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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, February 25, 1965
Another CYO Convention goes
into history and into the person
al memory books of hundred of
teen-agers. To me the outstand
ing feature of the weekend pro
ceedings was the cooperation
and excellent behavior of the
attending young people. In con
trast to some past assemblies,
there was less tardiness to
church, less disturbance and
restlessness at breakfast, less
oafish behavior at the dance,
and enthusiastic reaction to the
workshop speaker. The conven
tion was an edifying experience.
An expression of gratitude by
this columnist and convention
chairmen is in order. Foremost
on the list to be thanked is Fa
ther Fiero, a genius in the field
of logistics. Five days before
registration the problem of 170
guests seeking lodging and only
66 spaces available was threat
ening disaster. In a calm and
masterful way, by dint of long
hours of planning and phoning,
he secured accommodations for
everyone. Necessarily, we also
owe a word of thanks to these
numerous hosts, too.
The Nativity CYO handled reg
istration in an efficient and
friendly fashion. Blessed Sacra
ment’s youth director, Father
Eladio Pascual, and his team of
adult advisors provided the pro
per setting in the grand parish
gym for the bouncy rhythms of
MSGR. TROY
the “Accents”.
A group trained by Sister Do
rothea provided a masterful
Scripture Service, a fitting cere
mony in concord with the re
newed liturgy, and a proper set
ting for the welcome address
given by Bishop McDonough.
The commuinon under both
species in the Byzantine Rite
Mass was a very impressive
sight as to numbers receiving
and the unusual form of cere
monial. The crowd at Mass fill
ed the magnificent and colorful
Cathedral to capacity.
The breakfast at the highly
decorative Knights of Columbus
Hall was both tasty and satisfy
ing to adolescent appetites and
their appreciation to Mrs. Gay
Paul and her efficient staff is
hereby conveyed. The new Pres
ident, Tony Jeselnik of Albany
delivered a brief but impressive
extempore acceptance speech.
The busloads from Brunswick,
Albany, Augusta, Macon and
Warner Robins were enthusias
tic groups. But the smaller units
from more rural areas were no
less, welcome and obviously en
joying themselves. Sister Kath
leen, the Glenmary nun, was
continually surrounded by ad
mirers and youth interested in
her presence.
Pius X Glee Club favored us
with a half dozen songs of great
variety and quality.
The spontaneous favorable
comments by the youth upon
their departure were glowing
testimony to the worthwhileness
of the venture. Our youth were
a credit to their parents and we
regret the long wait till next
year.
Priest Tells Of
Holy Land Trip
Lt. Col. Cajetan J. Troy, Cen
ter Chaplain, Ft. Gordon, was
guest speaker at the February
meeting of Augusta’s Sacred
Heart Parish Council of Catho
lic Women. Msgr. Troy used a
map and slides of the Holy Land
to illustrate his talk.
Among h i s illustrations were
“The Church of St. Ann”, a
Crusaders Church of the twelfth
century, which is the traditional
spot of the birth of the Blessed
Virgin Mary; “The Church of
the Nativity”, a fourth century
church in Bethlehem; the cell of
St. Jerome where the Bible was
translated into Latin from Heb
rew and Aramaic: “The Church
of the Pater Noster” where the
Our Father is written in many
languages in ,. Mosaics on the
walls of the church; the River
Jordan and other scenes and
commemorative sites in the
areas where Christ and His fol
lowers lived and visited during
the first century.
Msgr. Troy, a native of Dobbs
Ferry, New York, is a veteran
of both World War II and Ko
rea. He was ordained by Patrick
Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral in 1936, and after
serving as curate of Our Lady
of Mt. Carmel, Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. -and St. Rita Church, Sta-
ST. SIMONS
Jaycees
John C.
John C. Baldwin, parishioner
of St. William’s, St. Simons Is
land, is the Jaycee outstanding
young man of the year in Glynn
County.
Active in Church organiza
tions, Baldwin is Faithful Cap
tain of the Brunswick Assembly
Fourth Degree Knights of Co
lumbus; chairman of the public
relations committee of the third
Degree Knights of Columbus and
editor of the Knight’s paper,
described by his pastor as a
complete parish newspaper. He
is active in the Holy Name So
ciety.
At the present time, he is or-,
ganizing a local “Citizens for
Decent Literature” committee,
a national organization to com
bat the spread of pornographic
literature.
Baldwin has served on the
ten Island, N.Y., and eleven
years of military service, he
was appointed Domestic Prelate
by Pope Pius Xn in October
1957. Lt. Col. Troy is a recipi
ent of the Bronze Star.
