Teachers Meet Next Week James D. Koerner, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow - at the Education Development Center, Newton, will address
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James D. Koerner, PH.D.
the general session on Friday, May 8 at 1,0 in the auditorium of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro on the second day of the 15th Annual Catholic Teach· ers' Convention of the Diocese of Fall River. _ His topic will be "Education and Sanity in the Seventies." Dr. Koerner was born in Iowa in 1923, educated in the public schools of the midwest state and spent the years 1942-1945 as a pilot and flying instructor in the Army Air Force. Fonowing World War II, Dr. Koerner taught two years as a
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graduate assistant at o/asbington University in St. Louis -and in 1951-52 studied as a University Fellow at Washington U. and received a Ph.D. degree in American Studies in 1952. He also taught at Kansas StateUniversity and following a year of post-doctoral work as a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard and MIT, he joined the humanities faculty at MIT. Fro!Jl 1957 to 1960, Dr. Koerner served as secretary for two years and president for one in the Council for Basic Education in the nation's capital. Since 1960 he has conducted a number of studies in educa· tion, including a two-year study in England and Europe, and has
Attleboro been involved in a variety of' consulting assignments. In 1967, Dr. Koerner joined the Education Development Center, Inc., Newton where he is now Senior Research Fellow.
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The author of numerous books in the field of education and the editor of many pedagogical publications, the Friday morning speaker comes extremely well prepared for the more than 800 teachers who will attend the general session on the second and last date of the convention. The convention will open or~ Thursday morning at 10:30 with a concelebrated Mass and then will follow a series of sessions on the elementary, junior high and secondary lessons. i -
Appeal Is Off to Fast Start The 29th annual diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal, honoring Bishop James L. Connolly on his quarter-century in the hierarchy, is off to one of the fastest starts in the last three decades. The enthusiastic announcement of the beginning of the campaign was made jointly today by Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director, and lay chairman, Joseph C. Murray of North Dighton.
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Women's Conclave Saturday The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual convention on Saturday, May 2 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro' with Mrs. Charles Landry,. Diocesan Council President presiding. Assisting Mrs. Landry in the day long program will be: Mrs. Richard D. Deschenes, convention chairman; Mrs. James Quirk, registrar; Mrs. Adrien Piette, convention parliamentarian. Also, Miss Angela Medeiros, luncheon chairman; Mrs. Harry B. Loew, coffee hour and publicity; Mrs. Russell Robinson, first aid. Mrs. Gilbert J. Noonan and Miss Margaret M. Lahey, cochairmen of the Mass; Mrs. John J. Mullaney and Mrs. James A. O'Brie'n, Jr., co-chairmen of ecumenical guests. Miss Kathleen Roche and members of the board of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will be charge of hospitality. Turn to Page Ten
"It certainly is a wonderful tribute to Bishop Connolly to see so many of the Special Gifts donors increasing their charity for the sick and needy this year," Auxiliary Bishop James J. Gerrard of New Bedford, the episcopal chairman asserted today. "The gracious and kind manifestations of charity are the best evidence of the esteem in which the Diocesan Shepherd is held," the Auxiliary declared. "He has founded and expanded facilities and agencies to dispel concern, relieve anxiety, ease sorrow and wipe away tears of worry. His joy has been found in .whatever happiness, comfort
or service he could offer others. He has felt all their needs and he has responded graciously with ,fatherly care."
A total of 97,250 homes, rcpresenting 300,000 Catholics in the diocese, will be contacted by 15,125 charity-minded solicitors
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Broadening Decision Process The clearest sign of. coresponsibility or shared-responsibility was given by the Bishops meeting in San Francisco last week. There were definite steps to collaborate more with the priests, religious and laity from throughout the U. S. and with the bishops from various regions of the country also. John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit, the president of the Bish-ops' Conference, made an unmistakeable plea to his fellow bishops to get used to the idea of a shared-responsibility. He said a National Pastoral Council would not diminish their authority but enhance it-because new insights would come from Catholics who are not bishops, because concern for the whole Church would grow with the whole Church in America fully committed and because decisions would be accepted more readily if more people had a hand in shaping them. The U. S. Catholic Conference's Advisory Council of 50 members to come up with plans and details for a nationwide pastoral body of priests, laity, religious, and bishops. Turn to Page Six
on Sunday, May 3. Some parishes have designated noon to 2 o'clock as the period for the solicitors' calls while the others have specified the two hours between I and 3. Headquarters of the Catholic Charities Appeal is prepared to start receiving pa.ris!l reports at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. There will be five centers throughout the diocese ready to accept the Individual parish statements.
AUXILIARY AT SAN FRANCISCO MEETING: Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, and Bishop lambert A. Hock of Sioux Falls, S.D., pause in a discussion of the agenda at the Spring Bishops' Meeting in the California metropolis. NC Photo.
The first phase of the Appeal is in full swing as 710 solicitors are completing their calls on the 3,125 professional, business, fraternal and industry leaders throughout the diocese in order to afford them the opportunity of supporting and expanding the 31 agencies that are so essential to the economy of the area and the care of the needy. Mr. Murray, in an interview with The Anchor on Wednesday, stated that "he is tremendously encouraged with the promptness of the special gift solicitors and hopes that returns from the first phase of the Appeal will be completed by Saturday."
First Diocesan CCD Parents'Meeting A CCD first for· the Fall River Diocese and, as far as is known, for New England, will take place Sunday at St. Michael's Church, Fall River, when parishioners will gather for a parents' convention, hopefully to become an -annual event. The convention follows a year-long program directed by Rev. Luciano Pereira, director of CCD for the Portuguese parish. "GetDubbed GAP, - for Acquainted Program," it's en· compassed a series of meetings for parents of each grade-level of CCD and parochial school children, at which it's been em· phasized that teaching religion is the primary responsibility of the home and that the school teacher or CCD instructor is but an aide to the mother and father. Prepared by the meetings, -Father Pereira said parishioners are enthusiastically anticipating Sunday's convention. He noted
that CCD workers and interested parents from other area parishes are cordially invited to attend the event, to begin at 1 o'clock
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Savannah Bishop Stresses 'Church Involvement Need ATLANTA (NC}-A church architect from New York says the fast-growing program of home Masses and services is as old as the Church itself. A priest, an authority on church music, believes the Church can prqfit by a study of what goes on at football church architect, blueprinted games and cocktail parties. church building practices from A bishop feels· the Church the time of Christ down to the present. Persecutions in the should avoid "simply speak- early Church days forced woring at society and get involved with society." They all spoke at the Third Southeastern Congress on Worship here. Robert Rambusch, New York
ship under humble conditions, mostly in homes, because Christians were poor and scarce, he recalled. But in 313 when Roman EmTurn to Page Eleven