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ST. VINCENT S ACADEMY
$100,000 Goal Of D rive
For Auditorium Complex
A fund-raising campaign for
$100,000 toward the errection
of an auditorium-gymnasium -
cafeteria complex for Savan
nah’s St. Vincent’s Academy
was announced last week by
Sister Mary Jude, R.S.M., su
perior of the Sisters ofMercy
who operate the Academy.
Present at a Press Confer
ence were Rt. Rev. Msgr. An
drew J. McDonald, Adminis
trator of the Savannah, Dio
cese, J. T. Coleman, general
chairman of the drive, Walter
Corish and M. J. Curran,
chairmen of the Special Gifts
Committee, BenjaminRitzert,
architect, Sister Mary Rosa
lie, R.S.M., principal of St.
Vincents and Mrs. Jack D
Lee of the Academy Alumnae
Association.
The announcement climaxed
four years of effort by
officials of the school to pro
vide the needed educational
facility on the corner of Lin
coln and Harris Street.
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In April, 1963, the proper
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parking lot was purchased
from the diocese by an anony
mous donor and given to St.
Vincent’s for this purpose.
In December, 1964, the Frank
J. Lewis Foundation of Chi
cago awarded a grant of
$ 25,000 to be applied to the
construction. At the time of
the grant, Mrs. Julia D Lew
is, president of the board of
trustees of the Lewis Foun
dation, expressed the hope that
the $25,000 commitmentwould
enable St. Vincent’s to seek
other funds to assist in this
“most worthy project.’’ The
Lewis grant carries the sti
pulation that the school must
raise not less than $75,000
for the same purpose by June
30, 1968.
According to Ben Ritzert,
architect, plans call for a
building of textured unit
masonry designed to Diend
in with present school plant
and surrounding neighbor
hood. The facility, said to be
vitally needed in the program
of expansion at the 120 year-
old private school, will cost
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St. Vincent’s Academy was
founded on the present site on
Liberty and Abercorn Street
in 1845 by the Very Rev. J. J.
O’Neill, one of Bishop Eng
land’s first priests and pastor
of St. John the Baptist Church
in Savannah. He went to
Charleston June 12, 1845, and
obtained six Sisters of Mercy
of the community which had
been established there in 1829
by Bishop England.
On June 23, 1845, the Sis
ters opened a boarding school
and an orphanage, also a pri
vate school for day students.
Registers dating back to the
early decades of the school’s
history indicate that Winnie
Davis, young daughter of the
president of the Confederacy,
was once a student of the
Academy. The boarding school
was closed in the early part
of the present century and the
orphans were transferred to
White Bluff in 1875, but the
secondary school for girls
has continued to the present
day.
Today there are 240
students in the high school.
Courses include col
lege preparatory, nursing
school preparatory, business
and terminal subjects. The
faculty consists of eight Sis
ters of Mercy and four lay
teachers, and one priest of the
Savannah diocese. A total
of 17 Sisters are currently as
sociated with St. Vincent’s
Academy.
Since its foundation the aca
demy has undergone numerous
structural changes. The pre -
sent convent building is the
original 1845 structure, but
was enlarged just after the
turn of the century. It was
the addition which had to be
razed in 1960 to make room
for the present school
building, which includes 12
classrooms and a science lab
oratory, offices and work
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$100,000 EXPANSION — Looking over blueprints of proposed $100,000 au
ditorium-gymnasium-cafeteria complex for Savannah’s St. Vincents Academy
(L. to R.) first row: Right Rev. Monsignor Andrew J. McDonald, Administra
tor Diocese of Savannah; Benjamin Ritzert, Architect; Sister Mary Rosalie,
R.S.M. Principal of St. Vincent’s; Mrs. Jack D. Lee, Academy Alumnae As
sociation; Sister Mary Jude, R.S.M., Sister of Mercy Superior. Back row: M.
J. Curran, Special Gifts Committee; J. T. Coleman, Drive General Chairman
and Walter Corish, Special Gifts Committee. (Staff photo by Bob Ward)
QUERY U.S. GENERAL
Bishops 9 Rahhis Challenge
Westmoreland On Dissent
ON WAR STAND
Carmichael,
King Rapped
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)—
—Gen. William C. Westmore
land’s rebuke to critics of U.S.
