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PAGE 8 — The Southern Cross, July 24,1969
Obituaries
* Mr. Joseph William Rafferty of Macon, July 10th
* Mr. Clyde Francis Lankenau of Savannah, July 11th
* Mrs. Catherine Persse Davis of Savannah, July 12th
* Mrs. Mary Schneider Scott, formerly of Savannah, July
13th
* Mrs. Alvano W. Brown of Martinez, July 16th
* Mrs. Daniel A. Murphy of Savannah, July 16th
* Mr. Malcolm Overstreet of Savannah, July 19th
Marriages
* Miss Gloria Jean Union and Mr. Norman Joe Smith, both of
Macon, Ga., June 28 in St. Joseph Church, Macon.
* Miss Phoebe Jean Boykins of Vicksburg, Miss., and Mr.
Herbert Blalock Dixon Jr. of Savannah, Ga., July 5 in St.
Mary’s Church, Vicksburg.
* Miss Ava Sims Lewelling and Mr. John Edward Homing,
both of Macon, Ga., July 10 in St. Joseph Church, Macon.
* Miss Susann Jo Clarke and Mr. William Robert Kearney III,
both of Savannah, Ga., July 11 in the Church of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, Savannah.
* Miss Kathleen Rose Coleman of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and
Mr. David Patrick Lowenthal of Savannah, Ga., July 11 in
the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, Ga.
* Miss Susan Marie Kunka and Mr. William Franklin Register,
both of Macon, Ga., July 11 in St. Joseph Church, Macon.
* Miss Josephine Ann Jerome of Savannah, Ga., and Mr.
Robert Harold Dawkins of Warner Robins, Ga., July 18 in
the Blessed Sacrament Church, Savannah.
* Miss Suzanne Marie Ravita and Mr. Willis Stephen
Blackburn, both of Savannah, Ga., July 19 in Sacred Heart
Church, Savannah.
* Miss Irene Jaffs and Mr. George Edwin Green, both of
Savannah, Ga., July 19 in the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, Savannah.
Necrology
* Rev. Harry J. Honeck, July 25,1952.
* Rev. Michael T. Reilly, July 25,1902.
* Rev. Thomas L. Finn, July 28,1948.
* Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Becker, Sixth Bishop of Savannah, July
29,1899.
* Rev. James Murphy, July 29,1877.
* Rev. James O’Hara, August 1,1873.
Faithful Friar
The Reverend William Simmons has been appointed to the
office of Faithful Friar of the Immaculate Conception
Assembly, Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus in Savannah,
Georgia. Father Simmons attended his first meeting on
Wednesday, July 16th and gave a very interesting talk to the
members.
HOSPITAL STRIKE
Charleston
Settlement
CHARLESTON, S.C.
(NC)--A settlement between
striking non-professional
hospital workers and
Charleston County Hospital
came three weeks after
agreement was reached with
the South Carolina Medical
University Hospital. Both
hospitals were struck March
20 by a total of 600 workers.
The second hospital to
bargain with the Negro
women who walked out in an
effort to gain union
recognition and higher wages
did not reach agreement as
soon as the larger University
Hospital because of a dispute
over which workers would be
rehired.
The University Hospital, in
its agreement, rehired all
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those who had been striking,
but the County Hospital did
not want to displace those
who had been hired to keej>
the hospital operating during
the strike.
The agreement with the
County Hospital, which was
reached July 18, stated that
42 of the 69 workers will be
rehired immediately and the
others will be rehired as soon
as possible within a
three-month period.
The strike had been
supported by the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference and Local 1199B
of the Hospital and Nursing
Home Workers. Rev. Ralph
Abernathy had led daily
marches in Charleston and at
one point was arrested and
spent time in jail.
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Georgian O’Connor Sees
Hope For Catholic Novel
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CATHOLIC PRESS FEATURES
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -
The great hope for the
American Catholic novel lies
in the Protestant,
fundamentalist, Bible Belt
South, in the opinion of
Flannery O’Connor, the late,
famed Georgia authoress
whose ideas on religion and
writing have just been
published.
In “Mystery and Manners,”
a collection of previously
unpublished lectures and
articles brought out in book
form by her publisher, Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, it is revealed
that Miss O’Connor believed
“the opportunities for the
potential Catholic writer in
the South are so great as to
be intimidating.”
Miss O’Connor, who died
from an arthritic disease in
1964 at the age of 39 and
who was famed for the
grotesque and violent imagery
in her novels and short stories
about sin and redemption,
(“Wise Blood,” “A Good Man
Is Hard to Find,” “The
Violent Bear It Away,”
“Everything That Rises Must
Converge”) said one of the
strongest advantages for the
Catholic novelist in the South
was the firm Scriptural
heritage there, followed
closely by the strong
emotional nature of religious
expression common to
Southern Protestants.
“If the Catholic faith were
central to life in America,”
Miss O’Connor explained,
“Catholic fiction would fare
better, but the Church is not
central to this society. The
things that bind us together
as Catholics are known only
to ourselves. A secular
society understands us less
and less. It becomes more and
more difficult in America to
make belief believable, but in
this the Southern writer has
the greatest possible
advantage. He lives in the
Bible Belt...
“To be great storytellers,
we need something to
measure ourselves against,
and this is what we
consciously lack in this
age, . . The Catholic has the
natural law and the teachings
of the Church to guide him,
but for the writing of fiction,
something more is necessary.
