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JUNE 21, 1952
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIFTEEN
Pontifical Masses of Thanksgiving and
Requiem Mark Commemoration of 50th
Anniversary of Benedictine School
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Solemn
Pontifical Mass of Thanksgiving
commemorating the fiftieth anni
versary of the founding of Bene
dictine Military School was cele
brated on June 3 at the Sacred
Heart Church by the Most Rev
erend Francis E. Hyland, D. D., J.
U. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Savan-
nah-Atlanta.
Father Thomas I. Sheehan, of
the class- of ’15, pastor of St.
Thomas More Church, Decatur,
was the assistant priest; Father
Paul Milde, O. S. B., former prin
cipal of Benedictine, now of Bel
mont Abbey, was deacon of the
Mass; Father John Coleman, S. M.
A., pastor of St. Benedict the Moor
Church, subdeacon; Father Leo
Frierson, O. S. B., of the class of
’16, and Prior of the Benedictine
community in Richmond, Va., and
Father Thomas A. Brennan, of the
class of ’13, and pastor of the
Blessed Sacrament Church, were
deacons of honor, Father Michael
Regan and Father Norbert Mc
Gowan, O. S. B., masters of cere
mony.
The sermon at the Golden Jubi
lee Mass was delivered by Father
William J. Harty, S. J., of the class
of ’13, now pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, New Orleans. The
choir was under the direction of
Harry Persse, with Miss Margaret
Steeg as the organist, and the
ushers were members of the
alumni, headed by Thomas Bey-
tagh, of the class of ’42.
On June 4, A Solemn Pontifical
Mass of Requiem for the repose of
the souls of deceased members of
the faculty and alumni was offered
at the Sacred Heart Church by the
Right Reverend Vincent G. Taylor,
O. S. B., D; D., Abbot-Ordinary of
Belmont.
Father Joseph Tobin, O. S. B.,
Prior of Belmont Abbey, was the
assistant priest- Father Boniface
Bauer, O. S. B., of Belmont Abbey,
and Father Gregory Eichenlauh. O.
S. B., of Gastonia, N. C., were the
deacons of honor; Father Paul
Milde, O. S. B., of Belmont, was
, deacon of the Mass; Father Steph-
j en Dowd, O. S. B., of Richmond,
Va., .was subdeacon; Father Nor
bert McGowan, O. S. B. arid Fath-
; er Raymond Geyer, O. S. B., were
j masters of ceremony.
Music for the Mass was render-
| ed by the junior choir of the
Sacred Heart Church.
Outstanding Members
Honored by Savannah
Catholic Women's Club
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Honorary
memberships were conferred on
Mrs. H. T. Wilsop and Mrs. J. P.
McDonough at the supper meeting
of the Catholic Women’s Club held
on June 10 at the Catholic Com
munity Center. The honor was in
recognition of their outstanding
services to the club, and each was
presented with a corsage.
Mrs. Joseph E. Kelly announced
the appointment of the following
standing committee chairmen:
Auditing, Miss lola Crawford; Edu
cation, Mrs. A. J. Sehano; Mrs.
Charles F. Powers, Mrs. Katherine
Huggins; Entertainment, Mrs.
John E. Buckley, Mrs. J. P. Mc
Donough, Miss Regina Lytgen,
Miss Rosalie Manan; House, Mrs.
J. H. Mitchelson, Mrs. J. J. Downs;
Social, Mrs. C. A. McCarthy, Mrs.
Harold Lund, Mrs. Dorothy Copes;
Membership, Miss Helen Roe
Nugent, Mrs. J. Harold Mulherin;
Visiting. Mrs. H. T. Wilson, Mrs.
J. B. Earnest; Press, Miss Marie
L. Ray; Welfare, Mrs. D. W. Du
pont.
Father Norbert McGowan, O. S.
B.. congratulated the club on the
splendid success of the Corporate
Communion on Penetcost Sunday,
when five hundred Catholic worn-
men of the city received Holy
Communion as a group.
A musical program was pre
sented by Miss Mary Anne Thomas
and Miss Celine Hiltz, vocalists,
and Miss Margaret Steeg, pianist.
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FIVE MEMBERS OF FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AT BENEDICTINE SCHOOL—Pictured above
are five men who were among the first to register in 1902 when the Benedictine Military School
was opened in Savannah. Left to right as they appeared at the Golden Anniversary Dinner of the
alumni at the Hotel De Soto are D. VI 7 . Dupont, J. M. Trapani, John R. Berry M. C. McCarthy
and T. A. Furlong. A sixth member of the class, J. W. Petit, also attended the jubilee dinner.
