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TWENTY FOUR
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 31, 1944
Religious Profession
at Mount St. Joseph
Convent in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.—In these days
of fearful strife, religious func
tions have a greater appeal than
usual to all hearts- Of particularly
beauty and inspiration was the
ceremony of Reception and Pro
fession that took place Sunday
morning, March It), in the chapel
of Mount St. Joseph. The Rev.
Edward Dodwell, delegated by the
Most ltcv. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Iii hop of Savannah-Atlanta. of
ficiated.
Tji ■ young women who received
the hint of the Sisters of St.
Jo ■ h '..ere Miss Helen Dillard,
who will be knowm in religion as
,d icr .Mary John; and Miss
Yvonne Latimer. now Sister Mary
Eh'.inor. Sister William Joseph,
lie- former Miss Mary Huey, pro
nounced temporary vows. All
II.e e ruling women are from At
lanta. graduates of the Sacred
I'ca" School of that city.
The Very Rev. W. D. O’Leary
S. J., president of Spring Hill
College, Mobile, Ala., in his ser-
r an. (he text of which was, “I
Am the Vine; You are the
lies", explained with elo-
qir ace and feeling, the Church as
the Mystical Body of Christ- Fath
er O’Leary also reminded ltis hear
ers tiiat as in this terrible war
nil must defend our beloved coun
try but sonic are called Upon for
de; ds of greater valor, so, while
all people must obey the laws of
God. religious offer themselves
for I ires of greater sacrifice and
closer union with God.
Present at the ceremony be
sides Father Dodwell and Father
O’Leary, were the Very Rev. T.
L. Brennan, Rev. J. K. O’Donohoc,
S. ,).. Rev. J. J. Malloy. Rev.
Charles Barrett, S. M. and Broth
er Benedict, F. S- M., Brother
Thomas, F. S. M. and Brother
Francis. F. S. M.
The Mass, “Regina Pacis” by
Rhode, was beautifully sung by
the Mount Joseph girls’ chorus,
under the direction of Sister Ann
Xavier. C. S. J., Attending the
ceremony and Mass were Sisters
o. Mercy, Sisters of Christian
Doctrine. Franciscan Sisters, Sis-
tres of Our Lady of Mercy and
Sisters of St. Joseph, with many
friends from Atlanta, Savannah,
Athens and Augusta.
The little girl attendants of the
newly received and professed were
Martha Armstrong, Janice Gan
non. Patricia Weigle, Catherine
Ann Bride, Louise Hinker, Vir
ginia Ethridge, Connie Henderson
and Belly Bolder.
Frank House, Claude Burpee
and James Cavanaugh assisted as
altar boys.
AUGUSTA OFFICER IS
EXPERT IN USE OF GAS
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Lieutenant
John J. Morrison, a member of the
Sacred Heart parish in Augusta,
now serving in the European thea
tre of operations, and the special
ists in the use of carbon dioxide
gas, under Ills supervision, are
helping lo save the lives of Ameri
can airmen forced down at sea.
His crew checks and refills life
rafts and fire extinguishers car
ried on all U. S. planes. The rafts
must be tilled with an exact
amount of carbon dioxide or the
rafts will either burst or fail to
support tlie weight of the airmen.
A former engineer with Hie
Georgia Power Company. Lieuten
ant Morrison is commanding of
ficer of an ordnance company at
one of the leading general supply
depots in England.
ST. BERNADETTE’S CHURCH, CEDARTOWN—Dedicated in 1941, by the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, St. Bernadette’s Church, Cedartown, Georgia, has as its patron
St. Bernadette Soubirous, the peasant girl ot Lourdes, France, whose life story was the basis of Franz
Werfel’s celebrated novel from which theh motion picture “The Song of Bernadette” was adapted. The
church is served by the Redemptorist Fathers from St. Mary’s Church in Rome.
