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PAGE 4—i‘Hi£ BULLETIN, June ii
1959
JOSEPH BREIG
OUR HUGE LITTLE NATION
Herewith I add Archbishop
Owen McCann of Cape Town,
South Africa, to my list of visi
tors from other countries who
have somehow been able to see
or to sense the real America.
The real
America can
not be glimps
ed in the sky
scrapers of
New York, in
the Golden
Gate Bridge
of California,
in the steel
plants of Pittsburg, or in the
endless streams of autos criss
crossing the nation.
America’s stupendous materi
al power is the consequence of
the God-given riches of the
earth, of the huge energy and
industriousness of the people,
and of the climate of freedom
which has encouraged initiative
and application to the job.
It is the result also of one
nation indivisible, of the ab
sence of national borders and
trade barriers, of a profound
comradeship that makes Ameri
cans marvellously cooperative,
and of the education of our
youth.
UNDERLYING all these fac
tors is America’s good humor—
America’s quiet and undermon-
strative happiness—which grows
out of our national respect for
human rights, and our national
habit of opening doors for enter
prise and inventiveness.
Americans are not sullen be
cause Americans are not sup
pressed, and are no looked down
upon. This is not perfectly and
universally so, but it is general
ly so, and even for the least of
us there is hope and oppor
tunity.
But there is an even deeper
America—an America that no
one can discover by counting
our wealth, or touring our cities,
or inspecting our gigantic in
dustries, or even by observing
our neople as they pass.
THE CENTRAL SECRET of
America’s greatness is the hu
mility of Americans. And Amer
ican humility and equality—sad
ered except by a humble person
who will go among Americans
at their work, at play, and at
home.
There are jokes about this,
and they express a truth. “Be
polite to the elevator operator;
he may be your next boss,” is
one of them.
The fact that is indispensable
for understanding America is
this: it is nearly impossible for
an American to feel superior to
anybody.
In youth, perhaps, some of us
may begin our workaday lives
looking down on some others of
us. But America has a perfect
genius for relieving a man of
that kind of attitude.
IN SHORT ORDER, even the
most conceited of us learns that
nothing really impresses Ameri
cans, not for long, except accom
plishments: that the janitor may
be a more intelligent person
than the chairman of the board:
and that nothing is as unpopular
in America as pride.
We are so free that wisdom
and ability are at liberty to ex
press themselves and to earn the
respect they deserve. No matter
in what lowly place they may be
hidden. And we do really accept
in the blood and the bones of us
the fact that all men are created
equal and are entitled to equal
treatment—simply because they
are human beings.
We are courteous to the boss:
but we are no cringing. We will
not have it so, and neither will
he. He knows that we are his
equals: and we know that he is
ours. We step back to let him go
first through a doorway—but he
steps even farther back for us.
He is an American.
THERE ARE POCKETS of
unhappy violation of this Amer
ican humility and equally—sad
legacies that have come to bur
den us from the past. We have
not yet achieved, for instance,
the full opportunity we wish for
our Negro people.
It is possible for an American
Negro to feel sullen. But the
vital fact is that we do not boast
of this fact; we hate it. We are
caught in a situation that we de
test, and from which we are
struggling to free ourselves.
Archbishop McCann, in a visit
to America, perceived our di
lemma and our good will. Upon
his return to South Africa,
where suppression of Negroes,
Indians and other “colored” peo
ple is government policy, he ad
dressed the Cape Town Institute
of Citizenship.
He told his people that Amer
ica is trying to solve its race
problem through unity, not
through separateness, whereas
South Africa is doing the oppo
site. I quote him:
"The U. S. is by no means per
fect, nor is everything there
right; but the nation does show
us certain lessons that we can
well learn. Its Constitution and
the character of its people gen
erally seek justice and charity."
Archbishop McCann is right.
Well do I know the fearful com
plexities of the racial problems
both of our South and our
North—and for that matter of
our West. But I know America,
too; and America will find the
solutions. ' m ' f ’
Theology
For The
Layman
(By F. J. Sheed)
FALL OF ANGELS
All spiritual beings, angels
and men alike, are created by
God with the Beatific Vision,
the direct vision of Himself, as
destiny. All of them need Super
natural Life to give them the
powers of see
ing and loving
that their des
tiny call for.
