Bp. Swanstrom Awarded
Vietnamese Decoration
SAIGON, Vietnam — (NC) —
Auxiliary Bishop Edward E. Swan
strom of New York, executive di
rector of Catholic Relief Services
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, has been awarded the Kim
Khanh, Class II, by the government
of the Republic of Vietnam.
President Ngo Dinh Diem con
ferred the decoration on the bishop
here in a ceremony attended by
American ambassador Frederick
E. Nolting, Jr.; Msgr. Francesco De
Nittis, charge d’affairs of the apos
tolic delegation; Archbishop Paul
Nguyen Van Binh of Saigon, and
other dignitaries, including cabinet
ministers and the president of the
national assembly.
THE CITATION read at the cer
emony described Bishop Swan
I strom as a “prelate entirely dedi
cated to the* cause of the Church,”
with “exceptional qualities as an
organizer and a man of action” de
voted to alleviating misery.
Since his first visit to Vietnam in
1952, the bishop has relieved the
Second Son
To Offer Mass
In Durham
DURHAM—A Conventual Fran
ciscan, native of Durham, N.C.,
will be a member of a class of 32
to be ordained by William A.
Scully, Bishop of Albany, New
York, on May 26 at the Cathedral
in Albany.
Rev. Eusebius M. Lawson, O.F.
M.Conv. entered the Conventual
Franciscan Minor Seminary at
Staten Island, N.Y. in 1949 after
finishing his grammar school edu
cation in Durham. He made his
first profession of vows in 1956
and his solemn profession in 1959.
> His philosophical and theological
studies were taken at St. Anthony
on-Hudson, Rensselaer, N.Y.
Father Eusebius is the son of
mt. and Mrs.
Thomas J. Law- |
son of Durham.
He is the sec- |
ond of their 1
sons to be or- I
dained this 1
year. Fr. Rob
ert T. Lawson
was ordained §
February 2nd!
at me Church
Fr. Lawson
of the Immac
u 1 a t e Concep
tion in Durham and celebrated his
First Solemn Mass at the same
church on February 4th.
Mother Eusebius will celebrate
his First Solemn Mass at the
Church of the Immaculate Con
ception in Durham on June 3rd.
His brother will be Deacon for
the Mass and the preacher will be
Very Rev. Walter Duffy, O.F.M.
Conv., Professor of Sacred Scrip
uire at the Catholic University of
America. Rev. Eugene Livelsber
ger, pastor of Immaculate Con
ception Church will be Archpriest
for the Mass.
Vietnamese people’s suffering, the
citation declared. “He efficiently
contributed to the work of welcom
ing and resettling one million refu
gees, calling on the devotion and
generosity of the American peo
ple and the substantial assistance
of the government of the United
States of Americr..”
Bishop Swanstrom, thanking the
president, expressed happiness in
working “so closely with our gov
ernment and the Vietnamese gov
ernment.” —
The decoration Kim-Khanh (gol
den gong) is the most ancient in
Vietnam. The Class II award is the
highest given to a person who is
not head of a state.
Bishop Swanstrom with members
of his staff and other CRS-NCWC
workers arrived here (May 21)
after a week’s conference in Dalat.
Presbyterians
Oppose Aid To
Private Schools
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —(NC)
— Opposition to federal grants and
loans to parochial schools for any
purpose was voted by the general
assembly of the Southern Presby
terian church here.
The assembly adopted a report
of a study committee which said
that such aid, even for teaching
science, mathematics and foreign
language subjects, constituted a
violation of the principle of separ
ation of church and state. The re
port said it is “impossible” to aid
a part of a school system “without
aiding the whole system.”
The 1961 assembly of the church
declined to take any action on the
federal aid to parochial schools is
sue on the ground that more time
was needed to study the situation.
The adopted report said the Na
tional Defense Education Act
which provides federal money to
private and church schools for
teaching science, mathematics and
similar subjects was motivated by
the launching of the Russian
“sputnik” but added “if separation
is good for the churches and for
the country, it should not be aban
doned under the guise of national
defense.”
Pope Receives New
Envoy From Honduras
VATICAN CITY — (Radio-NC)
— His Holiness Pope John XXIII
has received the new ambassador
to the Holy See from the Republic
of Honduras, Dr. Antonio Bermu
dez Millar.
Pope John expressed his great
affection for the people of Hon
duras and said (May 21) he prays
for the gift of prosperity for that
Latin American nation.
The new ambassador was bom
in 1919 and received his degree in
medicine and surgery in 1946. In
1951 he was named ambassador to
Guatemala, and later to Great
Britain.
ATLANTA Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan will offer a pontifi
cal Mass at Sacred Heart
Cathedral, Raleigh, Monday,
May 28, at 5:00 p.m. Priests
of the diocese will chant the
Mass. After a dinner honor
ing the new Archbishop of
Raleigh Diocese, he will be
greeted by the laity after an
8:00 p.m. entertainment given
him by Raleigh school chil
dren at Price Auditorium.
Grace & Golden
Among Honorees
At Abbey College
BELMONT—Mr. J. Peter Grace,
the president of the W. R. Grace
Company, the international ship
ping and air lines of New York
will deliver the address to the
graduates at the annual Com
mencement exercises on Tuesday
June 5, at Belmont Abbey Col
lege.
Announcing the completed pro
gram for the 84th graduation con
vocation, the president of the col
lege, the Very Rev. John A. Oet
gen, O.S.B., stated that F a t h e i
James P. King, Vice-Chancellor oi
the Diocese of Brooklyn, New
York, would preach the baccalaur
eate sermon at the morning aca
demic Mass.
