JANUARY 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.
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HORNER- ROUSSELLE
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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.
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