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THE FTTT r .FTIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OFGEORGIA
AUGUST 28, 1943
LAYMEN’S RETREAT
AT VILLA MARIE,
SEPTEMBER 17-19
Retreatmaster
St. Joseph Hospital, Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The eighth
annual Retreat for lawmen, spon
sored bv the Savannah Retreat
Section of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, will be
held September _17-19. at Camp
Villa Marie, Grimball’s Point.
Those wishing to attend are re
quested to make their reservations
two weeks in advance so that pro
vision can be made for accomoda
tions and for food. Reservations
may be made through the pastors
of tlv' parishes in Savannah or by
calling the USO-NCCS Club, 3.
West Liberty Street, telephone
3-7894. Any non-Catholic-; wishing
to attend '.till be welcomed.
Twenty-three of the eighty-six
men who made the Retreat at
Camp Villa Marie last year were
service men. and it is anticipated
that there will be a number of
men in uniform among the re-
treatants again this year.
A meeting of the local Retreat
Section of the Laymen’s Associa
tion will be held before the dates
of the Retreat for the purposes of
electing officers. Two of the of
fices are vacant, Lloyd Saunders,
second vice-president, having died
since the last previous Retreat,
and William X. Robinson, secre
tary. having gone overseas with
the armed forces. Other officers
of the Savannah Retreat Section
are J. Francis Kelly, president;
James J. Collins, first vice-presi
dent. and E. V. Roeerson, third
vice-president.
As was the program last year,
silence will be maintained during
this year’s Retreat.
The Rev. Harold Gaudin. S. J.,
pastor of St. Joseph's Church.
Macon, will conduct the Retreat
Father Gaudin holds the de
grees of Doctor of Philosophy and
Doctor of Divinity from the Geor
gian College in Rome, Italy, and
is a former president of Loyola
University of the South, New Or
leans. He is one of the best known
and most distinguished priests of
the Sociely of Jesus in the South.
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St. Joseph's Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, has been conducted by
i the Sisters of Mercy for sixty-eight years. Long recognized as one
of the outstanding institutions of its kind in the South, the completion
of a new addition and the remodeling of the present building will
make St. Joseph's one of the most efficient and most modernly equip
ped hospitals in the country.
Archbishop Corrects
Erroneous Reports
Regarding His Trip
FATHER HAROLD GAUDIN
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The Rev. Harold A. Gaudin, S.
J.. who will conduct the laymen’s
Retreat at Camp Villa Marie, near
Savannah, next month.
SOUTHERN PINES
USO CLUB SPONSORS
VARIED PROGRAM
New Administrative Staff at
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah
MARRIAGES
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MACON, Ga.—Mrs. W. F. Ben
nett announces the marriage -of
her daughter, Miss Edith Eloise
Bennett, to Mr. Joseph Thomas
McGrath, of Monmouth, N. J.,
and Macon, on August 4 at the
Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta.
Mr. McGrath is a member of the
•Instructional Cadre of the First
Signal Regiment at Fort Mon
mouth.
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TIIOMPSON-KEARSE
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BAMBERG, S. C.—Miss Eliza
beth Harriett Kearse, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Kearse,
of Bamberg, and Captain Waddy
Thompson, of Chattanooga, were
married on July 31 at the Holy
Trinity Church in Orangeburg, the
Very Rev. Edwin Shearer, C. SS...
R.. officiating. Captain Thomp
son is the son of Mrs.’ T. C.
Thompson and the late Mr.
Thompson, of Chattanooga.
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—At a pre’s con
ference in his residence, following
his return here, the Most Rev
Francis J- Spellman, Archbishop o£
New York and Military Vicar, de
clared that his mission abroad was
‘the mission of all American citi
zens here and abroad in war and at
peace, to make America stand for
something good."
Stating that he would like to be
able to c orrcct all the “erroneous
statements" published during his
travels, he singled out one which
stated that before he left the Unit
ed States he had “told friends" of
weekly trans-Atlantic telephone
conferences with the Pope con
cerning Russia.
