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OCTOBER 25, 1952
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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EXPENSIVE X-RAY EQUIPMENT AT NEW HOSPITAL IN AUGUSTA—Adding the final finishing
touches prior to the opening of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Augusta sometime next month, were the Gen
eral Electric Specialists from Atlanta, pictured above. The machine they are installing cost approxi
mately $22,000 and will be used for therapy. On the left is T. H. Eason, of the GE X-Ray department,
working on the machine with J. A. Hitt and (right) J. H. Conkell.—(Fitz Photo by Vernon Gould—-
Courtesy of The Augusta Chronicle).
Last Minute Installation of
Equipment Spells Completion of
Catholic Hospital in Augusta
By ESTHER YOUNG
Augusta Chronicle Staff Writer
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Trucks are now
rumbling up to the doors of St. Jos
eph’s Hospital, under construction
at the south end of Winter street,
bringing equipment for the third
and fourth floors of the building.
Already completed, and in the
process of being occupied, are the
nurses- quarters adjoining the
large 100-bed hospital. Part of the
grounds have been paved for park
ing.
When will the hospital open?
Ttiat question has been asked right
from the moment the first shovel
of earth was turned making way
for the targe building. The opening
date now is so close -hat no one—
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Car-
ondelet who will staff the hospital,
the contractors, the workmen—
wants to predict.
When reporters visited the
building the other day, signs were
on the doers leading to hallways
on several floors—“Don't Walk on
These Floors.” They were being
given the final treatment prior to
completion, workers said.
The whole building smells of
fresh paint, plaster, wood panels,
and gleams with light where the
electrical workers are trying out
switches, and lighting systems.
St. Joseph’s will boast of some
of the most up-to-date surgical
and electrical equipment available.
Included in the modern devices
are a nurses call system, a fire
alarm designed to summon a fire
department within moments after
on out’reak and a series of mod
ern clocks. These features were
made by the Edwards company of
Norwalk, Conn.
Modern equipment
The 88-room .hospital, with a
staff of 100 doctors, also will have
an intercommunication system, a
pne.umatic tube network, piped
oxygen to all rooms, piped suction
in the operating rooms, electric
dumbwaiters to all nurses’ stations
and ice-making machines on all
floors.
The nurses call system was de
signed to summon nurses immedi
ately to a patient’s bedside when
a patient requires assistance. The
fire alarm network, similar to
those in some of the nation’s lead
ing public buildings and hospitals,
will give the hospital the ultimate
in fife protection.
On the ground floor last week
workmen from the General Elec
tric company in Atlanta were com
pleting installation of X-ray equip
ment, both for diagnosis and treat
ment. This equipment cost in the
neighborhood of between $50,000
and $60,000, according to T. H.
Eason, company X-ray representa
tive.
Completed and ready for equip
ment were the two major and two
minor surgeries on the ground
Hoof. The' major surgeries have
large overhead lamps with dif
fused lighting that can be swung
to cover any section of the room.
The huge lamps move noiselessly
across an overhead steel track and
can Fi ..controlled- byrigid pole
hanging from one side.
The minor surgeries have small
er lights, and do not have the large
seconds clock, besides the regular
clock as do the major surgeries
Ceilings of both types slope, and
all have three rows of glass brick
at th' top for the maximum visi
bility. Scrub rooms separate the
surgeries on both sides of the
ground floor hall.
Paint applied
Last minute coats of chocolate
paint were being applied on the
halls that will be unifor m in shape
throughout the hospital. The
chocolate sounds like a dark color,
but in reality, the shade is lighter
than milk chocolate v.ith a tiny
hint ot pink.
Patients who tire of ‘looking at
cream walls will delight in the
varied hued sick-rooms! A trip
down the hall changes the scenerv
from the pale yellow, to pink to
green—not sickening' hues, hut
fresh and spirit-lifting colors.
At the end ot each floor is a
solarium that can be changed from
indoors to outdoors with the turn
of a series of window openers
These solariums are shades of
green irt color
' The main four-story wing for
patients, has been designed by
architects, Kuhlke a a Wadft, so
that it will overlook the Savannah
River valley. Projecting canopies
over south wall facing the valley
are designed to keep out the sun s
ray in the summer, hut will allow
sunshine to enter the rooms dur
ing the wi ler mo'rihs.
Ray M. Lee Construction Com
pany, of Atlanta, are the builders
of the hospital.
