The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957, January 29, 1938, Image 19

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Newspaper Page TextJANUARY 29, 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA SEVEN A BISHOP AT FLORIDA HOLY NAME MEETING Will Officiate at Mass at Ybor City—Other Engage ments of His Excellency (Special to The Bulletin) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—The Most Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop of St. Augustine, will preside at the Mass opening the annual convention of Holy Name Society at Ybor City January 30 and will address the con vention. Other engagements of His Excellency for Confirmation and other ceremonies include: January 31, St. Paul’s, St. Peters burg; February 3, Fort Meyers; 6, Miami Beach; 7, Coral Gables; 8, Homestead; 13, dedication of St. Fran cis Xavier’s, Miami; 20, West Palm Beach, Confirmation; 22, Fort Pierce; March 6, Cathedral, and St. Bene dict’s, St. Augustine; 8, Elkton; 9, Falatka; 13, Daytona Beach. VERNON CASTO was elected cap tain of the St. Joseph’s Academy eleven of St. Augustine for the 1938 season at the annual banquet The Rev. J. H. O’Keeffe was toastmaster, and speakers included Mayor Walter B. Fraser, County Commissioner Verle Pope, formerly coach at the Acadt my; Coach Irvine Drydale, Monsignor P. J. McGill, Captain- Elect Casto, Jackie Hugas. alternate captain-elect; Dominic Poli, retiring captain, and others. Letters were presented at the banquet. ST. PAUL’S School football eleven Jacksonville, elected Charles Wil liams, 125-pound quarterback, cap tain and Jess Berrigan, fullback, alternate captain at the annual ban quet at Biser’s Restaurant. The speak ers at the banquet were headed by Sam McAllister, line coach at the University of Florida and head basketball coach, Monsignor D. A. Lyons, Chairman Fred Valz, of the City Commission; Walter Mayberry, captain of the 1938 University of Florida eleven, and others. Alfred Price and Pat Ryan are the retiring captain and co-captain. FORMER TENNIS STAR NOW FLORIDA LAWYER Gordon Lynn of New York Located at West Palm Beach (Special to The Bulletin) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Gor don W. Lynn, a graduate of Holy Cross College and of the law school of New York University, and nationally known in his college and university days as a tennis star, has been admit ted to the Florida bar and is associat ed with the firm of Alley and Burns here. Mr. Lynn, an associate editor of the Holy Cross Purple and editor-in- chief of The Purple Patcher in his college days, is also a member of the Bar of New York State; he married Miss Julia Rita Donelon of New York, an alumna of the College of St- Vincent on the Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn and their fourteen- months-old son are located here, where Mr. Lynn first visited in tennis tournaments. Catholic Historian in Annual Meeting Philadelphia Convention City —Georgian on Executive Board of Association ST. PAUL’“S basketball five plays Lake City and Palatka this week, with other games as follows: Feb ruary 1, Lee, there; Feb. 3, Lake City in Jacksonville; Feb. 7, Bolles, there; Feb. 9, Jackson, there; Feb. 10, St. Augustine, there; Feb. 13, St. Jo seph’s in St. Augsutine; 16, Jackson, there; Feb. 17, Deland there, 22; Day tona Beach there; 25-26; Northeast Conference at Leesburg; March 1, Landon, there. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION girls play Columbia High at Lake City, January 28; State School for Deaf, Jan. 31; St. Joseph’s in St. Augus tine Feb. 6; Bryceville, there, Feb. 10; State School for Deaf in St. Augustine, Feb. 12; St. Joseph’s, of St. Augsutine, Feb. 20; Baldwin, there, Feb. 24. Miss Mary Styron is cap tain and Miss Edith McIntosh alter nate captain. DR. THOMAS S. FIELDS was named chairman of the economics committee of the Duval County Medi cal Society at its anual meeting. ALEX DANESE,.. a member of Bishop Kenny Council, Knights of Columbus, for thirty years, was made an honorary member by the South Jacksonville Knights at a recent meeting. Mr. Danese has four sons who are members of the council. THE APALACHICOLA Catholic Reading Circle, one of the pioneer organisations of its kind, observed its 36th anniversary in December with a tea at the home of Mrs. Annie R. Marks, where it was organized in 