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January 25, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE-A
News of Students
at Sacred Heart
School in Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Christmas
1946 wil always be remembered
by students at the Sacred Heart
School as a season o£ rejoicing
over which Santa Claus, in the
person of- Miss Kathryn Volker,
reigned. Miss Volker, attired in
the familiar Santa Claus costume,
visited all of the classes at the
school and later distributed gifts
at the Christmas party given by
the junior class.
A play, “Fifty-First Scbres,”
written by Miss Barbara Deiters,
will be submitted to the Station
WATL scholarship contest, for
broadcast in the near future.
The annual Sodality reception
for twenty candidates was held on
December 17 at the Sacred Heart
Church, and the new members
were honor guests at a luncheon
on the following day.
Miss Mary McDonald, editor of
the school publication, “The
Live Wire,” has been elected sec
retary of the Atlanta High School
Press Association, an. organiza
tion composed of representatives
of all the high school newspaper
staffs in the city.
Miss Lillian Robinson and Miss
Cherry Le Blanc have been given
auditions for a national radio
forum to be sponsored by the
magazine, “Seventeen.” This will
be a new program,’ which will
broadcast discussions of teen-age
problems. A luncheon in honor of
the auditioners was given by Sta
tion WATL, with Miss Phyllis
Kritzler, president of the senior
class, and Miss Mary McDonald,
editor, “The Live Wire,” as spe
cial guests.
Miss Margaret Ann Holcomb
was elected “Girl of the Month
for December by the “Live Wire”
staff.
The high school student body
was privileged to hear an address
by Father John Gleason, S. M.,
of the Marist Mission Band, at a
recent assembly. .
Two graduates of the Sacred
Heart School have won distinc
tion at their respective colleges.
Miss Jane Hart was elected to the
art staff of “The Chimes,” publi
cation of Wai d-Belniont College,
Nashville, and Miss Pat Tate, stu
dent at Georgia Junior College,
was chosen cover girl of the
Christmas issue of “Flambo,” the
college’s literary magazine.
Altar Society of
Gainsville Parish
Elects New Officers
(Special to The Bulletin)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Mrs. W.
E. Dunwoody was elected presi
dent of the Altar Society of St.
Michael’s Church at a meeting
held on January 7. in the recent
ly completed parish rectory.
Other officers chosen by the so
ciety for the coming year are:
Mrs. Fred Costa, vice-president;
Mrs. Louis M. Leroy, secretary
Jmd publicity director, and Mrs.
J. E. Rogers, treasurer. (
Members of the nominating
committee were Mrs. Cliff Tut
tle, Mrs. William Faw, Mrs. Rose
McDonald and Mrs. James Caras.
Mrs. Dunwoody appointed Mrs.
Caras to serve as chairman of
the social committee, with Mrs.
Harry E. Filmore. Mrs. Charles
Edmondson and Mrs. Faw as
committee members.
Father Michael Manning, pas
tor of St. Michael’s Church, an
nounced that Mrs. Caras and Mrs.
McDonald would be in charge of
the altar and vestments for the.
month of January.
It was voted that future meet
ings of the society would be held
at the rectory oh the evening of
the first Wednesday in each
month, and that members of the
Altar Society would receive Holy
Communion, in a group, on the
Sunday following.
Mrs. McDonald, retiring vice-
president, presided at the meet
ing.
Catholic Comic Magazine
to Appear on Newstands
ST. PAUL—(NO—The Catholic
comic magazine, Topix, will be
distributed to newsstands through
out the country by the American
News Company of New York, it
has been announced by the
Catechetical Guild Educational
Society here, publisher of the
magazine. The society also an
nounces a new format for its pub
lication, Junior Books, a bi-month-
V magazine reviewing the latest
hooks for children.
Topix, which was started In
1#42 by the society's managing
A Priest end a Rabbi
“Round Table" Dinner
Speakers in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.~Father Mi
chael J. Ahern, S. J., a member
of the faculty of Western College,
Weston, Mass., and Rabbi Maurice
-N. Eisendrath, of Cincinnati, Ohm,
were the speakers at the annual
“Round Table Dinner” of the Au
gusta Chapter of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews, hpld at the Richmond Hotel,
January 9th.
