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TWENTY TWO
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FEBRUARY 10, 1044
Gold Star on Service Flag of St. Mary’s Church Honors
Memory of Lieutenant Anthony J. Seaman, Killed in
Plane Disaster Over English Channel Last Fall
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. — Many
members of St. Mary's parish are
serving in the Army, the Navy and
tile Army Nurses Corps. One
member of the parish. Lieutenant
Anthony Joseph Seaman, has
given the last full measure of de
votion in his country’s defense,
having lost his life on October 20,
1942, when the plane in which he
was returning from convoy patrol
over the English channel, cxplod
ed and came down* in flame.
Lieutenant Seaman, the son of
Mis. Amelia S. Hodges and the
late Joseph Seaman, was born in
Spartanburg on November 3. 1918.
lie attended Oakland Avenue
school there until iiis family mov
ed to Greenville, where he was en
rolled in St. .Mary’s parochial
school, later attending Greenville
High School.
After graduating from high
school in 1935, he attended the
University of Notre Dame, where
he studied aeronautical engineer
ing. Leaving Notre Dame in 1939,
he continued his study at Alabama
Polylechnical Institute, Auburn,
and left school to enlist as an avia
tion cadet in the Army in May
1941.
He had his primary training at
Hicks Field, Fort Worth. Texas,
going to Goodl'ellow’s Field, San
Angelo, Texas, for basic training,
and getting his advanced training
at Polorais Air Academy. After
completing his training he en
listed as a pilot in the RAF and
sailed for England in 1942.
While in the Royal Air Force
he was in the famous American
Eagle Squadron, flying a Spitfire.
Through the book "War Eagles”
by Colonel J. S. Childers, it was
fgarned that Lieutenant Seaman
had two enemy planes to his cre
dit and one probable. In Septem
ber, 1942, he transferred to the
U. S. Army Air Force and the
American Eagle Squadron became
a part of the ’th Air Force, sta
tioned in England.
LIEUTENANT SEAMAN
The first member of St. Mary's
Parish, Greenville, S. C., to lose
his life as a member of the na
tion’s armed forces in the present
conflict was Lieut. Anthony J.
Seaman, who was killed in Octo
ber of last year when the plane
of which he was the pilot, explod
ed over the English Channel.
The following is the latest list
of the members of St. Mary’s
parish now serving in the nation's
armed forces:
ARMY — Richard Bindewald,
Tommie Boyd, Lewis Barbare,
Julian Baumann, William Cappers,
Eugene Cunningham, Robert Cun
ningham, Arthur Cumm ings,
George Dumit, Kaleen Eassy, Fred
Eassy, John Eassy, Philip Eassy,
Lawrence Eskew, Waiter Everette,
George Francis. Jamile Francis,
Clarence Fraser, Joseph Fay,
Frank Goode, John Gantt, James
Gantt, Walter Gantt, J. B. Gwynn,
George Graham, Wade Howard,
Talf Joseph, Lee Kivett, Francis
McNamara, James O’Rourke,
Robert Pinson, Berberick Pinck
ney John Patton, Paul Sarkis,
Joseph Scruggs, John Sowers,
James Sowers, James Shaleuly,
Alvin Watson, Lawrence Deimling.
ARMY AIR CORP. — Eugene
Brigham, Clyde Barbare, Paul
Deimling, Jamile Dumit, Harold
Faust, Harold Gallivan, Carrol
Gantt, Roger Kivett, Billy Miller,
James McNamara, Charles Moran,
Arthur Ward.
NAVY—George Camerio, Ed
ward Denny, James Duff, James
Fazio, Mike Fazio, Richard Grassy,
Charles Leberstein, Earl McDevitt
James Magarahan, Robert Peigler,
Eugene Peigler, Joseph Ryan, J. C.
Seaman. Edmund Seaman, Joseph
Sheridan, George Thomas, Edward
Syracuse, Richard Hurley.
