’65 -- Reginald Wright has been transferred from
Greensboro to Hickory, N. C. with the Internal
Revenue Service, where he will be the supervisor of the
Hickory IRS office.- He and Janice have two children,
Robbie and Mack.
’66 - Thanks for all the news, David Cunningham.
He received his Masters in Latin American History in
1970 and is presently a management analyst with
Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations on the birth of your first child, a son,
December 17. Larry Cornelia is operations manager
for R.M. Thornton, Inc., mechanical contractors in
Washington, D.C., and lives in Arlington, Va. Patricia
Jefferson teaches in Ashley High School in Gastonia.
Both she and her husband have been “sponsors” of Sig
Ep since 1966, and Lee Wahler (’67) is her son-in-law.
Thomas Morgan is Neurology resident and teaching
fellow at Boston University School of Medicine. He and
Charlene and their two children live in Warwick, R.I.
Aian Main talked to Dr. Farley’s Business and
Economics class on November 26. He and Joy live in
Charlotte and Alan is still with Southern Bell. Since
receiving the M.S. from the University of Penn
sylvania, Ron LeDonne has been teaching chemistry at
Springfield High School. He is also a licensed real
estate salesman.
’67 - Greg Wessel is accounts receivable manager of
the Book & Magazine Divisions of Sunset Magazine and
lives in Palo Alto, Calif. He is engaged to be married
June 21 to Karen Field of Sacramento. Good luck,
Greg! Thank you, Frank Chupko, for your card from
Borneo, Malaysia. Frank is with Esso there and tells
us that George McCauley (’66) is in Borneo also.
’68 - After working in Peru for four years, first as an
auditor and then as a financial analyst, Edward
Tobiassonhas returned to the U.S. for his MBA and is
presently attending Rutger’s Graduate School of
Business and working for National Economic
Development as a senior financial analyst. Jim
Nissley is on the Board of Directors of the Lake Ridge
Parks and Recreation Association and is also treasurer
of the Dumfries (Va.) Lion’s Club and secretary of the
Dumfries Shopping Center Merchants Association. He
and Fran (Flynn SHC ’68) live in the Villas of Lake
Ridge, Prince William County, Virginia.
Congratulations to Mary Lou and Matt Russ on the
arrival of their first child, Carolina Gunn, born
December 18. Harold Phillips is with Moreland &
Phillips, certified public accountants jp Tacoma,
Washington. Mark Mahon is a corporate recruiter with
Electronic Data Systems in San Diego, California.
George Morin is a management analyst with
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., specializing in the
adaption of work hours to work flow, and lives in
Brooklyn.
’69 - Joe Antosek is with Owens-Illinois and recently
transferred to Charlotte, where he and his wife are now
living. Maury May received his AB from the
University of Maryland last December and is now
working on his Masters in Economics there and is an
assistant to one of his professors. Congratulations on
the birth of Maurice Philip on September 2. Richard
Salem is a member of the law firm of Salem and Salem
in Tampa, Florida. Mike Motley visited the Abbey on
'October 18. He is still with the General Accounting
Office in Washington and is a supervisory auditor.
Enjoyed the letter from Bek (McCluney) and Richard
Bernard. They are now living in Roanoke, Virginia,
where Dick is with Blazer Financial Services and Bek
is working part-time with Holiday Inns. Samantha is
almost six and in school, and Zachary is eighteen
months old. Clarence Collins is a Captain in the
Marines at New River, Marine Corps Air Station,
Jacksonville, N.C. Richard Mudd is with the Division
of Parole and Probation for the State of Maryland as an
investigator and he and his wife Brenda live in
LaPlata. Guy Piche is customer sales manager for
Belmont Heritage Corporation and he and Rachel live
in Gastonia. Dennis Smith is sales representative in
Eastern North Carolina for Threads-Incorporated of
Gastonia. John Zenir has received the Masters in
Criminology from John Jay College in New York and is
teaching at St. Francis College. He and his wife Debbie
are expecting their first child in April.
’70 “ Jack Hanahan let me read the card from
Barbara and Chester Zukowski mailed from Spain in
October. Would love to have more news of you, Chet.
Congratulations to Rick and Regina (’71) Fortune on
the arrival of Athena Michelle on October 26.
Christopher Narvaez is controller for Industrial
National Corporation, Southern Division, in Atlanta,
where he and Janet and their new baby girl, Jennifer,
live. Navy Lt. (j.g.) Jim Luten has graduated from the
Military Justice Non-Lawyer course at the Naval
Justice School in Newport, R.I., and is scheduled to
report to Patrol Squadron 49 at the Naval Air Station in
Jacksonville, N.C. Don Krafnick is supervisor with
Deering-Milliken in Barnwell, S.C., where he and Julia
and the children live. 1-Lt. Ronald McCoy has been
awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for out
standing duty performance at Shemya AFB, Alaska,
as a food service officer. He is stationed at Mildenhall
RAF base in England. Joe Booth is greige ad
ministrative manager at the Galey & Lord group of
Burlington Sportswear and he and Patsy and their two
children - Joey 5 and Jennifer 2, live in Gastonia.
Congratulations and best wishes to Ellerbe Hightower
and Linda Kay Bickley, who were married December
26. Ellerbe is a teacher and assistant coach at Winn-
sboro (S.C.) High School and they live in Denmark,
S.C.
