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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 22, 1936
Florida Has Its First Religious Vacation Camp
MISS AMMIE TEIGHER,
SUMTER, S. C, DIES
Was Organist and Choir
Director of St. Anne’s
Church There for 40 Years
SUMTER, S. C.—Miss Ammie B.
Teicher, one of Sumter's most be
loved women and for forty years or
ganist and choir director at St.
Anne’s Church, died suddenly at her
home July 21. Miss Teicher had been
in ill health .for several years but
appeared to be improving; death
came shortly after a heart attack.
Born in Sumter, the daughter of
the late M. and Mrs. Frank Ferdi
nand Teicher—her mother was for
merly Miss Margaret Barrett—she
was graduated at St. Joseph’s Acad
emy, and spent her entire life in the
community; she was widely known
for her talent in her chosen field of
music. -
The funeral was held from St.
Anne’s Church, of which she was
such a devoted member and which
she served so loyally and effectively
tlirough the years. The Rev. Mau
rice Daley of St. Anthony’s Church,
Florence, officiated at the Requiem
Mass. Interment was in the aCtholic
Cemetery.
N. C. C. W. Will Meet
in Galveston Oct. 18
Bishop Noll Urges Large At
tendance at Convention
WASHINGTON—The vital need for
and the real importance of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women are
vigorously emphasized by the Most
Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop of Fort
Wayne and Episcopal Chairman of
the Department of Lay Organiza
tions, National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, in a statement carried in the
N. C. W. C.’s August “Monthly Mes
sage to Affiliated Organizations.” The
convention will be held in Galveston,
October 17 to 21.
The convention will open Sunday,
October 18, with Pontificial High
Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral, at
which the Most Rev. Christopher E.
Byrne, Bishop of Galveston and host
to the convention, will deliver the
sermon.
Commencement Held
at Charleston School
Bishop Walsh Presides at St.
Peter’s Exercises
CHARLESTON, S. C. — A schol
arship to Xavier University, New
Orleans, was awarded Portia Naomi
Smith and one to Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta to Joseph Daly Eng
lish at the annual commencement
of Immaculate Conception School,
held at St. Peter’s Church, with
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. D.
D., Bishop of Charleston, presiding.
Professor Louis T. Achilie of How-
Sorbonne in Paris, was among the
distinguished guests present. The
members of the graduating class of
the school, which is under the di
rection of the Holy Ghost Fathers,
and taught by the Oblate Sisters of
Davisboro. follow:
Portia Naomi Smith. Ruth Na
omi Levia, Winnifred Emaline Sea-
brook, Joseph Daly English, Nathan
iel Lomax Manigault, Aida Angela
Smith. Helen Louise North, Cath
erine Louise Meggett, John Rey
nolds Chisholm, Agatha Elizabeth
Noisette, Marie Veronica Lucas,
Herman Joseph Lum, Mildred Wil-
helmina Robinson.
Catholic Historical
Work at Charleston
University of South Carolina
Interested in City’s Ancient
Cemeteries
CHARLESTON, S. C.—In the state
wide historical project which the
University of South Carolina Is
sponsoring and collecting fortheir
historical museum, St. Mary’s and
St. Patrick’s Church yards come
under the head of Charleston's most
historic and oldest cemeteries. A
complete record of, every tomb,
tombstone and memorial tablet in
the churchyard and interior of the
church is now being taken and typed
and sent to the University of South
Carolina at Columbia. It is expected
that a copy will also be sent to the
Library of Congress at Washington,
D. C. Charleston's old churches con
tain the tombs of some of its oldest
and foremost citizens that have gone
down in the history of our country.
One of the oldest and most historic
stones in St. Patrick's Cemetery is
that of Mrs. Catherine Northrop
whose forefathers were Captain Ed
mund Bellinger and Col. Edmund
Doyle who left England respectively
in 1636 and 1655.
Mrs. Eugene Marcil is at present
copying the records of the tomb
stones in Sgint Patrick’s churchyard.
Sacred Heart Junior College, Belmont
North Carolina has two junior colleges for young women. St. Genevieve’s and Sacred Heart Junior College,
the latter of which is pictured above. Sacred Heart Junior College is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy at Bel
mont; they also conduct Sacred Heart Academy and St. Leo’s School for Boys. The buildings are modern and
splendidly equipped, the college and schools have the highest scholastic standing, and the young women the Sis
ters of Mercy have sent out into the world from their schools at Belmont are assurance of the excellence of
the training and education imparted there.
POLISH BISHOPS AND
PRIESTS ONCE SCOUTS
(BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—Two Bishops, 300
priests and 600 seminarians have
risen from the ranks of Boy Scouts
in Poland, it was revealed in con
nection with a visit to Camp Hayes
paid by the 19 Scout leaders from the
Boy Scout Association of Poland on
Tuesday. The chaplain of the visit
ing Polish Scouts is Father Francis
Tyczkowski, who was himself a
Stout as a boy.
