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TEN THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA APR T L 23. 1938 Columbia Host to Diocesan N. C. C. W. Meeting MADAME LUSTRAT OF ATHENS PARISH DIES Widow of Professor of French Beloved Member of University Community (Special to The Bulletin) ATHENS, Ga.—Mrs. Joseph Lustrat, one of the most widely known women of Athens and beloved by generations of Georgia students, died late in March after thirty-five years of as sociation with the University of Geor gia. She had been in failing health for a year. Madame Lustrat, as she was uni versally known, was the widow of Professor Joseph Lustrat; she was born in Frontingnan in the South of France, and married Mr. Lustrat of Vichy, a graduate of the University of France. They came to Rome, Ga.. in 1897 from Paris, where Mr. Lustrat engaged in the practice of law, ap pointed professor of French at the University of Georgia, he retained that position until his death in 1927. After Professor Lustrat's - death, the trustees of the University deeded Mrs. Lustrat a life interest in the home they occupied and it was a center of University social life. Madame Lustrat was a leader in Red Cross work during the World War and her qualities of mind and heart made her one of the most be loved members of the University com munity. She was a member of St. Joseph’s Church from which the fu neral was held, the Rev. Harold J Barr, pastor, officiating at the Re quiem Mass. Interment was in Oco nee Hill Cemetery, Athens. An honorary escort of faculty mem bers and officials of the university included Chancellor S. V. Sanford, Chancellor Emeritus C. M. Snelling, President Harmon W. Caldwell. Dear. R. P. Brooks, Dean L. L. Hendren. ► Bean R. C. Wilson, Professors Dave Barrow, Milton Jarnigan, John R. Fain, A. S. Edwards, W. O. Payne, Robert L. McWhorter. R. P. Steph ens'. Marion DuBose, U. H. Davenport, Alfred Scott, Claude Chance, Ralph Thaxton, Roosevelt P. Walker, Dun can Burnet, W. H. Bocock, J. H- T. McPherson and T. J. Woof ter. P. H. Rice Georgia Delegate in West Augustan to Address Red Cross Convention on Coast AUGUSTA, Ga. -Patrick H Rice, Jr., who organized the first Red Cross volunteer bltfod transfusion service in the United States, will explain the movement at the national convention of the American Red Cross in San Francisco early in May. Mr. Rice, who was state chairman of the most recent Red Cross call the most successful in history, will represent the state at the convention, lie is the son of Mrs. P. H. Rice and the late Captain Rice, for many years president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association. DR. JOHN W. BRITTINGHAM was a speaker at the recent Brotherhood Bay program in Augusta. Dr. Brit- tingham is a graduate of Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins Medical School, doing graduate work at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and at Rochester, N. Y. MRS. W. W. BATTEY, one of the leaders in the Augusta R i Cross since it was established 21 years ago, was honored by the local chapter on the occasion of her birthday recently. SACRED HEART SCHOOL’S Holy Angels’ Sodality presented a religious play. “At the Gate of Heaven", re cently. ST. PATRICK'S and St. Mary's par ishes conducted Easter Egg hunts in their respective grounds Easter Mon day. St. Patrick's parish is sponsoring a social at the Forrest Hills Hotel Fri day o" this week. VICTOR G. DORR was toastmaster at the organization banquet of the Re tail Merchants' Association of Augus ta Tuesday of this week. Surviving Mrs- Lustrat are three daughters. Mrs. Fleming Winecoff and Mrs. Owen Coleman, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard McHatton, of Athens, past president of the Gar den Clubs of Georgia. - SARASOTA 0 FLORIDA on the GULF OF MEXICO Offering much DESOTO in quiet, home like comfort. rp r> j moderate c f s v-J 1 t, and c o n v e ni- ence. Open all year. . . Equable year-round tem perature Splendid beaches fa mous fishing grounds. Kates S1.00-S1.50 single. S1.50-S2.0C dou ble. JOHN D. MURRAY, Prop R. W. HATCHER INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Milledgeville Leader Recov ering From Injuries (Special To The Bulletin) MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.— R. W. Hatcher, one of Georgia’s best known Catholic laymen, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident when an automobile skid ded on to the wrong side of the road and crashed into a car in which he and O. C. Miller, leading Milledgeville merchant were riding, is now on the road to recovery, but it will be some time before he will be able to leave the hospital. Mr. Hatcher was chairman for Milledge ville in the campaign of the Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity at the time of the accident. He is chairman of the retreat section of the Catho lic Laymen’s Association of Geor gia, a state vice-president of the Laymen’s Association and a former president of the National Retail Hardware Dealers’ Association. The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D„ Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. and the Very Rev. Dan J. McCarthy, V. G., of Columbus, formerly pastor at Milledgeville, visited him in the early days after his accident. Georgia Boy on Golf Tearn at Notre Dame (Special to The Bulletin) NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Joseph Stulb. son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Stulb and grandson of T. M. Heffernan. Augusta, Ga., has been named*a regular mem ber of the varsity golf team of Notre Dame University, which opens up this week at the University of Detroit. Joe had a score in the seventies each day during the tryouts, except one day when he shot eighty in a gale, the second lowest score that day; his 73 was the lowest for the tryouts. Charles A. Williams, President Charles A. Williams, Jr., V-President J. Lauer Williams, Sec.