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HERE
AND
THERE
Students Nurses Association
of Georgia named Miss Peggy
Lloyd as president for the com
ing year. Daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Armand Lloyd of Bruns
wick, Miss Lloyd is a senior
honor student at St. Joseph
School of Nursing, Savannah.
President of her class for the
past 3 years a past officer in
the hospital’s praesidium of the
Legion of Mary, Miss Lloyd
was elected to the latest state
office at a statewide conven
tion held in Atlanta on the 13th
of December, 1962.
Congratulations to Past
Grand Knight of Columbus
(Council #631) Julian C. Halli-
gan, member of the Chatham-
Savannah Board of Education
on his appointment as director
of the first division in the First
District for the Georgia
School Boards Association. Ju
lian, owner of the Julian Halli-
gan Insurance Agency, is prom
inent in Catholic Layman Asso
ciations in Savannah. He is
president of the Cathedral
Men’s Steering Committee, and
in September last was desig
nated president of the Savannah
Deanery, Bishop’s Council of
Catholic Men.
Final redecorative stages of
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist are well under way.
A Solemn Pontifical High Mass
accompanied by appropriate
ceremonies is now being ten
tatively set for Quinquagesima
Sunday, February 24, according
to His Excellency Most Rever
end Thomas J. McDonough. New
lighting, sanctuary appoint
ments, air conditioning, new and
restored artistry and other ec
clesiastical features will more
than ever prove the Cathedral
to be “the barometer of Catho
lic prestige in the Diocese of:
Savannah and in the entire
southeastern region of the Uni
ted States.” Mr. Frank Ross-
iter and Father Lawrence Lu-
cree are busy compiling into
a commemorative brochure
reams of historical notes, ar
ticles, and pictures gathered
from diocesan, city, state and
national archives by Mrs. Mar-
maduke Floyd and Mr. Walter
Hartridge.
Meeting of the Savannah
Deanery Council of Catholic
Women at St. Simons Island
on Holy Family Sunday, 13 Jan
uary. Mass at high noon at
St. William’s Chapel on the Is
land and a lucheon following
at the Red Barn. His excellency,
guest speaker.
Golden Wedding Anniversary
for Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mo
sher of St. James Parish, Sa
vannah, on the 30 December,
1962. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John
Toomey offered the 10 o’clock
Mass for the couple and after
wards they renewed their mar
riage vows and promises. Open
house was held the next day
at the Mosher’s home in Rose
Dhu from 4 to 8 P.M. Their
children and many friends and
relations were present to con
gratulate them.
Retired City of Savannah Fire
Chief T.J. Ryan was feted on
January 5 on the occasion of
his 75th birthday.
Present at the Cathedral’s
Chapel of Our Lady for the Eb-
berwein-Haviland wedding on
January 5th were out-of-town
priests Fr. Oscar Burnett,
O.S.B. , and Fr. John Somon-
in. The former, a native
Savannian and recently ordain
ed to the priesthood, is a facul
ty member of Belmont Abbey
College, Belmont, N. C.; the
latter, no stranger to Savan-
nahians is a priest from the
Diocese of Charleston, pastor
in Hardeeville and surrounding
Carolina missions., and past
director of Camp St. Mary’s
in Bluffton, S.C.
SAVANNAH—January 3. Pe
ter Roe Nugent, former mayor
of Savannah and former member
of the Georgia Ports Authority,
has been named president of the
Ogeechee Distributing Co.
Nugent served as mayor from
1945 to 1947 and was connected
with the Ports Authority from
1949 until 1955. He was instru
mental in locating the Savannah
Division of the University of
Georgia here in 1946 which was
temporarily located at Hunter
Air Force Base before Arms
trong College became a part
of the university system.
He also served for many
years as a city alderman.
Next Deadline Jan. 14
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree
P. O. Box 180
Savannah, Ga.
The success of a convention
is difficult to measure. There
are several standards by which
one can judge, but a complete
evaluation and summation of the
recent CYO Diocesan meeting
would be all but impossible to
present in this column. But I
would like to present some of
my impressions.
Certainly there was a pro
nounced spiritual impact. Of
course, only the members at
tending really know whether or
not they are better Catholic
young men and women because
of their presence at the con
vention. But I think all were
stirred by the challenging re
marks of Father McDonough,
and I’m sure his words were
not wasted.
