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SEPTEMBER 27, 1952
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
ST. JOSEPH’S HOME, WASHINGTON—St. Joseph’s Home, for
boys, conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, was
opened in 1876. The presenP’brick structure, pictured above, was
erected in 1%£2, largely through the generosity of Miss May Hav-
erty, of Atlanta, and her father, the late James J. Haverty. Exten
sive improvements were made at the home in recent years. Among
the recreational features new to St. Joseph’s are a swimming pool
and a skating rink, plus a television set. The boys keep up their
school work in classes taught at the home, so that they are ready
to enter schools Of higher grade when leaving St. Joseph's.
Students Older Than Professors
At Unusual Seminary in Rome
B? REV. ROBERT J. SULLIVAN
(Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News
Service)
ROME-—The “boys” from Beda
College here are rel&xing in vari
ous parts of Europe with as much
zest as most vacationing students.
Perhaps they don’t do as much
hitch-hiking and walking as stu
dents traditionally do. But they
are still active and have loads of
fun. One of the “boys” has gone
on a bicycle trip to Montserrat,
Spain.
The “boys’ ’from Beda are an
unusual group of students because
Beda is an unusual college. It is
an English seminary for late voca
tions. It was established here by
Pope Pius IX just. 100 years ago.
The seminarians range in age
from the mid-twenties to 70.
They have changed course in
mid-ocean to dedicate the re
mainder of their lives to God in
the priesthood. Their careers have
been varied, often colorful. Many
are converts. Some were even
non-Catholic ministers.
The student at Beda is often old
er than the professor. Only the
rector can be sure of being re
spected just for his age. He is
Msgr. Charles Duchemin, himself
a Beda graduate of the 1918 class.
Prior to entering the priesthood
he practiced law in London. He
became rector in 1928.
Beda’s alumni include lawyers,
businessmen, concert musicians,
former army officers, surgeons,
teachers and actors. The past
quarter-century has seen the or
dination of over 200 priests at
Beda. Eighty-three were converts,,
Forty-three had been non-Catholic
ministers.
Leading this year's relatively
small ordination class of six is
Reginald Sehonriberg. a former
British colonel now 71 years old.
His career includes inspection and
supervisory assignments in mili
tary service in India. Egypt. Singa
pore and western China, consular
service, exploring, and authoring
of books such as “Between the
Oxus and the Indus’ 'and “Kafirs
and Glaciers.”
Another in the class is the Rev.
Leo Hammond, 39. Formerly a
clerk, he was commissioned a
captain in the British army during
World War II and saw service in
India. He came to Beda in 1948.
Denis Hutchinson, a convert, is
a former Shakespearean actor with
Sir Frank Benson’s , company.
During the war he served in the
RAF.
Stanley Borrows, also a convert,
was formerly with Lloyd’s Bank
and is a RAF veteran.
- Karl Vath. 43, was a German
banker and businessman with ex
perience in the Orient.' He was
ordained for the Diocese of Hong
Kong.
Ian Stewart of Eton, 39, is also
a veteran of the RAF. His family
now lives in Winsted, Conn.
The average ordination class of
this unique institution is teb
priests. Among its distinguished
alumni are Archbishop Richard
Downey of Liverpool. The late
Bishop John Barrett of Plymouth,
Archbishop Michael Gonzi of
Malta, and Archbishop David
Mathew, Apostolic Delegate to
British East and West Africa.
Prominent among the U. S.
alumni are the late Father Selden
P. Delaney, formerly of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of St.
Mary the Virgin, New York, who
after his conversion spent four
years at Beda, and Monsignor
Henry Pierce who served with him
in New York and came to the
Beda with him and now lives as
a priest in Rome.
Though Beda is an English col
lege, students are not limited to
Englishmen. There are usually
some Americans among the semi
narians. At “present the U. S. is
represented by a convert concert
pianist and by the Catholic father
of 14 children.
Ashley Pettis, founder and for
15 years director of the Com
posers’ Forum in New York City
and well-known to both European
and U, S. concert audiences, en
tered the Church in 1943. He
came to Beda shoitly after and
he is now nearing the end of his
course.
Patrick Norton, approaching 70,
left Dubuque for Beda after the
death of his wife, tie followed
one son toward the priesthood
and accompanies, or rather is
beating, another to the same goal.
Father Claude B. Norton is sta
tioned at Kakoma, Iowa. Frater
Charles Norton is at the Domini
can scholastic in River Forest,
111.
Old Pat Norton says he has lost
count of his grandchildren. His
real source of amusement now is
the fact that although he and son
Charles began their studies to
gether, he will finish long before
his son.
•ST, JEROME.
, Born in Strido, Italy, about 34S
A. D., was Eusebius Hieronimus
Sophronius, better known by the
modern form of his second name.
Saint Jerome. He was destined to
become one of the most learned
and eloquent Fathers of the early
Church. In 382, he was nominated
by Pope Damasus to be Secretary
of the Roman Council, and the
Pope, aware of the great learning
of the young secretary, urged him
to undertake a thorough revision
of the Latin version of tire Gospels.
This was the first step toward the
re-translation of the Scriptures
from the original languages into
Latin, upon which the fame of
Saint Jerome rests today. He
brought to his task a great dili
gence, critical acumen, competent
learning, and a literary felicity
which were more than equal to the
importance of the undertaking. His
work was known as the Vulgate,
because its language was the Latin
of the people. It was his Latin Vul
gate that Gutenberg printed, as the
first book from his press