Brother Curtis Kedley, a native of Cascade, Iowa, has begun his assignment as a Glenmary Home Missioner Brother in Clarkesville, Georgia, at the Glenmary Parish of St. Mark's.

Brother Curtis, age twenty-seven, is entering his fourth year as a member of the Glenmary Society, a group of one hundred Catholic priests and brothers who serve in small towns and rural areas in No-Priest-Land, USA. Brother Curtis was born in Monticello, Iowa, and is one of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Kedley of Cascade. A graduate of St. Martin's Elementary School and Aquinas High School in Cascade, he recently graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a bachelor's degree in sociology.

While in Clarkesville, Brother will be serving with the Glenmary pastor, Father Mert McMahon, at St. Mark's Parish and assisting at the Glenmary mission of St. Helena's in nearby Clayton, Georgia. These two churches serve some thirty-four thousand inhabitants of Habersham, Rabun and Banks Counties. The Glenmary Home Missioners, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, have staffed St. Mark's Parish in the Atlanta archdiocese since 1964. Brother Curtis, in addition to assisting in the Clarkesville parish and Clayton mission, will be involved as a volunteer in the "Brother Worker" program that eventually will see him employed in the community in a social worker capacity to assist the entire community. While in training since 1968, Brother spent time as a brother candidate in the Clarkesville parish.