And for all
there is an in-
tervel — for
growth or
testing be-
tween the
granting of Supernatural Life
and its flowering in the Beatific
Vision. Once God is seen as He
is, with the intellect in the im
mediate contact of sight and the
will in the immediate contact of
love, it is impossible for the soul
to see the choice of self against
God as anything but repulsive,
and in the profoundest sense
meaningless; in the immediate
contact, the self knows beati
tude, total well-being, and no
element in the self could even
conceive of wishing to lose it.
But until then, the will, even
supernaturally alive, may still
choose self.
So it was with the angels. God
created them with their natural
life, pure spirits knowing and
loving; and with Supernatural
Life. And some of them chose
self, self as against God. We
know that one was their leader;
him we call the Devil, the rest
demons; he is, the named one—
Lucifer (though he is never call
ed so in Scripture), Satan which
means Enemy, Apollyon which
means Exterminator, Beelzebub
the Lord of Flies. The rest are
an evil, anonymous multitude.
The detail of their sin we do
not know. In some form it was,
like all sin, a refusal of love,
a turning of the will from God,
who is supreme goodness, to
wards self. Theologians are at
one in thinking it was a sin of
Pride; all sins involve following
one’s own desire in place of
God’s will, but Pride goes all
the way, putting oneself in
God’s place, making oneself the
centre of the universe, It is total
folly of course, and the angels
knew it. But the awareness of
folly does not keep us from sin
ning and did not keep them.
The world well lost for love—
that can be the cry of self-love
too. One of the secondary theo-
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How Do You Rate
on Facts of Faith
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By Brian Cronin
1. To what was Christ referring when He said: “Do this in
remembrance of Me”?: (a) The Lord’s Prayer? (b) The
Mass? (c) The Stations of the Cross? (d) Fasting?
2. Which one of the Four Evangelists was a physician?:
(a) Matthew? (b) Mark? (c) Luke? (d) John?
3. Who conveyed to Mary the message that her Son be called
Jesus?: (a) Zachary? (b) St. John the Baptist? (c) Mary
and Joseph? (d) The Angel Gabriel?
4. Pontius Pilate offered the Jews the choice of freeing either
Jesus or a criminal prisoner named: (a) Dismas? (b) Ba-
rabbas? (c) Gestas? (d) Caiphas?
5. The Mass of the Presanctified, in which there is no con
secration, is celebrated on: (a) All Souls’ Day? (b) Holy
Thursday? (c) Ash Wednesday? (d) Good. Friday?
6. Where is the North American College? In: (a) The Vatican?
(b) Boston? (c) Montreal? (d) Washington?
7. Who was the Pope who devised our calendar?: (a) Pope
Pius X? (b) Pope Gregory XIII? (c) St. Peter? (d) Pope
Adrian IV?
8. What feast is celebrated on December 8th each year?:
(a) The Assumption of Our Lady? (b) The Annunciation?
(c) The Immaculate Conception? (d) The ! Epiphany?
Choosing A College - - Home Or Far Away?
THE BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80-Excellent; 70-Very Good; 60-Good; 50-Fair.
Answers: 1 (b); 2 (c); 3 (d); 4 (b); 5 (d);
6 (a); 7 (b); 8 (c),
SHARING OUR TREASURE
A Jew Becomes A Catholic Priest
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
— (Universiiy of Notre Dame)
Question
Box
Jottings...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
Py David Q. Lintak
Q. No >~>a*ter how many times
I'm to'd P's a’l rinht to do so,
I simDiy don't feed rioht about
coin? to Communion with un
confessed venial sins on my con
science. So that if T commit
sons slight fault, svr-h as be
coming unnecessarily anrry
wi»h mv familv, I usually put
off ctoinn to Communion until
P>e next time I can cret to con
fession. Am I too scrupulous
about this? How can you solve
such a dilemma?
A. The only spiritual reemi-
s’tes for the reception of the
Blessed Eucharist are a right in
tention and the state of grace.
A right intention means being
motivated bv the desire to
please God and the will to be
come more united to Him by
charity. The state of grace
means absence of mortal sin.
Hence it is clearly not wrong
to approach the altar rail with
unconfessed venial sins on one’s
soul.
