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Catholic Lay
men's Association
of Georgia
"To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed"
Voi. XXXIII. No. 9 FIFTY-SIX PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952
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Augusta's New St. Joseph's Hospital
The long-awaited day upon which St. Joseph’s Hospital, to be opearted by the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet, in Augusta, Georgia, will be ready to receive its first patients, is rapidly ap
proaching. Workmen are now completing the task of grading the grounds and of paving the road
ways. The final stages of the work on installing equipment and placing furniture has been reached,
and City Council of Augusta has let a contract fo r the paving of the extensions of Winter Street and
Anthony Road from Wrightsboro Road to the hospital grounds. Designed by Kuhkle and Wade, Au
gusta architects, Ray M. Lee Company, of Atlanta, were the builders. Construction of the hospital
was made possible through the contributions of Augustans. without respect to creed; substantial dona
tions by the Sisters of St. Joseph, and a Federal grant of funds under the Hill-Burton Act. A convent
home for the Sisters who will staff the hospital has been built on the grounds, just to the east
of the hospital. The upper picture shows the new St. Joseph’s Hospital as viewed from the south,
the lower aerial photograph shows the hospital as it appears from the north —(Photos by Morgan
Fitz).
Georgia Laymen's Association
To Hold 37th Annual Meeting
In Waycross on October 26th
Bulletins
A MOVE to bring religious edu
cation in Atlanta’s public school
children was tentatively approved
by the Atlanta Christian Council.
The ministers voted unanimously
to give preliminary approval to a
report presented by Dr. John R.
Brokhoff, chairman of the council’s
religious education committee,
which -ailed on public school of
ficials in the Greater Atlanta area
to release children with parental
permission an hour each week for
religious education. “The Supreme
Court’s decision to permit released-
time religious education,” Dr. Brok
hoff said, is a “supreme oppor
tunity to provide religious educa
tion to millions now untouched by
the churches.”
BISHOP JOHN O’SHEA of
Kanchow, Kiangsi Province, who
was given up as dead last July, has
arrived in Hong Kong pale and
weak after seven months in a Chi
nese communist prison. Bishop
O’Shea is a native of Deep River,
Conn., a Vincentian, who has served
in China for more than thirty
years.
WAYCROSS, Ga.—For the first
time since the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia was found
ed, in 1916, Waycross will be host
to an annual convention of the
association, when the 37th annual
session will be held here on the
Feast of Christ the King, Sunday,
October 26.
The first time that a convention
of the Laymen’s Association was
ever held in Southeast Georgia was
in 1948, when the annual meeting
was held in Brunswick. .
His Excellency the Most Rever
end Francis E.-Hyland, D. D., J. C.
D., Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, will honor by his attend
ance and participation the gather
ing which is expected to attract
hundreds of the outstanding
Catholic laymen and laywomen
from all parts of Georgia.
The Laymen’s Association will
proudly present as its guest speaker
this year, the Reverend Joseph G.
Cox, J. C. D., rector oi Stl Thomas
More Catholic Boys’ High School,
Philadelphia.
Father Cox, whose home city is
Philadelphia, attended the Roman
Catholic High School there, and
then completed his study for the
priesthood at St. Charles Seminary,
Overbrook, Pa., where he was or
dained on May 29, 1930.
Following his ordination, Father
Cox continued study at the Catholic
University of America, Washington,
D. C., where he was accorded the
degree of Doctor of Canon Law.
From 1932 to 1943, Father Cox
served as Assistant Superintendent
of Schools for the Archdioces'e of
Philadelphia, meanwhile serving
for one year' as assistant pastor of
St. Agnes Church, West Chester,
Pa., and as chaplain for St. Vin
cent’s Home, Drexel Hill.
In 1943, Father Cox was ap
pointed to his present post, rector
of St. Thomas More High School
(Continued on Page Forty-Eight)
St Joseph's Hospital in i
Augusta Slated to Open 7
Before the End of October
AUGUSTA, Ga. — With the an
nouncement that the City of Au
gusta has let a contract to the
Southeastern Roadbuilders, Inc.,
for the paving of Winter Street
and Anthony Road, from W’rights-
boro Road to the grounds of the
new St. Joseph's Hospital, there
comes a realization that it will be
only a matter of days before a
definite announcement tan be
made regarding the date when the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
will be ready to admit patients to
Augusta’s newest hospital.
The work of grading the hospi
tal grounds, paving walks and
driveways and parking areas is
now nearing completion and the
final stage of installing equipment
and furnishing the building is just
about being reached.
