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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 30, 1937
Charleston N. C. C. W. Holds Annual Conference
BISHOP, MISS REGAN
MSGR. READY TALK A
MEETING IN SEE GIT
Mrs. Curran Jones of Co
Iumbia Elected President
Succeeding Mrs. Williams
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Mrs. Currran
Jones, of Columbia, was elected presi
dent of the Charleston Diocesan
Council of the National Council
Catholic Women at the seventh an
nual conference of the Council held
here early in April, a conference
honored by the presence of the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop
of Charleston, and addressed by His
Excellency and other distinguished
guests, including the Very Rev. Msgr.
Michael J. Ready, executive secretary
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, and Miss Agnes G
Regan, LL. D., executive secretary
of the National Council of Catholic
Women, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Jones succeeds Mrs. George R.
Williams, of Charleston, the retiring
president.
Other officers elected included Mrs.
Robert Gerald, Sumter, first vice-
president; Mrs. J. P. Seiner, Spar
tanburg, second vice-president, Mrs.
Ella V. Hurley, Charleston, third
vice-president, Mrs. Cecelia D. Smith,
Spartanburg; recording secretary,
Mrs. Bessie Sanders, Columbia; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. J. E. Swy-
gert, Columbia; treasurer, and Mrs.
W. Irvin Cormier, Charleston, audi
tor.
MRS. GEORGE R. WILLIAMS, the
retiring president, presided at the
conference the first full business day
of which opened with a Pontifical
Mass of which Bishop Walsh was
celebrant, and at which Monsignor
Ready delivered the sermon. Mon-
signor Ready was the principal
speaker also at the luncheon which
followed at the Francis Marion
Hotel, and which was attended by
nearly three hundred delegates, visi
tors and local members. The Rev. A.
F. Kamler, director of Camp St.
Mary, was a featured speaker on the
program, his subject being: “Recrea
tional Camps”.
The convention opened with a meet
ing Saturday evening, April 3, at the
Francis Marion Hotel, at which Miss
Regan was the principal speaker. The
Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. May, V. G.,
delivered the invocation and Mrs. Ella
V. Hurley the address of welcome,
with the response by Mrs. Robert W.
Gerald, of Sumter. Mrs. Williams de
livered the president’s message, Mrs.
T. W. Reynolds outlined the parlia
mentary rules for the convention,
Mrs. Hurley, Mrs. Gerald and Mrs.
J. P. Seiner of Greenville made
deanery reports, and Miss Alice
Moran rendered vocal solos, with Mrs.
E. Tracy Sturcken as accompanist.
YOUTH COUNCIL—Previously, in
the afternoon, there was a meeting
of the Diocesan Youth Council, with
Miss Margaret Niggel of Columbia,
presiding; the Rev. J. Alexis West-
bury delivered the invocation; Miss
Cecile Rice delivered the address of
welcome and Miss Martha Anne Bon
ham, field representative of the South
Carolina Department of Welfare
spoke at a subsequent meeting, at
which the Rev. Henry Wolfe deliv
ered the invocation.
At the Sunday afternoon meeting,
Mrs. Williams presiding, the Rev. J.
W. Carmody delivered the invoca
tion; the speakers were Miss Regan,
introduced by Mrs. Seiner, and Bishop
Walsh, who urged a united front in
the movement to present the cause
of Christ, and emphasized particu
larly the efforts of and necessity for
Catholic women’s organizations such
as the Charleston Diocesan N. C. C.
W. At the evening session the Rt.
Rev. Joseph L. O’Brien, S. T. D., de
livered the invocation; the reports of
officers, standing committees and un
finished business completed the pro
gram. which included a soil, “Lar-
gel,” by Miss "Frances Villiponteaux,
with Mrs. Thomas Mostmann as ac
companist.
The convention closed with the
Monday morning meeting, at which
the officers were elected and resolu
tions adopted. A social feature of
the convention was the reception Sat
urday night at the Francis Marion
Hotel. The local committee arranged
a most hospitable program of enter
tainment for the visitors.
Monsignor Ready
BISHOP’S NEW BOOK
IS CONTEST SUBJECT
Bishop Kelley’s '‘Problem
Island” Selected for Na
tional Essay Competition
MISS GENEVIEVE KELLY, of
Charleston, was elected state chair
man of the Diocesan Youth Council,
succeeding Miss Margaret Niggel, of
Columbia.
The senior convention elected the
following representatives of groups
for the board meetings, the first of
which will be held in Columbia May
29; Mrs. Joseph J. Reynolds, Parent-
Teacher Association; Miss Rose Spies-
segger, Sodality; Mrs. J. R. Walton,
Altar Societies; Miss Mary McGrath.
Council of Catholic Women; Miss St.
Clair Jacques, Catholic charities; Miss
Margaret Haefer, guilds.
Officials for the fonvention, the
following committee chairmen: Mrs
W. I. Corimer, registration; Mrs. Jen-
nings Cauthen, registration; Mrs.
