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Services For
C. E» Rockwell
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mr. Charles Edgar Rockwell
were held November 10th at
the Immaculate Conception
Church, Rev. Leonard Kelly-
officiating.
Survivors are his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Bostain, Cincin
nati, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Jim
mie Yancey of Forest Park, Ga.;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Rock
well, Jr., U. S. Air Force; Mrs.
Aimer McCabe, Cincinnati,
Ohio, five grandchildren, sev
eral nieces and nephews.
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St. John’s Church in Hape
ville has a flourishing parish
library. New books are con
stantly added and circulation is
steadily increasing. In October,
221 books were circulated.
More than half of these, as in
previous months, were chil
dren’s books. Although St.
John’s school has a library of
its own, both parochial and pub
lic school children use the par
ish library. They are avid read
ers of the best Catholic and
general literature that can be
obtained. Many of the books
written primarily for teen
agers are read with interest by
adults as well. The librarians’
only problem is suppying the
demand. Such books, as the fol
lowing are most welcome:
AMERICAN BACKGROUND
BOOKS, lives of American Ca
tholic heroes and heroines, a
series of factual narratives for
readers 10 to 15 years old.
Twelve of these books have
been published by Kenedy at
$2.50 each. The latest are:
GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN
AND THE UNION CALVARY,
by Milton Lomask—a colorful
study of a headstrong and will
ful boy who gained mastery over
himself and went on to become
a careful, deliberate strategist
as well as a fearless, daring
fighter. .He took part in the
major campaigns of the War
Between the States (which au
thor Lomask treats with admir
able objectivity), including
those which led to Lee’s sur
render at Appomattox Court
house. The story is fast paced
and the pharacterization is ex
cellent,
DE TONTI OF THE IRON
HAND, by Anne Heagney—
biography of Henri de Tonti
who came to the New World
with La Salle after losing his
right hand fighting for France
in the Spanish wars. He accom
panied La Salle on the voyage
to discover the mouth of the
Mississippi River, worked for
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French interests in the Louisiana
Territory, oversaw the building
of forts and defended colonists
and their Indian allies against
various dangers. His memory
has lived especially in Arkansas
which is Miss Heagney’s home.
She has brought to life for all
young Americans this almost
forgotten hero and his com
panions, some of whom were
very young themselves.
Other recent books include:
PRAIRIE VENTURE, by Leo
V. Jacks, Bruce, $2.00 — a story
of pioneering and homesteading
days in Colorado, written for
boys and girls, ages 12 to 15,
tells of frontier hardihood, ad
venture and intrigue. The pro
tagonist is Margaret, a 15-year-
old girl who with her father and
elder sister goes to Goldmark,
Colorado to “prove up” home
steads. The family hopes to sell
their claims to provide medical
care for a bed-ridden sister and
education for a brother who
wishes to become a priest. They
meet various problems such as
building a sod shanty, a con
spiracy to drive out the home
steaders and the natural dan
gers of frontier life. An inter
esting account of a way of life
that youngsters of today will
find challenging and adven
turous.
SAINTS FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS, by Catherine and Robb
Beebe, Bruce, $1.50 — lives of
25 saints who are popular be
cause their names are familiar
or because they are patrons of
causes familiar to children. In
cluded are patrons for altar
boys, students, Boy and Girl
Scouts. Catherine Beebe tells
the stories to show how these
saints were like ordinary boys
and girls. Robb Beebe furnishes
the attractive illustrations.
MARRIAGES
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AUGUSTA—M i s s Carolyn
Rebecca Holliman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mercer
Holliman Jr. and Mr. Gerald
Arthur Shanahan of Marywood,
111., son of Mrs. Helen Morton
of Marywood were married No
vember 1st. at St. Mary’s-on-the-
Hill Shurch.
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MELBOURNE, Florida—Miss
Margaret Mary Dumouchel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Dumouchel of Indialantic, Flo
rida, and Mr. James William
Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
C. Hall of Hapeville, Georgia,
were married November 14 at
Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
Atlanta Services
For P. M. Lynch
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Peter M. Lynch, Sr., were
held November 14th at the Ca
thedral of Christ the King, Rev.
Alan Dillmann officiating.
Survivors are his wife, son,
Mr. Peter M. Lynch, Jr.; grand
children, Peter M. Lynch, III,
Margaret Stephanie Lynch; sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Built To “Last Forever”
Shrine Blends Age-old With
Undent Church Construction
THE BULLETIN, November 23, 1959-PAGE 7
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — Tech
niques more than a thousand
years old were used to build it,
yet the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception here is
one of the most modern church
es in the world.
The Cathedral of St. Mark in
Venice, dating from 1063; Santa
Sophia in Constaninople, dating
from 532, and the National
Shrine, which was dedicated
November 20, all embody iden
tical structural principles. But
built into the National Shrine
are electronic devices which
are the most modern in their
fields.
The National Shrine:
. . . Theoretically is construct
ed to last forever.
. . . Gives the United States
its first real national church
built by all the Catholics of the
country under the leadership of
their bishops.
... Is the largest Catholic
church in the United States.
... Is the seventh largest re
ligious edifice in the world.
... Is the largest shrine
church in the world.
... Is one of the most beau
tiful structures anywhere.
. . . Has an electrical load of
2,000,000 watts, equivalent to
that of a 15-story office build
ing with air conditioning and
all modern equipment.
