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TWENTY-EIGHT
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 30, 1949
COLUMBIA DEANERY
COUNCIL OF WOMEN
HOLDS ANNUAL MEET
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C.—At the an
nual meeting of the Columbia
Deanery Council of Catholic Wom
en held at the Knights of Colum
bus Home here, Mrs. J. E. Welsh,
of Rock Hill, was elected president
of the Deanery Council, other of-
Jicers chosen being Miss Isadore
Toco her, vice-president; Mrs. J. L.
Ayers, secretary, and Miss Mar
guerite Painter, treasurer.
The newly elected officers were
formally installed by Mrs. W. Ern
est .Douglas, of Charleston, presi
dent of the - Charleston Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women.
Reports of officers and standing
committee chairmen were sub
mitted to the meeting, and the
speakers included Monsignor Mar
tin C. Murphy, V. F., pastor of St.
Peter's Church. Columbia; Mrs.
Douglas, and Miss Margaret Bay-
ley, of Catholic Charities of the
Diocese of Charleston.
Monsignor Murphy urged the
members to aid the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd who conduct St.
Eupharasia Training School at
Bates burg, and stated that the Sis
ters would oe especially grateful
for cash donations which are need
ed to meet obligations.
Mrs. Douglas called attention to
the Retreats for lay women which
were to be held at St Angela Acad
emy in Aiken, and Miss Bayley dis
cussed phases of charitable work in
tile Diocese.
Members of the Altar Society of
St. Francis dc Sales Church were
hostesses at a social session which
followed the business meeting.
In addition to representatives of
the parish councils and affiliated
groups in Columbia, delegations
from Sumter. Summerton, Rock
Hill, Chester, Hartsville, Bennetts-
vilie and Orangeburg attended the
meeting.
Bishop England High
School Students Win
Essay Contest Awards
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Miss
Mary Ethel Bean, rising senior at
Bishop England High School, was
the winner of the Charleston Real
Estate Exchange essay contest, and
was presented a check for $75 by
Frank J. Sottile, exchange presi
dent. Miss Rose Mary Powers .also
a student at Bishop England High
School, was awarded the third
prise of $25.
Among the winners of $5 prizes
were Miss Betty Kearney and Miss
Joan Morris, both of Bishop Eng
land High School.
The subject ol the essay was
"Why Own Your On Horae?” The
judges were Miss Isoline B. Lucas,
Julius F. Sehroeder and Stephen
E. Shackelford. Prizes were do
nated by the First Federal Savings
and Loan Association, the State
Building and Loan Association, and
REV. FRANCIS FERRE
DIES IN CHARLESTON
FATHER FRANCIS FF.RR.I
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services lor Father Francis Or
mond Ferri, who died here on
July 24, were held at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist,
the Most Rev. Emmet. W. Walsh,
D. D., Bishop of Charleston, offer
ing a Pontifical Mass of Requiem
with many priests of the Diocese
assisting in the sanctuary.
The Office of Dead was chant
ed by the clergy of the city on the
evening before the funeral while
Father Fern’s body remained in
state before the altar of the Ca
thedral with members o>f the
Knights of Columbus acting as a
guard of honor.
Father Ferri was born in
Charleston, November 7, 1892, the
son of Francis Ferri, of Pisa, Italy,
and Mrs. Julia Scanlon Ferri, of
Charleston. He attended the Ca
thedral School, Bishop England
High School, St. Charles'College,
Catonsville, Md., St. Mary’s Semi
nary, Baltimore, and Belmont
Abbey Seminary, Belmont, N. C.
He was ordained at the Ca
thedral here by Bishop Walsh on
May 16, 1929. He served as as
sistant pastor at St. Mary’s
Church, Greenville, and St. Pat
rick’s Church. Charleston, and
from 1937 to 1945 was pastor of
St. Paul the Apostle Church,
Spartanburg. He also taught at
Portsmouth Priory, in Rhode
Island, at Bishop England High
School here, and at Belmont
Abbey College.
Father Ferri is survived by his
father; two sisters, Miss Mar
guerite Ferri, of Byrnes Downs,
and Mrs. Marion Gotten, of
Charleston, and a brother-, Bernard
Ferri, Charleston.
the Cooper River Federal Savings
and Loan Association.
