa; and U.S. Rep. Joseph Bren nan, D-Maine. Jones Appliance Service Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service 31 Vtars experience 208 Pharr Rd„ N.E. 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Tucker there on the altar,” said Evelyn Ronsani, of Mellen- ville, N.Y., who taught North in Sacred Heart’s religious education pro gram. “There’s a boy on the altar now who’s nice,” she said, but no one compares to North. “I remember him always — on the altar serving Mass. He was just beau tiful,” she said. In class, he was “very helpful, always willing,” she said. “He was a nice boy, not a bit fresh, very, very polite. I’ve never heard anything about him that would go against him,” she said. Mary Deane, another parishioner at Sacred Heart, also remembered North and his family at church and said he also was among the children who played in her yard after school. “He was the cutest little boy, a very nice boy,” she said. “His mother was quite a devout Catholic,” she ad ded. As an adult, North has at tended the Church of the Apostles in Fairfax, Va., an Episcopal parish known for such charismatic practices as faith healing and praying in tongues. Frank Gallo, the parish administrator, said the Norths are active in the parish and the children at tend Sunday school there. North and his wife also belong to one of the parish “cells,” groups of three to six couples who meet week ly in one another’s homes for Bible study and prayer. Gallo said the church, which is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, considers itself “renewed Episcopal,” has a Pentecostal background, and has attracted many persons from various faiths, including Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Baptists who, he said, find in the church the “presence and love of the Lord.” COMING TO SEE THE POPE? For the cost of a night in the city spend a weekend at the shore. If your family is planning to come to New Orleans for the Pope's visit in September, here’s something to think about. Just one hour from New Orleans lie the white sand beaches and cool Gulf breezes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. You can stay here during the visit and simply make the short drive to New Orleans. Or come here before or after the Papal visit, and enjoy as many days of uninterrupted Gulf Coast fun as your family likes. Come stay in a hotel that overlooks the beach. Many feature a 6pm late Sunday checkout. Savor succulent seafood pulled fresh from the Gulf each day. Like tasty oysters, jumbo shrimp, redfish. crabs and flounder. There’s plenty for your family to do. Visit a seafood museum or an antebellum home. Play golf, go fish ing. or just work on your tan. Visit Beauvoir, the splendid last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Or take the excursion boat to Ship Island — enjoy the surf and explore Fort Massachusetts. See a live marine show featuring sea lions and porpoises. And celebrate Mass Sunday morning in one of our 34 Catholic churches. Best of all. our prices for just about every thing are a lot lower than what you’ll find in the big city. So find out more about turning your visit into a real vacation. Call our Mississippi Gulf Coast Visitors Bureau toll free. We’ll give you all the information you need to plan your Gulf Coast stay. WHERE THE SOUTH GOES FOR SUNSHINE. P.O.Box 4554 • Biloxi. MS 39535-4554 • (601) 388-8000 < Harrison County Tourism Commission IQX7
