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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” Vol. XXVI. No. 9 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 29, 1945 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A yeah Catholic Hospital to Be Erected in Augusta Directing Augusta Hospital Project GEORGE A. SANCKEN One of Augusta’s outstanding business executives and one of the community’s civic leaders, George A. Sancken, president of Georgia- Carolina Dairies. and Sanckcn’s Dairies in Augusta, and Dixie Dairies, in Macon, has graciously consented to serve as chairman of the committee which will con duct a campaign to raise funds for the Catholic hospital which is to be built in Augusta. MONSIGNOU GRADY The Very Rev. Monsignor James J. Grady, V. F„ pastor of St. Mary’s-on-Thc-lIill Church in Au gusta, who is general director and supervisor of the Catholic hospi tal project. Monsignor Grady re cently discussed the plans to build the hospital before meetings of the Richmond County Medical So ciety and the Rotary Club of Au gusta. To Head Hospital Fund Campaign To Launch Campaign on Behalf of Catholic Hospital in Augusta George A. Sancken to Head Hospital Building Fund Campaign Committee—Lee Blum, Alvin McAluiffe, Patrick H. Rice to Serve as Vice-Chairmen—Mon signor James J. Grady as General Director—Father Finn as Secretary-Treasurer AUGUSTA, Ga.—Plans are be ing perfected to launch within the next few weeks a campaign to raise a substantial portion of the half-million dollars which is estimated as the cost of the erec tion and equipping of the Catholic hospilal which is to be erected in Augsuta for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The Very Rev. Msgr. James J. Grady, pastor of St. Mary’s-on-The- Hill Church, and Vicar Forane of the Augsuta Deanery, who has been designated by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D„ J. U. D„ Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, as the general director and supervisor of the local Catholic hospital pro ject, has announced that George A. Sancken, president of Georgia- Carolina and .Sancken’s Dairies in Augusta, and of Dixie Dairies in Macon, has graciously agreed to serve as chairman of the commit tee which will conduct the fund raising campaign on behalf of the hospital. Mr. Sancken is one of this city's most prominent business and civic leaders, and it is remembered that he served with exceptional success as chairman of the first Community Chest campaign in this city. LEE BLUM, A VICE-CHAIRMAN Aiding Mr. Sancken, as his vice- chairmen, will be Lee J. Blum, owner of Stark-Empire Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company; Al vin M. McAuliffe, of Lockhart- McAuliffe & Company, and P. H. Rice, business manager of The Au gusta Chronicle. The Rev. Thomas L. Finn, direc tor of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, will serve as secretary-treasurer of the Augusta Catholic Hospital Fund Campaign Committee Father Finn, who is a native of Savannah, and who was en gaged in the cotton business in that city before entering the seminary to begin his study for the priesthood, is a veteran of the First World War. He has secured offices in the Masonic Building as headquarters for the campaign. Monsignor Grady, in outlining plans or the hospital before a meeting of the Rotary Club of Augusta, and a meeting of the Richmond County Medical Sociely, stated that the proposed hospital would be a memorial to those who served this country in the war just ended, and mentioned, as a coincidence, that the first con tribution to the building fund was made by a wounded veteran. “As we believe that all will appreciate the fact that a Catholic hospital does not serve Catholics alone, but serves Catholics, Pro testants and Jews, we are appeal ing for contributions of all individ uals and firms in Augusta,” said Monsignor Grady. SERVING NON-CATHOLICS "In this connection.” said Mon signor Grady, “according to fig ures complied by the Catholic Hospital Association, the 755 Catholic hospitals in the Uinted States offered accommodations to more than three million patients during 1944, and of this number well over two million, or 62.2 per cent, were non-Catholics. In our own part of the country, the South Atlantic and Southern States, 79.2 per cent of the patients admitted to Catholic hospitals were not members of the Catholic Church.” “We believe,’' continued Mon signor Grady, that all of the citi zens of this city will welcome a Catholic hospital here as a com munity asset, and will generously respond to our appeal.” Chairman Sancken and his vice- chairmen, are now busy in the selection of the various sub-com mittee chairmen and members who will devote their energy on behalf of the Augusta Catholic Hospital Building Fund Campaign. IIIS HOLINESS Pope Plus XII, in a farewell audience to British Field Marshal Sir Harold R. Alex ander, newly appointed Governor General of Canada, who is leaving Italy for the Dominion, presented the British commander with this year's Pontifical