Miss Thelma Rogers, presi
dent, announced that a bake will
be held on March 7th, and in
formed the members that the
council will send a gift to its
“birthday girl” at St. Mary’s
Home.
Mrs. Gardiner Byrd stated
that 406 outer dressings for can
cer patients had been made dur
ing January and invited the la
dies to attend the sewing ses
sion to be held in Miss Della
Kearney’s home on February
23rd.
The nominating committee for
the coming year was appointed
as follows: Chairman, Mrs.
James Hegarty, co - chairmen,
Mrs. Frank Gonlon and Mrs. C.
M. Pelonero. The hostesses for
the social hour were Mrs. F. B.
Pope and Mrs. Hegarty and
Mrs. Pelonero.
Miss Jean Valentine, Mrs.
May Nelson and Mrs. E. R.
Dinkins were guests at the meet
ing.
Honor
Baldwin
Board of Trustees of Boys Es
tate since 1962 and is, at pres
ent, a member of the Executive
Board. An architect by profes
sion, he has unselfishly contrib
uted time and effort, without
renumeration, designing and as
sisting in the construction .of a
$90,000 gymnasium, a Spanish
styled Chapel, and remodeling
old facilities for better use and
enjoyment by the Boys Estate
community.
He is married to the former
Frances O’Brien of Brunswick.
They have six children: Debora,
10; Mark 9; Jeffrey and Grego
ry, 7; Teresa, 5; and Michelle,
3.
In addition to the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Bald
win is also active in the Bruns-
wick-Glynn County Chamber of
Commerce, Fort Frederica His
torical Society, Island Players
and the American Legion.
VISIT LEGISLATURE — Pictured with Georgia’s
Governor Carl Sanders are a group of women re
presenting the Savannah Diocesan Council of Cath
olic Women. They visited the State Senate and
House of Representatives to familiarize themselves
with legislative procedures. Also pictured are Sena
tor Frank Downing of Chatham County and Monsig
nor John D. Toomey, Moderator of the D.C.C.W.,
who served as Chaplain of the Day in the Senate.
FROM CHILDHOOD
Obituaries
• Vincent Casella of Augusta, February 22nd.
• James Patrick Grogan of New Orleans, La., February 15th.
• Mrs. Rosalie Dyer Wolf of Columbus, February 20th.
• Frank Joseph Lucree of Savannah Beach, February 20th.
• William Scott of Augusta, February 18th.
Marriages
# Miss Antoinette Cannarella Mathews and Michael Fredrick Ryan,
Savannah, February 13th in the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
• Miss Pamela Carlene Showalter and John Pearson DeLoach Jr.,
Savannah, February 20th in the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
# Miss Anne Kavanaugh Schweers and James Moreno Proctor, Au
gusta, February 20th, at Sacred Heart Church.
Tybee Mardi Gras
St. Michael’s, Savannah Beach, will hold its annual Mardi Gras
on Saurday, February 27th from 6 P.M. until 9 P.M. Features of
the evening will be their famous smorgasbord, games, refreshments
and a variety show from 9 until 10 P.M.
Society Has Failed In Providing
Teen-Ager Clear Departure Point
Columbus Barbecue
President Anthony Comeaux, St. Anne’s Holy Name Society,
has announced that a joint barbecue would be sponsored by St.
Anne’s Holy Name Society and St. Anne’s Altar Society (Columbus)
on April 4th between 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. at St. Anne’s cafetorii
American Society has failed,
as a whole, to provide its teen
agers with a clear point of de
parture from childhood, Catho
lic parents were told in Savan
nah last Thursday.
The Very Rev. William V.
Coleman, Rector of St. John Vi-
anney Minor Seminary and Vice-
Chancellor of the Diocese, was
the third speaker in the lecture
series “Education and The Cath
olic.
Father Coleman described the
basic drive of all teen-age chil
dren — the quest for adulthood.
“No b.oy or girl who reaches
thirteen or fourteen is uncon
cerned with the wonderous proc
ess of growing up. It fascinates
him or her to realize that some
how or other in some way he
doesn’t completely comprehend
that he is no longer a child . . .
The big question in his mind
is how much adulthood is his
here and now. What can he do
to prove to the world around
him that he has arrived from
the dependence of childhood in
to the great new world of quasi
adult status?”
He said that societies in the
past honored this need of teen
agers and set up tribal ceremo
nies to mark the end of child
hood and the beginning of a-
dolescence. “A reminder of such
an early and very wholesome
ceremony is the bar-mitzpha of
the Jewish religion, originally
a definite turning point in the
young Jewish boy’s ilfe which
announced to his peers and com
patriots that a new man was
born.”