-Trj^lS. C. W. Ram&ejjiCiijdit Mgr. Williams & Shelton Company, Inc. Importers—Wholesalers Mill Agents Charlotte, N. C. TWO BISHOPS WILL HONOR CONVENTION BY THEIR PRESENCE Bishop Walsh Celebrant of Pontifical Mass, Bishop O’Hara Will Preach (Special to The Bulletin) COLUMBIA. S. C.—Columbia will be host this week-end to the eighth annual convention of the Charleston .Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women, which will be honored by the presence of two Bishops and which will bring to the city leaders in the movement from every part of South Carolina and from other states as well. The Most .Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D„ Bishop of Charleston, will of ficiate at the Pontifical Mass at St. Peter’s Church Sunday morning at 10:45; the sermon will be delivered by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. Registration for the convention will start Saturday afternoon at one o’clock at the Columbia Hotel. A meeting of the executive board will be held at two, and at four o'clock there will be a meeting of the Dio cesan Young Council in the Crystal Room. Miss Genevieve Kelly, chair man, presiding. The Rev. Lawrence Sheedy will deliver the invocation, Miss Margaret Parker, Columbia, the address of welcome and Miss Fran ces Molony,. Charleston. the re sponse. The principal adress wlil be delivered by Bishop Walsh. At seven o’clock Saturday evening there will be a panel discussion in the Crystal Room, with Mrs. J. C. Magarahan, Greenville, chairman of organization and development, as the leader. The speakers will be Mrs. C. C. F. Hammon, Kathwood, Mrs. J. W. Patterson ( Allendale, and Mrs. T. M. Myers, Greenwood. A. M. A. President Laetare Medalist Dr. Irwin Abell Honored by Notre Dame (Continued from Page One) lists will have the hearty approval from a large public already aware of his merit." The opening* session will follow, with the Rev, Thomas J. Mackin, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church, delivering the invocation, and Mrs. Curran L. Jones presiding. After “The Star-Spangled Banner”, with Miss Margaret Park as pianist, Mrs. Robert Gerald, of Sumter, will deliver the address of welcome for the deanery, with the response by Mrs. J. P. Seiner of Spartanburg. MRS. CURRAN L. JONES, Dio cesan president, wlil deliver her an nual message, and Miss Anne Rcse Kimpel will deliver a message from headquarters. Mrs. T. W. Reynolds, parliamentarian, will make her re port._ Mrs. Walter Cormack will en tertain with a vocal solo, there wilt be reports by the president, consider ation of reports from the executive board, and reports of the deanery presidents. Mrs. Robert Gerald for the Columbia deanery, Mrs. Ella V. Hurley for the Charleston deanery, and Mrs. J. P, Eeiner for the Green ville deanery. A reception will fol low the meeting. Dr. Abell has had a long and distin guished career ,n surgery. Born Sep tember 13, 1876 in Lebanon, Ky„ he descends from a family which settled in Kentucky in 1788. He w s graduat ed from St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Ky., in 1892, and five years later took his degree in medicine from the Uni versity of Louisville Medical School, where he has served as a professor of clinical surgery since 1904. In Euro -e Dr. Abell studied at the University * Marbury and the University of Berlin in Germany. He is married and the father of three children. In April, 1937, during the centen nial celebration of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Dr. Abell was honored with the degree of Doctor of Science, the citation describ ing him as one “beloved by thousands whose lives your skill has saved.” A contribution of numerous articles to the nation’s leading surgical jour nals, Dr. Abell has been a vit 1 force in advancing and improving Ken tucky’s eleemosynary institutions. He has been particularly vigorous in 1 is efforts to secure proper preventive and curative treatments for the mentally deficient. During the last visit to Louisville of the Apostolic Delegate, His Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Dr. Abell was selected by the laymen of the diocese as their rep resentative. A Lieutenant-Colonel in the U. S. Army Medical Corps during the World War, Dr. Abell is now a Colo nel in the Medical Reserve Corps. Bishop O’Reilly Dies After Long Illness (Continued from Page One) Given by Notre Dame as a recogni tion of merit and as an incentive to greater achievement, the Laetare Medal award originated in the ancient papal custom of bestowing the Golden Rose on a member of the Italian Cath olic nobility on Laetare Sunday. Its modern counterpart was inaugurated at Notre Dame in 1883 when the Very Rev. Edward Sorin, C. S. C.. university founder, bestowed the first medal on the late John Gilmay Shea, eminent Catholic historian. Last year’s recipient was Dr. Jere miah D. M. Ford, chairman of the Ro mance Languages Department of Har vard University. Medalists of previ ous years include prominent states men, artists, writers, finar :iers, sol diers, scientists, architects, philosoph ers, jurists, orators and economists. (Dr. Abell will address the annual meeting of the Georgia Medical Asso ciation at Augusta next week.