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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 30, 1949
Father William P. Donnelly, S. J.,
Conducts Annual Retreat for Men
At St. Joseph's Home, Washington
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, Ga. — Father
William Patrick Donnelly, S. J.,
president of Spring Hill College, in
Alabama, conducted the twenty-
ninth annual Retreat for men spon
sored by the Catholic Laymen's As
sociation of Georgia, held at St.
Joseph’s Home here, July 15-17.
Father Donnelly, who was bom
In Augusta, is the son of Mrs.
Patrick Donnelly and the late
Mr. Donnelly. He was ordained as
a priest of the Society of Jesus in
1940, and has already attained dis
tinction as an educator, having
served as president of the Jesuit
High School, New Orleans, before
being made president of Spring
Hill two years ago.
The retreatants, who numbered
fifty-six were A. Mettauer Ken
nedy, M. A. Wyndelts, Thomas W.
Duffy, M. A. Wyndelts, Jr., Claud
H. Shirley, J. C. Gavin, William R.
Holmes, John M. Harrison, Matt C.
Carroll, Norman J. Wrig^y, Wil
liam R. Merton, Homer S. Prater,
Charles L. Thomas and J. M. Lapo,
Atlanta; Charles LeH. Adams, Mar
tin J. Callaghan, K. S. G., Charles
W. Weller, John C. Garvin, W. J.
Cassidy, John J. McCreary, N. J.
Pascullis, P. G. McNelis, Harry J.
Elliott, C. A. Orlando, J. P. Mc-
Goldrick, Cosby W. Smith, John F.
McBrearty, Chris R. Sheridan, J.
Tom McGoldrick and M. L. Con
nolly, Macon.
E. J. O’Connor, William J. Hef-
feman, Henry C. Caver, Jr., J.
Tobin Barrett, Charles C. Chesser,
Lawrence, J. James, James B.
Mulherin, Hugh Kinchley, Matthew
W. Mulherin, John W. Burke, P.
H. Thompson, W. A- Lyons, An
drew N. Thompson, Richard
Bowles, Pat Mulherin and William
O. Conlon, Augusta; Dr. T. H. Mc-
Hatton, Robert A. Arthur, George
J. Block, Athens; James R. Gal
lagher, J. H. Wiggerman, Albany;
Phil Sheridan, Griffin, and Regi
nald W. Hatcher, Milledgeville.
At a meeting of the retreatants,
held at the close of the exercises,
James B. Mulherin, of Augusta,
was re-elected chairman of the Re
treat Section of the Laymen’s As
sociation. Local chairmen elected
were Robert A. Arthur, Athens;
Norman J. Wrigley. Atlanta; Miles
J. O’Connor, Augusta; J. H. Wig
german, Albany; Henry J. Murphy,
Columbus, Phil Sheridan, Griffin;
Martin J. Callaghan, K. S. G., Ma
con; Reginald Hatcher, Milledge
ville, and Leo Fahy, Rome.
The nominating committee, head
ed by John M. Harrison, of At
lanta, included W. J. Cassidy, Ma
son; Phil Sheridan, Griffin; Wil
liam Gallagher, Albany, and W. A.
Lyons, Augusta.
The following resolutions, pre
sented by a committee under the
chairmanship of Matt C. Carroll, of
Atlanta, and composed of Robert
A. Arthur, Athens; Charles Ches
ser, Augusta; James R. Gallagher,
Albany, and John J. McCreary,
were unanimously adopted:
Since the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia ★'as founded
i; Macon in 1916, a generation has
come and gone, and most of the
valiant and hardy band of organiz
ers have been taken to their eter
nal reward.
We feel that we should Impress
upon those who have been bom
during these thirty-three years
that the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia needs the ad
vice, stimulation, support and as
sistance of all those who under
stand and appreciate its record of
achievement, particularly those
who have benefited by its accomp
lishments in its efforts to promote
a better feeling among Georgians,
irrespective of creed. We urge
them to take a lively interest in
the Laymen’s Association and its
work, and learn more about it by
attending its annual convention to
be held In Macon in October.
