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MARCH 27, 1943
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Communion Breakfast atUSO-NCCS Columbia Club
PACKED BY
GEIGER FLOUR COMPANY
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Catholic members of the 33rd General Hospital Unit, stationed at I*ort Jackson, are pictured at a
breakfast served at the USO Club operated in Columbia. South Carolina, by the National Catholic
Community Service. The breakfast followed the celebration of Mass at St. Peter’s Church, by Chaplain
Anthony Connell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, at which the service men had received Holy
Communion. Guests at the breakfast were entertained by Sergeant Con Mieropolis, of the Columbia
Airbase, and Mrs. Mieropolis. who is a graduate of the Julliard School of Music, in New York. Sev
eral of the men from the Hospital group were also h eard in vocal selections. Arrangements for the
Communion-breakfast were made by the Very Rev 7 . Martin C. Murphy, V. F.. pastor of St. Pelets
Church, and NCCS Moderator, William J. Gunn, director, and Miss Jean Brabham, assistant director,
of the USO-NCCS Clubs. .
Bishops' Committee
Distributed Hup Sum
to War Victims in 1942
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — Catholics of
the United States last year dis
tributed $1-322,493 to victims of
war through the Bishops’ War
Emergency and Relief Commit
tee, it was revealed in a state
ment of the committee made here
today. The committee, headed by
Archbishop Edward Mooney, of
Detroit, forecast that the need
for funds to aid the suffering
and distressed peoples of Europe
and Asia wall be far greater during
the year to come.
Expressing confidence that the
3943 collection, scheduled in most
Archdioceses and Dioceses for
Laetare Sunday, April 4, will pro
vide ample funds to continue this
relief work “only if Catholics are
made aware of its urgency”, Arch
bishop Mooney added:
“No one can foretell from what
quarter may come further appeals
for the bare necessities of life. It
is certain only that they will be
increasingly numerous and com
pelling".
The committee pointed out that
of the total of $1,322,493 distribut
ed by the Bishops’ Relief Commit
tee last year, more than $600,000
was disbursed by the Holy Father
lor relief work where American
agencies ordinarily are unable to
function. As examples- numerous
occupied countries of Europe as
well as relief provided for Ameri-
can prisoners of war were cited.
The latest allotments disbursed
through the Vatican, totaling $275,-
00, included $30,000 for relief
among the Croats and Slovenes,
$25,000 for relief work in Greece;
$25,000 for Polish refugees in
Russia; $20,000 for relief work
in Belgium! $20,000 for aid in the
Netherlands; $20,000 for relief
work among refugees in Europe
in general, and $20 000 for relief
among French peasants. Also in
cluded was $10,000 for relief work
in Malta; $10,000 for relief in
Lithuania and $5,000 for relief
work among children in Finland.
Prisoners of war were aided to the
extent of $35,000, and Czech refu
gees in France were alloted $30,-
000.
Previous activities of the
Bishops’ Relief Committee includ
ed allotments of $50,000 for assist
ance to American prisoners of
war; $10,000 for relief of air raid
victims on Malta; $100,000 for re
lief of Polish refugees in Russia;
$50,000 for medicine and clothing
for Polish women and children in
Turkey, Iran and India; $135 000
for relief work in China, and $15-
000 for typhus control work there
Pastor of Saint
Francis de Sales
Church, Columbia
FATHER MACKIN
The Rev. Thomas J. Mackin,
pastor of St. Francis de Sales
Church, Columbia. S. C., is a na
tive of Chicago. He was educated
at Mount Carmel Parochial
School, St. Vincent’s High School,
Northwestern University Prepara
tory School, the College of Science
at the Catholic University of Am
erica, and at the University of
Notre Dame, where he was a fel
low student of Bishop John F.
O’Hara, C. S. C., Military Dele
gate, and the late Knute Rockne.
He completed his study for the
priesthood at St. Mary’s Semi
nary, Baltimore, and in May of this
year will celebrate the Silver Jub
ilee of his ordination. As a priest
of the Diocese of Charleston, he
served in Charleston, George
town, Parris Island, Beaufort,
Yongc’s Island, Anderson, Black-
ville, Barnwell, Bamberg, Spring-
field, Camden, Spartanburg and
on the missions before coming to
Columbia in 1936.
Mrs. Mary M. Mackin, Mother of
Father T. J. Mackin, Columbia,
Celebrates Ninety-Third Birthday
COLUMBIA, S. C. — Mrs. Mary
M. Mackin, who makes her home
with her son. the Rev. Thomas J.
Mackin, at St. Francis de Sales
rectory, celebrated her ninety-
third birthday on March 8.
In November of last year, Mrs.
Mackin suffered a fall, from the
effects of which she has not yet
recovered, but prior to that time
she had been alert and active de
spite her years.
She came to Columbia with her
husband the late John Mackih,
from her former home in Wauke
gan, Illinois, in 1938, to reside here
with her son, who is pastor of St.
Francis de Sales' Church, in the
Shandon, residential, section of
Columbia, and has made many
friends since coming to this city.
Until her accident she was a
regular attendant at church and
at meeting of women’s organiza
tions in the parish. She was a look-
ed-for figure at election times as
she never missed casting her vote
whenever that civic duty was to be
done.
The shops in town have had her
come in to make purchases with
a discerning eye for style and*
value, and to window shop and see
[the Main Street throngs were
pleasures she much enjoyed.
