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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 51, 1944
Sisters of Mercy
Return to Milledgeville
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A
Sunday School has been reopened
for the children of the Sacred
Heart parish here, with Sister M.
Rosarii, R.' S. M., and Sister
Michael Joseph, R. S. M., of Mount
de Sales Academy, in Macon, com
ing to Milledgeville each Sunday
to teach the classes.
Sisters of Mercy taught Sunday
School in Milledgeville for a num
ber of years under several years
ago when circumstances made the
closing of the school advisable.
Their return is a source of joy to
the children of the parish and their
parents. Sixteen children have
been been enrolled in the gram
mar school department, and eight:
children in the kindergarten
class.
Two WAVES stationed at the
Naval Training School here, S 2|c
Marie Leonard, of Kearney, N. J.,
and S 2jc Elizabeth Lehman, of
Brooklyn, are teaching the kinder
garten class.
STELLA MARIS SODALITY
ORGANIZED BY WAVES
M1LLEDGEVIL LE, Ga. —
WAVES stationed at the Naval
Training Station in Milledgeville
have formed a “Stella Maris Sod
ality. Sixty-three members have
already joined, pledging them
selves to observe the three con
ditions of membership: To re
ceive Holy Communion ■ on the
first Sunday of each month, To
attend devotions in honor of Our
Lady of the Miraculous Medal, or
other devotions in honor of the
Blessed Virgin, as often as possi
ble. To offer three “Hail Mary’s”
daily for the safety of those at
sea.
The Rev. John D. Toomey, pas
tor of Sacred Heart Church, and
auxiliary chaplain at the Naval
Training School, is the spiritual
director of the Society. In launch
ing the Sodality in Milledgeville,
Father Toomey pointed out that
the Blessed Virgin, under her title
of "Star of the Sea,” has long been
a special patroness and protectress
of our Navy.
G. S. C. W. NEWMAN CLUB
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — At a
meeting held on March 2, the New
man Club of the Georgia State
College for Women elected the
following officers; Miss Margo
Flahive, of Americus, president;
Miss Bee McCormick, of Albany,
vice-president, and Miss Virginia
Sutton of Adel, secretary-treasur-
er.
Discussions at the weekly meet
ings during March were upon the
five principles for a just peace set
forth by His Holiness Pope Pius
XII in relation to the individual,
the family, the State, Labor and
law. ■ ...
Meetings of the club are held
each Wednesday evening, and af
ter the meeting the members at
tended novena services at the
Sacred Heart Church.
The Rev- John D. Toomey, pas
tor of the Sacred Heart Church,
Is moderator of the club, with Mrs.
Lynwood Smith, as faculty advisor,
and SK 2lc Carmen Ennis and
Y 2|c Margaret S. Berry, of the
Naval Training School, chaperones.
COLUMBIA DEANERY
NCCW HOLDS MEETING
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The Colum
bia Deanery of the Diocesan Na
tional Council of Catholic Women,
met March 7th in St. Peter's USO
Club, with Mrs. Charles F. Bult-
man, president, presiding, the
theme of the meeting being, “War
Time Activities.”
Reports of affiliated organiza
tions were read after which Cap
tain Faison, now stationed at Fort
Jackson Base Hospital addressed
the meeting. His subject was “The
Health of our Soldiers Overseas.”
Dr. Faison, who has spent eleven
months''in the war area, told how
the health of our men is so care
fully guarded that the American
soldiers is probably the best cared
for fighting man. He gives preven
tive medicine credit for doing a
major part in keeping our men
healthy; also the use of the Sulfa-
drugs, penicillin and blood plasma
are playing an important part in
reducing the death rate of our
men.
Priscilla Dunn, “The Army
Wife” was introduced and she
stressed the part the wife plays
in the morale of her soldier hus
band and her importance in the
schedule of things when the war is
over.
Very Rev. Martin C. Murphy and
Rev. Charles J. Baum praised the
efforts of the women of the
Deanery, and urged them to keep
up their work.
A delightful luncheon was serv
ed by a committee under the sup
ervision of Mrs. T. E. Johnson, Sr.,
and Mrs. 13. B. Bellinger.
REPORTED MISSING — Lieu
tenant Le Garde S. Doughty, Jr.,
U. S. Army Air Force, of Augusta,
has been reported as missing since
February 29, following air activity
over Italy. His father, who served
with the A. E. F. in World War I,
is well known for his contribu
tions of poetry to the columns of
leading Catholic magazines. His
mother is the former Miss Mary
Hogan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Hogan, of Augusta.
Thomas A. Oseicki
of Atlanta Parish,
Killed in Service
ATLANTA, Ga. — Relatives of
Thomas A. Osiecki, a member of
St. Anthony’s parish here, have
been advised that First Class Petty
Officer Osiecki, who was serving
with the “Seabees”, had been ac
cidentally shot and kill on Febru
ary 22, somewhere in the Pacific
war area.