Such has alwavs been the
teaching of the Church. Centu
ries ago. St. Augustine wrote:
“If you have sins on your con
science, as long as they are not
mortal sins, do not hesitate to
come . . .” And in our own time
we have had several unmistak
able admonitions such as this
one from the Holy See:
“Although it is most exnedi-
ent that those who communi
cate freciuently or daily should
be free from venial sins, espe
cially from such as are fully
deliberate, and from any affec
tion thereto, nevertheless it is
sufficient that thev be free from
mortal sins, with the purpose of
never sinning in the future; and
if they have this sincere pur
pose, it is impossible but that
daily communicants should
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• ARE YOU secretly dazzled
bv visiting royalty? I heard a
European lecturer once state
how surprised he was to find
that the average, down-to-earth,
democratic American is terribly
impressed and agog before the
roval purple. He cites the so
ciety pages which come alive
with sparkle at the drop of a
titled name. He cited how
Americans like to wear crests
on their jackets and psycholo
gists claim that royalty is a
selling point with brands—a
coat of arms, a distinctive label
is sure to win customers. Per
haps we do like the pageantry
and pomn of the roval cere
monial and look with awe at the
visiting prince or duke but so
what! I would sav that it is a
carryover from our childhood
and the fairv stories of the
oueens and princes and Cm-
derellas. We never have really
grown up to the point where we
will admit they are make-
believe. .au +his came to mind
recently. Princess Ileana of Ro
mania caused craite a stir among
a thousand American college
student-,- pq gt Marv’s College
in Ind'Vna, when she arrived
to sneak on “The Spiritual
Against Communism ” She wore
no tiara or rpd sarii or royal
gown and train. She wore a
gray flannel suit and low black
shoes. Yet there was something
regal about her even without
the trappings and fanfare.
* * *
• SEATED next to her at
dinner before her lecture, we
talked of Boston, where she now
lives, T. S. Eliot, and the
Ecumenical Congress. Princess
Ileana is a devout member of
the Greek Orthodox Church.
Her children are all Roman
Catholics. Her interest in the
forthcoming Congress^ was es
pecially gratifying to us. I was
more impressed with her ap
parent deep faith and dedication
to the fighting of Communism
than the fact that she was sister
of the Late Kinr Carlos of Ro
mania and the fact that she is
a cousin to both Queen Eliza
beth and Prince Philip. This
hardly occurred to me until I
heard her introduced. At the
dinner, we were all served
steaks and Princess Ileana left
hers untouched on the plate. It
turned out that it was Holy
Week for her and she was fast
ing, She marked the Russian
Easter which occurred this year
on Mav 3. She told us many of
the differences and similiarities
between her rite and the Roman
Church. This launched us into
the Ecumenical discussion. As a
devout member of her rite more
than a roval personage she awed
me at that dinner. I refuse to
be baited by the debaters who
pull out the democratic placards
and banners and all the organ
stons to sav we are being hyp
notized bv title and tiara.
Princess Ileana was auite
charming as a member of
rovaltv—a lecturer—r>r a Boston
housewife as she calls herself
now.
* * »
• HER L-TPE, authentic his
tory, would make the fairv tales
seem pale and tame. He demo
cratic manifestations in her
country and here in America
would be enough to please even
the most bitter royal critics. She
founded a hospital and has done
social work and nursing—to the
By Rev. John A. O'Brien, Ph. D.
(Universiiy of Noire Dame)
Among the most potent means
of spreading Christ’s teachings
and winning converts is the
printed word. Unlike the spoken
word, it abides and carries its
message to successive genera
tions. Get a
Catholic news
paper, maga
zine, pamph
let or book
into the hands
of a truith
seeker and it
may start him
on the path
that leads to the baptismal font
in a Catholic church.
This is illustrated by the ex
perience of the noted convert
and scholar, Rev. John M.
Oesterreicher, Director of the
Institute of Judaeo-Christian
Studies, Seton Hall University,
31 clinton Street, Newark, N. J.
Seated in my study, Father be
gan: “I was born of Jewish par
ents in Austria and had the
typical Jewish conception of
Chrisitanity. When I was about
17, I walked into a bookstore
and, browsing among the books,
ran across a little volume, Say
ings of Jesus, a compilation
from the Gospels. I bought it,
read it and was captivated by
the majesty and gentleness of
Christ.