medaL Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Accept Invitation of Bishop O’Hara to Staff and Operate ISO Bed Institution AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, has announced that definite plans have been completed for the erec tion in Augusta of a Catholic hos pital which will be conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Car- odelet. The project is the culmination of an idea presented to Bishop O'Hara a number of years ago by a group of physicians from this city who made several trips to Savannah.in the endeavor to in duce Bisjiop O’Hara to place a Sisters’ hospital here. For some years Bishop O’Hara has had the matter under consider ation, and for the past year has been enlensifying his efforts to further the plan, during which time a number of attractive sites for the hospital have been in spected. The Very Rev. Msgr. James J. Grady, pastor of St. Mary’s-on- The-Hill Church, and Vicar Forane of the Augusta Deanery of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta. who is co-operating with Bishop O’Hara in the development of plans for the hospital here, and who will be directly in charge of the proj ect locally, has made known that a 150-bed hospital is proposed for the original building, with the possibility of expansion as the need for greater accommodations for patients might arise in the fu ture. Monsignor Grady stated that in acquiring a site for the hospital, sufficient ground would be secur ed to provide room for additional buildings as they would be re quired. Every effort will be made, Monsignor Grady said, to build a hospital that would be ultra-mod ern in every respect as to equip ment, furnishings and design. Bishop O’Hara and the architects who will execute the plans for the building expect to make a careful inspection of the leading hospitals of the country in order that the very latest features of ' hospital architecture may be in corporated in the building here. Plans for the new hospital are being executed by Henry S. Dagit & Sons, architects, of Philadelphia, who will have as their consultant in Augusta William N. Parsons. The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, now widely spread throughout the world, came into being at Le Puy, in France, in 1650. The first establishment in this country was at Carodelet, just outside of St. Louis, in 1836. In 1867, when the Right Rev. Augustin Verot was Bishop of Sa vannah, and also Vicar Apostolic of Florida, nine Sisters of St. Jo seph came from France to St. Au gustine at his invitation. Three members of this community came to Savannah soon after, to conduct a home for orphan boys. In 1870. the orphanage was moved to Wash ington to become the present St. Joseph’s Home. In 1876, the Sis ters opened St. Joseph’s Academy for girls, in Washington, and ‘wo years later opened Sacred Heart Academy for boys at Sharon. In 1912-, the Motherhouse of the Order in Washington, and the girl’s school there, were destroyed by fire, and the Sisters of St. Jo seph came to Augusta where they established a temporary boarding school in several residences on Monte Sano Avenue. What is now the Administration Building of the U. S. Veterans Hospital here was built by the Sis ters of St. Joseph to replace the boarding school for girls, in Wash ington, that had been destroyed by fire. Not long afterwards, when this building was converted into the Lenwood Hotel, the Sisters bought the property known as “Chateau LeVert,” once the home of Ma dame Ottavia LeVert, the daugh ter of George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence from Georgia. The house in which George Washington and the Marquis de LaFayette are said to have been entertained, is now the convent cf the Sisters of St. Joseph of Car ondelet and the Mothcrhouse of the Augusta Province of the Order, der. The convent and school build ings now occupy almost the en tire block bounded by Monte Sano Avenue, Arsenal Avenue, Belle- view Avenue and Helen Street. There are five provinces of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in the United States, including the General Motherhouse of the Pro vinces in St. Louis and the Pro vincial Motherhouses in St. Paul, Los Angeles, Augusta and Troy. N. Y. The Order has 3,010 professed Sisters, 154 novices and 94 postu lants, according to the latest issue of The Official Catholic Directory. Sisters of St. Joseph of Caron delet operate S,t. Joseph’s Hospi tal, St. Paul; St. Joseph’s Hospi tal, Kansas City; St. Joseph’s Hos pital. Lewiston, Idaho; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Pasco, Wash ington: St. Mary’s Hospital, Tuc son, Arizona; Ponca City Hospital, Ponca City, Oklahoma; St. lohn’s Hospital, Fargo, North Dakota; St. Michael’s Hospital. Grand Fork, North Dakota; Trinity Hospital, Jamestown, North Dakota; St. Mary’s Hospital, Amsterdam, New York; St. Joseph’s Maternity Hos pital, Troy, New York, and St. Mary’s Sanitarium, Tucson. Ari zona. Training schools for nurses are attached to nine of the . Sisters’ hospitals. With the exception of those Sis ters who may have special train