The speaker then discussed
some of the items which news
papers and magazines headline
as faults of the teen-ager, relat
ing them to the lack in present
civilization that he had just de
scribed.
He said that the first and
foremost difficulty of the teen
ager, and the pre-occupation of
many who write on the subject,
is their interest in members of
the opposite sex. “I would cer
tainly not be so naive as to
suggest for a moment that the
interest is not there and that it
is not a very normal and im
portant part .of the youngsters’
process of growing up. I do
think, however, that too many
of those who have written on
the subject have been influenced
by the writings of Sigmund
Freud and seek to find the an
swer to all problems in the area
of sex . . .
“If you talk with a group of
good youngsters the subject of
a date or a dance is often a
prominent one but by no means
Mrs. Eleanor Petran explained
Columbus Little Theatre at the
February meeting of St. Anne’s
Holy Name Society.
She revealed that tryouts were
being held for “The Cradle
Song”, a simple story about
cloistered nuns adopting an in
fant girl and rearing her to a
mature lovely woman. Mrs. Pet
ran reasoned, “If a story about
nuns and the church was to be
presented in a city of very few
Catholics, I felt that we should
at least have some inkling of
how at was to be presented.”
It turned out that five other
Catholic women had the same
idea. It was pointed out that the
director, Mr. Charles Jones,
ately, in some cases, concerned
with their studies. They will at
least on the senior high and
college level, discuss religious
questions, questions of justice,
questions of politics and a whole
gamut of others with much more
heat, and much more apparent
involvement of personality, than
the date or the dance.”
Father Coleman said that the
average teen-ager is “much
more concerned with being pop
ular, being a member of the
group, being accepted by his
peers than he is in. entering in
to any habits which by whatever
name, resemble early courtship.
However, if it is necessary to
have a girl or to have a boy
friend in order to be considered
successful, then success it will
be every time.”
stated that the “Cradle Song”
was the most widely and best
received production ever put on
by Columbus Theatre. Even the
most severe local critic praised
it. (Mr. Clason Kyle)
Mrs. Petran also introduced
Mrs. Jo Renfro, who has had
considerable experience on the
stage in New York and on net
work T.V. The two combined to
give a brief but interesting
reading from the “Cradle Song”.
Mrs. Petran concluded by re
marking, “That everyone with
talent should participate in civ
ic and cultural affairs in the
community thus refuting the
charge that Catholics are unta-
lented and uncultured.” The
speaker was introduced by Bill
Bowick of radio WGBA.
the only one. They are desper-
STORY ON NUNS
Little Theatre Will
Stage “Cradle Song”
MEMBERS OF CUB SCOUT Pack 135, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Columbus,
with their families, enjoying the Blue and Gold Banquet. The Banquet, which
took place on February 21, in the cafetorium of Our Lady of Lourdes School, com
memorates the birthday of Scouting.
Cathedral Mardi Gras
If our society had some gen
erally accepted substitute which , , , ^ ,
could convince the youngster The annual Mardi Gras of Cathedral Day School will be held
that he was really growing up, March 2nd from 5 P.M. until 8 P.M. Featured! will be the traditional
we would not have him trying Pancake and sausage supper. Climaxing the evening will be the
madly to hang on to a boy crowning the King and Queen to be selected from the following Can-
friend or girl friend as a svm- didates — For Queen: Jackie Adams; Margie Conners; Mary Con-
bol of self-fulfillment rather norSj and Margie Fitzgerald. For King: Paul Kalluzne; Tommy
than a real object of love, the Rochefort- jimmy Stephens and Tommy Walsh. Price of the sup-
speaker said. ^ fj% cents
He stressed the recklessness
of some teen-age drivers and
teen-age drinking as acts done
to be the big man of the group,
“to impress others that he has
arrived.”
“We might go on into all the
so-called difficulties of the teen
ager and I think that a little re
flection will show us that behind
each of the acts which seem to
be so offensive to society and
even self-destructive, there lurks
the fundamental desire of the
adolescent to be known and rec
ognized as an adult member of
the community,” Father Cole
man continued.
Three suggestions were put
forth by Father Coleman to help
the teen-ager over these difficult
years and to let him know that
he is no longer thought of as a
child and has his place in adult
society.
First he suggested that the
Sacrament of Confirmation
might well be given to boys and
girls in the eight or ninth grad
es “as their particular sacra
ment to prepare them for the
dangers of adolescent life . . .