We take this opportunity to re
mind our fellow laymen that 1950
will be a Holy Year of the Church',
the 29th in the history of Christen
dom, and the Centennial Year of
the Diocese of Savannah. During
this holy year, commencing on
Christmas Day of 1949, let us
avail ourselves of every opportun
ity and take advantage of every
occasion to promote and develop
complete programs of Catholic Ac
tion, both as members of groups
and as individuals, to the end that
we will increase in souls the graces
brought by the Sacraments and
please God by doing His Will, for
the Greater Honor and Glory of
God and the welfare of His Church.
Father Conlin
Dies in Savannah
We express our deep thanks to
Father John Crean, director of St.
Joseph’s Home, to Mother Aurelia
and the other good Sisters of St.
Joseph, and the boys at the home,
for the many kindnesses and at
tentions to us during this week
end. May Our Blessed Lord watch
over them all, and keep them close
to Him, filling their days with sun
shine and their years with hap
piness, always conscious of our af
fection, admiration, esteem and re
gard.
Finally, we offer our thanks to
Father William Patrick Donnelly,
of the Society of Jesus, our re-
treatmaster, whose leadership and
guidance in the spiritual exercises
these few days have been most in
spiring and have brought us, we
believe, much closer to God. We
assure Father Donnelly of our in
clusion of him in our Union of
Prayer formed at the first lay Re
treat under our auspices, at St.
Stanislaus College, Macon, in 1921,
and urge first retreatants today to
enter wholeheartedly and zealously
into the daily recitation of pray
ers for our fellow retreatants and
reverend retreatmasters. To which
we add a fervent prayer for our
beloved Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Jamfes
H. Conlin, chaplain of St. Joseph’s
Hospital, and vice-chancellor of
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta,
died here on June 24 funeral ser
vice being held at the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist.
Monsignor Joseph F. Croke, pas
tor of St. Anthony’s Church, At
lanta, offered the Solemn Requiem
Mass, with Father Robert Bren
nan, O. S. B., pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Savannah, deacon,
and Father James H. Grady, pas
tor of St. Mary’s Church, Rome,
sub-deacon. Father John A. Mor
ris, pastor of the Church of the
Nativity of Our Lord, Thunderbolt,
and Father Joseph Ware, acting
rector of the Cathedral, were mas
ters of ceremony.
Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan, Vi
car General of the Diocese of Sa
vannah-Atlanta; Father Daniel J.
McCarthy, Vicar General for Reli
gious, and many priests of the Dio
cese were present in the sanctuary
for the Mass, at which the ser
mon was delivered by Father Har
old Barr, pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta. Monsignor Moy
lan officiated at the burial ser
vices in the Catholic Cemetery.
FATHER G. OBRECHT,
SAVANNAH, MARKS
HIS GOLDEN JUBILEE
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RESOLVED: That at this con
clusion of the twenty-ninth annual
lay Retreat under the auspices of
the Catholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia, and held again this
year, for the nineteenth year at St.
Joseph’s Home, Washington, we
thank God for the opportunity
Which has been ours to spend these
few days, withdrawn from worldly
affairs, in prayer and meditation.
We note, sorrowfully, the ab
sence of those who have been in
our midst in previous years. Some
of them were this year unable to
attend because of ill health or ob
ligations to their loved ones, others
during the past year have departed
this life, and we find comfort in
the knowledge that they are in our
prayers and the hope that we are
in theirs.
We welcome those who are this
year making their first Retreat,
and assure them that we need their
cooperation in building up a still
greater Retreat movement in this
Diocese, and we invite them to
return next year and thereafter
with other additions to our ranks.
Particularly welcome at this Re
treat are those who are not of our
Faith, or who have recently re
ceived the light aqd grace to enter
the Church. We urge all present
to seek to arouse greater interest
in the Retreat movement so that
it may be of increasingly greater
benefit to non-Catholics, new Cath
olics and oil other Catholics.
