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OCTOBER 26, 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
CATHOLIC YOUTH CLUBHOUSE IN SAVANNAH REDECORATED—This is a view of the reception
room of the clubhouse of the Catholic Young People’s Association, in Savannah, which has just been re
modeled and redecorated.—(Photo by Southern Pho to Service—Courtesy of The Savannah Morning
News).
Catholic Young Peoples Association,
Savannah, Marks Its Tenth Anniversary
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Catho
lic Young People’s Association
observed its tenth anniversary on
September 29, when some two
hundred members of the local
Catholic Youth Organization at
tended Mass and received Holy
Communion in a body at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
attended a breakfast in the Gold
Room of the DeSoto Hotel, and
held an open house entertainment
at their club house in the after
noon.
The Mass was celebrated by
Monsignor James J. Grady, pastor
of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church,
Augusta, and director of Catholic
Youth Organizations for the Dio
cese - of Savannah-Atlanta. The
sermon at the Mass was delivered
by Monsignor T. James McNa
mara .rector of the Cathedral.
John J. Sullivan acted as toast
master, at the breakfast, at which
the speakers were Monsignor
Grady, Father Bede Lightner, O.
S. B., principal of Benedictine
Military School, and Joseph A.
Mendel, who gave a resume ot
what the C. Y. P. A. had accom
plished in the decade since its or
ganization and outlined its future
plans and goals.
A letter from Father Joseph
W. Kavanagh, of Conshohocken,
Pa., founder of the C.Y.P.A., was
read, expressing his regret that
he was not able to be present for
the anniversary celebration.
Special guests at the breakfast
included Father Edward G. Shaw,
C. S. V., of St. Thomas Vocation
al School, A. J. Ryan, Jr., E. P.
Daly and Frank Rossiter. Miss
Josephine Lockamy, of Norfolk,
Va„ entertained with a group of
vocal selections.
Miss Frances Morton was gen
eral chairman of the committee
arranging for the commemora
tion of the anniversary, with Mrs.
Thomas J. Kenny, heading the
committee for the open house par
ty. Arrangements for the Mass
and the corporate Communion
were made by Father George
Daly, spiritual director of the
Association.
Committee memberships ' in
cluded: Door committee, Mrs.
Fred von Kamp and Mrs. R. A.
Jiran; Decorations, Miss Helen
Marie Kenney, Mrs. Frank Mor
ris, Miss Johanna Daly, Miss
Frances Morton, Miss Mary Ken
ny and Miss Pauline Kenny.
Refreshment committee: Mrs.
J. P. McDonough, Mrs. J. Teeple,
Mrs. J. W. Dawson, Mrs. Julia
Baranc, Mrs. T. Lowndes, Mrs. T.
C. Lyons, Mrs. Madge Zoller, Mrs.
J. B. Earnest. Mrs. Dan Sheehan,
Mrs. Peter Roe Nugent, Mrs.
James Keating, Mrs. Elton E.
fright, Mrs. J. W. Stephens, Mrs.
Eugene Summerlin, Mrs. James
Dillon. Pouring tea were: Mrs. J.
Harold Mulherin and Mrs. Wil
liam O'Hayer. Pouring coffee,
Mrs. J. B. McDonough. China and
silverware committee: Mrs. Jos
eph Kelly, Jr., and Mrs. W. J.
White.
Throughout the afternoon an
enjoyable musical program was
rendered by Mrs. Rita Seay
Aprea, vocalist, Edward Kreiger,
violinist, and Miss Margaret Steeg
and Miss Patty Barragan, pian
ists.
In the receiving line with Fa
ther Daly were President Chris
Hernandez and other officers of
the Association, Harry Haslam,
vice-president; Miss Agnes Mor
ris. financial secretary; Joseph
Wallace, secretary, Richard • Mc
Donald, sergeant-at-arms, Thomas
F. Walsh, parliamentarian, and
the executive committee mem
bers, Patrick Walsh, Steven Craig
and Joseph Schreck.
During the last three months
the club house of the C. Y. P. A.
has been completely renovated,
with more than $4,000 spent for
improvements.
The interior of the club house
has been completely renovated
and new furniture has been install
ed in practically every room. In
some rooms walls were cut
through and arches constructed
connecting the rooms. Venetian
blinds and fluorescent lights have
been installed throughout the
building. The third floor, done
in a color scheme of green and
blue, has been refloored with the
latest styled linoleum tile.
Two large reception rooms on
the main floor arc elaborately
furnished, having drapes and fur
niture covers made from beautiful
rayon material. The show places
of the main reception rooms are
two artificial gas heated fireplaces
and a long gilded mirror which
reaches from the ceiling to the
floor. The colonial staircase is
lined with thick Persian carpet
and the other reception room
across the hall is divided into two
sections, one with wall lockers and
furniture suited for games and re
freshments and the other featur
ing red leather and steel furni
ture, suitable for lounging and
listening to radio programs.
