Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1972 Page: 1 of 6
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TWO DIOCESAN PRIESTS TO RETIRE
CORPUS CHRISTI-The Most Reverend
S Thomas J. Drury, Bishop of Corpus Christi,
]has accepted the resignation of the Revs.
Anthony Goegele and Peter Kolvenbach. The
[priests will retire from their present
{assignments on June 1 and July 1,
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FATHER KOLVENBACH
The Rev. Peter Joseph Kolvenbach has
£been the Pastor of Immaculate Conception
Father Peter, as he has been called all
these years, was born on February 22,1900, in
Gross-Buellesheim, Germany. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Joseph Kolvenbach,
both deceased.
Father Kolvenbach was ordained a priest
for the Holy Family Fathers on July 31, 1927,
in Trier, Germany.
Tt was to the Most Reverend E.B. Ledvina,
who at the time was the Bishop of Corpus
Christi, that Father Kolvenbach expressed
the desire to remain in the Diocese and labor
as a diocesan priest.
Through the efforts of Bishop Ledvina, on
April 28, 1947, Father Kolvenbach was
released from his vows as a member of the
Congregation of the Holy Family and was
accepted immediately into the Diocese of
Corpus Christi.
Father Peter received his elementary
education at Koeln Lindenthal, Germany (a
Catholic state school). His secondary
education was received at Holy Family
Schools in Grave, Holland; Oberhundem,
Germany. His college work was completed at
the Holy Family Seminary, Ravengiersburg,
Germany.
ASSIGNMENTS
Father Peter Kolvenbach, who speaks
German and Spanish, also served as an
Beeville; Sacred Heart, Corpus Christi; and
St. Anthony’s, Robstown.
As Pastor of Immaculate Conception in
Goliad, Father Peter lived a very busy life.
For most of these years, Father’s day
began with Mass at 6:30 A.M.
After a cup of coffee to start him off, he
would climb into the parish school bus and
make a fifty-mile trip picking up children for
the parish school. The parish was too poor to
pay for a regular driver.
He was only able to eat breakfast after the
children were in their classrooms. Every day
at 11:15, Father Kolvenbach would go over to
the school to assume the role of teacher of
religion.
Thle afternoons were spent teaching
catechism to those who attended the public
school and making the bus trip returning
those who lived in the country.
Besides parish duties in Goliad, he also
had charge of two mission churches.
Upon his retirement, Father Kolvenbach
plans to return to his native Germany.
FATHER GOEGELE
The Rev. Anthony John Goegele was born
on May 27, 1907, in St. Leonhard in Passeier,
South-Tyrol. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
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Father Goegele was ordained a priest on
April 11, 1936, at the Cathedral in Lugano,
Switzerland. He was ordained for the Order of
the Salesians of St. John Bosco.
Father Goegele was born an Austrian
"itizen, but became an Italian citizen in 1918
after his native land of South-Tryol was!
Stales in 1948; he has since become an»
American citizen.
After ordination he taught in various'^
Salesian schools, except during the years of *$
1941-46 when he served as chaplain to the^jj
Anglo-American prisoners of war. g
He first was chaplain in Italy until he was:!jjj
forced to flee to Switzerland when theijj
Germans imposed themselves on the people
of Italy.
After arriving in Switzerland, the Papal;;*:
Nuncio made him chaplain of the English-ij;:
speaking prisoners interned in Switzerland.;^
Father Goegele was forced to seefca bishop g
who would accept him in his diocese as in the k
person of Bishop E.B. Ledvina, and leave the iji
Salesian Order, since he was given thef“
financial responsibility of caring for an ;
invalid sister.
He was incardinated (accepted as a
permanent priest) in the Diocese of Corpusj
Christi on June 7, 1951, by the late Bishop j
Mariano S. Garriga.
