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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORCIA
FEBRUARY 19. 19'
Natives on Pacific Isle
Surprise American Forces
by Attendance at Mass
By
SHOT. WALTER C. COCHRANE
of Beverly Hills, Calif., U. S. Ma
rine Corps Combat Correspondent
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACI
FIC—(Delayed)—The first Sunday
Mass since Japanese occupation 14
months ago was offered up here
by the Rev. Thomas F. Glynn, a
priest of the Diocese of Hartford,
for Navy and Marine personnel,
who recently wrested the island
from the enemy.
Father Glynn, now a chaplain
attached to a Navy unit, expected
only naval personnel would re
spond to the call for Mass, but dis
covered that many of the Mi-
cronesian natives had been con
verted by French missionaries
many years ago.
The natives were organized into
work crews by the . Navy after
American forces cleared the island
of resistance and they were plac
ed first in the “chow line" at meal
times, with Navy personnel taking
second place. After the natives ate
their crackers and milk, they had
to pass the open-air Sacristy of
Father Glynn on their way back to
work. Nearby the Catholic chap
lain had improvised an altar on a
Jeep.
The natives stood watching Fa
ther Glynn change into his robes
until Navy men who had finished
eating began gathering in the out
door “church.” As Mass began the
natives who were Catholics slow
ly filed in around the Navy person
nel dropped to their knees, made
the Sign of the Cross, and attend
ed Mass with the Americans.
Further investigation of the
island disclosed that the French
missionaries some years ago had
constructed a small while stucco-
coral church at the far end of the
island, but Mass had never been
celebrated after the Japanese took
..'he island.
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SERVICE MEN’S CHOIR—Catholic cadets at the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School, and soldiers in the Army Specialized Training Pro
gram at the University of North Carolina, compose the choir of the
Catholic chapel in Chapel Hill, N. C. Pictured with the Service Men’s
Choir is the Rev. Edward Sullivan, who is the civilian chaplain, and
assistant to the Rev. Francis J. Morrissey, D. D., the resident chaplain
at the University.
CATHOLIC WOMEN
MEET IN CHARLESTON
COI.ONEL BUTLER HEADS
SAVANNAH CATHOLIC CENTER
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Col. John G.
Butler was reelected president of
the Catholic Community Center
for the twentieth consecutive time
at the annual meeting held at the
K. of C. Home on January 20.
Other officers re-elected were
Charles F. Powers, vice-president
treasurer, and C. A. McCarthy, sec
retary, The board of directors in
cludes Colonel Butler, John M.
Brennan, James F. Glass, Hugh H.
Grady, C. A. McCarthy, M. J.
O'Leary, C. F. Powers, John J.
Powers, John S. Robertson, A. J.
Ryan, Jr., Dan J. Sheehan, W. A.
Saunders, Thomas F. Walsh and
William P. Walsh.
ST. VINCENT ALUMNAE
COMMUNION-BREAKFAST
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Members of
the Alumnae Association of St.
Vincent Academy received Com
munion on February 6 at a Mass
celebrated by the Right Rev.
Msgr. T. James McNamara, at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
Breakfast was served at the con
vent after the Mass. The com
mittee in charge included Mrs.
James P. Harte, Miss Mary Mc
Carthy, Mrs, W. C. Broderick,
Miss Johanna Daly and Miss Mary
Ellen Flynn.
(Special to The Bulletin
CHARLESTON, S. C.—IVtrs. G.
Leo Lowry, president of the Char
leston Diocesan Council, and a
member of the board of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women,
was the guest speaker at'lhe Janu
ary meeting of the Charleston
Deanery Council of Catholic Wo
men held on January 24. Mrs.
Lowry told of the work being done
at national headquarters in Wash
ington.
Miss Margaret Maty Drennan, a
member of the staff of the Wo
men’s Division of the USO-NCCS,
also spoke. Mrs. Charles A.
Dennis presided.
The attendance prize was award
ed Mrs. L. L. Runey, and Mrs. L. J.