Robert Touhey With
Equitable Company in
JAPAN'S INTEREST IN CHURCH INCREASES
AS RESULT OF PILGRIMAGES IN HONOR OF
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER QUADRICENTENNIAL
Charleston 50 Years
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Robert
j F. Touhey, who has just completed
! fifty years with the Equitable Fire
Insurance Company, was presented
with a gold watch, suitably Inscrib
ed. by his fellow employes on the
golden anniversary of • the day on
which he went to work as an office
boy for the company of which he
ir now' vice-president and treas
urer.
The presentation was made by
Thomas A. Huguenin, president of
the company, and the inscription
reads: "Robert F. Touhey, 1(199-
1949. In appreciation of loyal and
conscientious service. Equitable
Fire Insurance Company.”
Mr. Touhey was bora just a
block from the Equitable’s office,
and he and the late Will Rogers
were born on the same date, No
vember 4, 1879, and both cele
brated their wedding anniversaries
on the same day. They used to ex
change greetings.
Still working every day, Mr.
Touhey says he has no intention of
retiring. He has no particular
hobby,, but is especially fond of
baseball. Incidentally, his lather! 1
the late Dave Touhey, a graduate
' of Fordham University, and the
j late Colonel Henry Schaehte, in
troduced professional baseball in
j Charleston.
j Mr. Touhey married Miss Clare
Lowman, of Orangeburg, and they
| have two daughters, Mrs. E. W.
i Pearce, of Greensboro, N. C., and
Mrs. R. B. Hammes, Jr., of Colum
bus, Ga., and five grandchildren.
Their son, Captain Robert F. Tou
hey, was killed at Albuquerque, N.
M , August 8, 1945, while serving
as an instructor after completing
] missions as a flight leader in the
invasion of Saipan. He held the
Distinguished Flying Cross- and the
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster,
having completed 34 missions over
enemy territory.
By REV. PATRICK O'CONNOR
(Society of St. Columban)
(Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
TOKYO.—“We have had double
the number of inquirers asking
about the Church since the St.
Francis Xavier quadrieentennial
celebrations," said Bishop Dominic
Fukahori of Fukuoka, a southern
Japanse diocese.
Questioning the priests of three
widely separated parishes in To
kyo city, I have learned that con
cert classes have already increased
as a result of the Xavier celebra
tions, while inquiries — the first
step before enrolling for Instruc
tions — have everywhere multi
plied.
Appraising the centennial ob
servance, experienced mission
aries agree that it will rank as a
milestone in the religious history
of Japan It marks a hight point
of arrival and a hopeful starting
point for a new advance.
First, it was a public act of faith,
made on an unprecedented scale of
nationwide magnitude. by the
Catholics of Japan. The foreign
pilgrims were deeply moved by the
fervor shown during the religious
ceremonies and in innumerable
unexpected events.
For instance, whe the Xavier
Special train steamed into Okay
ama at 2 a. m., the station was not
deserted. A group of Catholics
stood waiting on the platform.
They asked a wakeful day coach
passenger to point out the car in
which the x-elic of St. Francis Xav
ier was traveling. Then they walk
ed down the platform and stood
prayerfully beside that car until
the train left.
At all. hours of the day and
night, Catholics would be found
waiting, sometimes few, sometimes
in hundreds on railway platforms
lo pay their respects to the Papal
Legate, His Eminence Norman
Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of
Sydney, and St. Francis Xavier’s
relic. They ignored weather condi
tions during ceremonies or other
wise.
Classes i«i Religion
Conducted in Aiken
(Special to The Bulletin)
AIKEN, S.'C.—A religious Vaca
tion School was conducted on the
grounds of St. Mary Help of
Christians Church here from June
27 to July 2, with about twenty-
five boys and girls attending the
classes which were conducted by
Joseph Mooney, of Boston, Mass.,
Thomas Golden, of Manhattan, N.
Y., and Robert Hughes, of Brook
lyn, N. Y., seminarians from the
Mary knoll Seminary, Maryknoll,
j N. Y., under the direction of Fath
er Charles Molony, assistant pas
tor of St. Mary’s.
Classes in prayer, Bible history
and on the Life of Christ were con
ducted for the younger children,
while instructions of the Mass, the
i Liturgy and the Life of Christ were
! given the older children,
i A second vacation school was
I conducted on the grounds of the
Horse Creek Valley Handicraft and
"We have seen your people
standing in the rain and kneeling
in the sun,” Cardinal Gilroy told
missionaries in Tokyo, praising the
Catholic laity of Japan as ideal in
struments for true Catholic Ac
tion.
