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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF _.GgORGIA
MAY 31, 1945
Georgia K. of C. Re-Elect
State Deputy McAlpin
Bishop O’Hara and Deputy Supreme Knight John E. Swift
Deliver Addresses at 43rd Annual Convention of Geor
gia State Council, Knights of Columbus, Held in Savan
nah
SAVANNAH, Ga.—-William J.
McAlpin, of Atlanta, under whose
leadership the Knights of Colum
bus in Georgia now lead all juris
dictions in the percentage of at
tainment of new applications for
membership, reinstatements and
readmissions, was re-elected State
Deputy for Georgia at the 43rd
annual meeting of the Georgia
State Council, Knights of Colum
bus, held here on May 20.
Other officers elec'ed at the
session, which was addressed by
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, and Judge John E. Swift,
of Boston, Deputy Supreme
Knight, included Thomas J. Canty,
Savannah, past state deputy; A.
J. Schano, Savannah, state secre
tary; John McBrearty, Macon,
state treasurer; Manuel Boa,
Brunswick, state warden, and
Louis Kunze, Columbus., st^te ad
vocate.
John M. Harrison, of Atlanta,
was selected as alternate to the
Supreme Convention for the state
deputy, with Joseph McDonough,
of Savannah, as alternate for the
past state deputy.
Officers of the State Council
and delegates representing the six
subordinate councils in Georgia,
met at the K. of C. Home alter
attending a Mass celebrated by the
Right Rev. Msgr. T. James Me-
Namara, at the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, at which the ser
mon was delivered by Bishop
O’Hara.
The session was opened with
prayer by the Rev. Robert Bren
nan, O. S. B., chaplain of Savan
nah Council, after which a word
of welcome on behalf of Savannah
Council was voiced by Grand
Knight M. C. McCarthy, the re
sponse, on behalf of the visiting
delegates, being made by District
Deputy Lewis F. Gordon, of At
lanta.
Committee appointments made
by State Deputy McAlpin were as
follows: Credentials, J J Mc
Creary, Macon; John M.^ Bren
nan, Savannah: Lewis F. Gordon.
Atlanta: Edward Lott, Brunswick,
and John M. McBrearty, Macon;
Nominations, M. C. McCarthy, Sa
vannah: Henry C. Taylor, Atlanta;
Bernard J. Doris, Augusta; Martin
J. Callaghan, Macon; Patrick Gro
gan, Brunswick, and Richard Flem
ing, Columbus: Auditing, J. P
Price. Augusta; T. J. Canty, Savan
nah; John M. Harrison. Atlanta:
Fraternal Greetings. John M.
Brennan, Savanah; Manuel Boa,
Brunswick; .C C. McCarren, Ma
con; Resolutions, A J Sclinno,
Savannah; Lewis F. Gordon. At-
ltnta; Joseph McDonald Savannah,
Savannah: William Plaff, Colum
bus.
Upon recommendation of the
credentials committee, the Rev.
Robert Brennan. O S. B. of Savan
nah, was recognized a-s acting s'a e
chaplain, in the absence of the
Rev. F. M. Perry, S. M„ of At
lanta. and Hugh KincWcy, of Au
gusta, was recognized as acting
state secretary, in Hie absence of
John T. Buckley, of Augusta.
Next in order of business was
the gratifying report if Sta'e
Deputy McAlpin, which was fol
lowed by the report of State Sec
retary John T. Buckley, lead to
the meeting by the acting secre
tary, and the report of State
Treasurer Manuel Boa.
Reports were also submited to
the morning session by District
Deputy John M. Brennan, Savan
nah; District Deputy John J. Mc
Creary, Macon; District Deputy
Lewis F. Gordon, Atlanta; Thomas
J. Canty, Savannah, chairman of
the membership committee; Hugh
Kinchley. Augusta, chairman of
the publicity committee; M. -C.
McCarthy. Savannah, chairman of
the program committee; John M.
Harrison, Atlan'a, chairman, War
Activities committee, and John J.
McCreary, Macon, chairman of Ihe
insurance committee.
After the delegates had been
entertained at a buffet luncheon
by Savannah Council, the conven
tion was re-assembled and heard
reports of M., C. McCarthy, grand
knight of Savannah Council. No.
631; Bernard J. Doris, grand
knight of Patrick Walsh Council,
No. 677. Augusta; Martin J. Cal
laghan. Jr., grand knight of Macon
Council’. No. 925; Henry Taylor,
grand knight of Atlanta Council,
No. 660; Richard Fleming, grand
knight of Bishop Gross ' Council,
No. 1019. Columbus, and Patrick
Grogan, grand knight of Henry
Thomas Ross Council, No. 1939,
Brunswick.
OFFICERS OF K. OF C. IN GEORGIA—Officers elected at the forty-
third annual convention of the Georgia State Council, Knights p
Columbus, held in Savannah, on May. 20, are pictured above with the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, and Deputy
Supreme Knight John E. Swift, of Boston, who were the convention
speakers Left to right, front row: John M. Brennan, Savannah,
district deputy; A. J. Schano, Savannah, state secretary; Wllham J.
