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t AUGUST 25. 1945 THU BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THIRTEEN MARRIAGES Former Presidents of Laymen’s Association Monte Sano Grocery Home of Homemade Ice Cream AUGUSTA, GEORGIA > ★ Best Wishes SOUTHEASTERN FUR COMPANY % 911 Greene Street Augusta, Georgia ★ FLYNN-FERER O— O CHARLESTON, S. C.—,Mr. and Mrs. Henry'A. Ferer, of Charles ton Heights, announce the mar riage of their daughter, Miss Hel en Caroline Ferer, and Ensign Lawrence E. 'Flynn, U. S. N. R„ at St. Boniface Church, San Fran cisco, Calif., Chaplain Brendan Wolf, U. S. Navy, officiating. En sign Flynn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Flynn of North Charleston. LESSARD-WATERS BODER-SEAGO LAURINBURG. N. C. — Miss Dorothy Idell Seago and Cpl Wil liam E. Roder were married on August 10 at St. Mary’s church, the Rev. Charles O'Connor offici ating. Mrs. Roder is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Seago of Jackson Springs. Corporal Roder is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Iloder, of Chicago. He is stationed at the Laurinburg-Maxton Army air base. “P —O O- WASHINGTON. N. C. — Miss Pennie Rose Waters, daughter of Mrs. Clyde Waters and the late Mr. Waters of Williumston, and Pvt. George Alfred Lessard, U. S. M. C., were married on August 4 in St. Agnes Church, here, the Rev. Edward T. Gilbert officiat ing. STRESS I E-TURN ER O ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. — Miss Elsie Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Turner, and Pl'e. Ed ward F Stussie, U. S. M. C., of St. Louis, were married on August !) at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Very Rev. Msgr. Peter McNerney officiating. WE1LER-HADSELL O O SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Mar jorie Ann Hadsell. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Valentine Had sell, and Capt. Lawrence John Weiler, U. S. A. A. F.. of Larcli- mont, N. Y., were married on Au gust 20 at the Church of the Bless ed Sacrament, the Rev. Thomas A. Brennan officiating. IRWIN-PAUZE O— I O— CHARLESTON, S. C. — An nouncement has been made of the marriage of Miss Cecilia Pauze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John .1. Pauze, of Lebanon, N. II., and Ensign John Jackson Irwin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Irwin, of Charleston, at the Sa cred Heart Church in Lebanon, the Rev. John J. Boyd officiating. CADET NURSES RECEIVE CAPS SAVANNAH, Ga.—Nine cadet nurses of the St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing received their caps at a service held in the hospi tal chapel on the evening of July 29, the cap awards signifying the end of the students’ six-month pre- clfnical training and marked their official entry into the school of nursing. Maj. Alfred A. Williams, Army chaplain at Hunter Field, gave an inspirational talk on the ideals of the girls’ chosen profession and of the goals they may set for them selves in the future. The caps were presented by Sis ter Mary Gloria, superintendent of the hospital, and Sister Mary Jo seph, director of nurses. Follow ing the services the students were honored at a reception given at the nurses’ home. Those (who received caps were Misses Joyce Blackburn, Lillian Edna Cope. Mary Colebrook, Mary Lillian Edcnficld, Ann Hopkins, Marguerite Theresa Laird and Bet ty Parson, all of Savannah, and Miss Gertrude Crapse, of Estill, S. C., and Miss Etherine Wiggins, of Lyons, Ga. A. .1. LONG, for many years one of the leading business men ol Macon, was elected president oi (he Association when it was for mally organized in that city in 1916. Mr. Long, because «of his of fice in the Association, became the personal target of attacks by anti- Catholic groups, but he never ceased his active participation in the work of the Association until failing health -compelled his re tirement several years ago. CAPTAIN P. II. RICE. K. C. Si. G.. succeeded Mr. Walsh as pres ident of the Laymen's Association in 1919. and served with distinc tion for fourteen years, and upon his retirement in 1993. was elected President Emeritus. lie was called to his eternal reward in that year, leaving behind him a record of service to the Church and to his home city of Augusta rarely found in the life of any layman anywhere He was a pio neer member of the Knights of Columbus and was for a number of years a member of the Su preme Board of the Order. His Holiness Pope Pius XI conferred upon him the lionot of a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory in 1923. Captain Rice was one of the group of Catholic men who went to Savannah to place the idea of the Catholic Laymen’s Association before the late Bishop Benjamin J. Kciley, and from that time un til his death no other officer or member of the Association was more devoted to its work. savannah, one of Georgia's lead ers in the medical profession, was elected to succeed