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AUGUST 29, 1942
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
FATHER LONERGAN
Very Rev. William J. Lonergan
S. M., of Atlanta, who will con
duct a Retreat for lay women at
Villa Marie, near Savannah, from
September 18 to 20.
Congratulations
to
Patrick Walsh
Council
Knights of Columbus
MYRON W. COLE
Augusta
Woman’s Retreat at
Camp Villa Marie,
September 18-20
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Under the
auspices of the Catholic Young
People’s Association of Savannah
a week-end Retreat for all lay
women, single or married, and
over seventeen years of age, of
this section of the Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta will be held at
Villa Marie, Grimballs Point,
from Friday evening, September
18, to Sunday evening, Septem
ber 20.
The Very Rev. William J. Lon
ergan, S. M., pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Atlanta, formerly
of the Marist Mission Band, will
conduct the Retreat.
Non-Catholics as well as Cath
olics are invited to make the Re
treat. Those who cannot begin
the Retreat Friday evening may
start on Saturday or Sunday. Only
a nominal offering is expected
from each retreatant.
It is anticipated that there will
be a large number of retreatants
from Savannah, Augusta, Bruns
wick and other places. Reserva
tions may be made through the
C. Y. P. A. in Savannah.
Served as Supreme
Director of K. of C.
Camp St. Ann’s
Closes Tenth
Annual Session
PUBLICATION of booklets for
distribution to German soldiers to
meet their religious needs has
been banned by Nazi authorities,
according to a radio broadcast
from Vatican City heard in Lon
don. Heretofore Catholic authori
ties in Germany had been per
mitted to issue such booklets and
two of a series have appeared, the
radio speaker said, but further
publications have been forbidden.
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DRUGS!
TOILETRIES!
SUNDRIES!
60
BRIGHT, MODERN
DRUG STORES
THROUGHOUT
THE SOUTH
TO SERVE YOU
DRUG STORES
“Always the Best"
VICTOR J. DORR
One of Augusta’s outstanding
business and Catholic leaders for
two generations, a former State
Deputy of the Knights of Colum
bus of Georgia, and the first
Southerner to be elected to the
Supreme Board of Directors of
the Knights of Columbus, Victor
J. Dorr, a pioneer member of
Patrick Walsh Council, was Chan
cellor of the council at the time
of his death in 1936.
CHAPLAINS HONORED
GUESTS OF ATLANTA
WAR SERVICE GROUP
ATLANTA, Ga.—Lieut.-Col.
George Zentgraf, commanding
chaplain of the Third Army; Lieut.
Charles Brady, chaplain at Law-
son General Hospital,, and the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Croke.
pastor of St. Anthony’s Church,
were honor guests at the monthly
luncheon meeting of the Catholic
War Service Group held at the
Atlanta Athletic Club on August
3rd.
Reports of work accomplished
in the national defense program
were made by the parish chairman.
Miss Bessie Nell Rafferty, chair
man of the Catholic Club of Busi
ness and Professional Women an
nounced that a home nursing
class was in progress at Red Cross
headquarters.
Plans were made for the enter
tainment of service men during
the month of August, the weekly
‘ Open House" entertainments for
service men at the K. of C.
Home being continued under the
auspices of the various parish
organizations. The Chapel Guild
of the Sacred Heart Church acted
as hostesses on Sunday, August
2, with Mrs. Frank White, Mrs.
Sam Alola and Mrs. Leon Butler
heading the committee in charge.
FOUR MEMBERS OF AUGUSTA
FAMILY NOW IN SERVICE
AUGUSTA. Ga.—When Gerald
Rox, son of the late John Rox and
Mrs. Ethel Fitzgerald Rox, began
his flight training as a naval avia
tion cadet this month, he was the
fourth member of his family to
enter the service. A sister. En
sign Mary Clare Rox, is on active
duty as a Navy nurse at Norfolk.
A brother, John Rox, Jr., is at
the Army gunnery school at Eglin,
Fla., and another brother, William
Rox. has enlisted in the V-7 Naval
Reserve.
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C.—The tenth
summer encampment at Camp St.
Ann’s the Catholic vacation school
in the Piedmont section of South
Carolina, closed on July 18 with
an impressive patriotic and reli
gious program, the Pageant “Hail
Columbia and For God and Coun
try being presented by the chil
dren."
“Columbia,” on a raised plat
form, was surrounded by six small
girls with flags, a flag-bearer in
Boy Scout uniform, a Star girl,
and “Loyalty.
The pageant was opened by the
recitation of a poem stressing the
dedication of the United States to
Our Lady, with Dorothy Pike, of
Calhoun, as the narrator. Those
participating in the pageant were
Columbia, Patsy Branninghan,
Rock Hill; Flag Girls, Anne Lyons,
Anderson; Mary Murphy, Colum
bia; Mary Lunkenheimer, Chester;
Carolyn Goldsmith, Greenville;
Mary Lewis, Rock Hill; Barbara
Kraemer, Anderson. Flag Bearer,
John Lyons, Anderson; Star Girl,
Sybil McMahon, Columbia; Loyal
ty, Helen Young, Columbia; Motto
Bearers, Tommy Berry, Everett
Carter, Roy Cason, Bill Gregg.
James Lowery, Alfred Francis.
