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Published by the 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 ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR 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. ! V 'I -fr 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. !