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JULY 26, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Bishop England High School,
Charleston, Plans Drive for
Building Fund of $100,000
NINE
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — A cam-1
established at tile K. of C. Home.
Letters soliciting contributions
paign to raise $100,000 to covor "7 11 ? ent to °. ut ,'. of 1 0 . wn u l um ‘
‘m and alumnae of the high school
the cost of improvements and ad
ditions 'to Bishop England High
School, will be conducted in all
parishes in the Charleston area
from September 28 to October 5.
Plans for the campaign were dis
cussed at a meeting of former
students of the high school held
on Juiy 16 at the Knights of Co
lumbus Home. Father Henry F.
Wolfe, pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, who presided, said that
this was the first time a goal of
such magnitude had been set in
a fund raising campaign by the
Catholics of this city.
Leaders in the campaign will
include the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charles
ton, who will serve as honorary
chairman; Father Wolfe, who will
be general chairman; Monsignor
John L. Manning, D. D., chancel
lor of the Diocese of Charleston
and vice-rector of the high school,
who will be assistant general
chairman and treasurer; J. Francis
Brenner, who will be campaign
manager; Traynor C. Ferillo, pub
licity chairman; James P. Furlong,
printing chairman; William B.
Powers, budget chairman; Miss
Rosemary Conway, secretary, and
Monsignor James J. May, Vicar
General of the Diocese Of Charles
ton. who will be chairman of the
advisory board.
Captains of the varioifs cam
paign teams will be priests, grad
uates of the school, faculty mem
bers ^ind assistant pastors. Head
quarters for the campaign will be
by Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
who graduated from Bishop Eng
land.
Funds raised during the cam
paign will be used to pay for the
erection of a two-story science
wing at the west side of Bishop
England High School and for the
remodeling of the main building.
Work on the improvements began
in May, according to plans exe
cuted by Father Michael Mclner-
ney, O. S. B., noted priest-architect
of Belmont Abbey.
Bishop England High. School,
named in honor of the Right Rev.
John England, the illustrious first
Bishop of Charleston, was opened
in September, 1915, with an en
rollment of sixty-one students.
The first graduating class, six in
number, received their diplomas
in 1917. Last year, the student
enrollment in high school and ju
nior high school was around four
hundred.
More than two hundred gradu
ates of Bishop England served in
the armed forces during World
War II, several of them making
the supreme sacrifice for their
country.
Monsignor Joseph L. O’Brien,
S. T. D., LL.D., pastor of St. Pat
rick’s Church, in Charleston, was
the founder of the high school,
and has served as its rector since
its establishment. The faculty in
cludes priests and Sisters, of Our
Lady of Mercy.
The high school is coeducation
al. and its graduates to date num
ber more than a thousand Catho
lic young men and women.
National Convention
of Holy Name Society
in Boston in October
ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, ATHENS—Dedicated in 1931. St. Jo
seph’s Church, Athens, Georgia, gets its congregations from the Cath
olics of the city and the Catholic students at the University of Georgia.
The interior of the church was remodeled ten years ago under the
direction of Clefeus Bergen, Savannah architect, and redecorated by
the Rambush Decorating Company, of New York.
(Special to The Bulletin)
BOSTON. Mass. — On the basis
of recent inquiries from various
parts of the country received at
the National Headquarters of the
Holy Name Society in New York
relative to the fourth National
Holy Name Convention in Boston
this October, apparently some con
fusion exists as what hotel and
transportation arrangements liaVe
been made to handle the thousands
of out-of-town visitors expected at
this great demonstration of Faith,
and just who among the Holy
Name members are eligible to at
tend—only those selected or are
any and all members who wish to
be present, permitted.
To answer the questions and to
eliminate any further, confusion.
Father Harry C. Graham, O. P„
National Director of the Society,
has asked all Catholic newspapers
to publish this memorandum:
St. Joseph’s Parish in Athens
Established Nearly 75 Years Ago
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATHENS, Ga. — St. Joseph’s
Church in Athens serves a parish
which will have been in existence
three-quarters''of a century next
year.
splendid parish plant, one of the
finest to be found anywhere in a
parish of its size, and a Catholic
spirit comparable to the physical
appearance of the parish.
Father Clark’s successor, the
THE TIME... October I to 5,1947
THE PLACE.. Boston, Mass.
