News Scrapbook 1969-1971

Ecumenic I Conference Or anized 88 Churches may Ii\ for others.'' h1 phra e from a prayer of- fer d by the Rev. Jack Lind- quist of All Samts Lutheran Church typified the spirit of a meeting last night at which the San Diego County gcumemcal Conference became a living part of the community More than 450 persons attend- ed the Constituting Assembly at the First United Presbyterian Church. and 200 of them, as vot- ing delegates representing 10 denommations, passed motions to adopt the organization·s arti- cles of incorporation and its by- laws, and elected the first slate of officers. The Rev. Paul G. Satrang was elected president of the confer- ence. He had been -erving as president of the council. Vice president of the conference will be the Rev Donald R Kulleck. :\1rs. !<'rank Bolman was named ·ecrctar) and Dr. Richard C.' Shanor treasurer. Both the lat- ter held the same posts in the old council A board of directors consisting of 14 clergymen. six la women, six &) m n and three young per- sons also was elected. 88 CHURCHES The conference is sta.ling life I\ 1th 88 churche as charter members, $14.000 in cash and equipment mherited from the no11-defunct San Diego County Council of Churches, and a_ ' 'faith budget'' of $25,000 for its first year·s planned ex- penditures. Participating m a 30-minute service preceding the business meeting were several prominent churchmen The Most Rev. Leo bis op e • an iego oman Catholic Dwccse. told the au- dience. "! can envision very exciting programs being developed be- tween this conference and the Roman Catholic Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and our Diocesan DL•partmcnt of Educa- tion.'' 'EARLY CHRISTIANITY' The Rev Heber Pitman of Central Christian Church said, ' In its sense of community, its theological concept and its ecumenical scope this new orga- nization 1s reminiscent of the be- ginnings of Chrbtianity." Aho present, as observers, were representatives of two Jewish congregations, Temple Beth Israel and Temple Emanu- El, plus the First Unitarian Church and the East San Diego Christian Church. County Supervisor De Graff Austin and City Councilman Al- len Hitch made brief welcoming comments. A bright spot in the service was the singing of a hymn, "They'll Know We Are Chris- tians By Our Love,'' written at the . F . Uni- Adopt Bylaws, Elect Officers ..,_,.....r'k. /, .,)h~ /o By DICK LOWE Grant that all Christians

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Nuns Hear Talk on Goal Of Religious ' , I . )l Father Wilham D. Mc- Namara, OCD, foundcr-dir~tor of the Spiritual Life Institute, Sedona, Ariz., told Sisters of the San Diego diocese last Saturday that people are really free only to the extent that they, as children of God, a re led by the Spirit of God. "This is the highest, purest, deepest and most total kind ol human freedom that is possible to us," he asserted. The pnest addressed a conference on "Freedom Today" held at the University of San Diego College for Women underauspices of the Diocesan Senate of Sisters. The meeting included a Mass in the college chapel and a pol-luck supper in the college cafeteria. J;'ather McNamara declared that a Religious- must "empty" herself to accomrnoda te the bnmming, expandrng, all- embracing fullness of God. "Why leave Egypt, unless you go into the Promised Land?" he asked. "There 1s no way out of darkness and confusion except to respond to our Lord's in- vitation to follow Him into mystery, mto solitude, into the desert, into darkne:,;s and finally mto the Promised Land. "God beckons us, God summons us, and God will not be satisfied with us until we are there. God is fu II of infinite desire lo sanctify us, and will not !el us alone until we do become open-ended, tran- scendent pilgrims of the Ab· solute." I<'ather McNamara stressed that the prime responsibility and ma;or purpose of the Religious life is "to make us present to the Holy Spirit and inspire us to go on searchmg, yearning, longing for ~he Presence of God. Everything else flows from that. You cannot love what you do not know. No man can know God except prayerfully because no man can know God except him to whom God reveals Himself." Quoting from "Balter Me Three-Personed God," by John Donne, f'ather McNamara suggested that "our prayer ought to be the pungent prayer of Donne":

The new president and vice president of the San Diego County Ecumenical Confer- ence will be elected tomorrow from a late of Catholic and Protestant candidates. The officers, to be selected at the constituting assembly of the conference, will be in- tailed at the end of the meet- ing which begins at 7:30 p.m. at First United Presbyterian Church, 320 Date St. Protestant and Catholic or- ganizations are represented in the Ecumenical Conference, successor to the San Diego

the host pastor, the Rev. Dr. Robert Mayo; the Rev. Dr. C. Richard Shanor, treasurer; the Rev. Melvin Harter, exec- utive director; and the Rev. Canon Paul G. Satrang, presi- dent. Presidential candidates are the Rev. Dr. William M. Mac- innes, past president of the council and pastor of College Park Presbyterian Church; Alfonso Macy, Catholic lay- man: and Father Satrang. counc1l president and rector of All Sain s 'piscopal Church. Candidates for vice presi- dent will be the Rev. Donald R. Kulleck of Our Lady of An- gels Catholic Church; the Rey. Jack Lindquist of All .nls Lutheran; and :\frs. 1lli A. Reilly, an Episco- Jay oman. Project Meetings Set lowing the election, con- ce members and observ- will be- invited to lake of four project a meetings to set goals for o. he com·eners for the meet- Ra~~ond Rv- land of the 74vert of $a]. ~iegf'i ecumenical relations: t e ev. James A. Oxley of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, social con- cerns; the Rev. Ernest Fowler of Lemon Grove United Church of Christ, special min- istries; and the Rev. C. A. McClain Jr. of First United ~fethodist Church, education and publicity. One of the conditions of membership in the Ecumenic- al Conference is that member congregations take an active part in one of the four project areas. Apply for Membership The Conference will be gov- erned by ne\l> s hich permit membersh1p by llo- man Catholic churches for the tirst time. About 70 churches have ap- plied for membership in the conference according to the Rev. Mr. Harter, execuhve secretary. Some 170 churches held membership in the Council of Churches. Churches Will Observe The Rev. Mr. Harter said the six San Diego Jewish con- gregations and the city's only Unitarian Church have in- dicated they will accept a con- ference invitation to attend de- liberations as observers. The Jewish and Unitarian congregations cannot be full members of the organization because they do not believe in the Trinitarian concept of God. l in on ings will be H~