“First of all I never told friends
of weekly conversations with the
Pope.” he said. “Secondly, never
have I talked with the Pope over
the trans-Atlantic or any other
(Special to The Bulletin)
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C —
The USO Club at Southern Pines,
N. C„ is getting under way with
a full and varied program. Ideal
ly located in a lovely garden over
looking the city park, it offers
facilities for nearly all out-door
sports. There are excellent ten
nis courts just across the street
and equipment has been received
for tennis, croquet, shuffleboard
and baseball. The golf courses in
Southern Pines and nearby Pine-
liurst are widely known among
golf-lovers and arrangements have
been made for membei's of the
armed forces to use them at a
nominal fee.
The park is also the scene cf
bi-weekly open air band concerts.
Music is furnished by bands from
nearbv camos including the 501st
Parachute Infantry Band under
the direction of Maestro-Sergeant
Fernando Perez. This is the only
band in the world in which all
members are “jumpers" and the
Paratroopers turn out in full
force for every concert. Refresh
ments are served on the terrace
of the Club after each concert
since the USO has obtained lawn
chairs and tables.
Attendance at the Club really
grows when orchestras from camp
come in for the Saturday night
dances. The Club has a large
dance floor opening onto the ter
race which is the weekly gather
ing place for servicemen, their
wives, and Junior Hostesses from
neighboring towns. The Club
serves refreshments of punch and
cake, supplemented by home-made
cookies, etc., donated by residents
. | of Southern Pines.
All .soldiers seem to “go for”
home-baking so doughnuts and
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Sister Mary
Gloria, R. S. M„ R. N„ M. T.
director of St. Joseph's Hospital,
conducted here by the Sisters of
Mercy, has announced the new
Sister personnel staff of the hos
pital, and that a definite date will
soon be set for the dedication and
formal opening of the new five
story addition to the hospital that
is rapidly nearing completion.
Sister Mary Kevin. R. S. M.,
X-ray technician, will be first as
sistant director. Sister Mary
Euphrasia. R. S. M., sperintendent
of the medical and surgical depart
ments, will be second assistant
director. Sister Mary Graziana,
R. S. M.. R. N.. will be director
of student nurses; Sister Maria, R.
S. M., R. N., will be night super
visor; Sister Mary Teresina, R. S.
M., w’ill be in charge of the record
room; Sister Mary Immaculate, R.
S. M. will be in charge of the ad
mitting office; Sister Mary Kath
erine, R. S. M. will be in charge of
the laundery; Sister Mary Flor
ence, R. S. M., will be in charge of
the operating rooms; Sister Mary
Bonaventure, R. S. M., will be in
charge of the obstetrical depart
ment and nursery; Sister Mary
Brendan, R. S. M., will be sacris
tan.
Dr. William B. Crawford, Sr.,
will be president of the staff of
phsyicians and surgeons this year.
CHARLESTON. S. C. — Mrs.
Robert Eugene Branford has an
nounced the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Hazel Branford,
and Mr. Curtis H. Fryar. Jr., on
July 20 in the chapel of the naval
air station, Sanford, Fla., the Rev.
Robert E. Grant, O. P., U. S.
Navy Chaplain, officiating. Mr.
Fryar is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis H. Fryar, of Charleston.
“Nursing Is War Work With a Future”—'
Sister Mildred, of St. Joseph’s, Savannah
telephone at any time.’
The click and flares of a dozen! coffee are served every Wednes-
cameras and the grind of a movie day evening as well as a Sunday
camera almost drowned the Arch-: morning breakfast of coffee, rolls
bishop’s voice as he began to speak [ and jam. Since all drugstores in
to reporters gathered in the large town are closed on Sunday after-
arawing room which faces Madison
Avenue. He moved about the room
greeting each of the 25 or more
reporters personally before be
ginning to speak. After reading a
prepared statement, he said:
“I would like to answer all your
questions but I know I couldn't so I
won't attempt it. I would also like
to correct ail the erroneous state
ments that have been published.