Father Goegele who speaks English,
German, Italian, Spanish, and French, has
been in the Diocese of Corpus Christi for the
past twenty-five years; he has served the g
people of Corpus Christi Cathedral, George
West, Mother Cabrini in Laredo, and Our
Lady of Consolation in Vattman.
Upon his retirement, Father Goegele will
urch in Goliad since January, 1950. Assistant Pastor at Our Lady of Victory, Joseph Goegele, both deceased. annexed by Italy. He came to the Unit make his home in Italy. |
Sister Mary Eustace
Transferred
CORPUS CHRISTI-Effective June 1, 1972,
Sister Mary Eustace, Administrator of Spohn
Hospital, will assume the duties of
Administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Fort
Worth, Texas.
Sister has been at Spohn since 1962. Her
tenure at Spohn has been termed “A Decade
of Progress.”
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SISTER MARY EUSTACE
During this span the community residents
haveseen Spohn grow from a 300 bed hospital
to a medical complex. Many expansions,
renovations, and unique programs have been
completed at Spohn to meet the medical
needs of the community it serves.
DECADE OF PROGRESS
The past "Decade of progress” has brought
the following new medical facilities to the
Coastal Bend.
1. $410,000 Rachael Vaughan Radiation
Therapy Center.
2. Modern facilities for medical records,
personnel accounting, payroll, PBX, and
administration.
3. A 145 bed $5,000,000 addition.
4. Modernization of patient areas on second
and third floors of the main building.
5. A completely new, 5,000 square foot
Rehabilitation Center.
6. Modernization and expansion of the
operating room suites.
7. A redesigned Pharmacy for better
efficiency and service to all patients.
8. Computerization of hospital operations.
9. New student laboratory for the School of
Medical Technology.
10. New 7-bed Coronary Care Center.
11. Expansion of X-Ray diagnostic
facilities.
12. Up-to-date and' expanded Njuclear
Medicine department.
13. Creation and continued improvement of
a Respiratory Therapy Department.
14. Installation of an area wide emergency
medical communication system.
15. Completely automated vertical
transportation systems for nutrition, laundry,
medical, and pharmacuetical supplies.
PROGRESSIVE
Sister Mary Eustace has been a progressive
administrator constantly alert to the health
care needs in the community. She has
endorsed a program of continued education to
provide knowledgeable personnel to
administer the best possible care to the
residents of this area.
NEW ADMINISTRATOR
Sister Bernard Marie Borgmeyer, who will
assume the duties of Administrator of
Spohn, was born in Taos, Missouri.
Sister entered the Order of the Sisters of
Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio
in 1936 and graduated from St. Anthony’s
School of Nursing in 1943.
EXPERIENCED
From 1943 to 1945 Sister worked in the
Obstetrics and Medical-Surgical services as
Staff and Head nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital,
McAlester. Oklahoma.
She returned to Incarnate Word College and
received her Bacheloi of Science Degree in
Nursing Education in 1947. Following
graduation Sister was appointed Director of
the School of Nursing at St. Anthony’s
Hospital, a position she hdd until 1954.
Between 1955 and 1961 Sister Bernard Marie
served as Director of Nursing Service at
Incarnate Word Hospital in St. Louis and at
St. Anthony’s Hospital, before entering St.
Louis University where she obtained her
Master’s Degree in Hospital Administration
and completed her residency in hospital
administration at St. Raphael’s Hospital,
New Haven Connecticut. Upon completion of
her course, she was appointed administrator
of Tncamate Word Hospital.
Since 1967 Sister has been serving as
Associate Administrator in Paris, Texas. She
was a member of the Board of Trustees at St.
Anthony’s Hospital, Amarillo and St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Paris and the Texas Conference of
Catholic Health Facilities.
She is a member of the American College of
Hospital Administrators and has served on
many civic and health field committees.
Bishop Flores Receives Honorary OLL Degree
An honorary doctor of laws
degree from Our Lady of the
Lake College was conferred
yesterday upon the Most Rev.