As soon as possible, anneunce-
ment will be made regarding the
date that the hospital will be dedi
cated by the Most Reverend
Francis E- Hyland, D. D., J. C. B.,
Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-At-
lanta. The present plan is that
immediately after the dedication
ceremony the hospital will be open
to the public for inspection, and
then the institution will be ready
to receive its first patients.
Constructed at a cost approach
ing $1,750,000, St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal will be a memorial tc the gen
erosity of the individuals and busi
ness establishments of Augusta, the
contributions of the Sisters of St.
Joseph, and the cooperation of the
Federal government through the
provisions of the Hill-Burton Act.
Designed by Kublke and Wade.
Augusta architects, with the Ray
M. Lee Company, of Atlanta, as the
contractors, the hospital has been
in the process of construction since
September, 1950, when the task of
clearing and leveling the site was
begun.
The hospital is a marvel of the
latest medical and surgical hospi
tal equipment, while affording an
environment more homelike than
institutional for the patients.
On the ground floor of the build
ing will be the Colored nursing
ward, waiting rooms and cafeteria,
also lounges and locker rooms for
the staff and nurses.
The kitchen will also be on the
ground floor, with the laundry,
boiler-room, housekeeper’s office,
storage and supply area, and cen
tral room from which oxygen can
be piped throughout the building, j
The kitchen equipment is of stain
less steel, and there are three
Guest Speaker at
Laymen's Convention
FATHER JOSEPH G. COX
The Reverend Joseph G. Cox, |
J. C. D., Rector of St. Thomas
More 3oys’ Catholic High School.
Philadelphia, who will be the guest
speaker at the 37-th annual conven
tion of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, to be held on
October 26 in Waycross.
j walkin refrigerators and also a
j garbage storage refrigerator.
For food service, the meal pack
(.system will be used, service being
j direct from the kitchen to patients’
j rooms. By the use of infra-red
; rays, to heat especially manufactur-
I ed glass containers, food can be
I kept hot without its having a dry
; or steamed taste-
On the first floor of the building
will be the public entrance, the
staff entrance, ambulance entrance,
■ emergency rooms, general offices,
| physical theraphy suite, labora-
’ tories. doctors’ lounge and library,
j record rooms, blood hank, visitors’
j waiting room, a special waiting
[ room for police officers, canteen
and gift shop, chapel, central steri-
I lizatipn department, supply rooms,
j pharmacy, surgical suite, cysto-
l
(Continued on Page Seven)
Five New Catholic j
! Schools Erected in %
Georgia This Year u
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Reverend
Cornelius L. Maloney, Ph. D., Su-
! perintendent of Schools for the
j Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, has
I not yet released a statement in
regard to the number of children
enrolled in the diocesan schools
lor the scholastic year which be
gan tljis month.
Although classes have begun, in
a number of instances pupils are
j still being added to the school
| rolls, making it difficult to secure
at this time the actual number of
! students that will tafe attending
j Catholic schools in Georgia this
! year.
| Doctor Maloney, however, can
j announce that four new school
buildings are being added to the
j diocesan school system with the
I start of the 1952-53 school year,
[ in addition to the new school
j building of the Immaculate Con-
j c-eption School, in Atlanta, in
which classes were held for a part
| of the 1951-52 school year.
| The new St. Theresa’s School,
i in Albany; the new St. Joseph’s
| School, Columbus, the new school
; of the parish of Our Lady of the
| Assumption, in Atlanta, and the
new Blessed Pius X High School.
: for Colored Catholics, in Savan
nah are now in use.
A campaign has been launched
in Macon to erect a new St. Jos
eph's Parochial School there; a
site has been purchased for a
Catholic school in Marietta, and a
movement is underway in Augusta
to build a new Boys’ Catholic
High School.
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Archbishop O'Hara
Offers Mass at Irish
Abbey Consecration *
DUBLIN, Ireland.—(NO—High
officials of Church and State took
part in the ceremonies at Mount
Melleray in County Wexford when
the Cistercian Abbey church was
consecrated on the Feast of St.
Bernard, Cistercian patron.
A semi-private consecration was
attended by President Sean O'Kel-
iy and numerous Bishops and Ab
bots, including Prelates from Eng
land, Scotland. France and Rome.
The next day, public ceremo
nies began with a Solemn Pontifi
cal Mass offered by Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic Nun
cio to Ireland. A huge congrega
tion, including President O’Kelly.
members of the Government and
Hierarchy and other distinguished
personalities attended.
By special privilege and for the
first time, the monastery enclosure
was open to women visitors for
‘nine days after the consecration.
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