News Scrapbook 1964-1967

Father Eagen Will Conduct Discussions

Catholic Alumni Club Is Told Of New Trends • ,n Ecumenism Estes Park, Colo. - The next phase of the ecumeni- cal movement will be "from the church to the world ... ' toward the work that we face together," "before we are quite ready io cope with it," in the challenge of Vietnam. were contained in one of three major discussion present situation.

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papers read at the conven- tion. Others were submit- ted by Sist.er Mary Wil- liam, I.M.H., president of Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, and Arch- abbot Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., of St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. Dr. Brown, an outspoken critic of the U.S. rmlitary effort in Vietnam, said he felt that "real test of secu- lar ecumenism" is already

"We have got to ex- plore our similarities and differences on this matter together, We mu st make common cause together across confessional boundaries and must not wait for a convenient time to do so," he said. Sister Mary William told the delegates the future of Catholic higher education "is very m uch under a cloud. It is faced with the old military choice: up or out." "I, would venture t.o say that the official church will lose inOuence if not power, to a rapidly increas- ing degree if it does not find some way soon of re- conciling its own legiti- mate stabilizing and con- servative interests with the critical and progressive interests of the Catholic academic community." Archabbot Weakland dis- cussed the liturgical move- ment and said renewal st.a nds "at. a confused corssroads." He said the prob] m involv d the need to r late the liturgy to l)'lodern culture. RAY LANG OF Chicago was elected president of the Association. Other new officers are John Fagan of Cleveland, men's vice pres- ident; Carol Hammond of Baltimore, women's vice president;' and Sue Dunne of San Diego, treasurer. The 1968 convention will be held in Honolulu.

He said his prediction of a new mphasis on com- mon action or "secular ecumenism" does not mean a lessening of concern for common dialogue and common worship. "But what I think will happen is that out atten- tion will be turned more and more away from our- selves," he added. DR. BROWN'S remarks

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Protestant theologian Rob- ert McAfee Brown told the National Association of Catholic Alumni clubs here (Aug. 17). Dr. Brown, 12rofessor of theology at Stanford Un- iversity in California, also told the 600 delegates this phase may test ecumenism

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· Bishop Fury Honors ew Men 1 s College KEARNY MFSA l'he fost VPlopm •nt of c, I e !or ev Francis J. Furey, bL~h- Men op of the catholic Dioc e of "In the nam'" o1 th,, board San Diego and chancellor of of tnisiees the fa<: 1lty, alum- th . . nl and student bod l extend e Umver 1 • of !:;an Diego, a warm welcom, to th e spoke at a reception re- fourth president of the col- l cenlly honorln~ pa t presl- lege, Father Baer. F a t h r ' dents of the College for fen Baer bnngs t his new as- and the new president the slgnment an a?undance of ' youthful erp • siasP1, t e m- Very Rev John E. Baer. pered by mnture judgment Bl hop Fure) a d "During and profound chola hip. the 10th commencement ex- "A bishop of an Diego ere! c of the College for and chancell oi th unlvPr- fen I took the ib ny of slty I predi many bannerl statin t 1e phllo ophy of years for t Coll e for ur church • related 1n ilu- Men und r ti; tn pl no lead- t on r hip and abll• gul\i nc of •·w b lieve th a t the ac- Father Baer red and the ecular are m er- Several rundred onor d mingled n e,ery life and that guests, friend and fa ulty of study of on without th c the Univ r,;ily of 1ego's other would lead to a di - College for Men, Coll ge for orted under tanding of real- Women, School of Lt w and • ity. I al o made it clear that chool of 'lheology attend d our unlverslt) j a commu- the r ceptlon. nity undertak111g, that It Is The Rt. Re\, M John L !or en and women of all Storm first presld Qt of the faiths. coll e for men an no pa "Today' r ception gi s tor of All Hallm\s nu eh In m another opportunit) to .-x. La J lla, was out or to n 1md p1 e h 'lm'IIIE'ht!; and at unable to att Pnd 'I the am ell \Vil on · ther Wil '

HONORS SET FOR'FATHERS The Most Rev. Francis J. F~rey, bishop of San Diego, will be among those hon- ored at the Knights of Columbus barbecue on Fa- ther's Day, June 18. The ninth annual barbe- cue will be held at the Uni- versity of San Diego's cam- pus from noon to 7 p.m. The festival will begin with presentation of the col- ors by the Marine Corps Recruit Depot color guard. Knights from the Imperial Valley wilJ be in charge of the dinoer. Valley Knights an_d members of the San Diego Chapter will man re- fr.e hment and game booths.

