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JUNE 20, 1953
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
ALBANY KINDERGARTEN — The Kindergarten class of St.
Teresa’s School, Albany, is pictured above. The children are,
left to right: Carolyn Jane Albert, Rebecca Louise Beck, Lawrence
Marion Bouche, William Berry Bowman, Melvin Bruce, Barbara
Jo Bucholz, Cheryl Ann Carcelli, Carol Ann Clark, John Claude
Coleman, Mary Ofielder Croy, Kathryn Ann Delisle, Peggy Ann
Dykes Linda Shirley Edwards, Gilbert Thad Gembacz, Sandra
Kathy Geraghty, Robert Lawton Hardin, Jack Burbank Harris,
Hoke Sloan Howard, Robert Leslie Huff, George Simms Jenkins,
Albert Eugene Johnson, Walter Robert Kimbrell, George William
Hughey, Thomas John Lacy, William Washbourne Langley, Carol
Ann Maloney, Glenda Gail Mills, Elizabeth Ann McClellan Lynne
McDonald, Frances Maureen Mills, Mary Catherine Myers, Charles
Wesley Owens, Peter Howard Pagelou, George Leonard Pawley,
Phyllis Jane Pitts, Deborah Kay Richardson, Mary Ann Salter,
Margaret Prances Stephens, Joan Marie Watson, Robert Harold
Webb, Dudley Harold Wells, Joseph Francis Wentzell, Jack Cecil
White and Joel Benson Young.
St. Theresa's
Altar Society
Holds Meeting
ALBANY, Ga.—At the May
meeting of St. Theresa’s Altar So
ciety held in the parish hall, on
May 20, with Mrs. F. V. Lewis,
president, presiding, the following
new officers were elected:
President, Mrs. E. S. Armstrong;
vice-president, Mrs. T. H. Cole
man; recording secretary, Mrs.
Louise Aultman; financial secre
tary, Mrs. Clarence Shoemaker.
Reports were submitted by the
different committees, and Mrs. L.
E. Mock reported on the state con
vention of the D. C. C. W., which
was held in Atlanta during April.
Mrs. Lewis reported on the years
activities and thanked everyone for
the splendid co-operation given her
during her term as president.
Following the business meeting
a delightful social hour was en
joyed by all.
SAVANNAH PUPILS
PRESENT RECITAL
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A recital
was presented by the music pu
pils of the Sacred Heart school on
May 31 in the Gold Room of the
Hotel De Soto.
Those who performed are: Cath
erine Welsh, Philip Roach, Edward
Ragan, Thomas Peterson, Agnes
Farkas, Mary A. Cochran, Patricia
Dotson, Earline Williams, Regina
Rocca, Celeste Thompson, Nancy
Cunningham, Marie Foran, Carol
Blackburn, Pamela Johnson, Mary
E. Evans, Kathleen Rousseau,
Peggy Schano and Marian Peter-
Music PupiSs and
Choir Present
Recital at Rome
ROME, Ga.—Music pupils and
children’s choir members of St.
Mary’s School were presented in
recital on the evening of Wednes
day, May 27, in the Carnegie Li
brary Auditorium. The children
were under the direction of Sister
Annette, O. P., music director.
Instrumental and vocal soloists
were: Carleen Corpe, Martha
Gaines, Kathleen, Davis, Janie
Fletcher, Betty Gibbons, June Ross,
Linda Lam, Peggy Joe Weaver,
Patricia Pagura, Frances Hackett,
Nancy Payne, Mary Ann Manzel-
la, Ann Blackstock and Maria
Diprima.
The choral group included:
Maria Pagura, Charles Ross, Mary
Jo Freeman, Nancy Payne, Robert
Porter, Patricia Pagura, Dorothy
Dotson, Odele Hincks, Diane
Hincks, Harry Dawson, Glen Hess,
Richard Nolan, Joyce Miller, Mary
McClurg, Sylvia Hincks, Linda
Dorough, Emily Davis, Jane Jack-
son, Billy Argus, Peggy Jo Weaver,
Rosemary Hammond, Peyton Hall,
Jane Hackett, Edwina Cohen,
Dorothy Magnicheri, Mary Anne
Manzella, Grover Birdsong, Nancy
Freeman, Jane Fletcher, Frances
Hackett, June Ross, Bill Hammond,
Tommy Dial, Bobby Evans, Sandra
Holloway, Julia Billingsly, Linda
Freeman, Ballard Argus, Beatrice
McClurg, Jonnie Brock, Mary
Cecelia Fahy, Helen Bagley and
Mary Anne Coker.
The children’s teacher is Sis
ter Daniel Joseph C. S. J.
