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APRIL 27, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
CHARLESTON DIOCEAN N. C. C. W. HOLDS CONFERENCE
TENTH ANNUAL
SESSION MEETS
IN CHARLESTON
Bishop of Charleston and
Bishop of St. Joseph De
liver Addresses—Head of
National N.C.C.W. Attends
Catholic Council Group At Convention Close
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The tenth
annual conference of the Charleston
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
was held in Charleston March 30-
Aprll 1, at the Francis Marion Hotel.
Several hundred Catholic women,
delegates from the various local coun
cils throughout the State of South
Carolina, heard addresses by the
Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston; the Most Rev.
Charles H. Le Blond, D. D., Bishop
of St. Joseph; Mrs. W. W. McCollum,
of Gainesville, Fla., President of the
National Council of Catholic Women;
Miss Lenna Wilson, of the National
Council of Catholic Women Head
quarters, Washington, D. C., and
others.
Bishop Walsh was celebrant of the
Pontifical High Mass, which was cel
ebrated for the conference at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, at
which Bishop Le Blonde delivered
the sermon.
New Officers Elected
Two new officers were elected,
others being reelected. Mrs. C.
Mood McClure, of Anderson, presi
dent of the Greenville Deanery, and
Mrs. John C. Molony, President of
the Charleston Deanery, became vice-
presidents, succeeding Mrs. Joseph
V. Renn, of Greenville, and Mrs.
Frederick B. Schachte, of Charleston.
Other officers, who were reelected
included Mrs. J. Carroll Magarahan,
of Greenville, president, who presid
ed at the conference; Mrs.* M. P. Con-
Ion, of Charleston, recording secre
tary: Mrs. C. A. Fraser, of Green
ville, corresponding secretary; Miss
Eleanor Cantwell, of Columbia, treas-
urei. jiui Mis.* Ella V. Hurley,'of
Charleston, auditor. Mrs. J. D
gert. President of the Columbia
ery. with the other Deanery Presi
dents. will serve -as a vice-president.
Group representatives appointed at
the session included: Mrs. Alvin G.
Tuten of Georgetown, altar societies;
Mrs. B. B. Bellinger, of Columbia,
Parent-Teacher Associations; Mrs.
Nell Brown, of Columbia, sodalities;
Mrs. J. H. F. Rascob. of Greeville,
Council of Catholic Women; Mrs.
Loretta Munnerlyn, Columbia, guilds;
Mrs. A. A. Craig, Columbia, Cath
olic charities.
Committee Appointments
Appointments of committee chair
men included: Mrs. J. A. Van Dohlen,
Charleston, finance; Mrs. C. A.
Fraser, Greenville, activities; Mrs.
Frank F. Schatchte. Charleston, or
ganization and delevopment; Mrs.
Leonard Becker, Charleston, public
ity; Mrs. J. Joseph Reynolds, of
Charleston, National P.-T. A. and
adult education; Miss Agatha Spell
man, Anderson, religious education
and shrines in homes; Mrs. Curran
L. Jones. Columbia, immigration and
international relations; Miss Mae Mc
Grath. Anderson, industrial problems;
Mrs. G. Leo Lowry. Charleston,
school of social service; Mrs. James G.
Crowley, Spartanburg, study club;
Mrs. George H. Williams. Charleston,
libraries and literature; Mrs. J. W.
Bond, Columbia, legislation, and Mrs.
T. W. Reynolds, parliamentarian.
Soical activity incident to the con
vention included a drive to Summer
ville, a visit to the azalea gardens, a
reception, and a luncheon.
The Charleston Diocesan Council
of the National Council of Catholic
Women had its origin in December,
1930. when, at the invitation of Bishop
Walsh, representatives of the various
women’s organizations in South Caro
lina met with Dr. Anne Nicholson,
field representative of the N. C. C.
