Mother Teresa brings call for service, peace to D.C.

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• Publication Date: June 6, 1988
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ks with the Bev. Bernard J:Vaeley during the ceremony.
eyesa rings Cal
ervice Peace to D.C.
RtheE, presa, te oe eace
winner w.,12o, heads the 'w.9E1 -
1i1SsiOnarie Chailty, at-
jse high- school
uatiorl yesterdaY, handing out
'-lOrria-i to graduates of Washing-
- -piiii-ok?MikTi School and
for service and peace.
? My`ear-old nun, wholives in
where she and her Roman
order carefor the poorest
oor, ai`O`olc' hands withwith each
esut saio-o-1% 186-graduates
,.,..passe out ? mfornas. She
a iligh Graduates
After losing enrollment as its
neighborhood north of Union Sta-
Atioli?deterioiated in the 1960s and
Gonzaga has flourished in
,recent years. It now draws about
-equal numbers of students from the
-District, Maryland and Virginia.
The school has added buildings and
refurbished old ones.
"We are important to the extent
that we extend ourselves to oth-
ers," Smedira said in his speech,
'echoing a theme of Mother Tere-
Sa's.
one steitip on the altar of St. 7
siuSurc-h-, iii-O-S-COf the
uaTeTin ffie all-male class tow-
ye -her Slight, stooped fig-
hiook', hands _pretty firmly
God
s mu, saidgraduateBrian
Ktosiirtei:::tikf ceremony.
rnost bsurc1 fiat a person
er'l4eresa should come
around the World to attend
1i7hOrioring us," said vale-
orian 'Swart, C. . -Smedira-. 'It is
YltirtilTthat, in a wOrld with
tittieliPle, that we as individ-
s Mike -a difference. But that, ,
r Teresa, accompanied by
Mem i's o her order, arrived
ore the start of the ceremo-
She left quietly just before it
hiiF?d _a half later, and
driVen'froin "The' 'CluirCh On
,apito. -Street in a small
e van._ ?"' ?
,e::y:.:13erriard J. Dooley,
tdentth .year-old
Obj Said he wrote Mother Te-
erterof inVitation about a
lffEralio' "had' sonie. help
rpm Soffit parents who know her."
inatedd,Origking- a donation to
V64, the seniors gave their
ft-'about 14,000?to her
er, *Iiia?OPerateS three mis-
s Ifilhe?DisifiCt. She received
Oirof Clirward yesterday. Some
ersitiesa-L-6eOrget6'Wri-six years
COTtlinbia last week?have
firin her-hoiforary-degrees.
er speech was a homily, urging
iradhafeS to Serve others and
"never' he-arraid to do small things
er nor only for bread,
thatiL ere afe iiianY places
kgroiSreire-dying of hunger,"
Teiesa- Wald. "But there is
f,tei:iThfelihriger for love.
e fruit of love is service. The
fruit of service is peace," she contin-
ed:"Ai;_d peace begins with a smile."
the ceremony Mother Te-
e,p,,.e-d- Often as she chatted
th tiOoley. She applauded the
Chizol's wind ensemble after it
layed March that John Philip
nsa?,had.conducted at a Gonzaga
'nation in 1886. ?
pd she joined in applause and
'irarti; jaiiihter for Dr. Richard D.
cid, a 1917 graduate of the
ool,yho said he has made it to a
-and 3/4" by following a
men Of "two steaks a year, one
ass Of Wine a day, a low-choles-
ro -diet, one egg a week, and
vi-
oTent exercise
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