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TWENTY-EIGHT
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 27, 1948
Father T. J. McGrath
Dies in New York
Bishop Walsh Officiates at
Funeral Services in Char
leston for Priest Who
Served in South Carolina
Retiring Officers of Charleston Diocesan Council
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Father
Timothy J. McGrath, a priest of
the Diocese of Charleston, died
on October 25, at Cold Spring,
N. Y., after an extended illness.
Funeral services were held at
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist here with Bishop Emmet M.
Walsh of Charleston offering the
Pontifical Mass of Requiem.
Father McGrath was born in
Castletownbere, County Cork, Ire
land, the son of Cornelius Mc
Grath and Mrs. Hannah Murphy
McGrath. After completing his
study for the priesthood at Mun-
gret College, Limerick, Ireland,
and Mount" St. Mary’s Seminary,
Emmitsburg, Md., he was ordained
in 1922 by the late Bishop Wil
liam T. Russell of Charleston.
As a priest of the Diocese of
Charleston, Father McGrath serv
ed as assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph's Church, Anderson; St.
Peter’s Church, Columbia, and St.
Paul the Apostle Church, Spar
tanburg. He returned to St. Jo
seph’s Church, Anderson, in 1929,
as pastor, and next served as
chaplain at St. Francis Hospital,
Greenville. Later, lie served as
assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church, Charleston, and as as
sistant pastor of St. Anne's
Church, Sumter.
He is survived by three brothers
and two sisters.
MRS. IGNATIUS O’NEILL
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for Mrs. Antoiette Bar-
bot O’Neill, widow of Ignatius P.
O’Neill, who died November 15,
were held at the Cathedral of
St. John tile Baptist.
Born in Charleston, Mrs. O’Neill
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter J. Barbot. She is surviv
ed by a daughter, Mrs. Herbert D.
Holcombe, of Troy, Pa., two sons,
Lieutenant Colonel Stewart B.
O’Neill, of Pacific Beach, Cal.,
and Donald B. O’Neill, of Santa
Monica; a sister, Miss Blanche
Barbot, of Charleston; a brother,
Phillip P. Barbot, of Galveston,
four grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
New and retiring officers of the
Charleston Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women are pictured
above with Bishop Emmet M.
Walsh of Charleston at the recent
convention of the Diocesan Coun
cil held in Columbia, S. C. Left
to right, front row: Mrs. W. L.
Bcggs, Greenville, retiring corre
sponding secretary; Mrs. M. P.
Conlon, Charleston, retiring secre
tary, the Most Reverend Emmet
M. Walsh. Bishop of Charleston;
Mrs. Jack Kearney, Greenville, re
tiring president, and Mrs. L. S.
Tompkins, Columbia, retiring
treasurer. Left to right, back
row: Mrs. James Condon. Char
leston, first vice president; Mrs.
Curran Jones, Columbia, retiring
parliamentarian: Miss Anne Mag-
araban, Greenville, treasurer; Miss
Isadore Geisher. Sumter, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Ernest Doug
las, Charleston, president; Mrs. J.
F. "Welsh, Rock Hill, second vice
.president and Mrs. J. W. Bond, Sr..
Columbia, retiring auditor.
(Photo by Jimmie Price, Courte
sy of Tlie Columbia Record.)
Professor at Princeton Contends That
McCollum Case Decision Amounts to
Ban on Free Exercise of Religion
Parent-T eachers
Meet in Charleston
New President of Charleston
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
MISS ROSE MARIE BRANDT
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for Miss Rose Marie
Brandt, were held at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist No
vember 8, Monsignor James J. May
officiating.
Miss Brandt is survived by her
parents, both of Charleston, and
two brothers, Julian V. Brandt,
Jr., of Charleston, and Dr. Henry
Almar Brandt, of Birmingham,
Ala.
HENRY J. BROWN
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for Henry Joseph Brown,
retired detective,, who died No
vember 19, were held at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Father Henry
F. Wolfe officiating.
raivs. . r.n.Yr.oi avciiLAS
Mrs. W. Ernest Douglas, of Charleston, who was elected president
of the Charleston Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at the closing
session of the 19th annual convention held in Columbia. Mrs. Douglas
succeeds Mrs. Jack Kearney, of Greenville.
