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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, May 20, 1965
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Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeier
As final examinations ap
proach, it occurs to us that
good marks and diplomas have
become invaluable prizes for stu
dents these days. The competi
tion for scholarships and awards
has increased amazingly, as a
premium has been placed on edu
cation in job-seeking. Those who
loaf through school or get by
with a minimum of effort eat
the dust of those stampeding
for optimum opportunities. And
much has been made of the plight
of the drop-out and how slim are
his chances for advancement.
The Latins had something when
they called exams “periculi.”
This is aptly translated “peril”
rather than simply a test. It is
a perilous chore to be confront
ed with an inquiry into the a-
mount of information amassed
and absorbed over a long period
of time.
Our profs used to warn us week
after week that the only way to
keep up with the subject matter, to
stay on top and not be over
whelmed, was day-to-day class
preparation. But cramming and
burning the midnight oil remains
the fashion of the foolhardy. And
although in all honesty it must
be admitted that students have
scraped by in courses through
cramming, yet you could hardly
say an education was gained or
a subject mastered.
We take this opportunity to wish
our students well in passing their
grades on whatever level. And we
particularly salute the graduates.
Some are leaving grammar
school to pass into the longed-
for adolescent age and teen-age
world of the high-school years.
What a change they will discover
in themselves, their surround
ings, their necessity to self-re
liant more than teacher-depen
dent. Their successful adjust
ment will depend very much on
the self-discipline they should
have learned from the sisters
in parochial school and the gui
dance and supervision they must
receive from concerned parents.
The graduates from our high
schools who now depart for col
lege face an even bigger chal
lenge. Many will be away from
home for the first time and
may go foolishly hog-wild in
new-found freedoms.
Then too, much has been made
of the fun and frolic of social
.life on the campus. Some will
forget the prime purpose of their
being at the college, and waste
their time guaffing the associate
pleasures without applying them
selves to the pursuit of know
ledge.
An unshakable morality and a
keen sense of duty springing from
at least incipient maturity will
be needed to withstand the dan
gers of “washing out” or going
down the drain of spiritual ruin.
God’s blessings on them for they
will stand in such need and the
persevering practice of religion
is the only sure source.
* * * * * * * ********
A word in praise of our teach
ers, who roll along from one
year to the next. With only a short
hiatus between school years, part
of which summer vacation they
spend as students themselves,
they are given each September
a new batch of impressionable
minds to fill and shape and im
prove.
Whether by vocation they are
vowed religious or dedicated
laity, they give their very best
before God for children not their
own. Often they are misunder
stood, abused and challenged by
unthinking parents.
Uncomplainly and without
chance or wish to defend them
selves, thy give their all for
C atholic education.
“Well-fare” to them.
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Around The Diocese
Obituaries
Mrs. Gladys Smith Rue of Augusta, May Uth.
Leo E. Dugan of Columbus, May 12th.
Mrs. Fay Dowell Brooks of Savannah, May 12th.
Marriages
Miss Shirley Linda Gable of Americus and Mr. Dennis Charles
Williams of Bowling Green, Ohio., May 1st in St. Mary’s Chuj
Americus.
Mrs. Jerry Lee Taylor of Columbus and Capt. Ralph Jackson
Powell of Morganton, N.C., May 8th in the Church of the Holy
Family^Columbus.
Necrology
Hail and
MICHAEL RICHARDSON, of Warner Robins, receiv
es Oratorical Award from Rev. Denis Soerries, O.S.B.,
moderator of St. Bernard College Circle “K” Club at
recent annual State Convention held in Birmingham,
Ala. At right is Stephen Colpace, vice-president of the
Club.
WINNERS of annual Track and Field meet at St. following presentation of awards.
John Vianney Seminary are pictured immediately
CLIMAXES ATHLETIC SEASON
Third Annual Track And Field
Meet Held At St. John’s Seminary
Rev. Patrick Cafferty, May 22, 1888.
Rev. Henry Schonhardt, May 24, 1954.
Rev. Brendan D. O’Sullivan, May 26, 1913.
Shrimp Supper
On a bright Wednesday after
noon, Saint John Vianney
Minor Seminary climaxed its
vigorous athletic season with the
third annual track and field meet.
Each seminarian was permitted
to sign up for any 2, but no more
than 3 events. Forty colored rib
bons imprinted appropriately
were awarded to those in the
1st four positions of each event.
Father Coleman, Rector, hand
led the starting gun while other
members of the faculty acted as
judges and timers. The awards
were presented at a victory din
ner, which in itself was a de
licious reward for all concerned.
There were six new records
established giving evidence that
certain individuals had spent
several weeks of intensive train
ing to prepare for the keen com
petition. The results follow:
SIT UPS (within 6 min.)
1st Dick Boyle; 2nd Chris.
Gregor; 3rd Chip Boyett; 4th
Steve Cannon. * Winning num
ber; 176
80 YARD DASH
1st Randy Barnes; 2nd Hugh
Harte; 3rd Frank Candalisa; 4th
John Scherer. Winning time:
9.25 sec.
* (New Record)
SOFTBALL THROW
1st Clarence Thomas; 2nd Rob
ert Dodson; 3rd James Over-
street; 4th Robert Dillard. *Win-
ning Throw; 256 ft. 6 in.
PUSH UPS
1st Steve Seyfried; 2nd Mark
Everson; 3rd Tony Aliffi; 4th
Walter Eubanks. Winning num
ber; 50.
SOFTBALL HITTING
1st Pat Brady; 2nd Joe D’As-
toli; 3rd Mike MacKrell; 4th
John Rhodes. ^Winning hit; 263
ft. 8 in.
