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Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah
Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Atlanta
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Vol. 33, No. 7.
MONROE. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957.
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YOUNG NEIGHBORS VISIT POPE
Three little girls, neighbors of the Pope from nearby Castel-
gandolfo, bring him baskets of peaches .during the local area’s
annual Festival of the Peaches. One child holds up the fingers of
her hand to show His Holiness how old she is.—(NC Photos).
Adult Youth Association
Formed For Savannah
Sister Josetta
New Infirmary
Administrator
ATLANTA — Sister Mary Jos
etta. R.S.M., has been named new
administrator of St. Joseph’s In
firmary.
Sister Josetta succeeds Sister
Mary Bonaventure, R.S.M., who
has been named to the staff of
Setta Moris Hospice, a large con
valescent home at Baltimore.
The new administrator is a nat
ive of Augusta and a 1943 gradu
ate of St. Joseph’s Informary’s
School of Nursing. The daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Stulb, she
is a graduate of Mount St. Joseph
Academy.
Following her graduation from
nursing school she served in the
Army Nurse Corps, Sister Jos
etta, like Sister Bonaventure
holds a master’s degree in hos
pital administration from the
Catholic University of America.
Sister Bonaventure, a former
head of the school of nursing at
the Infirmary, became admini
strator in September. 1952. She
succeeded Sister Mary Gornile,
R. S.M.. who is now Director of
the School of Nursing.
Fr. O’Doookoe
Marks 50 fears
As A Jesuit
AUGUSTA—On Sunday eve
ning, August 18, four hundred
friends of Father J. E. O’Donohoe,
S. J., attended a reception honor-
REV. J. E. O'DONOHOE, S.J.
ing him on the occasion of the
golden jubilee of his entrance into
the Jesuit Order. In the receiving
line with the jubilarian were Fa
ther P. F. O’Donnell, S.J., pastor
of Sacred Heart Church, and the
following presidents of their re
spective organizations: Miss Della
Kearney of the Sacred Heart
PCCW. Mr. Clarence Markwal-
ter of St. Vincent de Paul Society,
Miss Rose Vignati, of the Altar
Society, Miss Billie Gay, of the
Sacred Heart Group, and Mr.
Robt. Wilkerson of the Sacred
Heart Youth Club.
The Sacred Heart School Audi
torium was beautifully decorated
with smilax and yellow dahlias
and gladioli. A crystal punch bowl
and a bronze candelabra with
Completion Of
Brunswick School
Expected In Oct.
BRUNSWICK—Work is progres
sing on the new $150,000 school
here. The school was originally
scheduled to open its doors the
beginning of the fall term, but
delay in the arrival of certain
building materials has made this
impossible. Plans now call for
completion around the middle of
October. Children of St. Francis
Xavier parish will start the com
ing term in the old school build
ing.
The new school is located on a
site running from Union to Rey
nolds Street directly east of the
present school. The new structure
will be of contemporary design,
providing eight 40 pupil class
rooms, a kindergarten, library,
cafeteria-auditorium, kitchen,
health room, principal’s office and
teachers lounge.
Designed by Cormac McGar-
vey, architect, general construc
tion is in charge of E. F. Higgin
botham, Jr.
The school is staffed by Sisters
of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
white tapers completed the ap
pointments of the linen covered
serving table.
Mrs. Jack Johnnsen served as
general chairman. Miss Hallman,
chairman of refreshments, and
Mrs. R. A. Vignati and Mrs. Gard
ner Byrd, co-chairmen of decora
tions.
Father O’Donohoe served for
thirteen years as pastor of Sacred
Heart Church.
SAVANNAH — The Catholic
Adult Youth Association has been
established by His Excellency,
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop
of Savannah.
Purpose of the association is to
develop leadership among the
Catholic young men and young
women and to instill in them the
desire “to promote the honor and
glory of God in all its undertak
ings.”
The association, which will
bring together young adult Catho
lics at various social events, will-
take up where the Catholic Young'
People’s Association leaves off
and membership will be open to
all single Catholic adults between
the ages 18 through 35 who are
out of high school.
The new organization which
will endeavor to delve into the
fields of dramatics, athletics, edu
cation and all social, religious and
recreational activities will have
as its principal aim the instilling
into its membership and respect of
Christian morality and the foster
ing of Catholic friendships.
Daniel J. Keane was named
president of the Association at its
organizational meeting held on
August 16th. Miss Anne Ware was
named secretary.
The first general meeting of the
new group was held on Friday,
August 30th.