"Soubrette" Takes Catholic Student
To Victory in National Spelling Bee
WASHINGTON. (NO — It
doesn’t always take a magic word
to get an appointment to see the
President of the United States, but
13-year-old Elizabeth Hess—an
eighth grader at St. Matthew’s
Parochial School, Phoenix, Ariz.—
got to shake hands with President
Eisenhower through the word
“soubrette.” She spelled it cor
rectly, and thus became the win
ner of the 26th annual National
Spelling Bee.
It wasn’t “soubrette” alone,
though. Elizabeth also whizzed
through such words as “floccu-
lent,” “crepuscular,” “transept”
and “spermaceti” before she down
ed the runner-up, 11-year-old Ray
mond Sokolov of Detroit, and 51
other contestants.
When Elizabeth and her mother,
Mrs. Naomi Reynolds Hess, called
at the White House after winning
the contest, Mr. Eisenhower told
her that when he was a little boy,
he’d lost out in a spelling bee on
the word “syzygy.”
The quarter-hour chat with the
chief executive wasn't the only
fruit of Elizabeth’s good spelling.
She also won a check for $500 and
a trip to New York. As for the
prize money, Elizabeth thinks
she’ll save it for college. She’s
just won a scholarship to St.
Francis Xavier High School in
Phoenix. Until last year, she at
tended school on the Apache reser
vation at San Carlos, Ariz. She
transferred to St. Matthew’s when
her mother started teaching pa
tients at the Phoenix Medical Cen
ter.
While Elizabeth took the victory
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with tremendous calm, apparently
Mrs. Hess said her daughter was
really “seething” inside. And the
mother herself fingered her Ros
ary as she watched the contest get
hotter and hotter. But even she
had a hard time when the bee nar
rowed down to her daughter and
young Sokolov. Actually, Elizabeth
missed in spelling two words—
“concinnity” and “marcescent”—
but Raymond did tqo, and the girl
went on to win.
Besides being a teacher, Eliza
beth’s mother is something of a
poet and a speller in her own right,
and a poem of hers called “At the
Christmas Crib” appeared in the
N. C. W. C. News Service’s Christ
mas feature supplement last year.
But Mrs. Hess doesn’t take any
credit for her daughter’s victory.
She says Elizabeth has “her fath
er’s mind.”
The father taught languages and
philosophy at Keystone Junior
College near Scranton, Pa., but
died when his daughter was not
quite two. Before going west, in
1947, Elizabeth had attended the
parish school of St. Peter’s Cathe
dral in Scranton.
Although there were 11 other
parochial school students among 53
contestants, Elizabeth was the only
one remaining among the top
eight. John Hyman, eighth grader
at St. Saviour’s School in Brook
lyn, had fallen out in the 15th
round of “diastole,” and the others
were mowed down before that. But
all of the contestants had won city
and regional championships spon
sored by local Scripps-Howard
newspapers arid other dailies be
fore their papers sent them on to
the national bee.
The other Catholic school
youngsters who took part in the
contest included Mary Ann Heisel-
mann, of Nativity School, Cincin
nati; Barbara Brickman, St. Angela
Merici School, Fairview, O.; Joy
Ann James, St. Mark’s School,
Tell City, Ind.; Laurent Hodges,
St. Anne’s School, Houston, Tex.;
Michael Schaefer, Sacred Heart
School, Indianapolis; Kathleen
Butler, St. Mary’s Cathedral
School, Covington, Ky.; Patricia
Hebert, Our Lady of Perpetual
Help School, Manchester, N. H.;
Marilyn Jenson, Holy Rosary
School, Detroit Lakes, Minn.; John
Monahan, Immaculate Conception
School, Lodi, N. J., apd Marlene
Ann LaPointe, St. Rose De Lima
School, Chisholm, Me.
Besides sending the contestants
and their mothers to the bee, some
of the papers sent the children's
teachers along too. Some of the
teachers in the audience—includ
ing a number of Sisters—appeared
stumped at times when a particu
larly tough word came along. Sis
ter Francis Marie—of the Sisters
of Charity of St. Elizabeth, Con
vent Station, N. J., who accom
panied John Monahan and the
Felician Sisters of the Immaculate
Conception School at Lodi—said
half-way through the contest that
they’d “begun using words no
body uses in ordinary conversa
tion.”
Sister Casimir—whose mother-
house is Mt. St. Benedict Convent,
Crookston, Minn. — came along
with her star speller, 13-year-old
Marilyn Jenson of Detroit Lakes,
Minn. Marilyn had missed out on
“commiseration” in the sixth
round, but Sister Casimir said she
was proud of her just the same.
