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the BuijLiEitn or the catholic laymen’s association of GEORGIA
DECEMBER 20, 1947
Final Plans Submitted for
Columbus Catholic Hospital
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBUS, Ga.—The million
dollar, modernistic St. Francis
Hospital, to be built on the north
eastern border of Columbus, has
begun to materialize as officials
have announced that final plans
and specifications were expected
to reach here momentarily.
Jack Key, chairman of the Mbs-
pital building fund committee,
said that it was expected that con
tractors will be asked during this
month to submit bids for construct
ing the hospital building.
The new hospital wil be operat
ed by the Sisters of the Third
Order of St. Francis, of the Pitts
burgh Community, and the Sisters
are assuming responsibility of pro
viding a half-million dollars of
the funds necessary to build the
hospital.
Mother Lucina and Sister Lau-
rentine. of the Franciscan Sisters,
who will operate the hospital,
recently attended a meeting of the
American Hospital Association in
St. Louis and conferred with Carl
Erickson, of the hospital architect
ural firm of Erickson, Schmidt and
Gardner, of Chicago.
Members of the hospital build
ing committee have revealed some
details of the plans, now being
completed, of the service wing,
which will house the laboratories
and operating rooms.
AN OUTLINE OF .THE PLANS
Plans call for the operating
room suite to consiste of two
rooms for major surgery, a Catholic Book Week
cystoscopy room, and the emer-
community ace adequately pro
vided for.
“St. Francis plans to supplement
hospital service to the community
in and around Columbus; not to
duplicate what is now satisfactory
and sufficient.
CENTRALIZATION SOUGHT
The building committee said
one of its objectives was to cen
tralize as much as possible, ser
vices such as food, linen, medical
and surgical sterile supplies, lab
oratories, and operating rooms
suites and the like as well as to
plan for each floor identical nurs
ing service units.
Exterior plans for the proposed
hospital revealed July 21 show
ed that the white brick and glass
building featured the latest thing
in hospital architectural design.
The entrance side of the hospital
will face north and will contain
three floors, but the south side
will contain four floors.
The proposed hospital is to be
erected atop a hill at the inter
section of the Yarbrough and
Woodruff roads on a 20-acre tract
donated by J. W. Woodruff, Sr.
The Sisters of St. Francis
donated $500,000 for the construc
tion to match $500,000 contributed
locally. I
Mr. Erickson previously esti
mated that it would take approx
imately one year to complete the
hospital after construction had be
gun.
Catholic Women’s Club in
Georgetown Holds Meeting'
(Special to The Bulletin)
GEORGETOWN, S. C.—The
newly organized Catholic Wom
en’s Club of Georgetown held its
initial meeting on December 1
at the rectory of St. Mary’s
Church, and elected the follow
ing officers;
Miss Victoria Joseph, president;
Mrs. Jesse Hendricks, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Mamie Delzell, secre
tary, and Miss Germaine Roe,
treasurer. Father Albert Faase,
pastor of St. Mary’s, is spiritual
director.
The present particular objective
of the club is to work for the
establishment of a parochial school
in Georgetown. Each meeting of
the club will conclude with a
forum on “Catholic Education’’, as
well as a general discussion of
Catholic doctrines and practices.
Twenty-four members were
present at the initial meeting of
the Women’s Club, and the full
membership is now thirty-three.
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goney room, the later complete
with splint and plaster room.
A crub-up room, a doctors’
lounge and locker room, a nurses’
work room, supervisor's office,
utility, instrument and storage
rooms, complete this department,
according to plans.
The X-ray department plans call
for a room for radiology and
■'uoroscopy, with dressing rooms,
lavalorles, and preparation room;
a room for deep therapy, and the
cystoscopy room will have an en
trance to the X-ray department
and be equipped for X-ray and
surgical procedures.
Plans also call for the usual
control rooms, dark room, and
viewing room.
The proposed pathological lab
oratory is large and planned for
; 11 types of work with a clcan-up
r iom adjoining.
The physical therapy room will
be equipped with the newest
models for water and light treat
ments for both ambulatory and
bed patients.
