News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. November 8, 1965 [XXXVII-8]
BISHOP GONZALEZ IN UNITED STATES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT
The Rt. Rev. Romualdo Gonzalez Agueros, Missionary Bishop of Cuba since 1961, has arrived in the United States for treatment of a serious illness.
From Oschner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, the Bishop has expressed his deep gratitude to the Cuban Civil authorities for expediting his departure and to the British Embassy in Havana for placing him on a flight to Nassau en route to this country.
Bishop Gonzalez, born in Spain, received his education at the DuBose School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Divinity School and has served the church in Cuba since 1933. He was consecrated, along with Bishop Brown of Liberia in a rare double consecration in Washington Cathedral, conducted by then Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger Oct. 19, 1961.
In due time Bishop Gonzalez looks forward to returning to his diocese.
NEW PROGRAM FOR WORK AMONG DEAF
The Executive Council's Home Department has announced a new program to assist dioceses and parishes in planning for, and improving, their work among the Deaf.
Captain Howard Galley, M.A., of the Church Army, has been named "Training Consultant for Deaf Work" and will have the responsibility of aiding those dioceses and parishes which invite him. He will, in his efforts to help in the improvement and expansion of work among the Deaf, demonstrate the new Training Films and Manual produced by the Executive Council for teaching the Language of Signs, and will seek to find out the needs of those working in this area.
One of Captain Galley's hopes is that this new program will increase the number of laity and clergy willing to prepare themselves for volunteer, part-time work among the Deaf as church school teachers, interpreters of services, and layreaders, to supplement the work already being done by the full time workers of the Conference of Church Workers Among the Deaf.