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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 15, 1929
G. Roy life Elected
Florida State Deputy
South Jacksonville Enter
tains Convention. Program
Broadcast Over W.J.A.X.
SOUTH JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—
C. Roy Mundee, Master of Fourth
Degree of the Knights of Columbus
and prominent Catholic layman of
the state, was elected State Deputy
of the Knights of Columbus of
Florida at the twenty-fifth annual
state council of the Knights of Co
lumbus May 28 at the close of the
three-day convention held at Jack
sonville Beach under the auspices
©f Bishop Kenny Council No. 1951
of South Jacksonville. Other of
ficers elected were: State secre
tary, Thomas E. Mallem, of Jack
sonville;. tate treasurer, Vincent J.
Murphy, of Tampa; state advocate,
T. Rogero Mickler of St. Augustine;
state warden, Joseph H. Reilly,
West Palm Beach, and state chap
lain, Rev. Thomas Doherty, S. J., of
West Palm Beach.
Mr. Mundee’s election to the po
sition of state deputy comes after
many years of efficient and loyal
service in the promotion of Colum-
bianism in the state. Mr. Mundee
is connected with many other fra
ternal and 1 civic organizations in
this city, being a member of the
executive board of the American
Legion and Forty and Eight So
ciety, also past president of the
Holy Name Society of Florida. He
has been grand knight of Father
Maher Council of the Knights of
Colu.-ibus of this eity for four
terms and served as faithful navi
gator of the Fourth Degree, Assem
bly of Jacksonville. During his
first administration as grand knight
Mr. Mundee conceived the idea of
the orphans’ Christmas Tree, for
the little ones of St. Mary’s Home,
which today is an annual event. He
served as state secretary for four
terms and state advocate two terms.
Mr. Mundee has been a resident of
the state all of his life, having been
born in Palatka, and has been a
member of the Knights of uColm-
bus for nineteen years.
Deputy-elect Mundee and State
Deupty Arnold P. Mickler will be
the delegates to the national con
vention of the order to be held in
Milwaukee, Wis., in August. D. J.
Lanahan of this city and J. Her
man Manucy, of St. Augustine have
been elected as alternates.
Retiring officers will be: State
deputy Arnold F. Mickler, Orlando;
State Secretary H. W. Barnum,
Winter Park; State Warden T. B.
State Chaplain Rev. Wm. Fennell,
South Jacksonville. Jacksonville is
the .1930 convention city.
The convention opened with a
Mass at St. Paul’s Church-By-The-
Sea, with Rev. William Fennell,
state chaplain, as celebrant; the
sermon was delivered by Rt. Rev.
Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop of St.
Augi^stine. The convention was
welcomed by the Mayor of Jack
sonville Beach, Hon. J. A. Bussey,
and the president of the City Coun
cil, Hon. Haskell Stormes, and the
response to the addresses of wel
come was delivered by C. A. Hart
ley, grand knight of South Jack
sonville's Council.
About two hundred attended the
convention banquet, the proceed
ings of which were broadcast over
WJAN, Jacksonville. Very Rev.
James Nunan, V. G., rector of the
Cathedral at St. Augustine, was the
principal speaker and spoke of the
history of the Catholic Church in
Florida in relation to the history
of the state. State Deputy Mickler,
a moving force in the establish
ment of the Catholic Laymen’s Re
treat League and the Laymen’s
Catholic Truth Society of Florida,
delivered an address on the
Knights of Columbus^ L. A. Usina
was toastmaster. A feature of the
banquet was the numbers render
ed by Roberto Farino, formerly of
the Metropolitan Opera Company,
New York, now sojourning in Jack
sonville; on his encores Mr. Farino
was assisted by a quartet. The
convention was t most successful
©nc. not' a small measure being due
to the hospitable eforts of the
members and oficials of Bishop
Kenny Council and their brother
Knights *n the vicinity.
NEW STATE DEPUTIES
State deputies elected in var
ious states recently and not
previously reported in The Bul
letin include:
NEW YORK: Walter A.
Lynch of New York City, elect
ed at Lake Placid convention.
This is his second consecutive
term.
MARYLAND: Bernard J.
Flynn. Baltimore attorney.
CONNECTICUT: M. Edw^n.
Haggerty, Greenwici., re-etect-
ei\
INDIANA: Joseph A. Naugh-
ton, Indianapolis, elected • for
his second term.
LOUISIANA: T. M. Calla
han, re-elected.
KENTUCKY^ John L. Mc
Dermott, Fort I homss.
OHIO: Ray T. Miller, Cleve
land, prosecuting attorney of
Cuyahoga County.
IOWA: Leo J. Wegman,
banker, of Carroll.
CALIFORNIA: Robert A.
