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PAGE 16 - The Georgia Bulletin, July 19, 1990
'A Lot Of People Will Want To Help'
New Covenant House Pres. Believes
BY TRACY EARLY
NEW YORK (CNS) - A
nun who is an associate direc
tor of Catholic Charities for
the Diocese of Brooklyn,
N.Y., has been named presi
dent of Covenant House,
effective Sept. 1
Sister Mary Rose
McGeady, a member of the
Daughters of Charity, was
elected at a special meeting
of the agency’s board July
10. The appointment was
announced the following day.
Ralph A. Pfeiffer Jr., chair
man of the board and of the
search committee, said in an
announcement that Sister
McGeady had been chosen
out of 120 candidates.
"We are extremely fortu
nate in being able to enlist
the abilities of an
experienced, knowledgeable
and highly regarded profes
sional in the child care field,"
he said.
Sister McGeady succeeds
Franciscan Father Bruce
Ritter, who founded Covenant
House in 1969 to serve home
less youngsters. He resigned
Feb. 27 following allegations
that surfaced last December
about sexual and financial
improprieties.
New York State Attorney
Sr. Mary Rose McGeady
General Robert Abrams is
still investigating a $900,000
trust fund Father Ritter set up
without informing the board
or filing required reports.
Covenant House’s acting
president, Msgr. William J.
Toohy, deputy director of
New York archdiocesan Cath
olic Charities, will continue
until September. He was
appointed to the position by
New York Cardinal John J.
O’Connor of New York at the
board’s request.
Sister McGeady told Cath
olic News Service that al
though Covenant House had
lost some donor support and
been forced to make
cutbacks, she found the pro
gram "alive and well in its
essentials."
"I’m very impressed with
the quality of the program
and the commitment of the
staff," she said. "I hope to
continue the good work that’s
been begun here."
Sister McGeady, 62, said
the Covenant House board
was still engaged in working
out a contract with her order,
but that she was open to a
five-year commitment.
She will not receive a
salary directly, she said, but
the board will compensate her
order, and she will continue
to live at her present resi
dence with other members of
her community.
Father Ritter lived in a
private apartment at Covenant
House, and received a salary
of $98,000, $60,000 of which
he had been putting into the
trust fund.
Sister McGeady lives with
her community at a
Vincentian-run parish with a
predominantly Hispanic mem
bership in a predominantly
black Brooklyn community.
She was wearing a blue
ribbon symbolizing a racial
harmony campaign promoted
by New York Mayor David
N. Dinkins in the wake of
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recent tensions.
A native of Hazelton, Pa.,
Sister McGeady said her
ancestors came to the United
States from County Donegal,
Ireland, in the 1840s to es
cape the potato famine.
She grew up in Washington
and entered her order — an
international order with
37,000 members in 75 prov
inces — in 1946 at
Emmitsburg, Md.
After receiving a bachelor’s
degree in sociology from
Emmanuel College in Boston,
and doing graduate study in
clinical psychology at
Fordham University in New
York, she began working
with homeless md disturbed
children and their families in
Boston.
She later held different jobs
with Catholic Charities of
Brooklyn, but before taking
her current assignment in
1987 served a six-year term
as provincial for her order’s
Albany province.
Acknowledging that the
presidency of Covenant
House, which depends almost
entirely on private donations,
involved a lot of fund raising,
Sister McGeady said she was
ready to go talk to anyone
about supporting the agency.
"I’m comfortable as a fund
raiser because I think what
we’re doing is so important a
lot of people will want to
help," she said.
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for homeless activist Mitch Snyder July
10 in Washington. Sheen portrayed Snyder in a
1985 TV movie about Snyder’s life. Philip
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right. (CNS photo from UPI)
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WASHINGTON (CNS) - More than 3,000 homeless
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