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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 19, 1957.
Catholic 7/Mmutt a. PAGE
EDITED BY MRS. OWEN SCHWEERS
DIOCESAN COUNCILS OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
GIVE REPORTS ON CATHOLIC WOMEN IN CONVENTION
St. James
Parish Council
Elects Officers
SAVANNAH.—Mrs. Joseph J.
Whalen was elected president of
the St. James Parish Council of
Catholic Women at its monthly
meeting January 7. She .had serv
ed as appointed president since
the organization of the Council in
August. Mrs. M. W. Ingram, Sr.
was elected vice president; Mrs.
Charles Pourciau, treasurer; and
Mrs. James W. Head, secretary-
treasurer.
Fifty-six ladies attended the
council meeting. They planned to
serve a buffet supper for the
clergy and religious after the
school dedication and to sponsor
a benefit on January 22 for the
newly organized St. James Youth
Club.
Reports were given by several
committees and Mrs. B. C. Guild,
Savannah Dean ery president,
urged the members to write let
ters of protest to theatres against
the showing of the salacious mov
ie, “Baby Doll”.
Prayers were said for the re
pose of the soul of Mrs. . Edna
Renkle, first deceased member of
the parish council.
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THOMASVILLE
GROUPS MEET
THOMASVILLE—The regular
monthly meeting of the St. Au
gustin’s Altar Society was held
Monday, January 7 at the Friary.
The meeting was opened with
prayer by Fr. Gerard McDonald.
Mrs. Raquel Vanderpoll was a
visitor at the meeting.
The eight o’clock mass on the
first Sunday of each month will
be opened by Father Gerard for
the members of the Altar Society
and all are urged to receive com
munion on that Sunday.
The cookbook “Cooking for
Christ” will be available the mid
dle of January and will be the
club project for February.
Mrs. F. T. Hunter, the presi
dent, read a new year’s message
from the N.C.C.W. Monthly mes
sage by Mrs. Robert H. Mahonejy
national N.C.C.W. president. In it
Mrs. Mahoney asked our prayer
for the president, Mr. Eisenhower,
who is to be inaugurated this
month and for his administration.
A discussion period in which
he answered questions left in the
question box was conducted by
Fr. Gerard.
The meeting was closed with
prayer by Fr. Gerard.
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ALBANY— St. Teresa’s Parent-
Teacher Association met Wednes
day January 9th, in the school
auditorium with the president,
Mrs. James Sineath, presiding,
Father Daniel J. Bourke opened
the meeting with a prayer.
It was announced that the P-
TA will sponsor a chicken barbe
cue on February 5 from 6 to 8
o’clock in the school auditorium.
The chairmen for this affair will
be Mrs. Phil Farkas and Mrs.
Pat Field.
. The room count was won by
the eighth grade.
Father Daniel J. Bourke then
introduced the speaker, C. P.
Whiting, director of Civil De
fense, who gave a most informa
tive talk on civil defense pre
paredness.
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On November 7-10, 2,700 del
egates gathered in Chicago for the
28th National Convention of the
National Council of Catholic
Women, representing ninety-six
diocesan councils and 10,781 af
filiate groups. It was well planned,
briskly directed and hard working.
Every panel discussion and work
shop was f illed.
Due to having attended the in
stallation of the new bishop of the
diocese of Atlanta, your president
teas not able to attend the opening
sessions of the convention. These
were ably covered by Mrs. G. ]•
Gunning as follows:
The convention opened formal
ly with the presentation of a very
beautiful Pageant at the Interna
tional Amphitheatre. The pageant
had been written especially for
the convention. It was titled “She
shall be called Woman” and it
traced the development of woman
in the Church by a dramatic com
parison of historically and Scrip-
turally famous women with their
Council To
Be Split At
Feb. 6 Meeting
At the D.C.C.W. Board Meet
ing to be held at Macon on
February 6th, action will be
taken to separate the Savan-
nah-Atlanta Diocesan Council
into two diocesan councils.
Attending the meeting will
be The Most Rev. Francis E.
Hyland, Bishop of Atlanta and
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph E.
Moylan, Acting Vicar General
of the Diocese of Savannah.
The Rev. John D. Toomey,
spiritual moderator of the Sa
vannah - Atlanta Council will
continue to serve as moderator
of the Savannah Diocesan
Council.
Presiding at the meeting will
be Mrs. Robert E. McCormack,
president of the Savanah Di
ocesan Council.
Cathedral
Altar Society
Meets Feb. 4th
ATLANTA -— The president of
the Altar Society of the Cathedral
of Christ the King, Mrs, H. A.
Kane, will preside at the next
meeting of the group which will
be held on February 4th at 1:30
p.m. in the auditorium of Christ
the King Elementary School.
The Altar Society welcomed
five new members at its last meet
ing.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph E.
Cassidy, Chaplain of the Altar
Society, will continue with his
“Explanation of the Mass.”
