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“To Bring About
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Vol. XXIX, No. 9 FORTY PAGES
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1948 ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR
CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
CONVENTION IN BRUNSWICK ON OCTOBER 31
NCCW Convention in New Orleans Elects
Mrs. A. S. Lucas, Birmingham, President.
Mrs. Wm. J. McAlpin, Atlanta, Treasurer
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Three ;
Southern women, one of them J
from Georgia, were among the na
tional officers elected by the Na- j
tional Council of Catholic Wom
en at its twenty-fourth national
convention held here September
11-15. Mrs. A. S. Lucas of Bir
mingham, was elected president;
Mrs. Neal Sullivan, Newkirk, Ok
lahoma. first vice-president, and
Mrs. William J. McAlpin, Atlanta,
treasurer.
The other officers elected on
tile closing day and announced at
the closing banquet were Mrs.
John L. Kennelly. Bridgeport,
Conn., second vice-president; Mrs'.
John McCryslal, Sandusky, Ohio,
third vice-president, and Mis. Pat
rick Gibbons, Kansas City, Mo.,
secretary. These officers together
with Miss Clara Berchtold. Santa
Fc. N. M., form the executive com
mittee.
Composing the board of direc
tors are the following: Mi's. Wil
liam H. Harper, Kewanee. III.;
Mrs. George B. Bennett. Grand
Rapids. Mich.; Mrs. J. A Wicker,
Cedar Rapids. Iowa; Mrs. Ray
mond Jehl, Watsonville, Calif.;
Mrs. James E. Willard. Knoxville,
Tenn.: Mrs. Andrew S. Plieffer,
Racine, Whs.; Mrs.. Robot Don
aldson, Paterson, N. J.: Mrs. Frank
T. Curtin, Rochester, N. Y.; Mrs.
Ralph G. Viehman. Pittsburgh,
Pa.: Mrs. A. A. Mickel, Portland,
Ore.; Mrs. Lionel L. Roeskobl,
Caledonia, Minn., and Miss Emma
Von Hatlen, Sacramento, Calif.
Mrs. Jack Kearney, of Green
ville, S. C., president of the Char
leston Diocesan Council of Cath
olic Women, served as a member
of the nominating committee.
Mrs. Lucas, who is widely known
throughout the South for her
church and civic work, was hon
ored in 1939 by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII who conferred upon her
the Papal Medal "Pro Ecclesia et
Pontifice.” An active member of
the Mobile Diocesan Council of
the NCCW sinee its inception in
1934. Mrs. Lucas has served as
president of the Birmingham
Deanery Council, and from 1942-
’46 she served as the Diocesan
president. During the war years
-she guided the Catholic women
of the Diocese in their very im
pressive war-time service . Un
der her leadership the Mobile Dio
cesan Council increased in the
number of affiliated organizations
until today it has 71 parish groups
and 22 mission groups totalling
over 5.000 members.
In the past two years Mrs. Lu
cas, representing the Province of
New Orleans has served as a
director on the National Board of
the National Council of Catholic
Women. It was in this capacity
that she presided at the banquet
that concluded the New Orleans
convention.
Very active in local Birming
ham civic affairs, Mrs. Lucas was
ejected president of the Birming
ham Visitiqg Nurses Association
in 1944, and has also been active
in the work of the Catholic Com
mittee of tho South.
Mrs. McAlpin. a past president
of the Savannah-Atlanta Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, has
represented the Province of Balti
more on the Board of Directors of
the National Council of Catholic
Women for the past two years.
Closing event and brilliant fea
ture of the five-day session was
the annual banquet on the night
of September 15, when an over-
.flow throng heard Mrs. Clare
Boothe Luce, author, playwright,
former Congresswoman and na
tionally prominent Catholic con
vert, discuss the refle of the Cath
olic woman in today’s world.
Archbishop Joseph F. Hummel
of New Orleans, was host 1o the
convention, together with the
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic
Women, headed by Monsignor
Charles F. Beauvais, Archdiocesan
director, and Miss Elsie Vulliet,
president, and the Metropolitan
Council of the ACCW, headed by
Miss Helen Cahill.
Registration records disclosed
an exceptionally high attendance,
totalling 2.187 listed, more than
six hundred of whom came as del
egates -from all sections of the
United States, others coming from
the New Orleans area.
