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TWENTY THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FEBRUARY 28, 1948 Greater Bishop England High School for Charleston New Gymnasium for Bishop England High School in Charleston (Special to The Bulletin) CHARLESTON, S. C—With the' completion of the new gymnasium, j for which the contract was let re-1 cently. Bishop England High: School will have one of the most modern and well-equipped high | school plants in South Carolina, i In 1944 the school raised a fund of $65,000 for the construction of; a gymnasium hut the high cost of j construction caused a delay in | erecting the building. Last yeari a campaign was launched to raise | The architects sketch reproduced above shows how Bishop Eng- needcd" to 'complete* the* buTl^ng j land H1 « h Sch ° * o1 ’ in Charleston. South Carolina, will appear upon com- was subscribed. A contract to I pletion of the new gymnasium, the contract for the construction of erect the building at a cost of] which has recently been awarded Skinner and Ruddock, Charleston $148,118 has been awarded Skin ner and Ruddock, local contrac tors, and it is expected that the new gymnasium will be ready for use this coming fall. .1 Former Secretary of State Discusses BishoTthn\n g ? a nd nd fi”fsho 0 p Mission of Myron Taylor to Vatican of Charleston, who headed the newly established Diocese from 1820 until his death in 1842, classes were first held in what is now the Cathedral School on Queen Street. After a year, the high school mov ed to a building formerly occupied by the Religious of our Lady of the Cenacle, ana then to the Gregorian Hall on George Street, where it remained until the main part of the present building on Calhoun Street was erected in 1921. Bishop England High School draws its stuaents from all of the parishes in Charleston, and from St. John’s parish at the Navy Yard, Stella Maris parish on Sulli van's Isiand, and the new Blessed Sacrament parisn, across the Ash ley River. Students from the sub urban area are transported to and from the high school in buses op erated by the parishes. Monsignor lohn L. Manning, D. D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Charleston, is the present rector of Bishop England High School, having succeeded Monsignor Jo seph L. O’Brien. S. T. D., LL. D., who organized the first classes of the school, and who served as rec tor of the school from its founding until last year. Monsignor O’Brien, who is superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Charleston, and pastor of St. Patrick’s Church here, now holds the title of rec tor-emeritus of Bishop England High School. A new addition to the original building on Calhoun Street was completed last year at a cost of $115,000. It is a two-story struc ture which affords space for three science rooms an auditorium, a lunch room, and the principal’s office. Diocesan priests and Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy compose the high school faculty. Offering regular high school and junior college courses. Bishop England now has an enrollment of 510 students The new gymnasium will afford locker rooms and showers for boys and girls and visiting teams. With seating accommodations for 1,500, the main floor will have a basket ball court, and a stage. Confer ence rooms, storage space and (Following are excerpts from the memoirs of Cordell Hull, wartime Secretary of State, tou chins on the reasons that led President Roosevelt to name Myron Taylor as his personal rep resentative at the Vatican. This material, taken from copy righted articles of the North American Newspaper Alliance and based on the forthcoming work to be published by The Mac millan Company, New York, is reproduced here with special permission obtained for the Catholic Press by the N. C. W. C. News Service). WALTERBORO, S. C.—In the year 1868, Eustace Bellinger Pinck ney and his wife moved from the pinelands of Walterboro to the .Beaufort County. The President had been talk ing over with us a project to establish some kind of relations with the Vatican. In early July, nearly two months before the out break of the war, Welles and I had discussed the advantages that might be gained through such relations. We felt that the Vatican had many sources of information, particularly with regard to what was occurring in Germany, Italy and Spain, which we did not pos sess. At my suggestion, Welles wrote a personal letter to Ambas sador Phillips, in Rome, asking his opinion. Phillips replied on July 19, recommending diplomatic relations and suggesting that a Protestant be named as the American representative. Welle* sent this letter to the President. In conversations with the Presi dent I cautioned that we could not send a regular Ambassador to the Vatican and would have to limit ourselves to a personal represen tative from himself to the Pope. I favored Phillips’ suggestion that this representative should be a Protestant. Great Britain had fol lowed the procedure of naming a Protestant as her Minister to the Vatican, with a Catholic as first secretary of the legation. I also said that, if he took this step, he should simultaneously enlist the similar cooperation of the Ameri can leaders of other churches. Ambassador Phillips in Rome had cabled me on Sept. 25 that the Vatican newspaper Osserva tore Romano had carried a full and objective report of the 'Presi dent’s neutrality message to Con gress. I sent this to the President for his information. The President then sent me on contractors. Plans for the latest addition to the plant of the Bishop England High School were executed by Harold Tatum, Charleston architect, with Father Michael Mclnerney, O. S. B., of Belmont Abbey, as associate architect.