Minute Man Flag Awarded
St. John’s School, Valdosta
(Special to The Bulletin)
VALDOSTA, Ga. — St. John the
Evangelist School went over the
top in its purchase of bonds and
stamps during the Fourth War
Loan Drive.
As parteipants in the “Schools-
at-War” program, the eighty child
ren enrolled in the school bought
$5,396.15 in bonds and stamps dur
ing the campaign which ended on
February 15.
At the conclusion of the drive,
the Glee Club broadcasted a pat
riotic program over Station
WGOV, and the thirty-odd child
ren of the club sang patriotic sel
ections and appropriate recita
tions were given by Theresa La-
hood, Mary Ann Wetherington and
Valliere Johnson.
Members of the Glee Club who
participated were: Florine Abood,
Richard Chalmers, Anne Garrett,
Francis O’Brien, Juliet Saliba,
Gloria George, Barbara Ann Mc-
Kiever, Mary Lou Bruce, Boots
Howell, Aspo Marangos. Dexter
Howell, Calvin James, Floyd Lik
ins, Margaret Barganier, Patsy
Carroll, Jerry Chalmers, Norman
Lahood, Charles O’Brien, Mary
Ann Wetherington, Noel George,
Valliere Johnson. Dan Jones, Bob
by Jones, Theresa Lahood, Ray
mond Malham, John Paulk, James
Paulk, Alton Johnson. Billy Banks,
Raymond Johnson, Billy Kimsey
and Jacob Malham.
The outstanding achievement of
St. John the Evangelist School,
which is conducted by the Sisters
of St. Joseph, entitles it to dis
play the Minute Man Flag, award
ed to schools where 90 percent of
the pupils are regular purchasers
of War Bonds and Stamps.
MOUNT ST. JOSEPH’S
GLEE CLUB ON RADIO
PROGRAM IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga. —The Glee Club
of Mount St. Joseph's High School,
under the direction of Mrs. Ber
tha Pendleton Walker, and with
Miss Belty Mulherin as‘accompan
ist, was heard on a program broad
cast over Station WRDW in con
nection with the campaign for the
American Red Cross war fund.
Father Robert Conducts
Retreat for Holy Name
Society in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Rev. Rob
ert Brennan, O. S. B., a member
of the faculty of Benedictine
Military School in Savannah, con
ducted a one-day Retreat held
here on March 12 under the
auspices of the Holy Name So
ciety of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill
Church.
More than a hundred men from
St. Mary's and the other parishes
in Augusta made the Retreat,
which was held in the chapel of
Mount St. Joseph Academy, after
attending Mass and receiving
Communion at St. Mary’S-on-The
Hill Church.
Arrangements for the Retreat
were made by a committee com
posed of James B. Mulherin, Wil
liam W. Doughty, John T. Buck-
ley, Miles O'Connor, John L.
Armstrong, William A. Lyons and
Albert Rice, with the cooperation
of the Rev. Martin Kiliian, O. P.,
assistant pastor of St. Mary’s-on-
The-Hill Church, and spiritual di
rector of the Holy Name Society.
GEORGE HASLAM JOINS
STAFF OF DALTON NEWS
DALTON, Ga.—George Haslam,
originally from Savannah, who
for the past three years has been
a member of the faculty of the
Georgia State College for Wom
en, has assumed the position of
managing editor of The Dalton
News.
Mr. Haslam began liis news
paper career on The Milledgeville
News, and was formerly on the
staff of The Macon Telegraph,
ST. PETER’S LAGRANGE.
AMONG 100% PARISHES IN
1942 CHARITIES CAMPAIGN
LAGRANGE, Ga.—In the per
centage reports of the Catholic
Charities of Hie Diocese of Savan-
nah-Atlanta, for the year 1942,
St. Peter's parish in LaGrange led
those in the grbups which had
paid pledges 100 per cent. The
contribution of $498.00 from the
parish in this city included $155.00
from the mission in Newnan.
