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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 30, 1957.
Savannah Honors
As They Parade For fOlst.
MAIL BRINGS $23,850 CHECK—Sister Mary Louise, C.S.J.,
smiles as she opens her morning mail to find a check of $28,850
from the Ford Foundation. The grant, second part of a $57,800
gift, will be used to help defray the cost of air conditioning the
hospital. Shown looking at the check is Sister Rose Margaret,
C.S.J., Business Manager.—(Fitz photo by Robert Symms).
To Air-Condition Building
Augusta Hospital Recipient Of
828,850 From Ford Foundation
AUGUSTA—St. Joseph’s Hos
pital has received a check in the
amount of $28,850, balance of a
$57,700 grant from the Ford Foun
dation.
When asked what use the hos
pital would make of the Ford
funds, Sister Mary Louise, Ad
ministrator, said that the trustees
and the staff had decided that the
greatest need is air conditioning,
affording comfort to the sick dur
ing the hot humid summer days.
The grant is being used to help
defray the expenses of installing a
central system that will cool the
entire building.
Total cost of air-conditioning
the hospital will be $136,000. Of
this amount $57,700 will be paid
by Ford Foundation, leaving a
balance of $78,300 to be paid by
the hospital.
Sister Mary Louise stated that
the “Ford Grant is certainly a
wonderful contribution, not just
to our hospital but to the whole
community.” In making the
Grants, the Foundation leaves the
final decision to each hospital as
to how the funds are to be used.
The foundation feels that the local
trustees know the local problems
best and can devise the best local
solution. The foundation did have
to approve the selected use for
which the money would be used.
Generous though the grants are.
Sister Mary Louise reminded,
| “they do not even begin to meet
j our total needs. We hope that
through the use of these funds,
j we shall increase community un
derstanding of our total needs, and
| generate even greater community
j backing of our efforts to bring
the best possible hospital care to
our people. We believe these
j grants will strengthen our volun-
| tary hospital system, and the
benefits will go to the American
people.
Patchen and Zimmerman are
the engineers for the project with
the installation being handled by
Sig Cox, General Contractor.
Present plans call for the system
to be in operation by June 1st.
REVEALS CHARACTER
The chain of life is forged with
little rings—each word and act
forming a part of it.
SAVVANNAH, — An estimat
ed 75,000 viewers watched as more
than 7,500 marchers honored the
patron of Ireland in Savannah’s
101st parade.
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc-
Sacred Heart
Council Plans
Bar-B-Q May 1
AUGUSTA,—Miss Patricia Nee
ley, vocalist, accompanied by Miss
Sheila O’Connor and Miss Mary
O’Connor, presented a medley of
Iris ballads, at the meeting of the
Sacred Heart Home and School
Association Wednesday evening.
Miss Neeley and Miss Shelia O’
Connor are students of mount St.
Joseph High School, and alum-
nea of Sacred Heart School. Miss
Mary O’Connor is a student in the
eighth grade at Sacred Heart.
Mr. E. B. Florie, ways and
means chairman, announced that
the association would sponsor a
barbecue May 1 at the Julian
Smith Park, and urged the sup
port of all members, in this pro
ject.
Mrs. O. E. Mertins stated that
a double header basketball game
mothers versus daughters and—
fathers versus sons — would be
held March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Chafee Park Gymnasium. Tickets
may be purchased from the mem
bers of the organization.
Mr. Jack Johannsen, chairman
of the athletic commitee, report
ed that the school’s basketball
teams were outfitted with new
uniforms this year, and that the
teams had completed a success
ful season.
It was announced that Mrs. W.
S. Dickson, program chairman
would present a panel discussion
at the April meeting. The topic
of dicussion will be “What Par
ents Should Know to Teach Pre
teeners.”
Father P. F. O’Donnell, S. J.,
urged all members to cooperate
in the financial projects of the
organization. He said March 31
had been designated as family
Communion Sunday, and asked
members to make an effort to
participate in this spiritual pro
ject of the Council of Catholic
Women.
Mrs. Amelia Reid and Mrs.
Ernest Dinkins were awafded the
attendance prizes.
The grade count and membe-
ship contest were won by Sister
Mary Gilbert’s eighth grade.
After the business session, cof
fee was served by Mrs. Francis
Enzbrenner.
