June 15, 2005

Anna Maria head on anti-abuse board

PAXTON (MA)
Telegram & Gazette

Anna Maria College President William D. McGarry has been named to theAbuse Tracker Review Board, a group that monitors diocesan efforts to protect minors from sexual abuse by church personnel, according to the Catholic News Service.

Mr. McGarry and three others were named to three-year terms on the panel by Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Mr. McGarry became president of Anna Maria in 1999 and pushed for the recently established center for the prevention of child sexual abuse and abduction and elderly abuse.

Posted by kshaw at June 15, 2005 04:17 AM