An Atlanta area clergyman, Dr. Oswald P. Bronson, professor of Christian Education and president of the Interdenominational Theological Center, was elected president of the National Religious Education Association at the annual convention held Nov. 23-26 at the Palmer House in Chicago.

More than 2,000 religious educators of various denominations, among them 13 teachers and coordinators of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, joined in the convention’s three-day study of our divided society, a challenge to religious education.

Attending from Atlanta were:

Tom Keating, teacher, St. Joseph’s High; Joe Delitusso, religious education coordinator, Athens; Sister Rosaire; Sister Marie Carolyn, Assumption, Atlanta; Sister Katherine, St. John’s, Hapeville; Sister Marie, St. Jude’s; Sister Genevieve, Holy Spirit; Sister Sharon, Holy Cross; Sister Rose Mary, Cathedral of Christ the King. Father Tony Curran, religion teacher, St. Pius X; Mrs. Ann Schroeder, religious education coordinator, Immaculate Heart of Mary; Sister Marie Celine, St. Joseph’s, Marietta, and Sister Margaret Mary, religion teacher, St. Pius X.