The sight of 450 young people
from all over our state was
certainly impressive, even
though several large parishes
had no representation at all.
And curiously enough, without
at all disparaging the larger
cities, it seemed that the small
er the town the more enthu
siastic was the delegation.
The convention certainly
seemed to be successful from
the standpoint of providing an
enjoyable week-end. Every face
I s aw radiated plea sure and con
tentment.
And the talent show was cer
tainly enjoyable, reflecting a
great deal of hard work on the
part of the participants. It’s
just too bad there weren’t more
entries.
I noticed that CYO members
seemed to be spellbound by
Miss Martin’s talk on “Vital
Christian Living and Influenc
ing Your Environment.”
From all reports the dance
was thoroughly enjoyable, and,
PAGE 6—The Southern Ooss, January 12, 1963
PAROCHIAL LEAGUE CHAMPS-Pictured above are the pa
rochial league champs of Savannah. Blessed Sacrament’s “A”
team has finished its third season as reigning champions
of Parochial League football. The school has the enviable
record of being undefeated and untied in three seasons. The
players from left to right are: Bobby Hanson, Lindsey Rowse,
John Battle, Jerry Kilpatrick, Don Aliffi, Claude Lodge, Jo-
TROPHIES PRESENTED TO CATHEDRAL GRIDDERS— Players honored were left
to right; Larry Saunders, outstanding back; William McLaughlin, outstanding lineman;
John Spivey, outstanding athlete; Rickey George, outstanding all-around student.
AT CONVENTION CITY-
■Rambling Notes
Up to the registration desk,
strutted a diminutive teen-ager
from Warner Robins. His five-
foot frame seemed minimized
by the luggage tugging at the
end of each short arm. When
asked by the registrar what
his name was, he summoned
the deepest tones of his squea
ky soprano 13 year old voice
to reply, “Everyone calls me
Pee-Wee.”
For all his size, Pee-Wee
proved a big-hearted gen
tleman. At the communion
breakfast next day, he took a
seat at the end of the table just
in front of the Bishop’s place.
When a young lady of age 15
reached the crowded table to
take a corner chair, Pee-Wee
nobly arose, and with polished
manners, assisted the pretty
Miss in being seated. His Ex
cellency complimented him with
the remark,”Pee-Wee, you are
a gentleman!”
At the dance, a kindly Au
gusta father told this story: At
supper earlier in the evening,
his young out-of-town guest
seemed to hesitate in beginning
the meal. Worried he might
be homesick the host inquired,
“Son, is anything wrong? Why
aren’t you eating?”
“Pardon , sir, I don’t have
a fork. ” replied the guest.
“That makes you one of the
family, then.” heartily chuck
led the delightful gentleman
in spite of all the “twisting”
no one seems to have dislocated
any bones.
Perhaps the most inspiring
moment of the entire convention
was the Mass and corporate
Communion, because growth in
Grace and mutual edification is
certainly the primary purpose
of the CYO.
I’m sure that everyone was
both enlightened and encouraged
by Bishop McDonough’s talk.
I
And of course the warmth
and generosity of spirit with
which so many Augusta families
welcomed convention partici
pants made everyone feel right
at home.
Was the convention a sue-:
cess? All my impressions say,
Another good soul, mother of
a teen-age daughter was over
heard to say she passed up
the chance to earn fifteen or
twenty dollars evertime pay
to extend hospitality to several
girls from rural Georgia. “I
wouldn’t have missed the op
portunity to share with my
daughter this thrill of opening
my home to those wonderful
young girls we enjoyed as guests
for all the money in Augusta.”
This remark was so typical
of those made by the many good
people of Augusta who enter
tained the CYO folks from out-
of-town. A number of ladies
serving breakfast seemed em
barrassed when thanked, and
said it was a genuine pleas
ure to help entertain the young
sters, because they were so
well-mannered, graceful, and
delightful company.
Wasn’t the rapt silence during
Miss Joan Martin’s enthusiastic
talk absolutely startling? Her
zest for Christian living, for
applying text-book religious
principles to every-day situa
tions in life took her audience
by storm. And the teens really
buzzed about her ideas for
hours afterwards.
