News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. February 8, 1966 [40-12]
NEW UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR PANAMA
The first Episcopal university center in Latin America was dedicated recently at Panama University by the Rt. Rev. R. Heber Gooden of Panama and the Canal Zone.
Located across from the campus, the $55, 000 center includes a chapel, a large meeting room, study rooms, library, kitchen and provision for entertaining, and living space for four student aides. The Rev. Anselmo Carral is the Episcopal chaplain at the university.
Cost of the center was met by donations of $37, 000 from the Diocese of North Carolina, Panama's Companion Diocese, and a grant from the United Thank Offering.
Panama University has been in the news for the past few years because of reported domination of its student body by Communists. As a result the Roman Catholic Church in Panama started its own university last year to afford students a chance to pursue their studies away from such domination.
NEW MODERATOR FOR THE CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA
At the biennial meeting of the Synod of the Church of South India Jan. 18 the Most Rev. P. Solomon, Bishop in Dornakal, was elected Moderator. He will succeed the Most Rev. A. H. Legg, Bishop in South Kerala. Bishop Solomon will thus assume a high post in the Church which was so strongly influenced in its younger years by one of his predecessors, Bishop Azariyah, former Bishop in Dornakal. Bishop Legg will be leaving India on his retirement in March.