1901. THOMAS W. HANEY, dean in point of service of all past exalted rulers of the Elks in Florida, was a guest of honor at the observance of the 46th anniversary of the Jacksonville Lodge. . JOSEPH FECHTEL was elected president of Zeta Alpha Tau social and business fraternity, in a recent meeting at Jacksonville. ST. LEO COLLEGE basketball team at St. Leo, Fla., plays Tampa College High, January 30th and has these games listed for February 1, Plant City, there; Feb. 8, Plant City at St. Leo; February 11, Brandon at St. Leo; February 25, Tampa College High, at Tampa. MACON DRAMATIC CLUB Elects Francis T. Cassidy President for Current Year (Special to The Bulletin) MACON, Ga.—Francis T. Cassidy was re-elected president of the St. Joseph’s Dramatic Club at the annual banquet here. Miss Frances Jones was elected vice president, Miss Jean ette Huhn secretary, Corbin Jung business manager, and John Mc- Brearty treasurer. JUDGE AUGUSTINE DALY retir ed recently as secretary of the Ma con Bar Association, a post he has bold for five terms, and to which he declined re-election. (By N. C. W. C. News Services) PHILADELPHIA— The American Catholic Historical Association closed its eighteenth annual convention here today during which it elected officers and tendered a reception to His Emin ence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Phlidalphia and honor ary chairman of the three-day assem blage. The American Catholic Historical Society of his city, was host to the convention, which was held here this year to mark the sesquicentennial of the U. S. Constitution. CATHOLIC PRESS PRAISED In an address that has caused wide spread discussion the Rev. Dr. Jo seph F. Thoming, of Mt. St. M ry’s College, Emmitsburgh, Md„ de clared that “one of the brightest spots in the Spanish situation has been the success of the Catholic Press, led by the N. C. W. C. News Service, in securing accurate, ade quate and interesting news about both sisde in the civil war in Spain.” The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward F. Hawks, of this city, a distinguished convert who was formerly an Epis copalian minister and World War chaplain, predicted “a continuous stream of converts from the Church of England”. The reception to Cardinal Dough erty formally opened the sessions. Addresses were made by Norman J. Griffin, former president of the local historical group; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter Guilday, secretary of the na tional group; and Dr. Herbert C. F. Bell, its president. New officers chosen were as fol lows: Ross J. S. Hoffman, of New York City, president; Dr. Carlos E. Castaneda, Latin-American librarian at the University of Texas, first vice- president; the Very Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S. J., president of Loyola University, (Chicago), second vice-president. The secretary, his assistant, the archivist and the treas urer remained in their positions. The newly-chosen executive coun cil includes: The Very Rev. John H. O’Donnell, C. S. C., vice-president of the University of Notre Dame; the Rev. William Busch, professor of Church history St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.; the Rev. Dr. Harold J. Bolton, of Omer, Mich.; Simon Baldus, managing editor of Extension Magazine, Chicago; and Richard Reid, of the Catholic Laymen’s Association, Augusta, Ga., and editor of The Bulletin. Teruel Capture Stock Story Dr. Thoming Tells Floridians Pray for Our Dead RECENT FLORIDA DEATHS SISTER MARY ANASTASIS, be loved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, died died in Tampa late in December after a lingering illness, which she bore with Christian forti tude. The funeral was in St. Augustine. Reds Have Announced Its Annihilation Seven Times, Historian Says in Address at Miami Beach ANNIS H. MILLER, president of Jefferies Market, Inc., Jacksonville, one of the best known leaders of the city, and a member of St. Paul’s Church. Mr. Miller was 57. MRS. JOSEPHINE WESTBROOK, a member of Cathedral Parish, St. Augustine, who died late in Decem ber at the age of 68. Surviving in addition to her husband, her daugh ter, Mrs. L. P. Ortagus; her son, J. W. Westbrook, are two sisters, nine grandchildren and two great-grand children. ROBERT EARL SMITH, a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Jacksonville, who died in that city