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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 17, 1952
Fifty Students to Graduate
At Belmont Abbey College's
Seventy-fourthCommencement
BELMONT, N. C.—Belmont Ab
bey College will graduate fifty stu
dents at its seventy-fourth com
mencement exercises to be held
June 1-2.
The two-day program at the
Benedictine institution of learning
will begin on June 1, with an aca
demic procession which will form
in front of the college administra
tion building. The procession, com
posed of the faculty and graduates
of Belmont Abbey College, togeth
er with the graduates of the Sacred
Heart College, will proceed to Bel
mont Abbey Cathedral for the
Solemn Pontifical Baccalaureate
Mass which will be celebrated by
the Rigfit Reverend Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-
Ordinary of Belmont, and presi
dent of the college. The Mass,
honoring the Holy Spirit on the
Feast of Pentecost, will be offered
in thanksgiving for the many bene
fits of the scholastic year.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered by the Most Reverend
John J. Russell, D. D., Bishop of
Charleston. The Proper of the Mass
will be sung by the Abbey Schola,
and the Ordinary of the Mass by
the Monastery Choir.
On June 2, the graduation ex
ercises will begin at 3:45 p. m. with
an academic procession to the Ab
bey Cathedral for Solemn Pontifi
cal Benediction which will be given
by Abbot Vincent.
At 4:30 p. m., the solemn aca
demic convocation will be given by
Father Bernard Rosswog, O. S. B..
rector of Belmont Abbey College,
in the Haid gymnasium. Follow
ing the convocation the valedictory
address will be delivered by Harold
A. Kusterer, Jr., of Richmond, Va.,
highest ranking honor student of
the college. The graduates will
then be presented by the rector to
Abbot Vincent, who will present
the degrees, diplomas and awards.
Dr. Eva J. Ross, B. S., M. A., Ph.
D., author, lecturer and head of the
Department of Sociology of Trinity
College, Washington, D. C., will de
liver the address to the graduates.
One of the leading educators in
the United States, Dr. Ross was
born in Northern Ireland of Scot-
tish-English parents. She was bap
tized in the Church of England but
later entered the Catholic Church.
She attended a Catholic convent
school from 1914 to 1921 and won
the first prize in the Catholic So
cial Guild school examinations in
1920 and again in 1921. A business
career interrupted her studies, but
in 1930 she took her Bachelor of
Commerce degree from the Uni
versity of London. After she came
to the United States she resumed
her scholastic work and in 1933 re
ceived a master of arts degree
from St. Louis University and a
Ph. D. in sociology from Yale Uni
versity, the first woman to receive
that degree at Yale.
In the summer of 1931, Dr. Ross
decided to devote her time to writ
ing a much needed sociology col
lege textbook, “A Survey of So
ciology.” That it filled a need is
attested by its adoption by many
of the major colleges and univer
sities. It went into a fourth edi
tion and was then replaced by the
author’s “Fundamental Sociology,”
published in 1939.
Dr. Ross is also the author of
“Rudiments of Sociology,” Belgian
Rural Cooperation,” and “Sociology '
and Social Problems. She has just
completed a new’ college text in so
ciology which is now’ in publica
tion.
During 1943, Dr. Ross was presi
dent of the American Catholic So
ciology. Since 1940 she has been
one of the editors of the Ameri
can Catholic Sociological Review
and since 1943 has been its book
review editor. Dr. Ross is also on
the board of editors of Service
Social dans le Monde, the world
organ of Catholic social workers,
published in Belgium. She has
been a professor and head of the
Department of Sociology at Trinity
College since 1940.
f Following the address by Dr.
Ross, Abbot Vincent will offer the
graduates a few words of congratu
lation, encouragement and bene
diction.
The graduates will then proceed
to the flagpole on the south campus
for the flag ceremony, which will
consist of the president of the
graduating class lowering the class
colors and the president of the
class of 1953 raising the standard
of that class. The cimmencement
exercises will close with the sing
ing of the alma mater song and the
National Anthem by the assembly.
Belmont Abbey College
Valedictorian
Harold A. Kusterer, Jr., of Rich
mond, Virginia,‘W’ho had the high
est scholastic average for the year,
will deliver the valedictory address
at the seventh-fourth annual com
mencement of Belmont Abbey Col
lege. Belmont, N. C.
High School Seniors
Visit St. Joseph's
Hospitol, Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga—Young wo
men in the graduating classes of
high schools in Savannah and all
South Georgia were invited to at
tend an open house at St. Joseph’s
Hospital on May 12, National Hos
pital Day.
Sister M. Mildred, R. S. M., di
rector of the School of Nursing
at St. Joseph’s, and also of the
nursing service, showed the visi
tors through the nurses’ home and
hospital, after which refreshments
were served.
Honor Given Abbot Vincent's Sister,
Who Hurdled Blindness to Become
Official of Insurance Company
NEW ORLEANS — (NO- An
other honor was bestowed here
on Miss Mary Taylor, of Greens
boro, N. C., who bested one of
life’s severe handicaps to become
agency relations director on an in
surance company and editor of its
magazine. She is the sister of the
Right Reverend Vincent G. Taylor,
O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-Ordinary of
Belmont Abbey in North Carolina.
Last year, Miss Taylor was voted
the outstanding business woman
in North Carolina by the Business
and Professional Women’s Clubs
of the State. Here she was named
“honorary citizen” of New Orleans,
presented with a certificate and
key to the city of Mayor deLesseps
S. Morrison at a dinner attended
by Abbot Columban Thuis, O. S. B.,
of St. Joseph’s Abbey, St. Bene
dict, La.
A native of Norfolk, Va., Miss
Taylor has spent most of her life
in Greensboro. She joined the
insurance company in 1905 and for
about seven years she and the pres
ident of the insurance company
formed its entire staff.
About 1922, Miss Taylor received
a setback which would have dis
couraged a less courageous and
religious woman — she lost her
sight.
"I couldn’t have done anything
without the help of God and my
sister, Lucie,” Miss Taylor said.
Her sister said that Miss Taylor
does not undertake anything with
out first resorting to prayer. The
sister said Miss Taylor’s engage
ments are many and varied—she is
constantly called on for speeches,
prepares stores for the company
magazine, dictates layouts for the
magazine, attends to her bulky
mail and carries out many other
duties.
“What she thinks and does in
fluences all of us in our work,” a
company official said. “She is an
inspiration to all of the company’s
nearly 1,500 personnel.”
On Belmont Abbey College Commencement Program
ABBOT VINCENT
The Right Reverend Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-Ordi
nary of Belmont, who will preside
at the seventy-fourth annual com
mencement of Belmont Abbey Col
lege.
BISHOP RUSSELL
The Most Reverend John J. Rus
sell, D. D., Bishop of Charleston,
w’ho will deliver the sermon at the
Baccalaureate Mass which will be
celebrated at Belmont Abbey
Cathedral on June 1.
DR. EVA J. ROSS
Dr. Eva J. Ross, B. S.,*N. A.. Ph.
D., author and head of the Depart
ment of Sociology at Trinity Col
lege, Washington, D. C., who will
address the graduates of Belmont
Abbey College.
Best Wishes to Father Michael of Belmont
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