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SEPTEMBER 29, 1945
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
ST. GENEVIEVE-OF-THE-PINES, ASHEVILLE—One oi' the leading educational institutions in the
South is St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines, Asheville, N. C., where the Sisters of Christian Education conduct a
junior college and academy and a commercial school for young women and a grammar school for girls.
The Sisters of Christian Education also teach at St. Joan of Arc parochial school in West Asheville. The
Rev. John Kells is resident chaplain at St. Genevieve’s.
Augusta Business Leaders
Endorse Hospital Project
Heartily endorsing the plans for
the erection of a Catholic hospital
in Augusta, a representative group
of the city’s business leaders,
promised their full support to the
campaign which will begin shortly,
when the new Catholic hospital
program and plans for the fund
raising campaign on its behalf
were outlined to them at a meeting
held on Wednesday afternoon.
George Sancken, chairman of
the Augusta Catholic Hospital
building fund campaign committee,
presided at the gathering. Mon-
signor James J. Grady, pastor of
St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church, who
has been designated by the Most
Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, as the general
director of the Augusta hospital
project, who was first called on by
Mr. Sancken, described the hos
pital as a memorial to the men and
women of Georgia who had served
in the Armed Forces, and said that
the hospital would be built on
monumental lines.
Before asking Guy Merry, presi
dent of the Augusta Chamber of
Commerce to offer his views in
regard to the hospital, Mr. Sancken
pointed out that even before the
formal drive had been inaugurated,
voluntary contributions of $12,000
have already been received.
Mr. Merry discussed the idea
of a hospital program now pending
for Augusta, which if realized
would make Augusta one of the
leading medical centers of the
Southeast, “This new hospital,
founded on charity work, and the
reputation of the nursing Sisters
will be an asset to our communi
ty,’” he said.
No solicitation of funds was
made at the meeting, but those
present volunteered to serve on
the committee which will conduct
an initial gift campaign before the
general campaign and solicitation
of funds is begun
Memorial Mass at
St. Joseph’s, Macon
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—A Solemn High
Mass of Requiem was offered at
St. Joseph’s Church here on Sep
tember 28, at the request of the
War Activities Committee of Ma
con Council, Knights of Columbus,
for the repose of the souls of the
members of the parish who made
the supreme sacrifice during World
War II, Richard W. Adams, John
D. Cassidy, George Isaf, John Ed
ward Macken, Emory Martin, Wil-
lian A. McKenna, Gregory J.
O’Hara, Carl F. Chapman, Jr.,
Dewey P. Thompson, Jr., and Lar
kin Mulherin.
SERGEANT FULGHUM IN
AUGUSTA FOR DISCHARGE
AUGUSTA, Ga.—First Sergeant
Kasper Fulghum, who served in
the European theatre of war, has
arrived .at Camp Gordon where he
will receive his discharge from the
service under the point system.
Sergeant Fulghum is the son of
Mrs. George M. Long, a member
of St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill • parish
here.
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Mother Agnes Sherry, Superior at
St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines, Asheville
(Special to The Bulletin)
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Reverend
Mother Agnes Sherry has been ap
pointed Superior of St. Genevieve-
of-the- Pines in Asheville, succeed
ing Mother Lucienne Jannin, who
has been appointed Mothor Assist
ant and directress of Marycliff
Academy, Arlington, Mass.
Reverend Mother Sherry, wso
was stationed in Ash ville from
1922 to 1934, has since directed
St. Jeanne d’Arc Ac; lemy in Mil-
ton and Marycliffc Academy in
Arlington, Mass. Upon her ar
rival here this month, Mother
Sherry was welcomed back to
Asheville at a reception given in
her honor by members of the
alumnae of St.'Genevieve’s, parents
of the students, and other friends
if the new Reverend Mother.
During the past summer, nine
Sisters of Christian Education,
fi'om North Carolina and Massa
chusetts, attended a General Chap
ter of the Congregation in Lille,
France. They returned to the
United States on a Liberty ship
which docked in New York on
September 12.
Registration for the present
scholastic year was held at St.
Genevieve-of-the-Pines from Sep
tember 6 to 11, and classes were
resumed on September 12. The of
ficial opening of the new term
was on September 18, when the
Mass of the Holy Spirit was cele
brated in the chapel by the Rev.
John Kells, chaplain of the school.
Following the Mass, Reverend
Mother Sherry visited the various
departments of the school, greet
ing and meeting each of the stu
dents.
The Junior College oLSt. Gcne-
vieve-of-the-Pines opened its so
cial calendar with a faculty-student
reception on September 13. The
old students presented the new
comers to the faculty, ’uu" Mother
Mary Gibson, on behalf of the Rev
erend Mother, welcomed all. Offi
cers of the student body, installed
at the reception, were Barbara
McCormack, president; Malinda
Sigmon, vice-president; Sarah
Clement, secretary, and Kathryn
Young, treasurer.