Mrs, Mackin was born of pioneer
stock in Randon Lake, Wisconsin,
on March 8, 1850. She lived later
in Milwaukee, then in Chicago and
Evanston, Illinois. After that het
home was in Waukegan for some
twenty years. The house in which
she was born became later the fijrst
school in that part of Wisconsin
and her sisters were its first teach
ers.
Mrs. Mackin can still relate
many thrilling and interesting
tales of the days of the first white
settlers in the opening of the West.
Recently she has lost some of her
strength, but she still retains her
bright cheery manner and her
keen powers of mind.
ST. PATRICK’S DAT
DANCE IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Members of
the Auxiliary of the Benedictine
Military School complimented
members of the cadet corps and
their feminine friends with a
dance on the night of March 17.
Special guests were Lieut, and
Mrs. James F. Smith, Sgt. and
Mrs. Winston Maxey, Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Frain, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert White, and John Scott. Mrs.
Joseph E. Kelly, Jr., was chair
man of the committee in charge,
and members of the Auxiliary act
ed as chaperons.
MRS. MARY MACKIN
Miss Anne Sarachon Hooley,
Head of Women Division of
N. C. C. S., Visits Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Miss Anne
Sarachon Hooley, national direc
tor of the Women’s Division of Na- 'will serve as chairman of the local
Asheville Catholics
Open Service Center
(Special to The Bulletin)
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—The Lau-
rentine Canteen for men and
women in the armed services was
opened on March 20 with a buffet
supper in Laurentine Hall, Hay
wood and Flint streets, which was
followed by a dance at the George
Vanderbilt Hotel. All service men
and women, regardless of their
religious affiliations, were invited
to attend the supper and the
dance and to avail themselves of
the facilities of the canteen at all
times.
The canteen will be open at
noon each Saturday and at 8:30
each Sunday morning. It will be
operated in cooperation with, and
as an extension of the National
Catholic Community Service cen
ters in Spartanburg and Green
ville, under the direction of Sam
J. Francis. An administrative
board has been formed here to su
pervise the canteen, this board to
consist of the Very Rev. Msgr.
Louis J. Bour, pastor of St. Lau
rence Church, who will be the
moderator; the Rev. Charles J.
O’Connor. vice-moderator; the
Rev. Michael Carey, Anthony
Redmond, Mrs. Jack Woodcock,
Miss Evelyn Fragge, Bernard Fer-
rey, Dr. J. II. McGowan. J. V. Er-
skine, Frank Vincent, Mrs. J. T.
Neely. Mrs. F. O. McShane, and
Mrs. J. H. Spears. Mr. Redmond
On the morning of his mother’s
birthday, Father Mackin celebrat
ed Mass on a portable altar that
had been erected in her room. The
crucifix on the’ altar was one that
she had given him when he was a
boy. The altar cloths were ones
she had made with her own hands,
while the chalice and paten used,
and the vestments worn, had been
give Father Mackin by his parents
when he was ordained.
Mrs. Mackin Was able to re
ceive callers all through the day,
and her rooms was fragrant with
flowers, and filled with other ex
pressions of regard from her
friends.
THE FIRST GROUP of Re
demptorist missionaries to leave
for the foundations which the
congregation has accepted in Bra
zil will depart soon after Easter.
tional Catholic Community was
here from Washington to attend
a regional USO training institute.
Miss Hooley, whose war-time
job is to help the women folk of
the men in the armed forces and
the women engaged in defense
industry, recently completed a
trip around the United States
which rekindled her enthusiasm
for the work women are doing
and convinced her that many of
them are “going through really
tragic times.”
It is the USO’s task, said Miss
Hooley, to get girl workers in big
production centers on the job with
morale and efficiency at its peak,
to help the wives and sweethearts
of men in the service to carry on,
and to cope with the growing
problem of military centers, the
adolescent girl whose inexpe
rience and misguided patriotism
leads her astray.
Miss Hooley told a story about
a little middle mid-western town
which with a population of 700,
became overnight a booming mu
nitions manufacturing town, with
aousands of young women work
ers wandering around ir off hours,
homesick, lonesome and idle. To
save these young workers from
the fate sheer boredom might lead
to, the USO went to work in the
little town, and did a wonderful
job, even though at first the
townspeople were not particular
ly friendly to the defense worker.
NCCS committee, with Mi's. Wood
cock as vice-chairman, Miss
Fragge, secretary, and Mr. Ferrey,
treasurer. The project will be sup
ported by private funds.
Miss Fragge heads the hos
tesses’ committee, Mrs. McShane
the program' committee; Mrs.
Spears, home hospitality and spe
cial service committee; Mrs. Wood
cock, publicity; John G. Deshler,
K. S. G.. religious committee, and
Mrs. E. V. Gulika, house commit
tee.
The recreational center is ex
pected to attract hundreds of sol
diers, sailors and marines from
nearby camps and bases.
SAVANNAH P.-T. A. GROUP
HOLDS “FATHERS’ NIGHT”
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Parent-
Teacher Association of the Bless
ed Sacrament School held a suc
cessful “Father’s Night” meeting
on March 10, with the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. T. James McNamara de
livering an inspiring talk of the
Christian concept of our Constitu
tion and Western Democracy.
A playlet, “Ireland’s Contribu
tion to America”, as presented
by Peggy Mulherin, Monica Ulivo,
and Cecelia Collins. The address
of welcome by Patricia Bremer was
followed by a recitation by George
McGinn.
Mrs. B. P. Lowenthal, chairman,
of the lunchroom for the past
month was congratulated on the
fine showing that had been made.