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AUGUST 30, 1952
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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AT JN’TED COMMUNITY DEFENSE SERVICE MEETING IN AUGUSTA—Pictured at a recent
luncheon meeting at the Richmond Hotel, in Augusta, Georgia, are, seated, left to rigBt, Mrs,
Charles Thompson, president of the Mount St. Joseph Mothers’ Club; Father Harold Barr, pastor of
St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church; Miss Marie Sara Garvey, National Catholic Community Service repre
sentative; Mrs. John Rox, president of the Marymount Club of St. Mary’s parish; Father Joseph
Murphy, pastor of Our Lady of Peace Church, North Augusta; standing, Michael Alvanzato, NCCS
representative; Mrs. Ray Campbell, president of the St. Patrick’s Parish Council of Catholic Women,
and Hugh Kinchley, executive secretary, Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. Under the
direction of William R. Sheehan, the NCCS, a participating agency of United Community Defense
Services, has established an office at 1922 Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C., and has begun an educational
and recreational program for the workers at the AEC-DuPont plant in the Augusta-Aiken area. The
meeting was for the purpose of discussing plans for the participation of local Catholic groups in the
project.—(Photo by Morgan Fitz).
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Abbot Robert McGann
Member of Trappist
Order for 50 Years
CONYERS, Ga.—Work in the
fields and other manual labor was
suspended on August 6 at the Ab
bey of Our Lady of the Holy
Ghost, when the Trappist monks
and lay brothers and a number
of visitors gathered to celebrate
an important anniversary in the
life of the Right, Reverend Dom
M. Robert McGann, O. C. S. O.,
Abbot of the Abbey .of Our Lady
of the Holy Ghost.
The occasion marked the fiftieth
anniversary of Abbot Robert’s be
coming a member of the Order of
Cistercians of the Strict Observ
ance. Born in New York, he has
worn the habit of a Trappist since
he was sixteen years old.
Among those who were at the
Abbey for the celebration of Abbot
Robert’s golden jubilee as a Trap
pist was the Right Reverend Dom
M. James Fox, O. C. S. O., former
ly Abbot of the Abbey in Conyers,
and now Abbot of the Abbey of
Our Lady of Gethsemane, in Ken
tucky.
Following the celebration of Ab
bot Robert’s jubilee Mass In the
Abbey chapel, the ninety members
of the community and their guests
enjoyed luncheon in the refectory.
60,000 CATHOLIC MEN of the
Archdiocese of New York Will
promote an archdiocesan Family
Rosary Crusade which will reach
its climax in a huge outdoor rally
in the Polo Grounds on October
12, Columbus Day. Father Patrick
Peyton, C. S. C., worldwide pro
moter of the Family Rosary, will
conduct the crusade.
Nafriorid .Catholic Community Service Is
Taking Part in AEC Project Area Work
Of United Community Defense Services
AIKEN, S. C. — The National
Catholic Community Service as a
participating agency of the United
Community Defense Services, Inc.,
has been extending services in the
H-Bomb Savannah River Area
since the latter part of February.
Its work has been chiefly in spir
itual, recreational, and health mat
ters and affects newcomers as well
as old residents.
There are two areas of service.
One, the need for increasing the
morale of the defense workers due
to the plant’s importance to the
nation. This can be done by meet
ing health, welfare, and recrea
tional needs. The other, assisting
towns and communities in the Sa
vannah River Area cope with the
heavy responsibility thrust upon
them due to impact of the H-Bomb
Plant. To assist them in adjusting
and mobilizing their resources to
meet existing needs including the
integration of newcomers with
their new communities.
A sprawling, quiet countryside
was transformed over a year ago
into a sea of activity with the na
tion’s H-Bomb Plant being thrust
upon this part of South Carolina.
People poured into the Savannah
River Area from all States. There
was not to be a government town
built as in former atomic installa
tions in the United States. The
workers and their families were to
be absorbed by the local commu
nities. Over 35,000 workers are
now employed at the Plant. Ap
proximately four thousand private
ly owned and four thousand ren
tal family trailers are spread out
over the countryside surrounding
the piant site. They extend over
into Georgia around Augusta.
The U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission and Dupont Company
were eager to accept the health,
welfare, and recreation services
offered by the United Community
Defense Services, Inc. WCDS is
supported primarily by the United
Red Feather Campaigns, through
the United Defense Fund. The Na
tional Catholic Community Ser
vice, Young Women’s Christian As
sociation, and National Travelers
Aid Association were three of fif
teen UCDS participating agencies
approved by UCDS to work in the
Savannah River Area.
