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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L* YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 20. 1947
Campaign Being Conducted to
Raise Funds for Erection of
New Hospital in Rock Hill
Benedictine Missionary
Addresses Members of
Newman Club at Emory
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga—The Emory
University Newman Club, which
has as its president, Richard F.
Beckman, was fortunate in having
as its guest speaker for the thir
teenth annual Religious Empha
sis \Ve"k at Emory University,
Fat ancis X. Clougherty, O.
S. V... distant pastor of St. Jo
seph's Church, Athens.
The Catholic students at Emory
had (he privilege of attending
Mass and receiving Holy Commun
ion during the observance of
Religious Emphasis Week, and
heard Father Francis speak at two
evening meetings.
In his first evening address,
Father Francis spoke on “Watch
ing Christ,” and related some per
sonal experiences and gave some
first-hand information regarding
the persecution that the Church
is undergoing in China. On the
second evening, Father Francis
told of his experiences ^during the
years in which he was held. in
internment camps by the Japa
nese invaders of China.
Father Francis, who is a pripst
or tile Benedictine Abbey of St.
Procopius, Lisle, 111., is serving
temporarily in the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanta, after being in'
China as an educator and mis
sionary for more than twenty
years.
During the observance of Re
ligious Emphasis Week at Emory,
the non-CaUiolic students were
hearing a series of addresses de
livered Dr. Albert Kissling,
pastor of ihe Riverside Presby
terian Church, in Jacksonville,
Fla., and talks by other guest
speakers at other sessions.
On the evening of December 8,
members of the Newman Club at
Emory University entertained
their new chaplain, Father Cor
nelius Maloney, at a dinner in
the students lounge of the Church
School Building. Assisting in
preparing the dinner were moth
ers of the club members and mem
bers of the Altar Society of St.
Thomas More Church, Decatur,
where Father Maloney, the Super
intendent of Schools for the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta, is tem
porarily stationed.
St. Bernard’s Seminary
Students Lecturing to
Campus Grotto Visitors
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. BERNARD’S Ala. — The
minor seminiarians at St. Bernard’s
Seminary have inaugurated a
series of lectures for the visitors
to the lamed Ave Maria grotto,
located on the campus of St. Ber
nard's College.
In thees talks information
about the Grotto and Our Blessed
Lady is given together with facts
pertaining to the various minia
tures found in the Shrine. Also
during the lecture, short explana
tions of Catholic doctrine and prac
tice. which are most often mis
understood by non-Catholics, are
given. The majority of the visi
tors are not Catholics.
The lectures serve a three-fold
purpose. They help the visitors
understand the Grotto and Cath
olic devotion to the Blessed
Mother; they dispel misinforma
tion and prejudice about the
Church, and they give the semi
narians much needed experience
in the line of public speaking.
These lectures are given every
Sunday.
The lectures are under the di
rection of Father Bede Luibel,
O.S. B., rector of the seminary,
and Father Louis Funk, O. S. B.,
director of the department of elo
cution.
William P. Dowling, of Savan
nah, Ga., is one of the students
at the seminary among the lec
turers.
A TOTAL of 3,000 summer
camps, which provided hospitality
for 850.008 Italian children, and a
total of 2,500 Papal kitchens, from
which soup and other foods have
been distributed to the extent of
37,717,117 units, comprise part of
the work accomplished this year
by the Pontifical Commission of
Assistance, established about three
years ago by Hi# Holiness Pope
Pius XU.
ROCK HILL, S. C,—A campaign
to raise a fund of $500,000 toward
the erection and 'equipment of a
new St. Philip’s Hospital here is
now in progress and a number of
prominent Rock Hill citizens have
graciously accepted places on the
advisory committee of the St.
Philip’s Hospital Building Fund
Campaign Committee, which is
headed by C. W. F. Spencer, Sr.,
as general chairman.
As a meeting of the advisory
committee, chairmen were select
ed for the various campaign sub
committees: D. N.- Baer was chos
en chairman of the industrial com
mittee, with L. D, Pitts as vice-
chairman; Albert Friedheim heads
the retail business committee,
with J. D. Galloway as associate
cairman; Dr. W. B. Ward is chair
man of the doctors’ committee;
A. W. Huckle, chairman of the
bank committee, and Howard J.
