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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 20, 1955.
Golden Sacerdotal Jubilee
Observed By Rev. P. A. Ryan
(Special)
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The
celebration of the Golden Jubilee
of the Priesthood of the Rev.
Patrick A. Ryan, S.J., which was
highlighted by a cablegram re
ceived by the Jubilarian an hour
before his Jubilee Mass, from
t h e Most- Reverend Geral P.
O’Hara. J.U.D., Apostolic Del
egate to Great Britain, and by
the eloquent sermon preached
at the Mass by Reverend Cole
man A. Daily, S.J.. Business
Manager of Jesuit Missions, a
New York publication, of which
Father Ryan has been Associate
Editor for more than twenty-
five years,—was followed, a few
days later, by an inspiring recep
tion tendered him at the Roose
velt Hotel, New Orleans, by the
Founding Students of Loyola
•University.
Father Ryan was the First
Vice-President and Dean of
Loyola University. Its pioneer
students of half a century ago,
now among the leading business
and professional men of New
Orleans, were hosts on the oc
casion, — Joseph L. Killeen as
Chairman, Joseph M. Rault as
Toastmaster, Russell Clark, who
presented the greetings of the
“Old Boys” and Colonel Provosty
Dayries, head of the New Or
leans Police Department, who
vised the occasion to name Fath
er Ryan, his old tutor, Honora
ry Chaplain of the Police De
partment.
How observant these seasoned
and professional men of today
were in their teenage years was
evidenced when the Committee
surrounding Father Ryan pre
sented him with a Davy Crockett
Coonskin Cap to intimate “the
resourcefulness, the inventive
ness, and the Davy Crockett
ability of their Dean to surmount
difficulties and accomplish the
seemingly impossible — Davy
Crockett was a great frontier
man—Father Ryan was Loyola’s
great pioneer and first Dean.
As the guests and Father Ryan,
himself, were recovering from
the clever use made from Davy
Crockett’s name, a wire arrived
from El Paso addressed to Fath
er Ryan and signed by its lead
ing citizens, among them its
Mayor, its Federal Judge, *i t s
Chamber of Commerce, the Ar
my, the Ministers of the Non-
Catholic Churches, Fourteen
years ago when Father Ryan
celebrated his 50th Year as a
Jesuit, El Paso named him the
best loved man in El Paso and
its Community Padre at an in-
ter- denominational gathering.
This wire recalled that occasion
and renewed its pledge of loyal
friendship.
Replying to the honors paid
him by the Pioneer Students of
Loyola, Father Ryan arose to
pay:
“Arnold of Rugby, often called
England’s greatest schoolmaster,
in a moment of depression de
clared that his life was a failure.
But a friend of his standing by
and hearing the remark exclaim
ed: “What? Your life a failure?”
Then the friend called off a list
Of the great Rugby scholars who
bad been tutored by Arnold.
There was Thomas Hughes who
wrote the Tom Brown at Rugby
and at Oxford. There was Arhur
Stanley who later became the
Dean of Westminister Abbey.
There was Lowe who safeguard
ed the finances of the British
Empire. There was Arthur Hugh
Clough who sang of England and
Matthew Arnold who wrote of
England and others.
FATHER RYAN, S.J.
I am reminded of this inci
dent as I look out this evening,
from this table, and catch the
eyes of so many Loyola celebri
ties who are assembled in this
room to honor my Golden Sacer
dotal Jubilee—all of whom I
tutored forty or fifty years ago.
No doubt there have been some
despondent moments in the long
life God has given me, but after
tonight’s experience, there is not
a chance in the world of my ever
falling into a fit of despondency
or of ever declaring that my life
is a failure. Do you ask me why?
“Circumspice.” Look around you
and see the scholars I have tu
tored. I can call the names of all
of them and if you ask me who
was my most brilliant student
I shall tell you in the words of
another Irishman under similar
circumstances: “Sure each of
them was more brilliant than
the other.” And this is not an ex
aggeration nor a mixed metaphor
nor a bull from what was once
called John Bull’s other Island.
