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DECEMBER 20, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOUC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINETEEN
Memorial Exercises in Savannah
on Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
Honor Memory of Sergeant Gannam
Patronal Feast
Marked by Parish
in Myrtle Beach
(Special to The Bulletin)
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C.—In ob
servance of the patronal feast of
St. Andrew’s Church, Solemn
Benediction was given by Monsi
gnor Joesph L. O’Brien, of Char
leston, and a sermon of the life of
St. Andrew, the Apostle, was de
livered by Father Charles Law
rence Sheedy, of Dillon.
Among the clergy assisting in
the sanctuary were Father Albert
A. Faase, Georgetown; Fathef
Fleming McManus, of Moultrie-
ville, and Father Richard C. Mad
den, pastor of SL Andrew’s par
ish.
At their December meeting the
members of St. Andrew’s Guild
expressed their appreciation to
their president, Mrs. • Charles
Gartland, for her splendid work as
the representative of the Guild on
the Myrtle Beach Community
Center Committee, which she ably
headed as chairman.
St. Andrew's Catholic Hour,
which is broadcasted over Station
WLAT,' in Conway, has marked
its first anniversary. Through the
courtesy of Edward Browning,
manager of WLAT, the program,
which is conducted by Father
Richard C. Madden, is now heard
for a full half-hour, instead of
the original fifteen minutes.
Father Madden was the speak
er on the anniversary program,
and musical numbers were by
Mrs. J. J. Smith, of Myrtle Beach.
Father Sullivan
Addresses Augusta
First Friday Club
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Speaking at
the luncheon meeting of the First
Friday Night Club of Patrick
Walsh Council, Knights of Colum
bus, held at the Town Tavern,
December 5, Father Florence D.
Sullivan, S. J., pastor of the
Sacred Heart Church, stressed the
important role which Catholics,
as individuals, as well as through
participation as members of Cath
olic organizations, should play in
putting into practice the princi
pies outlined in the Papal En
cyclicals on Social Action.
Father Sullivan stated that dur
ing the past summer, in company
with Father Daniel A. Lord, S. J.,
of St. Louis, he had spoken be
fore summer schools of Social
Action in Montreal, Boston, Chi
cago, New York San Antonio and
other places and had been im
pressed with the enthusiasm shown
by members of the high school
and adult groups.
He brought out that recent ut
terances of His Holiness Pope Pius
XII had made it plain that the
Holy See expected that Catholic
laymen and laywomen should con
sider themselves as members of
the priesthood of the laity that
was defined by St. Paul, and that
the Holy Father wished to spur
the laity to a greater degree of
participation in the work of the
Hierarchy and the clergy.
Paul Hayes, grand knight of
Patrick Walsh Council, presided
and presented the guest speaker.
Special guests at the meeting
were Monsignor James J. Grady,
Father James Buckley, S. J., Fath
er Patrick Connell and Father Ar
thur Weltzer.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Savannah re
membered Pearl Harbor on the af
ternoon of December 7 at me
morial exercises commemorating
death of Sergeant George K. Gan
nam, who died in the Japanese at
tack on the U. S. Naval Base in
the Pacific.
That attack, Brigadier General
Richard E. Mayer told the as
sembly of several hundred gath
ered about the base of the me
morial flagpole on the lawn of the
Gannam home, meant that the
men who died in 1918 fepd died
in vain, and that “It wits up to
us to see that the men who gave
their lives in World War II have
not also died in vain.’’
“In preparing for peace it is
necessary to prepare for war. We
must stay prepared if we are to
hope for peace in the future,”
General Mayer declared.
Dr. W. E. Burdine, commander
of the Georgia Department of the
American Legion, said that the
nation must work toward a goal
of permanent peace and seek to
erect a memorial to peace actually
fitting for those boys who laid
down their lives.
Precisely at the hour of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
a formation of a dozen National
Guard fighter planes passed in
aerial . salute over the scene of
the exercises.
Colors were raised and then
lowered to half-mast on the me
morial flagpole as the program, at
which James F. Mitchell, first
commander of Gannam Post of the
American Legion, presided, was
opened.
Colors of local veterans’ or
ganizations were massed on the
lawn about the flagpole, and hun
dreds of veterans were present
for the exercises. The Benedic
tine Military School cadets, of
which Gannam had once been a
member, furnished a guard of hon
or, a firing squad, and a bugler.
Father Vincent Campbell, O.
S. B., delivered the invocation,
and the benediction was pro
nounced by Father Bede Lightner,
O. S. B.
Two floral wreaths were placed
at the base of the flagpole by
Mrs. George C. Kelly, president
of the Auxiliary of Gannam Post.
Sergeant Gannum’s father, Ka-
ram Gannam, and one of his broth
ers, attended the exercises. A
graduate of Benedictine Military
School, whpre he made an excel
lent record in military tactics, Ser
geant Gannam enlisted in the
army in August, 1939. He held
the rank of staff sergeant at the
time of his death.
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