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JUNE 17, 1933
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Class of Twenty Graduated
at Marist College, Atlanta
Rev. William Lonergan, S.
M., Delivers Address at An
nual Commencement
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Seventeen seniors
were awarded diplomas in the liter
ary department of Marist College and
three certificates in the commercial
course were presented at the annual
commencement exercises of Marist
College held June 2 in the Atlanta
Woman’s Club Auditorium.
The Very Rev. P. H. Dagneau, S.M.,
president, presided, and the address
was delivered by the Rev. William
Lonergan, S.M Harvey Commagere
delivered the valedictory. The ath
letic awards were presented by Louis
Van Hotuen, athletic director.
Graduates in the literary depart
ment included Allen Alfred Alexan
der, Willoughby Ernest Beaudry, Bur
ton H. Bellinger, Jr., Max W. Bips,
Jack Bothamley, Jr., Morton Reck
Campbell, Jr., William Lloyd Car-
verm, Harvey G. Commagere, Wil
liam J. Holland, William Benson
Hughes, Vincent J. Hurley, Jr., Mi
chael Theodore Lambert, Jr., Edward
Nicholas Maddox, Jr., John Traylor
Malone, Jr., Clement L. McGowan,
Jr., and Alvin Francis Schwartzwal-
der.
Certificates in the commercial course
were awarded Arthur J Bremer,
Frank K. Murphy and Walter T.
Williams.
Harvey Commagere won the J. J.
Haverty medal for highest standing
during senior year, John Schroder the
P. O. Herbert medal for senior dec
lamation, and Nedom Angler the Mrs.
M. C. King medal for junior declama
tion.
The Atlanta Chapter, U. D. C., med
al for the best essay on Sidney La
nier was won by Jack Bothamley,
and the D. A. R. medal for the best
essay on the Georgia Bicentennial
went to Lewis F. Gordon. The Mrs.
A. J. Alexander medal went to John
Reilly, the Rapid Calculation medal
to Porter Warren, the Mrs. Willis
Jones medal to Thomas Blohn and
the Excellent English medal to Por
ter Warren.
Class leaders were: Third senior,
Commencement Held
in Augusta Parish
Nineteen Graduated at the
Sacred Heart School
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Nineteen girls and
boys received certificates from Sa
cred Heart School at exercises closing
the 1932-1933 session. They were: Av-
ice Moody, Joseph Arthur, Thelma
Battle, Virginia Buckley, Owen Claf-
fey, Clara Cotter, Sarah Culpepper,
Daniel Culpepper, Timothy Gleason,
Edward Deween, Helen Gary, John
Mahoney, John Sullivan, Marian
Sheahan, Marvin Woodward, Bernard
Vaughan and Theodore Hickman
The highest average was made by
Avice Moody, with Clara Cotter sec
ond. An interesting program was pre
sented and the girls, all in white with
red ribbons, the boys in white trou
sers and shirts with red ties, created
a bright note of uniformity.
The program. Recitation, Bertram
Hester; chorus, dialogue, by Anne
Casey and Mary Von Sant; action
song, first and second grades; group
recitation, “The Meaning of the Flag”,
by first grade; song, “Say a Kind
Word Whenever You Can,” third and
fourth grades; reading, “Where Do
You Live”? by Helen McAuliffe;
reading, “A Bristol Legend”, by Le
Garde Doughty; song, “Anvil Cho
rus”, by boys; song, “Little Boy Blue”
by Clara Punaro, Mary Stulb, Ethel
Ferguson, Clara Teague, Rita May,
Anne Beale, Frances Gleason; reading
“The Conqueror”, by Timothy Glea
son; address appreciation, by Avice
Moody; presentation of diplomas, Rev.
J. B. Franckhauser, S. J.; hymn, “Ave
Maria”, 7th grade.
Harvey Commagere; second senior,
William Bruckner; first senior, Wil
liam Hart; third junior, Robert Trout
man; second junior, Porter David
Moncrief; first junior, Porter Warren;
commercial, Frank Murphy. Runners-
up in these classes respectively were
William Hughes, Eugene Steinhauer,
Elwood Wright, Richard Smith, John
Lynch, Michael Murphy and Arthur
Bremer.
Wit. De Sales Academy at
Macon Graduates Fourteen
MACON, Ga.—Mount de Sales
Academy graduated 14 young women
at its 68th commencement at the
Catholic school Friday night, June 9,
after a several days’ commencement
program. The commencement celebra
tion included music programs, ad
dresses, the senior play, and religious
services.
