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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 31,1943
Seventy-One Attend Retreat for
Laymen at Washington, Georgia
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, Ga. — Seventy-
one laypien, fifty-seven of whom
were civilians, and fourteen of
whom wore the uniform of the
United States Army attended the
twenty-third annual Retreat for
men, sponsored by the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
held at St. Joseph’s Home in Wash
ington, with the Rev. Thomas J. S.
McGrath, S. J., Director of the
Missionary Band of the Southern
Province of the Society of Jesus,
as retreatmaster.
At the close of the retreat, which
begun on the evening of July 16,
and ended on the afternoon of
July 18, the retreatants tendered a
special vote of thanks to the Rev.
John Crean, director of St.
Joseph’s Home, the Sisters of St.
Joseph, who conduct the Home,
and the boys at St. Joseph’s, for
their contributions to the com
fort of those making the Retreat.
James B. Mulherin was re-elect
ed general chairman of the Re
treat Section of the Laymen's As
sociation, with the following local
chairmen: Norman Wrigley, At
lanta; Miles,J. O'Connor, Augusta;
Martin J. Callaghan, Macon; R. W.
Hatcher, Milledgeville; J. P.
Hornsby, Ivey; Henry Murphy. Co
lumbus, and Fred Wiggins, Albany.
The nominating committee was
composed of A. A. Benedetto,
Reginald Hatcher, Bernard J.
Kane, Stephen Mikus, and J. G.
Hatfield.
Those attending the Retreat
were:
James B. Mulherin. .Albert A.
Rice, W. A. Nevin, W. W. Webster,
John W. Burke, John L, Arm
strong, E. J. O'Connor, Jerry E.
Lyons, P. H. Thompson, Miles J.
O'Connor, Henry C. Caver, Jr., J.
Tobin Barrett, Pat Rice Mulherin,
W. A. Lyons, Edward A. Sheehan,
Jerry P. McAuliffe, A. J. Opper-
man, A. V. Kirsch. Stephen P.
Mikus, Augusta; Bernard J. Kane,
Everett W. Wrigley. Norman J.
Wrigley, Dr. S. A. 'Ferlita. Steve
Ferlita, Felix J. Commagere,
Charles L. Thomas. Charles W.
Slack, Evelyn Harris, John M. Har
rison, Hughes Spalding, Arthur B.
Hogan, Estes Doremus, Lewis Van
R. Smith, Dan Sutter, Atlanta;
John J. McCreary. J. V. Sheridan,
D. P. Thompson, Charles LeH.
Adams, Sr., Herbert Loynd, W.
W. Sherwood, M. L. Connelly, J.
C. Garvin. W. D. Jarrett, Thomas
Union, Billy Cassidy, Francis F.
Cassidy, W. C. Shafer, Crosby W.
Smith, Peyton C. Lord, J. H.-
Hughes, H. A. Kennington, Capt.
Bob Montor, Macon.
R. W. Hatcher, Milledgeville; J.
P. Hornsby, Ivy; J. G. Hatfield, J.
W. Fountain. McIntyre; Corporal
John J. Sullivan, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Pfc. George J. Long, Jr., Buechel,
Ky.; Corporal Raymond J. Boylan,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Pvt. Raymond L.
Trapp, Chicago, 111.; Pfc. Anthony
E. Orlinski, Lakewood, Ohio;
Charles Weller, Washington, D. C.;
Raymond F. Reuter. Quincy. Ill;
Pfc. Edward F. Kelly, Rockland,
Mass.; Pvt. Edward L. Duffy, Wo
burn, Mass.; Corporal Chas. F.
Degnan. New Haven, Conn.; Pvt.
Armando Corona, Providence. R.
I.: Corporal Maynard L. Hodges,
Marshall, Minn.; Pvt. Jarfies R.
Ford Boston, Mass.; Pfc. R. H.
Marais. Augusta, Me.
Retreatmaster
REV. MARTIN EGAN
FROM SAVANNAH,
MADE MONSIGNOR
Savannah Council
K. of C. Hears Talk
by Father Feeley
Kenneth E. Ammons
Heads Brunswick
Council, K. of C.
BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Kenneth E.
Ammons has been elected grand
knight of Henry Thomas Ross
Council, No. 1939, Knights of Co
lumbus, for the year starting July
1. Other officers of the Council
named being John Mendes, deputy
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Rev.
Mikell Joseph Feeley, S. M. A.,
new assistant to the Rev. Gustave
Obrecht, pastor of the Chufch of
St. Benedict the Moor, addressed
the meeting of Savannah Council,
No. 631, Knights of Columbus, held
on July 14.