Most of those who exercise the pre
rogative of guessing precede their
statements by saving they came
from authoritative sources.”
The Archbishop then read from
a newspaper clipping the following
which he termed a typical exam
ple; "Just before he left the Unit
ed States Archbishop Francis J.
Spellman of New York, the Presi
dent’s closest link with the Vatican,
told friends of weekly conversa
tions he had with Pope Pius XII in
which His Holiness expressed
hope for an early understanding
between the Vatican ar.d Russia all
during the war and until the Arch
bishop left the U. S. The two con
ferred regularly by »~ans-Atlantic
phone at 1 p- m. on Wednesdays.”
Replying to a question, the Arch
bishop said he had done almost all
his traveling by airplane.
“I traveled at all times as a prl-
noons, punch and cake are served
at the Club every Sunday after
noon and evening.
The USO is cooperating in pro
viding overnight accommodations
for soldiers in town. The Episco
pal church provides cots and show
ers for 50 men: the Presbyterian
church also provides for 50 ser
vicemen; and the local chapter of
the American Legion has facilities
for. 30 more.
The USO “a home away from
home,” offers personal services
ranging from furnishing shaving
equipment and sewing on buttons
or divisional insignia to helping
make arrangements for weddings.
The club is frequently called upon
to contact soldiers’ families arriv
ing in town and find living aecom
modations for them.
Though it has been organized
only a short time, the USO Club
has a great many things to offer
and the volume and range of ser
vices rendered is constantly in
creasing.
vate American citizen and as the
Military Vicar of he Catholics in
the Armed Forces of the United
States," he stated.
SAVANNAH. Ga—“Nursing is
war work with a future,” Sister
Mildred, R. S. M., director of the
training school for nurses at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, declared at a
conference with Miss Louise Len-
hardt. director of the Warren
Candler Hospital nurses’ training
school, and Miss Frieda Grefe,
chairman of the Georgia Nursing
Council for War Service.
The dangerously acute shortage
ol student nurses entering training
schools here and elsewhere, and
the provisions of the Bolton Act,
recently enacted national legisla
tion, making possible a United
States Nurse Cadet Corps, were
discussed at the conference held
by the three nursing officials at
St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Sister Mildred who recently
returned from a regional meeting
in Washington^D. C., called by the
U. S. Public Health Service to
discuss the Bolton Act, stated that
the lack- of student nurses in Sa
vannah is serious.
The Bolton Act, Sister Mildred
explained, provides for appropria
tions of government funds for
nurse training schools covering
tuition and fees for all nurses
joining the corps, stipends for
pre-cadet and junior cadet nurses
for the first nine months o£ the
training period at §45 a month,
the cost o£ an outdoor uniform,
and stipends at the rate of $15 per
month for the pre-cadet period and
§20 for the junior cadet period.
Cadet corps nurses will receive
a thirty-month's period of training,
Sister Mildred said, after which
they are not necessarily required
to go into military service, but
must remain in essential nursing
for the duration of- the war.
If they desire, student nurses
may spend the last six months of
their training in a' government
hospital, but are not required to
do so, she added. Neither are
nurses required to wear the out
door uniform if they prefer civilian
clothes after study hours, she said.
Sister Mildred said that fifty-
five students are needed to enroll
in three classes to be begun at St
Joseph's Hospital August 30, Feb
ruary 1, 1944 and June 1. 1944
Nurses enrolling in the St. Jo
seph's training school will be sent
to Mount St. Agnes Junior Col
lege, Mount Washington. Md., for
their period of preclinicat training.
For the August class the pre-
clinical training will be offered
from September 1 to January 31,
she said.
In stressing the fact that nurs
ing is a war work as essential as
that of producing war materials,
and in addition, a work with a
future. Sister Mildred declared
that there will be a tremendous
need for nurses during the post
war years due to the unfortunate
fact that we must go on repairing
the devastation of war long after
the guns have ceased firing.
