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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 17, 1948
Co-Operative Club of Atlanta
Rendered Valuable Service to
Free Cancer Home During 1947
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Free Cancer Home
was adopted by the Co-operative
Free Cancer Club of Atlanta as its
special project for the year 1347,
and the results ot the efforts
of the members of the club
to aid the Sisters of St. Dom
inic of the Congregauon of St.
Rose of Lime, in caring for vic
tims of incurable cancer, are most
impressive. ,
Contributing greatly to the com
fort of the patients and adding to
the facilities of the Cancer Home,
here are some of the things that
the members of the Co-operative
Club did last year: j
Furnished and installed new
drapes for the patients’ sitting
room; painted a large ward and a
bathroom on the second floor; re
paired the roof; painted the li
brary, front office, hall and re
ception room on the first floor;
furnished and installed metal
clotheslines; painted men’s ward
and bathroom on the first floor;
painted women’s ward and bath on
the second floor; furnished a year’s
supply of fluorescent lamps: fur
nished two metal wardrobes for!
patients’ clothing; furnished steel
filing cabinet for the office: fur
nished six metal bed screens for
use in wards; painted the kitchen;.
furnished and installed a commer
cial size Mix-Master and food-!
chopper for the kitchen; repaired
and painted roof of janitor’s quar
ters; paved concrete walk
through grounds; furnished and
installed new metal sign on lawn
of home, lettered in silver and
reading, ‘‘Our Lady of Perpetual
Help Home;" supplier' new gar
bage cans for kitchen; furnished
and installed new fluorescent
lighting fixtures in the chapel; in
stalled new light fixtures in ward
on second floor; gave a power
lawnmower to the Home; painted
patients’ sitting room on second
floor; furnished and installed new
furniture in patients’ sitting room,
and furnished and installed 4,835
square feet of asphalt tiling for all
wards and hallways of the Home.
The Co-operative Club Interna
tional is a formally organized and
regularly chartered business and
professional men’s civic service
club. Carefully selected men of
good business and professional
reputation who are engaged as
proprietors, partners, corporation
officers, owners or managers in
legitimate business or professional
occupations are accepted as mem
bers.
Co-operative Clubs anouncc as
their purposes the promotion of
acquaintances, personal develop
ment, creating higher business and
civic principles, home town loyal
ty, and forwarding the business
and social welfare of its members,
civic idealism and personal hon
orable gain.
The first Co-operative CIud was
formed in Kansas City, in 1912,
and other clubs have since been
organized throughout the country.
The club enrolls men of all reli
gious affiliations, and it is doubt
ful if more than a very small mi
nority of the Co-operative Club of
Atlanta are Catholics.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Free Cancer Home was establish
ed at 760 Washington Street, S.
W , in Atlanta, in 1939, by the Sis
ters of St. Dominic of the Congre
gation of St. Rose of Lima.
Members of this Religious Or
der, who are known as the Ser
vants of Relief for Incurable Can
cer, confine their work to the care
of the indigent victims ot incur
able cancer, accepting into their
Homes sufferers of the dreaded
disease, without regard to age,
race, creed or color.
The Order was founded by
Mother Alphonsa, who was Mrs.
Rose Lathrop, a daughter of the
great American novelist, Nathan
iel Hawthorne. It is found in the
Archdioceses of New York, Phila
delphia and St. Paul, and in the
Dioceses of Fall River and Savan-
nali-Atlanta.
FOUNDRESS WAS HER GRANDMOTHER
Mary Caroline Dannat Starr of Orange. Mass., student at Good
Counsel College. White Plains. N Y., kneels in the crypt of the
college chapel, before the tomb of her great grandmother, Mother
Mary Veronica, foundress of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion.
Miss Starr bears the same name as her grandmother, before she
entered religious life Mother Mary Veronica, a convert, was first
superior and co-founder of her Community with Monsignor Thomas
Preston in 1886 She died at White Plains in 1904. (NC Photos)
Monsignor O’Brien Speaks at
Greenville K. of C. Breakfast
Honoring Monsignor G wynn
Laymen’s Association of Georgia to
Plan for Membership Campaign at
Meeting of Executive Committee
ATLANTA. Ga.—Fstes Doremus,
president of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia, has
announced that with the approval
of Monsignor Joseph F. Moylan.