—Editor The Bulletin). of Scranton, he was pastor at the Cathedral at Cleveland. _ Seventeen members of ihe Hier archy attended the solemn funeral services for Bishop O'Reilly held in St. Peter’s Cathedral here. His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel phia. was celebrant of the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Requiem. The Most Rev. Bernard J. Mahoney, Bishop of Sioux Falls, preached the sermon, and the Most Rev. William J. Hafey, D. D., Coadjutor-Bishop of Sci'anton, wh Q succeeds Bishop OReilly, presid ed at Vespers. Among the members of the Hier archy in attendance at the funeral Thursday were: Archbishop John T. MacNally, of Halifax and Bishops Edmond J. FitzMaurice, of Wilming ton; James E. Cassidy, Fall River; Joseph Schrembs, Cleveland; John Mark Gannon, Erie; James H. Ryan, Omaha; Charles Hubert LeBlond, St. Joseph; James E. Kearney, Rochester; Walter A. Foery, Syracuse; Thomas H. McLaughlin, Paterson, Bartholo mew J. Eutace, Camden; Peter L. Ire- ton. Coadjuter of Richmond: John M. McNamara, Auxiliary of Baltimore, and Basil Takach of the Greek Rite Diocese of Pittsburgh. Father Collins, S*M., Golden Jubilarian Bishop Keyes Toastmaster at Jubilee Banquet in Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev. John Collins, S. M., beloved mem ber of the Marist Fathers, ob- .ed the golden jubilee of his ordina tion St. Patrick’s Day, offering up the jubilee Mass, at which the members of the community assisted. The Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, D.D., S.M., D.D., was toastmaster at the banquet marking the occasion. Father Collins, born in London, was educated in Dublin, France, Swit zerland and Spain, and was ordain ed at Convent, La., March 17, 1888. He has served at Marist College, Atlanta, at Van Buren. Me., at Langhome, Pa., and at Washington, but most of his service was at Jef ferson College, La., where he was stationed for over thirty years. St. Leo College Prep. School Accredited High School Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers Ideal Location St. Leo Pasco County. Florida After the Pontifical Mass on Sun day. there wlil be a luncheon at the Columbia Hotel at one o'clock. Miss Genevieve- Kelly will preside at a “Youth and Catholic Action” sympo sium. at which the speakers will be Miss Winifred Bahan, Greenville, Miss Margaret Cade. Charleston, Miss Margaret Niggel, Columbia, and Don ald Hamburger, Columbia, as speak ers. The opening meeting in the after noon at the Hotel Columbia ball room will be presided over by Mrs. Curran Jones. Diocesan president, and the Very Rev. Martin C. Murphy. V. F„ pastor pf St. Peter’s, will deliver the invocation. After a musical program by Reese Hart, Billy Fisher and Gregory Pearce. Miss Anna Rose Kimpel of the National Council of Catholic Women headquarters in charge of Youth Organization will speak on the Council's program: she will be introduced by Mrs. Ella V Hurley 0 f Charleston. Bist-pp Walsh wil deliver the final adress of the af ternoon. The reports of the creden tial arjA<iominating committees will also he made at,this session. A Youth Meeting will be held in the Crystal Room at 3:30. Mis Kelly presiding and the Rev. Maurice Daly offering the opening prayer. Miss Bernice Meyssen wil sing a soprano solo, Miss Kimpel from the Wash ington headquarters will discuss the Youth work, after being presented by Miss Patricia Lowman of Orange burg. and there will be reports of-the local presidents and of the nomina tion committe of the junior organiza tion. At the evening session at eight, at which Mrs. Jones will preside, the opening prayer wil be offered by the Rev. Thomas L. Weiland, O. P. Mrs. Alex Wiles will sing Schubert's “Ave Maria”, there will be reports of of ficers. of standing committees, group organizations, election of group rep resentatives, unfinished business and the singing of “Holy God. We Praise Thv Name.” The convention will close Monday morning with a business meting in the Crystal Room, with the resort of the resolutions committee, unfinished business, installation of the new of ficers and adjournment, after which the new board will have its first meeting. LITTLE FLOWER CAMP For girls in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 12 miles from Asheville, offers unique feature of learning conversational French. Swimming, dancing, tennis, basket ball, volley hall, dramatics, music alls and crafts, nature lore, horseback riding, exploring trips, all under careful supervision. CAMP RATED “A" BY STATE AUTHORITIES. Address REVEREND MOTHER St. Gencvieve-of-4he-Pines Asheville, North Carolina CAMP ST. MARY’S ■^on tlTe Ochetee, Beaufort County, S. C. Open July 10th to August 14th A safe, healthy summer Camp for Children 10 to 16 years. Water sports, varied athletics, crafts, Indian Lore, archery, rifle range, entertainment. For information apply to, Director, Camp St. Mary’s R. F. D. No. 1, Ridgeland. S. C. Approved and endorsed by Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charleston, and by Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta.