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Vol. 42, No. 7
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961
Published By The
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Ass'n of Georgia
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Symbols of Slavery and Freedom Clash In Berlin
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Appointments
Diocese Establishes
New Columbus Parish
To Be Named For St. Anne;
Klsgr. Beimel First Pastor
Symbolic of the enslavement of the people of East Germany and the stifling of freedom
•everywhere behind the Iron Curtain is the barbed wire and armed guard pictured before
the towering dome of St. Michael’s Church on Engeldamm in East Berlin, a remaining
symbol of hope. The barbed wire emphasizes the growing intensity of the communist
campaign to stop the flow of refugees from the East to the West, through the city of
Berlin. CNC Photos!
Thirty-Eight Complete
Course In Leadership
RT. REV. EDWARD
BARRON, D.D.
Sepi. 12, 1854
O God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the priesthood
of the Apostles, grant, we im
plore, that they may also be one
of their company forever in
heaven. Through Christ Our
Lord. Amen.
Father Maurus Fitzgerald, O.F.M. (left) of the St. An
thony’s Guild of the Franciscan Fathers, Paterson, N.J.*
discusses the donation by the nation’s three major religious
faiths of 2,000 cartons of Bibles and prayer books to the
Office of Civil Defense Mobilization. With Father Fitzgerald
is Dr. Fred W. Kern, director of the OCDM Religious Affairs
Office, Battle Creek, Mich., who accepted the gift. The ma
terials would be used by hospital chaplains to assure re
ligious comfort for those hospitalized in the event of &SX
attack on the U.S. (NC Photos!
SAVANNAH—A new parish named in honor of St.
Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and grand
mother of the Redeemer, has been erected in Columbus,
it was announced by His Excellency, Bishop Thomas
J. McDonough.
The establishment of St.
Anne’s brings to four the num
ber of parishes in the historic
and mushrooming Muscogee
County city.
Founder and first pastor of
St. Anne’s parish is the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Herman J. Deimel,
formerly pastor of Holy Fam
ily Church, Columbus. The
Rev. Lawrence Lucree, assist
ant pastor of Holy Family and
associate editor of The Bulle
tin, will serve as assistant pas
tor of the new parish.
Until a new church is con
structed, headquarters for the
new parish will be the Holy
Family parish school, which
has been renamed St Anne’s.
Mass has been offered there
on Sundays and Holy Days for
several years.
According to Monsignor Dei
mel, no construction is plan
ned in the near future.
Until four years ago, Holy
Family and St. Benedict’s were
the only Catholic churches in
Columbus. Then, in 1957 Our
Lady of Lourdes parish was
established to serve the needs
of the many Catholic service
personnel from Fort Benning
as well as many new Catholic
non-military families.
Now, the continued growth
of the Catholic community in
this rapidly growing city has
made the erection of a fourth
parish necessary.
The new parish is located in
the Edgewood section, on the
east side of Columbus, and in
cludes approximately 300 fam
ilies.
Succeeding Msgr. Deimel as
pastor of Holy Family parish
is the Rev. Arthur Weltzer,
former pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta. He will be
assisted by the Rev, Walter
De Francesco, who has been
assistant pastor at Holy Fam
ily for the past year.
The erection of the new par
ish has also necessitated other
clergy transfers. The official
appointments are found else
where on this page.
MSGR. DEIMEL
Pastor New Parish
Classes Begin Sept. 8th
New Seminary
Building Ready
SAVANNAH — 38 young
women from ten cities and
four states participated in a
“Leadership Camp in Chris
tian Living,” conducted at the
Savannah Diocese’s Camp Vil
la Marie between August 17th
and August 26th.
Staff members for the course
were the Rev. John McShane,
S.M., of Marist Semniary,
Washington, D. C., who served
as spiritual moderator; Sister
M. Felicitas, R.S.M., principal
of Mount de Sales High
School, Macon, who served as
Camp director; and Sister M.
Michelle, R.S.M., principal of
Mercy High School, Baltimore,
Md., who was assistant direc
tor.