at the‘age of 68. Mr. Lang- lois was born in Quebec and came to Florida from Boston 25 years ago. CHARLES J. MENKE, a native of Charleston and for 16 years a resi dent of Jacksonville. The Rev. John Nevin officiated at the funeral ser vices here, with interment in St. Laurence Cemetery. Miss Mock Is Head of Albany Hospital Succeeds A'iss Blanchard. Served Abroad During War (Special to The Bulletin) ALBANY. Ga. — Miss Gertrude Mock, widely known in hospital and other medical work here, has been named superintendent of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital here, suc ceeding the late Miss Helen Blanch ard, whose classmate she was ta Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C. From Washington Miss Mock went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., leaving there to come back to her Albany home as superintendent of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hos pital in 1914, remaining there until she went overseas in 1918 as a Red Cross Nurse- Miss Mock was abroad for sixteen months and spent two ad ditional months in X-ray work in Washington. Returning to Albany, Miss Mock served for three additional years as superintendent of the hospital, ill health in her family then requiring her resignation. In recent years she has been in the office of Dr. J. C. Keaton as technician. Miss Mock or ganized the nurses’ training school in the hospital during her term of office there, and is noted *s an able and considerate administrator. She is one of the most active members of St. Theresa’s Church and of the Cath olic Laymen’s Association, and a member of one -of the pioneer Cath olic families of Georgia, _ RAYMOND VINCENT NOLAN, manager at Fernandina for the Florida Public Utilities Company, and a member of St. Michael's parish, Fernandina, who died at the age of 62. A native of Maryland, he was long prominent in the Rotary Club and in civic affairs. MBS. MARY JANE DUNCAN, a member of the parish at Mayport, who died at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. D. R. Andreu, at the age of 82. Mrs. Duncan was a life-long resident of Mayport. JOHN E. WHITE, a native of Am herst, Mass., who died at Moosehaven at the age of 73. JOHN A. FERRIERA, a member of St. Michael’s parish, Fernandina, and one of the oldest Catholics in Florida, and widely known railroad man, who died at the age of 87. JAMES P. FAGAN, a member of St. Catherine’s Church, Orange Park, who died at Moosehaven at the age of 97. Mr. Fagan came to Florida from Pennsylvania. Msgr. Wood Speaker at Columbia Meeting COLUMBIA, S. C. — The Rt. Rev Msgr. Charles Dubois Wood, Prot. Apos., of Middletown, N. Y., former ly pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Charleston, was a speaker at a re cent meeting of the St. Peter’s Youth Society at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The Rev. Thomas J. Mackin, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church here, followed Monsignor Wood with an outline of the activi ties of Monsignor Wood during the years he was engaged in work in the Diocese of Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Sumter, Georgetown and Charleston. Monsignor Wood was introduced by the Rev. Lawrence Sheedy of St. Peter’s Church. Thom as Fickling and Miss Margaret Parks entertained with musical numbers. MONSIGNOR FREKING SPEAKER AT COLUMBIA The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Frek- ing, national director of the Stud ents Mission Crusade, Cincinnati; was a sepaker recently at a meeting of the mission units at the Ursuline Convent and St. Peter's School. Monsignor Freking was introduced by the Very Rev. Martin C. Murphy, V. F., pastor of St. Peter’s Church. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Under the chairmanship of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Barry, pastor of St- Patrick’s Church, here, a mass meeting of the Catholics of Southern Florida was held in the auditorium of St. Pat rick’s Academy to hear the issues of the Spanish civil war discussed by the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Thoming, Professor of Sociology and Social History at Mt. St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md. Introducing the speaker, Monsig nor Barry described the success his parish organizations have enjoyed in counteracting the efforts in the South of