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Vol. 42, No. 24
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1962
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Science And Mathematics Winners
Noted Writer To Speak
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Serving
Georgia's 88
Southern Counties
Published By The
Catholic Laymen's
Ass'n of Georgia
VIEWING THEIR PRIZE-WINNING Science and Mathematics projects are:
1 .to r., Jimmy Clarke, Paula Jones, John Lackay. and Penny Hale, all of Mount de
Sales High School. Macon
FRESHMEN. 1. to r., Elaine Powell, Billy Harris, Kathy Elmore, rejoice
with Clem Dennis, junior, over their recognition for mathematics projects. All
are students at Mount de Sales High School, Macon.
Science And Mathematics
Convention Honors For
Mount de Sales Students
MACON - Students from
Mount de Sales High School won
four out of ten top places in
the Science and Mathematics
Convention held recently at the
Woman’s College of Georgia.
Twenty-one students traveled
with their projects to Milledge-
ville.
The winners, their recogni
tions, and the projects sub
mitted were:
John Lackay, junior, the best
paper submitted in any field.
His topic was “A Boolean
Algebra Postulate Set”.
Clem Dennis, junior, best in
dividual mathematics exhibit.
The exhibit was entitled: Gen
eration of the Pseudosphere”.
Paula Jones and Penny Hale,
sophomores, best group pro
ject in biology. Their pro
ject was: “Photosynthesis and
its Relation to the Intensity of
Light”.
Jimmy Clarke, freshman, the
best ninth grade project in all
fields. It was entitled: "Prob
ability”.
In the Regional Science Fair
held at Mercer University, the
Mathematics Division first
place award went to Clem Den
nis; second place award to Ka
thy Elmore and Elaine Powell,
freshmen, for a project, “Man’s
First Computer: The Abacus.”
Third place award went to
freshman, Billy Harris, for a
project, “Golden Sections.”
Honorable mention for math
ematical projects went to: Jim
my Clarke, Paula Jones, and
Delores Puster, senior.
In the Biology Division at
the Mercer Science Fair, hon
orable mention went to Donald
Cowan, freshman, for: “Ef
fects of Radiations in Plants.”
This is the first time that
students from Mt. de Sales have
entered either of these compe-i
tions. Sr. Francis Mary, RJ
S. M., directed the mathema
tics projects, while Mrs. Tal
lulah Schepis directed those in
biology. The entrants for the
Science Convention and the
Science Fair were selected by
the faculty at the school
science and mathematics fair
in which more than 100 student
projects were entered.
FEATURE OUR LADY OF PER
PETUAL HELP 3
RETREAT SCHEDULE .... 3
BACKDROP : 4
HEADLINE HOPSCOTCH . . 4
OBITUARIES 5
LEGION OF DECENCY ... 7
Urges Positive
Outlook Toward
Other Faiths
f . VANCOUVER, B. C. (NC)
—A priest-convert from ag
nosticism said here that
Catholics should “cultivate a
positive outlook to the tem
poral world, Protestants and
Jews.”
Father Gregory Baum,
O.S.A. said in a talk at the
University of British Colum
bia that modern anti-Semi
tism has taken on “fantastic
dimensions.”
The Augustinian priest,
who was born of Jewish par
ents in Berlin, Germany, and
reared as an agnostic, deliv
ered the fifth Newman Chris
tian Culture lecture at the
university.
He said that “Catholics
should cultivate charity in at
titude and practice towards
other Christians, Jews and
people of good will.”
He stressed that such an
attitude does not entail a
compromise in essential be
liefs but a working together
in a spirit of brotherhood.
Father Baum, the only Ca
nadian consultant on the
Secretariat for Christian Uni
ty preparing for the Second
Vatican Council, lauded cur-
re n t “dialogues” between
Catholic and Protestant the
ologians as a means of re
ducing bigotry.
“We must pray for unity,
but our prayer must be bas
ed on humility and repent
ance,” he said.
VATICAN AIDS
TOGO REFUGEES
GENEVA, Switzerland
(NC) — The Holy See has
sent $5,000 to the Office of
the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
here to provide aid to several
thousand refugees in Africa’s
Republic of Togo.