—(Photo—Courtesy of The News and Courier, Charleston). Bluffton Man Heads Colony Founded by His Parents in 1868 of cured meat and the reason that other folk do, he says is be cause they have not done ' he job of curing thoroughly. M'’nt * must be cured to the bone, he They reared a large family and said. His curing house has a today their descendants are scat-'] foundation built of tabby, of his terea over many states, but one ! own construction and design, of their sons still lives in that Mr. Pinckney’s advice to farm- Pinckney’s Colony, on the tide- ers is “Learn how to farm with aspedt, which later assumed great importance to him, that the Vat ican would be a factor in obtaining peace. On October 10 he sent me an other memorandum in which he referred to Ambassador Phillips’ communication on the Osservatore Romano’s reporting of the Presi dent’s neutrality message to Con gress. Mr. Roosevelt said: “For various reasons I think it would be a good idea for you to telegraph something along the following line to Phillips: ‘Will you at your convenience intimate to the Papal Secretary of State that the President has been made very happy by the impartial print ing of American news in the Osservatore Romanto . . I sent Phillips a cable to this effect on October 11, and on Octo ber 20 received a cable from him expressing the Pope’s gratification at the President’s message. After some weeks of foundings at the Vatican, 1 cabled Phillips on December 23, informing him of the text of a Christmas letter to the Pope from the President which would be made public on the following day and of the Presi dent’s intention to announce the appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his representative to the Vat ican. The original letter was given to the Apostolic Delegate in Wash ington through Archbishop (now Cardinal) Francis J. Spellman of New York. The President sent similar letters to Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, as a Protestant leader, and to Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Sem waters of Okatie River. William Eustace Pinckney, head of the colony, is nearing 85 years of age. But in demonstration of his strength he can hold a heavy axe straight out from the shoul der. He says he has only one son who can duplicate this feat. Nature teaches valuable lessons to those who would heed them, and evidently Mr. Pinckney must have been teacher’s favorite for he has learned things ahead of his time. With no agricultural training school except the school of experience, his farming meth ods are eye-openers. out spending much money.” Tak ing his own advice he long ago began the practice of crop rota tion and using home manure, cut ting the cost of fertilizers. Rainy days usually are counted lost on a farm. But not to Mr. Pinckney. He uses these days to saw and hammer and make the things that must be made or mend ed about the place. Much of his furniture has been handmade and so even rainy days have been used for profit. Across the Okatie River is the site of St. Mary’s Camp, spon sored by the Diocese of Charles- He has perfected his own strain ton to provide a summer recrea- of corn which is unusually prolific. | tional center where children from Hi s melons are known for their the places in South Caroline where quality. He has even improved there are no parochial schools may okra so that his variety does not receive religious instruction from toughen so easily. Cotton, he leaves alone for lack of pickers. But he knows all the answers to planting sweet potatoes. He work ed out his own method of cutting and planting the slips, using ma chinery which he made himself. He made a funnel-shaped wagon to haul the potatoes so that they could be emptied more easily into priests and Sisters. At one time the camp was held in tents on Mr. Pinckney’s farm, and those five years, he says, were among the happiest in his life. Like his parents, who built the first mission chapel here, Mr. Pinckney is deeply religious. With out a church or priest, the pioneer couple, Eustace Belling Pinckney which began with “This is a wholly original thought with me and I have discussed it with no quarters for atheletic directors will [ one else " He prospected the October* T‘r‘iong""me'morandum, o£ America ’ as a Jewlsh also be in the new building. SODALITY FORMED AT BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH, CHARLESTON (Special to The Bulletin) CHARLESTON, S. C.—Officers for the newly organized Senior Sodality of the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament are Mrs. T. J. Thorne, president; Mrs. Thomas J. Manogue, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Martin C. Kennedy, secretary, and Mrs. F. E. Seel, treasurer. Standing committee chairmen appointed include Mrs. Leo Fur long and Mrs. Michael Araneo, Apostolic committee; Mrs. William Santos and Mrs. James P. Murphy, - Our Lady’s committee; Mrs. Virgil Svendsen and Miss Virginia Svcndsen, social committee; Mrs. Raymond Ackerman, program committee; Mrs. James Lauro, Eucharistic committee; Mrs. T. R. Gotten and Mrs. T. J. Liddy, mem bership committee; Mrs. C. L. Sikes and Mrs. Henry Picard, pub licity committee; Miss Blanche Molony, sunshine committee, and Mrs. C. L. Powers, Mrs. C. D. Mc Dermott and Mrs. Matthew Mur phy, special committee.. Father Roy l r . Aiken, assistant pastor of the Blessed Sacrament Church, wlil serve as spiritual di rector of the Sodality, which will meet on the second and fourth Monday nights of each month. probablity that when the war end ed, whether “soon, next summer or three years or five years from now,” there would be a very large number of refugees, Christian as well as Jewish, coming from many ni _ ati ' AAiinleln. innlnrlind nl/an TJ’.IK/lfinrl Orgflll AUl