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*»uiN GKOtio.iJ \ii%a j. ort uui.ui.iuuj HOSPITAL—The scene aoovo snows liie ground
breaking ceremony with which the construction of the $2,000,000 St. Francis Hospital in Columbus,
Jeorgia, was begun. Leaders in the campaign to secure a Sisters’ hospital for Columbus v/ho took
part in the ground-breaking ceremony were: Andrew Prather, Jack B. Key, Sister Laurentine, of the
Third Order of St. Francis, from Pittsburgh. James Woodruff, Sr., C. J. Swift and John Illges, Jr.,
with several Franciscan Sisters of the Community who will operate the hospital when it is completed.
—(Photo—Courtesy of The Columbus Ledger)
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Regional Conference in Jacksonville
Work of Constructing
St* Francis Hospital in
Columbus Well Under Way
(Continued from Page Three)
sessions included: Bishop Thomas
J. McDonough, Auxiliary of St.
Augustine, who gave the address
of welcome: Bishop Edwin V.
O'Hara of Kansas City, Mo., chair
man of the CCD Episcopal Com
mittee; Bishop Emmet M. Walsh,
of Charleston; Bishop Thomas J.
Toolen, of Mobile; Bishop Peter
L. Ireton, of Richmond, and Bishop
Vincent S. Waters, of Raleigh, and
Abbot Vincent G. Taylor, O. S. B.,
of Belmont Abbey, N. C.
Messages from His Holiness
Pope Pius XII and Bishop Joseph
P. Hurley of St. Augustine, who
at present is Regent ad Interim of
the Apostolic Nunciature at Bel
grade, Yugoslavia, were read to
the Congress. The Pope, message,
conveyed through Msgr. Giovanni
B. Montini, Substitute Vatican Sec
retary of State, said that the Holy
Father was “deeply interested in
the laudable activities of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine”
and imparted to the participants in
the Congress his paternal Aposto
lic Blessing.
Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy,
of Atlanta, Director of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine
for the Diocese of Savannah-At-
lanta, presided at a general lunch
eon for the clergy and acted as
the discussion leader.
At a clergy session on ‘‘The
Function of the Confraternity in
the Modern World,’’ Monsignor'
Cassidy spoke on “The Import
ance of the Parish CCD Executive
Board,” and Monsignor George
Lewis Smith, of Aiken, S. C., dis
cussed “The Confraternity in a
Rural Parish.”
Father John J. McCarthy, Direc
tor of the Confraternity of Chris
tian Doctrine in the Diocese of
Charleston, led a discussion on
“Putting Religious Information to
Work.”
Sister Mary Alma, R. S. M.,
of Mount de Sales Academy,
Macon, Ga., was one of the speak
ers on the program devoted to
demonstrations of teaching Reli
gion in urban elementary school.
Mrs. Caroline McCollum Palmer,
of Cordele, Ga., former president
of the National Council of Catho
lic Women, presided at the session
devoted to Confraternity School
Year Religious Education in El
ementary Grades.”
Other highlights of the congress
included a pilgrimage to the
Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche,
the shrine of Christian mother
hood, in St. Augustine. The Hier
archy, clergy and laity traveled in
a motorcade to the shrine, where
Solemn Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament was given.
Enrollment at Albany’s
St. Theresa’s School
Has Reached Capacity
ALBANY, Ga.—Enrollment at
St. Theresa's School this year has
reached a total of one hundred
and twenty pupils, who have over
flowed from the school building
into the parish hall, where kinder
garten classes are held, and into
the rectory where the seventh
and eighth grades are taught.
Seventy-five of the pupils are non-
Catholics.
St. Theresa's School is accred
ited by the Georgia State Board of
Education. It has become an in
tegral part of the life of Albany.
The local health department gives
the school the full use of its fa
cilities and the city police de
partment regularly assigns an of
ficer to direct traffic, and of
ficials and teachers of the public
school system have been most co
operative.
Sisters Adorers of the Most
Precious Blood conduct the school,
with Sister M. Louise, principal;
Sister Margaret Anne, Sister Mir
iam. Sister Hubert, Sister Eugene
and Sister Lawrence completing
the faculty.