Clergy Feted By
Savannah K. of C.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—More than
two hundred members of Savan
nah Council, Knights of Columbus,
attended the annual “Clergy
Appreciation Night” meeting hon
oring the priests of the city.
The open meeting, at which the
members of the clergy were in
dividually introduced and welcom
ed by Grand Knight John . R.
Caterisan, and Past'State Deputy
John M. Brennan, followed a
chicken supper served by a com
mittee headed by Ira Ryan and
Chris Laird.
Members of the clergy attend
ing were Monsignor T. James Mc
Namara, Father Robert Brennen,
O. S. iB., Father Thomas A. Bren
nan, Father John' Morris, Father
John* T. Coleman, S. M. A., Father
Bartholomew Keohane, S. M. A.,
Father James Harrold, S. M. A.,
Father Marvin LeFrois, Father
Thomas Payne, Father Andrew
McDonald, of Savannah, and
Father Peter Harrington, S'. M. A.,
Provincial Supervisor, Society of
African Mission, St. Louis.
Sister Mary Angela
Dies in Savannah
SAVANNAH,. Ga. —Sister Mary
Angela Bresnahan; R. S. M., in
structor at St. Vincent Acatnedy
died on October 19. Funeral serv
ices were held in the chapel at
the convent. >.
Monsignor T. James McNa
mara; rector of the Cathedral ot
St. John the Baptist, offered the
Requiem Mass. Assisting in the
sanctuary were Father Robert
Brennan, O. S. B., Father Peter
Trizzino, O. S. B., Father Thomas
A. Brannan, Father John A. Mor
ris, Father Marvin LeFrois, Father*
Thomas Payne, Father Felix Don
nelly, Father Bernard S. Zeller,
C: S. V., Father John T. Cole
man; S. M. A., Father Bartholcf-
mew Keohane, S. M. -A., and
Father John Calvin. S. VI. A.
Following the Mass, members
of St. Vincent’s Alumnae Asso
ciation formed a guard of- honor
from the chapel to the entrance
of the convent. Escorted by mem
bers of the family, the clergy and
religious of the city, alumnae and
pupils of the academy. Sister
Mary Angela’s body was taken to
the Catholic Cemetery for burial.
Sister Mary Angela was horn
in Augusta, December 20, 1902,
the daughter of the late Thomas
H. Bresnahan and Mrs, Catherine
Singleton Bresnahan. She entered
the Sisters of Mercy following her
graduation from St. Mary’s Acad
emy in Augusta.
'She served two terms as Mother
Superior at St. Vincent’s, from
1941 to 1944, and then again from
1951 until- the conclusion of the
last school term.
Her entire life as a Religious,
with the exception of three years
spent in Baltimore, was devoted
to teaching at St. Vincent’s gram
mar school and later at the acad
emy, until 1944. when she was
named Provincial Councilor for
the Baltimore Province ( of the
Sisters of Mercy of the Union.
She returned here in 1947.
Sister Mary, Angela is survived
hy a sister. Major Margaret Bres
nahan, of the Army Nurse Corps,
Fort Jackson. S. C.; four brothers,
James Carroll Bresnahan, Knox
ville, Tenn., Lawrence Bresnahan,
Robert A. Bresnahan, and Thomas
Bresnahan, Augusta. Two aunts,
Mrs. L. A. Farrell arid Mrs. William
J. Rooney, Augusta, and several
nieces and nephews.
JAMES M. O’NEILL, prominent
author, lecturer and educator, is
the recipient of the 1952 Catholic
Action Medal awarded by St. Bona-
venture University to a layman out-
Istaading. in Catholic Action
MRS. L. J. CALLAHAN
FUNERAL IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. L. J. Callahan, who
died October 15, were held at St.
Anthony’s Church.
Born in Ireland, Mrs. Callahan
came to this country as a girt. She
was the former Miss Mary E. Con-
ally, and the widow of L. J. Calla
han, manager of Armour Packing
Company’s plant here for more
than thirty years.
She is survived by four daugh
ters, Mrs. C. A. Eyrich, Miss Mar
garet Callahan. Miss Inez Calla
han and Miss Efoise Callahan; four
sons, L. E. Callahan, C. E. Calla
han, T. F. Callahan and R. E. Calla
han, all of Atlanta, a number of
grandchildren and great-grand
children and several nieces an<l
nephews.., -