... Is heated by probably the
largest single unobstructed rad
iant heating slab in the world.
Radiant heating, although con
sidered quite modern, incident
ally is the first form of central
heating ever installed in a
building, dating hack to the Ro
man Empire.
. . . Has an acoustical system,
including a public address ar
rangement, that is the last word
in modernity.
. . . Has temperature controls
that “anticipate” the weather.
. . . Gives the nation’s capital
a magnificent new place of pil
grimage.
Ten-million common bricks,
1,500,000 face bricks, 10,000 cu
bic yards of concrete, 350 car
loads of limestone and more
than 60,000 cubic feet of granite
went into the shrine’s construc
tion. Engineers say it is built of
“everlasting, materials.” Its
walls are so massive that con
ceivably it could, without as
sistance, have virtually the
same temperature the year
?ound. It would take so long for
outside heat to penetrate its
walls that the outdoor tempera
tures would be starting to drop
before the interior of the shrine
began to get warm.
But air will be circulated in
the vast upper church, where
the ceilings of three domes are
100 feet above the floor, and
that of a fourth dome 159 feet
in height. Thus it will not be
possible to rely on the great
walls for temperature comfort.
In designing the mechanical
and electrical services in the
Shrine, Stressenger, Adams,
Maguire and Reidy of Boston,
recognized two basic conditions:
(a) that the building theoretical
ly is constructed to last forever
and, therefore, the systems put
into it must serve their purpos
es in the distant future as well
as the present time, and, (b)
because of the large volume,
high ceilings and massive con
struction, they should seek to
heat, ventilate and illuminate
the useful areas as efficiently as
possible with a minimum of
wasted effort.
It was decided that the air
should be heated and ventilated
to a height of 12 feet above the
floor, and that a horizontal sur
face 30 inches above the floor
should be illuminated.
Radiant heat was chosen to
provide quick warmth within
12 feet of the floor. The ven
tilating system will take off
the thermal excess, which must
be taken into account wherever
a large number of people as
semble. Six miles of pipe lie
beneath the 50,000 square feet
of marble floor in the upper
church to provide the heat.
The temperature is controlled
by thermostats grouped in un
its of four each. In such a unit
one thermostat is in the floor,
one in the wall, one in the
glass of the Shrine and one out
side. The outside thermostat
“anticipates” changes in the
weather, then the four devices
compensate each other, and the
result is a heating system that
is “ahead of the weather,” and,
therefore, remarkably constant.
It was originally planned to
air condition the upper church
of the Shrine, but it was de
cided that in a structure its size
such treatment was unneces
sary.
There are in the upper church
magnificent chandeliers that
drop some 60 feet from the dis
tant ceilings. They throw light
upward, as well as down, to dis
pel the shadows near the ceil
ings, but they are largely orna
mental. Reading in the Shrine
will be done by light from the
domes; that is, from light origi
nating 100 to 150 feet away.
Downlights are set in four in
terior domes. In three domes
which are 100 feet above the
floor the lights, appearing as
round openings in the ceilings,
consist of clusters of twenty-
one 500-watt spotlights in each
dome. In the central, or “cross
ing” dome, where the ceiling
is 159 feet above the floor, the
downlight consists of a cluster
of thirty-seven 500-watt spot
lights plus a circlet of eighteen
1,000-watt.
■ This lighting arrangement
achieves two purposes. First, it
provides adequate lighting on
missals and prayerbooks that
will be read, as well as on
kneeling benches, chairs and
other objects. Second, it accen
tuates the loftiness of the
Shrine’s ceilings. The light will
not come down as a shaft but
will be covered with mosaics.
While keeping the radiated
heat within 12 feet of the floor,
more than enough height for
the area in which people will
move about, the engineers have
also arranged to confine the hu
man voice within 10 feet of the
floor.
This latter precaution was
found necessary, because it was
established that if low frequen
cies of sound should get up into
the domes, and particularly into
the great central dome, they
could reverberate for as much
as 15 seconds, causiing an over
lapping of sound.
To meet this situation, wires
have been installed beneath the
marble floor, with an outlet
^coming up under each pew.
Connected with each outlet will
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be a speaker for each four per
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Not only is the sound kept
close to the floor, but a mag
netic time delay unit will be
worked out which eventually
will pace sound emanating from
the sanctuary. Under this ar
rangement, the voice in the pul
pit will be taped automatically
and will then emanate from
the low level speakers at in
tervals of a fraction of a second
as the voice is carried toward
the back of the church. In this
way, a person sitting in the last
pew will hear the speaker at
the same time he would have
heard his voice normally, if the
voice would carry that far from
the sanctuary, which it will not.
Despite the minute time delays,
the person in the last pew seems
to hear the speaker’s words in
synchronization with his lips
and gestures.
Eugene F. Kennedy, Jr., of
Boston, active architect on the
shrine, said it is “unique,” and
is “reminiscent of no other
building in the world.”
John F. Maguire, Jr., of Bos
ton, electrical engineer on the
project, said: “As of today, it is
one of the most modern church
es in the world.”
There is no structural steel
in the Shrine. Massive piers of
brick are used where reinforced
concrete might have been. The
brick piers will last longer than
the reinforced columns, it is
contended. Mr. Kennedy says
that since the National Shrine
is built like St. Mark’s and San
ta Sophia, it can be anticipated
“with reasonable certainty” that
the great church in Washing
ton, will withstand the ravages
of time as well as the older edi
fices.
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