52 ATTEND WOMEN’S
RETREAT IN FLORIDA
Father Ruggeri, S. J., Re-
treatmaster at Academy of
Holy Names, Tampa
(Special To The Bulletin)
TAMPA, Fla.—The fourth annual
closed retreat for ladies sponsored by
the St. Augustine Diocesan Council,
N. C. W. C., was held at the Academy
of the Holy Name here early in July,
running front Wednesday evening to
Friday morning.
The Rev. William Ruggeri, S. J.,
was the retreatmaster and his confer
ences on the spiritual exercises were
strong, vigorous and to the point.
Fifty-two retreatants drew inspira
tion from his addresses.
The beautiful convent building and
the spacious grounds on the shores of
Tampa Bay made an ideal setting for
the three days of recollection and
prayer.
After the retreat many comment
ed on the strict observance of silence
and the atmosphere of spirituality,
tn the words of the president,, Mrs.
George Coyle, all felt that for a brief
space they had forgotten the cares of
life and became again happy convent
girls.
At breakfast Friday Mrs. Coyle, on
behalf of the retreatants, thanked the
Sisters of the Holy Name for their
untiring kindness and consideration.
She followed this with a stirring call
to Catholic Action in which we must
put into actual practice the inspira
tion we had derived from the retreat.
Sister Ethelbert responded in her
own happy manner. Mrs. McCollum
gave her own individual message.
After breakfast the retreatants
parted hoping to meet again next
year. As one lady phrased it, the re
treat had been “A Little Bit of
Heaven.”
Those present at the retreat were
Mrs. A. Lothgery, Mrs. A. L. Gibson,
Mrs. L. de Roux, Mrs. Elizabeth
Nebel, Mrs. B. Saleno. Miss Marei
Slevin, Mrs. Mary Eisele, Miss Katie
Coyle,. Miss Ethel Morse, Miss Evan
geline Morse, Miss Monica Labadie
Miss Anna Schmitt, Miss Loyola Mc
Laughlin, Miss Dolores Jones, Mrs.
Ella Downey. Mrs. Anna Whitaker,
Mrs. Teresa Frese, Miss Helen Frese.
Miss Kate Jackson, Mrs. D. B. Mc
Kay, Mrs. C. E. White, Miss Virginia
Toland, and Mrs. T. J. Towmey of
Tampa; Mrs. J. Selig, Winter Haven;
Mrs. E. Mangan, Mrs. H. Detwiler.
Mrs. T. F. Wallace, Mrs. C. Kaesbavk,
Mrs. V. M. Cabe, Mrs. C. M. Clyhan,
and Mrs. C. Gregg of Miami,r”Mrs. J.
Benfield, Mrs. A. Bourdeau, Mrs. C.
Lovett, and Miss Grey Littleton of
Bradentown; Mrs. R. Gloetzner. and
Miss D. Palmore of St. Petersburg;
Mrs. George Coyle and Mrs. C. Gilli
land of Jacksonville; Mrs. W. Holland,
Leesburg; Mrs. J. Dunne and Mrs. R.
Riedman. San Antonio; Mrs. E. Man
ning. West Palm Beach; Mrs. G.
Matthis and Mrs. J. O’Keefe, Lake
land; Miss Julia M. Neef, Lutz; Mrs.
C. McCollum, Gainesville; Miss Vere-
na Le Saint, Lake Worth; Mrs. J.
Shahan, Largo; Mrs. W. Lindsey
Coral Gables; Miss Ellen Hoy and
her sister, Sanford.
Nazi Anti-Catholic Program
Continues Despite Olympics
Olympic Mass Said, But
Anti-Religious Attitude of
Regime Is Unchanged
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM.—At the first Catho
lic divine service held in the Olympic
Village in Berlin there were 27 wor
shippers. Most numerous among
these were the Peruvians. The Amer
ican team had not yet arrived from
New York.
Mass was celebrated in the main
building of the village at an emerg
ency altar. The Gospel was read in
English, German and Italian, besides
Latin.
In the meantime, the presecution of
German Catholics by the Nazi regime
continues unabated, although prob
ably most of the Olympic visitors to
Germany would notice little of it.
German Catholics are, as a rule, hav
ing no contact with the foreign visi
tors, and if they do meet them, they
will be inclined to refrain from any
conversation touching upon domestic
policies, harassed as they are by the
Nazi police.
A typical instance of what is going
on in Germany unnoticed by the out
side world was a sermon a few days
ago by the Most Rev. Clemens
August Count von Galen Bishop of
Muenster, Westphalia, who attended a
traditional procession in that town.
