Last month brought two new staff members to Our Lady of the Assumption Church with the arrival of Joseph W. Henry and Mary-Anne Plaskon.

Henry, who serves as Minister of Music at OLA, comes to the parish with a rich background of liturgical music experience. He received his Master of Music Degree in Organ from Indiana University in 1970. Prior to his new position, he served as Choir Director, Organist and Cantor at St. Philip Benizi in Jonesboro. He has also served in similar capacities at Sacred Heart in Atlanta, and at several churches in Tennessee.

The full-time Minister of Music position entails the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of the parish liturgical music program, such as adult and children's choirs, folk groups and developing the general congregational response to the Liturgy and other services in the Church.

Miss Plaskon has replaced Mrs. Vie Thorgren who recently moved from the area, as OLA Youth Minister. She was graduated Summa Cum Laude from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, and is presently a graduate student at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Maryland. She will complete her studies for a Master's Degree in Theology through Columbia Seminary and the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Miss Plaskon has a background of volunteer services in both high school and college programs; participation in a federally-funded summer internship program with the Atlanta Urban Corps and Sacred Heart's summer folk groups, and a teaching position in the Diocese of Chicago.

She is presently working in the area of Christian Education, which she most enjoys; Youth Ministry; and is looking forward to a long and successful ministry at OLA.