The White Falcon - 05.06.1965, Blaðsíða 2

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Cdr Alfred It. Saeger, Jr., CIIC, USN
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Saturday, June 5, 1965
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Protestant
SUNDAY: Morning Worship Service............................Main Chapel 11:00
Morning Worship Service................................Polar Club 12:00
Adult Bible Class...........................................High School 9:30
Evening Vesper Service................................Main Chapel 7:00 p.m.
Fellowship Hour......................................Chapel Annex 8:00 p.m.
Sunday School...............................................High School 9:30
Episcopal Lay Service.......................................Main Chapel 9:00
Lutheran Service (except 1st Sunday)........................Main Chapel 9:30
Latter Day Saints Lay Service........................Chapel Annex 10:30
Christian Science Lay Service........................Chapel Annex 12:00
Church of Christ Lay Service.........................Chapel Annex 3:00 p.m.
Holy Communion Service (1st Sundays)........................Main Chapel 11:00
MONDAY: Adult Bible Study Group.......................Chaplain’s Office 7:00
TUESDAY: Prayer Meeting..........................................Main Chapel 7:30
THURSDAY: Chapel Choir Rehearsal............................Main Chapel 7:00 p.m
FRIDAY: Baptist Lay Service...............................Chapel Annex 7:00 p.m.
FRIDAY: Cherub Choir........................................Main Chapel 3:15 p.m.
Youth Choir............................................Main Chapel 4:15 p.m.
SATURDAY: Assembly of God Lay Service.......................Main Chapel 7:30 p.m.
Protestant Chaplains
Chaplain A. R. Saeger, Jr., Cdr, USN
Chaplain R. E. Blade, LCdr, USN
Chaplain R. G. Brown, Lt, USN
Catholic
SUNDAY MASSES: Main Chapel 12:15
SUNDAY:.....................................................Polar Club 11:00
Main Chapel 8:00 a.m.
Ladles Sodality Communion (1st Sundays)...............Main Chapel 12:15
Holy Name Society Communion (2nd Sundays).............Main Chapel 12:15
DAILY MASSES
Monday through Friday.....................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 4:45
Saturday..................................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 11:45
First Friday of the Month.........Blessed Sacrament Chapel 11:45 and 4:45
CONFESSIONS:
Saturday..............................Blessed Sacrament Chapel 4:00—6:00 p.m.
CHOIR REHEARSAL
Saturday..............................................Main Chapel 10:00
Catholic Chaplains
Chaplain T. F. Lehr, Lt, USNR
Chaplain N. A. Rlcard, LCdr, USN
Appointments can be made for Baptisms, Weddings by calling the chaplain’s office at 41IL
WHITE FALCON
j Keflavik Births
These are the births recorded
at the Station Hospital during
the month of May:
Kelley Anne, daughter of DC3
Donald R. and Mrs. Brown, was
born May 15. Brown is attached
to the Naval Station’s Admin De-
partment.
Jody Lynn, son of HM3 Gerald
and Mrs. Sedrick, was born May
9. Sedrick works in the Operation
Room of the Station Hospital.
Christine, daughter of SK2
Douglas H. and Mrs. Carr, was
born May 9. Carr is assigned to
the Supply Department.
Patrick Sean, son of A02 Ro-
bert M. and Mrs. McCoy, was born
May 10. McCoy is attached to the
Weapons Department.
James Thaddeus, son of Lt
James T. and Mrs. Mergner, was
born May 12. Lieutenant Mergner
is the transportation officer at
Public Works.
Charles Gisli, son of UTA2
Charles A. and Mrs. Hughes, was
born May 17. Hughes works for
the Public Works Department.
Anna Maria, daughter of UT1
Robert A. and Mrs. Karjalainen,
was bom May 18. Karjalainen is
assigned to the ^Public Works De-
partment.
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The Bible vividly portrays individuals who were most successful in
the eyes of the Lord, but just as vividly, it also portrays those who
were failures. Lot is one of the most miserable failures referred to
in the Bible, for he started life with flying colors and ended it as
a complete washout. Lot had youth with its hopes ambitions, time
and ever so many opportunities. He was born of good stock, for his
uncle, Abram, was the considerate, capable and wealthy man of God
who became the father of the Hebrew people. As a result, Lot had
unusual privileges for his uncle gave him wealth, defended him when
he made mistakes, gave him second and third chances and took him
to worship. But Lot became a pathetic failure. If you study his life
more carefully you can see why this was true.
He was a weakling when it came to character. He didn’t know
how to love or be loved. The word thank you was not in his voca-
bulary. He bacame very rich, but he did not know how to live with it.
There is little evidence that he possessed courage, wisdom or the
desire to do what was right. He did not have the respect of his fellow
citizens; and he hid himself in a mountain cave. The end of his life
came while he was engaged in drunken incestuous debauchery.
Lot failed because he had a small, undeveloped soul. He starved
his spiritual life until his sense of right and decency were completely
out of focus. He substituted the present for the future, the material
for the spiritual, cynicism for faith. His hopes and visions for him-
self and family were limited to well-watered plains, grass and evil
Sodom. From the day he was born until the day. he died, we find
no trace in Lot of moral excellence. There is little indication that
he attempted to live by the golden rule. There is less evidence that
he actually worshipped or was interested in religion although he
was associated with a deeply religious and highly successful man.
