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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta, recently observed the twentieth anni
versary of his ordination. There are few priests in
the diocese who are better known, for he has served
in nearly every part of it during the last score of
years.
Father Schonhardt is now recovering from a minor
surgical operation he underwent in Augusta early in
May.
The work of Father James Bryne, chaplain at the
Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, is favorably com
mented on month after month in Good Words, the
official organ of the prison. “Not the pomp and
grandeur of a Cathedral, but a humble house of
prayer tucked away in a prison has become Father
Byrne’s field of labor,” says the current issue of the
publication. “Because his sermons have been of the
heart a part, he has reached rock bottom in the souls
of the men here. He can look back on the years of
his chaplaincy and say: Well done. But he gives
to God the glory.”
Troop 14, Boy Scouts of America, composed of
boys from the Marist School in Savannah, presented
an entertainment at the Savannah Theatre April 29.
for the benefit of their summer camp fund. The
entertainment consisted of a short sketch, “Schultz’s
Troubles,” and a minstrel. The troop owns a beau
tiful tract of land, consisting of five acres on La
Roche Avenue, near the Herb River, and it hopes tc
move to this site a building presented to it by the
Foundation Company.
A legacy of $10,000 was left to Sacred Heart Paro
chial School of Atlanta under the will of the late
Mrs. Anna Spalding, one of Atlanta’s best known anc
highly esteemed women, who died last month.
Vice-President j. J. Haverty of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association recently presented a stand of colors
to the Marist College Cadet Battalion of Atlanta,
In presenting the colors, Mr. Haverty called the roll
of the former Marist students who served in the army
and navy. There were 500 such boys, he said, 40
per cent, of whom were commissioned officers, three
of them lieutenant-colonels, four majors and nine
captains. Nine Marist boys lost their lives in the
war, he said and he also lauded the work of the presi
dent of the college, Father Horton, who worked in
France among the sick and the wounded.
Miss Isma Dooley, for 28 years a member of the
women’s department of the Atlanta Constitution, and
one of the best known newspaper women in the
South, died at her home in Atlanta Wednesday, May
1 1, after an extended illness. The funeral was con
ducted from Sacred Heart Church Friday, May 13.
The death of Miss Dooley occasioned editorial
comments in many of the papers of Georgia. The
Atlanta Constitution says of her, in a long tribute:
In many respects Isma Dooley was one of the most
remarkable women ever produced in this state. Foi
twenty-eight years she was connected with the Con
stitution, and it was largely through her influence
that the womanhood of Georgia was enabled to gain
the position it occupies today in all affairs having to
do with the public welfare.”
TRIBUTE TO SISTER SACRED HEART
By Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D. D. Bishop o'
Savannah.
On Thursday April 28, Sister Sacred Heart diec
at Mt. St. Josephs’ Convent, Augusta. Her death has
been the occasion of almost universal grief among
Catholics in Georgia for few religious teachers were
better known and more widely loved and appreciated.
For more than forty years she taught the highest
classes in the academy at Washington and Augusta
As a teacher she had few equals, and no superior in
her own or any other commuinty here—or for that
matter in any place with which I am familiar. She
had made excellent studies, was fond of her duties as
teacher and possessed a marvelously retentive mem
ory. She was a born teacher. And yet with all
these purely intellectual faculties she was always
simple and unassuming in her manner. There were
few topics on which she could not converse, still was
absolutely devoid of anything like affection. She
was as good and unaffected as a child. No one
could possibly meet her without being impressed by her
mental gifts but to us her peculiar charm came from
an entirely different source. She was a model re
ligious, observing her rule with scrupulous fidelity.
Even the Catholic girls in a convent school have
but a very faint idea of the lives of the Sisters whom
they see in the class room, the recreation yard or the
study hall But of the real life of the Sisters with its
daily round of devotion and spiritual exercises its
silence and mortification they know absolutely noth
ing. In the class room Sister Sacred Heart seemed to
be an ideal teacher; in the chapel she appeared an
ideal religious.
Bright, cheerful and kind to all, she went about
her daily round of duties. If she ever had distrac
tions in her prayers or meditations, I am sure it was
something caused by her class work which came as an
unbidden and unwelcome guest.
I know we have a habit on the occasion of the
death of a sister of saying that it will be hard to fill
her place. There is no exaggeration in the state
ment that no one can exactly fill her place. Foi
years to come we will hear the former pupils of Mt.
St. Josephs’ boasting: “But I had Sister Sacred Heart
as my teacher.”
She had the great advantage in her early days ot
religious life of having Mother St. John as Mother
Superior.
Her memory as a teacher will survive in the hearts
of every one of her pupils. Her memory as a good
religious is a legacy left her companions.
Yet, God does not see as we see. She was tried
and I trust purified in the crucible of suffering. Let
us remember her soul in our prayers and at Holy Mass.