Chairmen of standing commit
tees who will serve for one year
were appointed by L. J. Steiber,
recently elected grand knight, as
follows:
E. V. Rogerson, house commit
tee: M. C. McCarthy, finance; H.
S. Robinson, entertainment; N. T.
Stafford. Catholic activities; C. J.
Desposito. robes and parapherna
lia; R. J. Powers, USO; J. M. Mc
Donough, war contracts; A. J.
Ryan, Jr., nocturnal adoration; M.
C. McCarthy, publicity: Hugh H.
Grady, radio: J. J. McDonald, by
laws; J. M. Brennan, membership,
and Thomas J. Canty, insurance
representative.
The appropriation of funds for
cigarettes to be sent to Savannah
boys in service in New Guinea was
ratified by the council, which pre
sented a leather brief case to A.
J. Schano, retiring grand knight,
in appreciation of his outstanding
service during his term of office.
Bible Teaching Plan
for Public Schools
Withdrawn in Atlanta
grand knight; J. L. Owens, chan-.
cellor; P. J. Grogan, financial sec- cation and paid from funds con-
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—The executive
committee of the Atlanta Chris
tian Council has recommended
that the council withdraw its plan
for teaching the Bible in the pub
lic schools of Atlanta and Fulton
County.
Committee members came to
the decision after the Atlanta Bap
tist P I s t o r s' Conference an
nounced its opposition to the pro
posal on the grounds that Bible
teaching in the schools is a viola
tion of the “historic principle con
cerning the separation of church
and state.”
Several weeks ago the council,
composed of representatives from
Protestant churches in Atlanta,
drafted a plan through which the
Bible would be taught in sdnior
and junior high schools as an elec
tive course. Bible teachers were
to be selected by council repre
sentatives and the Board of Edu-
MONSIGNOK EGAN
(Special -to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga. — The Rev.
Martin J. Egan, pastor of St. An
thony’s Church, Follansbee, West
Virginia, and member of a well-
known Savannah family, has been
honored by His Holiness Pope Pius
XII with elevation to the rank and
dignity of a Domestic Prelate, with
the title of Right Reverend Mon
signor.
Monsignor Egan received his ele
mentary education at the old
Cathedral school here, later at
tending Marist College, Dundkalk,
Ireland and St. Charles College,
Catonsville, Md. His philosophy
study was made at St. Mary’s
Seminary, Baltimore, Md., and his
theological course was completed
at the Sulpician Seminary in
Washington, D. C. He was or
dained at the Cathedral of the
Assumption, in Baltimore, on May
25, 1921, by the late Cardinal Gib
bons.
He was first assigned to the Im
maculate Conception parish
Clarksburg, W. Va., and later sent
to the Mission House, Washington,
D. C., where he prepared himself
to serve as a member of the Mis
sionary Band of the Diocese of
Wheeling. On his return to the
Diocese he was assigned to the
Sacred Heart Church, Powhatan,
where he remained until five years
ago, when he was appointed pas
tor of St. Anthony’s Church, Fol
lansbee. He completed the erec
tion of a beautiful new church
in his parish last year.
Monsignor Egan was born in Sa
vannah, the son of the late Michael
Egan and Mrs. Mary Berry Egan.
He has three sisters who are
Ursuline Nuns, Sister Martin and
Sister Marguerite, of “The Pines,”
Ursuline College, Chatham, On
tario, Canada, and Sister Theresa
of the School of Music of St.
Ursula’s Academy, Windsor, On
tario, Canada. His brother, Dr.
Michael J. Egan, is one of Sa
vannah’s most prominent physic
ians.
Monsignor Egan will be for
mally invested as a Domestic Pre
late by the Most Rev. John J.
Swint. D. D., LL. D.. Bishop of
Wheeling, at St. Joseph’s Cathe
dral, in Wheeling, during Septem
ber.
retary; J. Carr, lecturer; W. Syl
via, advocate; B. A. Brundergraff,
warden; Joseph Fernandez, inside
guard; Joseph Cruz, outside guard,
and A. M. Ross, Donley Bernard,
and J. Cross, trustees.
The Rev. Philip Hasson, S. M.,
pastor of St. Francis Xavier
Church, has been appointed chap
lain of the Council.
LIEUTENANT HOULIHAN
ASSIGNED TO NORFOLK
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Lieutenant
James P. Houlihan. Jr., United
States Coast Guard, former local
attorney, has been ordered to Nor
folk from Savannah for active duty
there.