Highlight of the convention was
the impressive Solemn Pontifical
Mass in historic old St. Louis Ca
thedral. celebrated by Archbishop
Rummel. which attracted a capac
ity congregation. The Mass and
the sermon by Bishop Michael J.
Ready of Columbus, were broad
casted by a local radio station.
Two Archbishops, twelve Bishops,
an Abbot, a large group of Mon
signori. and scores of members of
the clergy attended. besides
NCCW officers and delegates.
The initial meeting of the 24th
annual convention was the meet
ing of Diocesan presidents, spir
itual directors and members of the
Hierarchy. Archbishop Robert E.
Luoey of San Antonio, chairman
of the Department of Lay Organi
zation of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, attended vir
tually all the various sessions and
public meetings.
Another of the colorful and im
pressive features of the national
assembly was (lie general public
meeting at the city’s Municipal
auditorium on Sunday night, fill-
: ing the hall despite inclement
; weather. His Excellency, Arch
bishop Rummel. host to the as-
i sembiy, and His Excellency, Arch
bishop Lucey, occupied thrones in
the center of the spacious stage,
which was artistically decorated.
Flanking them were the nation
al president, Mis. Henry Mannix
of Brooklyn, and Miss Elsie Vul-
1 liet, New Orleans, archdiocesan
president, and ori the other side.
Mayor DeLesseps Morrison of New
Orleans, who welcomed delegates.
Down the stage were the visiting
Bishops and members of the na-
i lional board.
Mrs. Mannix presided, and in
troduced the speakers. Miss Vul-
liett extended the welcome for the
Archdiocesan council, and Mrs.
Neal Sullivan. Newkirk. Okla.. na
tional director, responded. Princi
pal speakers were His Excellency
; Archbishop Lucey. and Dr. Eliza
beth Morissy, Baltimore. The clos
ing address was given by His Ex
cellency, Archbishop Rummel.
Delegates were benefieiarites of
Southern hospitality in an enjoy-
i able Sunday afternoon of sight
seeing around historic New Or
leans, and a reception at Our
, Lady of Good Counsel auditorium,
with Very Rev. Msgr. Charles F.
Beauvais, archdiocesan director of
the NCCW. as host in his parish.
Most Rev. Charles P. Greco. Bish-
j op of Alexandria, was celebr ant of
i Solemn Pontifical Benediction.
The widely known Archdio-
cesan Council of Catholic Women
of the Now Orleans archdiocese,
and its Metropolitan Council, not
ed for their organization and their
effective activities, won high
praise from the national officers
; and delegates for the smooth
functioning of the convention, un-
; der the general direction of His
Excellency, Archbishop Rummel:
j Monsignor Beauvais, the arehdio-
I cesan director, and Miss Vulliet,
1 arehdiocesan president, and Miss
; Helen Cahill, metropolitan presi
dent, both co-chairmen.
Greetings and the Apostolic
Blessing were contained in a mes-
| sage to (lie convention from the
1 Holy Father.
Bulletins
ANNOUNCEMENT has been
made that the annual meeting of
i the Charleston Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women will be held I
in Columbia on October 23 and 34.
THE DEATH within a few hours
of two Princes of the. Church has
reduced the Sacred College of
Cardinals—traditionally limited to
70—to 57 members. News of the
death of His Eminence Kaffaello
Carlo Cardinal Rossi, Secretary
ol the Sacred Consistorial Con
gregation. reached the Holy See
j shortly after it had been inform
ed of the death of 11 is Eminence
Manuel Cardinal Arce y Ochoto-
' rena. Archbishop of Tarragona in
Spain.
THE WORLD COUNCIL' of
Churches in Amsterdam has been
far from useless; the sincerity
and devotion to Clod of those tak
ing part must have, merited a
blessing which may well lake sonic
| of them from Amsterdam to Konic,
declared The UNIVERSE, British
Catholic weekly newspaper.
Convention Speaker
FATHER WALSH
The Reverend. Gerald G. Walsh,
! S. J.. of Fordham University, who
| will be t he guest speaker at I he
thirlyrthird annual convention of
j the "atholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia, to be held on
i 31, in Brunswick.