Among those present at the closf.ng session of the Charleston Diocesan Council cf Catholic Women, held in Charleston March 39-April 1, were
Mrs. Michael Conlon, recording secretary; Mrs. J. C. Magarahan, Greenvil! c, president; Mrs. C. A. Fraser, Greenville, recording secretary; Miss Eleanor
Cantwell, Columbia, treasurer: and Mrs. Ella V. Hurley, auditor. (Standing) Mrs. Frank B. Schachte, general chairman of the convention committee;
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charleston; Mrs. J. D. Swygert, Columbia, a vice-president; and Mrs. J. V. Renn, of Anderson, retiring
vice-president.— (Courtesy Charleston Evening Post).
W., in Charleston. At the organiza
tion meeting, which was attended by
Miss Agnes Regan, representing the
national council, the following tem
porary officers were named: Mrs.
Andrew J. Riley, president; Mrs. J.
W. Reynolds, Charleston, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Mood McClure,
Anderson, recording secretary; Mrs.
John Love, Greenville, treasurer, and
Mrs. John Calder, Sumter, auditor.
Past Presidents
Others who have headed the Dio
cesan Council since Mrs. Riley, the
first president, ^are Mrs. T. W. Rey
nolds, Charleston; Mrs. T. F. Clem
ent, Ridgeland; Mrs.. George Williams,
Charleston; M^s. Curran L. Jones,
Columbia, and the present president,
rs. Magarahan.
In 1932 the national convention was
held in Charleston, the famous Mag
nolia Gardens being opened to the
delegates.
Following the close of the confer
ence. at a board meeting, it was de
cided to change the date of the con
ference from spring to fall, and a
meeting of the Diocesan Council,
with the Youth Council, is being
planned for October.
Bishop England School
to Publish Year Book
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Prepara
tions are being made at Bishop Eng
land High School for the publica
tion of the 1940 year book. At a
meeting, at which the Rev. Louis R*.
Williamson presided, the following
sta f f was selected: Muriel Gaffney,
editor-in-chief; John Harrington,
business manager; Ann Santos, assist
ant editor; Marilyn Thomas, assist
ant business manager; Ferdinand
Buckley, sports editor; Eleanor
Condon, photographic editor; Billy
Croghan, editor, and Neil McManus,
art editor.
A French club was organized re
cently at the school with Lawrence
Bolchoz, president, Jane Wham,
vice-president; Mary E. Leonard,
treasurer; Kathleen Smith, secretary,
and Sister M. Genevieve, advisor.
The boys’ basketball team, coach
ed by Gerald McMahon, and the girls’
basketball team, coached by Eliza
beth Jenkins, completed successful
Camp St. Mary’s
Summer Recreational Camp
In Lower Beaufort County, S. C.
OPEN JULY 14th to AUGUST 17th
Children 10 to 16 Years
Under Auspices Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh
For Information, Apply—Director, Camp St. Mary’s
Ridgeland, S. C. R. F. D. No. 1.
Raleigh Newspaper Publishes Again
Protestant’s Tribute to a Priest
On the April 4th anniversary of the
death of Monsignor Thomas R. Grif
fin, who died in 1931, and who is
buried beside the Sacred Heart Ca
thedral, in Raleigh, The News and
Observer reprinted, as it had done
in other years, an article published in
that paper on February 10. 1927
This tribute, which recalls to mem
ory a belover^ priest of North Caro
lina, follows:
At aboui this Season (4 the, year
some instinct. impels me to la tendon
my path across Nash Square, which is
oormally the geometrically opproved
course between the house where I
live and the house where I work, be
cause it is the shortest distance. For
a season I walk no more across the
Square and thence toward Hillsboro
Street. I see no more of the tree-buds
straining at their husks.
Instead I lay a course up Hillsboro
toward the Capitol, because that path
takes me past the Elms, where the
sturdy crocus have poked their ruddy
faces through the mould, with a few
dark green sprigs of spiky leaves to
keep them company. They smile at
the sun, if there be any sun. They
nod their heads flirtatiously in the
wind, if their be any wind. They
shiver a little, if it is cold.
And when I have come to the Elms
and have flirted a little with the
crucus, and have had hope from them
I look across the street toward the
house of the gentle Father Griffin.
I wonder if he will be anywhere
about, and if he will mind if I cross
over the street and speak to him.