County Council of Churches. The city's Jewi h and Unita- rian congregations, which were excluded from member- ship in the old council and the new conference for theological reasons, will be represented by observers al tomorrow's meet- ing. The Rev. Jieber II. Pit- man, past president of the council, and the Most Rev. Leo Maher, bishoo of the Ro- man c atholic Diocese of San Diego, each will give a medi- tation al the opening worship service. Other participants will be

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UC Desig s Publication ~El P,~1~,ifu Tne l nlvcrslty o California at San Die o will gin publi- ca ion of a magazme designed to 1mpr0\ie communications between th campll! and the community according to Chancell r W lham J McGill. Th first iSSlle is expected to appear n xt month The bimonthly pubhcauon. "Co. tract w Ill be mailed free to ome 10, an Die- gan college umverslty prcS1dent , mve it) I Cali- fornia staff thro;ighout the tat and to st te and national I glslator o stale fund will be used in meeting costs or the publl- callon. Support will come from cit zen group called the Ch:mcellor' Clul) McGill said John Wood manager of pub-- he '.lformatio for Univ rs1ty Extension in San Diego has been 11.'.lmed Contact editor Wood will be n led by Jack Zane UCSD publication man- ager "Universities a d col said Mer.ill, "find them ves in an ironic ltuat1on They have become more v1t an ever to our 1ety and our fu- ture way of life but at the sarn _time they have become th center for d1 en and change and, as a re ult. are und r unprecedented attack. ·we ho Contact will help the public o better ;ind r- tand our campus commu- nlt) ," he said

USD auxiliary installs Mrs. Harold Tebbetts arold F. Tebbetts oI Gatlandb pre ident of the Uni- ed to decorate the tables. Mn. versity of San Diego Wom- Durkin wa~ chairman of the en' Auxiliary. n installation luncheon wa held Thursda:i, at the f greener; and a has be n install- antique gold can,'!le, were us- ed a

We tgate Executive Hotel. Other officers of the group are Ir·. Laurence Olher of Point Loma. first vice presi- dent: John T. Schall of Pacific Beach, second vice president, Paul A. \'esco, treasurer: John E. Leanders of Point Loma, recording secretary, and Leo J. Durkin of Pacific Beach, corresponding secre- tary Director mstalled mclud- ed 111mes. Ross Tharp, Ernest P Tovani, Vital T. Haynes, Evelyn L. Datton, Frank I<'. Rose. Robert B. Simons, John L. Power. Ada Smyle. Eugene H. DeFalco, Leo J :\Jomsen, Irving W. Martin, John III. Iurph~, Edmund R. Gris- wold, Frank J. 0-Connor and

Support of Alumni, Friends Urged Bright Future Seen for University a-C" ( u J. 7-~r )c Alumni and friends of the "Both have the dedicated our friends and community at and sacrifice" for the university University of San Diego Col- service and ardent sponsorship large, Catholic and non-Catholic an? to "promote ils future well lege for Men were told last of priests, nuns and laymen who alike." bemg." Saturday by Bishop _Leo _T. h~IPf? n:1~ld the fou~?ling in- He said il is a "burden which "We pray for your continued Maher tha, as the university stitution, he stated. Now we has been great on the Catholic support" he said ·•and know enters the new decade he for- look to the future when both the . . ' . ' . sees for it "more independ- diocese and the Religious will people of the diocese and on t~a_t w1th_us you w_1ll share rn the ence, both financially and relinquish this control and wish those_ supporters of the satisfact10n ansmg from_ the philosophically." Godspeed to the new University Rehg1ous of the Sacr~ Heart. excellence and_ growth of the "A university, we pray, will of San Diego marked by its We have taken the infant m- new USD and 1ls plan for the emerge with all the assets of the oneness." stitution so far; now as 1l grows Seventies." dual relationship of the past and Now, Bishop Maher con- to maturity it is up to others." The university has announced the added strength which comes tinued, it is time lo "hand over Bishop Maher called on a $16.9 million development from the present steps towards the burden to you the alumni alumni and friends "to work plan for the next six years. final unification." he stated. ' ' -- - -- __

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l•er were :\lrs. Robert E. Fitzpatrick of Clairemont and "\!rs. Pender• gast. ,\mong special guests at the luncheon were the Rt. Re,. ;\tsgr. I. Brent Eagen, the RI. Re,. )bgr. James Bear and Re,. ~1other 1 ancy ;\Ior- ris of the Univen.it) of San Diego. Outgoing officer, included Mmes. O'Connor. president. . lartin, first vice president; Olh er, econd , ice president Gri ·wold recording sec:re- t.ar , D r in correspondin° secretar an

Bishop Maher, chancellor of USD, spoke at Vacation Village where he was honored by the alumni. Until November, the Bishop also was president of the USD corporation, but in another unification step the Board of Trustees of the College for Men and School of Law elected Msgr. John E. Baer, head of the college, as corporation president. The USO College for Women, operated by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, and the College for Men, sponsored by the Diocese of San Diego, have merged academic and business departments and students of the two colleges may take classes in either un• dergraduate school. Noting the on-going unifica- tion at USD, Bishop Maher said that the diocese and the Sacred Hearl Sisters "have more than a mere financial interest in the univHsity."

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