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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATnOLlC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY .11, 1945
Rev. P. J. O’Connor Named
Assistant Treasurer of
Catholic Sisters College
FATHER O’CONNOR
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Rev. Patrick J. O’Connor, of the
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, has
been appointed assistant treasur
er and procurator of the Catholic
Sisters College, an integral part of
the Catholic University of Amer
ica here. His new duties will en
tail the business and financial
management of the college,- with
which he is not unfamiliar, as he
previously served there when first
joining the faculty of Catholic
University in 1936.
After graduating from the Ben
edictine Military School in Sa
vannah, in 1920, Father O'Connor
attended the Catholic University
where he obtained his Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1924. He then spent
two years in the American Acad
emy of Dramatic Arts in New
York City, prior to starting his
study for the priesthood at St.
Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore.
Joining the faculty of Catholic
University, in 1936, he was made
dean of men in 1937 and served in
that capacity until 1939, at the
same time filling the post of pro
curator of the Catholic Sisters
College.
His present posts at Catholic
University include assistant pro
fessor of eloquence in the School
of Sacred Theology and the Bas-
selin Foundation, where he gives
special attention to voice culture,
elocution and public reading and
speaking. He is also a member of
the staff of the Preachers’ Insti
tute, which trains young priests
in nulpit oratory, and is Universi
ty Director of the Alumni Associa
tion. Father O’Connor has made
recordings of the revised Gospels
which are now being used widely
in Catholic seminaries as models
of pulpit delivery, and he is fre-
«uently featured as a Catholic ra
dio broadcaster and speaker %t
Retreats and other speeial devo
tions.
Father O’Connor was ordained
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, in Savannah, on May 25,
1933. by the Most Rev. Michael
J. Keyes, S. M., D. D., at that
time Bishop of Savannah. He serv
ed as assistant pastor of St. An
thony’s Church. Atlanta, and as
assistant pastor of St. Mary’s-on-
The-Hill Church, Augusta, before
going to the Catholic University
in 1936. During the summer of
1942. Father O’Connor returned to
Georgia to serve St. Thomas
More parish in Decatur while the
pastor, the Rev. Thomas L.. Finn,
was on vacation.
FATHER P. J. O’CONNOR
CONDUCTS RETREAT FOR
STUDENTS IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Rev. Dr.
P. J. O'Connor, associate profes
sor of Sacred Eloquence at the
Catholic University of America,
and a member of the faculty of the
School of Sacred Theology, con
ducted a retreat for the students
of Christ the King High School,
May 17-18.
Father O’Connor is the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. P. J. O’Con
nor. of Savannah. He has a bro
ther, Daniel J. O'Connor, and two.
sisters, Miss Josephine O'Connor
and Mrs. Harry Persse, who live in
Savannah."
FATHER OWEN MONAGHAN,
C. P.. Army Chaplain who was
recently awarded the Bronze Med
al and Silver Star in the Pacific
area, was killed on Luzon, his
parents, in Chicago, have been no
tified.
Miss Moran Heads
Catholic Women’s
Club, Charleston
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Miss
Alime Moran is the new president
of the Catholic Womens’ Club,
having been elected at the annual
meeting held May 20 at Brewton
Inn.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
George Tuttle, vice-president; Miss
Margaret Cade, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Frances Kinsley, corre
sponding secretary, and Miss Doro-
f Sullivan, treasurer.
The club voted to establish a
scholarship to the College of
Charleston, eligible to a girl grad
uate of Bishop England High
School. Miss Rose Marie Kelly
was appointed chairman of the
scholarship committee. It was a-
so voted to contribute to a fu-'a
to be used to purchase oooks for
th~ Coast Guard recreation center.
Misses Kelly, Cecile Rice, May-
belle Metzler, Madeline Mosimann
and Katherine Riddock, Mrs. Jul
ian Conlon, Mrs. Tuttle, Mrs. Eu
gene Condon, Mrs. Roy Meyers
and Mrs. Edward Owens, members
of the club, assisted the American
Legion Auxiliary in a “Poppy
Day” sale.
Miss Metzler was named chair
man of a committee on visiting
hospitals.
The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
D. D., Bishop of Charleston, was
a guest at the breakfast and spoke
briefly.
BUY WAR BONDS
Augusta Deanery NCCW
Quarterly Meeting Held
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The quarterly
meeting of the Augsuta Deanery
Council of the NaUonal Council
of Catholic Women was held at
Mount St. Joseph Auditorium on
April 29, with Mrs. Joseph L. Her
man, president of the Deanery
Council, conducting the meeting,
which was opened with prayer by
the Very Rev. Msgr. James J.
Grady, pastor of St. Mary’s-on-
The-Hill Church.
Reports were submitted by Miss
Anita Yarborough, chairman of
the committee on the Propagation
of the Faith; Mrs. Marion Stulb,
social service; Mrs. P. H. Rice, Jr.,
study clubs; Mrs. Norman Boat
wright, Parent-Teacher Associa
tions, Miss Anna Rice, mission
society, and Mrs. James Mulherin
read the report of Mrs. Catherine
Mobley, chairman of the Red
Cross committee.
Reading of these reports dis
closed that the number of affiliat
ed parish councils would be in
creased to include Dublin and
Sandersville; that at the request
of the Council a Mass was offered
in honor of Our Lady of Good
Counsel to implore Divine guid
ance on the delegates amending the
United Nations Conference at
San Francisco; that the council
had sponsored an essay contest on
the subject of "Shrines in Homes”,
and that the winner in the high
school group was Alice Erbelding,
a freshman at Mount St. Joseph
Academy, and the grade school
winner, Johanna Kearney, of the
Sacred Heart School.