STANDING BROAD JUMP
1st Clarence Thomas; 2ndCarl
Williams; 3rd Scotty Paul; 4th
James Overstreet. ^Winning
jump: 8ft. 10 in.
CONDUCTED BY LAYMEN
Radio Program
Nation’s Oldest
On Sunday May 30, the Savan
nah Catholic Program will ob
serve its 28th Anniversary on
Station WTOC, with Grand Knight
Thomas F. Walsh of Savannah
Council No. 631 as the anniver
sary speaker.
Thomas Buttimer, John Ca
te risan and Hugh Grady take
turns handling the broadcast on
a monthly basis.
Since it first went on the air
on May 31, 1937 with Hugh Grady
as announcer, the program has
been under the joint auspices of
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist and Savannah Council 631,
Knights of Columbus.
Besides having the distinction
of being the oldest sustaining
program heard on Station WTOC,
the Savannah Catholic Program
is also the oldest Catholic radio
program in the entire Uijited
States conducted solely by lay
men.
The program is heard every
Sunday morning from 11:05 tc
11:25.over WTOC, which has gra
ciously donated free time for it
for 28 years.
BASKETBALL FOUL SHOOTING
1st Norbert Lain; 2nd Robert
Dodson; 3rd Chip Boyett; 4th Mike
Dillon. Winning number: 17.
HALF MILE RUN
1st Hugh Harte; 2nd Tony Ali
ffi; 3rd Lee Pourciau; 4th Randy
Abrian. ^Winning time: 1 min.
36.6 sec.
RUNNING BROAD JUMP
1st Clarence Thomas; 2nd Mike
Dillon; 3rd James Overstreet;
4th Robert Dillard. Winning jump:
17 ft. 8 in.
TIRE RACE
1st Dick Boyle; 2nd Mark Ever
son; 3rd John Scherer; 4th Ben
Swiderek. Winning time: 39.8 sec.
*New seminary record
The Student Nurses of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah, will
hold their annual Shrimp Supper Friday evening May 21st in the
gymnasium of Sacred Heart School, Bull and 34th Streets. The price
of the supper is $1.25.
Holy Family Auxiliary
Officers elected at the recent meeting of the Auxiliary of Holy
Family Council #5588 are: President, Mrs. William Mock; Vice-
President, Mrs. Thomas Wells; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
Antonio Aliffi; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Thomas Mahoney and
Treasurer, Mrs. Edward Ragan.
Summer School
Sacred Heart Elementary School, Savannah, will begin its sum
mer session Monday, June 7th, and continue until Friday July
16th., from 8:30 A.M. to 11 : 45 A M., Mondays through Fridays. The
summer classes for second and third grades will consist of phone
tics, reading and modern mathematics. For grades four, five,
six, seven and eight, phonetics, reading, modern mathematics
and English. For further information, call school or convent.
25th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. J. Armand Lloyd renewed their marriage vows on
May 6th, 25th anniversary of their marriage. The Rev. Paul Bur-
kort , S.M. was celebrant of the anniversary Mass at St. Francis
Xavier Church, Brunswick.
Hunter AFB Sodality
At the regular monthly meeting of the Sodality of Our Lady of
Loreto-Lady of the Air at Hunter Air Force Base in May, eleven
new members were formally received into its society as charter
members. New officers took their oaths of office followed by a
breakfast meeting. Guest speaker was the Rev. Francis E. Dono
hue, Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and Editor of 4116
Southern Cross. The conjunction with Mother’s Day, the tradi
tional May crowning was held against a lovely backdrop of floral
arrangements.
FORMER HOSPITAL HEAD
Sister M. Laurentine
Is Columbus Visitor
By Mary Margaret Byrne
Someone who could be con
sidered an honorary Col umbusite
paid a visit last week, and her
stay became a grand homecom
ing.
The visitor was Sister M. Lau
rentine, to whom Columbus was
home from the late 1940’s, when
St, Francis Hospital was still a
dream and an architect's
drawing, until 1960 when she gave
up her post as the hospital’s
administrator and returned to the
mother house of her order, the
Third Order of St. Francis, in
Pittsburgh, Pa.
When Sister Laurentine left
Columbus in 1960, she had had
operations for cataracts on both
eyes as well as a serious illness
and major surgery, and it was
announced that her next assign
ment would be a position with
less responsibility and physical
demands than that of hospital
administrator.
And after a rest at the mother
house, she did take up lighter
administrative dutiesinSt. Fran
cis Hospital and Rehabilitation
Center in Pittsburgh. But
naturally, a big job has turned
up to be done, and Sister Lau
rentine is once more involved
in a major project. For the past
year she has been supervising
the construction of a “House of
Studies” on the campus of Al-
verno College in Milwaukee,
Wis., a woman’s college run by
Franciscan nuns.
This has meant almost a com
muter’s life between Pittsburgh
and Milwaukee for Sister Lau
rentine - among the problems
she has met was a builders’
strike - but the project is nearly
completed.
Sister Laurentine was honored
at several affairs during her
short visit, which coincided with
the observance on National Hos
pital Week. The hospital board
and medical staff held a dinner
in her honor, and the St. Francis
Auxiliary was host at a tea in
the School of Nursing. The school
was planned and built under her
direction and opened in 1959.
Each year the Sister Mary Lau
rentine Award, established by the
St. Francis Auxiliary, is given
to the outstanding senior student
in the School of Nursing.
The former administrator
“still misses Columbus,” even
in her full and busy life. “ After
all, I spent more than 14 years,
here, and it’s been wonderful
to renew friendships with all
my good friends.” With her eye
ever on the future, Sister Lau
rentine finds that St. Francis
Hospital has a “definite need
for additional services - more
beds, more space. It’s an ex
tremely busy place.”
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