The always happy, always
full-of-life Brunswick delega
tion remained undaunted by the
bus blowing a head gasket. Much
of the calm in this calamity,
much of their gay* radiant spir
it throughout the convention, is
due to the gusto of their bus
driving adult advisor and his
charming wife.
The basket-ball games pro
vided real pathos. The Savannah
guests were naturally forced
to root for Benedictine and St.
Vincent’s against their Aquinas
hosts. And then Saturday, the
Brunswick gang vociferously
cheered their Glynn team in the
heart-stopping thriller, which
Aquinas finally won. Talk about
divided loyalties 1
Father Ignatius and his six
CYO members from St. Bene
dict’s, Columbus, really showed
grit and stamina. Unable to stay
overnight because of Father's
schedule of Sunday Masses, he
and the members made the
lengthy round-trip on Saturday,
just to attend the afternoon ses
sion. They missed the social
and regretably the Communion
Breakfast.
The pretty Brunswick girls
made a big hit with the Aquinas
boys, and the Augusta girls
looked pretty tearful as the
Brunswick boys waved goodbye
Sunday afternoon.
Albany’s group, as each year,
had to eat Saturday lunch from
the trunk of the car, after the
long haul from clear across
state. Their skit in the talent
show was received with thun
derous applause.
Approximately 64% of Geor
gia’ s population has some type
(or some amount) of insurance
protection against the cost of
illness or injury, the Georgia
Hospital Association reports.
But the Association cautions
the public that many of the
health insurance policies or
contracts now in force may fall
far short of meeting reasonable
needs. A family needs to reas
sess its health insurance from
time to time, just as it does
the fire insurance on the home.
In both instances, the key ques
tion is whether the insurance
will replace loss to the extent
desired, when considering cur
rent price or cost trends.
A typical family will incur
a hospital bill on an average
of every 2 1/2 years, the As
sociation stated. “Facing the
inevetable, the only way for the
average family to meet the cost
of illness is to prepay or bud
get for it through the device
of health insurance.”
Whatever form of coverage is
obtained or already held, whe
ther Blue Cross or through an
insurance company, the Asso
ciation recommends that the
following points be carefully
checked.
Examine the contract to see
exactly what it covers. How
much does it pay toward the hos
pital room charge? (The ave
rage private room charge in
Georgia is $16, and the average
semi-private is $12 per day)
How much does the contract
pay toward other hospital
charges, such as laboratory
fees, drugs, x-rays, operating
room, anesthesia, etc.? These
charges can run between $100
and $200 or more per hospi
tal stay, depending on the type
of illness or surgery.
How flexible is your contract?
Does it put a ceiling on items
such as laboratory, x-ray and
drugs—services you will likely
need most—or does it allow for
these items to be lumped, or
interchanged if necessary? You
need this flexibility in your con
tract, or preferably unlimited
coverage in some of the items.
How many days coverage in
the hospital during any one
confinement does your contract
offer? More importantly, what
does the contract stipulate about
exclusions (or a waiting period)
because of a previous condition
of health? Does the contract
cover dependents of the insur
ed?
What does the contract say
about cancellation, or renewal
at modified rates?
The total average expense per
day ( including the room charge)
in Georgia hospitals is cur
rently $28 to $32 , according
to the Georgia Hospital Asso
ciation. The Association urges
the public to examine health
insurance contracts—both as
to hospital benefits and phy
sicians’ fees. For advice, write
or consult the administrator of
your nearest hospital or write
the Georgia Hospital Associa
tion, 2050 Peachtree Road,
N.E., Atlanta 9, Georgia.
’Yes!!’
seph Anthony, and Steve Cannon. Middle row: James Kelleher,
Jim McQuillan, Mahaney Cromartie, Don Pomakala, captain,
Gary Scott, Steve Brennan, Tony Aliffi, Terence Hennessy
and Donald Cromartie. Third row: Coach Ozzie Grevemberg,
John Maher, Bernard Foran, Bob Cosnahan, David Lerque,
David Carpenter, Billy Hadsell, Joe Shearouse, Michael Hen
nessy and Coach Frank Schwartz.
Brunswick K.C.
2nd Degree
Initiation
BRUNSWICK - The “Henry
T. Ross Council” Knights of
Columbus staged their first 2nd
Degree Initiation recently.