Vicar General of the Diocese of
Savanna h-Atlanta, the Laymen’s
Association will launch its annual
membership campaign on Sunday.
February 8.
Under the leadership of Mr.
Doremus, who was re-elected pres
ident of the Laymen’s Association
at the annual convention held in
Columbus last October, th<- presi
dents of the local branches <>l
the Association in the various
cities of Georgia will seek to 111-
roll every adult Catholic in the
state as a member of the Laymen’s
Association. Local presidents a.e:
Thomas J. O’Keefe, Atlanta; Mrs.
Joseph E. Kelly, Savannah; John
T. Buckley, Augusta; Dr. Arthur
N. Berry, Columbus; Fred Mills.
Albany; Dr. T. H. Mediation.
Athens; Marshall Wellborn, Rome;
Robert McTigue, LaGrange; E. N.
Heagarty, Waycross; L. Habenicht
Casson, Macon; Reginald Hatcher,
Milledgeville, and Joseph Carras
co, Newnan.
Plans for the membership cam
paign will be discussed at a meet
ing of the Executive Committee
of (he Laymen's Association which
will be held on January 18, at
the Ansley Hotel, in Atlanta.
Presidents of the various local
branch associations were in
vited to attend the meeting with
the members of the Executive
Committee, which includes Ber
nard J. Kane, Atlanta; Dr. T. II.
McIIatton, Athens; C. A. McCar
thy, Savannah; Fred Mills, Albany;
Miss Mary Long, Macon; Mrs. J.
Mark Mote, Columbus: Miss Anna
Rice, Augusta; B. S. Fahy, Rome;
and James Foster, Waycross, with
the officers of the Lawmen’s As-
:Delation, "Estes Doremus, presi
dent; Martin J. Callaghan, K. S.
G.; Macon, honorary vice presi
dent: Fied Wiggins. Albany, vice
president; John 15. McCallum, At
lanta. secretary; Hugh II. Grady,
Savannah, treasurer; Alvin Mc-
Anliffe, Augusta, auditor, and
Hugh Kinehley, Augusta, executive
secretary.
Join tlic
MARCH.
OF
DIMES
JANUARY 15-30
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
ALTAR SOCIETY OF
PARISH IN GRIFFIN
INSTALLS OFFICERS
(Special to The Bulletin)
GRIFFIN. Ga.— Newly elected
officers of the Altar Society of the
Sacred Heart Church were in-
tailed at the January meeting,
held lit the rectory. Mrs. D. Chap
pell Johnson Is the new president
of the society; Mrs. Travis Shackel
ford, vice president; Mrs. Roger
Morgan, secretary. Father John
A. Kiimm, C. SS. R, spiritual ad-
vuctor of the society, also serves
as its treasurer.
Mrs. Edward Roberts was named
to serve as chairman of the so
cial committee, with Mrs W. E.
Broome and Mrs. John Simms, as
sisting. Mrs. J. E. Powell, Sr.,
heads the altar committee, and
will appoint a sub-chairman to'
.have charge of the care and dec
orations of the sanctuary for each
month of the year. Mrs. Troy
Smith was appointed chairman of
Hie publicity committee; Miss Mary
McGrath will be in charge of the
vestments and altar linens; Mrs.
C C. Crawford will head the visi
tation committee, and Mrs. W. E.
Broome, the ways and means com
mittee.
In appreciation of the efforts
and achievements of Mrs. C. R.
Hale, retiring president mem
bers of the society presented her
with a gjl't.
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. — Monsi
gnor Andrew Keene Gwynn, P. A.,
who is completing his forty-eighth
year as pastor of St. Mary’s
Church here, was the honor guest
at the quarterly Communion
breakfast of Greenville Council,
Knights of Columbus, held on
January 4 at Hotel Greenville.