McAlpin, Atlanta, state deputy; Bishop O’Hara, Judge Swift; Ghailes
McCarren, Macon; Thomas J. Canty, Savannah, master of De Soto
Province, 4th degree. Back row, John McBrearty, Macon, stale
treasurer; M. C. McCarthy, grand knight of Savannah Council, host
to the convention; Manuel Boa, Brunswick, state warden; John J. Me
Creary Macon, district deputy; Lewis F. Gordon, district deputy,
Atlanta. (Photo—Courtesy of The Savannah Morning News).
WAYNESVULLE PARISH
MEMBER IS WOUNDED
(Suecial to The Bulletin)
WAYNESV1LLE, N. C.—Mr. and
Mrs. Roy B. Morris, of Sylva, have
been advised that their son, Pfc.
Roy Harold Morris, serving with
the 4th Marine Division, was
wounded by scrapnel in the inva
sion of Iwo Jima.
Private Morris, who was horn in
Brevard, August 9, 1926, volun
teered for servie in the Marine
Corps in September, 1942. He
has been overseas since . January
of last year and participated in the
fighting in the Marshall Islands,
at Saipan and Tinian.
In a letter recently written by
him to his parents, he advised that
he had been flown to a hospital
in Hawaii from the Marianas.
Prayers for his recovery were
offered at St. John’s church here.
LIEUT. DAN COSGROVE
FREED IN GERMANY
ATLANTA, Ga.—Lieut. Dan
Brosnan Cosgrove, of the U. S.
.Army Air Force, was liberated
from a German prisoner-of-war
camp on April 29, he advised his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul F.
Cosgrove, in a cablegram received
last week. The young officer was
shot down over Germany last
May.
Japanese Army Nurse
Speaks in Latin to
U. S. Army Chaplain
Among the resolutions adopted
was an expre-siorf of sympathy to
Father Perry, the state chaplain,
who was unable to atond the con
vention on account of the serious
illness of his mother. Another
extended congratulations to Bishop
O'Hara on the occasion of his
Silver Jubilee jn Hie priesthood,
while others were in appreciation
of Hie hospitality of Hie officers
and members of Savannah Council,
and in appreciation of the courtesy
of the management of the Hotel
DcSoto, the Savannah Morning
Nows and Evening Press, and
Radio Stations WTOC and WSAV.
The convention voted to recom
mend to the Sunreme Council Hie
publication and ctrculaUon oi a
pamphlet entitled "A Catholic
Catechism of Social Questions.”
•and made plans to promote Boy
Scouts and Girl Scout activity in
Georgia.
The Rev. Philip Hasson, S. M oi
Brunswick, a past state chaplain,
—as introduced to the meeting.
Before adjournment it was voted
to hold tlie next annual convention
in Augusta, oil (he third Sunday in
Hay of next year.
The convention banquet was
held at Hie Hotel DeSoto, with
Grand Knight McCarthy as toast
master, and Deputy Supreme
Knight Swift and Bishop O’Hara
as speakers. During dinner, Jacob
sons’- orchestra presented a mu
sical program.
IT CAN NOW BE REVEALED
that during the period of the robot
nomb attacks on London, fifty-five
churches in the Diocese of West
minster. Southwark and Brent
wood were destroyed or- badly
damaged.
GRACE’S MILLINERY
44 Broad St. S. W.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Across from Rich’s
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WITH THE 31st INFANTRY DI
VISION IN MINDANAO — In a
dusty, barbed-wire prisoner of war
enclosure near the city of Parang,
where American troops had landed
ten days earlier, a captured Jap
anese army nurse received Holy
Communion from a 31st Infantry
Division chaplain, the Rev, William
V. O'Connor, of Seymour, Conn. It
was her first Communion in the
three years of her service with the
Japanese army.
Left behind when the enemy fled
from Mindanao’s west coast, the |
nu.se had been picked up by Am-1
erican soldiers and turned over to
military police, vho placed her in
the stockade as a prisoner of war.
Interpreters learned that she was
a Christian. She asked to be al
lowed to see a Catholic priest. The
provost marshal 'sent a message to
Father O'Connor, who was moving
across central Mindanao with an
infantry regiment.
The chaplain, who was awarded
the Silver Star last August for
braving Japanese machine gun fire
to give medical aid to a wounded
infantryman in Dutch New Guinea,
turned his jeep around and began
Hie 40-mile trip to Parang over a
road heavy-laden with the howitzer
and ambulances and supply trucks
of (lie advancing troops. He found
the Japanese woman, neat and well
groomed, clad in a faded but clean
suit of coveralls. Her only posses
sion was a U. S. Army blanket.
Though she spoke no English, |
Father O’Connor was able to con
verse with her in Latin, which she
knew perfectly. She was learned ;
in Hie Faith. She told him that
she had beet, tiained by the Mary-
knoli Sislers in Japan and had been
an army nurse since 1942. While
six soldier-prisoners and a .Jap
anese woman with her three small
children looke d on, this humble j
Japanese army nurse knelt on her j
olive drab blanket and received
I loly Communion from a chaplain (
of the conquering American Army
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