the so-called American Friends of Spanish Democracy. Dr. Thorning, in analyzing the trend of events in Spain, declared that the numerous false reports about the ‘complete” capture of Teruel were typical examples of Red pro paganda. “Previously, in the course of the civil war, whenever things were going badly for the Reds in the North of Spain, they reported the ‘fall’ of Teruel or Saragossa,” he said. ‘By actual count the Madrid-Va'en- cia-Barcelona Government has an nounced the annihilation of the Teruel on seven different occasions. Up to the present, each official com munique has been premature. You may credit the capture of the town to the Reds on the day that General Franco’s headquarters confirm the dispatches from Barcelona. The bul letins of the Generalissimo are so concise and so truthful that they are accepted at face value throughout Europe. Military observers from for eign countries as well as officers in the Nationalist Army read nothing on developments of the civil war except what is issued under Franco’s seal in Salamanca. They don't even glance at the rest of the newspaper- FLORIDA MISSIGNER DESCRIBES LABORS OF EARLIER DAYS Father Bresnahan Records Activities of Pioneer Times in Booklet, “Seeing Florida With a Priest’’ “Another important feature of Gen eral Franco’s character is his careful adaptation of means to an end. His progress may impress some as slow, but it is solid. He has not left any loose ends in the Basque country or in the Asturias. Occasionally, it may appear that he is over-cautious. This is not the case. His long-de layed offensive -ftnll get under way and overwhelm the opposition in its powerful sweep. Naturally, the Reds are eager to break up troop concen trations and to try to assume the ini tiative. To date, every effort of this kind, whether at Brunete or Belchite, has ended in failure. It should not be forgotten, in any fair analysis of Franco’s strategy, that he has kept the Reds constantly upon the defen sive. And it should also be noted that 60 per cent of the equipment with which he fights has been cap tured from his enemies. Most of the Red arms and ammunition are of Russian manufacture.” PALM BEACH DEANERY, N.C.C.W., IN MEETING The Fight Against Infantile Paralysis Georgia and the Southeast, in common with the rest of the nation, are being called on this week to assist in the annual campaign for funds to fight infantile paralysis, the campaign culminating Saturday, Resident Roosevelt’s Birthday. This state and section have a particular interest in the ef fort because Georgia is President Roose velt’s “second home” and it wast at Warm Springs, where the “Little White House” is located, that or ganized war against Infantile para lysis received its first momentum. Fr si- dent Roosevelt was introduced to Warm Springs by the late Thomas W. Loyless, then editor of The En quire-Sun at Columbus, form rly editor of The Augusta Chronicle an arch-foe of intolerance. Mr. Lo ’ess became a Catholic before he red. There will be President’s Birthday Parties in practically every city, and readers of The Bulletin can par ticipate in the movement by co operating .with .these, hy buy live, but-, •tons and in numerous other ways. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — At the recent meeting of the Palm Beacli Deanery of the National Council of Catholic Women, reports were made as follows: Affiliated Organizations, Report of Altar Society, Senior and Junior, Catholic Daughters of Amer ica, Convent League. Study Clubs, Catholic Women’s Club, St. Anne’s Study Club. St. Catherine of Alex andria, Catholic Daughter Study Club, St. Joseph’s Study Slub, St. Philomena Study Club, and St. Theresa's (Lake Worth). Tea was served after the reports by the following ladies, who acted as hostesses, Mrs. G. Johnson, Mrs. D. Tranette, Mrs. Arthur Ryan, Mrs. J. H. Mahoney, Mrs. Michael Fish er. Mrs. Willis Brown; Mrs. Michael Fisher and Mrs. Willis Brown served at the tea table. Mrs. Claude Weaver, chairman, gave a report of the National Con vention of National Council of Cath olic Women held in Washington. Mrs. C. McIntyre, an alumna of the Catholic School of Social Service at Washington, D. C., gave a talk and Father Robert Bryant, S. J., pastor of St. Ann’s Church, gave an inter esting talk. Other reports made at the meeting were Report of Diocesan Board Meeting