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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 23. 1938
St Mary's Home Dedication, Savannah, May 8
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Georgia Catholic Circulating Library Established
GEORGIA GIRL GIVES
BOOKS MAKING THE
LIBRARY POSSIBLE
Miss Louise Mulherin Pre
sents Large Selection.
Bishop McNamara Aids
Catholic Cultural Project
Miss Louise Mulherin of Augusta,
Ga., and Kecoughton, Va., has pre
sented to the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia a collection of
new Catholic books numbering in
to the hundreds as the foundation of
a circulating library for the mem
bers of the Association.
Miss Mulherin. the daughter of Mr.
John P. Mulherin and the late Mrs.
Mulherin, is a native of Augusta; her
family has for many years been one
of the most prominent in the city
and section. Educated at Mt. St.
Joseph’s Academy and at the College
of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.
J., where she received her A. B.
degree, Miss Mulherin specialized in
dietitics and is now dietitian at the
U. S. Hospital in Keconghton.
The idea of a Catholic Circulating
Library in Georgia has long been one
of her ambitions, and recently she
suggested it to the executive officers
of the Laymen's Association, offer
ing to start the library with r ivuce
selection of new books. T hcu-
tive officers of the Association ac
cepted the offer with deep apprecia
tion. and Miss Mulherin bought the
jxioks after consultation with lead
ing Catholic librarians in the East
and with officers of the Laymen’s
Association.
In addition to the collection pre
sented by Miss Mulherin the circula
ting library contains a valuable col
lection of current Catholic books
g resented by the Most Rev. John M.
IcNamara, D. D.. Auxiliary Bishop
of Baltimore, who in addition to sub
scribing to the Catholic Book of the
Month Club for the Laymen’s As
sociation sent a number of choice cur
rent works from his library for the
use of the Laymen’s Association.
MISS RUTH PARK, a member of
St. Mary’s-On-The-Hill parish in
Augusta, and a librarian of many
years experience, has indexed, cata
logued and carded the books in pro
fessional manner, contributing many
days of service to the work. The lib
rary is located in the offices of the
Catholic Laymen's Association.
There will be no charge for the use
of books in the library for members
of the Catholic Laymen's Association
of Georgia, and every member of the
Bishop's Confraternity of the Laity
is ipso facto a member of the Lay
men's Association. When books are
sent by mail, it is expected that the
recipient will remit stamps covering
the cost of mailing when returning
the book.. Those interested in the
library are invited to communicate
with the Laymen’s Association.
Connie Mack Is Now
a Georgia Colonel
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Cornelius McGil
licuddy, better known as Connie
Mack, was presented with the key of
the city of Atlanta by the acting may
or and was made a Georgia colonel by
Governor Rivers when his- Philadel
phia Athletics came to Atlanta for a
day recently. Governor Rivers drove
from Lakeland to make him a colonel
personally.
VETERANS’ LEADERS
ATLANTA VISITORS
Legion Commander and
Foreign War Vets’ Chap
lain Speak in City
(Special To The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta was host
to national leaders of veterans’ organ
izations recently when Dan Doherty
of Woburn., Mass., national com
mander of the American Legion, and
Father A. E. Shearer of Brooklyn,
N. Y., national chaplain of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, were visit
ors.
Commander Doherty arrived on a
Sunday morning, was met at Peach
tree Station by a committee of
Legionnaires, and escorted to Mass at
Sacred Heart Church. He delivered
several addresses while here.
Father Shearer was the guest of
honor and chief speaker of a joint
meeting of the three Atlanta units of
the Veterans at the Chamber of Com
merce Assembly Hall.
MISS ANGELA COURTER, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Courter, of
this city, was captain of the junior
basketball team of St. Mary’s Col
lege, Notre Dame, Ind., which won
the college championship. Miss Cour
ter is secretary of the College Ath
letic Association.
CLARENCE HAVERTY was the
principal speaker at a recent meeting
of the Advertising'Club of Atlanta.
Mr. Haverty is vice-president of the
National Retail Furniture Associa
tion.