Patrick F. Flores, Auxiliary to
the Archbishop of San
Antonio. The degree was
presented by OLL President
John L. McMahon at the
school’s seventy-fifth annual
Commencement Exercises.
SPECIAL CITATION
A special citation to Bishop
Flores read, "Humanist and
humanitarian, pastor, friend,
and defender of the poor and
oppressed, symbol of help and
hope to a whole people, Bishop
Patrick Fernandez Flores
truly lives the motto he took at
his episcopal consecration: "I
shall work not for myself but
for all.”
The document further cited
Bishop Flores for his “...ideal
of service to others-the same
ideal which Our Lady of the
Lake College has historically
embodied in its educational
program.”
Bishop Flores was ordained
Auxiliary to the Archbishop of
San Antonio on May 5, 1970,
after serving in parishes in the
Galveston-Houston Diocese.
He helped found and is now
national chairman of
PADRES, a socially-conscious
organization of Spanish-
speaking priests.
LEADERSHIP
The leadership of Bishop
Flores has been felt in the
Archdiocesan Commission for
Mexican-American Affairs, in
the National Committee of the
American Bishops’ Campaign
for Human Development, in
the national Christian Family
Movement, in the Ecumenical
Center for Mental Health and
Religion at the University of
Texas Medical School, in the
San Antonio Committee for
the 1976 Bicentennial
Celebration, and in the Texas
Advisory Board to the United
States Commission on Civil
Rights.
texas gulf coast
CATHOLIC
Official Newspaper of the Diocese of Corpus Christi
Vol VIII No. 4
Friday, May 26, 1972
KofC Continue Fight Against
Abortion, Drug Abuse
FORT WORTH -(Special)-In addition to
renewing their fight against abortion and
drug abuse and voting to again request state
aid for non-public schools, the 68th annual
Knights of Columbus State Convention here:
• Remit Jed delegates representing 34,500
Texas Knights to know how state office
candidates stand on such issues before
voting;
- Decided unanimously to continue their
statewide assistance to deaf Catholics;
- Urged building councils with young men,
as well as retaining the experienced to close
any “generation gaps”;
- Requested the Knights to establish more
Columbian Squire Circles to yield "ready-
made” adult members;
- Raised their own per capita tax for the
first time since 1959 in order to fund all '
programs as well as expand their charitable
activities.
Furthermore, the convention, for the first
time, honored an outstanding educator and an
outstanding law enforcement officer for
meritorious service "far beyond the call of
duty.”
HONOREES
They were Gerald Lee Davis, a Methodist
who teaches retarded children in Pasadena,
and Sheriff Boynton L. Fleming of
Brownsville, a 32nd degree Mason and Knight
Templar who has served as Cameron County
sheriff 25 years.
Report Of Pius XI Death
Came From Tisserant Diaries
ROME (RNS) - Lawyers for Msgr.
Georges Roche, a close friend of the late
Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, have issued a
statement denying that the source of an
allegation that Italian dictator Benito
Mussolini had contrived the killing of Pope
Pius XI was the cardinal’s diaries.
ABSURD
Earlier, the Vatican branded the Paris
Match report as "absolutely absurd,” and
totally “without foundation.”
The French journal identified the physician
who allegedly gave the ailing pontiff the
lethal injection as Dr. Francesco Petacci, the
father of Mussolini’s mistress, Clara, who
was later shot with the dictator near the close
of World War II.
Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, who was
secretary to Pope Pius XI at the time of the
pontiff’s death on Feb. 10,1939, has said that
Dr. Petacci never entered the papal sick
chamber, and had never been consulted about
what treatment to give the Pope, who was
suffering from arteriosclerosis, with cardiac
complications.
At a banquet of 800 delegates and their
wives, the Knights honored councils and
individuals for outstanding work the past
year.