“Education for Brotherhood
was the topic discussed by Father
Ahern and Rabbi Eisendrath, who
were presented to an audience of
several hundred by Gwin H.
Nixon, who is co-chairman of the
local chapter of the National Con
ference with John P. Cooney and
Abraham J. Fogel.
Father Ahern, who is head of
the department of science at Wes
ton College, has taught geology
and anthropology there since
1932. He has been director of
The Catholic Radio Question Box
since 1929, and holds a Ph. D.
degree from the Gregorian Uni
versity in Rome. He has been
active in the work of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews since its inception and is a
member of its national executive
committee.
Rabbi Eisendrath is president
of the Union of American Jewry,
and was one of the representatives
of the American Jewish Confer
ence at the Peace Conference in
Paris, and a consultant at the
United Nations Conference in San
Francisco.
ATLANTA ROUND TABLE
HEARS PRIEST AND RABBI
ATLANTA, Ga.—Father Michael
J. Ahern, S. J.. of Weston College,
Mass., and Rabbi Maurice N.
Eisendrath. of Cincinnati, Ohio,
took the floor at a meeting of
Atlanta Round Table of the Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews and each captured the
audience with thought-provoking
messages, interspersed with
humorous comment.
Strongest thread in the warp
and welt of their addresses was
that of brotherhood—the need of
it—'the importance of it—the way
to attain it.
Father Ahearn began bis talk
by paying tribute to one of At
lanta’s greatest exponents of
brotherhood, the late Dr. M. Ashby
Jones, a Baptist minister, whom
he described as “one of God’s
great noblemen.”
Speaking of the German Luthe
ran pastor who had been imprison
ed in a concentration camp by the
Nazis, Rabbi Eisendrath said:
This man who had suffered for
espousing the Jewish cause de
clared that “We have not fought
bravely enough: we have not pray
ed faithfully enough, and we have
not loved ardently enough." and
then concluded his talk by urging
that “a blood bank of tolerance,
fellowship and good-will be built
up.”
Dominican Missionary
to Speak on Savannah
Catholic Radio Program
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Pat
rick Walsh, O. P., of the Domini-
eian Mission Band, with head
quarters in Columbia, S. C., will
be (lie guest speaker on the Savan
nah Catholic Hour Radio programs
which will be heard on Sunday,
February 2 and 9, over Station
WTOC. •
The Savannah Catholic Hour,
which is produced under the afis-
pices of the parish of the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist and
Savannah Council, Knights of Co
lumbus, has been a regular fea
ture over Station WTOC for a
number of years.
On Sunday, January 26, ‘he
program will offer a transcribed
sermon by Monsignor Fulton J.
Sheen of the Catholic University
of America. The program on Jan
uary 19 also featured a transcrip
tion of a sermon by Monsignor
Sheen, and Carlos J. Desposito,
grand knight of Savannah Coun
cil, No. 631, Knights of Columbus,
was the speaker on January 12, his
subject being “The Christian
Life.”
editor, the Rev. Louis A. Gales,
to combat objectionable types of
comic books, now has become a
teaching aid in more than 5,000
Catholic schools throughout the
world, the society reports. The
magazine is being shipped in
quantity each month to Hawaii,
South Africa. India, Australia,
New Zealand, and the Philippines.
PRINCE OF STATE MEETS PRINCE OF CHURCH
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in the Tokyo Industrial Club. His Eminence Norman Cardinal Gilroy. Archbishop of^Sydney, Aus
tralia attends the reception given for Japanese Ministers of State, members of the Allied diplomatic
corps'and Armv personnel. lift to right are: Princess Takamatsu. Prince Takamatsu. Archb.s^p
Paul Marella. Apostolic Delegate to Japan; Bishop Thomas McCabe of Port Augusta. Australia. Arch
toic>,A n„i of Tnkvo and Cardinal Gilroy INP »NC Photos)
Memory of James Copps
to Be Honored by Chojr
of Savannah Cathedral
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Plqns to re
organize the men’s choir of the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist and to name it in honor of the
late James Copps, who was organ
ist and choir director at the Cathe
dral for more than a third of a
century were formulated A the
annual meeting of the choir held
on January 9.
Under the name of the Copps
Memorial Men’s Choir, the group
will continue to sing at the Cathe
dral, with Aloysius Handiboc as
director, and with Miss Pally Bar-
ragan as organist.
