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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 (Continued from page 8.) 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.