Rev. T. J. McNamara of Milledge-
ville, addressed the seniors on Memo
ries.
Pilate’s Daughter, the senior play,
was given in the academy auditorium
Thursday night, June 8. Graduates
leading the roles, assisted by junior
students as vestal dancers and mem
bers of stage groups.
After the play, the graduates went
to St. Joseph’s Church for the bac
calaureate address by Rev. Felix J.
Clarkson, S. J.
Graduation exercises were held at
10 o’clock Friday morning, June 9 in
St. Joseph’s Church, where High
Mass was celebrated and the com
mencement sermon preached by Rev.
D. J. McCarthy, Columbus. The
music of the Mass was sung by St.
Joseph’s choir, with Prof. J. G. Weisz,
at the organ.
The class of 1933 fellows: Misses
Anita Cassidy, Sallie May Devlin,
Jane Pritchard, Jane Osbourne,
Martha McKenna, Margaret McNelis,
Helen Lasse ter, Margaret Jarratt,
Bernadette Kennington, Kathryn
Carr, Dolores Stamps of Macon,
Angela and Frances Gaggioni of
Savannah; Gladys Mariette Cassell,
Florida.
40 in Sacred Heart
Class in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Forty boys and
girls of Sacred Heart Parochial
School will be awarded diplomas at
the annual graduating exercises in
Sacred Heart Church June 7. .
Diplomas were presented by the
Very Rev. Father Boniface, O. S. B„
rector of Sacred Heart Church and
prior of the Benedictine Fathers in
Savannah.
Following are the graduates:
Frances Imogene Aranda, Ger
trude Margaret Barbee, Catherine
Armella Barrett, Mary Theresa
Becker, Eleanor Clair Beranc. Evelyn
Elizabeth Clarke, Margaret Elizabeth
Cooper, Theresa Eloise Cooper,
Miriam Malin Craig, Rosemary Flood
Crowley, Elizabeth Catherine Davis,
Concetta Mary Di Natale, Martha
Elizabeth Ducey, Katherine Fidelis
Galletta, Leila Elizabeth George,
Dorothy Margaret Hohenstein, Ma-
thilde Boykin Howard, Mary Louise
Meighen, Julia Mary Murphy, Mar
garet Elizabeth Frances Murphy,
Dorothy Cecile McGinley, Sheila
Theresa Pierce, Mary Sullivan,
Helena McMahon Uffelmann, Fran
ces Edna Weimar, Kathleen Margaret
Wells, Joseph Lee Conners, Joseph
Patrick Doyle, Jr., Joseph Valentino
Heller, William Anthony Joseph Leo
nard, Jr., Thomas Logan McCarthy,
Myles McManus, George N. Paul, Jr.
Nathan Anderson Roane, Jr., John
James Russo, Robert McDermott
Schwarz, Owen Francis Stoughton,
Richard Tuten, John Jefferson Walsh
and Bernard Downey Wright.
COMMENC EMENT
NEWS had preferred at
tention in this issue of
The Bulletin. This neces
sitated the holding of
some other items for the
next issue. _ All com
mencement news from
schools in the Southeast
up to the time this issue
was made up appears in
this number. Schools
which have not sent in
their programs are invit
ed to do so for the next
issue. These commence
ment stories are the most
convincing evidence of
what the Church is do
ing for the cause of edu
cation in the South, and
this despite the compara
tively limited number of
her children here.
Diplomas for 31 at
Marist, Savannah
Bishop Keyes Presents Hon
ors at Commencement
Mt. St. Joseph’s Graduates
Class of Twelve at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.— Twelve young
ladies received diplomas June 1 from
Mount St. Joseph at interesting ex
ercises at which the address was de
livered by Dr. M. H. Bryan, who is
instructor of economics in the de
partment of commerce University of
Georgia.
Dr. Bryan’s subject was the “Value
of an Education.”
The initial number on the program
was the salutatory by Itala Punaro,
We Who Are About to Live, Salute
You,” followed by the chorus, “Daily
We Are Tripping,” with accompani
ment by Jane Rox. “Leaves from
an Old Journal,” by Philomena An
drews, was an interesting sketch pre
pared from “The Banner of the
South,” the newspaper edited in Au
gusta just after the War Between the
States by the Rev. Abram Ryan, the
only copies known to exist being in
the possession of Capt. P, H. Rice, K.
C. S. G.
Miss Anna Louise Boeckman, first
honor graduate, delivered the vale
dictory. ,
The diplomas were delivered by
Right Rev. Monsignor James A.
Kane to the Misses Anna Louise
Boeckman, Philomena Andrews.