(Photo by Bob Heriot, Savannah Camera Company—Courtesy of The Savannah Morning News).
Leader in Union of | ALUMNI OF SAVANNAH'S BENEDICTINE
MILITARY SCHOOL JOIN IN CELEBRATING
GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THEIR ALMA MATER
Sisters ol Mercy
Dies in Maryland
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NCI-
Mother Mary Carmelita Hartman,
first superior general of the Sis
ters of Mercy of the Union in the
United States, died at their moth-
erhouse in suburban Bethesda, Md.
Solemn Requiem Mass for Mother
Carmelita was offered on May 23
by her cousin, Monsignor John S.
Spence, superintendent of schools
for the Archdiocese of Washington
and pastor of St. John the Baptist
de la Salle Church, at the Shrine
of the Sacred Heart in Baltimore.
Mother Carmelita was born in
Baltimore, the daughter of Henry
C. Hartman and Mrs. Adelaide G.
Hartman. She joined the Baltimore
Sisters of Mercy at Mount Wash
ington, Md., in 1893 and made her
final profession there in 1895. She
taught in Baltimore schools con
ducted by her community until
1901 when she came here to be
come superintendent of St. Cath
erine’s Residency, a home for
businesswomen. In 1903 she open
ed St. Aloysius’ School for boys
here as principal. In 1904, she re
turned to Baltimore as superior of
Mercy Hospital, serving there un
til 1917. She was elected Mother
Superior of her community in
1923, a post she held until 1929.
In 1927, she was asked by a
number of communities of Mercy
nuns to take the initiative in unit
ing their various communities and
in 1929 the Holy See issued a de
cree approving the union. At the
first chapter meeting of the united
community in 1929 in Cincinnati
she was elected Mother General
and was reelected in 1935. In 1941,
she was elected Vicar General of
the community.
The United Sisters of Mercy now
have 6,358 members. They conduct
eight colleges, 104 high schools, 406
elementary schools, eight cateche
tical schools, five summer camps,
17 residences for business wom
en, twelve child-caring homes,
twelve homes for the aged, 95 hos
pitals and 58 schools of nursing
in this country.
In the Diocese of Savannah-At-
lanta, the Sisters of Mercy of Sa
vannah, and the Mother McAuley
Sisters of Mercy, of Macon, sepa
rate communities, were incorporat
ed into the Sisters of Mercy of the
Union.
Chorles Daniel Bickers
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SUCCESSORS TO
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Gainesville,, Georgia
Graduation Exercises
Held at St. Angela
\cademy in Aiken
AIKEN, S. C.—Five seniors re-
Members of the graduating class
The baccalaureate Mass was
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Former stu
dents of the Benedictine Military
School, from the graduates who
entered the school in 1902 to the
members of the class of 1952,
toasted their Alma Mater at a col
orful Golden Jubilee banquet held
on June 3 at the Hotel De Soto,
with the Most Reverend Francis E.
Hvlarid, D. D., J. C. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Savanah-Atlanta; Father
Bede Lightner, O. S. B., principal
of Benedictine Military School,
and Solicitor General Andrew J.
Ryan, Jr., as speakers.
Toastmaster William Otegen
sounded the keynote for the gath
ering when he declared that there
is no business or profession that
has not benefited from the services
of men who were trained at the
Benedictine School.
Indicative of the ‘bond of unity”
of which Father Bede spoke, was
the placing of Benedictine’s class
of 1902 and this year’s graduating
class side by side in the center of
the banquet hall. Father Bede
called that bond the ‘‘mark of a
cadet,” and attributed the school’s
greatness to the loyalty and affec
tion existing between he Benedic
tine Fathers and the Benedictine
cadet.s
Mr. Ryan, who was a member of
the class that graduated in 1919.
said that Protestants, Jews and
Catholics attended the school
where the Benedictine Fathers
taught that ‘ love of God” was the
common ground on which all could
meet and live together as human
beings. The Benedictines taught
loyalty to God first, Mr. Ryan
added, "and that’s what make B. C.
men good citizens, good husbands
and good fathers.”
Bishop Hyland said it was im
possible to estimate the great con
tribution made by Benedictine
School to Savannah’s civic life dur
ing the past half-century.