FEAST OF ST. BENEDICT
OBSERVED IN SAVANNAH
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The feast of
St. Benedict was celebrated at the
Sacred Heart Church on March
21, with a Solemn High Mass,
Coram Episcopo, at which the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D„
J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, presided and preached
the sermon.
Cadets of the Benedictine Mili
tary School attended in forma
tion and participated in the ritual
of a military Mass, which was
sung by the childrens’ choir of
the Sacred Heart School. After
the Mass the cadet battalion march
ed to the Park Extension where it
was reviewed by Bishop O’Hara.
St. Benedict was the founder oi
the Order of St- Benedict, the
oldest religious Order in the
Church. Born of a noble family,
in Nursia, Italy, in 480, St. Bene
dict as a youth of seventeen, re
nounced the world and withdrew
to Subiaco, some thirty-odd miles
from Rome, where he led the life
of a hermit, devoting his time
to prayer and meditation. Having
gathered around him many fol
lowers of similar intent, he built
twelve monasteries, each housing
twelve monks.
In 529 he founded Monte Cas-
sino Abbey, some seventy miles
south of Rome, which was to be
come I lie parent monastery of the
Benedictine Order. Here he wrote
his rule of asceticism which has
served as a rule of thousands of
monks through succeeding cen
turies.
Monte Cassino became a center
of Warning and a seminary for
countless missionaries who were
lo Christianize and civilize the
rude barbarians who had broken
through the barriers of the Ro
man Empire. So great was the
influence of the Benedictine monks
during the so-called Dark Ages
that the live hundred years .front
the sixth to the eleventh century
came to be known as the Benedic
tine centuries. At its zenith in
the Middle Ages, the Benedictine
Order had no fewer than thirty-
seven thousand monasteries in
Europe.
The Order of St. Benedict was
introduced into America in 1846.
Its chief work lies in the field
of education. There are some
twenty Abbeys in the United
States, with a number of high
schools, colleges and universities
conducted by the Benedictines.
Among the Benedictine institu
tions of learning in this section
are Belmont Abbey College in
North Carolina,/ St. Leo’s in
Florida, and the Benedictine Mili
tary School hero.
St. Benedict died on March 21,
543, and lies buried at Monte Cas
sino beneath the ruins of what
was once the famous Monte Cas
sino Abbey-
SOME OF THE DANCING CONTINGENT; The young women of the parish of the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist in Charleston, S. C., who serve breakfast each Sunday morning to service men, after Masses
at the Cathedral, also give a dance once a week for the soldiers, sailors, coast guardsmen and Marines. For
mal dances are given on special occasions such as the Fourth of July, Hallow'een, New Year’s Eve and St.
Patrick’s Day, The group pictured above includes some of the young women and their guests at a recent for
mal affair.
ARMY COMMISSION FOR
VINCENT LEMON, AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Vincent
Lemon was in the most recent ch
of aerial navigators gradual
from the Army Air Forces Navi(
tion School at the University
Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., and w
commissioned a second lieutena
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Ce
S. Lemon, and a member of t
Sacred Heart parish.
Savannah Council
K. of C., Observes
“Founders’ Day”
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — It was in
March, 1882, tiiat the Knights of
Columbus was incorporated in New
Haven, Conn., and during this
month, in common with members
of the order all over the nation,
Savannah Council, No. 631, observ
ed “Founders’ Month,” the activity
centering on “Founders’ Day,”
Sunday, March 26, when members
of the council received Holy Com
munion in a body at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, and later
attended a breakfast at the Hotel
De Soto, at which there were a
number of out-ol'-town guests, in-
I eluding delegations from Bishop
\ Lynch Council, in Charleston, and
i Henry Ross Council, in Brunswick,
i Following the breakfast there
i was a first degree ceremonial,
I and in the afternoon an exempli
fication of the second and third
degrees, after which a buffet sup
per was served.