District Deputy Gerald Gard
ner handled the role of Grand
Knight in this initiation. There
were eight candidates from
Brunswick Council and eight
from Valdosta.
The men representing the
Valdosta council were as fol
lows: Father George Vienost,
Enrique Nieves, Clarence Reid-
er, Peter Lyser, Andrew Rum-
ker, William Doherty, John Mil
ler and Emmett Ventrelli.
Those from the Brunswick
Council were: J.P. Brown, Jim
Hayes, Pat O’Brien, Russ Rose,
James Baldwin, James Smyth,
Anthony Albenze -and C.A.
Cloud.
To Discuss
Council
VATICAN CITY, (NC) - Ca
tholic and Protestant scholars
will trade ideas on the Coun
cil of Trent as a Church-spon
sored congress next September
in the northern Italian city
where the major Catholic re
sponse to the Protestant Re
formation was initiated.
The five-day congress is be
ing organized by the Pontifi
cal Commission of Historical
Sciences. It opens in Trent
September 2 and closes just
before the reconvening of the
Second Vatican Council here
on September 8.
The year 1963 is the 400th
anniversary of the conclusion
of the Council of Trent, which
mapped the Church’s reply to
the half-century-old Protestant
revolt and launched needed re
forms within the Church itself.
That council, the longest ecu
menical council in Church his
tory, opened in 1545 and con
cluded on December 4, 1563.
Twenty lectures are sche
duled for the Trent meeting.
Among the Catholic speakers
will be Father James A. O’Don-
hoe of the Boston archdiocesan
seminary, who will speak on
the council’s legislation estab
lishing seminaries, and Stephan
G. Kuttner, professor of canon
law history at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Wash
ington, D. C., who is to talk
on the Tridentine changes in
the light of the canon law of
the preceding centuries.
Protestant speakers will in
clude Peter Meinhold, of the
Evangelical theology school at
Kiel, German, who will dis
cuss the work of Protestants
who were present at the Coun
cil of Trent; the Rev. Thomas
M. Parker, longtime chaplain
of University College, Oxford,
comparing the Catholic reform
begun at Trent with the Angli
can reform, and Henry H. Even-
nett of Cambridge University,
on English contributions to his
torical studies of Trent.
The idea of holding the con
ference on Trent was approved
by Pope Pius XII in a letter
dated October 4, 1958—five
days before his death. Two of
the men who had been expect-
BRUNSWICK SECOND DEGREE - Pictured above are
candidates who were initiated into the Second Degree of the
Knights of Columbus by Henry T. Ross Council of Brunswick.
Prisoners Have Rosaries
Of Beans, Matchsticks
MONTCLAIR, N. J., (NC) -
Rosaries made of beans and
matchsticks were among the few
possessions of some of the ran
somed Cuban war prisoners,
according to a U. S. immigra
tion official.
Angela Aiello, a supervisor
of port receptionists at New
York’s Idlewild Airport, was
on hand in Miami from Decem
ber 19 on, waiting for the deal
for the prisoners to go through.
She recalled her experiences in
an interview here.
Miss Aiello had an unusual
opportunity to see the reactions
of the returning prisoners,
since she was assigned to the
deplaning area.
“Many of the prisoners,”
she said, “wore around their
necks rosaries which they had
made out of beans, match sticks
and other pieces of wood. A few
of them gave their rosaries—
their only possessions—to the
port receptionists.
“One man carried a little
shrine of Our Lady that he had
made. The strong religious de
votion of these men was ap
parent.”
A member of the Cuban Fami
lies Committee, which had ar
ranged the release, told her
that “the success of the project
ed to plan major roles in it
died this past December 14—
Bishop Pio Paschini, president
of the Pontifical Commission of
Historical Sciences, and Arch
bishop Carle de Ferrari of
Trent.
rested in the fact that it was
a work of love. No one was
doing it for personal gain. With
God’s help our dream was rea
lized.”
Company
Donates
Clothing
NEW YORK, (NC) - The Bond
Clothing Company, Rochester,
N. Y., has given 1,000 pairs of
trousers, 100 top coats and 100
overcoats to Catholic Relief
Services — National Catholic
Welfare Conference for distri
bution to needy Cuban refugees.
