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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORQIA
Vol. XXXV, No. 18.
MONROE, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1955.
10c Per Copy — $3 a Year
Rev. William 0. O’Leary, S. J.
Dies Suddenly At New Orleans
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Rev.
William Doris O’Lfeary, S. J.,
M. D., son of the late Thomas
J. and Catherine D. O’Leary of
Augusta Died at New’ Orleans,
La the morning of February 1st.
Stricken with a heart attack
January 31st, Father O’Leary died
at 4:07 the following morning.
Office of the dead was recited
February 1 at the Loyola Univer
sity Church, New Orleans, with
Solemn Requiem being offered
February 2. The body was taken
to Spring Hill, Ala. for Mass and
burial from the Spring Hill Col
lege Chapel, February 3.
A native Augustan, Father
O’Leary attended Sacred Heart
School and attended the Medical
College of Georgia. Following his
graduation he completed his in
ternship in Boston and .Cam
bridge, Mass; continuing his med
ical studies for a year in New
York.
It was during this period that
he decided to dedicate his life
to God as a priest. He entered the
Novitiate of the Society of Jesus
(Jesuit) At Grand Coteau, La.,
July 25, 1925 and took the Vows
of the Order in 1927.
His philosophical and theologic
al studies followed at St. Louis
University and St. Mary’s Kan.
These studies were supplemented
by a continuance of his medical
studies.
Father O’Leary was ordained to
the priesthood in June 1933, at
St, Mary’s Theological Seminary.
Ascetical studies were then made
for a year at St. Stanislaus Semi
nary, Cleveland. Ohio, in 1935.
He next served as secretary
of St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau, for two years, then was
named Superior of the Jesuit
House of philosophical studies at
Spring Hill, Ala. In 1938, he was
appointed president of Spring
Hill College.
During the eight years he serv
ed as president of the college,
Father O’Leary distinguished
himself in educational, medical
and social workers fields.
In 1946, Father O’Leary was ap
pointed regent of the Dental
School of Loyola University, he
served in that capacity until his
death, taking on in 1952 the di
rectorship of the Loyola Universi
ty radio station WWL.
Father O’Leary is survived by
his five sisters, Sister Kathleen
Marie, C. S. J., Atlanta; Mrs. Ed
ward J. Cashin, Augusta; Mrs.
Richard Reid, New Rochelle, N.
Y.; Miss Loretto O’Leary, New
York; and Mrs. Anna Henry,
Watertown, Conn.
SAINT JOSEPH'S
FOUNDATION GIFTS
COMMITTEE NAMED
SAVANNAH, Ga. — T. T.
Dunn, general chairman of the
Building Fund for St. Joseph’s
Hospital, anounced the appoint
ment of Robert W_. Grooves, well
known banker and shipping ex
ecutive, as Chairman of the Foun
dation Gifts Committee.
The following will serve on Mr.
Grooves committee: L. C. Me-
Clurking, vice chairman; Herschel
V. Jenkins, B. I. Friedman, Walter
Mingledorff Sr., Thomas Oxnard,
Isaiah A. Solomons, Monsignor
T. James McNamara V. F. and
Judge J. P. Houlihan.
Goal of the forthcoming Cam
paign will be $850,000. Individuals
or firms donating to the fund can
make their subscriptions on the
basis of annual payments over a
period of three years.
Catholics May
Number 45 Million
Within Ten Years
DES MOINES, Iowa—(NC)—It
is possible that ten years from
now the Catholic population in
this country may number from 40
to 45 million persons, a booklet
published here by the National
Catholic Rural Life Conference
predicts.
The booklet, entitled “32 Mil
lion Catholics,” contains a survey
of the present standing of the
Church in the United States.
The Rural Life Conference
hopes to distribute the booklet to
visitors to this country as well as
Catholics outside the nation. Pres
ent plans call for translating it
into Spanish and giving it wide
distribution in Latin America, the
Conference said. It will also be
translated into Italian, Portugese
and other languages.
The booklet hits the highpoints
of the Church in the United
States, including such things as a
brief history of Catholicism here,
explanations of major Church or
ganizations, and numbers of
priests and lay persons.
In the last ten years, the book-
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Catholic Laymen’s Collection
In All Churches February 20
Catholic Laymen’s Sunday will
be observed in all the Churches
of the Diocese February 20th.