THE MEN... All Members
FOURTH
NATIONAL
CONVENTION
HOLY
NAME
SOCIETY
See Historic New England
March with Christ for Faith and Freedom
FOR INFORMATjON
Consult your Diocesan Director or Write
National Headquarters of the Holy Name Society
141 East 65th Street, Now York 21, N. Y.
Mount de Sales Academy
MACON, GEORGIA
Boarding; and Day School for Girls
Accredited High School
Grades 8 to 12
Conducted by
Sisters of Mercy of the Union
Address the Sister Principal
645 Orange Street Phone 165
Macon, Georgia
In 1873, when the South was j Rev. James E. King, the second
pastor of St. Joseph’s Church and
the Athens mission.
Father Clark's successor, as pas
tor of the parish in Athens, was
Father James E. King, now pastor
of the Sacred Heart Church, at
Warner Robins, near Macon,
father King served as pastor of
St. Joseph’s Church from 1926 to
1936, and then after serving other
places in Georgia, returned to
Athens in March. 1943, to be pas
tor of St. Jo-eph's until he was
succeeded by the present pastor,
Father J. Robert Brennan, in
September. 1944.
When Father King left Athens
in 1936 to become pastor of St.
John the Evangelist Cliurch in
.Valdosta , he was succeeded by
Father Harold J. Barr, now pastor
of St. Patrick’s Church, Augusta,
who was pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church here until he was made
pastor of St. Mnry’s-on-The-Hill
Church, Augusta, in 1939.
Father John J. Kennedy, now
pastor of St. John the Evangelist
Church, Valdosta, served as pas
tor of St. Joseph's Church in
Athens from 1939 until March,
1943.
Father Hugh Taylor, O. S. B.,
has been assistant pastor in Athens
for several years.
Among those who have served
St. Joseph’s Church as assistants
has been Monsignor John Kirk,
who is now in Romania, as secre
tary to Bishop O'Hara, who is pres
ent acting as Regent of the Apos
tolic Nunciature in Bucharest.
Monsignor Kirk, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. C, Kirk, of Athens,
was ordained here in St. Joseph’s
Church three years ago. and cele
brated his first Solemn High Mass
here on February 13, 1943.
Two members of St. Joseph's
parish have entered the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet, the late
Mother Genevieve Lafferty and
Sister Loretta Joseph Costa.
battling to recover from the effects
of the War Between the States,
the Most Reverend William H.
Gross, C. SS. R„ D. D„ Bishop of
Savannah, later Archbishop of
Oregon City, laid the first funda-
tions of the present St. Joseph’s
parish in Athens by visiting the
city, purchasing a wooden struc
ture, and celebrating Mass for the
few Catholics then residing there.
The building Bishop Gross
bought is of great historic inter
est. It was the original law school
of the University of Georgia; in
this building the Supreme Court
of Georgia held its first session.
Before Bishop Gross bought it,
it was used as a public school.
Bishop Gross intended to establish
an orphanage in Athens, but later
it was decided that Washington,
forty miles from Athens, would be
the site of St, Joseph’s Home for
orphan boys.
From 1873, Athens was attended
by priests from Washington, Sha
ron, Atlanta and Augusta, Rec
ords give the names .of Father
Michael Reilley, 1873; Father
James O’Brien, the founder of the
Washington orphanage 1874;
Father Joseph Heidencamp, S. J.,
a pioneer of the Augusta Jesuit
parish 1876: Father Thomas O’
Hara, 1878; Father Charles Wight-
man, 1880-81; Father Thomas A.
McConville, 1881-85; Father A. J.
Semmes, 1886-93. The Marist
Fathers in Atlanta appear to have
been in charge from 1893 to 1910.
Among the priests stationed at
Sharon who attended the Athens
mission, the name of Father Ber
nard Doyle is particularly treasur
ed: he was drowned while on a
sick call, and a young Irishman,
Mr. Monoghan, who was with him,
also lost his life, They were buried
in Sharon in 1879,
Among Bishop Gross’s converts
were Colonel and Mrs. Albert
Lamar. Other widely known per
sons entered the Church. But re
movals to other cities prevented
the growth of the parish. The
Colemans moved to Atlanta, the
Laffertys to Macon, the Meadow-
crofts to Augusta, and others to
other cities.
In July, 1910, the Rev. H. F.
Clark, was named first resident
pastor of St. Joseph’s Church,
Athens, by the Most Rev. Ben
jamin J. Keiiey, D. D.. then Bishop
of Savannah. Three years later,
November 17, 1913, the present
.beautiful cliurch was finished by
Father Clark. The year follow
ing, the splendid and commodious
rectory was completed. The small
and struggling congregation not
being able to finance the erection
of the church and rectory, Father
Clark succeeded in building them
through the generosity of
interested friends of his In the
North, especially in the neighbor
hood of Pittsburgh, his boyhood
home.