We commend the father and son
teams attending the Retreat for
their inspiration and edifying ex
ample io us and hope that the
■umber of fathers and sons mak
ing the Retreat together will in
each year.
The hymns at Benediction dur
ing the Retreat were sung by the
boys’ choir, with Bister Loretta
Joseph as organist.
O'Brien and Spillane
New Accounting Firm
Formed in Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Announce
ment has been made of a partner
ship for the general practice of ac
countancy and tax law by Thomas
J. O’Brien and Thomas R. Spill
ane.
Mr. O’Brien, a native of Savan
nah, has lived here all of his life
with the exception of two years in
the Navy during World War I. He
passed his C. P. A. examination in
1919 and started his own prac
tice under the name of T. J.
O’Brien and Company, in October
1920.
Mr. Spillane, a native of Massa
chusetts, came to Georgia twenty-
seven years ago. He passed his
Certified Public Accountant exam
ination in Georgia in 1924 and sub
sequently was admitted to C. P. A.
practice in Florida. He was for
twenty-three years with the in
come tax division of the Internal
Revenue Department serving in
Atlanta, Jacksonville and ’ Savan
nah. HS was agent in charge of
Jacksonville for four years.
In 1925, Mr. Spillane resigned
from government service for a
time and was engaged in private
practice in Lakeland, Fla., and la
ter practiced in California. After
returning to government service,
Mr. Spillane was assigned to Sa
vannah in 1933, remaining with
the Savannah office of the Inter
nal Revenue Department until his
resignation last month.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Feb
ruary 25, 1897, Father Conlin at
tended St. Bridget’s School and
Cathedral College in Brooklyn, and
completed his study for the priest
hood at St. John’s Seminary,
Brooklyn, and St. Mary's Semi
nary, Baltimore. He was ordained
for the Diocese of Savannah on
June 6, 1925, in Brooklyn, by Bish
op Thomas E. Mulloy of Brooklyn.
Coming to Georgia shortly after
his ordination, his first assign
ment was as assitant rector of the
Cathedral here. After a few months
he was transferred to Atlanta as
assistant pastor of St. Anthony's
Church. In 1928, he served a tem
porary appointment as administra
tor at the Sacred Heart, Milledge
ville, and in 1939 as administrator
of the Church of the Holy Family
in Columbus, after which he re
turned to Savannah to serve as as
sistant rector at the Cathedral un
til February, 1936, when he was
appointed pastor of St. Anthony’s
Church, Atlanta. In January, 1939,
Father Conlin was made pastor or
the Blessed Sacrament Church in
Savannah, where he served for two
years, being obliged to resign as
pastor in 1941 on account of his
health. Since then he has served
as chaplain at St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal, and, for the last two years,
also as vice-chancellor of the Dio-
cese.
The Office of the Dead was
chanted by the clergy the evening
before the funeral at the Cathe
dral where Father Conlin’s body
rested in state, with members of
Savannah Council, Knights of Co
lumbus, acting as a guard of hon
or.
Father Conlin is survived by a
sister, Miss Helen Conlin, of Brook
lyn.
WILLIAM JOSEPH McINTYRE
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for William Joseph McIn
tyre, of John’s Island, who died
July 15, were held at St. Joseph’s
Church, Father J. Alex Westbury
officiating.
Born in 1894 in Pulaski, Va.,
Mr. McIntyre was the son of Wil
liam Joseph McIntyre and Mrs.
Matilda McIntyre of that city. He
was a retired machinist and a vet
eran of World War I.
Mr. McIntyre is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mabel Hester McIntyre;
tow daughters, Mrs. Woodrow Arm
strong, of New Bern, N. C., and
Mrs. W. L. Kornahrens, Charles
ton; two sons, W. J. McIntyre, Jr.,
of New Bern, and James McIntyre,
of Union; a step-son, Neal Gunter,
North Charleston; three brothers,
Oscar McIntyre, Athens, Ga.,
Charles McIntyre, Columbia, and
Francis McIntyre, Greenville; a sis
ter, Mrs. H. L. Smith, of Charles
ton, two grandchildren, and his
mother, of Greensboro, N. C.
