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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 9
eorgia, Marist College, Atlanta, Ga., Sunday, September 11, 1921.
CATHOLICS IN GEORGIA
JOHN B.
If we were to make a list of the qualifications a
gentleman should have, and then place beside them the
man of our acquaintance in whom they are best ex
emplified, the name of John B. McCallum would ap
pear so often that those who do not know him might
suspect that our circle of acquaintances is very limited.
But those who know him would only sancton our
selection, for Mr. McCallum is one of the most genial,
obliging and popular men in the state of Georgia.
John B. McCallum was born in Putnam County,
Florida, June 15, 1878. He attended the public
schools at Jacksonville and Savannah, and he then en
tered the service of the Plant syystem of railways, the
Central of Georgia and the Southern Express Com
pany. VFhile in Savannah, he was a member of the
Board of Directors of the Catholic Library Associa
tion.
In 1904, Mr. McCallum moved to Atlanta to enter
the service of the War Department, headquarters of the
Department of the Gulf. Here he served as private
secretary to Gen. Thos. H. Barry, Gen. Wm. P. Duvall,
and others until he was appointed to head the Ad
jutant Generals office. In 1912, he resigned to be
come private secretary to F. Carter Tate, U. S. At
torney for the Northern District of Georgia. He
was married June 10, 1908, to Miss Josephine M.
Murphy of Atlanta.
In 1912 he was admitted to the Bar after winning
his law degree from the Atlanta Law School, and
two years later entered the practice of law in Atlanta
with F. Carter Tate and Howard Tate.
Mr. McCallum in 1916 formed a partnership with
Earl Sims of Atlanta, with offices in the Fourth Na
tional Bank Building, Atlanta, and the old firm was
dissolved. Mr. McCallum is still a member of the
firm.
It is as a Knight of Columbus that Mr. McCallum is
best known outside of Georgia. He joined the order
in Savannah in 1902, is a member of the Atlanta
CONVENTION NOTES
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Columbus: L. A. Kunze, P. J. McSorley, Mrs. C. E.
Westbrook, Miss Alice Lee, J. T. O’Neill, Mrs. E. L.
Murrah, Mrs. W. W. Rainey, Mrs. Adele Foley, Mrs.
H. C. Smith, Miss Elizabeth Deignan, Mrs. A. F. Kunze.
Milledgeville: Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hatcher, Mrs.
Gertrude Hutcheson.
McCALLUM
Fourth Degree Assembly, a member of the Board of
Trustees of Atlanta Council, a past District Deputy
for the Northern District of Georgia, and last May, in
recognition of his work in Knights of Columbus circles
he was elected to the highest position a Knight of
Columbus can reach in the order in the state that of
state deputy. He recently returned from San Fran
cisco, where he, with Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., of Sa
vannah, represented the Georgia State Council of the
Knights of Columbus at the national convention.
Mr McCallum is a member of the Atlanta Lodge of
Elks, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Sacred
Heart Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
During the war he was very active in camp work, and
was a four minute speaker in the bond drives and the
campaigns for funds for various drives conducted for
the armed forces of the United States.
For several years Mr. McCallum has been state sec
retary of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, and has brought the work of the position up to
new standards. Above all other things, he is reliable
and obliging. If he fails to do anything for a friend,
it is because it is a physical impossibility.
To say a man is even-tempered does not mean a
great deal, for a man who is angry all the time is
even tempered. But when the term is applied to Mr.
McCallum, it has quite the contrary meaning. The
only thing which might make him angry would he to
hear someone tell in his hearing of what a fine charac
ter he is.
To Mr. McCallum’s work as secretary of the Lay
men s Association is due much of the organization
which now exists in conducting the Association’s busi
ness. His promptness, his unfailing courtesy, and his
willingness to serve even at a great sacrifice whenever
called upon makes him indespensible to the Associa
tion. We appreciate him now more than we can
tell. May we never have to learn of his even greater
value by reason of his departure from our work or our
companionship.
The members of the committee in charge of the en
tertainment of visitors and guests were: P. P. Hanley,
chairman; R. R. Otis, R. A. Magill, C. J. Sullivan,
Hughes Spalding, Evelyn Harris, J. J. McCallum, A. A.
Baumstark, J. A. Lambert, Mrs. McAlpin and Mrs.
Jake Massaling.
The committee set up a new standard future enter
tainment committees will find it almost impossible to
duplicate.