Somehow, in my vagrant way ot
thinking. Father Griffin belongs .
with the crocus, though there isn't
any reason that I know of except that
he is gentle and kindly and he is their
neighbor.
I don’t know how many people may
know Father Griffin. It may be that
nobody knows him. It may be that
everybody knows him. He is the Ca
tholic priest who lives in the house
across the street from the place
where the crocus are. He comes and
goes quietly about the streets. Often
I see that people who are not of his
stop and speak to him. A long
time ago — I think it must have been
.the first spring that I watched the
crocfe home through the earth, 1 got
into the habit of stopping to speak
with him. -
Once I would have' thought *t a
very wicked thing to stop'ftt taUc to
a priest, but that was in a day befo'FS-
I had learned many things I know
now, before I knew Father Griffin.
It has never seemed to make any
difference to him that I am a Pres
byterian and that he is a Catholic.
We talk casually of many matters.
Sometimes we talk of religion, but
he has never tried to proselyte me.
He is gentle and tolerant and kindly
and sympathetic and he thinks no
evil of those who are narrow and
fearful of themselves, and of the
world.
If souls have color. Father Griffin's'
must be about the the color of the
mellow-gold crocus. There is no guile
in him, no bitterness, but only genial
and kindly humor, and a sympathe
tic understanding of the human
heart, its strongness and its frailty.
And that is why I walk no more
through Nash Square until the cro
cus are gone back into the mould
through which they have come.
BF.N DIXON MacNEILL.
CHARLESTON PARISH
YOUTH GROUP MEETS
CHARLESTON. S. C.—At the regu
lar meeting of the Catholic Youth
Council of the Sacred Heart Parish.
Miss Alexandria Dengate was elected
president to succeed Miss Eleanor
Condon.
Other officers selected were Miss
LaFaye Lattimore, vice-president;
Miss Mary Frances Condon, secre
tary; Miss Elizabeth Condon, trea
surer. Committee chairman named
were: Miss Anne Douglas, religion;
Miss Rose Mary Kerr, publicity; Miss
Pauline Kane/ sick; Miss Mary Deppe
and Miss Katherine Hanley, enter
tainment.
The Rev. James J. Guinea, mode
rator of the Council addressed the
meeting which was followed by a
social session.
CATHOLIC YOUTH COUNCIL,
ST. PATRICK’S PARISH
CHARLESTON, S. C.—At the regu
lar meeting of the Catholic Youth
Council, of St. Patrick’s Parish, held
April 9, the following officers were
elected: Miss Mary Eileen Leonard,
president; Miss Mary Heame, vice-
president; Miss Eva DeWitt, treasur
er; Miss Gertrude Murphy, secretary.
The meeting was sponsored by Miss
Margaret Bailey.
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY of the
Connecticut law prohibiting the use
of contraceptives without qualifica
tion was upheld by the State Supreme
Court of Errors.
AN ARTICLE, entitled “An Oppor
tunity for Americans.” by the Rev.
Dr. Joseph F. Thorning of Mt. St.
Mary’s College. Emmitsburg. Mary
land, which declared that while other
universities of Europe; are being de
populated due to the war. the institu
tions of higher learning in Spain will
attract the youths of the world, has
been printed in the Congressional
Record.
Camp St. Mary’s
to Open July 14th
Recreation Camp of Ridge
land, S. C., Anticipates An
other Successful Season
Monsignor O’Brien
Heard Over WTMA
Easter Mass Celebrated at
Sacred Heart Church by
Father Wolfe Was Broad
casted Over WCSC
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—On a special
Good Friday program presented
over Station WTMA. just prior to
the nation-wide broadcast of the Na
tional Broadcasting Company, featur
ing Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, the
Rev. Joseph L. O'Brien. S. T. D.,
LL.D., pastor of St. Patrick’s Church,
delivered an eloquent discourse titled
‘ The Pulpit o f the Cross.”
Monsignor O'Brien conducted the
devotions which were held at St.
Patrick’s from noon until three
o'clock on Good Friday, the services
including meditations on "The Re-
-nroaches of Good Friday."