Plans for operation of The Bul
letin this year call for its distri
bution in all Catholic families of
the Diocese'. A special collection
will be taken up at all the masses
on Catholic Llaymen’s Sunday to
assist the Association in placing
it in every Catholic home.
Revised mailing lists are now
being secured from the parishes
so that a completely new list may
be placed into effect with the is
sue of March 5th.
We ask our readers generousity
in this collection so that the plan
adopted at the recent Executive
Committee meeting regarding the
paper’s circulation may prove
successful.
By means of this plan it is an
ticipated that The Bulletin’s cir
culation will increase from its
present 6,000 to approximately
8,500.
SOLEMN REQUIEM AT SACRED HEART
FOR FATHER MICHAEL SULLIVAN, S. M.
Martyr for Press
Preliminary pi’Ocess has begun
in the diocese of s’Hertogen-
bosch, Holland, for the beatifica
tion of Father Titus Brandsma,
O. Carm. A modern martyr of the
Catholic press, he openly defend
ed the Rights of the Church
against Nazism before World War
II. Father Brandsma died in 1942,
a victim of the Dachau concentra
tion camp.
OFFICERS
RE-ELECTED
AT COLUMBUS
COLUUMBUS, Ga. — Election
of officers and laying of plans for
the annual Communion Breakfast
were the principal business of
the January meeting of the Col
umbus Branch of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia.:
All officers were re-elected.
They are: Miss Annette Danielly,
president; F. B. Miller, vice-presi
dent; Albert Eversman, Treasur
er; Mrs. John Byrne, secretary.
Time of the February 20th
Breakfast has been set at 9:30 a.m.
and will be held at the Knights of
Columbus Clubhouse, 802 Broad
way.
ATLANTA, Ga. Solemn Re
quiem for the Rev. Michael J.
Sullivan, S. M., was held at the
Sacred Heart Church here at 10:30
a.m. on Wednesday January 26th.
Father Sullivan was stricken
at 9:30 on the evening of January
22 at the Alexian Brothers Rest
Home, Signal Mountain, Tenn.
Office of the Dead was recited
at the Church Wednesday morn
ing at 10 a.m. Celebrant of the
Mass was the Rev. Harry T.
Hayes, S. M. Deacon, Rev. W. A.
Maguire, S. M. and Subdeacon;
Rev. John Emmerh, S. M.
The Mass was presided over by
the Most Reverend Francis E.
Hyland, D. D. J. C. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Savannah - Atlanta.
Final Absolution was given by
His Excellency, with the sermon
being delivered by the Very Rev.
Val. A. Becker S. M. Interment
was in West View Cemetery.
Father was born October 4,,
1889 at Waterbury, Conn. He re
ceived his early education at
Waterbury, Conn., attending col
lege at Niagara University, Nia
gara, N. Y., Marist Seminary,
Washington, D. C. and persued his
Theological Studies at Marist Col
lege, Washington, D. C.
He was ordained to the priest
hood at Washigton, June, 16, 1918,
by Archbishop Bonzano, then
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States.
Father Sullivan was engaged in
Parochial work at Westerly, R. I.,
Brunswick, Georgia, Richwood,
W. Va,, Paulina, La. and Nampa,
Idaho.
He was a member of the faculty
of Marist College here for nine
teen years prior to his retirement
in 1953. Other teaching posts
were at Jefferson College, La.,
and St. Mary’s Manor, Pendell,
Pa.
Relatives surviving Father Sul
livan are Miss Mae O’Connell,
Mansfield, Conn., Miss Lillian
Sheridan, Mansfield, Conn., and
Miss Irene Fraher, Miami, Fla.
I Clergy persent at the Requiem
in addition to His Excellency in
cluded :,Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph G.
Cassidy, V. F. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ed
ward Dodwell, Very Rev. Msgr. C.
L. Maloney, Rev. John Mc
Donough, Rev. Thomas I.
Sheehan, Rev. Michael McKeever,
Rev. Donald Kiernan, Rev. James
King, Rev. James Boyce, Rev.
Daniel Kane, C. M.
Rev. George T. Daly, Rev. Wil
liam Haddad, Rev. A. A. Walls,
S. M., Rev. Philip Hasson, S. M.,
Rev. John Martel, S. M., Rev.
Charles Duke, S. M., Rev. Val. A.
Becker, S. M., Rev. Harry T.