“This was my first acquain
tance with- the Master, and the
irony of it is that it" was made-
through a book compiled by a
notorious anti-Semite, Huston
Stuart Chamberlain, the intel
lectual mentor of Adoloh Hitler.
I then decided to read the Gos
pels in full and the more I read,
the more my wonderment, awe
and admiration for Jesus grew.
“For several vear<; I regarded
Christ as the Messias. but still
considered Christian dogma as
point of de-lousing patients. She
smuggled her nrecious diamond
and sanhire tiara with its cen
ter stone of 125 carats out of
Romania in a nightgown. She
sold the tiara to sunnort and
educate her six children in
America. She sneaks of her life
in America with nuiet and an-
preciative humor. In romnarna
life in the Boston suburbs with
her pathologist husband to Ro
manian courts, savs: “In Ro
mania. for examnle. there was
a trumpeter who blew a lovely
call—a succession of auick gol
den notes when anv of us en
tered or left, the palace. Here I
come auietlv into my own drive,
a passing neighbor mav nod
pleasantly, mv kev unlocks the
door into mv silent hall. In Aus
tria. a formal and official letter
to me would be addressed: Her
Imperial and Roval Highness,
the Most Illustrious Arch
duchess and Ladv. Here the
postman says briskly and cheer
fully when I open the door to
his ring, “Hapsburgh here?” as
she looks over his parcels . . .
But there are outward things,
and of little importance.”
a corruption of the teachings
of the Gospel. I might have re
mained indefinitely in that con
viction had I not chanced upon
another book, Cardinal New
man’s Essay on the Development
of Christian Doctrine. That made
clear to me that we are not to
expect to find the doctrines of
Christianity fully developed in
the Gospel but often only in
their embryonic form.
“That cleared up my dif
ficulty, as it has for many other
truth seekers, and now my ad
miration extended not only to
Christ but to the religion which
He founded. Investigation
speedily disclosed that there is
but one Christian Church which
goes back to Christ and that is
the Catholic Church. I could
not join a sect that came into
being only 15 centuries after
ward, as all Protestant denomi
nations have.
“I wanted the Church founded
by Christ, authorized by Him to
teach all nations, presided over
by Peter and his successors for
19 centuries. All history'showed
this to be the Catholic Church.
I read Pohl’s three-volumned
Christian Dogma and saw how
one doctrine dovetails with
another like the stones in a
great cathedral.
“At 20, I was baptized, with
Dr. Max Joseph Metzger, found
er of the Society of Christ the
King and of the Una Sancfa
movement , for Christian unity,
..as my godfather,. He was be
headed. by the Nazis because of
his peace efforts. Deciding to
devote my life to Christ and to
the spread of His life-giving
truths. I was ordained upon the
completion of mv theological
studies at Vienna University on
Julv 17, 1927.
“Fleeing frrnn the Nazis. I
went first to Paris and in 1940
came to America. Our Institute
of Judaeo-Christian Studies
seeks to promote a deener un
derstanding of the relation be
tween Judaism and Christianity,
showing the latter to be the
flowering and fulfillment of the
former.
“When I became a Christian
I didn’t abandon the spiritual
treasures of the Old Testament
but came into possession of mv
full inheritance—the truths of
the New Testament revealed by
Christ. Our Institute strives to
be a bridge leading truth-seek
ers to Christ, the Messias
promised of old to Isreal.”
Father O’Brien trill be nrate-
ful to readers who know of anv-
one who has iron two or more
converts if thev trill stnd the
names and addresses of such Per
sons to him at Notre Dame Uni
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
(By John C. O'Brien)
Thousands of high school sen
iors will be making soon, if
they have not already made it,
a decision as to whether to at
tend a college in their home
town as day
college some
distance away
as boarders.
For some
s t u dents, of
course, the
question of a
choice never i
arises. Because
their parents
feel they cannot afford the addi
tional cost of boarding a student
at college, many students are
compelled to . seek their higher
education at a college in, or
within commuting distance of,
their home community.
For the students who do have
a choice, the question they must
consider is, “Which is preferable
-—the status of a day student at
a close-at-hand college or board
er at a college some distance
away?”
