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Vol. 42, No. 24 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1962 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year 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 (continued on page 8) 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)