’71 - Bob Munchinski visited the Abbey in Novem
ber. He is with Corddry, Carpenter, Dietz and Zack, a
consulting firm in Rochester, N.Y. Navy Ensign
Frank Taylor is receiving basic jet training at the
Naval Air Station, Beeville, Texas. Scott Whitehead is
now out of the Marine Corps and is sales representative
for Mac Papers, Inc., in Tallahassee, Florida.
Congratulations to Timothy Connor, who was a
Specialist S and was commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Medical Service Corps on October 4. After
taking the MSC Officer Basic Course at Ft. Sam
Houston, Texas, he will be assigned to the Basic
Combat Training Committee at Ft. Ord, California.
Ned Morris is sales engineer with the Trane Company
in Woburn, Mass. Bruce Martin will be discharged
from the Air Force in June and plans to attend
graduate school at the University of South Carolina in
the fall. Joe Riether is married, is employed by Am-
trak as a customer service supervisor, and has been
accepted by Rider College to pursue his Masters
degree. He lives in Hamilton Township, N.J.
’72 - Bob Kelley is labor representative for C.E.
Glass Co., Division of Combustion Engineering, in
Pennsauken, New Jersey, and lives in Haddonfield.
Nat Hix visited the Abbey in November. He is with the
Pennsylvania Crime Commission and lives in Pitt
sburgh and is attending graduate school for his
Masters in Public Administration at the University of
Pennsylvania. Michael Arnold teaches science at St.
Mary Magdalen Junior High School in Altamonte
Springs, Florida. Ernie Kelly came by to see Father
Cuthbert when he was here from Quantico, Va., where
he is a Lieutenant in the Marine Corp. He was tran
sferred to Camp LeJeune in December. Tom Ohlert is
also a Marine Lieutenant stationed at the air station in
Cherry Point. Congratulations to you and Janice, Tom,
on the arrival of Rachel Kathleen on November 29. Pat
Duffy has been promoted to assistant sales manager
for the Hilton Hotels Corporation at the Washington
Hilton Hotel. Enjoyed the letter Jack Hanahan let me
read from Jerry Grote and all the nice things he had to
say about his years at the Abbey. Jerry is a supervisor
in a Diagnostic Reception Center for the City of New
York and works with children ages 11 to 17.
’73 - “Rusty” Ford visited the Abbey in November.
He is a salesman with Crown Converting Co. in
Gastonia, where he and his wife Bobbie and four-year-
old daughter live. Bob Bradley is a social worker with
Gaston County Department of Social Services and lives
in Gastonia. Kevin Hanlon is a salesman for Ginn’s
Office Supplies in Washington, D.C. Bob Stache is a
salesman for F&M Schaefer Brewing Co. in
Manhattan, N.Y.
’74 - Frank Dugan is in graduate school at the John
Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC. and lives in
Garden City. Enjoyed the letter from Virgil Steele
which Jack Hanahan let me read. He is very happy in
graduate school at the University of Washington and
doing well. Donald Ray Bumgardner is an accountant
at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville, cost and budget
analyst. Michael Meyer is in the tax department of
Story, Malone & Co., a CPA firm in Bethesda,
Maryland.
’75 - Timothy Dwyer is in the Navy and graduated
from the basic Enlisted Submarine School in Groton,
Conn.
IN MEMORIAM
Leo F. Henebry - Class of 1911
Edward B. Purcell - Class of 1915
George E. O’Reily - Class of 1918
Bishop Vincent Waters - Class of 1921
January - February, 1975 - CROSSROADS - Page 5
.Bishop Walters
from page one
In 1953 Bishop Waters
took a stand against
segregation and
prejudice against blacks.
In a letter to the diocese,
he said: “there is no
segregation of races to be
tolerated in any Catholic
Church in the Diocese of
Raleigh. The pastors are
charged with the
carrying out of this
teaching and shall
tolerate nothing to the
contrary...”
Bishop Waters came
under fire in recent years
from some of the priests
under his jurisdiction
when they expressed
dissatisfaction with his
autocratic views of
church governance.
They complained that
Bishop Waters held on to
idle church property
worth millions of dollars
while some parishes
wallowed in debt. They
asked for a diocesan
senate in which priests
could participate, but he
ignored the request.
About 20 percent of the
state’s priests signed a
petition that he resign.
Further controversy
followed in 1972 when
Bishop Waters expelled
five Sisters of Providence
from the Diocese because
they insisted on wearing
secular clothing, rather
than religious habits, in
their teaching duties.
Bishop Michael J.
Begley of the Diocese of
Charlotte said Bishop
Waters’ “missionary zeal
and his concern for God’s
people cannot be
measured. He was a
leader in r'any fields, one
of which vas civil rights,
as he fought for the civil
rights of the black people
in integrating
schools,churches and all
Catholic institutions.”
Bishop Waters was the
third bishop in the history
of the Raleigh diocese,
and a participant in the
historic Vatican II
Council.
It could take six
months for the Vatican to
appoint a successor to
Bishop Waters, although
the Most Rev. George E.
Lynch will handle ad
ministrative duties until
that time.
CROSSROADS
Acting Editor: Theresa
Poteet
Contributors: Rev.
Jame^ Solari, Joe Coffey.
Jr., Tommy Braswell.
Mrs. Mary Cook.
Published bi-monthly by
Belmont Abbey College.
Belmont, North Carolina.
Second class postage
paid at Belmont. N.C.
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