High Commissioner Felix
M. Schnyder expressed his
gratitude for this “renewed
demonstration of the Holy
See’s inspiring and construc
tive support” of the work of
his office “in meeting urg
ent needs of refugees,
wherever they are."
Communism
Ominous
Backdrop
CINCINNATI — Commun
ism will provide an ominous
backdrop to the discussions
of more than 2,500 Catholic
bishops at the Second Vati
can Council, scheduled to
open at Rome in October.
Archbishop Karl J. Alter
of Cincinnati, a member of
the council’s Central Prepar
atory Commission, told news
men here:
“The purpose of the coun
cil is to reinvigorate Chris
tian life in view of the tre
mendous change that has
taken place in the world,
particularly with the com
munist revolution — a front
al attack on the whole con
cept of Judeo-Christian cul
ture and civilization.”
“We are dealing with an
attack on everything that
constitutes the very matrix of
of our civilization and cul
ture,” the Archbishop de
clared. “We’re dealing not
merely with an economic or
political theory, or a social
concept, but with the denial
of the existence of God.”
NEW CATHOLIC OFFICE
KADUNA, Nigeria (NC)—
The Catholic Secretariat of
Nigeria opened a regional of
fice here in the capital of the
nation’s Northern Region. It
opened an Eastern Regional
office in Enugu last Septem
ber to supplement the work
of its national office in La
gos. Northern regional sec
retary is Father Gerard
Scanlan, S.M.A., who has
been a missionary in the
Kaduna archdiocese for 17
years.
Aquinas
Students
Winners
AUGUSTA-Two Aquinas High
School students were winners
in the local phase of the annual
Americanism Essay Contest
sponsored by the Department
of Georgia American Legion
Auxiliary.
Receiving awards were Eliza
beth Tully and Kitty Cone.
Essays were written on the sub
ject “What I Can Do to Fight
Communism.”
Local essays will be entered
in statewide competition.
Dkxesan Council Women To Meet
In Augusta On May 5th And 6th
Mrs. Arthur Zepf, N.C.W.C.
President Guest Of Council
AUGUSTA—The Richmond Hotel, here, is the
site for this year’s Annual Convention of the Savan
nah Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to be held
on Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th.
Delegates to the convention will be welcomed by
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough, Bishop of Savannah, at the opening ses
sion. Bishop McDonough will preside at sessions of
the two day meeting and will be a featured speaker
at the convention banquet.
The principal address will
be given by the Rev. George
Hagmaier, C S P He will
speak on “Religion and Men
tal Health.”
Father Hagmaier is Asso
ciate Director of the Paulist
Institute for Religious Re
search in New York, and co
author with Father Robert
Gleason, S.J., of a popular
book “Counselling the Cath
olic.”
This book is a Catholic
“best' seller” and has been
translated into seven foreign
languages. Father Hagmaier
is presently working on an
other book, “The Lapsed
Catholic.” Date of publica
tion has not been announced.
Fn his work dealing with
mental health, the Paulist
priest notes, ‘Catholics who
underplay the role of the
emotions and ‘passions’ in the
determination of human be
havior imply that will power,
grace, prayer, and ‘positive
thinking’ can by themselves
cure sick minds.
“Such miscon ceptions
ascribe to religion and the
supernatural life powers God
never intended them to have.
A false reliance on spiritual
helps as a cure for mental
illness merely confuses the
sick person, and does an in
justice to both religion and
psychiatry.”
“A mentally ill person,”
says Fr. Hagmaier, “may act
in ways contrary to the moral
law. But the reasons for such
behavior are often rooted, not
in free choice, but in the dis
ordered emotions of the pa
tient. Religious people should
not resent the fact that in
such cases the psychiatrist,
rather than the priest, must
assume an initial responsi
bility for helping the person
solve his problems.”
A native of San Francisco,
Father Hagmaier holds a B.A.
degree from Santa Clara Uni
versity, and M.A. degrees
from St. Paul’s College,
Washington, D. C., Johns
Hopkins University and Co
lumbia University.
He was the first priest to
be awarded a doctorate by
the Department of Marriage
and Family Life at Teachers’
College, Columbia University..
Father Hagmaier has been
both a parish priest and a
Newman Club chaplain, and
has served as a visiting lec
turer at Columbia University,
Fordham University, Catholic
University of America, and
the Pastoral Institute, Con
ception Seminary, Missouri.