REV. PHILIP DAGNEAU, S. M„
principal of Marist College attended
the organization meeting of the
Southern Regional Unit of the Catho
lic Secondary School Department of
the National Catholic Educational
Association at Dallas, Tex. Others
from Georgia attending were Sister
Grace Aurelia of Mt. St. Joseph’s
School Augusta, and Sister Anna
Marie of Sacred Heart High School,
Atlanta.
“Now It Can Be Told”
Statement of Appreciation and Thanksgiving by the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta
Now that our diocesan campaign to
raise funds for the establishment and
maintenance of certain needed relig
ious, charitable and educational
works has come to such a marvel
ously successful conclusion, it may
not be out of place to make known
certain thoughts that were in my
mind prior to its inception.
It did not take keen vision to real
ize that if we were to continue the
splendid work done in the past by
Bishops, priests and lay folk in this
diocese, provision should be made—
as they did before us—to raise the
necessary funds. We have but to
look about us in this state to see
what the Faith and generosity of the
people in days gone by, were able to
achieve for the honor and glory of
God, and the good of souls in this
diocese. Beautiful and spacious
churches, schools, hospitals and in
stitutions for the poor, and for
orphans, speak eloquently of what
the Catholics before us did. We
would be remiss in our duty to God,
to the Church, to our fellow man,
and do to the sacred memory of those
who labored here before us, if we
did not seek to devise means to con
tinue, and preserve and expand the
works which they established on such
a sound basis.
MILWAUKEE expects an atend-
ance of more than 2,500 at the thirty-
fifth annual convention of the Na
tional Catholic Educational Associa-
tion there April 20-23.
In the summer, of 1936 and 1937 the
vacation schools for the children of
the rural sections of the state were
conducted. They involved consider
able expense, and were financed in
large measure because of the gener
osity of priest friends who permitted
me to take up collections in their
churches. However, the taking up
of collections involved frequent ab
sence from home, and moreover,
the method was slow.
After much thought I decided to
lay my plans before the Catholic peo
ple of Georgia, and to enlist their
help. I hesitated for months before
advancing the idea, first, because the
method I thought best adapted to se
cure the most results, was something
new in Georgia, and had never been
tried before; and secondly, because
from an economic and financial
standpoint, the times were anything
but favorable.
Despite these real difficulties, trust
ing in God, and filled with confi
dence in my people, I decided to
make the venture.
The Catholic population of Georgia
had been given for years as about
twenty thousand. I felt sure that the
true figure was in excess of this num
ber, and so the first move was to
take a state-wide Catholic census. I
said to myself that if the campaign it
self were not to produce conspicuous
material results, we would at least
have made a thorough census, and
would know how many people we
had, and where they were located.
The taking of the census was nat
urally, no small task; it required an
army of workers. I called upon six
hundred people to volunteer for this
task all over the state. To my im
mense joy, not six hundred, but
twelve hundred came forward to do
this work! This was a revelation.
That fact alone gave me great assur
ance, and something told me right
then and there that if we would not
realize the goal of one hundred thou
sand dollars, which, with no little
timidity I had set as an objective, we
would come fairly close to that
amount.
In three days the census was com
pleted, revealing that the Catholic
population was closer to twenty-five
thousand than to the previous e sti-
mate of about twenty thousand.
EASTERN EDUCATOR
COMING TO BELMONT
Bishop O’Hara Essay Contest
Judges Announce Winners
From all over the state word came
to me that the census-takers rejoiced
in having been called upon to do a
speical work for the Church. It was
Catholic Action in action. That, par
ticularly, was to me a source of
great encouragement.
Before groups of the faithful,
which increased in number with each
meeting, I unfolded the program of
progress which my experience in the
state prompted me to formulate and
my confidence grew and grew, as I
observed group after group giving to
the plan their earty endorsement.
The outstanding events in the cam
paign were the two dinners for men
in Savannah and Atlanta,, and the
meetings open to both men and wo
men which I had the pleasure of at
tending in Savannah, - Atlanta, Au
gusta and Macon. When the cam
paign dinners in Savannah and At
lanta were being planned, the com
mittee felt that if three hundred men
could be induced to attend the din
ner in Savannah, and a like number
to attend the one in Atlanta, we
would be doing very Well indeed; be
cause it was to be made known to
the men who would be thus invited,
that they would be asked to pledge
financial support of the diocesan
program by enrolling as members of
the Bishop’s Confraternity of the
Laity. To our utter amazement four
hundred and eighty-eight men at
tended the Savannah dinner, and
four hundred and seven were at the
Atlanta dinner! But what was more
amazing still was to discover that
when the second campaign banquet
was over, and before the campaign
had actually gotten under way, the
Catholic people of the diocese had
subscribed almost three-fourths of
the allotted goal!