‘ While the girl workers in war
industry will be hunting new jobs,
and perhaps even having to learn
new’ skills, nurses will be in de
mand in veterans’ hospitals and in
the rebuilding of civilian health
services restricted by the war.”
she said.
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WADESBORO, N. C., — Miss
Lucy Caroline Mitchell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mitchell,
and Cpl. Charles Anthony Mc-
Phail, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Walter McPhail, of Roxburv,
Mass., were married on August 6
at Immaculate Conception chapel,
Carolina Beach, Chaplain Charles
G. Steinlage, U. S. Army, officiat
ing.
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Sister Mildred is now attending
St. Louis University, taking a
course leading to a master’s de
gree.
Douglas Altar Society
Holds Monthly Meeting
MIMS-COLBURN
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FLORENCE, S. C.—Miss Eliza^
beth Catherine Colburn, daugli
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Loring
Charles Colburn. formerly of
Florence, now ot Easton, Pa., and
Lieut. Thurman O. Mims. U. S.
Army Air Force, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. L. Mims, of Florence,
were married on July 25 at the
rectory of St. Anthony's Church,
the Rev. W. A. Tobin, officiating.
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DOUGLAS, Ga.—The Altar So
ciety fo St. Paul's Church held its
August meeting at the home of
Mrs. Frank Hanna, with the Rev
F. V. Gilbert,' O. M. I., the Rev.
Charles A. McBennett, O. M. I.,
the Rev. Joseph Barry, O. M. I.,
and the full membership of hte
Society attending.
Mrs. Tom Burden, president of
the Altar Society, presided. Min
utes of the preceding meetings
were read by Miss Ann Hanna,
secretary, and the report of Miss
Louise Hanna, the treasurer, was
submitted. Mrs. Ellis Hanna was
appointed news reporter to suc
ceed Mrs. Addoo Hanna, who is
out of the city. Following the
business session. refreshments
were served by the hostess, as
sisted by Miss Mary Lou Nahoom,
At the July meeting, held at the
home of Mrs. Tom Burden, an ad
dress was delivered by the Rev.
Francis P. Conlon, O. M. I.. pas
tor of St. Paul's Church, who is
leaving to head an Oblate mission
in South America.
The September meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Hanna.
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Mrs. Rita
Sea Aprea announces the marri
age of her daughter, Miss Gloria
Aprea, and Lieut. Charles R. Ray,
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Ray,
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T.
James McNamara officiating.
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MACON.—Miss Sarah Thomas,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Thomas, and Lieut. Joseph Moran
of Camp Wheeler, Ga.. and Scran
ton, Pa., were married August 19,
with a Nuptial Mass at St. Jo
seph's Church, the Rev. E. T.
Cassidy, S. J., cousin of the bride
officiating.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Miss Anne
Marie Carangelo, of New Haven,
and Mr. Robert Jackson Harter,
of Augusta, were married on July
10 at St. Aedan’s Church, the Rev.
M. Ernest Wilson, officiating.
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SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Jean
Sample, of Columbia, Pa., and
Pfc. Alfred G. Dicola, ot Lancas
ter, Pa., were married on August 7
in the Chapel at Hunter Field.
Chaplain Robert S. Goshorn offici
ating.
Mrs. Dicola is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Sample,
of Columbia. Pa. Private Dicola
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Dicola, of Lancaster. Thev will
make their home in Savannah.
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SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Mar
garet McDonald of La Prarie, 111.,
and Lieutenant Richard Hester of
Camp Stewart, Ga.. were married
at Sacred Heart Church with Rev.
Aloysius Waehter, O. S. B., of
ficiating.
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CHARLESTON. S. C. — Miss
Mary Elizabeth Becker, daughter
of Mrs. E. Tracy Becker, and the
late Mr. Becker, and Mr. William
Theodore Koester, Jr.. Charles
ton. were married on August 15,
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James
J. May, officiating.