MEMBERSHIP LISTS
IN THIS ISSUE
This issue of The Bulletin con
tains the lists of living' and de
ceased members of the Female
Orphan Benevolent Society. The
Roll of living members will be
found on page 9, with the Me-
moriam list appearing on page 11.
Record High
Catholic Schools
To Enroll More
Than 4.6 Million
WASHINGTON—(NC)—Catholic schools again will set a new
enrollment record this September
little room for doubt considering
Elementary schools this fall will
register about 3,880,000 pupils for
an estimated increase of about
95,000 over last fall.
High schools will enroll this
September an estimated 760,000
students, accounting for an in
crease of about 10,000 over last
fall.
The combined total for these
two levels of Catholic education
should be about 4,640,000, an
estimate by the N. C. W. C. News
Service reveals. Official studies
will be available at the end of the
school year. The news service
estimate is intended only as a
general indication of enrollment.
Colleges and universities should
be nudging the 315,000 mark this
fall, for an increase of about 5,000
students, it is indicated in the
estimate.
Both grade schools and high
schools will double their enroll
ment in a 15 year period, 1945-
Schools Saved
U. S. Taxpayers
SI.4 Billion
PHILADELPHIA (NC)—Arch
bishop John F. O’Hara, C.S.C.. of
Philadelphia said in his annual
education message that the na
tion’s Catholic grade and high
schools saved taxpayers in the
schoolyear 1956-57 a “minimum”
estimated total of $1,400,525,036.
In a message in the Catholic
Standard and Times, newspaper
of the Philadelphia archdiocese,
Archbishop O’Hara compared the
total with the subsidies proposed
in the recently defeated bill for
Federal aid to school construction.
“Our annual gift to the schools,
which grows each year as costs,
per pupil in the public schools
mount, is almost five times as
great as the annual subsidy ($300,-
000,000) the Federal government
was asked to give—and which,
were solemnly assured, would
definitely terminate at the end of
five years,” he wrote.
“Furthermore,” he added, “our
free gift to the public schools is
free even of costs of tax collec
tion and administration. It is in
creased every year, and it bears
with it not the slightest danger of
control.”
The prelate’s calculations were
based on regions of the United
States. He multiplied the cost-per-
pupil in public schools for the
1953-54 schoolyear in each region
by the estimated Catholic ele
mentary and secondary school en
rollment in each region.
f expansion continues—and there’s
the past 15 years’ growth.
1960, if the projection made last
April by the N. C. W. C. Depart
ment of Education holds true.
By 1960, said the projection,
grade schools should be enrolling
more than 4.3 million students,
representing a 100 per cent in
crease over their 1945 enrollment
total of about 2,086,794. They went
over three million for the first
time in October, 1954.
That same year, high schools
may register more than 900,000
(Continued on Page 17)
Cardinal !V9ercati f
Vatican Librarian,
Dead At Age Of 90
VATICAN CITY. (Radio. NC)—
Death came to His Eminence
Giovanni Cardinal Mercati, dean
of the world’s librarians, as
serenely as he would have wished,
after the 90-year-old scholar had
received the last sacraments.
With him were his confessor and
a few relatives and friends.
The librarian and Archivist of
the Holy Roman Church had fol
lowed his rigid work schedule
among his beloved books and
manuscripts until just four days
before he expired.
Cardinal Mercati died in his
apartment just below the Borgia
tower of the Apostolic Palace on
August 22. His passing was
attributed to heart failure. His
Holiness Pope Pius XII. who had
sent the apostolic benediction and
a message of paternal interest and
comfort when it seemed that the
Cardinal was suffering only a
slight indisposition, was im
mediately notified of the death.
The Prince of the Church, who
habitually dressed as an ordinary
priest and was accustomed to don
cardinal’s robes only for occasional
solemn ceremonies in the Vatican,
was the 59th cardinal to die in the
19 years Pius XII has been Pope.
His death brings the number of
vacancies in the College of Car
dinals to 12, leaving' 58—20 Italian
and 38 non-Italian. The Pope had
brought the College to its full
strength of 70 members when he
named 24 new cardinals at the last
consistory in January, 1953.
Cardinal Mercati is the second
member of the college to die this
year, death having taken cardinal
Seguray Saenz, Archbishop of
Seville, Spain, on April 8.
The custodian of what is gen
erally regarded as the greatest
collection of books and manu
scripts the world has ever seen
was buried (August 27) in his
titular church of San Giorgio al
Velabro in Rome, following a
solemn Requiem Mass at San
Ig'nazio church.