In addition to her duties with the Council of Catholic Women,
Mrs. Douglas is a busy housewife, secretary of her husband’s busi
ness, and is the mother of two children. Her daughter, Miss Anne
Douglas, is secretary at The Citadel, and her son, William Ernest
Douglas, has just oompleted his basic Army training at Fort Jack-
son.
During the war, Mrs. Douglas was active in Red Cross work as
chairman of one of the units in Charleston and is still a member of
the canteen corps, as well as a director of the Parent-Teacher As
sociation of the Sacred Heart School, and parliamentarian and past
president of the Bishop England High School Parent-Teacher As
sociation. (Photo by Reilly—Courtesy of The Charleston Evening Post).
FATHER O’BRIEN GYMNASIUM, CHARLESTON—Pictured above is the recently completed gym
nasium at Bishop England High School, Charles ton, S. C., which was dedicated on November 21
by His Eminence Edwprd Cardinal Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit. The gymnasium will be known
as the “Father O’Brien Gymnasium”, in honor o f Monsignor Joseph L. O’Brien, S. T. D., U. D.,
founder of Bishop England High School, who served as rector of the school for thirty-one years,
and who now is rector emeritus. Harold Tatu m, of Charleston, was the architect, and Skinner
and Ruddock were the contractors. The building includes a gymnasium floor 60 by 110 feet and
seats for 1,000 spectators. Showers and locker rooms are also provided. The gymnasium is sit
uated next to the main building of the high school. —(Photo by Holcombe—Courtesy of The Chat
lesion News and Courier),
(Special to The Bulletin)
C H A R L E S T O N, S. C—The
Parent-Teacher Association of the
Sacred Heart School sponsored a
party on November 13, honoring
pupils of the school receiving
blue ribbons in the summer round
up check.
Guests at the party were: Neola
Bolchoz. Albert Brown, Jr., Wil
liam Clair, III, Michael Condon.
Marcella Degnan, Carol Donald,
Sherrell Hoppman, Lawrence
Howell. Jr., Mickey Jones, Cathe
rine June;, Ronald King, Marny
Ann Koester, John McGregor, Jr.,
Marie Miller, Bobbie Molony,
Harry Moraski, Andrea Ritter, Wil
liam Robinson, Mary Roempk,
Lawrence Rowland, William
Runey, Iris Rush, Marjory
Schnchte. Joyce Seabrook. Leo
Seel, Sandra Shield, Eleanor
Soubeyroux, Teresa Sturcken.
Brenda Walsh, Dianne'* Way and
Louise Inabinett.
Ileloing with the party were Mrs.
J. M. Donald, Mrs. J. W. McGregor.
Mrs. J. J. O'Brien, and Mrs. F. J.
Shahid, Sister Mary William, first
grade teacher, and Sister Theresa,
principal .also attended.
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL
Father J. Lawrence McLaugh
lin, pastor of Stella Maris Church
and a member of the faculty of
Bishop England High School,
spoke on education as a prepara
tion for life at a meeting of Bishop
England Parent-Teacher Associa
tion.-
An invitation was extended all
alumni of the school to attend a
corporate Communion, November
21, in St. Patrick’s Church in
honor of Monsignor Joseph L.
O’Brien, pastor of the church. A
breakfast will follow the service.
Mrs. W. Ernest Douglas, newly
elected president of the Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, gave
an account of the recent conven
tion of the council in Columbia.
Mrs. Raymond Thompson, P.-T.
A. president, welcomed ten new
members. Sister Mary Carmel
asked that members contribute
magazines for the school library.
The P.-T. A. in conjunction
with the Knights of Columbus,
sponsored a game party Novem
ber 18. at Columbus Hall. Mrs.
Philip P. Rowland served as chair
man of the event.
Father Donald C. Hamburger,
of the faculty, showed a motion
picture after the meeting and a
social period followed. Members
of the Cathedral parish serving as
hostesses included Mrs. Norman L.
Cannon, Mrs. J. W. Beshere, Mrs.