New flooring has been laid in
the dance hall and the hallway
and-kitchen of the basement have
been inlaid in yellow tile. The
large enclosed yard has been
paved and laid out for basketball,
volleyball, badmington, handball,
ping pong and shuffleboard.
Eight huge spotlights on steel
poles furnish illumination for
night games.
The Catholic Young People’s
Association was established in
September, 1936, by Bishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, with Father
Joseph W. Kavanagh, as. its moder
ator. More than two hundred in
terested young people attended the
initial meeting, at which Peter
Schreck was named temporary
chairman and Miss Benito Oster-
holtz, now Mrs. Thomas Corcoran,
was appointed temporary secre
tary, to guide the organization in
its formative stages. Mr. Schreck
appointed Christ Hernandez, John
M. Brennan, Miss Isabelle Burnett,
and Miss Dora Fountain, now
Mrs. John Porter, to serve with
Father Kavanagh and himself as
a committee to draft a constitu
tion and by-laws.
The club began its social pro
gram by having weekly dances
and monthly outings, and pro
duced its first operetta, “H. M. S.
Pinafore.’’
In 1938, after four months in
the old Weed home on Bull Street,
the club moved to its present
quarters on Abercorn Street at
Harris.
The dramatic department has
been cerdited with many success
ful stage presentations. Among
them were "Pinafore,” “The Red
Mill,” “Rio Rita,” “Maryland, My
Maryland,” “The Firefly,” “Seven
Keys to Baldpate," “Nothing But
the Truth,” "Charley’s Aunt,” “Mr.
Antonio,” and “George Washing
ton Slept Here.”
The C. Y. P. A. teams were tops
in basketball, baseball, softball,
boxing and golf, and the associa
tion sponsored all types of recrea
tional and educational activities.
During the war years, the club
dedicated itself to the task of
serving the service men and
women. A hot dinner was served
each Sunday night, with tea
dances in the afternoons, and
nightly entertainment. Coffee
and doughnuts were served every
night, and the club has received
letters by the hundreds from serv
ice men as well as from their
parents, from all parts of the
United States. This valuable pro
gram was inaugurated under the
leadership of Monsignor ‘James J.
Grady, who had succeeded Father
Kavanagh as spiritual director.
The association has lived up to
its objective, to promote the
honor and glory of God in all of
its undertakings, to promote re
ligious, athletic, educational and
recreational activity, to Instill into
its members respect and love for
the principles of Christian moral
ity and true patriotism.
Supreme Knight John E. Swift on
Columbus Day Program in Savannah
FORMER MASTER GENERAL
of the Dominicans, the Most Rev.
’Martin Stanislaus Gillet, O. P„ has
been named Titular Archbishop of
Nicea by His Holiness Pope Pius
XII. The new Archbishop desig
nate was at one time Provincial
of the Order of Preachers in
France.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Judge John
E. Swift, K. C. S. G., of Boston,
Supreme Knight of the Knights
of Columbus, speaking at an elab
orate Columbus Day banquet at
the Hotel Savannah, declared that
all the way from Christopher Co
lumbus to Abraham Lincoln “our
American ideals and American
way of life have been based on
the living God, and he called on
members of Savannah Council,
Knights pf Columbus, to re-assert
the faith of the founding fathers
so that democracy shall not perish
but shall ever remain a model of
patriotic inspiration for all man
kind.
Another speaker on the program
was Father George T. Daly, as
sistant rector of the Cathedral of
St. John t he Baptist, who de
clared that. Columbus' flagship,
the “Santa Maria”, opened a fur
row in the ocean to the New
World which has never been
closed. He said Columbus sought
the gold of the New World so as
to spread the doctrine of Chris
tianity.
Carlos J. d’Esposito, grand
knight of Savannah Council, acted
as toastmaster, and a delightful
musical program was rendered by
Miss Monica Ulivo, vocalist, ac
companied by Miss Patty Barra
gan, by Kenneth Helmly, accom
panied by Miss Lillian Smith, and
by an orchestra under the direc
tion of Henry Applewhite.
Special guests among the near
ly five hundred who attended were
Monsignor T. James McNamara,
Father Robert Brennan, O. S. B.,
Father James Conlin, Mayor and
Mrs. Peter Roe Nugent, Judge
and Mrs. James P. Houlihan,
Judge and Mrs. David S. Atkin
son, Col. John P. Lubikosky and
others.
Chris E. Hernandez headed the
committee from Savannah Coun
cil arranging for the affair, with
John M. Brennan and Joseph F
Battle, Jr., sub-committee chair
men.
PULASKI DAY OBSERVED
The memory of General Casimir
Pulaski, Polish hero, who died
on October II, 1779, of wounds
sustained in the siege of Savan
nah, was honored at exercises
held at the Pulaski Monument, in
Monterey Square, by Sons of the / ■
Revolution, on October II, with
Richard M. Charlton as the prin
cipal speaker.
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