Mary Caver, Anne Herman, Mary
Ivey, Bernice Kirsch, Katherine
Pope, Theresa Punaro, Itala Punaro,
Adelaide Sheehan, Frances Toomey,
and Dorothy Usry.
Certificates to the high school de
partment were given the Misses Anne
Mulherin, Roslyn Sylvester, Reba
O’Connor. Marian Lawrence, Mary
Daly, Katherine Kelly, Frances Wat
kins, and Anne Gordon Harper.
Other musical numbers were the
solo, “Liebestraum” by Theresa Pu
naro, accompanied by Itala Punaro;
and the closing number, the hymn
by the class, ’Ave Maris Stellis.”
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Commencement
exercises of the Marist School were
conducted in the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist. The Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, D.D., bishop of Sa
vannah, presided at the exercises
which were held in conjunction with
the closing exercises of the St. Vin
cent’s Grammar School. The diplo
mas were presented by Bishop Keyes,
assisted by the Very Rev. Monsignor
Joseph F Croke.
Special honors were awarded as fol
lows:
The Patrick Brennan memorial me
dal for excellence in scholarship
awarded to Charles C. Davis; next in
merit, Thomas F. Walsh. The Semmes
medal for Christian doctrine awarded
to Charles C. Davis; next in merit,
Charles Laffiteau.
Medals for perfect attendance were
awarded to Joseph L. Dyer and Chas.
A. Laffiteau.
A prize of $2.50 presented by Sa
vannah Division Ladies’ Auxiliary A.
O. H., for best essay submitted by
grammar school pupil in Savannah in
the national Irish history contest for
1933 was awarded to Charles E. Feu-
ger, Jr.
Roll of honor certificates were
awarded to: Charles C. Davis. John
F. Chadboume, Charles A. Laffiteau,
Joseph L. Dyer. James M. Lucree,
Robert J. Chambers Robert E. Davis,
Joseph A. Mulligan, Leroy A. Bums.
Attendance pins were awarded to-
Charles C. Davis, John F. Chad-
bouine, Charles A. Laffiteau, Joseph
L. Dyer, Joseph M. Lucree, Robert
Chambers, Joseph A. Engel, William
Lloyd, Robert E. Davis, William P.
Dowling, William F. Reilley.
The following were presented di
plomas: Charles C. Davis, Thomas E.
Walsh, John J. Chadboume, John S
Robertson. Charles A. Laffiteau, Rob
ert F. Burns, Joseph L. Dyer, James
M. Lucree, Robert J. Chambers, Jo
seph A. Engel, Julian H. Dillon, Rafe
T. Salas, Charles E. Feuger, Wright
E. Powers, Reid A. McFeeley, Wil
liam M. Lloyd, Robert E. Davis, Mi
chael T. Handiboe, Joseph A Mulli
gan, William P. Dowling, Bernard F.
Mackie, William F. Reilley, Charles
J. Schroder, Charles A. Smith, Fran
cis L. Dowell, Seaborn J. Griffith,
Lawrence Quinan, Arthur M. Winters,
Lawrence E. Morgan, and Sebastine
Olliff.
MISS MORRISON HIGHLY
HONORED VTMARYMOUNT
President of Senior Class
Welcomes Cardinal Hayes
(Special to The Bulletin)
AT LAN i A, Ga. —Miss Blake Mor
rison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W
J. Morrison, of Atlanta and Orlando,
who was graduated from Marymount
College last week,, delivered, as pres
ident of the student council and the
senior class .the address of welcome
to Cardinal Hayes at the commence
ment exercises. Miss Morrison was
awarded the Marquis George Mac
Donald Gold Medal, presented by
the college “to the student who, by
her character and example, has the
greatest, influence for good on her
companions.” and was also awarded
the Cardinal Farley Gold Medal for
Apologetics.
MSGR. LAVELLE 77
NEW YORK — The Rt. Rev Msgr.
Michael J. Lavelle, rcetor of St. Pat
rick’s Church, observed his seventy-
seventh birthday Memorial Day. Be
yond an informal luncheon in his
honor and a floral tribute from the
children and felicitations from Car
dinal Kayes and numerous other
friends, there was no observance of
the anlversary. , (
Benedictine School Holds
33rd AnnualCommencement
Bishop Keyes Presides at
Savannah — Thirty - Four
Cadets Get Diplomas
(Special to The Bullet in)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, D.D., Bishop of Sa
vannah, presided at the 33rd annual
commencement, at Benedictine School
here June 8, at which high school di
plomas were presented to 34 cadets.