FATHER OBRECHT
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Gus
tave Obrecht, S. M. A., who served
as pastor of St. Benedict the Moor
Church in Savannah for thirty-
eight years, and who is now pas
tor emeritus of the parish, cele
brated the fiftieth anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood on
July 16.
Father Obrecht was born on Oc
tober 4, 1875, in Bisochoffsheim,
Alsace, France. At the age of
fourteen, he entered the college of
the Society of African Missions at
Clermond-Ferrand, France, and
completed his study for the priest
hood at the Seminary of Lyons,
where he was ordained on July 16,
1899, by Archbishop Couliers of
Lyons.
Two months after his ordina
tion, Father Obrecht went to the
Gold Coast, British West Africa, as
a missionary. In 1905, he came to the
United States with the late Father
Ignatius Lissner, S. M. A., and af
ter serving for two years in Wis
consin, came to Georgia in May,
1907, to assume charge of St.
Benedict’s parish.
Father Obrecht remained pastor
of St. Benedict’s until four years
ago when a prolonged-illness made
it necessary for him to retire.
For the greater part of his half
century in the priesthood, Father
Obrecht has devoted his self-sac
rificing, kindly, priestly labors to
Father Vincent Now
Chaplain at Veterans
Administration Hospital
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Vin
cent Campbell, O. S. B., who has
been a member of the faculty of
Benedictine Military School for the
past three years, has left Savannah
to become a chaplain at one of the
Veterans Administration hospitals.
The Veterans Administration has
not as yet announced Father. Vin
cent’s assignment, but it is expect
ed that he will be stationed at the
psychiatric hospital at Perry Point,
Md.
Father Vincent has been serving
as chaplain of thq 48th Division,
Artillery, National Guard of Geor
gia, and as chaplain of the George
K. Gannam Post, American Legion.
He was ordained to the priest
hood in 1936, at St. Mary’s Semin
ary, Baltimore, and bad taught at
Belmont Abbey College, Belmont,
N. C., and the Benedictine High
School, Richmond, Va., before he
entered the Army Chaplain Corps
in 1942. After serving as an army
chaplain for four years, in the
European theatre of operations.
Father Vincent came to Savannah.
the Colored people of Savannah,
and has gained for himself the af
fectionate regard of those who
have been members of his congre
gation through the years, and has
won a place high in the respect
and esteem of all of the people of
Savannah.
Father Obrecht was honored at
a reception given at St. Benedict's
rectory. Miss Veronica Elliott was
chairman of the committee in
charge of the entertainment, with
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harmon, Mrs.
Waldo Spence, Miss Mary Kenney,
Miss Pauline Kenney, Mrs. R. J.
Jiran, Miss Anne Ivey, Miss Mabel
McGuire, Mrs. Richard Gavin, Mrs.
Robert Smith, Miss Kate Walsh,
Miss Kate Garrigan, Miss Frances
Morton, Miss Mary McKay, Mrs. J.
A. Daily and Mrs. Arthur Pierce
assisting.
Yellow roses and palms were
used in decorations and during the
evening Father Obrecht was given
a purse, the presentation being
made by Waldo Spense, Jr. Father
Thomas A. Brennan, pastor of the
Blessed Sacrament Church, in a
brief talk, paid tribute to the gold
en jubilarian.
Refreshments were served by
Misses Mary Daily, Adele Daily,
Joan Murphy, Mary Ann McCarthy
and Patricia Wolf.
NEWSMAN FROM DUBLIN ■
ON ILL-FATED PLANE
DUBLIN, Ga.—Vincent Mahoney,
San Francisco Chronicle news cor
respondent, was one of the news
papermen who were killed on July
12 wlien a Royal Dutch Airlines
Constellation crashed on a hillside
near Bombay, India. Mr. Ma
honey was a native of Dublin.
His sister, Mrs. Charles J.
Warner, lives in Rome, Ga., his
brother, Joseph Mahoney,- lives in
California, and another brother,
John H. Mahoney, lives in Dub
lin.
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