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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, May SO, 1959 TO ITALY, FRANCE, IRELAND (ALL OF EUROPE) THE HOLY LAND AROUND THE WORLD For free illustrated booklet write or call collect 4 .A ok son 5-6817 1620 Rhodes Haverty Bldg. ATLANTA OR YOUR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT Qualify Furniture at Lowest Prices BUFORD HIGHWAY — Phone GL. 7-2011 dale's CELLAR RESTAURANT PEACHTREE AND IVY STREETS CHARCOAL BROILED STEAK CHICKEN — SEAFOOD Hours: 11 a. m.-31 p. m„ Luncheon through Dinner VISIT BEAUTIFUL DALE'S COFFEE HOUSE Lobby Imperial Hotel 6 a. m.-lO p. m. NURSING can be the best preparation for a PROFESSIONAL career for MOTHERHOOD or for the RELIGIOUS life — Write or Call — ST. JOSEPH’S INFIRMARY SCHOOL OF NURSING ATLANTA, GA. JA. 5-4681 Sutter & McLettan ■ ~1 1023 MORTGAGE GUARANTEE BUILDING JAckson 5-2086 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Where Insurance Is A Profession . . . Not A Sideline Cagle’s Nursery & Garden Center IS PROUD TO RECOMMEND ASK for the BRIGHT YELLOW BAG with the PENNINGTON GREEN TAG! Cagle’s Nursery & Garden Center 3280 Northside Drive, N. W. CR. 7-1447 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 Vi of sweet Cold plates rote ND O 1 LAKES sweet cream BUTTER in every pound MULLINS T.V. SERVICE SALES A SERVICE Satisfaction Guaranteed 118 Tenth Street, N.E., TR. 2-6975 Atlanta, Ga. NEW FURNITURE WHOLESALE COST OR LESS FURNITURE CARRIER CO. Slightly Damaged 370 LEE ST. S. W. ATLANTA, GA. LIBERAL DIVIDENDS ON SAVINGS Savings received by ihe 10th Earn Dividends for Thai Month PO. 7-9774 TRI-CITY FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association 606 South Central Ave. Hapeville Shirley for the Carnegie Medal 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.” BUCKHEAD MEN'S SHOP Arrow Shirts Stetson Hats Jarman Shoes McGregor Sportswear Haspel Suits CE. 3-6759 3047 Peachtree Rd., N. E. Official Boy Scout Trading Post PHONE JA. 2-6500 589 FORREST RD.. N. E. 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