News Scrapbook 1969-1971

C~ I~ s~n Diego, s~+urd~y. August 8, 1970 4 County Ecumenical Aide Notes Gains

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The chief accomplishment of the 7-monlh-old San Diego County Ecumenical Conft·r- ence is that it's helping clergy and laymen get to know and understand each other better. So savs the Rev Melvin H. Harter," executive director of the organization which ast Januarv succe<'ded the old San Diego County Council of Chur- ches. ''The conf<:rcm:e has helped people relax mor~ togethu and Ju.st get bettc acquaint- ed,·• lhP RPV ',Ir. Harler said in an m erv1e· ·ew Fealure ailed A maJo n \\ feature of the conte ence was th· t it admit- ted Catholics as members and Jews as observers. In etting 'bPlt r acquaint- ed," roember often learn thing. ahout one another that help dispel old misconcep- tions, lh 0 Re . \fr, Hartrr said. And in an •·atmosphere of fellowship and shared cm,- cern" encouraged by the con- ference. oarticipant find new stimuli for working on proj- ects of ,nutual concern. he added Although the conference has 98 member congregations <·u, rentl) as against the council's top membership of 170, the new group is clearly strongf'r the Rev. ~Ir Harter believe if only because it indud d Catholic members and Jew1 h ob. ervers. Only One in Country "It's the only church orga,,i. 1at1on 1n the countrv with such a setup," he said · And he says th:it although lhe old f'Ounci' had more members. it was IPti-5 cffectl\·e fiecause no, all members ron- ributed financially or other- wise to council projects. He said the conference's smaller hut more Pnlhusiastte membership is not unexpecl- edl~ composed of liberals be- cause thev are more action- oriented and do no as a rule feel •'threatened" bl' new ideas. Live and Let Lin ''We have more o' a live ar,d lei liv approach "he said. The dcrgvman secs the con- ference as prmcip~ll ' an in- formation center and calal~,t for ecumemcal acth ities in- cluding ho

cesses. He notes that mar,v laymen have joined one of lhe conference's five action com- mittees the social concenis committee in particular. One of the confen·nc!' 0 S member hip requirements is that member congregations join one of its fivr action com- mittees - social concern , publicity, s1wcial min1st1w,, ecumenical relations and edu- cation The Re,. C. A \1 Clain of First United :'v\l'lhodisl 1s chairman of the puhlic1t1 committee, which has ar• ranged 90-second spot mes- sages on local TV and supPr• vi$Cd design of a n1>w emblrm for the conferenc • It is also colle'I ing idea~ from young people for spot ra- dio mes.~agcs. Cooperation Effort~ The special ministries com- mitlee. whose chairman is the RPv Ernest Fowler of Lemon Grove Congregational Church, has worked with the Senior Adult Sen1ccs C!•nter and tr. Interfaith Communit\ Crnkr for Adults and tlie SIRF school for retardPd children in !';I CaJon It is sponsoring an Octoher workshop on prohl@ms of lhe ~~l•d llt SI Paul' Episcopal Church ll a o has work d with lhe As oeiat1on of Institution,.! Chapla1 and is serving as ad ·iser on thP sPlection of a

lie lay couples club hut an interfaith group, and "living room dialogues " ;in 11011 trr The Hcv M1. I Jailer thinks that "ec11mt·n1C·sm is rlt'ari:-, the w;ive of the luture" evr n though no ground licll for· tLt· ecumenical movenwnt has oc- curred. interfaith program home discussion