Mr. Battcy as president, of the Laymen’s Asso ciation in 1939,-after having serv ed as first vice-president. Dr Broderick presided at the Silvet Jubilee convention of the Associa tion. held in Savannah five years ago, but because of the demands upon his time made by his prac tice of medicine, declined re elect ion. Philippines. He was a member of the Sacred Heart parish here and a graduate of the Benedictine Mil itary School. COLONEL JACK .1. SPALD ING, K. S. G., K. M., of Manta, succeeded Mr. Long as president of the Laymen’s Association in 1917. He was one of the founders of the Association, and a leading spirit in its work from the begin ning. He served as a member of the finance committee until his death seven years ago. A distin guished member of the legal pro fession. Colonel Spalding deserv ed to be acclaimed as one of At lanta’*. leading citizens, and in recognition of his services to the Church, the Holy See honored him with knight hood in the Or der of SI. Gregory the Great and also invested him as a Knight of Malta. ALFRED M. BATTEY, another Augustan. succeeded Captain llice as president of the Laymen’s Association in 1933 and served continuously in that office until 1939. carrying on its splendid traditions by his able leadership. A brother of Captain Louis Le- Garde Battcy, one of the founders of the Association, who gave his ife for his country on the battle- ■ ields of France in the first World War, Mr. Battcy is a descendant of prominent Southern families. He was educated at the Sacred Heart College in Augusta and at the Sor- bonne inn’aris. and is engaged in the investment brokerage business in Augusta. Edward Davis, Savannah, Reported as'“Missing” by Navy Department (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH. Ga—Mrs. Agnes White Davis has received notice from the Navy Department advis ing that her only surviving son. Signalman Second Class Thomas Edward Davis, aged 24. was miss ing in action in the Pacific. The message came almost exact ly one, month, to the hour, after Signalman Davis made his last of many long distance telephone calls to his mother from the West Coast before sailing for a sccoiuHtour of duty aboard a battleship. A former cler'- in the Savanna post office, lie enlisted in Novem ber, 1942, and had seen much ac tion in the Pacific. Tn addition to his mother, he has a sister. Mrs. Joseph Rossiter, Jr.: whose husband is now in Hie BERNARD .1. KANE, an execu tive of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta, who had served as- vice-president of the Laymen's Association under Dr. Broderick, was elected to succeed him as president. Mr. Kane had been active in the work of the Asso ciation for many years and prov ed a worthy successor of the il lustrious Catholic laymen he fol lowed in the office of president of the Association. Octav-e of Assumption Designed as Feast of Immaculate Heart of Mary (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—The octave ol the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 22, has been t'ixeci as the permanent dale for the universal feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in a recent decree of the Sacred Con- greation of Rites. When Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917. it is recalled,' she requested that devotion to hen Im maculate Heart be made known and practiced by all men. “It is the will of God,’ she said, “that this devotion be established throughout ‘lie world.” A feast in honor of the Immac ulate Heart of Mary had existed previous to the apparitions at Fatima, but only as a particular ob servance of the dioceses and re ligious. Holiness Pope Pius XIJ in stituted the feast qf the Immac ulate Heart of Mary as a universal one. officially promulgating' the text of the Mass and Office to gether with the decree in a recent issue of the Acta Apostolicae Scdis. Another promise made by Our Lady during the apparitions at Fatima was: “The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me. It will be converted, and an era of peace will be granted to the world." The present Pontiff, it is noted, con secrated the entire world, mention ing Russia especially, to the Im maculate Heart of Mary on- Oc tober 31, 1942. THOMAS F. WALSH. JR., K. S. G., of Savannah, *a leading mem ber of the Georgia bar. was the third president of the Laymen's Association, succeeding Colonel Spalding in 1918. He had been most active in the organization of the Association, and remained ac tively interested in its work hav ing held the office of treasurer for several years previous to his death last year. Mr. Walsh was another of the members of the Association who was honored with Papal Knighthood. THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL has been awarded Father Stephen J. Fitzpatrick, Army chaplain, who served in the Northern Italy cam paign. Father Fitzpatrick, who holds the rank of captain, is a priest of the Diocese of Hartford.