Thomas F. Mosimann, music; Mrs. J.
Joseph Reynolds, luncheon; Miss Rosa
I. Speissegger, publicity; Mrs. W. F.
PATERSON, N. J.—“Problem Is
land,” a new book by the Bost Rev.
Francis O. Kelley, Bishop of Okla
homa City and Tulsa, has been made
the subject of a nation-wide essay
contest just announced by the St.
Anthony Guild Press here.
The purpose is- to promote wide
discussion of the lesson contained in
the volume, which is a presentation
of the truths of the Catholic Church
in the form of a romantic novel. The
contest is not concerned with the lit
erary merit of the book, but with
the best presentation of its central
idea, which, it is said, “is of vital in
terest to all thinkers.”
Prizes totaling $175 are offered in
the contest, as follows: First prize,
$100; second prize, $50; and third
prize, $25. Fourth prize is a de luxe
copy of “Problem Island”, autograph
ed by the author. The contest is
open to any lay person, Catholic or
non-Catholic, except those connected
with the teaching staffs of educa
tional institutions.
The essays entered in this contest
should not exceed 1,200 words, and
should deal with either the way Bish
op Kelly develops his central thesis or
some general aspect of the thesis that
applies to society, says the announce
ment. Manuscripts should be typed
on one side of the paper only, double
spaced, and with one-inch margins.
They should not be signed, but a
sealed envelope containing full par
ticulars regarding the writer should
be attached to each manuscript. All
manuscripts must be in the hands of
the judges by May 10. They are to
be addressed to the Problem Island
Contest Editor, St. Anthony Guild
Press, 389 Main Street, Paterson, N. J.
The judges of the contest are Sis
ter M. Madeleva, C. S. C.. President
of St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross,
Ind.; Michael Williams, Editor of The
Commonweal, and the -Very Rev.
'niomas Plassmann, O. F. M„ Presi
dent of St. Bonaventure’s College, St.
Bonaventure, N. Y. Their decision
will be final.
Blessed Sacrament
Novices Professed
CORNWELLS HEIGHTS, Pa.—The
semi-annual profession of novices
and reception of postulants at St.
Elizabeth’s Convent, the motherhouse
of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacra
ment for Indians and Colored People,
the vows of the Sisters were received
by the Most Rev. Hugh L. Lamb.
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia.
The sermon was delivered by the
Rev. Kieran P. Moran, C. M., of St
Vincent’s Seminary, Philadelphia.
The Sisters who pronounced their
vows are: Sister Mary Basil, former
ly Miss Mary Irene Maguire, Somer
ville, Mass.; Sister Mary Kieran, for
merly Miss Marian Agnes O’Hara,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Those received as novices: Miss
Muriel Alice Davis, Brooklyn, in re
ligion, Sister Mary Maurice; Miss Co
lette Anne Gallagher, Boston, in re
ligion; Sister Mary Matthias; Miss
Kathleen Rose Dorsey, Philadelphia,
in religion, Sister Mary John Berch-
mans; Miss Elizabeth Marie Dalton,
Philadelphia, in religion. Sister Mary
Stanislaus; Miss Claire Anna Michel,
Philadelphia, in religion, Sister Mary
James.
Jacques, credentials; Miss Virginia
Schultz, printing; Mrs. John J. Dodds,
information; Miss Rosa T. Oliver, dec
oration; Mrs- J. J. Vaughn, exhibits.
Pages were the Misses Genevieve
Kelly, Elizabeth Harrington, Eliza-
. .. beth Sullivan, Elizabeth Griffin, El-
Condon, transportation; Miss St.Clair sie M. Condon and Mary Doris Cisa.
R. J. DUGOTE DIES—
WAS FAMED COACH
Spring Hill, Auburn and
Loyola Mentor Nationally
Known Sports Authority
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS. — Richard
(Moon) Ducote, athletic director
Loyola University, president of the
Southern Football Officials’ Associa
tion for the year 1935-1936 and the
man who precipitated a change in
football rules that banned placekicks
from anything but mud tees, died late
in March in Hotel Dieu.
Ducote, a fullback at Auburn, went
after graduation to Louisiana State
University as assistant coach. He
next became coach at Spring Hill
College, which he had attended be
fore going to Auburn. After one year
at Loyola University to which he
came from Spring Hill, he went into
business, but returned to sports as
superintendent of athletics in the
public schools of Mobile. He again
took over the Spring Hill team and
came from there to Loyola in 1935.
He played baseball in the South
ern Association in the early ’20s as
outfielder and catcher with the Mo
bile Club.
Ducote made a field goal off the
top of his helmet from the 48-yard
line in the Aubum-Georgia game in
1916. The umpire protested the goal,
and said something about rules.
‘Show me the rule prohibiting a
placekick from a headguard,” Ducote
said. There w T ere no rules regarding
artificial tees.
The next week Ducote kicked a
field goal from the 51-yard line, and
without his headkuard.