Mrs. John D. Paulk, Jr„ is presi
dent of the Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation, the other officers being
Mrs. Thomas Coleman, vice presi
dent; Mrs. Tescar Williams, sec
retary, and Mrs. Joseph Brooks,
treasurer.
Former Parishioners
In North Augusta Honor
Monsignor George Smith
NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C.—Mon
signor George Lewis Smith, pas
tor of St. Mary Help of Christians
Church, Aiken, who established
and was the first pastor of Our
Lady of Peace Church, in North
Augusta, was tendered a reception
on the evening of November 14
in the parish hall, by Father Jo
seph J. Murphey, the present pas
tor, and members of the parish.
Several hundred of Monsignor
Smith’s friends in North Augusta
gathered to extend their congratu
lations to him upon his recent ele
vation to the dignity of a Domes
tic Prelate.
Miss Betty Knuck, on behalf of
Monsignor Smith’s former parish
ioners presented him with a
check.
Mrs. W. C. Knuck and Miss
Eleanor Knuck presided at the
elaborately decorated table from
which refreshments were served
by Mrs. A. L. LaMontagne and
other members of the parish.
(.Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Splendid
progress is being made on the con
struction of St. Francis Hospital
for which ground was broken
three months agt>.
Erection of St. Francis Hos
pital at a cost of approximately
$2,000,000 is the rr-uit of a de
termined effort which was launch
ed here in February, 1946, when
a hospital building fund cam
paign was conducted, under the
general chairmanship of Jack B.
Key.
Sisters of the Third Order of
St. Francis, of the Pittsburgh
foundation, have agreed to match
the amount contributed toward
the erection of flic hospital by
individuals and firms of Colum
bus, and about a third of the
cost of the building will come
through a Federal grant under
the provisions of the Hill-Burton
Act.
Plans for the hospital were exe
cuted by Schmidt. Garden and
Erikson, of Chicago, a firm of
specialists in hospital architec
ture. Biggers and Lockwood, of
Columbus, are the associated
architects.
After the plans and specifica
tions had been approved, bids for
the construction of the hospital
were asked for, but the lowest bid
submitted was $199,300 more than
the funds available for the build
ing of the hospital.
It was found that it would re
quire $300,000 more than was
at the disposal of the building
fund committee in order to build
the 154-bed hospital as planned.
The Sisters of St. Francis agreed
in increase their contributions,
and within ten days, individuals
and firms in Columbus donated
another $160,000 in response to an
appeal on behalf of the hospital
building fund.
Jordan Construction Company,
of Columbus was low bidder at
$1,545,999 when new construction
bids were opened.
Since the decrease in the
amount anticipated, Mr. Key ex
plained, some additions to alter
nate specifications were permit
ted. It would require, accord
ing to Mr. Key’s estimate, from a
year to a year and a half to com
plete the structure.
The Federal government will
pay approximately one-third of
the cost. Individuals and firms
in Columbus have donated about
$660,000 toward the cost of erect
ing, equipping and furnishing St.
Francis Hospital, and the Sisters
of the Third Order of St. Francis,
of the Pittsburgh foundation, are
contributing funds in an amount
equal the generous donations of
the people of Columbus.
The original campaign for the
local funds, which were to be
matched by the Sisters, launched
in 1946, yielded ' about $500,000,
and when it was found that the
rising costs had pushed the cost
of construction considerably above
original estimates, another drive
was launched this summer and
the prompt and generous re
sponse yielded an additional $160,-
000.
Mr. Key said, however, that
when the new bids were called
for that the committee planned
to leave out specifications for
about $150,000 worth of work.
Now, he added, due to the local
contributions, and the lower re
construction bids, “we were able
to pul back about $50,000 of
the work.”
In Columbus, in connection with
the building of the hospital, and
the purchase of equipment is Sis
ter Laurentine, who is Educational
Director of the St. Francis Hos
pital Training School for Nurses,
in Pittsburgh.
Sister Laurentine was president
of the Pennsylvania State Nurses
Association from 1942 to 1946,
and has served as a member
of the board of directors of the
Association since 1939. She was
chairman of the Pennsylvania
State Nursing Council for War
Service from 1942 to 1946, and is
chairman of the committee on ac
crediting of the National League
of Nursing Education.