new chaplain for county JU\,, It cooperates wi• h an inter- faith drnma group led by an nile jnstitutmns. Lawrence Waddy, at St Hose of Lima Catholic Church in till' principal project ol the ~o- cial cont"••rns committee t,n. of Bethel A.M.Jo:., is Fish an int!'ffaith women's neighbor- hool aid program The education committee under the Rl•,·. Kennelh Car- son of Graham M!'morial Presbyterian Church. Coro- nado, is working on guidelines for selective service counsel- ing in the high. chools The <·omrniltee also publicly look the nos1lion lhat w!•lfare payments should kc p pat'c with rosl of living 111crea.scs, th;it the communitv should hp ";iware'' of ecologv prohlcms and that Trcolote Canyon should ll<' "presened ,n · its natural ·tale," the Rrv /,.h. Harter ·aid The Pcumenical relMions comm1ttce. hradrd b~· ..12L Rar mond O Rylan(j of "'i1it Umvcrsit v of San Diego . spon- sored a lN·ture by Canon Wil liam A. Purdy of the Valic.n Secretariat lor Promoting Christian l'nit; n Home f'rllow,h.ip !\.1 •etings It i ponsor111g' COCU tC:on- su1t,,t1on on Chureti l'n1on) Sunday next month ;ind rn- couragcs cll'rg · fellowsl:1p meetings the Christian Vam1'v Movement. formerly a C:alho- dt>r the Hev The motc~ cornmitt · also pr~- Episcopal prie t the Her Chula Vi ta. The nev. Mr llarll'I' ,avs

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Jesuit like the other priests there, has earned for himself an ecumenical following which is to be admired and pondered. A native of Rochester, New York, he thanks the Kodak- Eastman enterprise for much of his education. Quiet But Persistent And what of the last ofthe quartet, Father William Nolan? This priest with the worried look has not been in the best of health over recent months, but he still continues as chairman of the sociology department of the university. He keeps hours which mean we don't seem him all that often. For years he was responsible for the audio and visual aids used at the College for Men, as it then was, and, as is usual with these things, even in the space age, something always went wrong. Father Nolan was on hand, with his puzzled frown and frequent cigarettes, to set things right. Bread From Brother Benn The young burglars who broke into the kitchen of St. Charles Priory, near Oceanside, home of the Benedictines certainly gave retreat master Father Rudolph a fright at two_ o'clock _in the morning. He wondered what was going on m the kitchen, and found the two young men busily helping themselves to the stores. They promptly departed as he shouted in amazement. When the Benedictine monk recovered his composure to reassure hemself that he wasn't dreaming, he informed Father Pti r Claude and the police were notified. Of all the places to plunder! The monastery and retreat house, on top of its own Benet Hill, overlooking Oceanside airport, up its own winding road across the valley from the Rosicrucians (interesting comparison), scarcely the place to plunder for wealth, except maybe food. Brother Benno's catering is famous and that, evidently, was exactly what the youthful Marines must have heard about. The_ police intercepted them not far away, and, with one look m the laden trunk of the car, said, "We would recognize that bread anywhere. It could only have come from one place." Of course, it was Brother Benno's monastery-made bread, which, for many, is the best part of the physical sens~ of retreat a_t St. Charles Priory. The hills are great, the view extraordinary, but Brother Benno's bread is out of ~s world and every retreatant leaves with a sample, as did these burglars, to their utter defeat. Such fame _has the bre~d earned, baked by the jovial, stout and eminently charitable Benedictine Brother that possibly it is time to consider Brother Benno's Bread' to be sold on a scale which might even rival Benedictine wine. Brother Benno has a favorite joke for people like me whose origin had London cockney associations. He tells of the Londoner who was admitted, seriously ill to a hospital and who said to the nurse: "Was I brought in here t~ die?" To which she replied: "No, you were brought in yesterday." (Only cockney interpreters will smile). Family Secret Out At the closing ceremonies for a recent Cursillo for women held in San Luis Rey Academy, Father William Valverde of Escondido, stood up and said: "And now I will ask Mrs. Dolores Alt to introduce me." It seemed odd, not to say strange. Father Bill had been helping Father Bernard Cassidy, SJ, as spiritual director on the Cursillo, but why should Mrs. Alt, one of the can- didates, introduce him? She stood up and said: "May I introduce my son, Father William Valverde," and they embraced, to the delighted surprise of the gathering. s. t had kept it secret from the Cursillo candidates that she l" a priest for a son because, as she put it, people ar liable to think you strange if you are the mother of a priest. Father Valverde, whose grandfather Dr. Clinton Hen• d~rson died last week, has been of great help to the Cursillo movement, where the supp y of priests is low and where the dedication is great.

