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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, April 27, 1963
Refugee
Relief
Project
MAT ADI, The Congo, (NC)~
Five of an expected 50 refugees
have arrived at a $300,000 re
settlement project near here
for some 5,500. refugees from
Angola.
The project is being run joint
ly by the Congo’s Catholic cha
rities, a United Nations
agency and a U. S. Catholic
relief agency.
Father Andre Cauwe, S. J.,
secretary general of Caritas-
Congo, said that only five of
the expected 50 turned up
(March 21) because “Angolese
refugees are victims of politi
cal propaganda aimed at per
suading them that the. . .pro
ject is just a ruse for turning
them over to Portuguese autho
rities.”
Three villages for 80 families
are planned at Mao, a fertile
forest reserve near Matadi and
just north of the Congo-Angola
frontier. Angola, is a Portu
guese territory just south of
the Congo on Africa’s Atlantic
coast.
“Our first five refugees are
true heros,” Father Cauwe
said. * ‘They took a great risk
since they were not at all re
assured despite guarantees giv
en by local Congolese authori
ties.”
Caritas-Congo is working
with the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees in the project which
is to resettle 860 Angolese
families. Caritas-Congo has
prepared dwellings for the first
refugees who in turn are doing
the same for those yet to come.
Caritas-Congo is giving
$48,000 for the project , the
Office of the UN High Com
missioner for Refugees is
giving $72,000 and U. S. Catho
lic Relief Services-National
Catholic Welfare Conference is
providing food through the U, S.
Agricultural Assistance Act
valued at $180,000. The pro
gram includes housing, moving
the refugees, and providing ra
tions, seeds and tools.
A Closed RETREAT FOR
WOMEN will be held this year
at the Dominican Retreat House,
Our Lady of Springbank, Kings-
tree, S. C., from Friday night,
June 21, through Sunday noon,
June 23. Plan now to make this
retreat . . . The annual drill
competition of Benedictine Mil
itary School will be held Friday
at 9:30 a.m. in Forsyth Park
Extension (Sav’h.) according to
CAPT. EDWARD J. KELLY,
newly assigned Professor of
Military Science and Tactics.
Two officers and twonon-Com-
missioned officers from the
Marine Recruit Depot at Par
ris Island have been invited to
judge the competition. At the
conclusion of the drill there
will be the presentation of
awards and a review by the
Battle Group. The Public is in
vited . . . FRATER CLEMENT
(LOUIS) PORZIO, a native
Savannahian, will be ordained
to the priesthood on May 4th
by MOST REV. PHILLIP M.
HANNON, J.U.D., Auxiliary Bi
ship of Washington, D. C. The
newly ordained Benedictine Fa
ther, a Monk of Belmont Abbey,
North Carolina, will say his
First Mass at Blessed Sacra
ment Church, Savannah . . .
New officers of St. James’
(Sav’h) Sodality are as follows:
COLLETTE ANSLEY, Perfect;
KAY STEPHENS, 1st assistant;
PATRICIA McCarthy, 2nd as
sistant; MARY ALICE HILL,
Sec'y; and NORA COOK, Treas
urer. Collette Ansley succeeds
PAMELA PENDICINI who re
cently completed two years as
Prefect of the Sodality . . .
Girls from each class at Pa-
celli High School (Columbus)
are planning skits for a field
day to be presented at the end of
this month. The theme chosen
by each class will be kept se
cret until the actual time for
the judges to decide on the win
ner of the skit review. BETH
LAND is coordinator for the
Seniors; BETH TURNER, for
the Juniors; MARY MATHAIS
and MYRA PHIFER for the
Sophomores; and KRISTI EL-
STAD for the Freshman . . .
Flash! Pacellian TOMMY
MELTZER, senior, will receive
recognition in the AMERICAN
LEGION MAGAZINE for his
work last summer at Boys’ State
. . . Chatham County Police De
tective GEORGE BOUCHEAhas
been promoted by the Depart
ment to Detective Supervisor.
Especially interested in marks
manship, Bouchea has received
medals and trophies with honors
in this field of police work . . .