Gordon, chairman of the special
gifts committee.
Others on the advisory commit
tee are E. H. Carroll, C. L. Cobb,
Dr. J. O. Dunlap, J. C. Hardin,
Jr., Dr. Roderick Macdonald,
Dr. Angus Hinson. Sr., Eben
L. Reid and W. B. Wilson, Sr.
St. Philip’s Hospital was open
ed by the Sisters of the Third Or
der of St. Francis, of the ■ Peoria
Foundation, in 1935, and has been
most successfully operated by
members of that Order since that
time.
As of the first of January, 1947,
25,237 patients had been admit
ted to St. Philip’s Hospital, of
which number, only 235 were Cath
olics.
Since the hospital was opened
and until" the first of this year,
2,990 infants were born at St.
Philip’s, a number that is approxi-^
mately one-eighth of the present
population of Rock Hill.
During the period from 1935
through 1946, 2,436 non-paying
patients were admitted to the hos
pital, representing a total of 03,764
full patient-days, and a cash ex
penditure of approximately $225,-
000.
In the twelve years that the
Franciscan Sisters have been oper
ating the hospital in Rock Hill they
have not asked or received any
contributions except an allotment
of $56,549 from the Duke Founda
tion.
There are at present, in York
County, approximately 160 hos
pital beds available, which is far
below the normal figure of 303
beds that should be available in a
county with a population of 60,000,
which explains the urgent need for
St. Philip’s Hospital to expand its
facilities.
As early as May, 1946, fifteen
of the local physicians approach
ed the Sisters of St. Francis
with a petition that St. Philip’s
Hospital be enlarged.
The new hospital which the
Franciscan Sisters plan to erect
in Rock Hill will cost around $1,-
500,000, of which amount the
Sisters will provide a million
dollars. They are asking indus
try, business and individuals in
York County to advance the re
maining $500,000 which is need
ed, through voluntary contribu
tions.
The people of Rock Hi)], Catho
lic and non-Catholic, seem aware
of the necessity of providing prop
er hospital facilities for the ill and
injured of the community, and
are responding most generously to
th appeal that is being made for
funds to build a new St. Philip’s
Hospital.
The project has the wholeheart
ed approval and endorsement of
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh, of
Charleston, and that of Father
George Lewis Smith, director of
hospitals for the Diocese of Char
leston.
Plans for the new hospital were
executed by J. N. Pease and Com
pany, of Charlotte, N. C.
SAVANNAH WOMEN TO
BRING CHRISTMAS CHEER
TO LITTLE SISTERS’ HOME
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Mrs. Josejjh
E. Kelly will be chairman of the
committee in charge of the an
nual Christmas party to be given
at tlie home of the Little Sisters
of the Poor, under the auspices of
the Catholic Women’s Club.
Mrs. Kelly will be assisted by
Mrs. H. T. Wilson and Mrs. E.
Cafiero.
Father John Ryan, C. S. V., of
St. Thomas Vocational School, and'
chaplain of the club, spoke on
“The Spirit of Christmas” at the
December meeting of the *lub.
Proposed New Hospital, Rock Hill
Shown above is an architect’s
sketch of the proposed new St.
Philip's Hospital which will be
conducted by the Sisters of the
Third Order of St. Francis, of
the Peoria Foundation, in Rock
Hill, South Carolina.
The present St. Philip’s Hos
pital, a frame structure, was dedi
cated in 1941, when the former
hospital building was fconverted
into a convent for the Sisters.
The increasing demands upon
the hospital for its services have
made it imperative that a larger
hospital be erected, and a cam
paign to raise $500,000 of the
$1,500,000 which will be needed
to complete the structure has been
launched. The Franciscan Sis
ters have agreed to assume a
million dollars of the cost of the
hospital.
Nursing Sisters are assisted by
graduate nurses in caring for the
patients. The Sisters also operate
St. Benedict the Moor Colored
Clinic in addition to St. Philip’s
Hospital and SC Phillip’s Infant
Home, in Rock Hill.
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J. C. CLONIGER, President
F. T. CLONIGER, Treasurer
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