Hayes, S. M., Rev. William A.
Maguire, S. M., Rev. Vincent
Brennan, S. M.., Rev. John A.
Emmerth, S. M. Rev. J. F. Gil-
bride, S. M., Rev. G. R. Hageman,
S. M., Rev. William Hanlon, S.M.
Rev. E. J. Kelly, S.M., Rev.
Michael Kerwick, S.M., Rev. J.
J. McGuckin, S.M., Rev. J. A. Mc
Manus, S. M., Rev. J. J. McShane,
S. M„ Ret. T. D. O’Donnell, S. M„
Rev. F. M. Perry, S.M. and the
Rev. Robert Logrip S.M.
Bishop Cowderoy
Visits Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga. — Bishop Cyril
Cowderoy of Southwark, England
visited the diocese last week stop
ping at Atlanta.
The Bishop is presently touring
the United States seeking help
in the reconstruction of St.
George’s Cathedral destroyed by
enemy bombs during World War
II and which is to be reconstruct
ed at a cost of $1,680,000.
His Excellency’s_ six week visit
schedules Washington, Los An
geles, Columbus, O., Albany, N. Y.
and Boston, in addition to Atlanta
The Bishop is accompanied by
Canon Bernard Bogan and Father
Denis Wall. He will depart from
New York for England on March
30.
CENSUS REVEALS 10,616 CHILDREN NOW
ATTENOING STATE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
ATLANTA, Ga. — 10,616 chil
dren are under instruction in
Catholic elementary and secon
dary schools located in the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta.
The Annual School Census for
1954-55 issued through the of
fice of Very Rev. Monsignor Cor
nelius L. Maloney, M. A., Ph. D.
states that these children are
taught by 12 orders of Religious
Sisters, Marist and Benedictine
Fathers and Marist Brothers; and
lay teachers, total faculties num
bering 318; 254 religious; 64 lay.
8,974 children are attending the
32 Elementary Parochial Schools,
1 Private Elementary and one in
stitutional school. The ten Secon
dary Schools are attended by 1,-
642. Of the total children enroll
ed in all Catholic Schools, 5,365
are boys and 5,251 Girls.
It is interesting to note that
the Diocese’s present total High
School enrollment (9th thru 12th)
is 1,642 students, while the enroll
ment in the first grade this year
alone totals 1,651. 5,509 are en
rolled in the first four grades.
This years enrollment of 10,-
616 compares to 9,733 last year;
6,725 in 1945; and 4,150 in 1935.
Enrollment has therefor more
than doubled during the past
twenty years.
Teaching Comunities in the
Diocese consist of the Grey Nuns
of the Sacred Heart in Atlanta;
The Sisters of Mercy with schools
in Atlanta, Augusta, Chamblee,
Columbus, Macon, Savannah and
Thunderbolt; The Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondolet with schools
in Atlanta, Augusta, Brunswick,
Marietta, Milledgeville, Savan
nah, Valdosta, and Washington.
Sisters of the Blessed Sacra
ment in Atlanta and Macon; Sis
ters Adorers of the Most Precious
Blood, Albany; Missionary Sisters
of the Most Sacred Heart, Athens;
Missionary Franciscan Sisters of
the Immaculate Conception with
schools in Savannah, Augusta and
Savannah Beach; Third Order
Regular of Saint Francis at Lake
land and Waycross; School Sisters
of Notre Dame at Fort Oglethorpe
and Griffin; Sisters of Saint
Dominic at Rome; Sisters of Notre
Dame de Namur, Decatur; Con
gregation of the Religious Sisters
of Mercy, Hapeville.
Orders of Men teaching in the
diocese are the Marist Fathers,
Atlanta, Marist Brothers, Au
gusta and Benedictine Fathers at
Savannah;'
The following is the Student
registration by towns for the
1954-55 school year: Atlanta, 2,-
344; Albany, 279; Athens, 167;
Augusta, 1,351; Brunswick, 175;
Chamblee, 363; Columbus, 426;
Decatur, 522; Fort Oglethorpe,
127; Griffin, 110; Hapeville, 156;
Lakeland, 80; Macon, 789; Mariet
ta, 145; Milledgeville; 45.
Rome, 171; Savannah, 2,812;
Savannah Beach, 77; Thunder
bolt, 162; Valdosta, 173; Washing
ton, 42; Waycross, 100.