After the entrance march by the
Benedictine Battalion, and the invo
cation by the Very Rev. Boniface
Bauer, O.S.B., prior of the Benedic
tine community and pastor of Sa
cred Heart Church, Captain Edward
Brown gave the salutatory and Ser
geant Arthur Dowling the valedic
tory. The address to the graduates
was delivered by Major Louis Craig,
U. S. A.
The Benedictine cup for the cadet
best exemplifying Benedictine ideals
went to John B. Thompson, of the
class of 1933. The cup is given by
the class of 1924. The medal given
by Bishop Keyes for highest average
in the senior class went to Arthur
Dowling, with Edward J. Brown, Jr.,
salutatorian, next in merit. ,
The Abbot Vincent medal for ju
nior class scholarship was won by
James Burke McEllin, with William
Francis Whalen second. The medal
given by Father Boniface for soph
omore class honors went to Henry-
Suiter Brown, and Robert R. O’Brien
second, and the Judge Houlihan fresh
man medal was awarded William F.
Hennessy, Jr., with Mahony M. Ray,
Jr., second.
Mahoney M Ray-, Jr., won the class
of 1929 silver cup as the outstanding
freshman, Henry Suiter Brown the
Jordon F. Brooks Memorial Medal
for the individual manual of arms
drill, and John J. Clancy', Jr., the
Thomas J. Dooley Medal for military
exellence. Cadet Clancy is cadet ma
jor for the coming year. John Elliiott
Corcoran of Company B was present
ed the Savannah Cadets’ Medal for
the best drilled company.
Following are the cadets who re
ceived diplomas: Sergeant David Wil
liam Bolton, Jr., Captain Edward John
Brown, Jr., Corporal Joseph John
Cannaella, Major Walter Crawford
Corish, Lieutenant Thomas William
Creaser, Jr., Lieutenant Eugene Dom
ini Curtis, Sergeant Arthur Joseph
Dowling. Sergeant John Tharpe En
gel, Cadet William Gorman Fogarty',
Sergeant John Joseph Foran, Jr.. Ca-
GREENVILLE PARISH
SCHOOL EXERCISES
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. — Addressed
by the Rev. Sydney Dean, assistant
pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
nine boys and girls were graduated
from St. Mary's School at final ex
ercises in the church auditorium.
The following received certificates,
Lumia Dumit, Charles Ballentine,
Aurelia Slattery, Imeal George, Rob
ert Dowling, Katherine McNamana,
Frances Cunningham, Frances Gal-
livan and Elizabetr Schwiers.
Father Dean awarded the certifi
cates and also two medals offered
by Mrs. James F. Gallivan. The
religious medal was awarded to
Imeal George and the mathematics
prize to Charles Balentine.
Father Dean urged the students
to have an ideal and stick to it. He
used George Washington and Bene
dict Arnold as examples, declaring
that. Washington had an ideal and
followed it, while Arnold did not.
He admonished them to be loy'al to
the church and state and to their
teachings.
They were served breakfast later
in the St. Mary's club room by Miss
Adele George, assisted by Misses
Lucile Boniface and Mary Scruggs.
The room was appropriately deco
rated with paper and flowers with
the school colors, blue and white
predominating.
det David Daniel Katzoff, Cadet Vin
cent de Paul Kelly, Cadet John Peter
King. Lieutenant Petro Charles La
mas, Sergeant Lester Lasky, Cadet Ir
ving Joseph Lovitt, Sergeant William
Patrick McDonough, Lieutenant Rob
ert Joseph McManus, Sergeant Jo
seph Francis Odom, Lieutenant Ed
ward Matthew Patterson, Sergeant
John Joseph Powers, Lieutenant
Thomas Edward Powers, Jr.. Cadet
Sidney Lewis Raskin, First Class Pri
vate Charles Vernon Ray, Corporal
Edward Joseph Redmond, Lieutenant
Edmund Verdery Ryan, Lieutenant
Joseph Charles Schreck, Sergeant
Daniel David Segall, Sergeant Major
John Joseph Sullivan, First Class Pri
vate John Joseph Tarantino, Lieuten
ant John Bernard Thompson, Jr., Ca
det Grover T. Tuten, Jr., Lieutenant ]
Henry Persse Walsh, Captain Charles
Joseph Whitehead.
Certificates were presented Richard
Joseph Dolan, Walter Anthony Rem-
ion and John Elliott Corcoran.
St. Vincent’s, Savannah,
G raduates Class of Twenty \
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, D. D., presided at
the annual commencement of St.