Members of the choir elected
Edward Daly as their president;
Albert Decker, librarian, and Des
mond O'Driscoll, social committee
chairman, with David Fitzgerald
and Vestus Ryan as assistants.
Speaking at the meeting, Mon
signor T. .lames McNamara, rector
of the Cathedral, praised the choir
for the service it has rendered in
the past and expressed the hopes
(hat it would develop into ne of
the finest groups of its kind in
the South.
In the course of his talk. Mon
signor McNamara eulogized Mt'.
Copps, who gave__jnan.v years of
faithful service to the Qathedral.
The reorganization plan, pre
sented by Hinckley Murphy, is de
signed to increase the number of
voices in the choir and to insti
tute a training program.
Guests at the meeting were
Father George Daly, Father Wal
ter Donovan, Frank Armstrong,
David Fitzgerald, John Smith,
CristophCr Russell, Edward Walsh,
Audloy Spellman, James Bradley,
Thomas Fahey and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Barragan.
A CATHOLIC CHAPEL wilt be
established in the projected termi
nal building at Logan internation
al airport in Boston by Archbish
op Richard J. Cushing. The chap
el, believed to be the first in any
commercial .airport in the United
States, will also be used by air
port personnel. The chapel will
be a memorial to members of the
military air forces of the United
States who died during the war.
ANNUAL RETREAT FOR
STUDENTS OF URSULINE
HIGH SCHOOL, COLUMBIA
COLUMBIA, S. C. — Father E.
D. Fenwick, O. P., wilt conduct a
Retreat for students of the Ursu-
line High School, Januar 28-30.
Father Fenwick, who is well-
known as a retreatmaster, eomes
from an old English Catholic fam
ily which came to Maryland in
1634. Notable among members of
the Fenwick family who entered
the religious life are Bishop Ed
ward D. Fenwick, O. P„ first Bish
op of Cincinnati, and Bishop Bene
dict J. Fenwick, S. J., who was
the second Bishop of Boston.
Now attached to the Dominican
Mission Band which has its head
quarters in Columbia, Father Fen
wick has done missionary work in
Louisiana, and has served par
ishes in Colorado, Texas, New Jer
sey and Rhode Island.
FORTY-HOUR DEVOTIONS
AT BLESSED SACRAMENT
CHURCH IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Members of
the local assembly of Fourth De
gree Knights of Columbus, head
ed by P. J. Buttimer, faithful
navigator, attended the closing
exercises of the Forty Hours De
votion at the Blessed Sacrament
Church, on the night of January 7,
and attired in lull regalia, acted
as a guard of honor during the
procession.
The Mass of Exposition, which
opened the devotions, was cele
brated by Father Thomas A. Bren
nan, pastor of the Blessed Sacra
ment Church, and sermons at the
evenings services were delivered
by Father Walter Donovan and
Father J. G. Shaw.
Father McCormack
Tendered Farewell
Reception in Griffin
(Special to The Bulletin)
GRIFFIN, Ga.—Members of the
Sacred Heart parish crowded the
rectory on the evening of Jan
uary 9, to honor and to bid fare
well to their assistant pastor,
Father J. Gilbert McCormack. C.
SS. R., who is being transferred to
St. Joseph’s Church, Dalton.
Mrs. C. R. Hale, president of the
Altar Society, acted as hostess, and
was assisted in serving refresh
ments by other members of the
society. Mrs. Hale, on behalf of
the parishoners, presented Father
McCormack with a going-away
gift, and expressed the apprecia
tion of the members of the parish
to Father McCormack for his
priestly service during the four
years he has been, stationed here.
In responding, Father McCor
mack paid a tribute to Father
John Walsh, C SS. R., pastor of
the Sacred Heart , Church, under
whose inspiration he had served
in Griffin, and thanked the laity
of the parish for their loyal sup
port. He said that his years in
Griffin would be treasured in
happy memory, and that he would
always remember the people of
the first parish to which he was
assigned after his ordination to
the priesthood.
THE UNITED STATES will
have opportunity for a glimpse of
the man who fought one of the
most courageous battles against
liazism next month when His Em
inence Konrad Cardinal von Prey-
sing, Bishop of Berlin, will visit
this country for at least a month
as the guest of the United States
Hierarchy.
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