MARINE CORPS — Ralph Bar
ron, William Payne.
ARMY NURSES CORPS —
Louise Bass, Margie Sanders.
S . CHURCH GREENVILLE—One of the most beautiful churches in the United States is St.
Marys Church, Greenvivlle, S. C„ where the Right Rev. Msgr. A. K. Gwynn is the pastor, and the Rev.
Sydney F. Dean and the Rev. Thomas D. O’ShaughneSsy are the assistant pastors. The interior of the
church was remodeled during the last few years, fulfilling the cherished ambitions of Monsignor gwynn,
who lias served the parish as pastor for more than forty years.
Spartanburg USO-NCCS
Giving ‘Mardi Gras’ Ball
Bigotry Lays Tyranny’s Foundation,
Says Archbishop Spellman in American Magazine
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—“America guar
antees to each one of the millions
of her citizens all freedoms with
only such limitations as are in
herent in the mutual rights of
others; for liberty, without such
limitations, is tyranny. Believing
in this America, dare any one of
us be in heart or hand party to
any group that seeks to tear apart
this country that we love.”
With these words the Most Rev.
Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop
of New York, writing in the cur
rent issue of The American Mag
azine, sums up a plea for toler
ance and fair-play in the face of
recent manifestations of racial
and religious bigotry.
Averring that our men on the
fighting fronts cannot understand
how so many Americans at home
arc unwilling to sacrifice or sub
ordinate their prejudices, when
they must be ready to sacrifice
even their lives, Archbishop
Spellman tells of conversations
with men returned from the
front and others who have ex
pressed concern over disunity at
home.
' '"One of the things that has
taken place,” the Archbishop
writes, “has been an increase in
the prevalence of bigotry, evidenc
ed by what has occurred in many
parts of the country. Race riots,
assaults on groups and individ
uals because of racial and reli
gious differences, desecration of
synagogues and churches, attacks
on our foreign-born, are all tragic
symptoms of this disease.”
CHARITY, UNITY, LIBERTY
Observing that the American
^vay of life stands for “unity in es
sential things, liberty in non-
essential things, and charity in all
things,” Archbishop Spellman
points out that these principles
are embedded “in the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitu
tion, and the Bill of Rights.”
“How, for example,” he asks,
“does the bigot interpret the im
mortal Preamble to our Constitu
tion? For the hallowed words, ‘a
more perfect Union,’ he reads
disunion; for ‘justice,’ he substi
tutes injustice. Instead of helping
to ‘insure domestic tranquillity,’
he incites domestic strife. He sab
otages the ‘common defense’ and
‘general welfare,’ of the nation,
and instead of helping to ‘secure
the blessings of liberty,’ he sows
the seeds of dissension and tyr
anny.”
“All fair-minded Americans,” he
writes, “must oppose bigotry not
only from a sense of justice but
also from a sense of safety, for,
if tolerated, it can be directed at
any race or religion and then may
rebound against all of them . . .
The first step which each one of
us must take to eliminate bigotry,
selfishness, harshness, injustice,
and contempt from the minds and
hearts of others is to make sure
that they have no place in our
own.”
EVILS OF BIGOTRY
Observing that Catholics today
are often accused of anti-Scmiti-
ism and that “doubtless some
Catholics are guilty of it,” the
Archbishop remarks that if these
Catholics do not act in accord
ance with the teaching of the
Church, both their country and
their Church suffer.
“Catholics,” he writes, “are
boun'd by a principle of personal
tolerance to love all men, not
merely for humanitarian reasons
but also because their religion
teaches them to do so. If they fol
low these religious teachings, their
love must be generous and self-
sacrificing, and must include the
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG, S. C — One of
the outstanding events to be held
during February under the aus
pices of the USO-NCCS in Spar
tanburg will be the “Mardi Gras”
Ball on February 21, at the Cleve
land Hotel, for service men and
women from Camp Croft and
cadets from Wofford College.