Vincent Academy at the Lawton Me
morial, at which high school diplo
mas were presented to twenty young
ladies. Class honors were announced
by the Very Rev. Msgr. Jos. F. Croke,
chancellor.
The class leaders were the Misses
Josephine Mary Alonso and Mary
Lovett Trapani; these young ladies
having attained an equal average
during the school year were awarded
the highest honors.
The graduating class is composed of
Josephine Mary Alonso, Elizabeth
Frances Beytagh, Louise Marie
Byrnes, Isabelle Martina Burnett,
Marian St. Claire Conklin, Margaret
Catherine Counihan, Edith Margaret
Crowley, Mary Jane Cullum, Adeline
Louisiana Giavemberg, Mary Louise
Halligan, Idell Theresa Hendrix,
Kathleen Ann Howard, Elizabeth
Ann McAlphin, Annabel Mary Mc
Carthy, Cecilia Rita McGouldrick,
Margaret Celeste Michel, Mary Jane
Ray, Ellen Thcrese Ryan, Esther
Josephine Ryan, Mary Lovett Tra
pani. v
The following is the program of
the graduating exercises:
March (Goundod).
March, “A Fantasy of Youth”
(Gounod).
Prologue,-Mary Lovett Trapani.
“To Greet the Spring (Mendels
sohn).
“When Life is Brightest” (Pinsuti).
“Ave Maria” (Bach-Gounedj.
Presentation of diplomas and aca- j
demic honors by the Bishop of Saaj
vannah.
Epilogue. Josephine Mary Alonso.
“Farewell to Alma Mater” (Wie-
gand).
Accompanists and director of cho- ;
rus, Mrs. Addie May Jackson, general i
director, Madame Munthe.
ST. VINCENT GRAMMAR
SCHOOL GRADUATES
Bishop Keyes presented the award*
and diplomas to graduates of the St.
Vincent Grammar School at joint ex
ercises with Marist School at th«
Cathedral. Those receiving diplo
mas included the Misses Loyola Anxfc
Trapani, Julia Theresa Sheehan,
Christine Martina Coyle, E-leanop
Mary Dovle, Julia Cecil, Rossiter,
Mary Theresa Kenny. Margaret
Theresa Price, Ruth Mary Holm,
Ann Theresa Remion, Johann*
Theresa Daly, Frances Louise Ccn-
neff, Frances Theresa Saunders.
Theresa Mary Harmon. Ann Mary
Harte. Mary Justina O’Hayer, Doro
thy Helen Englade, Elizabeth Mary
Haynes, Rose Elizabeth Hall. Made-i
liner Bernadette Puder, Pauline Ve
ronica Kenny, Barbara Elizabeths
Downing, Catherine Martina Clifton,
Helen Elizabeth Smith, Hortensst
Theresa Kavanaugh, Dolores Eliza
beth Ryan.
Junior High Commencemen
in Atlanta’s Mother Parisl
(Special to The Bulletin) the m—,, vr * >
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA. Ga.—The simplicity and
beauty so characteristic of the Im
maculate Conception Junior’ High
Commencements made the closing
exercises of June 4, in the Immaculate
Conception Church, a very impressive
occasion.
High Mass was sung by the Rev. J.
E. Moylan, pastor, and his perfectly
trained senior altar boys, robed in
pure white, added greatly to the
solemnity of the services.
In his sermon, Father Moylan im
pressed on his congregation the ne
cessity of supporting their parochial
school by calling attention to the
many factors that made Catholic
education the only complete educa
tion.
• At the close of the Mass, the diploma
bearers, the Misses Caroline Keith and
Thelma Kelly of the Junior grade,
with the attractive little flower girls,
the Misses Mary Ruth Hanson, Ann*
Price, Ann Davis, Constance Vat
Mansfield, Helen Baumgartner &im
Cecelia Smith, led the Senior gra^i
to the Sanctuary steps where dipo
mas were awarded to the following
William Jabaley, winner of th<
Christian Doctrine prize offered bj
Mrs. R. Reynolds, James Duke
Thomas Abraham, Miss Leona Vai
Mansfield. William Carmen, Mis
Margie Maloof, winner of the gol<
medal for deportment, offered by Mrs
Arthur Brown of New' York in room
ory of her daughter, Jeanette; Misf
Lydia Dalon, Michael Praeter, Mis
Mary Maher. Donald Brundage ant
Eugene McDermott, winner of the I]
D. C. medal donated by Mrs. Molfil
Moran.
The choir under the direction d
Mr. W. Karst and Mr. M. Millar^
rendered a very appropriate program^