Moderator of a Panel Dis
cussion on Saturday after
noon, Dr. Gabriel D’Amato is
professor of Psychiatry at the
Medical College of Georgia
and consultant in child psy
chology to Gracewood State
School and Hospital.
A graduate of Seton Hall
University, Dr. D’Amato re
ceived his AB from Columbia
University and his M.D. from
the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1947.
He is a member of the
American Orthopsychiatric
Association; Association for
Psychiatric Treatment of the
Offender; Fellow of the Am
erican Psychiatric Associa
tion, Member of the National
Board of Medical Examiners
and certified by the Ameri
can Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology in General Psy
chology and Child Psycholo
gy-
Honored guest and Speaker
for the closing luncheon on
Sunday will be Mrs. Arthur
L. Zepf of Toledo, Ohio,
president of the National
Council of Catholic Women.
Mrs. Zepf presently serves
on the Board of Directors of
the University of Toledo and
is a member of the Executive
Committee Board. She is a
member of the University’s
Executive Committee on For
eign Students; a member of
the Budget Committee of
Community Chest; a charter
member of the Women’s
Guild of Lucas County Chap
ter of the National Founda
tion; a Board member of the
American Cancer Society,
Lucas County Chapter; and
is active in work with the
Aging, Retarded Children,
and Girl Scouts.
Prior to her election as
National President, Mrs. Zepf
served as N.C.C.W. National
Director and Toledo D.C.C.W.
president. She also served as
president of the Mercy Hos
pital Guild in Toledo.
Mrs. Albert Rice, chair
man for banquet and lunch
eon reservations, has advised
all who plan to attend these
functions to make their res
ervations not later than May
2nd. Reservations should be
addressed to Mrs. Albert
Rice, 423 Kemp Drive, Au
gusta, Ga.
Room reservations may be
made by writirtg directly to
the Richmond Hotel, Augusta,
Ga.; the Holiday Inn, 1B02
Gordon Highway, Augusta;
Medical Center Motel, 1480
Gwinnett Street, Augusta; or
the Miles Motel, Gordon
Highway at Olive Road, Au
gusta.
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
REV. JEREMIAH O'HARA
May 6, 1940
REV. JAMES M. O’BRIEN
May 11, 1900
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their scaredotal
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
Cord. Amen
CONVENTION PARTICIPANTS
Most Rev. Thomas J.
McDonough. D.D., J.C.D.
Mrs. J. Edwin Mulligan
Diocesan President
RT. REV. MSGR.
JOHN D. TOOMEY
Catholic Request For U.S.
Aid To Schools Must Be
Considered, Editor Says
NEW YORK, — Education
writer Benjamin Fine says in
a new book that requests for
inclusion of private and paro
chial schools in Federal aid
to education “must be serious
ly considered.”
“Compromises need to be
worked out,” writes the Pulit
zer Prize winning author.
“There is room in our great
democratic nation for both large
scale public and non-public
school systems.”
Fine’s comments are made in
a chapter on private and paro
chial schools in his latest book,
‘The Modern Family Guide to
Education” (Doubleday).
Author of 13 other books on
education, Fine is former ed
ucation editor of the New York
Times and presently holds the
same post with the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
He won a Pulitzer Prize,
coveted journalism award, for
articles on teaching.
Fine calls non-public ele
mentary and secondary schools
as “most important and grow
ing more so each year” in
American education.
Noting five million children
are in Catholic private schools,
he reports about 200,000 in Lu
theran schools, 150,000 in
schools of other protestant de
nominations and some 50,000
in Jewish schools.
The current Catholic school
enrollment, he notes, rep
resents an increase of 6.2 times
AUGUSTA HOLY NAME BREAKFAST — Briga
dier General Edward F. Penaat, Commanding General
at Fort Gordon is pictured with Dr. Edward Bailey,
president of St. Mary’s Holy Name Society. The pic
ture was taken at a communion breakfast held Sunday,
April 15th. The featured speaker, General Penaat,
chose as his topic “Our Lady of Fatima.”—(Photo—Matt
Aitken)
the total for 1900. Public school
enrollment, in the same period,
has increased 2.3 times.