All new parishoners are cordial
ly invited to join the Altar Socie
ty, which meets the first Monday
of every month. For information
regarding membership please con
tact Mrs. Ben Toomer, Member
ship Chairman, 2633 Birchwood
Dr. N. E., phone Cedar 3-2758.
modern prototypes. It depicted
scenes in the lives of great women
saints who combined the active
with the contempletive to make
noteworthy contributions to the
Christianization of the civiliza
tion in which they lived. It set
the mood for the next few days
when we were to give so much
thought and study to our role in
the lay apostolate guided by the
theme of the convention “Know
Christ-Live Christ.”
The delegates were welcomed
by Mayor Daley of Chicago and
Mrs. Peter Joyce, president of
the Archdiocesan Council of Chi
cago. Cardinal Stritch closed the
session by saying that the mission
of women in the Church is one in
which they are called upon to
give themselves. “They must give
their whole persons and therefore
use their intellects and their rea
sons in this work. They must be
well informed, if they are to be
effective in their mission.”
Bishop Dearden preached the
sermon at the pontifical mass
which was celebrated by Cardinal
Stritch on Thursday morning. He
called upon the delegates to live
lives of high personal sanctity
performing all tasks for love of
God and neighbor. He called too
for a greater participation by
Catholic Women in the forum of
public life.
Since Bishop Dearden is the ex
ecutive director of the National
Organization for Decent Litera
ture, it was only natural that he
should call for cooperation with
the NODL in ridding the’ country
of the flood of unwholesome lite
rature which is now reaching
tidai-wave proportions in the U.S.
reminding us that the NODL
counsels suasion and never boy
cott or other means of coercion.
At the first General session of
the convention, Mrs. Desch read
a telegram from the president of
the U;.S. Mr. Eisenhower sent
greetings and congratulations to
the NCCW for accepting the
splendid responsibilities of their
Faith.
The announcement of the ap
pointment of the convention com
mittees was made at this meeting
and Miss Mealey read the report
of her office which told of the
growth in affiliations and the in
crease in services through field
training and regional institutes
along with an expanded publica
tions program.
Suggested goals for the two
year period ahead included the
development of the average
woman as a leader in her parish
and diocese; representation of
Catholic principles and philosophy
to community and world, and full
utilization of the resources of
NCWC, of which NCCW is a de
partment.
On Thursday evening we heard
Monsignor Irving A. DeBlanc, di
rector of the Family Life Bureau,
NCWC and Fordham University
English professor, William J.
Grace speak on Women as Men
See Them. They called upon us
to dare to be women-not models-
to make Catholic ideals concrete
through our organizations.
The president’s report follows:
The ladies of the Baltimore
Province had an early breakfast
Fi’iday morning. Mrs. Sargent
White, our representative on the
National Board from the Balti
more Province, presided. Most
Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell of
Wheeling, W. Va., was the epis
copal chairman. Mrs. Coyle of
Florida was honorary chairman.
There were twenty-five to thirty
present. It was a friendly, warm
ing get-together.
The Friday morning Convention
Mass was' for the intention of His
Holiness Pope Pius XII, and was
celebrated at St. Mary’s Church
by the Rev. Erwin A. Juraschek
of San Antonio, Texas. Imme
diately following the Mass, the
exhibit hall was open for the tour
of exhibits. All twenty-one com
mittees had booths representing
their work. The delegates from
Georgia recognized a familiar
face when they passed the booth
on legislation,—Dorothy Corell
was one of the ladies in charge.
The exhibits were wonderful but
you can imagine my consternation
when I could not find the beau
tiful poster from the Georgia
Council. I immediately consulted
the gentleman handling displays
then the receiving department of
this great hotel, but the pack
age had not been received. So
our beautiful poster, on which
Mrs. Boatwright had spent so
much time and labor, was lost
somewhere between Augusta and
Chicago.
The Committee Booths wen
augmented by various booths of
business firms and organizations.
One which we all enjoyed was
that of the Coffee Brewing In
stitute which served us coffee
during the exhibition hours. The
liturgical goods and art displays
were beautiful. And Lion and
Healy Music House provided or
gan music as a pleasant back
ground. There were seventy-five
exhibits.
At the business meeting at two
o’clock, the vote was taken on
the proposed amendments to the
constitution and by-laws. These
failed to pass. The proposed reso
lutions were read and voted upon.
All were accepted with a slight
change in the wording of the re
solution pertaining to preparation
of youth for military service so
as to read:
“Circumstances peculiar to our
times demand that parents of
youth recognize their responsibi
lity to see that their sons are pre
pared for moral and spiritual as
well as social problems they will
encounter in military life. We
urge parents to accept this respon
sibility with utmost seriousness.
In this task we further urge them
to seek the cooperation of our
high schools (and colleges) and
to enlist the interest of organiza
tions of Catholic men and women
in order to reach Catholic youth
not attending Catholic high
schools (and colleges).” The word
“colleges” was added to the orig
inal script.
Mrs. Desch, the National Pres
ident, gave the report of her of
fice. This report was particularly
interesting not only because of
the remarkable things accom
plished by our organization but
also because of the graciousness
and eloquence of this dedicated
woman.
Polls were then opened and
all voting delegates cast their
ballots for a new slate of offic
ers.
To Be Continued
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