Showing youth how to serve

By a Staff Reporter 'THERE are few encounters
'THERE
moving than to meet a Borstal boy who is learning to discover himself. not because of treatment he receives. but because he is giving service.
This is the sort of thing that happens when Lady Masham gets to work, herself an attractive woman of 32, confined to a wheelchair since she broke her back 12 years ago. It was a year before her marriage to Lord Masham, son of the Earl of Swinton.
Today she lives with her husband and their two adopted children on the Swinton estate in Yorkshire. And she has fought hack. She rides, fishes and shoots. She has won international sporting medals. She is a Catholic. And now she is Britain's youngest life peeress.
But sport is only peripheral to the energies of this vivacious. effective woman. Her contributions in the House of Lords will he exciting and disturbing. They will have been conditioned by her work for the physically handicapped. and for delinquent youth.
By way of example: Each year she wins an overwhelming response from Borstal hoys who are asked to volunteer to look after handicapped people during a holiday specially devised for them.
Many of the patients are really helpless. Some are incontinent. Each volunteer boy is allotted to a particular patient. for whom he performs all services: shaving, feeding and helping him
move. The relationship hetween the two tends to be very close. with radical effects on both.
Much of Lady Masham's work is hidden in committee or person-to-person encounters, but the value of her experience will now he shared on the highest levels.
The list of Catholics among the honours recipients also include:
Knight Commander of the Bath (K.C.B.): Vice-Admiral Arthur Turner, Chief of Fleet Support.
Knight Commander of the Victorian Order (K.C.V.0.): Sir Joseph Molony, Q.C., Attorney-General to the Duchy of Cornwall; President of the City of London Circle. Catenian Association.
Commander of the Bath (C.B.): Major-General M. F. Brogan, Australian Staff Corps; Rear-Admiral D. N. Callaghan, Senior Naval Member and
Vice-President (Naval) of the Ordnance Board.
Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.): A. H. Maingard de Ville-es-Offrans, for service to tourism and the hotel industry. Mauritius; Professor George Zarnecki, Professor of History of Art, London University; Col. T. M. Troy, late Infantry.
Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E., Hon.): Eamonn Andrews, K.S.G., Director, Catholic Standard.
Order of the British Empire (0.B.E.): Mother Laurent ia
Corr, Vice-Principal, St.
Dominic's High School, Belfast: Michael Kelly, exProvost, Burgh of Stirling; J. Gbrmley, N.W. Area Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers; J. M. Luidzuis, lately First Secretary, H.M. Embassy, Rangoon; Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. T. McMahon, for services to education in W. Australia; LLCM. J. G. Moran. Regimental M.O., R. Brunei Macal Regi
ment; George A. McPartlin, Technical Director, Central Council of Physical Recreation.
Member of the British Empire (M.B.E.): Major E. H. E. Dougherty, R.A.E.C., Miss J. M. Hall, Head of History Dept., St. Augustine's Secondary School, Billington, Lancs.; Rev. J. J. Lowry, for social work in Belfast; Miss Mary McLoughlin, Lanark County Councillor; Michael Richey, Exec. Secretary, Institute of Navigation; Fr. S, Sanz, for services to native welfare. W. Australia.
British Empire Medal (BEM): Miss Annie Malone, Domestic Supervisor. Bellshill Maternity Hospital. Lanark
shire. ,•
Royal Red Cross (Assoc., 2nd class): Miss A. M. Tynan, Superintending Sister (Matron), Q.A.R.N.N.S.
Queen's Police Medal: N. .1 Brennan, Chief Superintendent, Birmingham City Police,