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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, May SO, 1959
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SHARK VICTIM ON BEACH
Coed Who Baptized Dying
Classmate Credits Parents,
Faith, Catholic Schooling
By Joan M. Johnson
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
SAN FRANCISCO — “My
Faith . . . my parents . . . my
Catholic education . . . and
God’s grace.”
Those are the influences to
which 18-year-old Shirley O’
Neill credits her daring rescue
of a swimming companion from
a shark and her baptism of the
youth as he lay dying after
wards.
If it hadn’t been for her Faith,
the hazel-eyed San Francisco
State coed says firmly, “I
wouldn’t have been able to go
back for Al. I would have been
too afraid to die.”
Despite her own quiet modes
ty, the city of San Francisco and
its press hailed her display of
courage. She was congratulated
by Auxiliary Bishop Hugh A.
Donohoe of San Francisco, who
paid a visit to her home, and
praised her courage and pres
ence of mind. The San Francisco
Board of Supervisors passed a
formal resolution nominating
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for bravery.
By now, most persons know
the details fo the rescue-how
on Ascension Thursday, Shirley
and Albert Kogler, 18, a class
mate, went for a swim off San
Francisco’s Bakers Beach. About
40 yards out, a huge man-eating
shark appeared suddenly and
savagely attacked Kogler.
The youth screamed at Shir
ley: “It’s a shark . . . get out of
here!”
She started back, she said,
then thought ,“I just can’t leave
him here.”
“There was blood all around
us and the first thing I thought
was, ‘God help him.’ I was
scared to death,” she admits.
Nevertheless, she swam back
to the foaming red water, got
Kogler to lie on his back and
then towed him to shore.
On the beach, while help was
coming, she tried to save his life
by breathing into his mouth.
There on the beach, too, she
carried the ocean water in her
bathing cap to the dying boy
and with his permission bap
tized him, “In the Name of the
Father, and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost . . Then she
had Kogler repeat the Act of
Contrition after her, as far as
he was able.
One of the last things he said
was, “I love God and I love my
mother and I love my father
and I love people. Oh, God help
me. God help me.” He died a
few hours later.
At funeral services, the Rev.
William E. Baker, minister of
Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Church, praised Shirley’s action
in performing the baptism. The
Kogler boy had never been bap
tized, the Rev. Baker said.
Somewhat tired but still
clear-eyed and self-possessed,
Shirley O’Neill recalled in an
interview how she and Al Kog
ler had often talked about reli
gion and how she had tried to
answer his questions.
“He had asked about crema
tion that very day and I had
explained how our bodies were
temples of the Holy Ghost,”
she recalled.
“It used to be that I knew
so much more than he,” she said.
“Now he possesses all knowl
edge. He knows everything
there is to know.
“He was a. wonderful person.
He liked people so.”
“It was a freak accident,” she
added. “I’ve swum at the beach
at least 50 times and we never
saw any fish before. I keep
thinking there was a purpose
in everything that happened
that day.”
Having seen from some of her
college acquaintances what it is
like to have no religious faith,
she wants other students to
know how important their Cath
olic education and Faith are—
particularly when tragedy
comes.
“If I hadn’t had a Catholic
education,” she explained, “I
wouldn’t have known how to
have baptized Al. You have to
hear those things many times
before you really understand.”
The Timothy O’Neill family
lives across the street from St.
Gabriel’s church, where Shirley
attends daily 7 a. m. Mass be
fore her 8 o’clock class at State.
She is active in State’s New
man Club and is preparing at
the college for a teaching career.
Framed in the O’Neill living
room are words beginning,
“Bless this house . . and it,
as much as anything there, is
typical of the spirit of the fami
ly. Jimmy, 11, and Marilyn, 7,
attend St, Gabriel’s school.
Fr, Francis Clougherty, O.S.B.,
Directs College Development
EDITORS NOTE: This ar
ticle originally appeared in THE
PROCOP1AN NEWS and is
reprinted as it will he of interest
to many of our readers. It will
he of special interest to those of
ihe Athens area, as Father
Clojigherty urns Director of ihe
Newman Club of the University
of Georgia for ten years.
BY JOHN WIATR
ST. PROCOPIUS COLLEGE—
Father Francis Xavier Clough
erty, O. S. B,, LLD, vice-presi
dent for development and public
relations, is one of the most
diplomatic and experienced
members of St. Procopius Col
lege’s administration.
Fellow administrators at the
Illinois College had this to say
about him:
“While in all cases maintain
ing his .dignity as a priest and
as a college vice-president, he
has manifested friendliness in
Rev. Francis Xavier
Clougherty, O.S.B.
cases where-in an ordinary of
ficial would be hostile.”