Lieutenant Houlihan is the son
of Judge and Mrs. J. P. Houlihan.
He entered the Coast Guard in
April, 1942. Prior to attending a
navy school in Miami, he was sta
tioned at Charleston. After attend-
'jng Benedictine Military College
•here, Georgetown University, and
Harvard, he entered the practice
,®f law here, being associated with
ijfoe firm of Anderson, Cann &
jDunn.
tributed through the churches.
CAMP VILLA MARIE
RECREATION SESSION
BEGINS AUGUST 1ST
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—-The second
session of Camp Villa Marie,
which will be for recreational
purposes only, will open on Au
gust 1, and continue to August 21.
Any child in the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanta between the ages
of 8 and 15 may be enrolled for
this session, either for the entire
period or.a part of it. The cost
will be $12.50 per week.
Reservations may be made
through the Rev. John W. Dowl
ing .spiritual director of Camp
Villa Marie, at 222 East Harris
Street, Savannah.
The Religious Vacation School
session, conducted under the Dio
cesan Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine, for children living in
the rural areas of Georgia, was
held from June 27 to July 23.
Women*s Retreat to
Be Held in Macon
August 24 to 27
MACON, Ga.—The annual Re
treat for lay women of the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta will be
held at Mount de Sales Academy
in Macon from the evening of Au
gust 24 to the morning of August
27.
The Retreat is being sponsored
by the Savannah-Atlanta Diocesan
Council of the National Council of
Catholic Women, and home makers
as well as business and professional
women may enroll for the Retreat.
Reservations should be made by
August 15, either through the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, in Augusta, or directly
through Sister M. Veronica, R. S.
M., at Mount de Sales Academy
here.
P. H. RICE, AUGUSTA,
HEADS GEORGIA DAILIES
ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Patrick H.
Rice, advertising manager of The
Augusta Chronicle, was elected
president of the Georgia Dailies
Advertising Association at the re
cent convention of that body in
Savannah.
Mr. Rice is the son of the late
Captain P. H. Rice, K. S. G., for
many years president of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia.
Captain Albert Fahy, of Rome,
Co-Pilot of Leading U. S. Plane
Landing Airborne Troops in Sicily
(Special to The Bulletin)
ROME, Ga. — According to a
dispatch distributed by the As
sociated Press from Sergeant Jack
Foisie, correspondent for Stars
and Stripes and former San Fran
cisco .Chronicle staff man, from
an advanced airfield in North
Africa, Captain Albert Fahy, Jr.,
member of a prominent Catholic
family of Rome, was co-pilot on
the leading plane in which Ameri
can parachute troopers were flown
to Sicily for the invasion of that
island territory of Italy.
According to the correspondent,
much of the initial success of the
mission depended upon .the skill
of Captain Fahy. Colonel Jerome
C. McCauley, of Denton. Texas,
pilot of the plane, and the mem
bers of its crew.
Captain Fahy is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert F. Fahy. of Rome. I
His mother was the former Miss j
Marjorie Richardson, and he has j
a sister, Miss Marjorie Fahy.
After attending the public
schools in Rome, Captain Fahy fin
ished at Darlington, and received
his degree in Law from the Lump
kin Law School of the University
of Georgia, in 1938. He practiced
law in Rome for two and one-half
years, until he enlisted in the U. S.
Army Air Force in October, 1941.
He won his wings at Turner Field.
Albany, Ga.. May 10, 1942, and
landed in Africa on November 29,
1942. Since being in Africa he w ? as
promoted to the rank of a first
lieutenant, and this spring was ad
vanced to the rank of a captain.
More recently, he was made
Operations Officer of the 316th
Troop Carrier Group.
Charles Fahy. an uncle of Cap
tain Fahy. is Solicitor General of
the United States. Another uncle.
Bernard S. Fahy, is president of
the Rome Branch of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia.
Mrs. Archie Willis
Now Heads N.C.C.W.
Charleston Deanery
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — At the
quarterly meeting of the Charles
ton Deanery of the Diocesan Coun
cil of the National Council of
Catholic Women, held on June 22,
Mrs. Archie D. Willis was installed
as president.
Mrs. J. J. Reynolds, retiring
president, presided at the meet
ing, the theme of which was “Im
migration and International Rela
tions.” Mrs| G. Leo Lowry, presi
dent of the Charleston Diocesan
Council, offered the opening pray
er and explained the nation-wide
sale of War Stamps which is to be
conducted by the N. C. C. W. * for
the benefit of the National Cath
olic School of Social Service in
Washington.