The clothing will be distri
buted to needy Cubans by the
Miami Cuban refugee reception
center of CRS—NCWC.theU.S.
Catholic overseas relief agen
cy.
The clothing donation was
made in appreciation for CRS —
NCWC’s assistance in locating
20 tailors and seamstresses
among Cuban refugees to work
in the clothing company’s Roch
ester plant.
Interviews with refugees
were arranged for a company
representative by Hugh Mc-
Loone, director of the CRS—
NCWC center in Miami. Catho
lic Relief Services transported
the 20 Cubans chosen and their
families to Rochester. There
the Rochester diocesan Catho
lic Charities found homes for
the Cubans.
Excavators In Israel Discover
Earliest Inscription Of Name
Of Jerusalem, Ancient Citadel
JERUSALEM, (NC) - Exca
vators found the earliest known
Hebrew inscription of the word
“Jerusalem” when they liter
ally fell through the ceiling of a
cave in the Negev desert.
Other recent archaeological
finds include a 6th-century-
B.C. royal citadel of the Judean
kingdom unearthed on the out
skirts of this city and pottery
fragments dating from 4,000
B, C. found in a section of
Beersheba.
The “Jerusalem” inscrip
tion was found scratched on the
wall of a burial cave near the
ancient biblical town of Lachish
in the north of southern Pales
tine’s semi-desert Negev re
gion.
The Negev was fertile and
well-populated in ancient times
and has recently been the scene
of major irrigation projects.
Before the recent finds, the
oldest Hebrew inscriptions of
“Jerusalem” were found on jar
handles of the fourth and fifth
centuries B. C. Translations
of the name in Egyptian and
Akkadian, an ancient Semitic
dialect, have been found which
date back to 2,000 years before
Christ.
The newly found inscriptions,.
which seem to have been scrat
ched into the wall quickly, have
two series of words as well as
sketches of three human
figures and two sailing ships.
The longer of the two inscrip
tions reads: "The Lord God of
the whole earth; the mountains
of Juda belong to Him, to the
God of Jerusalem”
An Antiquities Department
representative who reconstru
cted the inscription said that
the expression, “God of Jeru
salem,” appears only once in
the Bible. This is in the second
book of Paralipomenon, in the
chapter describing the Assyrian
king Sennacherib’s siege of Juda
(701 B. C.) in the reign of
Ezechias. Only Jerusalem with
stood the attack of the Assy
rians.
Both the content and the style
of writing seem to indicate that
the inscription dates from the
reign of Ezechias.
The royal citadel found at
Ramat Rahel on the southern
side of this city is believed to
have been built by King Joakim
who reigned from 609 to 597
B. C. The fortress seems to
fit the words of the prophet
Jeremia (22,13 and 14): “Woe
to him who builds his house on
wrong,. . .who says, ‘I will
build myself a spacious house
with airy rooms,’ who cuts out
windows for it.” A recently
found ornamental window ba
lustrade probably decorated the
front of the fortress.
The citadel is in the second
lowest of seven levels. The low- |
est level goes back roughly to
the reign of Ozia (died 742,
B. C.). In that level, excava
tors found what seems to have
been a main house in the royal
vienyards ringed by the houses
of tenant farmers^
The level above the Judean
citadel has a Persian-Greek I
citadel; the next level contains |
a settlement of the fourth or
fifth century, B. C.; the next
has Roman building of the se
cond or third century, B. C.;
the next has a Byzantine church
and monastery; and the highest
level has the remains of an early
Arab settlement.
Recent excavations in Beer
sheba’s former Arab market |
turned up fragments of a figu
rine of Astarte, the Semitic^
goddess of love and fecundity,
as well as pottery fragments,
cooking and eating utensils, a I
fireplace and an oven. These
findings are believed to date [
from the eighth century before
Christ and seem to confirm • I
the town’s importance in the I
time of King Ozia.
About two yards below these
findings were pottery frag
ments and flint tools which go
back to 4,000 B. C.
Of Trent
KNIGHTS PRESENT CHECK -Atthelast regular-meeting
of the year of Henry T. Ross Council Knights of Columbus’
Brunswick, Rev. Paul Burkort S.M. was presented a check
in the amount of $2,500 towards the reduction of the school
debt. Steve Koncz, chairman of the entertainment committee,
is shown presenting the check.