Monsignor Joseph L. O'Brien,
S. T. D-, LL.D., pastor of St. Pat
rick’s Church, Charleston, was the
guest speaker at the testimonial
I breakfast to Monsignor Gwynn.
I In his remarks, Monsignor
O’Brien outlined the ideals of
1 Bishop John England, first Bishop
of Charleston, who was appointed
to that See more than a century
ago, and went on to describe the
seeds of secularism which are
combatting the Church today,
j Richard A. Bindewald acted as
toastmaster, and T. Francis Mc
Namara, program chairman, wel
comed the guests to the breakfast.
Among (lie special guests were
| State Deputy Jo'-eph Putnam, of
(he South Carolina State Council.
Knights of Columbus; Mrs. Jack
Kearney, president of the Char
leston Diocesan Council of Cath-
. olie Women: Mrs. W. L. Snipes,
president of the Parent-Teacher
1 Association of SI. Mary’s School,
and Mrs. S. J. Eassy, president of
Circle 5.
I Sam Francis, grand knight of
Greenville Council, was presented
a certificate of merit for having
already attained the 1947-48 mem
bership goal of the council.
Monsignot Gwynn thanked the
Knights of Columbus for the honor
they had shown him. It has been
the custom of the members of
Greenville Council since 1940 to
pay a tribute to their beloved pas
tor on the first Sunday in Janiir
ary of eacii year.
The testimonial breakfast fol
lowed a Mass celebrated at St.
| Mary’s Church by Monsignor
Gwynn.
I Monsignor Gwynn was ordain
I ed to the priesthood, by Bishop
j Henry P. Northrop of Charleston,
I oil July 29. 1895, and has served
| as pastor of the parish here since
1900.
Among the structures erected
during the years that Monsignor
Gwynn has been in charge of the
Gieenville parish and its missions
are Holy Trinity Church, Orange
burg; Sacred Heart Church, Black-
Iville; St. Paul the Apostle Church,
I Spartanburg; St. Mary’s Church,
| Greenville; St. Joseph’s Church,
I Anderson; St . Francis Church
Walhalla; Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, Greenwood; St. Andrew’s
Church , Clemson: St Mary’s
School and rectory, Gallavan Me
morial Hall, and St. Francis Hos
pital, in Greenville, and the con
vent in Sumter.
j National Catholic Community Service,
Operating on Its Ou)n, Outlines Vast
Peacetime Program Throughout 0. S.
“THE SNOB AND TIIE SAINT”
is the current selection of the
Catholic Book Club in New York.
The book is a collection of essays
Francis Teresa, who is a member
of Nazareth Academy, Rochester.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—A network ot
at lensl 29 National Catholic Com-
1 munity Service operations will
I icrve major military camps, na-
! val installations and veteran hos-
I pitals throughout the United
| States during 1948, il has been an-
I nounccd al NCCS headquarters
here.
The operations will be carried
] on independently by the NCCS,
i which heretofore has operated
1 through funds of ilie United Ser-
I vice Organizations, the USO.
j Development of strong leader
ship is the primary concern of the
NCCS peacetime operations, the
announcement staled. Local oper
ating committees are being estab
lished to organize and plan pro
grams on local levels, and in all
cases the work is being carried on
through the Bishop of the respec
tive diocese.
Among the cities where the op
erations will be conducted are:
Oakland, San Diego and San
Francisco, Calif.; Denver, Colo.;
Key West, Fla.; Columbus, Ga.;
Belleville and Waukegan, 111,; New
Orleans and Shreveport. La.; Bos
ton, Mass.; Biloxi. Miss.; Long
Branch. N. J.; Canadaigua, High
land Falls, New York. N. Y.; Fay
etteville. Jacksonville and New
Bern, N. C.; . Nurragansett Bay
area; El Paso and San Antonio,
Texas; Alexandria and Norfolk,
Va , Oak Harbor, Seattle and Van
couver, Wash.; Washington, D. C.,
and Rome. Italy.