Taking occasion to reply to
critics of "the Catholic schools,
Bishop Hyland noted that the
Church is educating 4,000,000 of
her children in this country today
with no help from public funds. In
these days of burdensome taxes,
Bishop Hyland said you would
think the taxpayers, would be
thankful that they did not have to
erect buildings and pay teachers to
instruct this great number of chil
dren, and warned that those who
are trying to do away with private
schools would not achieve unity
hut only uniformity.
His Excellency declared that a
Catholic school is “as truly funda
mentally American as the very
origin of our country.”
From Ireland, came a letter of
congratulations to the Benedictine
Fathers from Archbishop Gerald
P. O’Hara, who is now serving as
Papal Nuncio-in Dublin.
Captain Eddie Thomson, mili
tary commandant at Benedictine
for many years, was given several
rousing ovations. One came after
it was announced that the class of
1902 had voted to place a plaque
in the balls at Benedictine in his
honor.
Benedictine alumni from every
walk of life crowded into the ban
quet hall lor the Jubilee fete to
meet old classmates and teachers
and to reminisce over the days of
John Scott, Colonel Jordan F
Brooks and ’other stalwarts of the
Maroon and White.
Distinguished guests, who were
presented by Father Robert Bren
nan, O. S. B., Prior of the Bene
dictine community in Savannah,
and rector of Benedictine School,
included the Right Reverend Vin
cent G. Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Ab
bot-Ordinary of Belmont; Mayor
Olin F. Fulmer, of Savannah;
Judge James P. Houlihan. K. S. G.,
chairman of the Chatham County
Commission, and Foreman Hawes,
president of Armstrong Junior
College.
T. A. Furlong, credited with be
ing the first student to register at
Benedictine College, as Benedic
tine Military School was called in
1902, was also introduced by Fath
er Robert, as were D. W. Dupont,
J. M. Trapani, John R. Berry, M. C.
McCarthy, and J. W. Petit, who
were among the first students to
register when the school opened
fifty years ago.
Music for the occasion was by
Rudolph Jacobson’s orchestra,
with Edward P. Daly and Harry
Persse as vocal soloists.
The committee on arrangements
for the Golden Jubilee celebration
included Father Robert, Father
Cuthbert, William F. Oetgen, H.
Sol Clark and Paul K. Helmly.
Morist College in
Aflonta Holds 51st
Annual Commencement
ATLANTA, Ga. — Forty-five
members of the senior class at
Marist College received their di
plomas at commencement exercises
held on May 29 in the Sacred
Heart Auditorium.
Monsignor James J. Grady, pas
tor of the Immaculate Conception
Church, delivered the address to
the graduates and the valedictory
address was delivered by Gordon
Azar.
Other members of the graduat
ing class were;
Robert Dale Andrew, Richard
Joseph Azar, Shelby Paul Barre,
Jere Lee Bennett, Paul Wentroth
Brandenburge, James Newton, III,
John Charles Brennen, Richard
Stewart Briggs, Norris Fowler
Brooks, Jerome Thomas Callahan,
John Joseph Cotter, Jr., Donald
Joseph Duckworth, Charles Fred
erick Eaton, David Lucas Glancy,
Neal Ellis Gunn, Allen Jude Ham
mer, Penn Gay Holman, Phillips
Townsend Hutchison.
Herbert Ronald Jacobson, Jo
seph Aloysius Kane, Jr., Donald
Thomas Kelley, Carlis Eugene
Kirkpatrick, Jr., Joseph Lewis
Langston, Hugh John Lee, Antho
ny George Maloof, John Robert
Markley, Slater Eugene Marshall,
Jr., Peter John McEvoy, Lee Stan
ton Payne, Jr., Wiiliam Little Ram
sey, Jr., Richard John Reynolds,
III, Harry Theodore Ridlehoover,
Jr., Thomas Irving Scott.
Alan Myron Smith, Charles Da
vid Snitzer, Howard Douglas Stapp,
Robert Ernest Trimyer, Richard
David Weimar. Jr.. Lawrence Wil
liam White, Richard Stanton White,
Jr., William Watkins Wynn, Dan
iel William Yike, Jr., and Robert
Louis Yike.
IN THE GRADUATING CLASS
of 1952 at St. Mary-of-the-Woods
College, Indianapolis, was Miss
Mary McNamara, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Reid McNamara, of Ful
ton, N. Y., and a niece of Mon
signor T. James McNamara, of Sa
vannah-