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May 28,
1993
Duties
CSS
Office
CAROL HAZARD
By
Associate Editor
WINSTON-SALEM
—
David
Harold is the new director for the Winston-Salem office of Catholic Social Services. The office serves the Greensboro and Winston-Salem vicariates. Harold, a former team leader and social worker for Forsyth-Stokes Mental Health Authority, succeeds Rose-
mary Martin, who left CSS eight months ago. Connie McVey, a CSS program director, served as interim director.
Trinitarian Sister Frances Sheridan,
CSS diocesan director, said the position was harder to fill than expected. "We wanted a
good person for good work
really
office to continue the
that that
was being done," she said. The search committee was looking for a Catholic person with a high level of
ed Bishop Michael :nts
Begley reads the book, What's Claude Doing? to first grade at All Saints Catholic School in Charlotte during National Reading is Fundamental J.
Guest "readers" entertained children
;.
all
week with
selected readings.
Photo by
JOANN KEANE
exican Cardinal, Others Die
Gun
ross-Fire Of Airport MEXICO CITY (CNS)
— Mexi-
^ardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo [killed
May 24 in
•tout at
the cross-fire of a
the Guadalajara airport that
rch sources say
may have been
In
Battle
education, experience in
management
and enthusiasm for the mission and vision of CSS, said Sister Frances. That mission, she said, is "to respond to the hungers of the human heart." The committee was made up of Sister Frances, Ron McLoughlin, president of the Winston-Salem board, and board members Mary Brown and Lee Accetullo.
bishop Girolamo Prigione,
who was
from Mexico City. An employee at the apostolic delegation in Mexico City confirmed to CNS that Archbishop Prigione was en
flying in
"We
feel
we
hit
upon the
son," said Sister Frances.
right per-
"We feel
for-
tunate."
Harold said he accepted the posiwas interested in work-
DAVID HAROLD ence in physics. divinity
He earned
a masters in
from Yale Divinity School
in
1970.
He began working for the
Forsyth-
Stokes Mental Health Authority in 1 975 first as a social worker for various pro-
grams and then as a rehabilitation services team leader. As a team leader, he was responsible for program development, supervision, fiscal monitoring and
tion because he
planning.
The
ing for a small, efficient non-profit
asked not to be named, said the Mexican government's Interior
agency. What' s more, he wanted to work
and vice president of the
Secretariat later telephoned the delega-
of working closer to the Church
ican bishops' conference died of as
tion to assure the staff that the shootout
pealing to me," he said.
From 1971 to 1972, he worked as a community mental health specialist for Hamden Mental Health Services, Hamden, Conn. From 1970 to 1971, he was a group therapist for the Connecti-
d to the recent upsurge of druged violence in Mexico. The 66-year-old archbishop of dalajara
y as 14 gunshot
wounds to the chest
throat while being driven
parking
lirport
;un battle
lot,
through where much of
took place.
Mso killed was the cardinal' s driver, tified as
33-year-old Pedro Perez
landez by archdiocesan er
spokesman
Adalberto Gonzalez. According
route to Guadalajara at the time.
employee,
was not connected
bystanders were also killed, in-
ing
an unidentified
woman and her
nitial
reports said the shootout
around 3 p.m. between
ted
In Mexico City,
government sources
maintained virtual silence while Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari flew to Guadalajara on the evening of the shooting to pay his respects to the slain cardinal at the city's cathedral.
In a brief statement at the city's airport, Salinas called the
murder a "rep-
rehensible act" and said that "the
life
of
man was
taken in a criminal act."
"This act cannot be accepted, there
rival
no
merits
;s
inside the terminal at the interna-
is
il
departures counter.
our widest condemnation," Salinas said.
ihe
It
spilled out
.
assault
were found in vehicles believed to
gang members. Cardinal Posadas was the
ig to
third car-
ta die violently in this century, inal ;o,
Emile Biayende of Brazzaville,
was
and Cardinal Juan Soldevilla of was murdered by an-
ugoza, Spain, |
sis in
nitial
1923.
accounts from official sources
}
Cathoews Service that the cardinal and fiver were killed as they came to the |)rt to await the arrival of the Mk's delegate to Mexico, Arch-
it
(and)
it
the day.
Martin Rabago of Guadalajara told Mexican television that Cardinal Posadas had returned to Guadalajara from Mexico City earlier in the day.
On
ap-
new position, Harold, 48, will CSS
services
— counseling, adoption,
preg-
—
the afternoon of the shooting,
President Salinas sent a brief message to
Pope John Paul
II
expressing "deep
sorrow" and offering the condolences of Mexican people and government on
the
the cardinal's death. Salinas said in his
cut Mental Health Center,
New Haven,
Conn., in outpatient and day programs for adolescent and adult clients with
dependencies on
street drugs.
In addition to his fulltime work,
Harold was a
clinical consultant for a
from 1982 to 1989, and programming trainer from 1987 to 1992. Moreover, he has conducted numerous training sessions private practice
a neurolinguistic
troubled teens.
in psychotherapy, crisis intervention,
Harold said he hopes to establish close links to the parishes. "We need to know what they need and we need their support in terms of volunteers and coordination," Harold said.
personality disorders and case
Harold, a state certified clinical social
worker, graduated from
versity in
Duke Uni-
1966 with a bachelor of
manage-
He is also an instructor in Tai Chi
ment.
Chuan.
He and his wife, Madeline, have two children, Jacob, 15, and Rachel, 1 1 The Harolds are parishioners at Our Lady of Mercy Church.
sci-
Summer Schedule letter to the
pope
that the country
was
indignant over the killing and consid-
Auxiliary Bishop Jose Guadalupe
Mexican press reports were contrary , but Father Gonzalez told
justification for
panied on the flight by Archbishop Adolfo Suarez Rivera of Monterrey, president of the bishops' conference, who had been in the Mexican capital for a meeting with other bishops earlier in
slain in tribal violence in
is
nancy support and basic needs intervention as well as programs unique to the Winston-Salem office. These programs include the Hand To Hand Program, a volunteer mentor program for pregnant teens, and Host Homes, a crisis house and counseling service for
The Mexican president was accom-
parking lot with police in pur-
Hand grenades and AK-47
In his
"The idea
oversee a staff of 1 2 and direct core
a good, a clean and a generous
g son.
for a spiritually based agency.
to the delegate's trip
to Guadalajara.
exican television news reports, five r
who
ered the violent circumstances under
which he died "a grave affront" to all Mexicans. Jalisco state Gov. Carlos Aceves said during a press conference that state law enforcement authorities were "carrying out an in-depth investigation in coordination with the federal attorney general's office."
He said police report-
edly have two suspects in custody.
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