This was the last instance on rec
ord in which a field goal was kicked
from a headguard. The next January
the football authorities banned kicks
from all devices other than mud tees.
Several years later mud tees were
legislated out
In the last 10 years Ducote offici
ated many times in football games
in the South. He served as an official
m the Rose Bowl game of 1935.
Fr. Duff Delivers
Congress Invocation
First Naval Chaplain So to
Officiate Since 1820
WASHINGTON.—When the Rev.
Edward A. Duff, captain and chief
of chaplains of the United States
Navy, delivered the prayer with
which the House of Representatives
opened its deliberations March 26, he
became the first navy chaplain to of
ficiate in Congress in more than a
century.
The last navy chaplain to give the
opening prayer at any session of
Congress was Burgess Allison, who
was the regular chaplain of the house
in 1820. He resigned that office in
1823 to become a chaplain in the
navy.
DR. FENWICK HEADS
PEACE ASSOCIATION
at
MSGR. JOHN A. RYAN, of the
Catholic University, answering an in
quiry in the Ecclesiastical Review,
while maintaining that a “sit-down”
strike is "sometimes justified” to de
fend either a person’s “equitable
claim” to his present job or “certain
natural rights , asserts that the “sit-
down strike” is “too easily abused”,
that “it should never have been in
vented”. and that “the sooner the ’sit-
down* strike is discarded by labor,
the better it will be for both labor
and the employer, not to mention the
community .
Annual Conference Held
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—Dr. Charles G.
Fenwick was re-elected President of
the Catholic Association for Inter
national Feace as the two-day ses
sion of the association’s eleventh an
nual conference here came to a dose.
The Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara
Bishop of Great Falls, was re-elect
ed Honorary President of the Asso
ciation. Other officers named are:
Vice Presidents: Michael Francis
Doyle, of Philadelphia; Dr. Elizabeth
Morrisy, of Notre Dame Convent,
Baltimore; the Rev. Philip Reilly, O.
P., of Providence College, Provi
dence, R. L; Sister Vincent Ferrer,
O. P., of Rosary College, River For
est, 111.; treasurer, Dr. Kathleen F.
Murphy, of Fordham University (re
elected) and Dr. Lewis Potts, of Ford-
ham; executive secretary, Elizabeth
B. Sweeney, of Washington (re-elect
ed).
Speakers at the conference includ
ed: Dr. Francis A. Arlinghaus, of the
University of Detroit; the Rev. James
A. Magner, of Quigley Seminary,
Chicago; the Rev. R. A. McGowan,
Assistant Director of the Social Ac
tion Department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference; Walter
G. O’Donnell, of John Carroll Uni
versity, Cleveland; the Rev. Sylves
ter D. Luby, of Columbia College,
Dubuque, la.; Dr. Eliabeth Morrissy,
of the College of Notre Dame, Balti
more; Edward G. Gallahue, of the
Consumers’ Counsel Division, Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration,
and Dr. John A. Lapp, National Ref
eree of the International Building
Trades Union.
70,472 COLORED IN
JOSEPHITE PARISHES
13,463 Attending Their
Schools in United States
(By N. C. W. C, News Service)
BALTIMORE.—According to the
annual report for St. Joseph's Society
of the Sacred Heart, issued here by
the Superior General of the Joseph-
ite Fathers, the Most Rev. Louis B.
Pastorelli, S. S. J., there are now 70,-
472 Negro Catholics being cared for
by the members of that Society. This
represents an increase of 1,568 over
the figure of last year.
The figures given in the report are
the largest ever achieved by the Jo-
sephites and show gains in every de
partment of missionary endeavor.
Baptisms numbered 3,449, converts
(adult) 1,089, and those under instruc
tion for Baptism, 494.
The Josephite school enrollment
has gone up to 13,463, which necessi
tated an increase in teaching person
nel to 226 Sisters and 71 lay teach
ers in the 66 mission schools of the
Society.
The Josephite Fathers now num
ber 122 priests caring for 58 missions
which have resident priests and 46
without missions. They are aided by
Sisters from 12 different religious
communities of nuns.
There are 126 students, novices and
seminaries preparing for the work
of the Colored Missions as Joseph-
ites. Last year the largest class in
the history of St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Washington, D. C., was reported with
the ordination of 13 priests.
In Louisiana further expansion was
made by the opening of new missions
at Reserve, Plaquemine, and New Or
leans. The church at Baton Rouge
was replaced by a new and larger
one, which is to be enlarged still fur
ther. A new rectory was built at
St. Raymond’s Church, New Or
leans.
N. Carolina Laymen*s
Retreat July 16-19
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLOTTE N. C. — The annual
retreat for laymen will be held at
Belmont Abbey July 16 to 19, accord
ing to a recent announcement of of
ficials of the retrqat league. The re
retreats have been held for the past
five years, and the movement is grow
ing steadily: the Knights of Colum
bus have taken a special interest in
promoting it. All interest in the re
treat, Catholic and non-Catholic alike,
are welcome.
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