Georgia
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Retired St. Thomas More Principal, Gail Msezane, Dies
Published May 26, 2011
Gail Patrick Msezane, retired principal of St. Thomas More School, Decatur, died May 1 at home in the presence of her family. She was 66. Mrs. Msezane was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and pursued a career as an educator, first as a teacher and progressing to her […]
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Joan Tiernan, Former OLA Principal, Dies
Published May 26, 2011
Joan M. Tiernan, Ph.D., of Atlanta, died May 15 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 60. A loving wife, mother, teacher and excellent role model, Mrs. Tiernan taught seventh- and eighth-grade math, joining the staff at Our Lady of the Assumption School as a math teacher in 1979. She became principal at the […]
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Living Room Founder To Attend HIV/AIDS Service
Published May 26, 2011
Father Juan Anzora, parochial vicar at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Atlanta, will be a featured speaker at an HIV/AIDS memorial service, and Dominican Sister Mary Jane Lubinski, founder of one of the city’s largest HIV/AIDS nonprofits, is expected to attend. The service will be held Saturday, June 4, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 265 […]
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BT Captures Second State Championship
Published May 26, 2011
Blessed Trinity High School will have to make room in its display case for a second Class AA state championship trophy this year. The girls soccer team joins the girls tennis team in the ring of champions. The Lady Titans captured their fifth state title in eight years, a pretty remarkable feat for a school […]
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Catholic Schools Represented At State Track Meets
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published May 26, 2011The 2011 Georgia High School Association (GHSA) boys state track and field meet took place in Jefferson May 5-7 and the girls meet took place in Albany May 12-14. In Class A competition Fayetteville’s Our Lady of Mercy High School boys finished fourth overall. In the 100-meter dash Mercy’s Pierce Vincent finished third with a […]
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Seniors Look Ahead To Collegiate Sports
Published May 26, 2011
Below is a list of graduating high school seniors in the Atlanta area who will be playing sports at collegiate institutions both locally and around the country. This list does not include the athletes announced in the Feb. 17 issue of The Georgia Bulletin, which included those athletes who committed on or prior to National […]
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CCHD Awards Local Parish, Community Grants
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the Catholic Church’s domestic anti-poverty program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, recently awarded grants to seven local ministries and programs in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Two types of CCHD grants were given to various ministries in North Georgia, including local parish grants and local community […]
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At Meeting, Clergy Given Guidance On Law’s Impact
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Priests and deacons attending a meeting May 19 on Georgia’s new Illegal Immigration Reform and Enactment Act were encouraged to continue their pastoral work undeterred. The clergy were advised not to overly anticipate how the new law will impact their ministries, in part because it may be challenged in court, in part because as a […]
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New Immigration Law ‘Dividing Us,’ Bishop Zarama Says
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011 into law May 13. Legal challenges to the new law are expected and might delay implementation, but it is scheduled otherwise to take effect July 1. The Catholic bishops of Georgia were among those who opposed its passage. Archbishop Wilton D. […]
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Adversity Challenged Athlete, Who Became A Role Model
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Matt Farkas was a three-sport athlete heading toward his junior year football season opener for Pinecrest Academy. Doctors uncovered at a routine school physical something that wasn’t quite right with his heart and told him to sit out the first game. Quickly, it became sit out all practices and all games. From summer to December […]
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OLM Sprinter Intrigued By Fiber Engineering
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011As Our Lady of Mercy High School senior Pierce Vincent walks the halls in the last few days at his soon-to-be alma mater, he reflects on his path so far and begins to prepare for the journey that lies ahead. “It’s like the four longest years of my life have gone by in the blink […]
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Dancing BT Senior Hopes To Become Medical Doctor
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011What do dance and climbing the 200-foot face of a mountain have to do with one another? For Blessed Trinity High School senior Katie Womick, it’s all about focus. “I loved it. Like dancing, it took all the stress off,” she said, recalling her mountaineering experience in Switzerland. “You cannot let your thoughts stray.” Drawn […]
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St. Pius Graduate Will Join Air Force First
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011This fall when many St. Pius X High School graduates will be deciding which classes will fill their schedule in the first semester of college, senior Noelle Richards will be beginning a different kind of education. She will be active in the U.S. Air Force, studying mechanics, since she feels it would be a great […]
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Eagle Scout Distinguished By His Care For Others
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Charles “Thad” Holden’s senior year started with a family tragedy. His father was stricken suddenly on a business trip while Thad hiked with the Boy Scouts in New Mexico. Rushed from the desert to Las Vegas, he and his mother were by his father’s bedside for days until he passed away. “Everything he taught me, […]
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A Year Serving The Poor Is Marist Senior’s Next Step
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Jason Ebinger first soaked the feet of the homeless man in warm water and then trimmed his toenails, removed dead skin, checked for sores, and other signs of ill health. It’s while serving at the foot clinic at the Open Door Community that he came to his idea of giving a year of service following […]
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Mother’s Deployment Tested Monsignor Donovan Senior
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published May 26, 2011Lannon Gustafson felt she had something to prove during her high school years. Her mother, Jenifer, serves in the U.S. Army Reserves and was deployed to Afghanistan for six months in 2010. Lannon knew she could hold her own and wanted to prove to herself she could make it through. “It was obviously very hard […]
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Marist Advances To Round Two Of Baseball Playoffs
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published May 12, 2011Marist School, the defending state champions of Class AAAA baseball, swept Madison County High School, Danielsville, in the first two games of their best-of-three series, May 6. Marist won the first two games 10-0 and 4-0, respectively, on their home diamond of Jerry Queen Field. In the first game, Marist pitcher, senior Blake Stevens, had 10 […]
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St. Pius Falls To Allatoona In Baseball Playoffs
Published May 12, 2011
In the first round of the Class AAA state baseball playoffs, St. Pius X High School defeated Allatoona High School, Acworth, 3-1 in game one of its best-of-three series, May 6. Pius held a one-run lead in the beginning of the fifth inning, but Allatoona tied the game on an RBI single by left fielder […]
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Starr’s Mill Eliminates Marist At Home
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published May 12, 2011Marist School entered its May 6 state girls soccer playoff game against Starr’s Mill with a perfect region record of 11-0 and an overall record of 18-2. Their only two losses were on the road, and they were undefeated at home. With an overall record of 13-6-1, Starr’s Mill was not intimidated. They controlled most […]
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Priest Assignments
Published May 12, 2011
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has made the following changes in priest assignments. At the recommendation of Father John Won-sik Sin, provincial superior of the Society of Jesus Korea Province, Archbishop Gregory has assigned Father Isidorus Jeong-ho An, SJ, as pastor of Korean Martyrs Church, Doraville, through May 19. Following the arrival of the new pastor, […]