In the Academy, the students
elected class officers as soon as
the various classes had been form
ed. The class officers are: Senior
Class—Dorothy Ann McAlister,
Charleston, S. C., president; Lynda
Campbell, vice-president; Frances
Winn, secretary; Mary Dunwoody,
Laurens, S. C., treasurer; Eleanor
Pollard, historian. Junior Class—
Anne Evans, president; Marilyn
Blomberg, vice-president; Mary
Catherine English, secretary; Pat
ricia Meehan, treasurer; Mary Cop-
enhaver, historian. Sophomore
Class—Frances Marie Redmond,
president; Peggy Sears, vice-presi
dent; Gene Edgerton, secretary;
Mary Elizabeth Smith, treasurer;
Marguerite Guilka, historian.
Freshman Class—Cameron Link,
of Jacksonville, Fla., president;
Gretchen Gray Long, vice-presi
dent; Mary McAlister, Charleston,
secretary; Joyce Kelly, treasurer;
Constance Shuford, Arden, N. C.,
historian.
The student body which governs
the students is composed of the
four senior officers and the presi
dent and vice-presidents of each
of the other classes.
The members of the Sodality of
the Blessed Virgin elected Doro-
try Ann McAllister, president;
Patricia Meehan, vice-president;
Celia Vallajo, secretary and Pat
ricia Wheeler, of Augusta, Ga.,
treasurer.
A Welcome Dance,-the Acad
emy’s first social event of the
year, was held September 20 in
the school auditorium. It was
given by the senior class in com
pliment to the new students and
returning students. Decorations
were along the theme of a college
prom, with pennants, sorority and
fraternity keys, and similar col
legiate symbols.
RECORD ENROLLMENT AT
ST. JOAN OF ARC SCHOOL
St. Joan oi Arc Parochial Ele
mentary School, in West Asheville,
opened for its fourteenth school
year on August 31 with the largest
enrollment in its history. Every
desk is occupied and the waiting
list is longer than in other years.
During vacation, the Rev. John
Manley, pastor of St. Joan of Arc
Church, had the school building
repainted, inside and out, and the
grounds are in the process of be
ing landscaped.
The principal, Sister Mary Monk,
has just returned from France,
where she attended a General
Chapter of the Religious of Chris
tian Education held last month.
The Rev. Stephen Aylward, as
sistant pastor of St. Joan of Arc
Church, and author of "The Cate
chism Comes to Life,” is teaching
the religion classes of the fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grades
at the school.
Class officers have been recent
ly elected. In the eighth grade,
Joan Mulvaney is president; Mar
jorie Mulvaney, vice-president;
Carolyn Hamilton, secretary. In
the seventh grade, Josephine
Youra is president; Joseph McCor
mack is vice-president, and Ed
ward Wamsley, secretary.
Chaplain Pearson
Meets An Old Friend
(Special to The Bulletin)
CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Massa
chusetts neighbors had a reunion
recently at the Army Air Forces
Regional and Convalescent Hos
pital here, when Chaplain William
E. Pearson and Pvt. Jimmy Doyle,
renewed acquaintance. Doyle’s
home is a block away from Father
Pearson’s old home in their home
Jtrwn of Pittsfield, Mass.
Both are graduates of the same
preparatory school, St. Joseph’s,
and have known each other all
of their lives, though they have
taken different roads since last
they were together six years ago.
sky route as flying chaplain of the
Father Pearson traveled the
the Alaskan Highway, serving at
various fields along the way in the
Canadian section of the Air Trans
port Alaskan Wing. He had been
ordained to the priesthood in 1936,
for the Diocese of Raleigh, and
was serving as assistant pastor of
St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, N.
C., when he entered the service
shortly before the outbreak of
war. He attended the Army Chap
lain School at Harvard University,
and had special Air Force training
at San Antonio, Texas.
Remaining with the Air Forces,
he has been a regular '“sky pi
lot” in his aerial jaunts to chap
els in the frosty North and most
recently for the air evacuation
center in Miami with its aerial
crossroads of mercy missions.
On the other side of the globe,
Pvt. Jimmy Doyle was on duty as
a cryptographer in communications
on the Ledo Road. There his
outfit traversed the- Burmese jun
gles with equipment on pack
mules. He met no Catholic priest
there, for they had been driven
out by the Japanese invasion, but
a chaplain travelled with the
outfit on a mule and set up a
chapel in ward tents to offer the
Mass despite terrain and temper
ature.
From the Ledo Road and the
Alaskan Highway came these two
to meet on the newly pioneered
highway of the sky which has
given fact to the saying “It’s a
small world.”
C. W. RUSSELL HEADS
WINSTON-SALEM K. OF C.
WINSTON,SALEM, N. C — C. W.
Russell has been elected grand
knight of Santa Maria Council,
Knights of Columbus, to fill the
unexpired term of John T. Gaynor,
who has been transferred to Los
Angeles, Calif.
A native of Portsmouth, Ohio,
Mr. Russell came to Winston-Salem
two years ago as general superin
tendent of the Winston-Salem
Southbound Railroad.
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