Father Gerald Walsh, S. J
Will Be Guest Speaker at
Gathering of Georgia Laity
BRUNSWICK. Ga.~For the I
first, time since the organization [
of the Catholic Laymen’s Asso- J
ciation of Georgia, in 1916, Bruns
wick will be host to the mem-1
bers of the Association at one of I
its annual conventions, when rep-1
resentative Catholic men and \
women from all sections of the i
state will gather here on Oc
tober 31.
The Mass which will open the !
convention program will be cele-1
brated at St. Francis Xavier j
Church by Monsignor Joseph E.
Moylan Vicar General of tho j
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, who
is administering the affairs of !
the Diocese in- the absence of j
Bishop Gerald P. O'Hara, who is |
presently serving as Regent of
the Apostolic Nunciature in Buch- >
arest, Romania.
Father Gerald Groveland Walsh, I
S. J., distinguished Jesuit edu- j
cator, author and historian, lias ]
accepted an invitation to deliver j
an address at the afternoon ses
sion of the convention.
Father Walsh was born in South
Norwalk, Conn., and entered the !
Society of Jesus in 1910, at the ]
Jdsuit Novitiate and Juniorate.
Rochampton. England. From 1913
until 1917, he attended St. Mary's
Hall, Stonylmrst, England, and
Campion Hall. Oxford University, .
from 1921 to 1924. and then was i
a sludenf at London University. j
From 1925 to 1928. he was at the
College of the Sacred Heart,
Woodstock. Md., where lie was j
ordained in 1926. He later attend
ed the Gregorian University In
Rome. Italy, where he received his
Ph. D. and S. T. D. degrees. j
From 1929 to 1934, Father Walsh
taught Church History at Wood- :
stock and served as librarian,
meanwhile lecturing on history i
at the summer school of Fordham
University. He was professor of
Medieval History at the Greg
orian University in Rome from
1934 to 1936, and then was head j
of the Department of Italian
Studies and graduate work pro-]
lessor of Medieval History at 1
Fordham.
He- is now editor of Thought,
quarterly publication of Fordham
University.
Father Walsh has attained con- j
siderabjc prominence as an au
thor. some of his works being
"The Emperor Charles IV." “Phi
losophy of History,” “Faith for
Today,” "Medieval Humanism.”
Dante Alieheri, Citizen of Chris
tendom,” “Great Religions of the
Modern World.” “The Apostolic
Fathers.” and “Catholicism.”
He has received the Roman
Gregorian Society medal, a Na
tional Academy Award, the Cob-
den Club prize for Political Econ
omy. the Marquis of Lothian Prize,
Modern History at Oxford Uni
versity.
Father Walsh is a member of
the Medieval Academy of Amer
ica. the American Historical As
sociation, American Catholic His
torical Association. American As
sociation of Teachers of Italian.
Oxford Society, Dante Society,
and the Catholic Committee on
Intellectual and Cultural Affairs.
Estes Doremus, of Atlanta, who
has headed the Catholic Lay
men's Associaiion of Georgia as
is president for the last two years,
will preside at the convention ses
sions, one 1 or which will be held
in the morning and the other in
the afternoon.
At tlie morning session, which
will be Held at the Oglethorpe
Hotel, immediately following the
Mass, the convention committees
will be appointed and reports
will be submitted by the officers
of (lie Association.,
Sessions: of (lie convention will
be held in the auditorium of the
city’s Recreation Center, the
morning session scheduled for
10:30 o’clock and the afternoon
session for 2:30 o'clock. During
the recess between sessions, there
will be a luncheon at the Ogle
thorpe Hotel.
At Ihe morning session, t He
convention committees on resolu
tions. memorials and nominations
will bo appointed and reports of
I lie year’s work will be submit
ted by the president and other
officers or the Association.
Reports will also be made to
the convention at (his session by
the presidents of the local blanch
es ol the Association in various
Georgia cities.
The afternoon session will be
devoted lo a discussion of any
business matters not disposed of
during the forenoon, the reports
(Continued on Page Five)
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AT N. C. C. W. CONVENTION IN NEW ORLEANS—Most Reverend Joseph F. Rumtnel, Archbishop
of New Orleans, and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce (left>, were the principal speakers at the banquet which
brought to a close the program of the convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, held in
New Orleans, whore Mrs. A. S. Lucas, of Birmingham (right), was elected president of the N. C, C. W.
—(Photo—Courtesy of Catholic Action of the South)