The police planned to prevent the
demonstrations of sympathy for the
Bishop which have been customary
there in recent times and tied heavy
ropes around the Cathedral square so
that the masses could not get c|ose to
the Bishop.
As no warning of this measure was
given beforehand, Bishop von Galen
addressed himself from the pulpit
to the worshippers who were jam
ming the Cathedral and said:
“The police apparently have the
intention of preventing you from es
corting me home, as has been cus
tomary on former occasions. They
want to keep you away from your
Bishop. I therefore appeal to you
to submit to force and not to escort
me home. I do not desire that
harmless spectators, good Catholics
who have no other intention but to
greet their Bishop, be beaten and ar
rested as happened on Trinity Sun
day. But I want to say this: If any
body thinks that you can be separat
ed from me, and that I can be sepa
rated from you by police measures
and ropes, that person is very much
mistaken. We are united by a tie
which was made by God.”
The faithful applauded, much to
the surprise of the Bishop. The
crowd conformed to the Bishop’s
wishes and submitted peacefully to
the public measures, for some time
continuing, however, to acclaim the
Bishop from behind the ropes.
ROBERT O. ROHME, a Catholic of
Colindale, near London, after being
imprisoned in a Nazi jail at Frank
fort, Germany, for 15 months, for. he
states, the offense of having made a
remark derogatory of Hitler, has been
released.
In the remark for which he was
jailed, he said in private conversa
tion, that he thought Hitler was a
psychopathic case. “It is a dreadful
persecution” said Mr. Rohme in an
mterviey with the London University.
“Perhaps that subtle, poisionous at
mosphere of spies all round you is
the most dreadful thing in Germany.
Fear walks by day and you are al
most afraid to whisper by night a
doubt, of the all-rightness of the
Fuhrer and the Third Reich”.
“It is not to be wondered at that
if a priest says anything openely in a
sermon which can be twisted into a
slight on Hitler and his rule, he is
imprisoned. I know there are dozens
of priests now in prison for this al
leged crime."
Notes From Diocese
of St. Augustine
JAMES T. VOCELLE has been
named chairman of the Indian River
County Democratic Committee; Mr.
Vocelle, a leading attorney of Vero
Beach, Fla., is a native of St. Mary’s,
Ga., and a former member of the
Georgia Legislature. He was a mem
ber in the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia in its early days.
FATHER MAHER Council, Knights
of Columbus, at Jacksonville, spon
sored a ferry boat ride August 1, with
a program of dancing, music, enter
tainment and refreshments, William J-
O’Rourke was chairman of the com
mittee.
DIOCESAN N. G. G. W.
IS GAMP’S SPONSOR
Bishop Barry Officiates at
Closing'—Boy Scout Camp
Location of the School
MISS NETTIE YOUNG of Jackson
ville, is among the Floridians taking
summer courses at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Washington, D. C.
George B. Cox, of Jacksonville, is
also at the Catholic University for
summer courses.
GLASS-HALL—The Rev- Thomas
G. Jones officiated at the marriage
late in July at the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Jacksonville
of Miss Annie Elizabeth Glass, daugh
ter of Mrs. Ruby E. Glass, and
Thomas Gordon Hall, of Fernandina.
Mrs. Hall, a graduate of St. Joseph’s
Academy. St. Augsutine, was a stu
dent nurse at St. Vincent’s at the
time of her marriage; Mr. Hall,
grandson of the late Judge Thomas
A. Hall of Nassau County, is a grad
uate of St. Joseph’s Academy. St.
Augustine, and of the law school of
the University of Florida.
JACKSONVILLE LODGE of the
Elks entertained the girls from St.
Mary’s Home, about one hundred in
number, at the annual outing at
Jaoksonville Beach early in August.
Fred T. Nooney was general chair
man. The girls spent the entire day
at the beach, the program including
swimming, dinner, other refresh
ments, games, and riding .on the
numerous devices there.
REV. JOHN F. McXEOWN, of
Jacksonville, who holds the rank of
lieutenant-chaplain, 38th Coast Artil
lery Brigade, recently did a tour of
duty at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola
harbor defenses, with the 524th Coast
Artillery Regiment in the Citizens
ilitary Training Camp.
REV. FELIX ULLRICH, O. S. B.,
pastor at San Anonio, Fla., has erect
ed a large grotto in the churchyard and
a large statue of St. Anthony on the
highway in the park in front of the'
church.
REV. CHARLES ELSLANDER,
pastor of St. Martha’s Church, Sara
sota, Fla., has erected a beautiful
statue of the Little Flower on the
rectory grounds.
REV. JOHN P. COTTER, pastor of
St. Peter’s Church, Deland, lost his
mother by death recently in the East,
and the sympathy of his friends goes
out to him in his sorrow.