Other staff members were
Sister M. Gratia, R.S.M., of
Mount St. Agnes School, Bal
timore; Sister Mary Malanie,
R.S.M., of Mercy Hospital
School of Nursing, Baltimore,
Md.; Sister Mary Sarto, R.S.M.,
of Catholic High School, Pen
sacola, Fla.; Sister M. Jude,
R.S.M., principal of Blessed
Sacrament School, Savannah;
Sister M .Agnese, R.S.M., of
Mercy High School, Baltimore,
Md.; Sister M. Annunciata,
R.S.M., of Pacelli High School,
Columbus; Sister M. Venard,
R.S.M., of Our Lady’s Day
School, Atlanta; Sister Miriam
Regina, R.S.M., of St. Joseph’s
School, Macon; and Sister
Martin Marie, R.S.M., of Holy
Family School, Columbus.
The young women attended
lectures and participated in
discussions on “The meaning
and use of leisure,” “The Ecu
menical Council,” “Commun
ism,” “Parish Life,” “The
Christian in Politics,” “Labor,”
“International Life,” “Devel
opment of the Intellectual
Life,” “Prayer and Sacrifice in
the Church,” “The Mystical
Body,” “Effective Public
Speaking,” “Psychology of
Leadership,” “Religious Life,”
“Family L i f e,” “Nursing,”
“The Christian in Politics,”
“The Church and Drama,”
LEADERSHIP COURSE—Pictured above are the young ladies who completed the
Leadership Camp in Christian Living held at Camp Villa Marie, August 17-26. The girls
attending came from the college, nursing schools and high schools staffed by the Sisters
of Mercy of the Province of Baltimore.
BR. GUIANA TAKES
STEP TOWARD LEFT
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana — The leftist Peo
ple’s Progressive Party, led by an East Indian dentist
with scorn for the U. S. and praise for communist coun
tries, has retained power in British Guiana’s legislative
SAVANNAH — The new St. John Vianney Minor
Seminary building will be ready when approximately
sixty students report next week.
Parliamentary Law,” and
“Communications.”
Attending the leadership
course were:
Page McKean, Gainesville,
Fla.; Judy Glasheen, Balti
more, Md.; Kathleen McGlone,
Baltimore, Md.; Kathy Miller,
Pensacola, Fla.; Kathleen Cal
lahan, Pensacola, Fla.; Mary
Anderson, Atlanta; Collette
Thompson, Atlanta; Margaret
Lloyd, Savannah; Anne Win
ters, Savannah; Nina Fonte,
Savannah; Ann Harper, Sav
annah.
Martha Blessington, Savan
nah; Anita Marie Troy, Balti
more, Md.; Peggy Rudolph,
Baltimore, Md.; Joyce Amrh-
ein, Baltimore, Md.; Kathy
Nash, Baltimore, Md.; Marilyn
Blakewick, Baltimore, Md.;
Patricia Anne Weaver, Mobile,
Ala.; Christine Dolan, Mobile,
Ala.; Jean Lange, Mobile, Ala.;
Kathy Gaines, Macon; Sara
Kersey, Macon.
Anne McBrearty, Macon;
Penny Hale, Macon; Bettie
Leonard, Columbus; Patty Sue
Leonard, Columbus; Patty
Gallman, Columbus; Kay Mac-
atee, Baltimore, Md.; Christine
Mi k u 1 s k i, Baltimore, Md.;
Anne McDonald, Baltimore,
Md.; Jane McKenney, Balti
more, Md.; Mary Jo Barnhart,
Atlanta; Jean Marie Correll,
Atlanta; Teresa Wilkinson,
Chamblee; Patty Daly, Savan
nah; Angela Hebert, Port
Wentworth; Marianna Seyden,
Savannah Beach; Remy Sicay,
Savannah.
Historic Church
Becomes Cathedral
BATON ROUGE — Historic
St. Joseph’s Church here has
been selected as the cathedral
of the new established Diocese
of Baton Rouge.
There on November 8 the
Most Rev. Robert Emmet Tra
cy, now Auxiliary Bishop of
Lafayette, La., will be en
throned by Archbishop Egidio
Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate
to the United States, as the
first Bishop of Baton Rouge.
The elections apparently
sealed the fate of 51 denomina
tional schools taken over this
summer by the leftist govern
ment. They also boded ill for
the colony’s Catholic secon
dary schools since the govern
ment has threatened to with
draw subsidies.
Britain is expected within
the next two years to grant
independence to Guiana.