The Benedictine nun said she’s al
ready grooming another of her
pupils for next year’$ bee. She ex-
Saint Vincent's
Awards Diplomas
To Twenty-Three
SAVANNAH, 'Ga.—At impres
sive ceremonies held in the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist on
June 2, 23 members of the 1953
graduating class of St. Vincent’s
Academy received their diplomas.
The graduation exercises were
presided over by His Excellency
the most Reverend Francis E. Hy
land, D.D., J.C.D., auxiliary Bishop
of Savanah, who presented the
diplomas.
Monsignor T. James McNamara
was the celebrant of solemn Bene
diction. Priests present in the
sanctuary were: the Rev. Peter O.
S. B., the Rev. Thomas Brennan,
the Rev. Martin Dennehy, the Rev*.
Michael Reagan, the Rev.Marvin
LeFrois, the Rev. Andrew J. Mc
Donald, the Rev. Norbert, O. S. B.,
and the Rev. Cornelius L. Maloney,
Ph.D., Diocesan Superintendant of
Schools.
Father Maloney addressed the
graduating class on the challenge
of Paganism.
The graduates were: Carole
Dickinson Barnett, Ruth Ann
Burke, Elizabeth Ann Burn, Mary
Reynolds Corish, Margaret Mary
Cox, Mary Frances Fretwell,
Sheila Elizabeth Grady, Adele
Claire Kearney, Margaret Ann
Heller, Margaret Reynolds Mc
Clellan, Margaret Mary McLaugh
lin, Marian Naomi Newell, Mary
Johanna Peters, Mary. Ellen Reed,
Ann Rooks Register, Carolyn
Joyce Rogers, Jo Anne Ruth
Roukos, Virginia Schano, Patricia
Ann Stringer, Joan Theressa Sul
livan, Patricia Ann Thamm, Mary
Anne Thigpen, Elizabeth Jane
Wolfe.
The honor students for the four
years of high school weer announc
ed as follows: Margaret Mary Cox,
Sheila Elizabeth Grady, Virginia
Ann Schano, Elizabeth Jane Wolfe,
The folowing are the honor
students for the year:
Junior Class: Kathy Geelan,
Alida Green, Drue Grevemberg,
Lucy Keating, Judy Kennedy,
Mary Ann Mikowski, Gloria
Newell, Josephine Rourke, Marie
Ryan, Mary Ann Strippy, Jackie
Walker.
Sophomore Class: Claire Dulo-
hery, Mary Kelley, Georgia Luck-
en, Angela Mathews, Eleanor Mur
phy, Eleanor Nicolas, Patty
O’Hayer, Kay Werntz.
Freshman “A” Class: Nancy
Blitch, Helen Buttimer, Barbara
East, Arlene Fitzula, Dale Fuhr-
man, Phyllis Glover, Margaret
Harrison, Mary Beth Helverson,
Saundra Johnson, Marcella Keat
ing, Vivian Vaudreull.
Freshman “B” Class, Marie Mc
Kenzie, Paula McKenzie, Barbara
Pounder, Elizabeth Powers, Ernes
tine Rizza, Sue Rossiter, Patty
Schano, Barbara Scheider, Verno-
ica Schuster, Georgia Smarr,
Jeanne Stringer.
In competitive examination open
to high school seniors, a full tui
tion scholarship was awarded to
Virginia Ann Schano to Mount
Saint Agnes College, Baltimore,
Md.
Essay winners were as follows;
Hibernian Essay Contest, Ruth
Burke won first prize; Patty Men
del, second prize; Mary Ann Strip
py, third prize. Propeller Club
Essay 1 Contest, Mary Jo Peters,
received second prize. National
Council of Catholic Women Essay
Contest, Betty- Jane Wolfe was
awarded the local prize to the high
school group. American Legion
Essay Contest on Americanism,
Katherine Geelan claimed first
prize and Sheila Grady, second.
The graduation closed with
Benediction of the Most Blessed
Sacrament.
N. C. C. W. Loses
State Secretary
ATLANTA, , Ga.—Miss Virginia
Chambers,' Diocesan Recording
Secretary resigned because her
position in the Department of
Agriculture necessitated her mov
ing to Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Maude M. Grennor of De
catur has been asked to take the
office. The Board of Directors will
act on her appointment at the
meeting in Macon, June 23.
LADIES OF THE Savannah-At-
lanta Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women should take advantage of
the Committee Institute to be held
August 17-21, at Sacred Heart
College, Belmont, N. C.
plained she’s already had four
county winners, but that Marilyn
was her first State winner.