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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 11 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.