On a basis of charitable endeavors,
community involvement, assisting and
sponsoring youth programs and other
meritorious efforts, Fort Worth Council 759
with James Ashe as Grand Knight was the top
award winner among Texas’ largest councils,
while Fort Worth Council 2813, led by David
C. Kristynik, won top honors in the second-
largest councils’ bracket, that comprising
those with 130 to 205 members.
Bridge City Council 3406, in the
membership grouping of 75 to 130, won the
highest award in its category, while
Beaumont Council 5035 took top honors in the
under-75 member bracket.
Winners in a membership campaign
dedicated to the late M.J. Babin, Jr., of
Hitchcock, an outstanding leader of the Texas
Knights, were Councils 3491 of Groves in the
big council bracket, Council 4140 of San
Antonio in the 130 to 205 members category;
Council 5982 of San Antonio in the third-
largest grouping, and Council 6280 of Corpus
Christi in the small council bracket.
Outstanding individuate who, as district
deputies, represented Lino Perez, Jr., of Rio
Grande City, the head of the Knights of
Columbus in Texas, were named as Baldwin
F. Stanton of Fort Worth, Stanley A, Kobojek
of Pasadena, Marvin L. Massey of Seguin,
Thomas A. Chapa of San Antonio and Floyd A.
Tafelski of Houston.
Alfred J. Hoedebeck of Irving received a
special award for fund-raising for the State
Council’s Program for Deaf Catholics.
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Principal speaker at the banquet, which
was followed by a ball, was Virgil C. Dechant
of New Haven, Mass., Supreme Secretary of
the international organization.
The convention formally opened with a
concelebrated Mass at which Archbishop
Francis J. Furey of San Antonio presided and
in which Bishops Stephen A. Leven of San
Angelo, John L. Morkevsky of Houston, John
J. Cassata of Fort Worth, Thomas Tschoepe
of Dallas, Thomas J. Drury of Corpus Christi
and Warren L. Boudreaux of Beaumont
participated.
From the Bishop's Desk
Our schools are winding up their activities
this week and are preparing to begin the usual
summer vacation which will last until the end
of August. Without doubt, the students are
delighted to be freed of the daily routine of
reporting for class. Older students will be
able to iind a program of work that will keep
them busy and at the same time provide them
with funds to take care of their personal
needs. Younger children will need the extra
supervision of parents as they engage in one
sort or other of recreational activities.
For many of our teachers, summer means
dashing off to school for an accelerated
summer course to help them in updating the
ever-changing methods of teaching which is
the order of the day in our classrooms.
Brothers and Sisters will also use this time for
their annual spiritual exercises commonly
known as retreats. For them, a vacation, if
any, will be short.
We owe a lot to those who are responsible
for the operation of our schools. In our own
Diocese, Brother John McNamara and Sister
Camelia Herlihy, I.W.B.S., who run the
department of secular education in our
Diocesan School Office, give of their time and
efforts in assisting school principals
throughout the year.
In the department of catechetics, Father
John J. McHugh and Sister Nancy Johnson,
I.W.B.S., move from parish to parish to make
sure that proper training is being given to
those who are the teachers in the
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Miss
Genevieve Reinhardt is their co-worker in the
Laredo area.
It is amazing how much work is being
accomplished by all these wonderfully
dedicated people and how much energy and
travel is required in order to cover our
Diocese that is spread out ova* sixteen
thousand square miles.
We ask God’s special blessings on our
students, on their teachers, and on thosewho
serve in a supervisory capacity. I trust that
they may all enjoy the few weeks that
vacation time provides and that they will be
ready and anxious to return to the classrooms
when the end of August rolls around.
Clergy Appointments
The Most Reverend Thomas J. Drury,
Bishop of Corpus Christi, has made the
following clergy appointment:
Reverend Peter McNamara. Assistant
Pastor, Christ the King Parish, Laredo,
effective May 22, 1972.
By order erf the Most Reverend Bishop.
Rev. Msgr. William T. Thompson
Chancellor
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