Vietnam policy came under
sharp criticism from twelve
religious leaders, eight Pro
testant bishops and four
nationally known rabbis.
The questions were framed
in a letter delivered to the
Pentagon for transmittal to the
military commander back in
his headquarters in Vietnam.
While in the continental U.S.
for two weeks, General West
moreland challenged as “un
patriotic’’ persons who op
pose U.S. military action in
Southeast Asia. Religious lea
ders have been prominent in
demonstrations and declara
tions at which the general said
he was dismayed.
The letter from the bishops
and rabbis praised General
Westmoreland for courage and
devotion and expressed ad
miration for the bravery and
sacrifice of the men he com
mands. “The questions we
wish to ask,’’ the letter said,
“reflect our deep concern that
such devotion and sacri
fice shall not be expended in
behalf of a gravely mistaken
policy.’’
The clerics then asked Gen
eral Westmoreland:
—“What (do) you feel is the
role of dissent?’’
—“Do you believe that na
tional decisions which might
lead to a third World War
should not be discussed and
debated by the people?”
—“Would it be unpatriotic
on the part of those who dis
sent....to remain silent when
they firmly believe that thou
sands of our youths are being
needlessly sacrificed?”
The religious leaders also
asked the general to describe
the purpose of his trip “ in
light of the fact that you de
clined to meet with the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
but have met with one or more
other groups in private?” The
chairman of the Senate com
mittee is Hon. William Ful-
bright, a critic of Adminis
tration policy. Other groups
the general did meet with in
cluded the Council on Foreign
Relations, a New York-based
organization of wealthy busi
ness and professional lead
ers.
The clerics’ remaining four
questions dealt with strategy
and policy of the Vietnam war,
including the limits of esca
lation now planned and the
risks of war with mainland
China or nuclear confrontation
with the Soviet Union. One
question asked why General
Westmoreland opposed fur
ther cease-fire proposals
when United Nations Secretary
General U Thant proposed a
general cease-fire. The last
question pinpointed the con
cern for how many men and
how many years would be
needed for a military victory
in Vietnam.
Four Methodist and four
Episcopal bishops signed the
letter. The Methodist prelates
were John Wesley Lord of
Washington, D.C., A Raymond
Grant of Portland, Ore., R.
Marvin Stuart of Denver,
Col., and Ralph T. Alton of
Madison, Wise. The Episco
pal bishops were Paul Moore
of Washington, D.C., Daniel
Corrigan of New York, Wil
liam Davidson of Salina, Kan.,
and Harvey Butterfield of Bur
lington, Vt.
The four rabbis to join with
the Protestant leaders inclu
ded Joachim Prinz ofNewark,
N.J., Louis Schwartzchild of
St. Louis, Mo., Arthur Lely-
veld of Cleveland, Ohio, and
Roland Gittelson of Boston,
Mass.
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (RNS)
—The dean of the University
of Notre Dame Law School
has accused Dr. Martin Lu
ther King and Stokley Carmi
chael of weeping “only for the
enemy” in their anti-Vietnam
war views.
Dean Joseph O’Meara,
speaking before a law school
honors dinner, said that Dr.
King, who leads the Chris
tian Leadership Conference
and Mr. Carmichael, head of
the Student non-Violent Coor
dinating Committee (SNCC),
refuse to condemn the “terro
rist tactics” of the North
Vietnamese and Hanoi’s “re
jection of all peace pro
posals.”
Conceding that what he had
said about Dr. King and Mr.
Carmichael could be denied
“indignantly,” Dean O’Meara
said:
“But the persons I have na
med, and others like them,
let the cat out of the bag,
they give themselves away.
“For never once do they
condemn the terrorist tactics
of the North Vietnamese; ne
ver once do they condemn
Hanoi’s rejection of all peace
proposals, not only those put
forward by the Administra
tion but also those advanced
by neutral powers, by the
Secretary General of the
United Nations and by the Vat
ican; never once do they la
ment the suffering and death
borne by our forces in Viet
nam. These persons weep
only for the enemy.”
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