A. L. Gould, Mrs. J. W. Coste
and Mrs. Jennings Cauthen.
The attendance prize, a home
made cake donated by Mrs. Ray
mond P. Russell, was won by Mrs.
L. W. Burmester.
Blue ribbons were awarded
thirty-one pupils at a party spon
sored by the Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation of the Cathedral School,
with Mrs. John P. Michel, Mrs.
A. L. Gould* Mrs. John Brandes
and Mrs. Robert Riols serving as
hostesses.
Pupils receiving ribbons were:
Dick Swerin, Mary Shriver, Fran
cis Gallagher, Patricia Holliday,
Lynn Lundquist, John Oliver, Jo
seph Riley, Patsy Garrett, Kathy
Carter, Pat Brennan, Mary Lucial
Carter, Kathy Decker, Helen Ehr-
liardt, Peter Heisser, David Heis-
ser, Demal Mattson, James Hyland,
Harry Werton, Simm Witham, Jo
seph Williman, Francis White, Pa
tricia Williams, James Myatt,
Agnes Sheedy, Barbara Parnell,
Bennie Padgett, Perry McKevlin,
Mirteel Jones, Humphrey Igoe,
NEW YORK.—(NC)—It is to be
hoped that the Supreme Court will
quickly reconsider its decision of
last March against religious train
ing involving the use of public
schools, Dr. Edward S. Corwin,
professor emeritus of jurispru
dence at Princeton University, de
clared before the Men’s Club of
a Methodist Church here.
Dr. Corwin, a leading authority
on constitutional law, said that
the high court's ruling was "to be
grouped with those high-flying
tours de force in which the court
has occasionally indulged, to solve
'forever' some teasing problem,
like slavery problems in the Died
Scott case.” He spoke at Christ
Church on Park Avenue.
"The decision in the McCollum
case is not a ‘modest’ decision,” he
declared “It is to be hoped the
court will seize an early oppor
tunity to reconsider its hasty of
fer to become, as Justice Jackson
put it, ‘a super school board for
every school district in the na
tion’.”
In the first place, the jusitfica-
ion for the court’s intervention
was most insubstantial. In the
second place the decision is based
on a figure of speech, the con
cept of a' wall of separaion be
tween church and stale. Thirdly,
the decision is seen to stem from
an unhistorical conception of what
is meant by the ‘establishment
of religion’ in the First Amend
ment to the Constitution.”
He said the historical record
showed “that any act of public au
thority favorable to religion in
general cannot, wihout a falsifica
tion of history, be brought under
the ban of that phrase.”
"In the fourth place,” he con
tinued, “the prohibition on th«
establishment of religion by Con
gress is inconvertible into a
similar prohibition on the states,
under the authorization of the 14th
Amendment, unless the term ‘es
tablishment of religion’ be given
an application which carries with
it invasion of somebody’s freedom
of religion, that i s of ‘liberty’.
Finally, the decision is accompa
nied by opinions and a mandate,
which together have created great
uncertainty in the minds of gov
erning bodies of all public educa
tional institutions.
The job of transmitting democ
racy in the United States, as a
system of ethics, “has been put
more and more upon the shoul
ders” of the public schools, Dr.
Corwin declared. ’ He questioned
if they cquld do the job without
the aid of religious instruction.
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S CLUB
MEETS IN WALTERBOItO
WALTERBORO, S. C.—At the
meeting of the Catholic Women’s
Club held oq November 4, an
election of officers was held and
Mrs. Henry M. Bailey was chosen
president to succeed Mrs. P. N.
Murphy. Other officers named
were: Mrs. L. N. Glover, vice
president, and Miss Alice Beckett,
secretary-treasurer. Mrs. G. E.
Schuneinann was welcomed as a
new member.
Helene Beshere and Virginia Keat
ing.
ST. PATRICK’S SCHOOL,
The ten pupils at St. Patrick’s
School who received blue ribbons
in the summer round-up check
Were entertained with a party by
the Parent-Teachers Association of
that school. The committee on
arrangements for the event in
cluded Mrs. Fred Bolchoz, Mrs.
John O’Rourke, Mrs. Hugo Tezza
and Mrs. Julian Beattie, president
of the association.