Lot is no exceptional case. Think of Esau, a man too weak to
control himself or his appetites so he sold his birthright for a
simple meal and proved himself unfit to be a leader. Saul, Israel’s
first king, was endowed with wisdom, a man’s physique and many
other outstanding qualities, but he weakened his soul by ignoring the
voice of God and harboring arrogance and jealousy. He finally be-
came a paranoiac, and died leaping on his own sword and a boy
with a slingshot, a pebble and a strong faith ruled his kingdom. The
Pharisees, morally exact, scholarly precise and schooled in religious
rites, were so dull and hypocritical in their spiritual sensitivity that
they could not recognize truths, suffering and duty when they were
before their very eyes. Judas was a disicple of Christ, but he never
knew him. Pilate was a Roman official, but he was too weak to resist
the mob opinion.
Perhaps one of the gravest dangers of our day is to be found in
man’s neglect of his spiritual life. For it is truly tragic when a
person is so familiar with and so close to temporal power, prestige
and even religious faith, but at the same time overlooks the need for
a dynamic, hope-filling personal faith and its develpoment through
constant worship and prayer.
Hail & Bless
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UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION KEFLAVIK
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contentment of personnel.
Commander Richard C. James, USN
Commanding Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
Commander George D. Switzer, USN
Executive Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
Lieutenant Commander Alice V. Bradford, USN
Service Information Officer
Gene Taylor, JOC, Technical Advisor
STAFF
T.D. Streeter, J03, Acting Editor
J.P. Schmieg, JOSN. Reporter
W. Keener, A1C, AFI News Editor
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Personnel who have arrived
(Hail) and left (Bless) U.S.
Naval Station, Keflavik as of
June 2 are as follows:
HAIL
Hanback, G. S., AN
Barstad, J. L. AG1
Shinliver, J. D., AN
Merinsky, J. J., AEAA
Moore, J. M., AN
Berenik, S. J., AN
Coleman, R. W., YN2
Eanes, S. E., PR3
Hays, M. C., AK1
Helm, G. E., SM2
Jackson, D. C., SN
Johnson, J. G., CESCP
Ruane, M. W., CETCN
Reyes, A. D., TN
Snyder, P. C., EN2
Townsend, W. P., EOH3
Whitefield, H. M„ AC2
Williams, W., SD1
Baird, D., A2C
Bergeron, L., TSgt.
Bilbow, E., SSgt.
Brokenshir, J., A2C
Hotte, R., SSgt.
Kolonko, B., SMSgt.
Oborsky, R., A1C
Palka, A., SSgt.
Walters, L., A2C
Wittman, F., A2C
BLESS
Natalini, A. A., ATR3
Rasmussen, J. S., PNC
Blake, R. E., CT3
Atkins, B. M., ATI
Principe, J., SN
Sutton, J. L., CS2
Lemons, C. A., SK3
Ramirez, L., A03
Roach, J. T., RM3
Pautz, R. R., RMSN
A man may buy his way out of jail. Another may sell
freedom from worry in the form of a bottle of tranqui-
lizers. But these are trifling plays on the word freedom in
the grand sense that Americans mean when they think of
this homeland as .... “The land of the free ... . ”
Freedom is a paradox, too.
It is as unquenchable as man’s loftiest spiritual strivings.
Yet it is as easily extinguished by the chill of neglect as an ember
in an autumn downpour.
How, then are we to enjoy and serve this intangible, priceless,
fragile heritage of freedom?
As in the Credo of the American Way of Life” as formulated
by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., a nonpolitical,
nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose character proclaims its
goals:
“To create and build an understanding of the spirit and philo-
sophy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and our “bundle”
of indivisible political and economic freedoms inherent in them.
“To inspire love of freedom and to support the spiritual unity born
of the belief that man is a dignified human being, created in the
image of his Maker, and by that fact possessor of certain inalienable
rights.”
These goals suggest that freedom—while it may not be bought and
sold like any commodity—nevertheless is due something from us.
We owe to our forefathers and their bequest of liberty three things:
Knowledge of the rights to worship God in one’s own way .... to
free speech and press .... to assemble peaceably and petition for
grievances .... to privacy in our homes .... to the legal protection
of stigma of guilt until proven guilty ....
We should know the history of these rights. And we should give
to them and others a second payment:
Respect for the rights to travel about freely at home and abroad
.... to own private property .... to elect our officials by personnel
secret ballot .... to work in callings and localities of our choice ....
to bargain with our employers or employees .... to go into business,
compete and make a profit .... to contract about our affairs.
To all of these and more we owe understanding, respect and a
third acknowledgement:
Support of the fights of service by government as a protector and
referee .... of freedom from arbitrary government regulation and
control.
When we can lay knowledge of, respect for, and support of these
basic rights upon the foundation of a fundamental belief in God
and a constitutional government designed to serve the people, we
have begun to discharge our indebtedness to the Founding Fathers
and our responsibility to succeeding generations who will inherit ....
“The American Way of Life.” (AFPS)
EDITORIAL
Our Freedom Means
A Priceless Heritage
Freedom, it has been said times past remembering, is
a priceless thing.