leader. A more suitable selection than Mr. Taylor could not have been made. He possessed wide intel ligence and unusual common sense. In addition to his work at the Vatican, he became one of the moving spirits in our work of initiating and developing the out lines of a proposed world peace countries, including even England, France and Italy. “I am wondering, therefore,” he continued, “if you and I should not begin the consideration, while the war is still on, of discussing the whole subject with the Vatican and with the representatives of the Federal Council of Churches in America and some similar organ izations in Europe. The contact with the Jews has already been made through the Myron Taylor committee. “But a contact with the Catho lic Church ought to be made directly with the Vatican itself, because the question is of in finitely more importance to Euro pean Catholics than to American Catholics. “It is my thought, therefore, that while there is no particular reason for haste, we might give consideration to sending at a later Mr. Taylor sailed for Europe in February, 1940, and our new rela tions with the Vatican began. It developed that the Pope had the same realistic approach to the problem of peace in Europe as our selves, and was determined not to put forward ideas for settle ment unless a peace could be won that would last. That time was not to come until Germany lay in shambles. the bushel baskets. His riding 1 and his wife, Daisy Porcher Pinek- plow, which has been in use near- 1 ney kept the Faith within their ly half a century, has all kinds of own home and reared their chil- tricks to it so that by a slight J dren according to its teachings, turn of the wrist he had change! Today, on the road to Pinckney the course of the blades. He even ! Colony one passes the successor finds ways to improve new rna- ] to that first mission, St. Andrea’s chinery to better suit his pur- Chjurch, a little brown chapel in pose. j the wildwood with its gleaming Mr. Pinckney says he never while cross, now served by priests knows what it is to lose a pound from Beaufort. President of Charleston Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Names Committee Chairman for Coming Year SENIOR SODALITY HOLDS MEETING AT CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, S, C.— The Im maculate Conception Senior So dality, of the Blessed Sacrament parish, met on February 9, with the president, Mrs. T. J. Thorne, presiding. Father Roy F. Aiken, assistant pastor of the Blessed Sac rament Church, presented Father (Special to The Bulletin) GREENVILLE, S. C.—Mrs. Jack Kearney, president of the Charles ton Diocesan Council of Catholic Women has announced the follow ing appointments of standing com mittee chairmen for 1948; Mrs. Frank Schachte, Charleston, chair man Family Life comimttee; Mrs. J. E. Welsh, Rock Hill, Citizenship committee; Mrs. Joseph Hanley, Charleston, Parent-Teacher As sociations committee; Mrs. J. E. Dupre, Spartanburg, Library and Literature committee: Mrs. Archie Willis, Charleston, Service com mittee: Mrs. Thomas Williams,' Rock Hill, Council Structure com mittee. and Mrs. Charles F. Bult- man, Columbia, Lay Apostolate committee. Presidents of the Deanery Councils, who also serve as vice- presidents of the Diocesan Coun cil, are Mrs. John Hartnett, Charleston; Mrs. B. B. Bellinger, Columbia, and Mrs. J. Merrelle Mock, Greenville. In her February message to the members of the Diocesan Council date a special Minister or Am- the Holy Cross Fathers Mission bassador on Special Mission to the] Band, from North Easton, Mass. Vatican, in order that we could who spoke on the Holy Family. T e.|in„ nr , p C c of Mrs. Kearney urges that all possi- Lawrence Sullivan, C. b. C„ ot blc assislance be given the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd who have just have a direct system of com munication covering the subject of European Catholic refugees.” In his memorandum the Presi dent based his suggestion of a diplomatic representative to the Pope solely on the refugee ques tion. He did not mention the After the meeting the sodalists joined members of the 20-40 Club at the Exchange Club Building for a farewell parly in honor of Miss Amanda LaRoche, who was enter the novitiate of the Mis sionary Sisters of the Society of Mary. established St. Euphrasia Train ing School, for Girls, at Batesburg. Donations of used cotton clothing, sizes 32 to 38, have been request ed, and local councils in other places have been asked to follow the example of those in Charles ton, Columbia, Sumter and Rock ments and raising funds to aid the new foundation. Mrs. Kearney also reported that under the leadership of State Deputy Joseph Putnam, the Knights of Columbus in South Carolina were to sponsor the purchase of a Bendix washing machine for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. In connection with observance of Catholic Press Month, Mrs. Kearney urged that one or more Catholic publications be received regularly in every home and that all members secure a copy of the pamphlet “Papal Directives for the Woman of Today,” which are available through the headquar ters of the N. C. C. W. in Washing ton, D. C. PTA IN COLUMBIA SPONSORS BENEFIT COLUMBIA, S. C.—The Parent- Teacher Association of St. Peter's School sponsored a dessert bridge party at the home of Mrs. Carl J. Niggel on February 10, with Mrs. Niggel and .Mrs. M. Green as hostesses. This was the second in a series of such affairs sponsored by the association. Hill, that are arranging entertain- College. ON RELIGIOUS WEEK PROGRAM AT CLEMSON CLEMSON, S. C. — Father Gerald E. Maguire, C. S. P., as sistant pastor of St. Andrew's Church here, was one of the speakers on the Religious Em phasis Week program at Clemson