BISHOP OFFICIATES
AS HE LEAVES FOR
BUDAPEST CONGRESS
His Excellency Will Ac
company Cardinal Dough
erty to Ceremonies
Hungary
in
— o
The Bulletin will have the
honor of presenting to its read
ers another series of articles by
4-His Excellency, Bishop O’Hara,
similar to the memorable series
with which he honored The
Bulletin last year after the
Eucharistic Congress in Manila.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D. Bishop, of
Savannah-Atlanta, will officiate at
the dedication Sunday, May 8th at
four p. m., of the new St. Mary's
Orphan Home for Girls, which will
give to the Diocese a fire proof and
modern home to replace the old frame
building, where the girl orphans have
been housed for many years here.
The dedication of St. -Mary’s will
be one of the last ceremonies at which
Bishop O'Hara will officiate be'o e
leaving for Philadelphia and New
York to accompany His Eminence,
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, to the Inter
national Eucharistic Conrgess at
Budapest, Bishop O’Hara was also a
member of the Cardinal’s official
party last year when His Eminence
was Papal Legate to the Eucharistic
Congress in the Philippines.
When Bishop O'Hara came to Geor
gia, he found that the generosity of
Georgia Catholics, particularly friends
of the orphanages in Atlanta, had
provided the boys with a splendid
fire-proof building at Washington, a
structure dedicated in 1932 by Bishop
Keyes. His Excellency conceived the
hope of providing a similar hpme for
the girls, and the new St. Mary’s on
Victory Drive is the result. Assist
ing in providing this home was one
of the major objectives in the cam
paign of the Confraternity of the
Laity.
His Excellency Will Present Prizes at Special
monies in Atlanta and Savannah
Cere-
Dr. Rockett of Rhode Island
to Be Commencement
Speaker
F.
(Special To The Bulletin)
BELMONT. N. C.—Dr. James
Rockett, director of public instruction
for the State of Rhode Island, will de
liver the commencement address at
Belmont Abbey College at the exer
cises June 9. Dr. Rockett was educated
at Holy Cross and Harvard • was state
director of education from 1925 to 1935
and has been state director of educa
tion since the latter year. His son,
James F. Rockett. Jr., was graduated
at Belmont in 1936.
ABBOT VINCENT and Father
Cuthbert Allen, O S. B., attended the
forty-second-annual meeting of the
' em Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools at Dallas, Texas,
March 28—April 1. Belmont Abbey
Junior College is one of three junior
colleges accepted for membership in
the Southern Association; the prepara
tory school is also a member.
CHAMPIONS of North Carolina in
the Junior College Class, with nine-
teeii basketball victories registered
against three defeats, Belmont's ath
letes are now turning their attention
to baseball under the direction of
Coach Howard Wheeler.
£HE REMAINS of Father Gerald A.
novan, Maryknoll missionary, who
was murdered in China, will arrive
in San Francisco next Monday. Fath-
The judges in the Bishop O’Hara Essay Contest on the
Constitution of the United States, commemorating the 150th
anniversary of Georgia’s ratification of the Constitution, have
rendered their decision naming the following as the winners
of the first prizes in the three divisions:
MARY GANN of Sacred Heart School, Atlanta, in the
division of parochial schools for white children.
BEATRICE McCORMACK of St. Theresa’s Parish, Al
bany, in the division of the children in public schools in com
munities in which there are no Catholic schools.
IRENE DEYETTE ot St. Benedict’s School, Savannah, In
the djvision of parochial schools for colored children.
The quality of the essays submitted was very high, and
the understanding of the Constitution by the students partici
pating splendid. In each division there were several essays
of unusual excellence.
The judges in the contest were Richard Reid, Augusta,
chairman; Louis C. Kunze, Columbus; Habernicht Casson,
Macon; Hugh Kinchley, Augusta; Kenneth Ammons, Bruns
wick; John M. Brennan, Savannah, and Furman Smith, At
lanta.