McKenzie, elected for third
term.
VIRGINIA: Samuel L. Kelly,
Richmond.
St. Augustine Girl Wins
K. of C. Essay Contest
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Miss
Evelyn McAloon, 17, a member of
the senior class of St. Joseph’s
Academy, conducted by the Sisters
of St. Joseph here, has been de
clared the winner of the first prize
in the essay contest conducted by
the Knights of Columbus and has
been awarded a gold medal. The
subject of the essays in the con
test was: “The Catholic Question
in the United States,” and the 118
essays submitted were submitted to
a board of judges composed of
members of the faculty of the Cath
olic University or America at
Washington.
Telegraph Lauds Admiral
Benson’s Aid to South
Comments Editorially on
Services to Nation and
Section on His Visit Here
A visit to Georgia by Admiral
Wm. S. Benson, U. S. N., retired,
honorary vice-president of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association ol
Georgia, prompted the following
editorial tribute to him in The
Macon Telegraph:
“Admiral Benson’s visit to Geor
gia afforded people of his native
state an opportunity to say again
how much pride they have had in
his career. Much of that pride
centers about the fact that during
the Worjd War he was the highest
ranking naval officer in America,
in command of all the sea forces of
the country, but there is an aspect
of his career that has been equally
as important.
“As chairman of the Shipping
Board r from which he retired some
months ago, Admiral Benson was
always eager to do what he coula
for the development of shipping in
the Southeast. It may not be the
case, but it is at least to be con
sidered that Shipping Board liners
are now operating in respectable
numbers out of Southeastern ports
is due in part, at least, to him.
When he retired from the navy and
went on the Shipping Board, the
Southeast was in a great fight for
the equalization of freight rates. It
was profitable for the shipper from
New Mexico, with export products
to send them right through the
South to New York. The North,
more strongly entrenched financial
ly, had been able to establish such
rates as would make it unprofit
able, or at least of no advantage,
to ship from the nearer Southern
ports.
“Admiral Benson has been a
warm friend of the South in all her
fights for equality of treatment
where shipping was concerned. Al
though he has not lived here in
many years, he has never lost his
ardent desire that the South should
come into her commercial herit
age^'
Charities Conference
Coming to New Orleans
Convention Comes South for
First Time in November.
Notables on Program
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.. — For the first
time in its history the National
Conference of Catholic Charities
will meet in the South. Its annual
convention will be held in that old
world Catholic city of New Orleans
from November 10 to 14.
The program of the conference
is gradually taking form. Miss E.
Frances O'Neill, of Newark, will
present a sequel paper to the one
last year on the experience of Cath
olic agencies in dealing with de
sertion and non-support. The
Health Committee of the confer
ence, under Dr. Maude Loeber, of
New Orleans, will give attention to
this question, hospitalizatioon for
persons of moderate means.
To discover to what extent par
ishes at the present time are func
tioning as social agencies a study
of 100 parishes in ten cities is be
ing made by the Rev. Dr. John
o'Grady, the Rev. Richard Doherty
of St. Paul and the Rev. Dr. Law
rence J. Shehan, of Washington, D.
C. Their findings will be incor
porated in a paper to be read.
The committee on social and ec
onomic problems, under the chair
manship of the Rev. Dr. Francis
J. Haas, offers a splendid program.
Among the speakers at the evening
meetings are the French ambassa
dor, M. Paul Claudel: the Rev.
Fulton Sheen, Internationa] Print
ing Pressman and Assistants’ Un
ion, who will spea kon Labor Stan
dards in the Industrial South, and
Judge Brady of Albany, whose sub
ject will be “The Future of Juve
nile Courts.”
Sacred Heart Brothers
Lose Brother Alphonse H' 0 DSiWilj AiipStSj
Dies at Coral Gables
(Special to The Bulletin.)
VICKSBURG, Miss.—-Rev. Broth
er Alphonse, formerly president of
St. Aloysius College here and one
of the most widely known members
of the Brothers of the Sacread
He^rt in the United States died in
New Orleans early in May in his
seventy-sixth year. The funeral
was held in New Orleans from St.
Augustine Church, with interment
in Bay St. Louis, Miss.
Brother Alphonse was born in
1853 in Montrome, Haute-Lowe,
France, and was known in the
world as Jacques Journy. He en
tered the Brothers of the Sacred
Heart in 1868, and therefore was a
member sixty-one years. Fie made
his first vows in 1874 and his per
petual vows in 1880. He came to
the United States in 1878, and
taught in the schools of the Broth
ers of the Sacred Heart in Man
chester, N. H., New Orleans, Mo
bile, Bay St. Louis and Vicksburg.
Brther Alphonse founded the
school of th Brothers at Man
chester, N. H., and directed it until
1901, when he was transferred to
Vicksburg, remaining here as direc
tor until 1905, when he was assign
ed to direct the school at New Or
leans. This post he held until 1916,
when he returned to Vicksburg;
failing health forced his retire
ment as a teacher in 1925. He con
tinued to perform the duties of
general secretary of the United
States Province until 1928 when he
(Special to The Buletin.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. —W. H.
O’Dowd, Sr., 67, for many years a
leader in business circles in Augusta,
died here May 22 after an extended
illness. The funeral was held from
the Coral Gables parish church with
interment in a local cemetery.
Mr. O’Dowd was a native of Au
gusta ,a member of a leading family
there, and for forty years active and
prominent in the cotton business;
he was. head of the firm of W. H.
O’Dowd’s Sons & Company. Two
years ago he and his ..family came to
Florida to make their home here. Sur
viving are his wife, Mrs. Alice Cos
tello O’Dowd; three sons, W. H., Jr.,
Edward and Louis O’Dowd; four
daughters, Mrs. Stephen J. Connolly,
Jr.| Beverly Farms, Mass., Mrs.
Thomas Horkan and the Misses Eve
lyn and Alice O’Dowd: seven grand
children ;a brother, J. L. O’Dowd,
Augusta, and a sister, Miss Agnes
O’Dowd, Augusta.
retired, as he expressed it. to pre
pare for death.
In 1926, many of his former
students in, Manchester, N. H,,
learning of his retirement and
wishing to see hm again brought
him to New Hampshre from New
Orleans, and for a week there was
a general celebraton there in his
honor. More than half the mem
bers of the present faculty of St.
Aloysius* College here are among
the former pupils o': Brother
Alphonse.
St. Mary’s, Greenville,
Has Sacred Concert
(Special to The Bulletin.)
GREENVILLE, S. C.—A sacred
concert was held at St. Mary’s
Church here in May under the di
rection of Mrs. H. P. Burbage, with
Father Adelard, O. S. B-, of Bel
mont Abbey, contributing an organ
recital to the program, accompanied
by Miss Mary Eskew, organist at
St. Mary’s; Mrs. Jack Young, or
ganist at Christ Church. Others
on the program included Mrs. Bur
bage, soprano, solist; Miss Doris
Sease, violin soloist; Haskell L.
Boy ter, baritone soolist; Frank E.
Tours, organist; and a quarter
composed of Mrs. Burbage, Felix
Tzinneris, Mrs. W. W. Phillips and
Byrd Miller, who sang the Bene
dicts from Brown’s Mass. Charles
G- Spross, Mrs. William Barton,
Mrs. John Reed, Mrs. Theo. Thomp
son, Mrs. A. W. Smith, Mrs. John
Wanner, Miss Elizabeth Hewell,
members of the Crescent Music
Club, rendered the anthem, “I Do
Not Ask, O Lord.’’
ihree Convert Members j Graduation Exercises
of Macon Parish Die! at Key West School
(Special to The Bulletin. )
MACON, Ga.—Death invaded St.
Joseph's congregation three times
recently and on each occasion
claimed a convert to the faith. J.
L. McLer.don was the first to go;
he was for many years superin
tendent of this division of the
Southern Railway, retiring some
years ago lecause of failing health.
He is survived by his widow, for-
j merly Miss Annie Venley of this
j city; two sons, Capt. E. L. Mc
Lendon. U. S. A., Fort Sheridan,
i 111., and W. C. McLendon, U. S. A.,
Fort Sheridan, III., and W. C. Mc
Lendon, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.;
and two daughters, Mrs. R. J. Jor
dan, Grand Junction, Col., and
Mrs. Mary McLendon. Macon.
Father Cronin, S. J., officiated at
the funeral.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Rous
seau, who died in Jacksonville, was
held from St. Joseph's Church,
Father Clarkson officiating. She
was 68 years old and became a
Catholic when quite young. Sur
viving her are four sons, J. J. Rous
seau, Jacksonville; T. A. Rosseau,
Savannah; E, H. Rousseau, At
lanta, and F. A. Rousseau, South
Dakota.
Father Clarkson officiated also at
the funeral of Mrs. Aurelia Nel
son, 78, who died in Mobile. Mrs.
Nelson, who became a Catholic
several years ago, was the widow
of Louis Nelson and the daughter
of Jacob and Catherine Russel,
pioneer citizens of Macon..
(Special to The Bulletin.)