Fine, who lives in Rockville
Centre, N Y , does not confine
his remarks to private grade
and high schools, but also warns
that if Federal aid is to be
given to colleges, all types of
colleges should be given assist
ance.
“American higher education
is based on the dual system,”
he writes. “Public and private
colleges have, from the start,
worked closely together. And
both are needed. It is plain,
educators warn, that if the in
dependent institutions are
weakened, higher education it
self will suffer.”
Fine’s book cites the lead
ing role Catholic elementary
school systems, especially in
St. Louis, have played in the
introduction of the so-called
ungraded primary.
In this new development,
children are grouped accord
ing to ability and kept together
as a unit for the first three
years of their schooling. There
is no formal ranking of first,
second or third grades. Child
ren are permitted to go at their
own pace.
Archbishop
Asks Laymen
Inform Selves
BALTIMORE (NC)—Arch
bishop Lawrence J. Shehan
of Baltimore has asked the
laity of the archidocese 4 c
study the issue of Federal
aid to private schools, come
to their own conclusions, and
act on their own initiative.
“Whatever happens,” he
said, “will be brought about
not by the Bishops of the
country, but by you, the lai
ty.”
“In an address to the Balti
more Holy Name convention,
he announced he would pro
vide the laity of the arch
diocese with information
pertaining to the school aid
issue, to be distributed dur
ing Catholic Education
Month.
Archbishop Shehan asked
Holy Name members to “take
the lead” in bringing the ma
terial to the attention of fel
low Catholics, and to form
groups where “calm, inform
ed, and reasoned” discussion
of the problem can take
place.
“I am asking you members
of the Holy Name Society
and all our Catholic people
to study the problem tho
roughly, to acquaint your
selves with every aspect of
the subject, and then to take
such action and exercise such
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Sister James Receives
Holy Habit Of Carmel
SAVANNAH - An overflowing
crowd witnessed a beautiful and
inspiring Clothing Ceremony
recently when Miss Marcella
Deni of Philadelphia was clothed
in the Holy Habit of Carmel
in the Monastery Chapel of the
Discalced Carmelite Nuns at
Coffee Bluff in Savannah and
received the name of Sister
James of the Holy Family.
The Postulant attired as a
bride and carrying a lighted
taper, symbol of her living faith
and love of God, followed the
Nuns in procession to the Nuns
Choir in the Cloister. She
knelt at the Grate looking out
to the sanctuary and body of
the public chapel where she
could be seen by her family,
relatives and friends.
His Excellency, Bishop
Thomas J. McDonough offered
a Pontifical Low Mass assist
ed by the Right Reverend An
drew J. McDonald, Chancellor
of the Diocese, the Very Rev
erend Bede C. Lightner, O. S.
B. and the Reverent Chris
topher Johann, O. S. B. In
the sanctuary were Reverend
John V. Mulvey, S. M. A., Rev
erend Raymond Bane, S. M. A.
and Reverend William Vickers.
During the Sacrifice of the
Mass, Sister James renewed
her desire to offer her life to
God, in union with Christ on the
Altar, in the obscurity of Car
mel for souls. For this is
the Carmelite life - to live
hidden with Christ in God -
to live more fully the life of
Christ. The more a soul lives
a life of prayer hidden in God,
the more it shares God’s own
love for every soul.
Following the Pontifical Low
Mass, Sister James kneeling at
the Grate and in answer to the
questions of the traditional
Clothing Ceremony, declared
her sincere desire to be receiv
ed into the Carmelite Order.
Then accompanied by the
Mother Prioress, Sister James
retired to the inner Cloister,
while the Nuns chanted Psalm
113, and exchanged her bridal
attire for the brown woden
Habit of Carmel. Having re
turned to the Grate, she re-
ceived'from His Excellency the
brown Scapular, symbolic of
the “sweet yoke” and “light
burden” of Christ and also
symbolic of Mary’s maternal
love. For Mary is Queen of
Carmel and has promised to
protect in a special way all
those who wear her Scapular.
Then, having received the cinc
ture, symbolic of the penance
which will mark her life, and
the white choir mantle, sym
bolic of “inner purity”, Sister
James was led to a carpet of
flowers, prepared in the center
(continued on page 8)