Savannah Council’s observance of
“Founders’ Month” began at a
special meeting held on March 21
lo honor the seven living active
founders of (tie local council, Cor
nelius A. McCarthy, John J. Pow
ers, John McLaughlin, Joseph E.
Kelly, Sr., John M. McBride, Col.
M. J. O'Leary and Col. John G.
Butler, each of whom was pre
sented with a gift and made an
honorary life member of Savan
nah Council.
Savannah Council, having en
joyed forty-two years of growth
and prosperity is now one of the
largest and most active K. of C.
councils in the Southeast. The
first officers of the council, instal
led in 1902 by Supreme Director
Callahan, were James L. Murphy,
grand knight; J. D. Persse, deputy
grand knight; E. M. O’Connor, re
corder; C. A. McCarthy, financial
secretary; E. M. O’Brien, treasurer;
James F. Doyle, chancellor; P. J.
O’Connor, advocate; John J. Pow
ers, lecturer; Rev. Aloysius O'Han
lon, O. S. B., chaplain; M. J. Bar
rett, warden; D. J. Hogan, William
J. Haylow and M. J. O'Leary, trus
tees; John G. Butler, inside guard,
and Horace Brooks, outside guard.
Since 1902, the following mem
bers have headed the council as
its grand knight; Janies L. Murphy,
P. J. O’Connor, M. J. O’Leary, A.
,T. Merkle, John J. Powers, John
Rourke, Jr., John G. Butler,
Thomas. F. Walsh, John J. Boulian,
Thomas Ballantyne, James P. Mt-
Mahon, John C. Hartfelder, W. A.
Saunders. George O. Morissey, W.
A. Rooks, M. J. O’Leary, J. O. Mag-
gioni, N. T. Stafford, J. J. Mc
Manus, James F. Glass, William
T. Walsh, Hugh H. Grady, Thomas
J. Canty, J, H. Heaggarty, Joseph
D. Sheehan, A. J. Ryan, Jr., J. M.
McDonough. John M. Brennan, A.
J. Scliano, L. J. Steiber.
Present officers of the council
arc M. C. McCarthy, grand knight;
the Rev. Robert Brennan, O. S.
P>., chaplain; L. G. Whelan, depu
ty grand knight, C. J. D’Esposito,
chancellor; Joseph Frewer, war
den; M. J. Fahey, advocate; Hugh
H. Grady, financial secretary; J. A.
Kearney, treasurer; James J. Mc
Donald, recorder; Harry Sledge,
inside guard; James J. Cronin and
Vestus J. Ryan, oulside guards; W.
F. McKay, lecturer, and A. J.
Sehano, M. A. Spellman and A. J.
Ilalligan. trustees.
The “Founders’ Month” observ
ance was arranged by a committee
composed of J. J. McDonald, P. .T.
Buttimer, A. J. Sehano, and
Thomas J. Canty.
M. C. McCarthy Heads
Savannah Council, K. of C.;
Charter Members Honored
(Special lo The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Michael C.
McCarthy, formerly deputy grand
knight, was elected grand knight
of Savannah Council, No. 631,
Knights of Columbus, at an elec
tion meeting of the council held
on March 8. Mr. McCarthy suc
ceeds Lawrence J. Steiber, who
has entered the nation’s armed
forces witli the U. S. Marine
Corps.
Other officers elected were L.
Gordon Whelan, deputy grand
knight, and Vestus J. Ryan, out
side guard.
The nominating committee was
composed of State Deputy Thomas
J. Canty, as chairman, M. A. Spell
man, John M. Brennan, P. J.
Buttimer, and A. J. Sehano.
HONOR CHARTER MEMBERS
A special meeting of Savannah
Council, held on March 21, paid
tribute to eight charter members
ol' the council who are still tak
ing an active part in its affairs,
C. A. McCarthy, John F. Mc
Carthy, John McLoughlin. John J.
Powers, Joseph E. Kelly, Sr., John
McBride, Col. M. J. O'Leary and
Col. John G. Butler, Sr.