Furthermore, with the centen
nial celebrations the Japanese
Catholics seemed to emerge fully
from the catacombs into which their
forefathers had been driven with-
i.. a century of Xavier’s arrival.
They had indeed enjoyed a meas
ure of freedom since 1873 but they
never felt wholly accepted. Though
their schools were highly esteemed
and much of the old prejudice had
been lessened, the end of the war
found the Church in the byways
Welfare Center, conducted by the
Sisters of Our Lady of Christian
Doc-trine, near Langley, from July
11 to 18.
Thirty children attended this
school where the seminarians
taught classes similar to those at
the school in Aiken.
rather than on the highway of
Japanese life.
Years of apostolic patience were
rewarded when the recent celebra
tions brought th: floodlight of na
tional attention on the Church and
her role in Japan’s past and pres
ent. Suzuki-san, the man-in-the-
street in Tokyo and Osaka, waken
ed up to the fact that the Kator-
ku K.vokai, the Catholic Church,
belongs—that it is something of
which Japan can be proud and
should value as a guide for the fu
ture. This fact struck the suzuki-
san forcibly when, for instance, he
heard Prince Takafatsu brother of
Emperor Hirohito, praising the
Japanese Catholic martyrs and
saying: "The faith St. Francis
Xavier brought to Japan four cen
turies ago is still alive—it will live
for ever!"
Governors and mayors came to
railway stations in the early morn
ing to greet the Cardinal and the
other pilgrims. Before their fellow-
citizens they paid public tribute to
St. Francis Xavier and to Chris
tianity. Libraries and archeological
societies organized exhibitions of
old Christian documents and reli
gious articles that it had once
meant death to possess.
More striking still was the re
spectful interest shown by the gen
eral public. Nowhere did I see or
hear of any sign of hostility or
ridicule as the pilgrimage proces
sion passed through crowded city
streets. Non-Chris( ians stood rev
erently to wateh. They even
marched in the procession, as in
Kagoshima.
In relation to their size, the Jap
anese newspapers gave the cele
brations about the same propor
tionate coverage, especially in pic
tures that St. Paul or New Orleans
dailies gave to national Eucharis
tic Congresses held in those Amer
ican cities.
This is a land of gigantic news
paper circulations. When Asahi
Shimbun, with its 3,500,000 circu
lation, and Mainichi Shimbun, with
nearly the same, carry news sto
ries, feature ax-ticles and inter
views, with abundant pictures, on
a religious celebration, they are
bringing innumerable non-Chris
tian multitudes' within at least the
fringe of the congregation.
The first 400 years after the in
troduction of Christianity in Japan
may have been the hardest. Clear
ly, the next hundred could be the
most fruitful.
Joseph F. McGinley
General Manager of
Dalton Radio Station
DALTON, Ga.—Clay Kenemer,
president of the Dalton Broadcast
ing Corporation, has announced
the appointment of Joseph F. Mc
Ginley as general manager of Ra
dio Station WBLJ in Dalton.
Mr. McGinley, who has been
connected with the radio station
here for about a year, was recent
ly elected president of the North
west Georgia Branch of the Catho
lic Laynlen’s Association of Geor
gia.
Nurses Graduate at St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, Charleston
Pictured above at e the members
mf the class receiving diplomas at
the 43rd annual graduation exer-
eiaaa of the St. Proneis Xavier In
firmary TriilllR School for
jtwreoa. id Charleston, S. C. Mon-
signor James J. May, Vicar General
of the Diocese of Charleston del!*- |
ered the baecaleureate address at 1
the exercises and presented the
diplomas to the graduete*. pictured
above, Vedt to right: Misses Angela
Harvey, Mary Mildred Moore, Ma- Keenan, another member of the
rie Joseph, Ann Weeks, Marceline class, was unable to attend the ex-
Herndon, Rose Mary Sayeg, Doro- [ excises because of illness. The
thy Gilberson, Gertrude Neal, Alice Florence Nightingale pledge was
Wright, Ruth Powell, Julia Crock- [ administered to the graduates by
er, Nora Lee Mitehoaa and Mary Mrs J. Don nan, president of the
B Cotton Miss Doris Elisabeth St. Francis Xavier Alumnae Asso
ciation, and school pins were pre
sented by Dr. Daniel L. Maguire,
chief of staff at the Infirmary. Mu
sic at the exercises was by Wich-
mann’s oreheetra. (Photo—Courteey
of The Charleston News and Cour
ier!