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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
JULY 27, 1946
New Impetus Given Campaign for
Catholic Hospital in Columbus
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBUS. Ga.—New impetus
to press the St. Francis Hospital
building fund to an early com
pletion has been promised by Jack
Key, general chairman of the cam
paign committee, who has an-
nounoed that more than $345,000
of the $500,000 goal has been sub
scribed, and members of the com
mittee will return to the field
within the next few weeks to
call on prospective contributors
who have not yet been approached.
Leaders of the principal divi
sions of the campaign committee
are Maurice Rothschild, DuPont
Kirven, Sr., Walter Richards,
Charlie Frank Wililams, Tracy
Davis, Edward Shorter, C. L.
Foster, and Mrs. T. Charlton Hud
son.
Columbus is looking forward
with keen anticipation to the day,
in the not too distant future, when
actual construction will begin on
St. Francis Hospital.
Situated atop a beautiful pine-
studded grassy knoll, surrounded
by some twenty acres of x’olling
Georgia hills, the new hospital
will rise as a lasting tribute to the
Best Wishes
im NEW,
Restaurants
Columbus, Ga.
Macon, Ga.
Sisters who will help finance its
construction and operate the hos
pital, and as a testimony to the
generosity of the workers and con
tributors, Jews, Protestants and
Catholics, who have been working
untiringly to make it a reality.
Plans call for the erection of a
150-bed modern hospital which
will in a great degree meet the
need for more hospitalization in
this community. The site select
ed is located just a few blocks
beyond the city limits of Colum
bus, on the north side of Warm
Springs Road, and was donated
by a prominent industrialist of
this city, who is a non-Catholic.
Located near enough to be con
venient, the site is just far enough
from town to“insure quiet and a
cool, country atmosphere. The
location is regarded here as being
ideal for a hospital.
Sisters of the Third Order of
St. Francis, of Pittsburgh, who
will operate the hosiptal, will
underwrite one half of the esti
mated cost of a million dollars.
Despite the fact that the cam
paign was started only two or
three months ago, agd has been
running concurrently with several
other fund raising campaigns,
more than one-half of the goal of
$500,000 has been paid in or
pledged.
Campaign leaders fully realize
that the remainder of the cam
paign will be a more difficult task
than its enthusiastic beginning,
but they are confident that the
goal will be reached in ample time
to start construction sometime
next year. Due to conditions pre
vailing at the present time, it will
not be possible to begin building
sooner.
CLASSES IN RELIGION
AT WARD AT EDGEFIELD
WARD, S. C.—Four Ursuline
Nuns from Columbia are conduct
ing summer vacation religious
classes for the children of St.
William's parish in Ward and the
Immaculate Conception parish in
Edgefield, from July 23 to August
25.
Father P. A. Ryan, S. J., pastor
of the churches in Ward and
Edgefield, has announced that
special instructions are being
given the class which will be con
firmed at the close of the school
session by the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of
Charleston.
Compliments
J. T. KNIGHT
& SON
Incorporated
SCRAP IRON — METALS
HIDES - ETC.
Telephone 2-1685
Columbus, Ga.
Enters Novitiate
of Ursuline Nuns
181
MISS PEGGY DEE REID
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.—Miss
Peggy Dee Ree, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Richard Reid, formerly
of Augsuta. Ga., entered the
novitiate of the Ursuline Nuns, at
Beacon, N. Y., on July 14. Miss
Reid graduated this year from the
College of New Rochelle, which is
conducted by the Ursuline Nuns.
The new Ursuline novice has a
number of relatives in Religion;
among them are her uncle, Father
W. D. O’Leary, S. J., M. D„ presi
dent of Spring Hill College, Ala
bama; an aunt, Sister Kathleen
Marie, C. S. J., of Mount St. Jo
seph’s Convent, Augusta; and
three first cousins. Father Sebas
tian Doris, O. S. B., sub-prior of
Belmont Abbey, Belmont, N. C.;
Frater Andrew Doris, O. S. B.,
of Belmont Abbey, and Edward
J. Cashin. Jr., of Augusta, who is
this month pronouncing his vows
as a Marist Brother. The Most
Rev. Lawrence Gaughran, who was
Bishop of Meath, Eire, from 1906
until his death in 1929, was a
cousin of her paternal grand
father.
Launch Drive to Aid
Atlanta Colored Clinic
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA. Ga.—Friends of the
Medical Mission Sisters have
launched a campaign for funds to
aid the Sisters in carrying on their
extensive charitable services at
the Catholic Colored Clinic on
Forrest Avenue.
The members of the Auxiliary
of the Medical Mission Sisters,
who are sponsoring the campaign,
will give a benefit entertainment
at the Knights of Columbus
Home, on Peachtree Street, on
♦he evening of August 26. Tickets
for the affair have been placed
on sale, and may be obtained
from Mis. E. D. Trotti, chairman
of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, or from Miss Collette Daniels,
treasurer of the auxiliary.
Medical Mission Sisters came to
Atlanta, at the invitation of
Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara of
Savannah-Atlanta, less than two
years ago, to take over the opera
tion of the Colored Clinic. During
the past twelve months 10,108
patients have been treated at the
clinic and 150 operations perform
ed there. A1 present there is a
waiting list and it is necessary to
expand the faculties of the clinic
lo meet the demands for its ser
vice. Ten prominent Atlanta
physicians donate their time and
professional services to aid the
patients at the Colored Clinic who
have not llie means to pay for
medical services.
Recently the Sisters opened a
surgical room which is equipped
for major and minor surgery. All
of the equipment was donated by
doctors on the staff.
PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO.
: rT OF COLUMBUS
Solemn Professions
at Belmont Abbey
Frater Raymond Geyer, Fra
ter Andrew Doris, Frater
Augustine Crawford, Frater
Matthew McSorley Pro
nounce Solemn Vows as
Benedictines
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.,—Four mem
bers of the Benedictine community
at Belmont Abbey made their
monastic professions on July 2, in
the Abbey Cathedral.
Following the Offertory of a
Solemn Pontifical Mass, celebrated
by the Right Rev. Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B„ D.D., Abbot-Ord
inary of Belmont, Frater Augustine
Crawford of Augusta, Ga.;Frater
Raymond Geyer, of Lancaster, N.
Y., Frater Andrew Doris, of Au
gusta. Ga., and Frater Matthew
McSorley, of Richmond, Va.. pro
nounced their vows before Abbot
Vincent.
In the Order of St. Benedict,
solemn profession follows three
years after the simple profession
a religious makes at the end of
his year of novitiate. These
years having passed, the young
men responded to the invitation-
of the Holy Spirit, voiced by the
Abbot: "Come, my sons; hearken
unto me. I will teach you the
fear of the Lord.” Kneeling be
fore the Abbot, each read front the
hand-written profession formulas
the ancient reUgious promises em
bodied in the l-ule of St. Benedict.
This done, the newly professed
chanted the prayer: “Receive me,
O Lord, according to Thy word,
and 1 shall live; let me not be dis
appointed in the things 1 look to
receive.” A pall was then placed
over the religious who lay pros
trate in the sanctuary while the
Cathedral bells tolled, a symbol
of Ihe "death of the world” which
the Benedictine must practice.
Following several prayers beg
ging God to assist the young men
in their lifelong undertaking, the
Abbot intoned the Tc Deum and
all the community joined in the
joyful hymn of thanksgiving.
Seeking Catholic Books
for Public Libraries
in North Carolina
(Special to The Bulletin)
NAZARETH, N. C. — A cam
paign to place Catholic books in
the public libraries of North Car
olina has been launched in the
Diocese of Raleigh.
The project is sponsored by the
North Carolina Catholic Laymen's
Association, a new organization
dedicated to the creation of a
better understanding between
Catholics and non-Catliolics in
North Carolina, least Catholic
state in the United States.
Aid from Catholics all over the
nation is asked by the associa
tion. They are asked to send old
and new Catholic books to the
North Carolina Catholic Laymen's
Association, Nazareth, N. C. All
kinds of Catholic books are want
ed.
Books received into basic Cath
olic libraries, so lhat the entire
field of Catholic literature is cov
ered. Some books will be pur
chased to make the units com
plete. The complete libraries will
(hen be presented to public li
braries. The association also
hopes lo give subscriptions to
Catholic magazines to the libra
ries. “The Sign” has already do
nated twenty-five subscriptions.
The Diocese of Raleigh, which
Miss Mary Bultman,
Columbia, Enters
Carmelite Convent
MISS BULTMAN
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C.—Miss Mary
Bultman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Charles F. J. Bultman, of
Columbia, entered the novitiate at
the Convent of the Discalced Car
melite Nuns, in Philadelphia, on
July 2, the Feast of the Visitation
of the Blessed Virgin.
Miss Bultnran attended St.
Peter’s Parochial School in Co
lumbia, and graduated, with high
est honor, from the Ursuline High
School here in 1944. Her high
scholastic standing at Ursuline
High School earned for her a four-
year scholarship at Ursuline Col
lege, Louisville, Ky., which rhe
entered in the fall of 1944. After
the completion of her freshman
year, she returned home to com
plete arrangements for entering
the Carmelite Order. During the
school year just ended, she taught
the third grade at St. Peter's
School.
Miss Bultman’s musical educa
tion includes piano, violin and
voice. She was a member of both
the junior and senior choirs at St.
Peter’s Church here.
Her sister, Miss Loyola Bultman,
is also an honor graduate of Ursu
line High School, and this year
graduated from Ursuline College
in Louisville. Another sister, Miss
Eleanor Bultman, received last
month a certificate from the Na
tional Catholic School of Social
Service in Washington, D. A. A
brother, Lucius Bultman, was a
member of the graduation class
at Renedietine Military Academy
in Savannah, Ga., this year.
Miss Bullman’s mother, who be
fore her marriage was Miss Jessie
Stulb, of Augusta, Ga., is presi
dent of the Charleston Deanery
Council of the National Council
of Catholic Women.
EMPEROR IIIROHITO warm
ly admires the work of His Holi
ness Pope Pins XII for world
peace, he told Bishop John F.
O’Hara, V. S. C„ of Buffalo, and
Bishop Michael J. Ready, of Co
lumbus, whom he received recent
ly at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
embraces all of North Carolina,
except Gaston County, which is
Ihe territory of the Abbatio Nul-
lius of Belmont, has only about
13,000 Catholics, less than one
Catholic for every four square
miles. North Carolina has a popu
lation of about three and a half
million.
Organization of the North Car
olina Catholic Laymn’s Associa
tion was begun by the Most Rev,
Vincent S. Waters, D. D„ Bishop
of Raleigh, some months ago,
and local units of the association
have already been formed in
most of the larger cities of North
Carolina.
ST. JOSEPH’S SCHOOL. COLUMBUS—Conducted by the Sisters
of Mercy of the Union, St. Joseph's Academy, Columbus, Georgia, is
tlie parochial school of the Church of the Holy Family. It was establish
ed in 1862 by the Mother McAuley Sisters of Mercy who came to
Georgia from Florida. ...