Belmont Abbey College will con
fer honorary degrees on five prom
inent local, national and interna
tionally renowned personages al
the evening graduation exercises
and on 74 graduating young mer
and women who will receive theii
bachelor of arts or science degrees
Honorary degrees will be giver
to Mr. Grace, the Commencement
speaker; and conferred on Dr
Jose A. Balseiro, Director of His
panic Studies at the University oJ
See Honorees, page 3A
Catholic School Requests
Zoning Regulation Change
NEWARK, N.J. _(NC)— Supe
rior court judge Theodore La
brecque has reserved decision
here in a major test case challeng
ing the right of a municipality to
regulate the location of a school
through zoning.
The motion before the court is
for a summary judgment against
the town of Montclair in a suit
brought by St. Cassian’s grammar
school.
Two years ago a group of Mont
clair residents lost a somewhat
similar case in which they sought
to block the expansion of Lacor
daire school, a private C^ftholic
school for girls located near St.
Cassian’s in suburban Essex coun
ty.
ST, CASSIAN’S right to in
crease its enrollment despite zon
ing restrictions is the issue which
brought the case to court. The
decision is expected to affect the
outcome of a zoning case being
fought by the archdiocese of New
ark for the right to build a region
al high school on property it has
purchased in Hohokus, an exclu
sive Bergen County community.
In reserving decision, Judge La
brecque directed that additional
briefs be submitted by St. Cas
sian’s and Montclair.
St. Cassian’s had been given a
variance to build its school in an
R-l residential zone in 1951. The
board of adjustment, however,
ruled in granting the variance that
enrollment be limited to 280 pu
pils. Last October the board re
fused St. Cassian’s request to lift
the restriction.
AT THAT TIME, the zoning law
permitted construction of public
schools in the area. That provi
sion was eliminated from the ordi
nance by amendment in February,
apparently putting private and
public schools on the same footing
and eliminating grounds for a pos
sible suit.
The change was made because
in January, in one of his last acts
in office, Former Gov. Robert B.
Meyner signed into law a bill pro
viding that “no zoning ordinance
heretofore or hereafter enacted by
any municipality shall . . . discrim
inate between public and private
day schools not operated for prof
it.”
This law forms the basis for the
suit by St. Cassian’s. The Cath
olic school claims that zoning laws
prohibiting the erection of schools
are discriminatory because in ac
tual practice no municipality may
prevent the erection of a public
school.
THEREFORE, argued Vincent
J. Joyce, attorney for St. Cassian’s,
such laws are designed to prohib
it the erection or expansion of pri
vate schools.
Joyce cited a state law which
See Catholic School, page 7A
Father Denges
Joins Brothers
In Jubilee
KILL DEVIL HILLS — One
hundred and four years of priestly
service to the Lord will be sig
nalized when the three Denges
priest-brothers celebrate their or
dination jubilees this June. On
June 16 Father Peter Martin of
Holy Redeemer Church, Outer
Banks, and Monsignor Joseph F.
of St. Stephen’s in Washington
will jointly celebrate their thirty
fifth anniversary of priestly or
dination. A third brother, Father
Q. Benedict Denges, C.SS.R., Sec
retary of the Redemptorist Gen
eral in Rome, will commemorate
Fr. Peter Denges
his 34th year of ordination. Fa
thers Peter and Joseph were or
dained together by Archbishop
Michael J. Curley in the Baltimore
Cathedral on June 16,1927. Father
Benedict was ordained in 1928 on
June 24.
All three Denges brothers plan
a family and priestly get-together
later on in the summer. Ad mul
tos annos!
Mrs. Kulash and Fred Field
Chosen 1962 Mother & Father
RALEIGH — Two Raleigh Catholics have been named Catho
lic Mother and Father of the year by the Diocesan Parent-Educa
tor Committee. Mrs. Walter Kulash of 20 Bagwell Avenue and
Mr. Frederick T. Field of 313 West Drewry Lane were chosen the
outstanding mother and father by a newly expanded CCD Par
ent-Educator group.
The Catholic Mother honored in
1962 by the parishes of the Diocese
has six children. Two, John and
Francis, in grade school at her
Mary Kulash
parish school, Sacred Heart, two in
Cathedral High, Damien and Jo
seph, and Walter, Jr., a sophomore
at State College. Her eldest daugh
ter is now Sister M. Stephanie of
the Newburgh Dominican Sisters.
Her late husband, Professor Walter
Kulash of State College, died in
1960. He was a president of the
N. C. Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion and was of constant service to
>the Church and to Bishop Vincent
S. Waters in church and commu
nity affairs.
Mrs. Mary Kulash has earned the
respect and admiration of count
less people in her local community
and throughout the State. As State
President, and as local parish work
er, she has served faithfully and
ably in the Legion of Mary. Mrs.
Kulash is a past grand regent of
the Catholic Daughters in North
Carolina. Frequently she has pre
sided and spoken at CCD rallies
and conventions, and has taken
deep and sustained interest in
youth education work.
Mrs. Kulash was selected for
honor because she has consistently
typified the truly devoted Chris
tian homemaker and mother. Fam
ily rosary is part of the deep re
ligious environment she has helped
create in the family home.
Mrs. Kulash was born in Law
rence, Massachusetts. She and Mr.
Walter Kulash, whom she married
See Mother and, page 7A
ggM ..m ■
Fred T. Field