At the conclusion of the pageant
the honors and prizes for ex
cellence in Catechism, and study
of the Missal, the Bible and the
Ceremonies of the Mass were
awarded to William Carter, Rock
Hill; Patricia Owings, Easley; Sy
bil McMahon, Columbia; Andrew
Bindewald, Greenville; Carolyn
Goldsmith. Greenville; Everette
Carter, Rock Hill; Tom Berry,
Greenville, Betty Murphy, Colum
bia; James Lowery, Rock Hill: Al
fred Francis, Great Falls;, Mary
Jane Goldsmith, Greenville; Mary
Mathis, Greenville; Susanna Bran-
nigham, Rock Hill, Dorothy Pike,
Calhoun; Helen Young, Columbia;
Virgil Murphy, Columbia; Inga
Svendsen, James Island; Deci Bar-
bot, Florence; Jack Owings, Eas
ley; Patsy Brannigham, Rock Hill;
James Farrell, Abbeville; Roy
Cason. Rock Hill, Barbara Kraem-
cr, Anderson; Lois Chapman, Wal-
halla, Bill Gregg, Rock Hill, Mary
Murphy, Columbia; Mary Philipa
Lewis, Rock Hill, Lewis Mack.
Great Falls, and Patsy Murphy,
Mount Pleasant.
The total enrollment of one
hundred and twenty children rep
resented the missions of Anderson,
Clemson, Charleston. Columbia.
Florence, Greenville, Rock Hill and
Spartanburg.
Five of the children, Kenneth
Doker, Wilburn Doker, Betran
Storey, Derry Storey and Jack
Francisco, received their first
Holy Communion in the camp
chapel.
The purpose of St. Ann's Camp,
located at Rocky Bottom, north of
Pickens on the Pickens-Brevard
highway, is to assemble the chil
dren of the rural sections for a
summer vacation session of re
ligious instruction and recreation.
The Rev. Sydney F. Dean, as
sistant pastor of St. Mary’s Church,
Greenville, is the director of the
camp and classes are conducted
by the Sisters of Our Lady of
Mercy, Sister M. Ursula. Sister
Annunciata, Sister Louise and
Sister Columbia, and by semi
narians: Rev. Mr. Leon Hubacs,
Rev. Mr. Allan Jeffords and Frater
John Nedley. The girls’ recre
ation was directed by Misses Carol
Louise Thorny, of Lake City, Edith
Lewis, of Florence; Mary Lu.
Magarahan, of Anderson, and
Ruby Berry and Elizabeth
Schwiers, of Greenville. The boys’
recreation was directed by James
McNamara, of Taylors, Paul Ham
burger, of Columbia, Frater Henry
Tevlin and Edward Wahl, of Rock
Hill. Misses Laura and Virginia
Svendsen, R. N., of Charleston,
were in-charge of the infirmary,
and Mrs. Agnes Patton, of Green
ville, was supervisor of the dining
room.
Past Grand Knight
THOMAS P. DORIS
Thomas P. Doris, a charter
member of Patrick Walsh CouncT
Knights of Columbus, Augusta,
was Grand Knight of the Council
from 1912 to 1913.
Filipinos of Capital
Attend Mass in Honor
of President Quezon
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MORE THAN 680.000 conies of
'Catholic Hour’’ addresses have
been requested by listeners dur
ing the last twelve months, it has
been announced by the Executive
Committee of the National Coun
cil of ■ Catholic Men. producers of
WASHINGTON. — The blessing
of God on the Philippines, their
people and their President was
asked by more than 1,000 Filipinos
and Americans at a special Com
munion Mass in St Aloysius
Church attended by Philippines
President Manuel Quezon, mem
bers of his family and high rank
ing officials of his exiled Govern
ment*.
The Pontifical Mass, arranged
under the auspices of the Filipina
Catholic Association of Washing
ton, was celebrated by the Most
Rev. John F. O’Hara, C. S. C„
Military Delegate. Honoring Pres
ident Quezon’s birthday, which
falls on August 19, the Mass was
followed by a breakfast at the
Willard Hotel.
As President and Mrs. Quezon,
with Bishop O'Hara, proceeded
up the aisle of the Church before
Mass to Prie-dieux in the sanctu
ary, the entire congregation, in
eluding some 500 Filipinos rest
dent here, rose in tribute.
The Philippine nation, the Rev.
Pacifico Ortiz, S. J., chaplain to
President Quezon, declared in his
sermon, “believes in a secret
weapon and a secret alliance
which in due time will crush the
arrogant enemies of our freedom."
The weapon is prayer and the al
liance is with God. he said.
With prayer, with total sacri
fice by all. Father Ortiz said, we
will win, and “out of the bloody
foxholes of Bataan a free nation,
a happy people and an independ
ent Philippines will rise again in
victory.”
Taken slightly ill. President
Quezon was unable to attend the
breakfast in his honor which fol
lowed the Mass. His wife, Mrs.
Aurora de Quezon, addressed in
formally on his behalf the 200
Filipinos who convened at the
W’illard.
Heading the representation of
the Filipino Catholic Association
-vere its chaplain, the Rev. Pedro
Verceles, S. J., who also spoke,
and its President, Gervasio Sese,
Washington attorney.
Other speakers were Bishop
O'Hara; Sergio Osmena, Vice-
President of the Philippines, and
the Rev. Thomas B. Cannon, S. J.,
Director of the Jesuit Philippines
Bureau in New York:
Among others attending the
birthday tribute to the Philippines
chief executive were: his son,
Manuel Quezon, Jr.; his daughters.
Misses Maria Aurora and Maria
Zena ida Quezon; Maj. Gen. Ba-
silio Valdes, Chief of Staff of the
Philippine Army; Lieut. Col.
Andres Soriano, Secretary of Fi
nance, and Mrs. Soriano; Dr. Be-
nevenuto R. Dino, surgeon of the
Philippine General Hospital; Col,
Carlos Romolo, formerly an aide
to Gen. MacArthur, and several
other high officers of the Philip
pines Army.
over the National Broadcasting
the program which is broadcast Company network.