KEY WEST, Fla.—J. Lancelot
Lester was the commencement
speaker at the graduation exercises
of St. Joseph’s High School at
the Strand Theater. The members
of the class included Louis A. Wil
son, president; Jack A. Delaney,
vice-president; Morris E. Kelly,
secretary; James Mc.Knight, under
secretary; H. Anthony Demerott,
Douglas V. McCarthy and Joseph
B. Finder.
A new sodality, the Sodality of
Our Lady, for the women of the
parish except those in the Young
Ladies’ and Holy Angels’ Sodality,
has been formed in St. Joseph’s
parish; the Sodality will receive
Holy Communion monthly on the
second Sunday. Several years ago
Father Richard White formed a
sodality for the men, which still
flourishes and receives Communion
on the first Sunday of the month.
The commencement exercises of
Mt. de Sales ' Academy took place
on the morning of June 5; ite
1929 class was one of the largest
in years. In the evening the
alumnae held its annual tea
and meeting. On the morning of
June 6th Mass was celebrated
In the convent chapel for the living
Mercy Hospital Awards
Diplomas at Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Diplomas
were presented by Mercy Hospital
Training School for Nurses to Miss
Ruth Amelia Terry and Miss Ruth
Sigmon Sherrill of Charlotte, Miss
Lois Frances McGrath of McCor
mick, S. C., and Miss Phoebe Ann
Hildreth of Wadesboro, N. C-, at
the annual commencement exer
cises of the school in May at the
Womens’ Club, Dr. William Myers
Hunter presiding. Rev. Ambrose
Gallagher, O. S. B.. delivered the
opening prayer and benediction,
and the address was delivered by
Rt. Rev. Vincent Taylor, O. S. B.,
D. D.. Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont.
Dr. William Francis Martin pre
sented the diplomas and Dt. T. C.
Bost the class pins. Miss Phoebe
Hildreth delivered the valedictory,
and Miss Regina Rea and William
Egan entertained with solos.
Book Club Makes Choice
NEW YORK—“The Secret of
the Cure d’Ars” by Henri Gheon has
been selected by the Catholic Book
Club as its choice for May. The
translation is by F. J. Sheed and
the volume contains a study by
G. K. Chesterton.
and deceased members of the
alumnae-
Banns of marriage were publish
ed in St. Joseph's in May on the
approaching marriage of Miss Jane
Albea of Detroit and A. J. Long,
Jr., of Macon, who is now loczfted
in Detroit. Mr. Long was one of
the most widely known of the
younger members of the local con
gregation.
H
Sacred Heart Academy
Belmont, North Carolina
Boarding School for Girls
Standard High School and
Preparatory Department.
Handsome New Administration
Building Just Completed.
Beautiful Location Ideal Climate
Accredited by the State.
GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
J. COLEMAN DEMPSEY, Augusta, State Deputy.
W. H. MITCHELL, Macon, Past State Deputy.
FRANK GILLESPIE, Atlanta, State Secretary.
N. T. STAFFORD, Savannah, State Treasurer.
J. B. TOUHEY, Brunswick, State Advocate.
JOSEPH. J. SPANO, Columbus, State Warden.
REV. HAROLD BARR, Augusta, State Chaplain.
ATLANTA COUNCIL
No. 660
Lewis F. Gordon, Grand
Knight
■ 26 Walker Terrace
J. I. Oberst, Financial
Secretary
1431 Beecher Street ,
Charles R. Cannon, Recorder
1200 Peachtree
Meets Every Tuesday Evening
8 p. m., at 1200 Peachtree
SAVANNAH COUNCIL
No. 631
N. T. Stafford, Grand Knight
J. B. McDonald
Financial Secretary
A. R. Winkers, R. S.
Meets Second and Fourth
Wednesday, 8 P. M.
3 West Liberty Street,
Savannah, Ga.
Patrick Walsh Council
No. 677
R. B. Arthur,
Grand Knight
R. S. Heslin, Financial
Secretary
New Club Home—Handball—
Showers—Radio.
Visiting Brothers Welcome.
1012 Greene St. Augusta, Ga.
Bishop Gross Council
No. 1019
JOS. J. SPANO, Grand Knight
R. S. GRIER
, Financial Secretary
GEORGE J. BURRUS
Recording Secretary
Meets First and Third Wed
nesday 8:00 P. M., Columbus
Hall, 18 Twelfth Street
COLUMBUS, GA.
Macon Council, No. 925
A. A. Benedetto, Grand Knight
M. J. Carroll, Jr., Financial
Secretary
Meets the First and
Third Tuesday, 8 p. m.,
at Knights of Columbus
Hall
Mulberry St., Macon, Ga.
Henry Thomas Ross
Council, No. 1939
JAMES M. JONES,
Grand Knight
G. CECIL JONES,
Financial Secretary.
JOS. P. O'BRIEN, Jr.,
Recording Secretary.
Meets Second and Fourth
Tuesdays at Knights of
Columbus Hall
BRUNSWICK, GA.