Pioneer Students of Loyola,
“Father Ryan’s boys, “as you
sometimes call yourselves, you
are the Founding Students of the
great University which we salute
today as the Loyola of the South.
You were the original capital
from which she derives and she
appeals to you today and every
day to-serve on the firing line
for God and home and country.
Your lives and your priciples
should serve notice on atheistic
communism whether manifested
in the factory, drawing room or
school that there are certain
moral mandatories laid upon us
by the very nature of life, that
the liberty we clamor for must
be a disciplined liberty, and that
the law of God is for dll alike,
*as well for those who , put a
broad ribonon their spectacles
and a broad “a” in their words
as for those who double their
negatives and drop their final
“g’s”. You cannot add God and
the world together, divide by two
and give one-half to God and
the other half to the world. God
must be shot through every pul
sation of the heart. Set your feet
then firmly on the path of duty
and follow it though „ it be paved
with hissing serpents and arched
with fire.
I would not be fittingly inter
preting the minds% of this dis
tinguished body of Loyola stu
dents tonight if I did not call the
roll of our dear dead — those
whose absence, particularly on
this occasion, I personally, and
you not less so, regret even
though they are home with God.
The human race is one great
procession to the grave. The
young and the strong not less
than the aged and the little child
wave their hands, whisper fare
wells and then disappear beyond
the horizon. The sea is always
exhaling its whitest mists and so
our homes and our schools are
always sending their purest souls
heavenward.
Let us hope that our Dear
Dead are so well organized in
Heaven and so Loyola conscious
that when our' home-going is
announced, they will come out
to meet us and greet us with
banners flying and with the
sound of many trumpets! Floreat
Loyola forever!
Ninety years have passed since
Generals Grant and Lee gripped
hands in a farewell to war at
Appomattox Courthouse — but
don’t think that put an end to
the War Between the States. That
war, a glance at any book-review
column these days will convince
you, is still going strong. Al
though four other wars Rave in
tervened, it is still the Nation’s
most discussed conflict.
WATCH IT, EASY NOW! This little girl, pupil at Our Lady
Queen of Peace School, Lakeland, Ga., seems a little leery of her
polio shot. The Georgia Department of Health reports that the
Lakeland school was one of the few to sign up 100 per cent for the
vaccine.
EIGHTEEN GEORGIANS PARTICIPATE IN
RECEPTION, PROFESSION CEREMONIES
MOUNT WASHINGTON, MD.
August 16— The following Sis
ters having completed their
novitiate training made tempo
rary vows for three years: —
Sister M. Kenneth McGuire, Bal
timore, Maryland; Sister M.
Francine Muller, Selma, Alaba
ma; Sister M. Bernarda Loncon,
Savannah, Georgia; Sister Denis
Marie Murphy, Savannah, Geor
gia; Sister M. Maris Stella Roush,
Atlanta, Georgia; Sister Maria
Goretti Peano, Washington, D.
C.; Sister M. de Montfort Sul
livan, Savannah, Georgia; Sister
M. Michaeline Kromis, Ensley,
Alabama; Sister M. Chrysostom
Price, Savannah, Georgia; Sis
ter M. Agatha Dulmage, Colum
bus, Georgia; Sister M. Laetitia
Hardin, Mobile, Alabama; Sis
ter M. Jogues Smith. Savannah,
Ga.; Sister M. Matthias McCrack
en, Savannah, Ga.; Sister M. Eli
zabeth Anne Corcoran, Balti
more, Maryland; Sister M. Pas
chal Gregory, Brunswick, Geor
gia; Sister Francis Mary Hesser,
Macon, Georgia; Sister M. Reg
inald Wilson, Port of Spain, Tri
nidad; Sister M. Loyola Tanner,
Macon, Georgia; and Sister M.