The NCCS stated that local needs
are being surveyed to determine
the assistance required and wher
ever possible the purchase of USO
equipment as well as the utiliza
tion of available government build
ing facilities are being effected. In
a number of instances the NCCS
operations will be conducted in
the familiar places formerly oper
ated under the USO program.
There will be no interruption be
tween the NCCS peacetime opera
tions and the end of the USO
phase of the work at the end of
1947.
The NCCS also announced that
plans are under consideration to
establish operations in Guam and
in Alaska.
Bishop Walsh Ordains
Subdeacons at Trappist
Abbey Near Conyers
(Special to The Bulletin)
CONYERS, Ga.—On December
20, Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of
Charleston ordained as subdea
cons two members of the com
munity of the Abbey of Our Lady
of the Holy Ghost here, the Revs.
M. Luke, C. C. S. O., and the
Rev. M. Guerric, C. C. S. C.z
The Trappist monastery here
which was established four years
ago with a community of twenty-
two monks and brothers, now num
bers fifty-nine, of whom twenty-
nine are novices. Of these novices,
eleven are for the lay brother
hood of the Order of Cistercians
of the Strict Observance and
eighteen are for the choir. Of the
eighteen, three are already priests
who have come to the Trappists
after being members of other Or
ders. Among the novices are fif
teen who are veterans of World
War II.
Abbot M. James Fox, C. C. S. C.,
who heads the Abbey of Our
Lady of the Holy Ghost, reports
that while progress on the erec
tion of the permanent buildings
which- will replace the present
temporary structures at the Abbey
is slow, it is steady, and before
many years will be completed.
Father P. A. Ryan, S, J.
Plans Trip to Ireland
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW ORLEANS, La.—Father
Patrick A. Ryan, S. J., regional
editor of Jesuit Mission Press,
one of the most widely known
priests of the New Orleans Prov
ince of" the Society of Jesus, is
making plans to pay a visit to
his native Ireland this spiing.
The Father General of the So
ciety of Jesus is giving Father
Illyan the trip to the land of his
birth to which he has not re
turned since he left it as a school
boy.
In the meantime, Father Ryan
is speuking in the interest of
Jesuit Missions in churches all
over the United States. On last
Sunday he spoke to the congrega
tions of eight Masses of llie Church
of the Immaculate Conception in
the center of the business district
of New Orleans. The Sunday
previous. Father Ryan spoke at
Loyola University church, on na
tive American priests, and his
talk evoked so much compliment
ary comment that a recording lias
been made of it on two ten-inch
records, now being offered for sale
by the National Radio Recording
Company, in New Orleans.
A group of Father Ryan's friends
in New Orleans, who attended
Loyola University of the South
when he was vice, president of
the university, are raising a
fund to enable Father Ryan to
visit England and the European
continent as well as Ireland when
[he goes abroad. Donations to the
I fund are being received by Joseph
IM. Ratrtt, 825 Whitney Building,
New Orleans.
Born in Ireland, Father Ryan
received his early education at ihe
famous Monfret College. Com
ing to the United States, he enter
ed the Society of Jesus at St. Stan
islaus College, Macon. Ga., on
September 12, 1891. He later at
tended St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau, La., and then taught at the
University of San Francisco. His
theological study was completed
at Woodstock College, in Mary
land, where he was ordained lo
the priesthood on June 29, J905,
by the late Cardinal Gibbons o£
Baltimore.
His first assignment was at
St. Aloysius Church, Washington,
D. C., and he came from there
to Loyola University of the South
where he taught metaphysics and
ethics for seven years. He was
the university’s first vice presi
dent and Dean.
From Loyola he went to the
Jesuit College here as minister
of the house and pastor of the
parish church. In 1918, he was
appointed pastor ol the Sacretl
Heart Church, Augusta, Ga., where
he served for many years.
In 1941, when he observed his
golden jubilee as a Jesuit, in El
Paso, Texas, Father Ryan was ac
claimed as the city’s "First Citi
zen.”
He has also served as pastor
of St. Anne’s Church, Rock Hill,
S. C., and as pastor of St. Wil
liam’s Church, Ward, S. C.