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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 21. 1946
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Football Players of
Boys’ High, Augusta,
Honored at Banquet
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Thirty-two
members of the football 1 squad at
Boys' Catholic High School were
awarded varsity letters, at a ban
quet and dance given in their
honor at the Sheraton Bon Air
Hotel on the night of December
11, which was attended by several
hundied guests.
Four team managers and seven
cheer leaders also received black
“C’s,” and twenty-one of the first-
string players also received sweat
ers.
Monsignor James J. Grady, V.
F., pastor of St. Mary’s-on-thc-
Hiil Church, was the principal 1
speaker. The awards were an
nounced by Coach Denny Leon-
‘ard, and presented by Brother
Benedict principal of the school.
Jack Healy was awarded a tro
phy for his prowess as “the mosi
valuable player.”
Awarded letters and sweaters
were Healy, Eddie Boswell. Bud
dy Fitzgerald, Jack Baker. Jack
Burke. Jeter Carmichael, Joe
Bresnahan, Connie Holmes, Tom
Pons, Bill Keener, John Brooks.
Billy Hughes, Will oyons, Owens
Hinton, Archie Johnson. Bud
Danforth. Bill Schweitzer. An- I
drew Thompson, Will Walker,
Charles Ussery and Otis Gille-
beau.
Squad members awarded let
ters were Captain John Weiglo.
Red Johnson, Matt Lyons, Mar
vin Anderson, Eddie Cain, Law
rence Milligan, Julian Armstrong.
Edward Ergle, Anthony D’Ami-
ano and Robert Raburn.
Managers were Bill Hogan.
Frank Doyle, Bill Cooney and
Harry Lawless. Cheerleaders who
received letters were James
Prince. Buddy Thompson, Noah
Parish and Misses Marie Bolder
Patricia Kearns, Miriam Weigle
and Patricia Franklin.
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Boys’ High School
Augusta, Added to
G. I. A. A. Circuit
Rev. Calvert Alexander, S. J. (right), editor of the Jesuit Missions,
New York, and Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S. J.' (left), the “(.lacier
Priest,” are en route on a ’round-the-world journey to survey the
missions of the American Jesuits and others in Iraq and the Near
East. India and Ceylon, China, Japan, the Philippines and Islands of
the mid-Pacific. They are. shown before a painting of the Jesuit
martyr-saint, St. Isaac Jogues, the work of Rev. Andrew W. Vachon,
S. J as part of the national observance of the North American
a00th anniversary, (NC Photos)
AUGUSTA, Ga. — At a confer
ence of coaches held in Alliens re
cently. Boys’ Catholic High
School, in Augusta, was admitted
to membership in the Georgia in-
terscllolastic Athletic Association.
The Boys’ Catholic High School,
which is conducted by the Marist
Brothers, was established in 193!).
This year, with Denny Leonard
as coach, the school’s football
team won seven games and tied
one game of a ten-game schedule,
losing only to Georgia Military
Institute, in Milledgeville, and on
Thanksgiving Day, before a
crowd of 7,000. to the Richmond
Academy in Augusta.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS after
the Italian island of Sardinia has
been devastated by the severest
floods since 1883, three relief
planes, loaded with food, medi
cines. clothing and bedding
swooped down over the stricken
area and brought much needed
aid to Ihc victims of the catastro
phe. The planes were dispatched
by His Holiness Pope Pius XI l,
and the relief supplies were pro
vided by the Holy Father’s pri
vate household, the Pontifical Re
lief Commission and War Belief
Services—-N. C. W. C.
New Chinese Envoy to Vatican
Attributes His Conversion to
Reading Life of St. Therese
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
Dr. John C. H. Yu. prominent
Chinese scholar who was recently
appointed Chinese Envoy to the
Vatican, attributed his conversion
to a perusal of the autobiography
of St. Therese of Lisieux.
In explaining his acceptance of
I he Catholic faith in 1937, the
Chinese diplomat, who has had a
varied and brilliant career and
was al one time a follower of
Confucianism and later a Protes
tant. stales: I said to myself, ‘If
this saint (St. Therese of Lisieuv)
represents Catholicism. I don’t
see any i eason why I should not
be a Catholic.’ Being a Protes
tant. 1 was free to choose what
ever interpretation suited best
my own reason and ber interpre
tation was exactly the right one
for me, and that made me a Cath
olic.'’
Dr. Wii. who lias spent, a num
ber of years in Hie United States
as a lecturer and a professor al
Harvard University, was born in
r ?9 at NUjgpo in the Province of
Chekiang. Ifis father was presi
dent of the Chamber of Com-
i ice in the city.
Ilis first tutor was a Confu-
cionist. Later he entered the
Shanghai Baptist College, and in
1917 the University of Peiyang
in Tientsin, lie look a course ilf
the Comparative Law School of
China in Shanghai and then came
to the United States where lie
entered the law school of the
University of Michigan. He stud
ied at Paris and Berlin and then
returned to the United States to
take courses at Harvard.
Going back lo China, he accept
ed a professor’s post at the Com
parative Law School in Shanghai
and in 1928 ho was given a chair
at Harvard, which he resigned in
1930 because of his (Fife's ill
health and returned to his native
land. The holder of numerous
prominent civic posts in China
Dr. Wu was at one time president
of Shanghai’s Court of Appeals, a
counsellor of the Provincial
Council of Greater Shanghai and,
in 1933, a member of tile Legisla
tive Yuan. He was also charged
wifh the draft of a permanent
Constitution for China.
Later lie returned to his post at
Harvard University and in 1945
he was appointed adviser to the
Chinese Delegation to the United
Nations Conference in San Fran
cisco. Dr. Wu was also,one of the
delegates to the recent Chinese
National Assembly where the con
stitution considered by the dele
gates was so much the convert’s
work that it is popularly called
“Wu’s draft.”
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MOST VALUABLE PLAYER Jack Healey*second from left, receives the Most Valuable Player award
from Brother Benedict Henry, school principal, at the banquet honoring the football team of Boys’ Cath
olic High School in Augusta. Al the left is Coach Denny Leonard, who brought the team through ten games
with only two defeats, and at right. Monsignor James J. Grady, pastor of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church,
who was I he principal speaker al the banquet honoring the football players.—(Photo by trunk Chnstian
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