Frederick Strobel, Baltimore,
Maryland. The Very Rev. Joseph
A. Ells, of St. Dominic’s Church,
Baltimore, celebrated the Mass
and presided at the ceremony.
A double ceremony of Recep
tion and Profession took place at
9:30 o’clock in the same chapel.
His Excellency, Most Rev. Em
met M. Walsh, D.D., Bishop of
Youngstown, Ohio, offered the
Mass and presided. The Rev.
Wm. R. Houck, Principal of
Catholic High School, Pensacola,
Florida, preached the sermon.
Ten young ladies received the
habit of the Sisters of Mercy.
Their names in religion and the
parishes from which they enter
ed are: Eileen Barrins, St. Micha
el’s, Silver Spring, Md., Sister
M. Enda; Freda Worley, Sacred
Heart, Atlanta, Ga., Sister M.
Sara, Margaret Cook, Holy Tri
nity, Washington, D. C.; Sister
M. Caritas; Mary Lou Bauer, St.
Ambrose, Baltimore, Md., Sister
M. Dunstan; Johanna Marguire,
Immaculate Conception, Towson,
Md., Sister Joseph Mary; Paulet
te Crowe, St. Joseph’s, Mobile,
Ala., Sister M. Concetta; Virginia
Bayliss, St. Alphonsus, Balti
more, Md., Sister M. Rosina; So
nia Walker, St. Augustine’s,
Thomasville, Ga., Sister M. Bar
tholomew; Mary Zoghby, St. Ma
ry’s, Mobile, Ala., Sister M. Sar
to; Mary Ellen Ebberwein, Sacr
ed Heart, Savannah, Ga., Sister
Angela Marie.
Seventeen Sisters pronounced
perpetual vows. They are:—Sis
ter M. Godfrey Garvey, Balti
more, Md.; Sister M. Karen
Rooney, Warrington, Florida;
Sister M. Cabrini Daulizio,
Washington, D. C.; Sister M.
Charlene Walsh, Savannah, Ga.;
Sister M. Clarita Gibson, Balti
more, Md.; Sister M. Gemma
Coia, Philadelphia, Pa.; Sister
M. Zoe Keller, Mobile, Ala.; Sis
ter M. Raphael Jordan, Pensa
cola, Florida; Sister M. Imma-
culee McGill,- Baltimore, Md.;
Sister M. Assunta Desposito,
Savannah, Ga.; Sister M. Valen
tina Sheridan, Macon, Ga.; Sis
ter M. Corde Harrison, Savan
nah, Ga.; Sister M. Malachy Kil
patrick, Bessemer, Ala.; Sister
M. Jane Frances Gaphardt, Bal
timore, Md.; Sister M. Rebecca
Elkins, Frederick, Md.; Sister M.
Ve'nard Foley, Watertown, South
Dakota; and Sister M. Laura
Burns, Seat Pleasant, Md.
His Excellency, Bishop Emmet
M. Walsh, is the uncle of Sister
M. Charlene, R.S.M. The retreat
was given by the Rev. James
Griffin, S.J., of Woodstock Col
lege. Among the priests pres
ent in the sanctuary, besides
those already mentioned, were:
Rev. Anthony Zoghby, brother
of Sister M. Sarto, and Rev.
Andrew Foley, brother of Sister
M. Venard. Also present were:
Rev. Francis Linn, Master of
Ceremonies; Rt. Rev. Joseph J,
Leary, Catonsville, Md.; Rt. Rev.
Joseph M. Nelligan, Towson,
Md.; Rev. Edmund M. Cook, C,
M.; Rev. Timothy Mullen, Balti
more, Md.; Rev. David Nugent,
S.J.; Rev. Herbert Jordan, Fred
erick, Md.; Revj Walter Handren,
S.J.; Rev. Jermiah McNamara,
C.P.; Rev. Francis N. McGuire;
and the Rev. Timothy M. Mac-
Carthy, of Washington, D. C,
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