NCCS has assisted the workers
of the Savannah River Plant and
surrounding communities in the
following programs:
A Branch Public Library of the
Aiken County Library has been
established in one of the trailer
courts.
Outside entertainment was
brought in, such as the nation’s
leading U. S. Army Ground Forces
Band; of 120 -pieces from Washing
ton, D. C., and the touring Aus
trian Students Good Will Tour to
North America. They presented a
musical show. Arrangements were
made so the Austrian students
were guests in the homes of local
residents. On Labor Day the Camp
Gordon Army Band will: play at a
plan recreational area. :
An immunization clinic to visit
three new loca^ties heavily popu
lated by newcomers was arranged
with the Aiken County Health De
partment. To date, 1300 persons
have received an inoculation, or
vaccination. The service is con-
Compliments of
Mrs. J. Harold Mulherin, Past President
Savannah Deanery - National Council of Catholic Women
tinuing into September.
Absentee voting information has
been arranged throughout the Sa
vannah River Area by incorpo
rating the assistance of various
civic organizations.
Advisory services were extended
so as to arrange for cool drinking
fountains in worker barracks.
Telephone service to outlying
areas and needed bus service in
certain localities has been encour
aged. In trailer courts recreational
committees were formed so the
workers could develop a program
of their own. These committees
were a basis for introducing as
their own program, an outdoor mo
tion picture program in various
trailer parks.
Assistance is being given in the
organization of a local community
chest.
NCCS is a member of the West
ern Carolina Council and the Staff
Conference of Voluntary Agencies
servicing Savannah River Area.
Spiritually, NCCS has been of
assistance in the following: An
NCCS Communion Breakfast for
a Men’s Holy Name Society; assist
ance in summer religious schools
conducted by Maryknoll semina
rians, and a hospitaliay program
in Augusta area sponsored by the
Council of Catholic Women in the
Augusta area. The purpose of the
hospitality program is to draw new
Catholic residents into the parish
and parish organizations and also
to draw the children into the Cath
olic Schools. A survey of 3209
rented trailers in Augusta, Ga.,
Aiken, Barnwell and Williston, S.
C., was conducted in order to lo
cate Catholic famlies and resulted
in statistical information such as
those who need Baptism, First
Holy Communion, and Confirma
tion. The information is turned
over to the respective parishes con
cerned. Out of 3410 family trailers
visited 228 are Catholic families.
Servicing industrial workers is
not new to the National Catholic
Community Service. It is a mission
it performed so well in over fifty
key defense areas in the United
States during the past yar.
The NCCS — Savannah River
Area office is located at 1922 Park
Avenue, Aiken, and is under the
direction of Mr. William R. Shee
han. Its area of operation swings
in a broad arc from Augusta, Ga.,
through Aiken to Allendale, South
Carolina. Its work extends into
both the dioceses of Savannah-At-
lanta and Charleston. Staff mem
bers are Michael Alvanzato. Buf
falo, N. Y., Michael E. Kaney,
Langley, and Miss Marie S. Gar
vey, Babylon, N. Y.
NCCS as a participating organi-
zation -of NCCS has an operation
for Puerto Rican workers in Ohio
and in San Diego for women em
ployed in the large aircraft manu
facturing companies.
The National NCCS office in
Washington, D C., is a department
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, and its offices are lo
cated in the same building at 1312
Massachusetts Ave., N. W.
Nationally, the NCCS is also a
member agency of the United Ser
vice Organizations (USO) and as
such as maintaining social and rec
reational clubs for members of the
Armed Forces and their families
throughout the United States and
abroad. A famous NCCS Club vis
ited by thousands in the past years
is located in Rome, Italy.
NCCS expects to make a sin
cere contribution to the Savannah
River Area as it has in the past
in so many other communities.
St. Anthony's Parish
Members in Atlanta
Hold Fgmily Picnic
ATLANTA, Ga. — Under the
auspices of the Holy Name So
ciety, of St. Anthony’s parish; a
Family Picnic was held on August
23 at Lithia Springs.
Damon Swann was general
chairman of the committee in
charge of arrangements, with
Charles Wonycott, as his aide. Max
Bips and Joseph McCaffrey were
co-chairmen of the Entertainment
Committee; Eugene S. Brisbane,
chairman of the Finance Commit
tee; John W. Mulcare and Henry
A. Richardi, co-chairmen of the
Food and Procurement Commit
tee, and Charles Wonycott, chair
man of the Transportation Com
mittee,
On the picnic grounds were a
beautiful swimming pool and a
golf course, and the day was en
livened by a number of athletic
contests for the children and the
grown-ups. In the evening, square
dancing and ballroom dancing
were enjoyed.