NEAL SCHOU, well-known Sa
vannah pianist, recently brought
some of the Coastal Empire
Arts Festival atmosphere into
the U.S. Public Health Service
Hospital with a recital for the
patients. His concert included
selections from Bach, Chopin,
Ravel, Liszt, and music from
modern-day composers. Neal
is the son of MR. AND MRS.
NEAL P. SCHOU of Bannon
Drive, Thunderbolt . . . An
nual Ladies’ Night of Savannah
Council, No. 631, Knights of
Columbus, will be held Satur
day night beginning at 9 p.m.
in the K. of C. main ballroom
. . . Sixth graders of ST.
MARY’S SCHOOL, Savannah,
recently presented puppets
which they made to the orphans
of ST. MARY’S HOME. . . FR.
JOHN MULVEY, S.M.A., is pas
tor of St. Mary’s Church . . .
On Friday, May 3rd, the Student
Association of St. Joseph’s Hos
pital School of Nursing (Sav’h.)
will sponsor a shrimp supper at
Benedictine Military School Ar
mory. Price: $1.25 per plate;
time: 5 to 9 p.m . . . Also,
“Box Supper” on May 11th at
Benedictine Armory to help pay
for the “Big Horn” (tuba) re
cently purchased by the school
for the band . . . Has anyone
seen Walter? . . .
Send future news items to
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree
P. O. Box 180,
Savannah, Ga.
African
Publisher
DAKAR, Senegal, —The first
African publisher of West Af
rica’s influential Catholic
weekly Afrique Nouvelle has
been appointed the the Arch
bishops of French-speaking
West Africa.
Simon Kiba from Upper Volta
took over from Ernest Milcent,
in the presence of Church auth
orities and representatives
from government, the dip
lomatic corps and the press
(April 2).
CRS Sends 2,000
Tons Of Food
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Con
go, (NC)—The American Catho
lic Bishops’ relief agency has
sent 2,000 tons of surplus U. S.
food products in the past six
months to the Congo’s distress
ed South Kasai province, it has
been revealed here.
Catholic Relief Services-Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence started sending food into
South Kasai province last Octo
ber after United Nations forces
relocated 30,000 Baluba tribes
men there from a strife-torn
area of North Katanga.
Father Andre Cauwe, S. J.,
secretary general of Caritas-
Congo, the Country’s Catholic
charities organization, said
(March 25) that the province’s
political upheaval in January
and February wiped out the re
sults of earlier efforts to give
the region enough food.
Food distributed by Catholic
Relief Services to students
throughout the Congo, Father
Cauwe said, has “saved many
schools and has helped prevent
catastrophic undernourishment
of school children.”
MARRIAGES
MAHANY—COONS
SAVANNAH—Miss Joan Isa
bel Coons, daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. Carol Winfield Coons and
Joseph Eugene Mahany, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G, Mahany
of Wilimington Island, were
married April 6th at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist.
BLACKWELDER—THORNTON
THUNDERBOLT—Miss Jud
ith Anne Thornton became the
bride of Clarence Poe Black-
welder, Jr. at the church of The
Nativity of Our Lord on April
20th. The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. Felix Don
nelly. The bride is the daughter
of C. M. Sgt. and Mrs, Milton
Thornton and the groom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Poe Blackwelder, Sr.
WILLIAMSON—GARVIN
VALDOSTA- Miss Nancy
Mae Garvin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James T. Garvin, became
the bride of Thomas Franklin
Williamson, III, son of Thomas
Franklin Williamson, III, April
19th in St. John the Evangelist
Church. The Rev. Thomas H,
Payne performed the ceremony.
SACRED HEART ATHLETIC BANQUET—Top photo shows trophy winning members of
Savannah’s Sacred Heart School’s girls basketball team. They are 1 to r Elaine Rous-
seay, best guard; Virginia Corish, most outstanding player; Anne Courtney, coach; Cathy
Kenny, best forward. At bottom left is Mr. Herbert Griffin, Jr., basketball coach of St.
Vincent’s Academy, who outlined the qualities of a good athlete and reminded the young
players of the coach’s part in building their characters. Photo at bottom right shows
Billy Smiley, Sacred Heart football coach (center) with two of his prize winning charges.
At left of photo is Michael Evans, best back and best all around player. At right is Frank
Butler, best lineman and best player on boys basketball team.