The basal metabolism and
electrocardiograph room will be
in the service wing and will have
the necessary machines for this
type of diagnostic work.
PLAN DOCTORS’ OFFICE
An office for doctors, a rest
room and waiting room for am
bulatory patients, and a locker and
rest room for nurses and techni
cians on duty in these departments
compolte the plan.
The service wing will occupy a
broad section of the building to
(he left and about 100 feet back
as one enters the main lobby,
which will face on the Woodruff
Road.
The elevators arc adjacent to the
wing and open on a service corri
dor \»hich is closed off from that
traversed by Visitors and - other
personnel.
Sisier Laurentinc commented on
the ;■ ‘rvice wing’s plans in a letcr
as follows:
“The value of connecting these
services in a single section is
obvious when one considers how
elo:-ely they all dovetail in the
study and diagnosis as well as in
treatment of the patient.
"The ability to consult freely
with the pathologist and the re
cent genologist is a decided' asset
to the surgeon and to the internist,
and in the last analysis, and of
greater importance, it should be
materially beneficial to the pa-
tient:”
PLANS NEARLY COMPLETE
Members of the building com-
m ttee said other divisions of the
hospital are practically finished as
to details.
In explaining why a pediatric
department was not included,
building committee members said:
“The recently opened unit at the
City Hospital is very well planned
and beautifully equipped, and
seems to have a potential bed ca
pacity sufficient for the city’s
needs.
“Furthermore, directed as it
is by a pediatrician whose knowl
edge of and interest in children
is evidenced by his contribution
to their welfare, it would seem
that this important, group in the
Observed at Blessed
Sacrament, Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Every class
at the Slessed Sacrament School
participated in the observance of
Catholic Book Week.
A poster contest was held for
pupils of the eighth grade, with
“Christian Books, Stepping Stones
to World Unity”, as the theme. In
addition to exhibiting these post
ers alfc book-covers, they enter
tained the upper class students
with a program which included
several recitations, a quiz on
Catholic books, authors and char
acters, and a short playlet, “Books
Control the Future.”
“Open House” was held by the
seventh grade to display their
frieze of Catholic books, a project
developed by the entire cla-s.
Illustrated book-jackets of
favorite books from the school
library were displayed in the sixth
grade classroom. In addition to
their work on these covers, the
pupils also presented a playlet,
"Books on Trial”, at the Novem
ber meeting of the Parent-Teacher
Association.
The fourth and fifth grade pu
pils also had reports on “The Best
Book I Have Read”, and made
posters on books. The second
grade pupils had a Story Hour,
and also illustrated favorite books.
Pupils of the third grade invited
the lower grade pupils to a play,.
“The Books We Love”, in which
characters from many volumes
were poftrayed, and a decided im
petus to book interest Was given.
Even the tiny tots had a program,
and the first graders enjoyed their
own original dramatizations of
“The Three Bears” and other
stories.
Parents of the children were
invited to visit the classes and the
school library, which has recently
added to its shelves three new sets
of books, Adams, “History of the
United States”; Freeman’s “Rob
ert E. Lee,” and Sandburg’s, “Abra
ham Lincoln.”
In connection with the obser
vance of Catholic Book Week,
Father Thomas A. Brennan, pas
tor of the Blessed Sacrament
Church, announced an essay con
test for members of the Children
of Mary Sodality, on the subject
of “Our School Library.”
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COLUMBUS, Ga.—Father Mi
chael, Manning, pastor of St. Mi
chael’s Church, in Gainesville,
preached at each of the Masses at
the Church of the Holy Family
here on December 7th.
Father Manning’s mission parish
in Gaincsvil'e has been adopted
by the Columbus branch of the
Georgia Missionary Soicety, which
is aiding in itf support.
On Thanksgiving Day, the chil
dren’s choir from St. Joseph's
School in Columbus, made a trip
to Opftika, Ala., to sing the High
Mass at St. Mary’s Mission House,
where Father Henry P. Harris, C.
M., is Superior.
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