Its reception is governed by
church custom which varies
from country to country and
seems to me to be a natural
sacrament for Christian adoles
cence.”
“A second suggestion to par
ents of teen-agers and even pre-
teens is the strong plea that
they organize themselves and
set up a pattern of responsibility
and permission which will be
given at each grade level. Par
ents in certain areas have al
ready done this and it has prov
ed highly successful . . . This
program should ideally be work
ed out in conjunction with all of
the Catholic schools in the area
so that all of the children would
be bound by the same code and
every parent would know that
he was being no more severe
nor no more lenient than oth
ers . . .”
Day of Recollection
The Holy Mass Societies of St. Anne and Holy Family (Colum
bus) will hold a joint communion service at St. Anne’s Chapel on
Sunday, March 14th at the 9 A.M. Mass. Immediately following the
Mass, all members are urged to remain and attend a Day of Re
collection to be held at St. Anne’s school. The event is sponsored
by the Knights of Columbus for all Catholic men in the greater
Columbus area.
INDIA: ANOTHER XAVIER
The Holy Father’s Mission Aid
for the Oriental Church
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO ST. FRANCIS XAVIER GAVE
ms LIFE FOR INDIA. YOU SHUDDER to see his namesake,
Father Francis Thacil, giving his
life in 1965 . . . “You’ll find hu
man misery at its worst in Trinen-
kudam,” someone told you in Bom
bay. In Trinen-kudam you come
face-to-face with Father Francis ..
He looks twenty years older than
his actual age. “God was good to
make me pastor here,” he says
quietly. “If Christ were alive
today, He too would be with the
poor.” . . . You are distressed,
then angered by the misery all
about you. Our 600 Catholics,
outnumbered by Hindus ten to one, are widely scattered in
tflig island area of India’s backwaters. Father Francis’ big
worry is the threat of Communism . . . “To better themseto^^h
and to have the sacraments frequently, my people must h<!^F
an adequate church,” Father Francis says, “Penny by penny
we are saving for a church, though my parishioners earn only
one rupee (21c.) a day. The men will give their labor free of
charge. We need $3,800 for materials.” . . . You wish your
friends back home could meet this saintly man of God . . .
Like to help him? Build this church all by yourself ($3,800),
in honor of your favorite saint (St. Francis Xavier?), in memory
of your loved ones. Or give as much as you can to help—
$100, $75, $50, $20, $5, $2. Father Francis hopes, prays, he’ll
hear from you.
CHILD-CARE CRISIS — A Volkswagen “Microbus,” as an
ambulance and “hospital on wheels,” can save thousands of
infants in south India, Archbishop Joseph Parecattil, 53, of
Ernakulam, writes. A doctor and nurse from Little Flower
Hospital in Ankamaly will drive the Volkswagen from village
to village dispensing free medical care . . Give this to the
rnL a. nnct 10 ItO Q Afl
As a third suggestion Father
Coleman said that a busy child
doesn’t have the time to worry
about himself and his accept
ance by others. He said he real
ized that it was impossible for
most teen-agers to work after
school but wherever a child de
sires to work, he should be en
couraged. He suggested a strong
school program in which a child
will be forced to work hard but
in which he can get the feeling
of success “and this is most
important — a great help.”
The final suggestion put forth
by Father Coleman was. that
great kindness be used with the
teen-ager. He cited the need for
‘ ‘a very firm unwavering, but
not monolithic discipline” used
with kindness.
HOW TO TRAIN A SISTER
□ $l-a-month ($12 a year) pays your membership dues
in MARY’S BANK, our sponsors’ club for training
native Sisters.
□ $3 supports a novice for about a week.
□ $12.50 supports one Sister for a month.
□ $150 supports one Sister for a year.
□ $300 pays the entire cost of a Sister’s two-year training.
WHEN YOU HELP THE MISSIONS, you help yourself.
Father, mother, sons and daughters—all benefit in the Masses
and prayers of our priests and Sisters when you enroll your
family in this Association. The offering for a family mem
bership is still only $5 a year, $100 for life. Enroll now, anc
we’ll send you a certificate.
Dear Monsignor Ryan:
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The teen-ager is very unsure
of himself,-he said, adding “par
ents should maintain close con
tact with teachers to be sure that
their child is accepted and' that
he feels he is accepted. When
difficulty arises, parents and
teachers should sit down togeth
er and try to find the key which
is often a very simple thing.”
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President
Msgr. Joseph T. Ryan, Nat’l Stc’y
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