Major Peter Gething was the
guest speaker, discussing “War—
The Failure Which Causes War
and the Understanding Which
Could Prevent War.” Miss Mary
Vardrine McBee, principal of Ash
ley Hall, spoke on “Propaganda,”
in behalf of the War Information
Security Committee.
Mrs. W. Ernest Douglas, secre
tary, read the minutes of the pre
vious meeting, and a financial re
port was submitted by Miss Jean
nette Lowry, treasurer. Reports on
civilian defense work of the affil
iated clubs were read.
Mrs. Reynolds presented Mrs.
Austin Parker, former director of
the Women’s Division of the USO,
a silver compote in recognition of
her interest in the Deanery Coun
cil. Miss Mary Finnegan, present
director, and Miss Sue Albright, of
National USO headquarters, were
introduced by Mrs. Reynolds.
Mrs. J. Albert Von Dohlen,
chairman of the resolutions com
mittee, proposed a rising vote of
thanks to Mrs. Reynolds for her
able leadership of the council for
the last two years.
After the meeting, Mrs. Rey
nolds was hostess at an informal
reception, at which Mrs. George R.
Williams presided at the punch
bowl.
MACON CATHOLIC ELECTED
DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN
LEGION AUXILIARY
MACON, Ga. —The 1943 depart
ment convention of the American
Legion Auxiliary held in Atlanta
elected Mrs. Robert F. Wynne, of
Macon, as director of the Sixth
Congressional District. During the
past two years, Mrs. Wynne has
been the Auxiliary's State Legisla
tive chairman, and in 1941 was
president of the Joseph N. Neel,
Jr., Unit No. 3, in this city. She
is a member of St. Joseph’* parish
here.
CAPTAIN FAHY
Wilmington Host
to North Carolina
Catholic Daughters
(Special to The Bulletin)
WILMINGTON. N. C.—The Sev
enth Annual State Conference of
the Catholic Daughters of Ameri
ca convened July 4tli, 1943. in
Wilmington, North Carolina. Court
Wilmington No. 1036 was the host
ess court, with Miss Elizabeth Bul
lard, Territorial Deputy, presid
ing. Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuin-
ness, Bishop of Raleigh was in
attendance at the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass which was celebrated
by the Very Rev. John Scally, Di
rector of the Propagation of the
Faith, and the conference sermon
was delivered by Rev. Eugene
Livelsberger, State Chaplain of
the Catholic Daughters.
A delightful luncheon was en
joyed at the St. John’s Tavern,
after which the business session
was held. The Rev. E. A. Rigney,
assistant at St. Mary’s parish, Wil
mington, w e 1c o m e d the dis
tinguished guests and delegates.
The Territorial Deputy’s report
was heard and it was most grati
fying to hear of. the excellent
work that has been accomplished
by the Catholic Daughters in
North Carolina. Grand Regents’
reports from Charlotte, Greens
boro, Asheville, Raleigh and Wil
mington were most inspiring.
Many hundreds of hours have
been given by the Catholic Daugh
ters of America in'Red Cross, Ci
vilian Defense and all phases of
war work. Court Wilmington
serves breakfast every Sunday
morning to a number of service
men.
The Most Rev. Bishop in his ad
dress urged the Catholic Daugh
ters to expand and continue their
work for God and Country. The
theme of his address was “Unity
and Charity” the motto of our or*
ganization.
Father Livelsberger. State
Chaplain, told us of the influence
that good women could have on
the wopld today, and begged us as
Catholic women to conduct our
selves with all modesty and look
to our Blessed Mother, as our
Guide and Patron.
Rev. Thomas Williams, Editor
of the North Carolina Catholic
Youth News, told of the great need
of Junior organization among the
Catholic young people of our
state.
A one day Retreat in each par
ish for the Catholic women was
approved.
Greensboro was selected as
hostess court for our next annual
conference.
CHARLESTON USO-NCCS
WOMEN’S DIVISION OPENS
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND CLUB
CHARLESTON. S. C—An ex
tension program of the USO-NCCS
Women’s Division has been open
ed on Sullivan's Island, with Miss
Alice F. Moran as director of the
new beach club.
The project was tnade possible
through the cooperation of the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. D. D„
Bishop of Charleston, who donated
the use of his house at the seashore
for the summer months. Renova
tions have been made by the USO
Women’s Division, and additional
furnishings were given by friends.
Girls and women in defense
work in this area, and members of
WACS, WAVES and other military
and naval units, are invited to use
the club, Miss Moran said. Groups
of ten can be accomodated over
wek-ends, and open house his held
every Sunday.