held at Orlando, by Mrs. Leo Gleason, report of Soda lity convention held in St. Peters burg, by Miss Le Sainte; report by Mrs. Downey of the progress of a Dramatic Guild of St. Ann’s newly organized. There was a very large attendance. A benefit card party was recently sponsored by the N. C. W. C. here and it was very successful. Tea was served after the games. Mrs. W. Carlisle, chairman, was assisted by Mrs. W. Gallemore, Mrs. John Waldron. Mrs. Dan Downey and Mrs. John Maloy, Jr., served at the tea table. St. Leo College Prep. School Accredited High School Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers Ideal Location _Sj. Leo Pasco County, Florida One-third of a century ago, in 1904, the Rev. P. J. Brensnahan, fresh from a year of post-graduate work at the Apostlic Mission House at the Catholic University at Washington. D. C., under the direction of the famed and saintily Father Walter El liott of the Paulist Fathers, came to Florida for work among the non- Catholics of Florida. Associated with him in the work was the Rev. Aloysi- us Delebar, O.S.B., of St. Leo Abbey, who also took the course at Washing ton; they stopped off in North Caro lina to learn something of the work and methodst o f Father Thomas Price, who died in China after being the co-founder of the Maryknoll Fathers, and his associate, Father Michael Irwin, now pastor at New Bern, N. C. From one end of the Diocese prac tically to the other, Father Bresna han and his companion went, and through the pages of his book are spinkled the names of such distin guished American churchmen as Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, who appointed Father Bresnahan pastor at South Jacksonville, Bishop William Kenny, who was Ordinary of the Dio cese when Father Bresnahan started his work, Bishop Patrick Barry, a contemporary of Father Bresnahan through the years and now his Bish op, and others of note. Father Bresnahan describes not only the missions given to Catholics and non-Catholics by him and his companion, Father Delebar, who died some years ago, but he records the hectic anti-Catholic days and the ef forts of self-seeking politicians to use religious bigotry as a passport to office. He tells of the courtesy with which he was treated by the reac tion of fair-minded men and women to the efforts to incite hatred against Catholics. Father Bresnahan’s work, “Seeing Florida With a Priest”, was written by him at St. Leo Abbey, and records a day which has in large measure passed in Florida. It is an interest ing record, which will particularly appeal to those interested in the Church in the South. Father Bresna han is now stationed at St. Mary’s Church in St. Petersburg. Florida Marriages ROSENDO-BRAVO -O KEY WEST, Fla.—The marriage of Miss Rose Rosendo and Vinicio Bravo took place recently at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church, with the Rev. A. L. Maureau, S- J., officiating at the Nuptial Mass. After the ceremony the couple left for a trip to Miami. LLOYD-COFFEE O JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—The marri age of Miss Marjorie Louise Lloyd and Mr. Frank Villeret Coffee, took place at the Church of the Immacu late Conception, December 31, with the Rev. James J. Meehan, LL. D., officiating. Mrs. Coffee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams Loyd, attended Florida State College for Women. Mr. Coffee is the son of Mrs. Chris topher C. Coffee, and the late C. C. Coffee. They are making their home in Jacksonville. O —— o HORNER- ROUSSELLE O ; o JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fathe: Meehan, pastor of the Church of th< Immaculate Conception, officiated a the marriage of Miss Cecilia Ann< Horner and Mi-. Leonard W. Rous selle, which took place at the churei late in December. Rt. Rev. Msgr D. A. Lyons and the Rev. Thomas G Jones assisted Father Meehan. Mrs Rousselle is the daughter of Mr. am Mrs. W. J. Horner and attended St Paul’s School. Mr. Rousselle is tin son of Mrs. Theresa Rousselle and i a graduate of Lee High School. SARASOTA FLORIDA on the DESOTO GULF OF MEXICO Offering much in quiet, home like comfort, H f\ nr- —-* t moderate e c s \J I £> L, a ntl c o n v e ni- ence. Open ail year. . . Equable year-round tem perature Splendid beaches, fa mous fishing grounds. Rates $1 00-f 1.50 single, Sl-JO-nOO dou ble. JOHN 0. HURRAY, Prop.