The seven chairmen of the newly created archdiocesan boards and councils are men of varied backgrounds who have been active in civic and church affairs.

Rawson Haverty, chairman of the Administrative Council and a member of Holy Spirit parish, is president of the Haverty Furniture Companies. A native of Atlanta, he is a graduate of the University of Georgia.

Haverty is a member of the advisory board of St. Joseph’s Infirmary, a director and past president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and is president of the board of trustees of the Village of St. Joseph. He has been active in business affairs and in the arts. He is married and has three daughters and two sons.

Haverty said he would prefer to comment on his board after its work begins.

The chairman of the Board of Development, Andrew W. McColgan, is a member of Cathedral parish and is a manger of the mortgage loan department at Allan-Grayson Realty Co.

McColgan attended high school in Baltimore and the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. He is married and has two sons.

McColgan said his board should be able to plan parishes, missions and archdiocesan physical and social needs. “We should draw up a plan or program of our own functions, then evaluate the functions of other committees as they relate to ours.”

James W. Callison, chairman of the Pastoral Council, is president of the Lay Congress and a member of Most Blessed Sacrament parish. A lawyer with Delta Air Lines, he is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and the University of Michigan Law School and is a native of Jamestown, N.Y.

Callison was recently honored by Pope Paul VI for his work with the Lay Congress and received a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal.

He said, “The full range of responsibilities to be placed upon the Pastoral Council is not yet entirely clear, and may never be fully predictable because it will have to handle a constantly changing set of values. I do pray, however, that in handling all activities entrusted to it—whether in the fields of liturgy, ecumenism, the processing of appeals from parishes, or whatever—the council will strive to keep alive and advance the principles, ideals and aspirations of the Second Vatican Council.”

John J. Cawley, chairman of the Board of Lay Organizations, said his board will promote participation in the group apostolate by coordinating the activities of all lay organizations with each other and with the Decrees of Vatican II.

Cawley, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, is a graduate of Cleveland State University and was president of the Newman Club. He is a member of the tithing committee of Holy Cross parish and is chairman of Cub Pack 403 at the Winters Chapel Methodist Church. He is plant engineer for the Perma Pipe Corp. at Stone Mountain.

Samuel McQuaid, a member of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, is chairman of the Board of Education. He is a native of New York, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and is the father of six children.

McQuaid is branch manager of E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., and has served as president of his parish school of religion and was secretary of the Archdiocesan Advisory Council on Education 1964-1966. He was chairman of the education committee of the Lay Congress.

“The concept of the Archdiocesan Board Education is a new approach and large job,” McQuaid said. “We are aware of our needs—the support and understanding of priests and sisters, but our most urgent need can be furnished only by the lay people by their involvement and their prayers. We hope that through these channels we can reach all Catholics in the archdiocese.”

Paul Shields, a member of the Cathedral and news director at WAGA-TV, is chairman of the Board of Communications. The television newsman has won the Sigma Delta Chi award for one of his “Dialogue” programs, an interview with Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.

He has also received an Associated Press award for documentary on water pollution, “Currents of Contamination.” Shields also wrote, produced and narrated a documentary on life of Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone With the Wind.” He has also been a member of an advisory committee for the Bulletin.

Shields said one of the principal functions f the Board will be public relations, “in effect to try and tell the story of the modern, liberated church following the Second Vatican Council.” He said he also hoped for better lines of communications between priests and laity.

John Ferguson, chairman of the Board of Social Service and a member of Most Blessed Sacrament parish, is president of the board of directors of Catholic Family Services and is a member of the board of trustees of the Village of St. Joseph.

He is a graduate of the University of Georgia, the father of four children and is assistant vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., international insurance brokers.