AID TO MATURITY?
This is a question to which
professional educators have giv
en considerable thought. And
the conclusion of a panel who
participated in a recent discus
sion of. the problems of the col
lege students was that it is
preferable for the student who
can afford it to go away to col
lege.
In the opinion of David Rites-
man, Henry Ford II Professor of
Social Sciences at Harvard Uni
versity, “no one should be
allowed to to go to college less
than 500 miles from home with
out good reason.”
The objective to transferring
from high school to a college in
a .student’s home community
most frequently mentioned dur
ing the panel discussion was
that the transition does not pro
vide the dramatic “break” from
the “high school attitude” that
the student needs.
As Chancellor Clark Kerr, of
the University of California,
points out, for students who go
to a college close to home, col
lege never seems much different
from going to high school. At
home the student does not have
the opportunity that he would
have on a distant college campus
to develop a sense of responsi
bility and advance toward
maturity.
All of the educators made the
point that a student living on
campus, being no longer under
parental discipline, is required
to make decisions of his own re
lating to almost every detail of
daily life. He must learn to
spend money carefully, fulfill
his moral obligations to himself
and others without prodding
from his parents and maintain
his scholastic standing free from
the critical eye of home mentors.
Students in the Eastern part
of the United States' are prone
to seek admission to the “big
name” colleges, which in their
opinion or that of their parents
have social prestige.
REBELLION AGAINST
DISCIPLINE
Applicants for admission to
college, the educators noted,
would be spared much heart
ache if, instead of trying to get
into the over-crowded big name
colleges, they would seek out
colleges at a considerable dis
tance from their homes, which
offer first rate instruction and
have the facilities to take more
students than seek admission.
Many parents, it is true, are
deterred from permitting their
sons and daughters to stray far
from mother’s apron strings be
cause they mistrust the lack of
discipline on many college cam
puses. Catholic colleges, of
course, maintain a relatively
close surveillance of the conduct
of students on campus and im
pose campus regulations. In
many non-Catholic colleges, on
the otherhand, campus life is
subjected only to a minimum
of faculty supervision.
That students on campus are
prone to rebel against authority
was conceded by the educators
who have been quoted as favor
ing campus life at a college dis
tant from the student’s home.
There seems to be an unwilling
ness, Dr. Killian noted, “to ac
cept anything if a faculty or an
institution says it ought to be.”
But despite this resentment
by students ,of any kind of rule
or regimentation or even order
ly process, most of the educa
tors suggested that present day
students are more mature and
steadier than their fathers were
in their college days.
Against Shch ! pranks as mass
attempts to break up a parade,
such as occurred at Yale not
long ago, the educators noted,
must be set down the fact that
students conduct their relations
with each other with much more
sagacity and maturity than earl
ier generations of students.
Fattier Wbarlvu’i
View
from the Rectory
Services For
Miss Sullivan
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral
services for Miss Julia Sullivan
were held May 26th at St.
Michaels Church Savannah
Beach,
A well-known comedian tells
this one about his youngster:
“My kid didn’t utter his first
words until he was six. All of
a sudden one morning he open
ed his mouth and said: ‘This
cocoa tastes awful.’ We got so
excited we ran to tell every
body he had finally spoken.
Later I asked him: ‘How come
it took you six years to speak?’
He said: ‘up to now everything’s
been okay!’”
That’s what happens when
the little ones arrive in the
neighborhood of six or seven:
reason starts to assert itself
and tell them not only what’s
right or wrong with themselves
—but also what’s right or wrong
with the world. Nevertheless,
there’s a bright side of the pic
ture: conscience starts to func
tion.
Be thankful it starts to work
sometime, too. Mayhem may be
in your heart when baby pla
cidly tosses a spoonful of oat
meal in your face. But you
calmly tell yourself, presumab
ly, that he doesn’t know any
better. You can blame every
thing on him when he’s old
enough to know right from
wrong. Conscience is a wonder
ful thing.
Of course, someone will al
ways come along with an at
tempt to deny that we have
this little “voice of reason.” I
mean the nrofessionals, now.
