The Department of Catholic Education will welcome four new staff members during the summer -- three in the office of Religious Education and one in the Office of Catholic Schools.

Mr. James P. Bechler will assume the newly created position of Consultant for Catechist Formation. He will be responsible for developing and implementing an ongoing archdiocesan formation and certification program for catechists at all levels. Mr. Bechler will also serve as the office manager of the Office of Religious Education.

Mr. Bechler has most recently been serving as Coordinator of Religious Education in St. Paul of the Cross Parish and School. He holds a master's degree in theology from the Catholic University of America and has served as an instructor in religious studies and administration in Holy Apostles College, Connecticut.

Sister Carleen Lynch, a Sister of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania, will join the staff as Consultant for Elementary Catechesis, Sister Lynch has a master's degree in religious education. She has taught religion on the junior high and high school levels and has most recently directed parish religious education programs in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Miss Kimberly Larsen served as a part-time assistant to the Youth Ministry Consultant during 1981-82 and will become the archdiocesan Associate Youth Ministry Consultant. She graduated from the University of Georgia in Telecommunications. For the last three years she has been active as a youth leader in All Saints Parish and at the diocesan level.

Mrs. Dolores Waters, Youth Ministry Consultant, and Sister Lorraine Masucci, RSM., Consultant for Adult Catechesis, will continue to serve on the staff of the Office of Religious Education.

Father Richard Kieran, Secretary for Education, will serve as the coordinator of the staff of the Office Religious Education, giving leadership to planning and coordinating catechetical ministry at the diocesan level.

Sister Joan McCann, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, will assume the position of Assistant Superintendent of Catholic Schools. Sister McCann holds master's degrees in educational management and supervision and in mathematics. Her undergraduate degree is in elementary education. She has served as an elementary and high school teacher and as an elementary and high school teacher and as an elementary school principal. Most recently she has served as a research assistant in a study of renewal of religious congregations of men and women at Temple University.

Sister Joan McCann will collaborate with Sister Roberta Schmidt, CSJ, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools, with special responsibility for curriculum development and faculty in-service formation.