WASHINGTON (DC)
Catholic News Service
By Jerry Filteau
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has named a new chairwoman and four new members of theAbuse Tracker Review Board that monitors diocesan efforts to protect minors from sexual abuse by church personnel.
He named Patricia O'Donnell Ewers, a Chicago-based educational consultant and a board member since last October, as chairwoman until her board term ends in October 2007.
Appointed to three-year terms on the board were:
-- Dr. Joseph G. Rhode, president of Midland (Texas) Family Physicians.
-- William D. McGarry, president of Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass.
-- Thomas A. DeStefano, former interim president of Catholic Charities USA and former executive director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y.
-- Milann H. Siegfried, a philanthropist and former chairwoman of the board of St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. She is the wife of outgoing review board member Ray H. Siegfried II, board chairman of the NORDAM Group, a Tulsa-based international aviation and manufacturing company.