Ih'-Sbservaace „f Good Friday,
schools - 03.1?)/ and public buildings
in Charleston
SACRED HEART CHCK6IL
BROADCASTS EASTER MASS
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The High
Mass celebrated on Easter Sunday,
by the Rev. Henry Wolfe, pastor, at
Sacred Heart Church. was broad
casted over the facilities of Station
WCSC. Music for the service was
rendered by an augmented choir,
and the subject of the sermon deliv
ered at the Mass was “Resurrection".
(Special to The Bulletin)
BEAUFORT, S. C.—Camp St. Mary's
Summer Recreation center for boys
and girls 10 to 16 years, is making
plans for another season. Advance
applications indicate that the camp
session which will begin on July 11
and continue to August 17, will be
most successful.
The Most Rev. Ememt M. Walsh,
Bisnop of Charleston, under whose
auspices the camp is maintained, has
said that the camp provides an ex
cellent opportunity for several weeks
of wholesome recreation and summer
camp sports under Catholic auspices
snd at very low cost, and has recom
mended its patronage to the people of
his diocese.
The Most Rev. Gerald P O'Hara,
has also highly praised Camp St.
Mary’s, which is located in lower
Beaufort County, on the Ochetee Riv
er, near Ridgeland, S. C. Its purpose
is to offer during the ordinarily idle
summer months the opportunity for
healthful and pleasant recreation
combined with a definite improve
ment in mind and soul.
Descriptive and informative folders
and applications may be obtained
from the Rev. A- F. Kamler, R. F. D.
No. 1, Ridgeland, S. C.
Easter Mass Music
Repeated by Choir
Inspiring Program Heard at
N.C.C.W. Conference Mass
at Charleston Cathedral
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The choir
of the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist repeated its program of Easter
music at the Solemn Pontifical Mass
which was celebrated by the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. D. D„ Bishop
of Charleston, in connection with
the state conference of the National
Council of Catholic Women.
The program .follows:
Processional, Ecce Sacerdos, Elgar;
at vesting of the Most Rev. Bishop.
“He is Risen," Mascagni: mass, St.
Cecelia, Gounod; gradual. Haec Daes,
Rees: offertory. Regina Coeli. Schmoli;
recessional, Hallelujia Chorus, Han
del.
The choir members are the follow
ing: Sopranos, Misses Susie Bella vita,
Mary Grube, Alice Moran. Mesdames
Claude Blanchard. J. L. Carroll, W.
J. Croghan. John Dodds. Julian Smith,
contraltos. Misses Margaret Han
ley, Lillie Mosimann, Madeline Mosi-
mann, Cecile Rice, Mesdames Leo J.
Hennessey, Frank C. Wheat; tenors,
James Carroll, Jr., Humphrey Igoe, „
Barnwell Myers, Frank B. Schachte,
basses. J. L. Carroll. G. Guida, Joseph
Hanley, Austin J. Kennedy. Henry
J. Price; boys assisting with Regina
Coeli. Terry Bresnahan, Francis
Budds, Billy Conklin, Thomas Hen
nessey, Thomas Hinson, Billy Lloyd,
Billy Moloney, Fred Puckhaber, and
David Tindel; directress, Mrs. Tham-
as F. Mosimann, and organist. Miss
Margaret Mosimann.
CLASS AT NORTH CHARLESTON
CONFIRMED BY BISHOP WALSH
CHARLESTON, S. C.-On the af
ternoon of Sunday, April 7, the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.. Bishop
of Charleston, administered the Sac
rament of Confirmation at St. John's
Church. North Charleston, where the
Rev. M. J. Reddin is priest ia charge.
MONSIGNOR O’BRIEN
TALKS TO LIONS CLUB
CHARLESTON. S. C. — Warning
that “white civilization’ is tottering
on the brink of disaster, the Right
Rev. Monsignor Joseph L. O'Brien,
pastor of St. Patrick's Church, in a
talk delivered before the Lions Club,
at its luncheon at the Fort Sumter
Hotel, urged Americans to take time
to think and reform themselves.