» DIOCESAN NEWS BRIEFS Sacred Heart Plans Benefit Card Party And Fashion Show The annual Benefit for the Scholarship fund will be held this year at Sacred Heart College on February 22. In its Tenth Succes sive year, the party promises to be the best ever. Patrons are asked to bring their cards but every thing else is furnished. Refresh I r.ftnts will be served. Among I prizes is a $50 gift certificate for Ivey’s of Gastonia. Ivey’s is putting on the fashion show and Mrs. Tom Brown is chairman of the party. For reservations call Mrs. Brown at Mt. Holly 827-3023. Any alumna can also take reservations and for ward them to the college office. 4 Tarheels Named To Honor Society Four Catholic boys from North Carolina have been elected to the Gamma Iota Chapter of Delta Ep silon Sigma national honor frater nity at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, N.C. They are Patrick R. Marotta and David Van Zile of Belmont, Paul E. Bruchon, Jr. of Gastonia, and Terrell C. Estes of Winston-Salem. Election of Delta Epsilon Sig ma is the recognition of outstand ing academic performance during the college career. It requires the student to be in the upper 10 per cent of the class and have a scho lastic average of B or better over & three-year period, which is a point ratio average of 2.25. Mem bership in the national honor so ciety is the highest scholastic award to be gained by students at the Abbey. Religious Emphasis Week is Observed At Wake Forest Fr. Richard Butler, O.P., Pro vincial Director of the Newman Apostolate for the Dominican Or der, was a guest speaker during Religious Emphasis Week at Wake Forest College. He joined a Bap tist minister, a Jewish rabbi, a Hindu professor and a Buddhist scholar in a four-day discussion program entitled “Religious Reali ty in Revolutionary Times.” Father Butler, presently as signed to his order’s Provincial House in Chicago, is the past Na tional Chaplain of the Newman Apostolate in the U.S. He is the author of four books, including God on the Secular Campus. Next fall his new book which treats twelve current themes of concern will be published by Doubleday. He holds graduate degrees in both theology and philosophy. Father Butler keeps a busy schedule of lectures and panel par ticipations on secular college cam puses throughout the country. Within the next few weeks he will speak at Texas Western College, the University of Arizona, and Nicholls State College in Louisi ana. He expressed his delight with his visit to Winston-Salem and the program at Wake Forest. “With such a diversified ecumenical pan el,” he said, “there was much for all of us to learn. We received more than we gave.” During his stay in Winston-Sa lem, Father Butler was the guest of the Most Rev. Charles B. Mc Laughlin at St. Leo’s Church. Catholic Daughters Make Annual Retreat Attending the Catholic Daughter Retreat at Maryhurst Retreat House in Pinehurst February 4-6 were Miss Elizabeth, state secre tary, Miss Mary Sheehan, Miss Anne Sheehan and Miss Nell Shee han of Court Wilmington, Wil mington; Mrs. Orah Mills Russell and Miss Mary A. Nash of Court Sacred Heart, Salisbury; Mrs. Doro thy Brock of Court Christ the King, Rocky Mount; Mrs. Paul Mc Sorley and Miss Virginia McSorley of Court Msgr. Michael A. Irwin, New Bern. Due to illness many reservations had to be cancelled. Msgr. James McSweeney, chan cellor of the diocese of Raleigh, was the retreat master. WILSON BROTHERS LUMBER COMPANY "All Types of Lumber and Building Materials from Tree to Key” Contractors—Builders Phone 969-2215 Rural Hall, N. C. r Danforth Lecture LA. LAWYER TO VISIT SACRED HEART Dr. Jose Maria Chaves, a distinguished international lawyer, diplomat, educator and authority on Cervantes, will be on the campus of Sacred Heart College on February 24th as a Danforth Visiting Lecturer. A native of Columbia, Dr. Chaves attended the Institute de la Salle, and the Superior Nor mal School in Bogota, where he pursued stud ies in anthropology. He holds the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Bogota, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University in New York. In this country Dr. Chaves has represented Colombia as a diplomat in Washington and at the United Nations. He negotiated several in ternational treaties with the United States, promoted closer relations in atomic energy, capital investments, cultural exchanges and agricultural surpluses. as AIN EUULATOK he helped establish the first public high school in Bogota in 1941, and the first private university in Colombia — the University of the Andes — in 1948, be coming its first dean of the faculty. Since 1948 Dr. Chaves has been president of the Institute Israel-Iberoamerica in New York. He was cited by the National Conference of Christians and Jews for his successful in tervention on behalf of Protestants in Latin America in 1953. Between 1955 and 1958 Dr. Chaves was director general of the National University Fund in Bogota. He planned and conducted university reform programs and promoted higher standards of research and teaching, as well as faculty exchanges in all twenty-five Colombian universities. During the same per iod he served as professor of International Law at the University of Colombia. DR. CHAVES is a great friend and cham pion of the United States in Latin America and has sponsored the formation of a United States of Latin America for commerce, inte gration and development of the region. Among the honors that have come to Dr. Chaves for his many activities are a Doctor of Science degree, honoris cause, from the Uni versity of Antioquia; membership in Phi Delta Kappa, the national educational honor society; Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Universidad Popayan; the Medaglia Universitatis in Rome; Italian Foods Villa Capri Restaurant 3625 Hillsboro RALEIGH M. C. Dial TE 4-2086 Reservations Cox Roofing Company 907 South Broad St. Winston-Salem, North Carolina Patronize Our Advertisers -- RUGEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY Church Furniture Andrew Johnson Hwy. Phone 586-2530 Morristown, Tennessee Dr. Jose Maria Chaves Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France; the Medalla de los Andes, and the Or den de Alfonso X El Sabio. Here at Sacred Heart College on Feb. 24th at 8:15 p.m. Dr. Chaves will give a public lec ture on “Latin America, the New Frontier.” This talk is a comprehensive survey of Latin America with particular emphasis on the close relationship with the United States and the need for continental solidarity. At a student convocation he will speak on Feb. 24th at 12:50 p.m. on “The Cultures and Civilizations of Lat in America,” giving an interpretation of intel lectual, artistic and scientific accomplishments of the Latin American peoples and a compre hensive analysis of their way of life. In two informal or class meetings on Feb. 25th he will discuss “Patterns of Political and Social Progress in Latin America,” “The Great Literary Figures of the Latin American Epic” and “The Alliance for Progress and the Future of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere,” “Cervantes and Don Quijote de la Mancha, his great masterpiece.” Pepsi-Colaj if) HR “tcj&e, cuu canton,! I FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, INC. of Raleigh, North Carolina RALEIGH—SANFORD—HENDERSON THE CLINTON SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 217 Lisbon St. Qlinton, N. C.

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