Hartnett was welcomed as a new
member.
LEGION AUXILIARY
SPONSORS DANCE AT
SAVANNAH USO-NCCS
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The dance
given on the evening of February
9 under the auspices of the Wom
en’s Division of the USO-NCCS,
was sponsored by the American
Legion Auxiliary, Chatham Unit
36. Music was furnished by the
Coast Guard band, and all ser
vice men and women in war pro
duction were invited.
Hostesses for the evening were:
Mrs. L. R. North, Mrs. A. D. Dut
ton, Mrs. Robert Moore and Mrs.
M. M. Ray. Presiding at the
punch bowl were Mrs. E. C. Howie,
Mrs. Winter, Mrs. M. Winburn,
and Mrs. Thorton. Mrs. Frank
Miller and Mrs. E. C. Walton were
in charge of registration.
ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL
OPENS NEW NURSERY
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga —The new nur
sery in the recently completed
wing of St. Joseph’s Hospital, with
the delivery and treatment rooms
is now in use, with Sister Mary
Bonaventure as supervisor.
The nursery is fully equipped
with individual bassinets, a spe
cial resuscitator, and electrical
ly heated cribs, and is staffed by
graduate and student nurses under
the direction of Miss Byrnes and
Sister Bonaventure.
For the new born babies, bath
ing treatment and formula rooms
have been provided.
SAVANNAH PTA GROUP
ENJOYS PATRIOTIC PLAY
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION
AT ST. MARY’S, AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Very Rev.
Thomas A. Brennan, V. F., pastor
of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church,
has announced that Forty Hours
Devotion will be held in that
church on February 20, 21 and 22,
with the Rev. Basil Doyle, C. S. P.,
of Clemson, S. C., delivering a
series of sermons on the Holy Bu
charest.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—An interest
ing program, including a patriotic
play, was presented at the January
meeting of the Parent-Teacher As
sociation of the Cathedral School.
Entitled “How the 12-year Old
Child Can Help Win the War,” it
gave each child a chance to tell
what a child can do to aid the war
effort.
Other numbers on the program
included an address of welcome by
Marie Wright, a tap dance by
Madeline Audesey, Margaret Can
ty and Rita Harper.
Speakers at the meeting were
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc
Namara, rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, and Dio
cesan Superintendent of Schools,
and the Rev. John W. Dowling
of the Cathedral, who is in charge
of the boys’ activities at the school.
PRISON CHAPLAIN ON
“CHURCH OF THE AIR”
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Rev.
Ambrose Hyland, Catholic chap
lain at Clinton State Prison, Dan-
nemora, N. Y., will be the speaker
an the “Church of the Air” pro
gram which will be broadcast on
Sunday, February 20, from New
York, over the Columbia Broad
casting Service. Father Hyland is
in charge of the famous Chapel of
the Good Thief, which was built by
the prisoners at Danncmora.
AS THE ALLIES NEAR ROME the eyes and hearts of the entire world have turned toward the "center
and pulse of a tremendous spiritual empire"—Vatican City. Doh Sharkey’s Whit* Smoke Over the
Vatican, a newspaperman’s descriptive travelogue of the vaat organization, history and operation of
Vatican City, from which the graphic map above is taken, will be released Match 2 by the Bruce Publish
ing company, Milwaukee. The book is intended to answer in a simple and concise manner the questions
Catholics and non-Catholics are asking today about "The Pope and Mussolini,” “The United States and the
Vatican.” , “The Pope’s Army’!, etc.
CATHOLIC YOUTH
ORGANIZATION NEWS
SAVANNAH
C. Y. P. A.
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, de
livered the sermon at the Mass
celebrated at the Cathedral of St
John the Baptist on January 23,
when the members of the Catho
lic Young People’s Association re
ceived Holy Communion.
The Rev. Joseph W. Kavanagh,
former spiritual director of the C.
Y. P. A., now stationed in Con-
shohoeken, Pa., was the celebrant
of the Mass, and the principal
speaker at the breakfast which
followed at the De Soto Hotel.
