COURIER-JOURNAL Wednesday, Septembers, 1984 Msgr. Baroni Dies, Education the Key, Hicks Black Catholics Told Home Heating Inc. Urban Affairs Expert New Orleans Noting the high enrollment HEATING-COOLING < Education !§• the key fe \he of blacks and Hispanics in 424-4848 L 271-4650 Washington (NO — Msgr. ment to preserve urban developing the concept for future strength of the ftafjlm, public schools, he said, "Do Geno C. Baroni, 53, a neighborhoods and to protect the Campaign for Human the communjjy and the,fpni- not let school systems die on A. W. BEILBY specialist in urban ethnic af­ civil rights and ethnic iden­ Development, the U.S. bish­ ly, speakers." stressed %*the the vine, because the grapes fairs and the first Catholic tity. ops' anti-poverty program. National Qfgce for lj|!|ck that will rot will be black and &SOIM priest named assistant secre­ He was described as a In 1971 he founded the Catholics biennial confer­ brown." tary in a cabinet-level U.S. Funeral Home "pesky gadfly" by The New National Center for Urban ence. ;:•• ',' J\ In another speech, James government agency, died James Rotsell York Times in 1977 because Ethnic Affairs, an affiliate of In his keynote awjjfess, McConduit,. president of Aug. 27 in Washington. of his persistent efforts to the USCC, and was a board Norman Fraggis, presid'eSu of NOBC, urged members to Darrell O'Brian Msgr. Bafoni had a rare save the rtaliari, Polish, Irish member of national civic and Xavier University, ask^j'If work -to keep parochial 139 Walnut St. form of abdominal cancer, and other ethnic religious organizations de­ the nation is "at risk be|puse schools open in inner cities to diagnosed in 1981. He had neighborhoods which once voted to urban, racial, Dial 936-9121 of an educational cridj|Tor ensure higher-quality educa­ been hospitalized for several Corning, N.Y. enlivened American cities. ethnic, community and the majority;. populatiicM -- tion for elementary school months prior to his death at He hadcome to public interest concerns. what must th^'t mean t3