ing to fill administrative positions in a hospital, all of the Sisters who are attached to hospitals are registered nurses. In addition to operating these hospitals, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet also conduct five colleges, fifteen academies, forty- five Diocesan or parochial high schools, two hundred and eight grammar schools, eight orphan ages, two industrial schools for Indians, one Negro high school, one normal school, one day nurs ery, one school for the deaf, one home for the aged, and one Boys’ boarding school. Besides Mount St. Joseph Aca demy in Augusta, the Sisters of St. Joseph in Georgia conduct the Sacred Heart School and St. An thony's School in Atlanta; St. Francis Xavier School, Brunswick, the Sacred Heart School in Savan nah; St. John the Evangelist School, Valdosta; Sacred Heart Academy, Sharon, and St. Joseph’s Home, Washington. A number of Augustans have entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and are now serving as graduate nurses in their hospi tals or as teachers in their schools in various parts of the country. Among than are: Sister Mary Lou ise, R.N.. formerly Miss Mary Her man; Sister Mary Bernard, former ly Miss Eugenia Schweers; Sister Margaret Rose, formerly Miss Mar garet Schweers’ Sister Mary Thomas, formerly Miss Helen Cashin; Sister Patricia Elizabeth, R. N.. formerly Miss Sarah Don nelly; Sister Kathleen Marie, for merly Miss Louise O’Leary; Sister Marie Theresa, formerly Miss Lou ise Bart; Sister Anne, formerly Miss Katherine Murray; Sister Marguerite Marie, formerly Miss Sarah McMahon, and Sister Mary Charlotte, formerly Miss Dorothy Smith. The establishment of a Catho lic hospital in Augusta is another advance in the building program which was inaugurated by Bishop O'Hara when he came to the Dio cese of Savannah nine years ago. Since that time, new churches have been erected in Savannah, Port Wentworth, Cedartown, Alapaha, Lakeland, Warner Robins and the Cathedral of Christ the King was built in Atlanta when the Diocese of Savannah was made the Diocese of Savannah-A 11 a n t a. Other churches are now in the process cf construction. Since the coming of Bishop O’Hara to Georgia, the number of Catholic schools in the State has been increased, the latest addi tions to the Diocesan department of education being parochial schools in Albany and Rome, which opened this month. New Religious Orders of men and women have come to the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta :' Bishop O’Hara’s invitation, among them being the Marist Brothers, who conduct the Boys’ Caiholic High School in Augusta; the Order of Friars Minor, the Redemptorist Fathers, the Home Missioners of America and the Order of Cister- sians of the Strict Observance, who have established a Trappist mon astery near Conyers, and the Clerics of St. Viator who opened an industrial school for boys in Savannah. Orders of women which have been introduced to Georgia by Bishop O’Hara are the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Sisters of St. Dominic, Sisters Adorers of the Most Precious Blood, Medical Mis sion Sisters and the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer. That the Catholic Church in the United States has kept pace with war time demands is shown not only in the larger number of hospitals but especially in the greatly increased additional bed capacity and other hospital facili ties. Twenty new Catholic hos pitals have been opened since the war began, and the former bed ca pacity of 69,537 was brought to a total of 87,171 during last year. Many nurses trained in the schools for nurses conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph are serving with the Armed Forces, just as some of the Sisters served as nurses during the Spanish- American War at camps in this country and in Cuba. Graduates from the Schools of Nursing of the Sisters of St. Joseph also served in good numbers during the first World War. Nursing Sisters are not really anything new in Augusta, Sisters of Mercy nursed wounded sol diers of the Confederate Army during the stirring years from 1861 to 1865, when St. Patrick's Church here was converted into an emer gency hospital. Members of the faculty of the Medical College asked the Sisters of -Mercy to staff the old City Hospital when it was opened on Walker and Sixth streets about 1870. Sisters served at the City Hos pital for twenty years, but in 1891 it was necessary for them to with draw, much, it is said ,to the re gret of City Council and tho citizens generally. “IT’S A SMALL WORLD” SAIPAN. — The Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York, who has traveled over most of the globe, discovered just how small the world is on his visit to this island. After offering Mass for mem bers of the Marine Second Divi sion, the Archbishop asked the men to come up and say hello to him. Several hundred Marines had passed through the line when one of them put out his hand and said: “Hello, Uncle.” Then Archbishop Spellman rec ognized his nephew, Marine Lieu tenant Leo T. White, of Whitman, Mass, ,