REV. A. DOHERTY, S. J-, pastor of
St. Ann’s Church, West Palm Beach,
who has been recuperating from an
serious illness, is back at his post.
The Rev. J. B. Frankhouser, S- J.,
West Palm Beach, and the Rev. W.
A. Wilkinson, S. J., Miami, have
been spending some time in New Or
leans. The Rev. A. L. Maureau, S.
J-, Key West, made his retreat at
Mairtii recently, the Rev. A. O’Neil,
S. J., taking his place at Key West
during his absence. The Rev. Peter
P. O’Sullivan, S. J., of Miami, who
has been ill, is greatly improved.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.— The first
religious vacation camp of the Dio-
cees of St. Augustine, opened July
20 at Apopka, Fla., with a registra
tion of nearly one hundred children
from various parts of Florida. The
camp closed August 2 with solemn
ceremonies, the, Most Rev. Patrick
Barry, D.D., Bishop of St. Augustine,
officiating at Solemn Benediction.
The camp was sponsored by the St.
Augustine Diocesan Council of the
National Council of Catholic* Women,
Mrs. George P. Coyle, Jacksonville,
president, with a special committee
charged with the work; the members
of the committee included Mrs. J.
L. Hurt, Sanford, chairman; Mrs. B.
U. IJyal, Jacksonville, Mrs. R. M.
Ciewis, Tampa, Mrs. Thomas E.
Grady, Miami, and Mrs. Ralph Wight,
Winter Haven.
The committee secured the Central
Florida Boy Scout Camp for the va
cation school, the camp being thor
oughly equipped in every detail, and
delightful. The Very Rev. P. J. Mc
Gill, spiritual director of the Dioce
san Council, was camp director, as
sisted by the Rev. J. J. Kelleghan and
a staff including seminarians, officers
of the N. C. C. W., headed by Mrs.
Hurt, chairman of the committee, and
others. Dr. Charles Collins, of Orlan
do, was in charge of the medical de
partment, with Miss Ruth Reeves as
resident registered nurse. George
Reeve, Red Cross examiner, had
charge of the water activities.
The Sisters of St. Joseph had charge
of the instruction, and the seminar
ians assisting included Charles Bag-
well, Lamar Genova, Charles Spell
man, Roy Barksdale and John Flay-
field. The camp was 14 miles north
west of Orlando on the Orlando-Eus-
tids Highway. The Diocesan Council
undertook the financing of the camp.
In his address at the closing of the
camp, Bishop Barry said it was a tre-
meudous success, fulfilling the high
est hopes entetrained for it, and he
expressed his heartfelt thanks to the
Diocesan Council, its officers, mem
bers and all who shared in the suc
cess of the camp. Children came
from Bakersville. Bartow, Bradenton,
Brooksville, Deland, Homestead,
Jacksonville. Karona, Lakeland, Win
ter Haven, Perry, Rockledge, Sanford,
Sarasota. Stuart, Tallahassee, Titus
ville and Winter Haven.
The opening days of the camp, Mrs.
George P. Coyle, Diocesan N. C. C.
W president. Jacksonville. Mrs. Jo
sephine K. Maner, Jacksonville, first
vice president, and Mrs. Thomas E.
Grady. Miami, and Mrs. J. W. Mc
Collum, Gainesville, past presidents
of the Diocesan Council, were pres
ent, and Mrs. Coyle returned the
Friday before the camp was closed,
remaining for the closing.
Mrs. Ruth Crowder,
Winston-Salem, Dies
Wife of Major League Pitch
er Had Been in Declining
Health for Several Years
■ WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. — Mrs.
Ruth Livernash Crowder, 37, wife of
Alvin Crowder, famed big league
baseball pitcher, died here late in
July after an extended illness. Mrs.
Crowder had been in declining health
for the past five years and her con
dition was particularly serious for
several weeks before her death.
Mrs. Crowder was born in Roch
ester, N. Y.. April 28, 1899, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Livernash,
and was educated at the local schools
and Nazareth Academy. She was a
devoted member of St. Leo's Church
here, and her example led to the con
version of her husband. Surviving m
addition to her husband are her
mother and her brother, Fred A. Liv
ernash of Rochester. The Rev. Leo
Frierson, O.S.B., pastor of St. Leo’s
Church, officiated at the Requiem
Mass at the funeral, which was one
of the largest attended in Winston-
3alem in years.
Reds Are Challenged
to Prove Sincerity
Imprisonment of Clergy Re
futes Promises, Congress
man Tells Associates
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—A challenge to the
rulers of Russia to give testimony of
the recent announcement of a great
er measure of freedom for the Rus
sian people by releasing the hundreds
of clergymen of various religions now
imprisoned because of their loyalty
to their faith was issued by Repre
sentative John W. McCormack, of
Massachusetts, in an address in
Congress. His address was greeted
with applause.