“Federal Aid to Education” was
discussed by Hugh Kinchley, exe
cutive secretary of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
who was the guest speaker.
The election of officers lor the
coming year was held, Mvs Joseph
L. Herman being re-elected presi
dent; Miss Louise Gardiner, re
cording secretary, and Miss Elea
nor Bennett, corresponding secre
tary. Miss Frances Casey was
named as treasurer to fill the
vacancy caused by the retirement
of Mrs. Harold Gilbert. The presi
dents of the parish councils serve
as vice-presidents of the Deanery
Council.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing refreshments were served by
Mrs. F. X. Mulherin, president of
St. Mary’s-on-The-IIill Council;
Mrs. Joseph Mulherin, president of
Sacred Heart Council, and Mrs.
Marjorie Bedenfield, president of
St. Patrick’s Council.
ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
ANNOUNCED IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Winners in
the essay contest sponsored by
the Savannah Deanery Council of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, on “Shrines in the Home”,
were Miss Phyllis Sarat, a
sophomore at St. Vincent Acad
emy; Miss Marianna Copps, eighth
grade, Cathedral School, and Miss
Lourdes Sheehan, fifth grade,
Blessed Sacrament School.
The essay from the high school
group and that from the higher
grammar school group, were sent
to the Diocesan Council NCCW
to be judged in the state-wide con
test.
Military Mass as Thomasville 350 Anmversar y of
Soldiers and civilians gathered
to attend the first Solemn Mili
tary Mass ever to be offered in
the Thomasville section of South
Georgia. A forceful and edifying
demonstration of Catholic Faith
was the Solemn Mass which was
celebrated on the grounds of St.
Augustine’s Church, in the center
of Thomasville, by Chaplain Col-
man J. Hynes, of the Finney Gen
eral Hospital, with the Rev. Mi
chael Manning, pastor of St. Au
gustine’s Church, as deacon, and
the Rev. John Devane, pastor of
St. Margaret’s Church, Monticel-
lo, Fla., subdeacon. Lieut. Wil
liam F. Donoghue, M. C„ of Fin
ney General Hospital, was master
of ceremonies; Lt. Edward M.
Strobel, M. A. C., Finney General
Hospital, thurifer, and Lieut. Jos
eph A. McAuley and Lieut. Ed
ward J. Walsh, of the Thomasville
Army Air Field, were acolytes.
Enlisted men from the Air Field
served as a guard of honor. The
Mass was chanted by a military
choir, from the hospital and air
base, with Lieut. Janina Pikula as
soloist. The Mass was broadcasted
over Station WPAX, and relayed
to the wards of Finney General
Hospital for the -benefit of the
Catholic bed-ridden patients. Fol
lowing the Mass, some two hun
dred Army nurses, officers and
enlisted men, of both Army in
stallations, were guests of the
NCCS at a luncheon at the Amer
ican Legion Home.
WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Miss
June Ann Carr, daughter of the
late S. Berry Carr and Mrs. Carr,
of Rivers plantation, Meggett, has
been awarded one of the four But
ler memorial scholarships to Mary-
mount College, Tarrytown, N. Y.
The scholarship, valued at $500
a year, or a total of $2,000, vas
awarded on the basis of her high
school record, an English essay,
and a scholastic aptitude test and
general culture test.
One of the scholarships has been
established.as a memorial to the
Very Rev. Mother Butler, of the
Religious of the Sacred Heart of
Mary; second in memory of Sir
James Butler; a third was founded
by the Marymount Mothers’ club,
and the fourth is the gift of the
Marymount ’ alumnae association.
Death of St. Philip Neri
Observed in Rock Hill
(Special to The Bulletin)
ROC. HILL. S. C„—On May 28,
! the Oratory of St. Philip Neri here
'commemorated the three hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the
death of St. Philip Neri, founder of
the Congregation of the Oratory,
On May 30. the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charles
ton, celebrated a Solemn Pontifi
cal Mass in St. Anne’s Church. It
was a Votive Mass in honor of St.
Philip Neri. and was offered for
victory and peace and for those
serving in. the armed forces. A
panegyric on the life of St. Philip
Neri was delivered by the Rev.
Ambrose Smith, O. P., of Colum
bia.
The Mass also marked the
solemn closing of a novena to the
Holy Ghost, in honor of St. Philip
Neri, made by the Fathers of the
Oratory and members of the Neri
Guild. A special leaflet and pamph
let on the life and mission of the
Saint was prepared as a souvenir
of the anniversary, and may be
obtained on request.
The Congregation of the Ocjitory
was established at Rock Hill in
1924. At present there are thirteen
Fathers and nine seminarians in
the Congregation. With the Very
Rev. Vincent Scharff, as provost,
the ' Fathers have charge of five
counties in the north central sec
tion of South Carolina, a parish of
about 3.500 square miles in area.
The first Congregation of the
Oratory was founded in Rome, July
15, 1575. At present there are con
gregations in Italy, Spain, England,
Germany, Poland, Mexico, Bolivia
and Colombia.
THOSE WHO NOW SEE “the
terrible consequences of their er
rors could have been spared had
they listened to the Church,” His
Holiness Pope Pius XII declared
in an address delivered after the
presentation of credentials by
Jacques Maritain, new French
Ambassador to the Holy See.
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