The ones who say there’s no
right or wrong excent what peo-
nle expect. Even five-year-old
Ferdinand, a precocious child
studying French in his spare
moments, may deny conscience.
Staring at the Creature from the
Black Lagoon on his plate next
Friday, he may announce: “I
can have meat. I haven’t reach
ed the age of reason yet.”
Six or sixty, however, your
conscience tells you what you
should not do as long as your
reason is in good working or
der. Not that you should hear
little voices constantly. It’s not
like your mother-in-law telling
you everv dav what’s wrong
with our job. Conscience, is as
persistent as she is, but not that
loud. And there’s no little man
inside of vou whispering, “Don’t
do that,” Nor does your guard
ian angel swoop down from his
heavenly perch to deliver an
ultimatum. If you have been ac-
tuallv hearing voices like that,
you have either swallowed your
transistor radio or gone off your
rocker.
Conscience is simply our rea
son judging that a particular
action here and now is right
or wrong. Whether we recog
nize and follow it or not, con
science is there. Adam and Eve
had it; that’s why they took to
the woods in shame after they
became fruit-samplers. Cain’s
conscience was working when
he let Abel have it. There was
no catechism to let him know it
is not nice for brothers to kill
each other; he just knew it
from his reason.
As we said, this is true de
spite the critics who claim
there’s no such thing as con
science. “It’s a device,” they say,
“that doesn’t keep you from do
ing anything; just keeps you
from enjoying it.” Nonsense. If
you doubt that you have a con
science, you’re merely used to
paying no attention to its de
mands. Maybe you have no feel
ing about it when you push
grandma down the steps be
cause you don’t like her any
way, and you’re used to stealing
candy from dogs and kicking
little children (or vice-versa). If
you thought about it, you’d have
a terrific bout with your con
science.
Although consciences are gen
erally reliable, they are not al
ways correct. Junior may tell a
lie, for example, to save his lit
tle brother from punishment. He
judges, incorrectly, that his duty
to his brother takes precedence
over his duty to tell the truth.
So he commits no sin because
conscience must be followed. A
person who thinks all dogs must
be shot on sight (how wrong
can you get?) must go ahead
and fire away.
It’s not only okay, it’s a defi
nite obligation, to follr/w con
science — even if it’» wrong.
Wrong, that is, through no fault
of our own. Obviously we have
to try to form a correct con
science — and we can’t think
something’s right when God or
the Church officially declares it
evil.
Sometimes your conscience
may be doubtful. In this case,
you shouldn’t act until you have
tried to find out the answer.
Otherwise it’s like saying, “This
might be a sin, but I’ll do it
anyway.” Just for illustration’s
sake, suppose you’re not sure
whether Catholics may eat fish
on Monday. You can’t just go
ahead and eat the fish. It’s nec
essary to consult an authority.
Besides, eating fish when you
don’t have to is ridiculous.
The whole idea is to develop
a tender and delicate conscience,
and follow it. It’s an admirable
person whose conscience calls
the plays as it sees them and
makes him avoid even slight
wrong. A lax conscience which
overlooks many obligations and
a scrupulous conscience which
magnifies obligations are two
extremes that should he avoided
like pickles and ice cream.
Make no mistake about it:
conscience is here to stay. You
can beat it down or ignore it, or
sav it isn’t there. But, like mo
ther-in-law. it will always have
the last word.
Services For
M rs. Hicigintbof-liam
AUGUSTA. Ga -—F u n e r a 1
services for Mts/Flla Mae ,Whit
tle Hill Higginbotham were held
May 23rd at the Sacred Heart
Church, Rev. J. E. O’Donohoe,
S. J. officiating.
Survivors are her husband,
W. T. Higginbotham; daughter,
Mrs. Marv Elizabeth McCnrkle
of Belvedere, S, C : son, J. A.
Whittle of Augusta; three
grandchidren: three step-daugh
ters, Mrs. Louise Burch of Elize-
beth City, N. C.. Mrs. J. B. Ash
ley of Portsmouth, Va., and Mrs.
Robert Carter of Baltimore, Md.:
step-son, William Higginbotham
of Norfolk, Va.
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1953-1959
GEORGE GINGELLi Columbus President
MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon Vice-President
TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President
NTCK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary
JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer
ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor
JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta _ Financial Secretary