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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.

The June 4 issue of The Catholic

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