“For the purposes of
fiction, these guides have to
exist in a concrete form,
known and held sacred by the
whole community. They have
to exist in the form of stories
which affect our image and
our judgment of ourselves.
O’CONNOR OUTSIDE MILLEDGEVILLE HOME
With Peafowl She Raised As Hobby
Abstractions, formulas, laws
will not serve here. We have
to have stories in our
background.”
She added that in the
Protestant South, Scripture
has traditionally provided the
people with stories in which
“everybody is able to
recognize the hand of God
and its descent,” making it
easier for the modern
religious novelist to use
allegory and symbolism and
also to stimulate his creative
juices.
“Our response to life is
different if we have been
taught only a definition of
faith than if we have
trembled with Abraham as he
held the knife over Isaac.
Both of these kinds of
knowledge are necessary, but
in the last four or five
centuries, Catholics have
overemphasized the abstract
and consequently
impoverished their imagina
tions and their capacity for
prophetic insight.”
Miss O’Connor saw the
Catholic Church’s revival of
interest in the Bible—the
lectures and articles were
composed in the late 1950’s
and early 1960’s—as being
the best possible insurance
for the future of Catholic
fiction in the U.S.
As for the emotional
fundamentalism common to
the Protestant South-Miss
O’Connor’s works are filled
with backwoods prophets,
wild-eyed preachers and
revivalists-she said that living
in such a society furnishes the
Catholic novelist “with some
very fine antidotes to his own
worst tendencies.”
“The Catholic novelist in
the South is forced to follow
the spirit into strange places
and to recognize it in many
forms not totally congenial to
him. He may feel that the
kind of religion that has
influenced Southern life has
run hand in hand with
extreme individualism for so
long that there is nothing left
of it that he can recognize
but when he penetrates to the
human aspiration beneath it,
he sees not only what has
been lost to the life he
observes, but more, the
terrible loss to us in the
Church of human faith and
passion.
“I think he will feel a good
deal more kinship with
backwoods prophets and
shouting fundamentalists
than he will with those
politer elements for whom
the supernatural is an
embarrassment and for whom
religion has become a
department of sociology or
culture or personality
development.”
NAMUGONGO, Uganda - A Ugandan man wears a
commemorative gown depicting scenes of Pope Paul’s visit to
Uganda this month. The material is on sale in the form of
gowns, shirts and dresses and contains pictures of Pope Paul,
Uganda’s President Milton Obote, the Uganda and papal coats of
arms, the planned Uganda Martyrs Shrine at Namugongo, and
major houses of worship. (NC Photos)
DROP OF 6,551
Philadelphia
Students Down
PHILADELPHIA (NC) -
The first major decrease in
the student population in the
Catholic educational
institution in the archdiocese
of Philadelphia in recent
years was reported this week
by the superintendent of
schools.
In his annual report to
John Cardinal Krol, Msgr.
Edward T. Hughes noted that
at the end of the 1967-68
school year, there were
294,740 students in the 399
educational institutions in the
archdiocese-a drop of 6,551
from the previous year.
In the archdiocesan school
system, there was a decline of
6,994 students in the total
enrollment of the 286
parochial schools and a drop
of 674 students in the 32
diocesan and parochial high
schools. Total enrollment in
the diocesan system was
reported as 256,632 at the
end of the 1967-68 school
year.
“While the student
population declined
substantially,” Msgr. Hughes
stated, “the number of
teachers at the elementary
and secondary levels
increased by 130. This
enabled the school system to
improve the pupil-teacher
ratio and to decrease class
size. At the same time, 72
additional elementary
classrooms were put into use,
three new parish schools and
two new high schools were
opened.”
The total number of
teachers in the diocesan
school system--6,564--in-
cluded 4,271 Religious and
2,293 lay teachers.
In the city of Philadelphia,
the 110,062 children in
parochial schools and 34,169
students in diocesan high
schools represented 35 per
cent of the entire school
population of Philadelphia.
(The Philadelphia public
schools reported a total
enrollment of 285,000.)
The total enrollment
(294,740) of all Catholic
schools in the five-county
arch di ocese--parochial,
diocesan and private-in
cluded:
--elementary: 203,248
pupils in 319 schools;
-special education: 897
pupils in seven schools;
--secondary: 64,345
students in 55 schools;
-college: 25,763 Students
in 12 colleges and
universities.
In addition, six seminary
college departments reported
an enrollment of 487
students.
During the 1967-68 school
year, Msgr. Hughes reported,
the Association of Catholic
Teachers was selected by lay
teachers in the secondary
school system as their sole
and exclusive bargaining
agent. The first official labor
agreement between the
secondary school system and
the association was signed in
1968.
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ST. MARY’S GRADUATES - Fifty-nine students of St. Mary’s Eighth Grade this year. The diplomas were awarded by Rt. Rev.
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There’s still room in the freshman class beginning Sep
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Out, is the scheduling of five or six unrelated courses
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fourth areas. Until you have thoroughly examined four
areas of learning namely:
Philosophy and Theology
Natural Science and Mathematics
History and Human Behavior
Humanities and Arts
Out, is the emphasis on grades as the only yardstick
to chart your progress. In, faculty evaluation at the
end of each seven weeks to show your growth as a
thinking — deciding — value forming person.
Get more information about this new curriculum and an
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