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I By MARY FISHEL Skills Go Up Support Down .John Cunningham. base- ball coach at the l'ni\'ersit:1- of San Diego said "Although J personally have never been directly involved in the Little League program I have come to several conclusions con- 1:1:rni ng its operation. I feel the people in charge ha, c done a tremendous job of selling their program to

starts ,lit h the be t oJ e, ei· • hing, finandall) speakmg. which is a compliment to the program) and proceed o Jes lucrative prog1 ams. "A. hi. skill. and n ere increase Im financ;al uppo1t decreases. I think this i backward~. Recognizing that there is only so much money to be 1iven the ,-arious pro- grams f feel the older kids- those 15-20 year olds Yho, be- cause of their age and expe- rience. really appreciate and are intere~ ect in the game of baseball - \\' o u l d benefit more than do the Little Leag- uers from the generosity of well-intentioned donor~. ·J would not like to see the abolition of the Li1tle League program but I am definitely m farnr of shifting the em- phasis of financial support to the upper age groups. This can on!) be done by . ~uring the parental and commercial interest now i:;nen to the Lit- tle League program."

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peel to gather the nee1;•$. signatures. Similar moves are now b ing organized by those who oppose abortion. !though 1 o c a l Jegislato1·s received many letters threatening re- taliation at the polls if thev voted for the Beilenson Bid die bill, no organized drive has started to recall or de- !eat any of the office holder, on this ground. One of the most active r- ganizations to oppose the ne,\ abortion bill is the Right to Life Committee. affiliated with the statewide Right to Life League The Rev. William Shipk•v. a Catholic priest on the staff at the University of ·an Di- ego, serves on the Ri"ht to Life Committee. 0 "Although the Beilenson bi!) is a poor piece of le 5 is lation, we have no intention of conduding a referendum against it or the le({hlat m; who voted for it,· Re\. hip- ley said. "1he issue i •oo emotional and would cost t'.lo much iu goo9 will. A rl'ferendun' agam~t the abortion btll also would not be pr tical since polls actually sho\.\ !J:.at a ma Jont.v_ of the votei favor :in ~bort1on !av. with su~h lim- ited provisions." Husband N-eed Not Be Told Rev. Shipley said, however, that polls also show that voters do not favor unlinnte,j abortion. indicating a meas- ure to repeal abortion Jaw~ will face a tough campaign The abortion bill signed b, qovernor Reagan was criti- cized by Rev. Shiplev on sev- eral counts. He said' it is not based on sound research. '·The provisions permitting abo1:t1on ~or statutory rape in yolving girls 14 and younger is not consistent with other sta!e laws on statuton rape which set a different age ·· he said. "The bill also has a mental health provision which would eventually lead to an abortion on demand Mental health ha.~ been defined to involve total m~ntal and physical well- bemg. '·A husband's permission al:'o is not necessa r) fo, a wife to get an abortion. eve 11 th?ugh he may want to hal'e a child. Doctors are not requir- ed_ lo notify the parents of ~mor girls who seek an ab r- bon. "The bill raises . everal le- gal questions as well as moral." Although Rev. Shiplev sairl he dou-bts that 01 gan11ed can)paigns will be conducte,J against lawmakers who voted for the recent abol't1on bill. he conceded that some volers undoubtedly will remember how their local office holder· voted. Regardless of whether v >t ers seek retaliatiou a !'ll ••t legislators, if petition 1s Jeck- ing repeal of abortion a, e suc- cessful the matt r will b<• .l campaign is~ue r1ext year. ty

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rr ative use of .. elf" ligi , ork and coun- the theme o! a , ork hop in pastoral phy- chology attended by 50 nuns, pne~ts, a n d seminarians from the West Coast and 1 other parts of the countrv at the University of San Die- l go this last week. 1 The workshop was a co- operath e effort of the Calif- ornia Catholic Chaplains Conference, The USD School of Tlteolo~. anrl the Wes- tern Bel! vioral ciences In- stitute. Primarv resource spoke man "as ·or Carl R. Rogers, p~j-chologist and au- thor. sebng va