She graduated in nursing at
Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, and
was awarded a B. S. degree at the
Catholic University of America,
later doing post-graduate study at
the University of Chicago.
Sister Laurentine served as
member of the Pennsylvania Board
of Nursing Examiners from 1936
to 1942 and was chairman of the
board from 1939 to 1942. While
she has had some experience ni
hospital administration, her activ
ity has been mostly in the field
of nursing education.
New Assignments
For Georgia Priests
Father George Daly at
Immaculate Conception
Church in Atlanta—Father
Marcellus at St. Mary’s,
Augusta
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Announce
ment has been made by the Chan
cery Office of the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanla of the transfer of
Father George Daly, who has been
assistant pastor of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist here, lo
Atlanta, where he will be assisl-
ant pastor of the Immaculate Con
ception Church.
Father Marcellus Cikan, O. S. B.,
who has been serving as assistant
pastor of the Immaculate Conven
tion Church, Atlanta, has bc^n
transferred to Augusta, where ho
will be assistant pastor at St.
Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church.
Father Daly, who is a nat've
of Brooklyn, N. Y., came to Sa
vannah with his parents as a child,
and was the first graduate of
Marist Brothers’ School, estao
lished here in 1919, to be ordaired
te tho priesthood. After com
pleting his study for the p ' -
hood at St. Charles College. I i-
tonsville, Md., and St. Mary’s Sc i-
inary, Baltimore, he was or V iu-
ed in 1935, at the Cathedral h?;e,
by Bishop Michael J. Keyes, S. M ,
D. D., now of Washington, D. C.
He has served as assistant pas
tor at St. Peter’s Church, ..a-
Grange, Blessed Sacr. mcit
Church, Savannah, and St. Mary’s-
on-The-Hill, Augusta, and since
1942 at the Cathedral here.
Father Marcellus, serving in the
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta on
leave from St. Procopius Abbey,
Lisle, ill., is a priest of wide ex
perience. He has been a member
of the faculty of St. Procopius Col
lege, served as a pastor in Chi
cago, where he was active in
social service work, and for several
year was a member of the Bene
dictine Fathers’ Mission Band. He
was 'stationed in Augusta during
the summer of 1947, and before
going to Atlanta served at Bless
ed Sacrament Church in Savan
nah,
Father Germain Taylor, O. S.
B.. of St. Bernard's College, St.
Bernard, Ala., who is temporarily
serving in the Diocese of Sav:. i-
nali-Atlanta, will continue as : s-
sistant rector of the Cathedral
here, and Father Arthur Welt -r,
a priest of the Diocese of Ro
chester, N. Y., will also continue
to serve as assistant pastor of
St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill, in Augu-ta.
NEW SCHOOL OPENED
AT FORT OGLETHORPE
DALTON, Ga.—Forty pupils
were enrolled when the new St.
Gerard's School was opened at
Fort Oglethorpe in a building
formerly used as an officers’- club,
where the cafeteria used by the
officers has been converted into
a cafeteria for the school chil
dren, and the school property,
which covers thirteen acres, pro
vides a swimming pool .two tennis
courts and ample playground
space.
The School is conducted by
School Sisters of Notre Dame,
members of the Order which is
conducting the Sacred Heart
parochial school in Griffin, Ga.
Sister Gabriel is the superior, and
the teaching staff includes Sister
Dorina, Sister Baptista and Sister
Dorothy.
For the present, the school,
which serves a mission parish of
St. Joseph’s Church, Dalton, where
Father Joseph Driscoll, C. SS. R.,
is pastor, will offer kindergarten
classes and the first five grammar
grades. }
Concluding a Novena in honor
of St. Gerard, a Solemn High Mass
was celebrated at St. Joseph’s
Church in Dalton, with Father
Raymond Govern, C. SS. R.. as cel
ebrant; Father Joseph Driscoll,
C. SS. R., and Father Anthony
Kalb, C. SS. R., assisting. Father
Driscoll delivered the sermon and
the boys choir of Sts. Peter and
Paul Church, Chattanooga, sang
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