Under Father Clark's inspiring
efforts, Catholicity flourished in
Athens as never before, and when
he was appointed pastor of St.
Anthony’s Church in Atlanta and
left January 2, 1826 to assume his
new post, he left behind him a
Every parish is allowed as many
delegates as it wishes.
Every parish should have at
least one official delegate repre
senting the local unit at the Con
vention. but all Holy Name mem
bers are invited and, in fact,
stringly urged to attend:
Complete hotel and housing ac
commodations have been arrang
ed to take care of those coming
from out of town during the span
of the Convention whiph will run
from October 1 to 5.
Air, bus and railroad lines have
been notified of the meeting and
have extended assurances of their
cooperation. In the case of rail
transportation, one and one-halt
fare will be charged for the com-
, plete two-way round trip from any
part of the country, and special
coaches will be provided for Holy
Name groups.
I Reservations for the convention
, may be. made by writing directly
, to Rev. Daniel J. Donovan. 9 Whit
more Street, Boston, 11, Mass.
•■Convert of Kindness”
Offers First Mass
Mrs. C. F. Carteaux
Heads Athens Parish
Council of Women
ATHENS, Ga.—Mrs. Clarence F.
Carteaux has been re-elected presi
dent of the St. Jo-eph’s Parish
Council of Catholic Women, and
Mrs. R. S. Freeman, former secre
tary, has been chosen to succeed
Mrs. Anthony Camaratla as vice-
president.
Miss Carroll McMahon has been
elected to succeed Mrs. Freeman
as secretary, and Mrs. Robert
Hughes lias been named treasurer,
succeeding Mrs, John Gunder.
In addition tp serving as an
Altar Society and doing other
parochial work, the members ol’
the parish council of women main
tain a nursery at the rectory to
care for infants and small children
during the hours of Masses each
Sunday.
During the year the meetings
of the council were featured by a
series of lectures on “Secularism
in Modern Life,” delivered by
Father J. Robert Brennan, pastor
of St. Joseph’s Church. —-—.
NEW ORLEANS. — (NO — The
Rev. Daniel James Harris, O, S. B,,
who became a Catholic a little less
than 10 years ago, said his First
Solemn Mass June 29 at the Mon
astery of St. Clare here, the pres
ent home city of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Harris,
He was baptised a Methodist in
Birmingham, Ala., attended a
Presbyterian Sunday school in
Fairfield, Iowa; attended a Luther
an boarding school in Muscatine,
Iowa; returned to Fairfield to be
confirmed in the Lutheran church
at the age of 11, and several years
later moved with his family to
Cullman, Ala., where he attended
a Baptist church.
At Cullman he entered St. Ber
nard College, in 1936, and on Oc
tober 31, 1937, at the age of 17 re
ceived conditional Baptism in the
Catholic Faith. “If there was ever
such a'thing, I am literally a con
vert of kindness,” he said of the
kindness of the Benedictine Fa
thers at St. Bernard College and
their interest in all their students.
He was ordained by Bishop
Thomas J. Toolen of Mobile, at St.
Bernard Abbey, Cullman, June 14,
two years after making his solemn
vow as a Benedictine.
He chose the Monastery of St.
Clare for his first Mass because its
nuns befriended his mother when
she was- studying the Catholic
Faith and. as he said, “were our
greatest friends in the days of
spiritual distress and rejuvena
tion.” A reception in his honor was
held at the monastery in the af
ternoon, after which lie officiated
at Solemn Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament,
Father Harris made his studies
for the priesthood at St. Bernard
College seminary department,
Cullman, and received his bachelor
of arts deegree from St. Benedict's
College, Atchison, Kans. He is now
an instructor in English at St. Ber
nard, alumni editor of the St, Ber
nard News, acting secretary of the
St. Bernard College Alumni Asso
ciation, and the Abbey’s lay-retreat
guest master. He also participates
in the St. Bernard band and or
chestra activities.
A DIRECT INVITATION to
each of the 3,500,000 members of
the Holy Name Society in the Unit
ed States to participate in the Na
tional Holy Name Convention to be
held in Boston from October 1 to 5
has been extended by Archbishop
Richard J. Cushing of Boston, host
to the convention. , — . -, , a