Bishop O’Hara will present the prizes to the Atlanta and
Albany winning contestants at a special ceremony at Sacred
Heart Church, Atlanta, at 7:30 P. M., Tuesday, April 26, the
ceremony consisting of the Archbishop Carroll prayer for
civil authorities, and presentation of prizes by Bishop O’Hara,
who will deliver the sermon, and Benediction. The Savan
nah prize winner will receive her award at St. Benedict’s
Church May 1, at the Mass at 10 A. M,, at which His Excel-
33 years V ago"and‘^"o^naln j wUJ confirm a class of the parish; the program there
1931. I will be similar to that in Atlanta.
Then the campaign itself began.
Each evening of the week of April
3, from all over the diocese, reports
came in from the local chairmen and
captains giving the nightly totals re
ceived in each parish. By the sec
ond night the amount pledged was
much over one hundred thousand
dollais. The total increased until at
the present moment about one hun
dred and ninety thousand dollars
represents the total pledges made.
To think that the people, who, be
cause of hard times, I thought would
scarcely be able to reach one hun
dred thousand dollars, almost dou
bled that amount!
To give adequate thanks to those
who have been responsible for this
marvelous achievement, is an impos
sible task, and I will not attempt it.
God knows the depth of my grati
tude to my priests and people for
their wholehearted response to my
appeal, and it is to God that I turn,
begging Him. the Giver of all good
gifts, to bring joy and happiness and
blessings beyond number, both spir
itual and temporal, into the lives of
my devoted clergy and beloved laity
for their splendid co-operation.
Truly this is a happy Easter, be
cause it will now become possible to
inaugurate certain works for the
good of religion, and the salvation
of souls in this state, which not so
long ago I thought would have to be
deferred indefinitely.
Whilst I rejoice, of course, over the
material help that has been pledged,
I rejoice particularly because of the
widespread co-operation which our
Catholic people all over the state
have given throughout, and also and
because of the diocesan spirit that
has been developed—a spirit of Cath
olic unity and solidarity, built upon
Faith and love for God, which is
more valuable than all the gold in
the world. This I rejoice in. This I
thank God for.
We will be faithful to the sacred
memory of those Bishops, priests and
lay folk who labored and sacrificed
here before us. and with our united
effort we will do our best to con
tinue and further develop the works
which they inaugurated.
St. Mary’s Home is conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy, who have had
charge of the caring of the girl
orphans since the early days of the
Diocese, as the Sisters of St. Jo
seph have had charge of the care of
the boy orphans. The old building
originally was in the suburbs of Sa
vannah, but the city had grown
around it. As the demands for space
grew, additions were made to it, but
the age of much of the building and
its wooden construction made the
erection of a new structure not only
desirable but essential to afford the
proper shelter for the little ones and
to remove them from fire hazards.
The new home is located on beau
tiful Victory Drive, on the road from
Savannah to Thunderbolt and Savan
nah Beach. In the spring, with the
azaleas blossoming, it is one of the
most beautiful sights to be seen any
where in the country; at all times the
fine parkway in the center and its
lines of palms and seasonable flow
ers make it always a placeeof rare
beauty. The home site overlooks the
Drive, on a spacious, site on one of
the most attractive knolls in the
tire section, and the natur
ages of the city make
background for the
splendidly equipped
has been described in
of The Bulletin.
LOYOLA U. DEBATERS
MAKE SOUTHERN TRIP
They Meet Teams From
Mississippi to S. Carolina
NEW ORLEANS, La.—Four mem
bers of the Edward Douglass White
society, comprising the varsity debate
squad, recently completed a tour
which included encounters with teams
representing six of the outstanding
universities of the South. The men
making the trip were Harold Ains
worth, John McCann, Robert F. Mor
row, and Joseph Miranne. They were
accompanied by the Rev. Thomas F.
Maher, 9. J., moderator of the so
ciety.
The debaters travelled 2,000 miles,
and met Spring Hill College at Mobile,
the University of South Carolina at
Columbia, Auburn. Alabama Poly
technic Institute and the University of
Alabama in Alabama, and the Univer
sity of Mississippi and the Mississippi
State College for Women.