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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Vol. 42, No. 7 DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961 Published By The Cat-holic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year Symbols of Slavery and Freedom Clash In Berlin wm 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