Cheddi Jagan, Chicago-edu
cated dentist who leads the
PPP, has been serving as min
ister of industry in the 14-seat
executive council which Brit
ain provided for in 1957. His
post amounted to that of prime
minister under the govern
or through whom Britain
rules. In 1953 Britain ousted
a government headed by Ja-
gan, jailed him for subversion
and incitement to violence, and
suspended a constitution it had
granted.
In complete returns from
the heavily forested colony
gave Jagan’s PPP 19 of the
new legislature’s 35 seats. He
was expected to pick up at
least two more.
The People’s National Con
gress, which appeals mainly to
Negro voters, won nine seats.
The returns gave only two
seats to the anticommunist
United Force of Peter d’Agu-
iar, a Catholic businessman
who campaigned on a platform
of social reform and improve
ment of working conditions.
About 42 per cent of the
colony’s 5§0,000 people are
East Indians, like Jagan. A
somewhat smaller percentage
are Negroes, and the rest are
native Indians or of European
extraction.
Jagan has denied communist
ties.
“All this talk of commun
ism, all the bitter racial feel
ings, are but weapons of our
enemies designed to split the
vote,” he said.
“I do not propose to estab-
(Continued on Page 6)
Scholarships
In Honor Of
Three Nurses
SAVANNAH — Sister Mary
Bonaventure, director of St.
Joseph’s School of Nursing,
has announced the establish
ment of a memorial scholar
ship. |
To be known as the Palmer-
Roughen-Smith scholarship, it
will perpetuate the memory of
the three Seniors from the
school who were killed in an
auto accident last May.
The scholarship was devel
oped by six student nurses
who received substantial fi
nancial support from the mem
bers of the medical staff.
“It is hoped,” Sister Bona
venture said, “that other do
nations in the future will en
able us to make this an annu
al scholarship.”
The award is named for Lin
da Palmer, Theresa Roughen
and Virginia Smith, all honor
students who were to have
graduated from St. Joseph’s
this summer. They lost their
lives while on the way to a
dance at Belmont Abbey on
Saturday night, May 13.
According to the Rev. Jos
eph Stranc, Seminary faculty
member, Bishop Thomas J.
McDonough will dedicate the
building in October. The Rev.
William Coleman, rector of the
Seminary, will offer a Solemn
Mass marking the opening of
the school on Friday, Septem
ber 8th.
The Seminary building is
designed to provide adequate
facilities for the complete high
school course. In addition to
the dormitories for the stu
dents, the building contains
a library, study hall and liv
ing quarters for three faculty
members.
Thirty freshmen are enroll
ed at the Seminary and they
will report on Wednesday,
September 6th. The sopho
mores and juniors are sched
uled to report on Tuesday,
September 5th.
Saint John Vianney Minor
Seminary was established by
the Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough in 1959 to help over
come the critical shortage of
priests in south Georgia.
For the past two years, the
Seminary has made use of the
existing facilities of the for
mer St. Thomas Vocational
School. A new Chapel was
constructed and will be a part
of the new Seminary plant.
Bishop McDonough, who has
conducted a vigorous Voca
tions campaign throughout the
Diocese for the past three
years, announced the plans for
the new Seminary building in
the spring of last year.
Ground was broken and con
struction begun last December.
The financing of the new
building has in great part been
the result of a gift from the
Catholic Community Center.
The gift, presented to Bish-
dp McDonough, represented
the accumulation of rental of
commercial properties owned
by the Community Center and
the sale of CCC property to
the Savannah Council Knights
of Columbus.
A plaque has been placed in
the Seminary building com
memorating the gift of the
CCC.
Two Named
To Faculty At
St. Joseph’s
SAVANNAH — St. Joseph’s
Hospital School of Nursing has
announced two additions to
its faculty.
Sister Mary Victor, R.S.M.,
will become coordinator of
medical and surgical nursing.
Sister has been associate di
rector of Nursing Education
at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore
for the past eight years.
A native Savannahian, Miss
Rosemarie Blase, who earned
her degree in nursing educa
tion at the University of Ma
ryland, will become Sister
Victor’s assistant. Miss Blase
is an alumna of St. Joseph’s.
Some 30 young high school
graduates enrolled as fresh
men at the Nursing School,
which began its school year
last week.
Editorial Comment 4
Book Reviews 2
Backdrop 4
Obituaries 5
Marriages 5
Federal Aid
To Education 3
Headline Hopscotch 45