It ound ·like the name of a successful group of attorneys - Dolnn, Doi n, Dollen and Nolan. In fact it is the confusing "family" of priests who, until last week, all lived on the Alcala Park campus. ~,.;;.;~~~~..:;;.:~la:::n:,,... Neal Dolan Charles Dollen and Wi iam olan oun , m their s1m1 arity o surname, that confusion became worse confounded when you tried to explain. No, th two Dolans are not related. No, the librarian Doll n 1. not the director or vocation Dolan, and that is Fath r eal not Father Larry. However, lust week saw ontt• allcvmt10n of the

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confu 111g situut1on when F· th r l,.1rry Dolan, the certainly di tinguished looking, and always friend- ly religion teacher at U D w nt off to Ottawa, · nada, for two years to complete h1 studie for the doctor tc in acred lhcolo y and in ph1loso• phy One of the most pop- ul r - und one of the most crud it• profc ·sor · at th· univ r 1ty, he alway 111 nu •cd to provide a fn ndly mile which would develop into tn explosive and nlmatcd laugh at the I t provoc(ltion

NEW BRIDE - Miss Kathleen Marie Schultz of San Diego was married to Capt. Howard A. MacEwen, USAF, of Battle Creek, Mich., in Holy Trinity Church, Washington, D.C. The bride was graduated from the Academy of Dur Lady of Peace, San Diego, and the J.iJWlersitµ U[LJIJWLl

To Canada The hearts of half the young women students at have sailed off to Canada with Father Larry, but they still have Father Neal Dolan around to placate their feelings. 'J he Otlwr Dolan Quite unrelated, but equally dedicated and popular, particularly with the younger people, Father Neal Dolan lert the main Alcala Park campus for a destination not quite o far removed As part of the changed site of the seminary to the Santa Paula Apartments, east of the campu , Father Neal moved his residence, though his office r ponsible for diocesan vocations remains in the Dioce an Office on campus. Father Neal, whose parents Jive in Oceanside, has en- deared himself particularly to students at USD though he is not on the faculty directly. One memorable recollection and proof of this was last year on his birthday when student serenaded him on the lawn outside the Diocesan Office. Bi hop Francis J. Furey, as he was then, joined them outside and paid his own twinkling eyed tribute to the young ong.ster , who had minutes before invaded the D1occs1111 Office to declaim their fondness for Father Neal. With their tremendous participation in the work of carch and Bos· weekends and other youth-related ac- tivities, both Dolans have scored. When my daughter arrived home late from a farewell to Father Larry a week ago, tearful and thoughtful, I knew the dread day had arrived. Lihrarian and Broaden ter Father Charles Dollen, the third part of the quartet of similar name, had but one thought at the departure of one of them: "At last I'll get my mail without trouble." Father Dollen, ru, distinct from the Irish ancestry of the Dolans and ola claims a German background. His fame as a llbrahan and book reviewer goes far yond th w kly radio program he does with me on FMB every Sunday. For years he has been book reviewer for "The Pric ' and similar national publications His review and thers will soon start in The Southern Cr Father Dollen helps at Christ the King Church m Southeast San Diego every Sunday, and, though not a

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di . Leonard was most im- pressed with the educational system. "Children have a high regard for education, respect for their teaclters and an avid interest in learning," he stated. He noted that the average African is better informed about current events here in the United States than we are.

propnetor of o1 Africa has renently returned from a six-week study-tour of Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. Brother Jones left San Diego last June 22 aboard a Trans-International Airlines flight from Los Angeles via Bangor, Maine, and then the House