The Ecumenical Council
The Southern Cross is pleas
ed to print the prize-winning
Essays in the annual Contest
sponsored by the Diocesan
Council of Catholic women. This
Essay took first honor in Group
III.
James R. Hester
Our Lady of Lourdes
Columbus
What is this Ecumenical
Council? It is many things. One
of them is you, because you are
the church! You and the church
are one. What happens to the
church happens to you.
An Ecumenical Council is a
meeting of all the Bishops with
certain other leading figures of
the church, it discusses and is
sues decrees on problems con
cerning the church. It is direct
ed by the Pope, who must
approve all the decisions. Each
Bishop there will strive to carry
out Christ’s work, His Divine
Plan for man.
The Council was called to en
able the church to renew its in
ternal life. With nearly 2,000
years of experience and wis
dom, the church knows how im
portant it is to stand back and
look at itself. The second major
aim of the Council is to look
at her outer life, of the church.
Here the church looks out to
the world, to the problems it
must solve in its mission of
salvation.
The decisions of every Coun
cil have affected you in both
spiritual and practical ways.
So will the decisions of this one,
The coming Ecumenical
Council will differ from all
previous Councils in many im
portant ways. One of the dif
ferences will be the attendance
Field Trip To Southeast
Seminary Hosts
Visiting Students
SAVANNAH—St. John Vian-
ney Minor Seminary was host,
April 17th, to sixteen boys, ages
twelve to fourteen, who are
making a Field Trip to the
Southeast as part of their stu
dies. Students at Calasanctius
Preparatory School, Buffalo,
N. Y., the boys spent the night
at Villa Marie.
The following morning they
visited the U. S. Plant Introduc
tion Station on U. S. Highway
17, south of Savannah. The work
of the station is largely con
cerned with evaulation of intro
duced bamboo, drug, and oilseed
plants to determine their poten
tial as new crops. Later that day
they toured the U. S. D. A.
Stored Product Insect Labora
tories.
Mr. Davis A. Roycroft, facul
ty menber, is directing the trip.
Two Priest faculty members
are also accompanying the boys.
They are the Rev. Louis Kovari,
Sch. P. and the Rev. Benjamin
Cobos, Sch. P.
The boys will stop in Savan
nah on their return trip on
Wednesday, May 1, when they
will spend the night at Benedic
tine Military School.
Calasanctius P r e p a r a-
tory School, conducted by the
Piarist Fathers, is for gifted
boys. The school requires a
minimum IQ of 130 from its
entering students who come
from the 4th and 5th grade
level. Courses are fitted to the
abilities of these students, with
the number per class never al
lowed to exceed twenty. Last
year enrollment was 129, with a
faculty of 23 single subject
teachers.
During his six years at Cala
sanctius Prep, the student will
make additional trips to New
England, the Southwest, the Up
per Great Lakes region, the
Pacific Northwest, and parts
of Canada.
LATEST
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Landru
of Bishops of every race and
color. Over 2,000 Bishops will
come from Africa, from Asia,
from Europe, from America,
from Oceania. Never before has
so much work been done to pre
pare for an Ecumenical Coun
cil. Never has there been so
large a Council.
Julius B. Gaudry
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Julius B. Gaudry were
held April 19th at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Alice Fleetwood Gaudry; two
sons, Julius B. Gaudry, Jr. of
Savannah and Lawrence F. Gau
dry of Kingston, N. Y,; four
daughters, Mrs. Ann Boyette,
Mrs. Mary Ellen Oglesby,
Mrs. Christine Sanders and
Mrs. Julia Hennessy; two bro
thers, John R. and Brooks Gau
dry; four sisters, Mrs. Victor
Smith, Miss Christine Gaudry,
Mrs. Catherine Helmly, all of
Savannah, and Miss Elizabeth
Gaudry of Jacksonville, Fla.;
four grandchildren.
Discuss Race
Relations
Problems
MIAMI, Fla., (NC)—Seven
teen clergy and laity, including
five Negroes, were present at
the first local meeting here to
deal with race relations.