Edward F. Krieger, accordionist,
was also on the program, and de
lighted his audience by playing
selections from musical produc
tions which have been presented
by the C. Y. P. A.
Members of the C. Y. P. A. who
are interested in dramatics are
now discussing with Joseph A.
Mendel, dramatic director of the
club, plans for the presentation of
a play.
The senior study club has re
sumed classes and meets every
Monday evening with Father
Brennan, O, S. B., while the junior
group meets each Wednesday
evening with the Rev. Daniel J.
Bourke as moderator.
Serving breakfast and dinner to
service men after Mass every
Sunday is one of the war time ac
tivities of the Catholic Young
People’s Association.
These meals are prepared by the
senior members and are served by
the junior members at the Club
House. Members who give their
services each week are: Patricia
Bremer, Patty Cates, Moira Fogar
ty, Jane Joyce, Matilda Laird, Hel
en McQuillan, Eleanor Miner,
Fionetta Pennington, Sally Ryan,
Barb’ara Saseen, Josephine Smith
and Betty Walsh.
Another project of the junior
members is to sponsor the concert
by the famous Von Trapp family
which will be given at the Munici
pal Auditorium on February 25..
of junior high school age who re
side in the southern section of Sa
vannah. It will act in cooperation
with and as a feeder for the
Catholic Young People’s Associa
tion. The Rev. Daniel Bourke,
pastor of the Blessed Sacrament
Church, will be spiritual director
of the new club, which will be
called the Blessed Sacrament
Young People’s Association.
Officers elected were Thomas
Coleman, president; Dick McGinn,
vice-president; Mary Frances Mas
ter, • secretary; Mary McGrath,
treasurer, and Thomas Dillon,
Robert Boniface, Mary Nusslein
and Helen Whelan, executive com
mittee members.
WAR SERVICE COUNCIL
MEETS IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—At the January
meeting of the advisory board of
the Catholic War Service Council,
it was announced that the follow
ing hostesses will head the groups
which will sponsor the Sunday
open houses at the K. of C. Home,
under the auspices of the NCCS,
during February; Mrs. John Ryan,
Mrs. B. V.- Edens, Mrs. Anne
Stradinger, Mrs. Sam Aloia, Mrs.
C. A. Zeidler, Mrs. L. J. Butler,
Mrs. Robert Henry, Mrs. Joseph
Kane, Mrs. John Nee, Mrs. Wil
son Mitcham, Mrs. W. L. Bieger,
Mrs. George Flynt, Mrs. Ludwig
Lather, and Mrs. C. J. McGowan.
A new youth club has been
formed in the Blessed Sacrament
parish for Catholic boys and girls
JOHN OWEN McNAMARA. JR.
TAKNG NAVAL EXAMINATION
SAVANNAH, Ga.—John Owen
McNamara, Jr., of West Palm
Beach, Fla., the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John O. McNamara, received
the highest grade in a group taking
the Navy’s qualifying examination
for specializing in electronics.
Young Mr. McNamara, a student
at St. Anne’s High School in West
Palm Beach, will be taken into
the Navy immediately, but will be
allowed to graduate from St.
Anne’s before reporting to the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, to begin training. He
enters the Navy with a rating of
seaman first class, and will be
given a commission upon the com
pletion of his course.
He is a grandson of P. J. Mc
Namara, clerk of the city council
of Savannah, and a nephew of the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNa
mara, rector of the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist here.
SCHEDULE FOR FORTY HOURS DEVOTION
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH-ATLANTA
February 20. 21. 22—St. Mary’s-on-Thc-Hill, Augusta
February 27. 28. 29—Our Lady of Lourdes. Port Wentworth
March 5. 6. 7—St. Mary’s Home, Savannah
March 12. IS. 14—St. John the Evangelist, Valdosta
March 19, 20. 21—St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah
March 26, 27, 28—Immaculate Conception, Augusta
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