He is believed to be the first
casualty among the former stud
ents of St. Anthony’s Parochial
School who are in the armed
forces. He is the third member of
St. Anthony’s parish to die in
the service of his country since the
outbreak of the present war.
After attending St. Anthony's
School, Petty Officer Osiecki
graduated from Marist College and
Georgia Tech. Before entering the
service he was employed at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Osiecki. His wife is the
former Miss Emelyn G u f f i n,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. D.
Guff in, of Atlanta. He is also sur
vived by a brother, Master Ser
geant Robert S. Osiecki, now over
seas, and a sister, Mrs. O. H. Jent-
zen.
A Requiem Mass was offered for
the repose of his soul at St. An
thony’s Church on March 7.
Missions at Marietta
Church and Air Base
(Special to The Bulletin)
MARIETTA, Ga. — While the
annual Mission was being preached
at the Sacred Heart Church in At
lanta, wto of outlying stations of
the parish had week-long Missions
of their own, St. Joseph’s Church
in Marietta, and the Post Chapel
at the Marietta Air Base. The mis
sions, which were conducted by
the Rev. William Collins, S. M., of
the Marist Mission Band, began
on February .27, and lasted through
March 5.
Timed between the end of the
work day and the evening meal,
the mission exercises at the Air
Base were held from 5 to 6 p. m.
The attendance was good through
out the week, and the mission a
success.
The men in the Wing Division of
the Army, many of them graduates
of Catholic colleges, and highly
specialized in aeronautics, appreci
ated the opportunity of hearing the
mission sermons and instructions.
At St. Joseph’s, mission services
were held each evening. The church
was filled for the closing services,
which included a procession, in
which the children of the parish
took part, the children’s choir, with
Martha Myers as soloists, singing
the familiar hymns. The Rev.
Philip Dagneau, S. M., pastor of
St. Joseph’s, was celebrant of
Solemn Benediction, with Father
Collins as deacon, and Father Mc
Donald as subdeacon.
Special Broadcasts of
Ave Maria Hour on
Palm Sunday and Easter
GARRISON, N. Y. — All the
memorable events of the first Palm
Sunday, and the most outstanding
event of our human history, the
Resurrection of Christ, will be
dramatized on the Ave Maria Hour
programs to be presented, reprec-
tively on Palm Sunday, April 2,
and Easter Sunday, April 9.
1 In the Diocese of Savannah-At-
CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN AT
CAMP MACKALL, KILLED
WHEN PLANES COLLIDE
(Special to The Bulletin)
CAMP MACKALL, N. C—Lieut.
John L. Callahan, a priest of the
Archdiocese of Saint Louis, serv
ing with the 322d Glider Infantry
at Camp Mackall, North Carolina,
was killed on February 18, when
the plane in which he was flying
was in collision with another plane.
Lieut. Callahan, with a Protestant
chaplain, a flight officer, a lieu
tenant and an enlisted man, -took
off from Camp Mackall for a night
flight, and in the collision all were
instantly killed. Among those who
rushed to the scene were three
Catholic Chaplains who anointed
Lieutenant Callahan and another
of the victims who was a Catholic.
Father Callahan held a high
place in the hearts of all the offi
cers and men of the camp. His com
manding officer, Colonel Pointdex-
ter stated that in his long Army
career he had never met a more
excellent chaplain than Father Cal
lahan, who was' consulted at all
times by the men, who had a great
respect for his judgment. He was
revered by Catholics and non-
Catholics alike.
Father Callahan was buried
February 25, with a Mass, from St.
Louis’ Cathedral, at which His Ex
cellency the Most Rev. Archbishop
Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar
was represented by Very Rev.
Msgr. Edward J. Quinn of Cincin
nati, a Vicar Delegate of the Mili
tary Ordinariate.
On February 26, Very Rev. Msgr.
James H. Griffiths, Chancellor of
the Army and Navy Ordinariate,
celebrated a Mass for Father Cal
lahan at Camp Mackall, N. C. At
this Mass, Monsignor'Griffiths also
delivered a eulogy.
Lieutenant Callahan was born in
St. Louis in 1910. He attended the
St. Louis Preparatory Seminary
and the K e n r i c k Theological
Seminary in St. Louis, from which
he graduated in 1936. He was or
dained in the new Cathedral of
St. Louis on June 6, 1936, by Arch
bishop John J. Glennon. He served
as an assistant at Immaculate Con
ception Church, Maplewood, Mo.,
and entered the Service in January
1942, being assigned to Port Ben
jamin Harrison, Ind. He also served
at Camp Claiborne, La., and was
assigned to the Glider Infantry at
Fort Bragg, N. C., on Jan. 12, 1944,
and then went with the Glider In
fantry at Camp Mackall, N. C.
In Glider Crash w
Father John L. Callahan, of St.
Louis, 33-year-old Army Chaplain,
who was killed in a glider crash
at Camp MacKall, N. C. Former
ly assistant pastor at Immaculate
Conception Church, Maplewood;
Mo., he joined the Chaplain Corps
v two years ago. (N.C.W.C.)
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