Sixteen young women of Spar
tanburg, each of whom will repre
sent a battalion at Camp Croft,
have been chosen as sponsors,
Misses Frances Bridges, Charlotte
Walker, Dorothy Wilburn, Janet
Scott, Agnes Layton, Benny Holt,
Margaret Miller, Mary Campbell,
Dorothy Burnett, Betty Hackett,
Miriam Liles, Kit Anderson, The
resa Hughes, Janette Belcher,
Anna Lucile Airhoart, and Ann
Campbell.
willingness to help those who are
in need—Protestants, Jews, Mo
hammedans, Buddhists, pagans,
and atheists.”
Writing of anti-Catholic bigotry,
Archbishop Spellman observes
that “11 of Christ’s disciples died
a martyr’s derch and even during
the past few years, thousands of
priests and nuns have been mar
tyred in many countries.”
“In our own country,” he con
tinues, “either through ignorance,
malice or greed, the Church is vi
ciously and constantly attacked.
Publications exist for the evident
purpose of maligning it. Paid
snoopers, snipers, and agitators
are in the employment of anti-
Catholic organizations to bait
Catholics and incite anti-Catholi
cism. In charity, I prefer not to
react to nor answer them.”
The Archbishop declares that
“our vocation calls for love of
God and country and a sense of
brotherhood, a vocation which we
Americans of the present can
learn from Valley Forge and from
other American shrines, and not
from the resurrected corpses of
intolerant strife.”
In conclusion Archbishop Spell
man asks: “Can any American be
disloyal by word or act to these
men on the fighting fronts, and
fail to keep united for them,
these United States?"
SISTER MARCELLINA
OBSERVES JUBILEE AT
CONVENT IN CHARLESTON
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — On the
Feast of the Epiphany the Sisters
of Our Lady of Mercy celebrated
the Diamond Jubilee of Sister
Marcellina Frain.
Right Rev. Msgr. James J. May,
Vicar General of the Diocese of
Charleston, celebrated a Solemn
High Mass of Thanksgiving in the
Convent Chapel. Solemn Benedic
tion was given in the afternoon
after a Jubilee program of en
tertainment was tendered Sister
Marcellina by the Sisters.
Sister Marcellina, a native of
Connecticut, entered the Com
munity in January 1884 and made
her First Vows in March 1887.
For forty years Sister Marcellina
taught music in the Academy of
Our Lady of Mercy faithfully serv
ing the community in various
offices of responsibility as Mother
Assistant, Procuratrix and Trea
surer. For six years she was Su
perior of St. Joseph’s Academy
for young girls in Sumter, South
Carolina.
Until last year Sister Marcellina
taught music at St. Angela’s
Academy, Aiken, S. C. At that
time illness forced her to retire
from active duty and return to the
Mother House where she is a con-
I JANUARY ACTIVITY AT
SUMTER USO-NCCS CLUB
(Special to The Bulletin)
SUMTER, S. C. — The USO-
NCCS Club in Sumter inaugurat
ed its activity for 1944 with a gala
New Year’s dance, for which the
music was furnished by “T*ie
Swanks,” an all-girl orchestra
from Winthrop College, Rock Hill,
S. C. More than 800 attended,
and a floor show was presented.
A truth or consequences quiz pro
gram was one by a sergeant of the
Army Engineers who are con
structing a new runway at the
Sumter airport.
On the first Wednesday in Jan
uary, the radio dramatization,
“Wings for America,” assumed a
new guise. Because of the tech
nical difficulty of broadcasting
dramas from the USO Club, this
feature was changed to a musical
broadcast, featuring the U. S.
Army band from Shaw Field. This
broadcast drew a large audience
and talent from the enlisted per
sonnel added to the program.
These broadcasts will be repeated
each month.
Motion pictures are being shown
regularly, and are proving splen
did attractions, the audiences in
cluding Army wives and junior
hostesses as well as service men.
slant source of edification and in
spiration to all the other members
of the community.
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