“He has acquired an impecc
able skill in patient diplomacy;
he disagrees in a very objective
manner.”
Experienced Administrator
“Father Francis’ long experi
ence as an administrator, both
in China and in the United
States, has come to light in
many instances during business
deliberations.”
Father Francis attended
Mount St. Mary’s College, Em-
mittsburg, Maryland for four
years. After graduating with a
BA degree in 1918, he entered
Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, where
he was ordained under the title
of Missionary Apostolic in 1920.
Father Francis spent 25 years,
1920-1945, as an educator and
as a war relief worker in China.
The founder of Pei Wen Aca
demy in Kaifeng, Honan Prov
ince in 1921, he taught English
literature at Honan Province
Preparatory School for four
years and as provincial exam
iner for Chinese students desir
ing to study in the U. S. or
Europe. For his educational
work in China, Mt. St. Mary’s
College conferred a doctor of
laws degree on Father Francis
in 1924.
Missionary Priest
After serving as a secular
missionary priest for seven
years, Father pronounced his
vows as a Benedictine at the
Catholic University, Peking,
China in 1927.
The dean of the department
of discipline at the Catholic
University of China for three
years, he was appointed the
university’s chancellor in 1930.
He. later headed the department
of Western literature and lan
guages at the National Chinese
University of Honart from 1934
to 1938.
Sino-Japanese War
With the Japanese invasion
of China in 193 i, Father Francis
was chosen Chairman of the
Honan international relief com
mittee and vice-chairman of the
Honan provincial committee for
relief to officers and wounded
soldiers.
During his tenure in office,
he directed the distribution of
more than $1 million to refu
gees and indigents and the
opening and operation of 13
refugee camps in Kaifeng,
which fed 8,000 people daily
for two years. In addition, he
headed a staff which opened
and operated 12 dressing sta
tions which gave medical aid
and other comforts to 54,000
wounded soldiers brought from
the battlefields about Taierh-
chuang, Shantung.
Besides aiding flood and war
refugees throughout Honan
province for four years with
cash, medicine, food and cloth
ing, the international war relief
committee which he headed
gave shelter and protection to
1800 women and young girls
when the Japanese captured
Kaifeng in 1938, When Japanese
troops first entered Kaifeng,
Father Francis personally
toured the city and prevented
many atrocities, which the Jap
anese soldiery were wont to
perpetrate upofi the city’s
young men and women.
Arrested by the Japanese
army in Kaifeng in 1941, he was
held prisoner until 1945. During
interment, Father Francis was
chosen by more than 300 Catho
lic priests and sisters to repre
sent their interests as one of the
four members of the general
affairs committee, which direc
ted camp activities for 1850
prisoners.
Shortly after the surrender
of the Japanese in 1945, General
issimo Chiang Kai-Shek con
ferred upon Father Francis the
Order of the Auspicious Star,
the highest honor awarded a
foreigner, for his outstanding
contributions in the fields of
education and to the war-relief
effort. The Chinese Nationalist
government also awarded him
the Victory Medal for distin
guished war-relief work and the
honorific title of “Chung Jen”
or loyal person.
Father Francis was selected
counselor of the Chinese dele
gation attending the consistory
at Rome during which Pope Pius
XII conferred the red hat upon
China’s first cardinal, Thomas
Cardinal Tien in 1946. After re
turning from China, Father
Francis was appointed director
of the Newman Club and found
ed the Catholic student center
at the University of Georgia in
Athens, where he spent 10 years.
Father Francis was appointed
vice-president for development
and public relations at St. Pro
copius College in 1957. Presently
he directs the $3 million 8-
building program which has
been undertaken by the college.
U. S. PRESTIGE
WEAKENED BY
"GROUP HATE"
DALLAS, Tex., (NC)— A
priest-educator warned here
that U. S. prestige and influence
throughout the world are seri
ously weakened by signs of
“group hate” within this nation.
“In our efforts to be the moral
as well as the financial leaders
of the world, we find ourselves
paralyzed by group hate,” de
clared Father Robert I. Gan
non, S. J., former president of
Fordham University, New York.
Father Gannon made the
statement in an address at a
meeting of the Dallas Pastors’
Association and the Dallas
County Community Chest direc
tors and volunteers.
“What could give more aid
and comfort to the enemy to
day,” he asked, “than to know
that Americans are attacking
that unity of American families
which constitutes the very
essence of our country, shatter
ing the religious and racial
unity of our neighbors, shatter
ing our industrial peace?”
He added: “The Declaration
of Independence is just one be
loved expression of our way of
life, but in teaching us to treat
one another as persons it has
given us the key to all the dis
graceful modern problems that
involve Protestants, Catholics,
Jews, white and colored people,
native born and foreign born,
labor and management.”
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