Donoiigh, Auxiliary Bishop of the
Diocese of Savannah was cele
brant of a Pontificial Mass pre-
ceeding the parade. The Cathed
ral was jammed to capacity for
the Mass, at which the Bishop
said: "We know that the sacred
fire, kindled by the Saint (St.
Patrick) will never be extinguish
ed: in that land of saints and
scholars. Today you and I stop
in the melee and rush of life to
| pay honor to St. Patrick—the pa-
[ Iron of Christians all over the
world.”
Here, it seemed, the Bishop
; captured the true spirit of the
St. Patrick’s Day celebration
| when he said: “Historians are
not too clear in establishing the
I birth place of Patrick—perhaps
! it is intended to be that way—so
| that Patrick may worthily be
long to all nations.”
The parade was led by grand
j marshal Charles F. Powers, Sr.,
and his two aides, James Col
lins and James Tobin, and in
cluded:
City police, massed colors, the
marshal’s car, U. S. Marine color
| guard and band, civilian mareh-
| ers, past grand marshal’s cars,
|Savannah High School band,
I Winyah High School band,
Georgetown, S. C.; Fort Stewart
! AAA band, recruiting cars of
! various armed services, Waycross
High School band, U. S. Marine
Drum and Bugle Corps and va
rious Marine units, Patterson
High School band, Blackshear.
Units from the Coast Guard
cutter Aurora, and the visiting
Navy ships, Hunter Air Force
; band and units, Cathedral Paro
chial School, Swainsboro High
I School band, Swainsboro; Sacred
] Heart Parochial School, Andrews
High School band, Andrews, S.
C.; Blessed Sacrament Parochial
I School.
Vidalia High School band, Vi-
dalia; Nativity of Our Lord Pa
rochial School, Thunderbolt; St.
Michael’s Parochial School, Sa
vannah Beach; horsemen ;MulIins
High School band, Mullins, S. C.;
various naval and Coast Guard
reserve units, Baxley High School
band, Baxley; Savannah Marine
; Reserve, Hershel V. Jenkins High
| School band, Civil Air Patrol, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Benedictine
Military School band and ROTC
cadets, M o r ris Harvey College
band, Charleston, W. Va.; Com
mercial High School band and
Commercial and Savannah High
ROTC units, Irish Jasper Greens,
Circle M Riding Club and other
horsemen and horsewomen.
Highlight of the Savannah pro
gram was '.he banquet of the an
cient and honorable Hibernian
Society at the DeSoto Hotel. Re
sponding to the toasts were U. S.
Senator Smathers of Florida and
Father Gannon, New York City, :
former president of Fordham
University.
Also that evening, the Jasper
Greens held their anual dinner
at the Country Club, while the
Knights of Columbus were stag
ing a gala St. Patrick’s Day ball.
Asks Support—
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care the renewed expression of
Our heartfelt gratitude and of
Our admiration for the support
they have so unfailingly given to
this deserving cause.
How We wish that it sufficed to
manifest Our thankfulness! But
unfortunately, as you are well
aware, Venerable Brothers, the
need for charity has not diminish
ed; rather has it increased. And
when your beloved flocks hear
the appeal which you are again
about to make to them in Our
name, let them regard it as the
harrowing plea of countless thou
sands of their distressed brethren
which reaches them through the
Common Father and their Bish
ops: for it is in reality the pitiful
voice of the under-nourished, the
unemployed, the homeless, the
refugees whose ranks have un
happily swollen in recent months;
it is a voice faint because of
hardships borne and buoyed up
solely by an ardent hope in the
j continued help of those who were
their benefactors in the past.
We feel sure that this anxious
trust of the poor and the afflicted
! will not be disappointed. “Bear
ione another’s burdens,” St. Paul
j wrote to the Galatians, “and so
I you will fulfil the law of Christ”
(Gal. VI, 2). We are confident
that Our beloved children of the
United States will show their
|awareness of their membership of
! Our Lord’s Mystical Body by
responding in a manner which will
j even surpass the munificence of
other years. In that way they will
j prove their gratitude for God’s
| manifold benefits and merit for
their noble country a still greater
abundance of heavenly blessings.
Such is the reward which We
prayerfully invoke upon your
people, as, from a heart full of
fatherly benevolence and affec
tion. We impart to you, Venerable
Brothers, and to your clergy, reli
gious and faithful Our special
Apostolic Benediction.
From the Vatican, February 19,
1957.
(Signed) Pius PP. XII
PHONE 3-9389
P. 0. BOX 570
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