At the meeting, called by
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of
Miami, were seven Catholics,
five Baptists, two Jews, two
Episcopalians and one Metho
dist. They included Bishop
James Duncan of the South Flo
rida Episcopal diocese, Rabbi
Herbert Baumgard of Temple
Beth Am, Rev. Purdy S. Brown
of Mount Tabor Baptist Church;
and Dr. George A. Foster, dis
trict superintendent of the Me
thodist Church.
Luther Pierce, executive
secretary of the Greater Miami
Council of Churches, said after
the two-hour session that
“many of the men present ex
pressed surprise upon learning
of some of the inequities that
still exist in Dade County.”
“There was general agree
ment,” he added, “that re
ligious leaders have much to
say concerning what is morally
right and what is morally wrong,
and that they have an obligation
to speak out with clarity.”
Father John F. Kiernan,
S.S.J., pastor of Holy Redeem
er church in Miami, was named
covenor of a steering com
mittee that will consider a
statement of principles and pos
sible follow-up action by the
group.
WRITERS
AND
READERS
EDITED BY LEO J. ZUBER
2332 North Decatur RdL Decatur, Georgia
LETTERS FROM A TRAVE
LER, by Pere Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin, Harper, 1962, 380
pp., $4.
Reviewed by Flannery O’Con
nor,
The American publishers of
Pere Teilhard de Chardin are
probably waiting with interest
to see what effect the recent
Monitum issued by the Holy
Office on his works will have
on the sale of his books in this
country. It is reasonable to
suppose that it will have little
appreciable effect, for the pur
pose of the warning is not to
forbid the reading of Teilhard’s
books, but to point out to the
reader what to beware of when
he does read them. In any case,
it should not affect the sale of
Letters To A Traveler, a col
lection of Teilhard’s letters
from China and Africa aind
America, written to his cousin,
various colleagues and friends.
The picture these letters give
is one of exile, suffering and
absolute loyalty to the Church
on the part of a scientist whose
life’s effort was an attempt to
fit his knowledge of evolution
into the pattern of his faith in
Christ. To do such a thing is
the work of neither scientist
nor theologian , but of poet and
mystic. That Teilhard was to
some degree these also is evi
dent and that his failure was
the failure of a great and saint
ly man is not to be questioned.
The Monitum takes a most re
spectful tone toward the man
himself, and these letters are
further evidence that his life
of faith and work can be emu
lated even though his books
remain incomplete and danger
ous.
YOUR PRESCHOOL CHILD,
by Dorothy Kirk Burnett, Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1961,
266 pp., $4.95.
Reviewed by Mary K. Towne.
“What can I do now?”
You may hear this question
many times a day if you have
even one little one around the
house. They’re tired of the col
oring books, and even the dolls
and dump trucks have lost their
fairyland quality. It’s put
squarely up to you to put new
zest into life. Then here is a
refresher for you and the young
sters. Suggestions for summer
trips, such as what to take in
the car in food and games; con
valescent play ideas; birthday
parties; and just what they can
do for fun at various times of
the year. This will be a handy
book you can keep right at your
elbow as “first aid” when you
or the children are at your
wits-end. There are subjects
from Art to “When you need
a laugh.” Even if you don’t
follow its suggestions, the book
provides relaxing reading and
shows an author who has met
and faced the problems with her
children, squarely and with a
keen sense of humor.
ELECTS NEW
OFFICERS
AUGUSTA—Mrs. John C.
Hagler, III has been elected
president of St. Mary’s-on-the-
Hill Parish Council of Women
and will be installed at the May
meeting. Other officers-elect
are Mrs. Vernon Jackson, vice
president, Mrs. Stephen Mul|-
herin, secretary, and Mrs.
James Chafee, treasurer.
Mrs. John Radeck, president,
presided at the April meeting
and gave a report of the Augusta
Deanery meeting held in Dub
lin.
Mrs. Graham Deriso dis
played the new kitchen equip
ment purchased for the Parish
Hall.
Mrs. John Thorstad, Catho
lic Charities Chairman, re
quested used sheets to make
cancer bandages for Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Cancer Home.
Father Christopher Walsh,
guest, spoke on “The Golden
Years—Growing Old With
Grace.”
Mrs. Radeck announced that_
the May meeting will be follow
ed by a covered dish luncheon.
All ladies of the parish are_
urged to attend and bring their
favorite dish.
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