t..t c ntury-old abortion law r ,ally rleared the As• sembly 11 was . igned into aw l>v >~e,nor Reagan. On n ~1de, there are citi- zenR who are against abor- , any conditions. >[)O.stn 5 them are organiza- tum. !Jo a, l' against any re- str, t, ll" • Jn abortion and w h beh ve the matter should bt> left to individual cho,ce Abortion Is Pirivate Matter 111e ink had hardly dried on th• recentlv-enacted abor- tion hill sponsored by Dem- ocrahl' senator Anthony Beil- enson anr1 Republican Assem- blyman Cra .., Biddle, before both anti and pro-abortion- ists w r labeling it a bad compromi:e Two state11 ide groups, the Sodet:1- f->r Humane Abor- tion, a I the California Com- mitte<' to Lt'galize Abortion in end to laun h an attack o~ abortilln control Jaws next year throt. h the initiative and ref r nrlun1 process. MI'.s. C. ,nt111a :\fatthews, of La ,Toll, a member of both orl!am • >n said petitions will b,• uculatl'd starting in January to ~ather the signa- ture~ of 300,000 registered voters to pla,e a measure on the oo!l )t in tl,e state's 1968 election that \\ould repeal all of Cal, 01 nia's abortion laws. "The- rn3ltPr of an abortion should be b.'tween the indi- vidual 11atic11t and her doc- tor," Vlr~. \latthews said. "The Beilenson-Biddle bill will affect 11!_1, a very small per:l:enta;e f)f the illegal ab- 01hom; h'rformed in Califor- ni ever) vear. Beilenson himselC .;aid that with a clause permitting abortion in case~ Nhe1 e there is a possi- bility 0£ :i deformed baby be- ·ng born the bill would al- fed nly two to five percent of the ah rtions performed in the state With that clause cemovP-d , the percentage is even low r Public Ha s Misconception ':Stuai ,how that 60 to 70 per cent 01 the women who get at... 11 tJon., are older, ma1- ried worn n who already have children 1 !Iese are women, who fo, on' reason or an- other, just do not want an- otl,er cl11td 1 he present bill w1H not liminato these ille- gal abo, ti, ,n , •• Mrs \l3tthews said the general publie has a mi con- ception tha1 thP majority of abortion are performed on prouu - ·uuu,. single young woni f'n :11'1d teenagl' girls. Tlw r1r..,anizations seeking voter •a of all anti-abor- tion N • 111 circulate peti- tions for ·1 p1 opo. ed ballot me;, 11, wit honl paid help , Mu; M,,t{h w sa1tl, but. ex-

REPORT CAR School and Youth Notes

USD PLANS SEASON OF U.S. THEATER Representative drama from the contemporary American theater will be featured in th forthcoming season of the University of San D1e,go, Col- • lege for Women, Department of Theater Arts. Lillian Hellman· "The Lit- tle Foxes" will be presented, Nov. 17 and 18, as the first major production. The drama, about an American family breeding its own destruction, established Miss Hellman as a major American playwright. A sharp look at adolescents on the threshold of adulthood will be given m the second Jay of the season, "Picnic," bJ William Inge, to be staged March 29 and 30, 1968 In addition, a dram at i c reading w i II highlight the season's offerings. "An Evenmg in Robert Frost s ·ew England" will feature manv of the favorite works of th"e late renowned poet ~----~

COACH CUNNINGHAM the general public and, m the process, have generated sub- st~ntial financial supp?rt, as witnessed by the equipment and playing facilities provid- ed for the players. "If this was the only form of organized youth baseball I could justify the amount of money being spent. Since this is not the case, however, I feel the money would be bet- ter spent if some of it could be channeled into other pro- grams such as the Colt League, American Legion or the collegians, v.here it is badly needed. · For the past two summers I have coached the 17-20 age groups in organized competi- tion but have been unable to fi~d adequate sponsorship on this level. Invariably, the an- swer is always given by mer- chants and establishments tha_t they are already spon- soring Little League teams and cannot give more. Fair enough. "Parental interest and en- thusiasm is probably the dominant factor in Little League success but I wonder if the Little Leaguers them- selves can really appreciate what _is being done for them. May 1t not even be hurting them in the long run? "As H1ings now stand the further a kid advances in the various youth programs the less outside support he re- ceives. In other words, he

Kweon I. Stambaugh, 16, senior honored student at Morse

High School, is participating io a summer science research program at the Roswell Park Memoria I Institute, the ew York State Health Depart- ment's cancer research and treatment ceoter in Buffalo. Kweon, son of !\Ir. and Mrs. Harold L. Stambaugh, of 258 Deerock Place, is one of many honor students from throughout the country attend- ing the i n s t i t u t e. Pro- grams i n c I u d e laboratory research experience super- vised by seoior I staff mem- bers, lectures, seminars and scientific films. Awards $500 Grant A graot of $500 has been re- ceived by the Umversity of San Diego College for Men and College for Wo m e n from

KWEON STAMBAUGH e11ior honor student American Airlines. The Col- lege for Meo has awarded its portion of the grant to David Schmelzle of Phoenix, a sophomore honor student, for the com10g semester. Article Deals With Educational Programs W1l1Jam H. Stegeman, assistant uperintendent of the San Diego 1ty Schools, has an article appearing in the July issue of The American School Board Journal. Titled "Local Dis- tnct's Role to Grow," the article deals with local control of educational programs for the future aod the need for foresight rn planning curriculum Area Student Awarded Scholarship I Ru sell W. Regao, 18, a graduate of Crawford High School, has been awarded a scholarship to the University of Roches- ter, Y., under its reg10nal alumni scholarship program. RegJo, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Regan, £424 Estelle St , a o e of 23 studenl.5 to receive the scholarship, which carries stipends ranging from $100 honorary to $2,500 maxi- mum, depending on financial need. _ Reg~n v.as nominated br the admissions and scholarship committee of the university's Southern California district alumni

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