San Diego, Saturday, August 22, 1970 t~© Priest Calls 'Hope' Hallmark of Faith

And baptism, Communion, marriage and other sacra- ments are other future-orient- ed symbols of hope, he be- lieves. Outlook Is Forward "Any child born into this world is an act of hope," the priest said. ••As Christians we can only be future-oriented," he said, because the proper Christian outlook is forward, not back- ward. Theological conservatism, he said, is not the true Chris- tian stance. Hope, almost indistinguish- able from faith, always oper- ates in the future - never the past or present - he added. Without faith there is no hope, without hope no salva- tion, and without salvation des- pair, he suggested. l\o Limits in Belief Christian hope has no limits because Christ's resurrection means hope has no limits, he said. While orientalion to lhe fu- ture is the true Christian ap- proach. not all Christians have shared in it, he said. There have always been hose, he said, who are ob- sessed with the past, where they feel more secure with "what used to be," thereby re- Jecting the present and havin& no hope for the future. Mark of Senility He calls this attitude one of the marks of senility, inde- pendent of chronological age. The mark of maturity, on the other hand. is to "fully ac• cept the past as springboard to the future," by not brooding on the past, but not brooding men have a divinely ordained future. And it is the priest's mission to lead men to hope, Father Schokel said. Father Schokel is teaching at the University of San F'ran- cisco this summer

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nurt -eight townno_...._...., the Um\-ers1ty of S campus are undergo plete r novation," cos ·ng more than $150 COO, to convert the apartment mto a "Gradu- ate Center " ptov1d1ng hous- mg accommodat10ns solely for ~raduate tud nts and a few faculty members Heretofore, these town- houses, which are on stair- tep terraced levels .along Lmd VlSta Road, directly acr the street from the un1- ver 1ty's mam campus, were Jim ted lo und rgraduate stu. dents Th will be the first time th townhouses will be avail- able to married students, ac- e mg to Allen Minker, di- r ctor of student housing at D He said the remodeling .)(!Ct should be complete in indented into the hill to overlook Mis- sion Ray and the ocean, in- dud s two bedrooms, one or t o ba•hr ms, a large living room, dining area, bar and kitchen. A 6ltdm glass door opens to a ti hich is the roof of the to1o1 nhou below "There are four c munity center for gam or JU con- versation," d Manker. "R 1dcnts will be able to re- ervc the facillt1 or ri- vate gatherings. All res d nts will have access lo the univer- sity s athl he facilities, in- I " cks E h apartment.

ding the swimming pool." • inker said the primary cha n to Ewing Miller Ar- chite al Associations in the remodeling design was to im- prove the usual study facil- ities. Each apartment was com pletcly refurnished and spe- cial attention was given to carrel-style desks in max- imum tudy areas. Mmker said II is anticipated that most of the resident v. ill he stu- dents in the umversity's School of Law. The law school library is only a three-minute walk from the townhouses.

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The University of San Diego has changed its religious studies requirements so that all students, regardless of religious belief, will take certain religion courses next year. According to Father John R. Portman, chairman of the department of religious studies, all Catholic students must earn credit in three courses such as introduction to Scripture, Fulfillment in Marriage and one other. After June 1971 all students who enter will be bound to fulfill this obligatio11 regardless of whether they are Catholics or not. Jn.,dw,,,.,.c.. Cu-u P ,2 tJ. ?O

to Langi Airport near Free- town, Sierra Leone. While in Freetown, Brother Jones studied for two weeks at Fourah Bay College. From Freetown, the continued on to study another two weeks at the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and then on to University of Ile Ife, lfe, Nigeria. After his morning studies and in his spare time, Leon- ard toured the city, small villag~s. a cocoa plantation, hospitals, elementary and secondary schools, an agricul- tural ccliege, and famed Bounce Bunce) Island where slave.1 ver once impdsonoo awaiting 1ps to t11e West In-

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A ROSE BY - Name changes and new blue and white signboards mark the USO campus. Students are seen here erecting the new sign for De Sales Hall, formerly the seminary building. other names on the campus are Serra, Founders and Camino halls, formerly known as the Colle e for Men and Colle e for Women. _ Staff Photo