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SEPTEMBER 3, 1955. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FIVE Youth Week Oct. 30-Nov. 8 Jottings . (By BARBARA C. JENCKS) ASSIST FROM HARVARD A rebel from Harvard gave unwiting support to Catholic Education in a recent newspaper interview. Long time critic of certain educational practices, Professor Petirim Sorokin of the Harvard faculty hit out against the lack of emphasis on morali ty and-character in the present system. Professor Sorokin who is pro fessor of sociology- at the uni versity states that “A Harvard student can graduate magna cum laude, and with all other high notes, and still be right on the edge of criminology.” Other targets of Professor So rokin are “Ph.D. factories” which confer degrees in assembly line fashion and “test-mad” educa tors. The rebel professor of the ivy league circle says that some thing is definitely lacking when a student with criminal tenden cies can at the same time gradu ate from a university with high honors. He feels that speciali zation is responsible in a con siderable degree for this em phasis off character and morality and on intellectual accomplish ments. He gives a powerful boost to the Catholic educational system by these observations. The Cath olic college would surely appear as the answer to professor Soro kin’s dilema. Where but in the Catholic college do we find con cern today for morality and character? A student by his very presence on the Catholic campus shows that his parents are con cerned with more than his in tellectual accomplishments. Rev. Thurston Davis, S.J., in his potent “America” article en titled “Should Little Lamps Eat Ivy” discusses the problem of the Catholic student at a secular college. He says that “only on a Catholic campus will a Catholic young man or woman experience the full challenge to intellect and imagination which comes from four years of reading and studying under the luminous guidance of faith.” There is no conflict between the intellectual and the spiritual in such atmo sphere. The antagonists of Catholic ■ education are many. We have met them all. They are easily typed and we could recite their stereotyped objections by heart, There are those whose social ambitions will forever smother the cry of concience. They cry out against the inferior standard of scholarship, the unimportance of religion on a college level and the two sides to every ques tion. In an address in Boston last May, Archbishop Richard J. Cushing quieted all these pro tests in the following words: * “It is no longer possible to urge the objection that standards of scholarship are maintained elsewhere which we are not able to meet, or even that opportuni ties for advancement are greater elsewhere than we are able to provide. The time has come when we should make a concert ed effort to present Catholic Education to our people as an advantage and an enviable pri vilege rather than as a duty to the Church which comes into conflict with their ambition for worldly success.” Mrs. Clara Conroy Services At Albany AIBANY, Ga.—Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Conroy were held August 13th at St. Teresa’s Cath olic Church. Survivors are two sisters-in- law, Mrs. Bessie Huffman, New port, R. I., and Sister Mary Ber nadette, R. S., Yonkers, N. Y. WASHINGTON, (NC) — The fifth annual National Catholic Youth week will be observed from October 30 to November 6 by some 7-million youngsters in all parts of this country and at overseas military bases, it was announced here by Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder, director of the Youth Department, National Catholic Welfare -. Conference, which sponsors the. observance. Keynoted by the official theme “Youth—Our Hope,” the week’s activities are designed to focus attention on the wholesome, posi tive contributions of youth to national and community life, in contrast to the frequently spot lighted juvenile delinquency as pect of youth, the Monsignor said. “We must provide encourage ment and leadership for our youth, for they learn by our ap proval or disapproval,” Auxilia- , ry Bishop Leo R. Smith of Buf falo, moderator of the Youth Department, stated in endorsing this year’s observance. “By ob serving Youth Week, we seize a grand opportunity to show a concerted expression of our ap proval to our youth.” Youth Week annually receives the endorsement of His Holiness Pope Plus XII, the- President, Bishops, governors and other civic leaders, and is acclaimed by those active' in youth work throughout the nation. In observance of the week, schools, colleges^ and^, universi ties, and other youth groups par ticipate in parades, radio and TV programs, special religious exercises, social and athletic events. Editorial and feature stories, official proclamations by religious and civic leaders, and the display of posters and bill boards also mark the national , observance. Tylie opening day of Youth Week Week is also annually de signated as national Catholic Youth Communion Sunday. The' Youth Department, N.C.W.C. has prepared a pro motion kit of posters, skits, stickers, and other items to. as sist local groups in planning programs. SERVICES FOR MRS. A. S. FARRELL AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Ann S. Farrell were held August 5th at St. Mary’s-On- the-Hill Church, Rev. John Toom- ey officiating. Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Toomey, of Augusta, two sons, Phillip Farrell of Augus ta and John Farrell of Jackson,. Miss., sister, Mrs. W. J. Rooney of Augusta; six grandchildren and ■four great grandchildren. T. M. VOIGT. Owner TYREE GARAGE j'Wg® WRECKER SERVICE GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS AUTO PAINTING — TIRE REPAIRS P. O. Box 156 — Savannah Beach, Ga. KAHN & COMPANY, Inc. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS 217-218 WEST BROAD STREET SAVANNAH, GEORGIA STAYS FRESHER LONGER! you cm wm converts A Precious Harvest By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN .(University of Noire Dame). Did you ever hear of a teach er starting a seres . of conver sions which brought into the Church a family of eleven, two of whom be came nuns, and two priests — one now a Be nedictine Ab- b o t? Probably not. Yet that is what Marie Teders of Holy Angels parish in St. Cloud, Minn., did. Here js her story. “In 1919, I was teaching in a rural grade school near Napole on, North Dakota. Among my eighth grade pupils was Roy Hunkier. He was a . bright youngster and read everything he could lay his hands on. “I passed on to him copies of Extension Magazine and oth er Catholic periodicals. He read them all with interest and soon was asking me a lot of questions about the Catholic religion. I ’answered them and his interest continued to grow . . .” “If more Catholics,” I broke in, “answered questions about their faith, we would double the number of converts.” “One day,” Miss Teders con tinued, “he told me that he had been baptized a Catholic short ly after his birth. He had to undergo an operation and the Sisters, fearful that he might not survive, baptized him and later on informed his j non-Catholic parents. The knowledge of this whetted still more Roy’s interest in the faith. “I encouraged his father to send him on to high school, which he did. During his sopho more year a Catholic mission was conducted in Burnstad where Roy was going to school. Roy was deeply impressed by the - sermons of the missionary, Father Stanton, and asked to be received into the Church. After receiving some additional in structions Roy made his First Holy Communion. “During the Mission Roy heard Father Stanton say, ‘If your son wishes to be a priest, let him have his choice.’ When he returned home that night, Roy wrote on a piece of paper, before a Crucifix, his resolution to become a priest. “When his mother learned that Roy had become a Catholic, she became angry. But Roy kept after her, supplied her with Catholic literature and prayed for her Constantly. Two years later she was received into the fold. “At the beginning of his junior year Roy begged his father to al low him to finish high school at St. Mary’s Abbey, conducted by the Benedictines in Richardton, N. D. The father consented. Dur ing the summer vacations Roy was instrumental in leading his brothers and sisters into the Church.” “When,” I asked, “was Roy ordained?” “On May 25th, 1930, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Benedictine Order, taking the name of Father Adam. At his first Mass he gave Holy Com munion to his mother and to his brothers and sisters. His father had not yet entered the Church but he did so before his death in 1950. “Reuben followed in the foot steps of his older brother and Was ordained a Benedictine priest—Father Ignatius—on May .19th, 1946. Eight years later he was elected Abbot of Assump tion Abbey in Richardton. Rev. Ignatius Hunkier is the youngest , abbot in the United States. States. “The story, it -would seen, should end here, but it doesn’t. His sisters, Mary and Frances, twins, entered the Benedictines and are now Sister Phoda and Sister Rhodene. The others— Helen, Alice, Howard and Law rence — are married and raising fine Catholic families. Mae is do ing work closely akin to that of a Sister — keeping house for three Benedictine Fathers at St. Joseph’s parish in Devil’s Lake, where Father Adam was pas tor.” “And their good mother?” “She is living alone at Napole on-—proud of her children in the priesthood and sisterhood and proud, too, of the others. In the winter she visits her married children in California and gets acquainted each year with her new grandchildren.” “What an inspiring story!” I remarked. “And it all began when' you told Roy about your beautiful religion and gave him some Catholic literature. What? a rich and precious harvest from a single tiny seed! Its end is not. yet, for it will grow with the years and lead uncounted souls to their home with God in heaven.” Readers who know of any lay person who has helped to win. two or more converts are kind ly requested to send the name and address of such a person to Father John A. O’Brien, Notre Dae, Ind. BACKDROP- (Continued from Page Four) States, churches were filled to the doors during Holy Week and, before that, almost never with out at least a few following the Way of The Cross. THIS MIRACLE NC DRUG It’s true most of the instances cited here happened in great ci ties. The greater facility with which men and women in urban, centers - can take a few minutes out of their day to visit Christ in the tabernacle is lacking in country places. But even in. smaller towns it has seemed to this reporter that there is rare ly a church where at least a few persons are not quietly at pray er. Nearly always there are more women than, men; the obligation of men to follow a routine pat tern of hours at a desk or ma chine * every day would account in part for this. But those who make these individual visits are not women alone, by any means —and this is not without some- validity even in Latin countries where everything spiritual sup posedly is left to women. A few days ago a newspaper story described the possibilities seen for a new miracle drug ef fective in relieving human ten sion. It may not be without point, that the miracle some people find working, in a time admit tedly tense, is a few minutes of quiet prayer and reflection be fore God. Trifles^ have you ever thought, . . . are apt to crowd unseen . . . our busy day is full of them . . . sandwiched in between ... if we could omit the trifles . . . estab lish calm regime . . . we’d ban ish little things that make . an ocean of a stream. -—Katherine French Fedigaa,