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Summer
V olunteers
At Augusta
BY SR. ROSE H. PHILIPPINE, C.S.J.
Fifteen College students will work in
the Augusta area for 8 weeks this
summer as part of the Christian Service
Program in South Georgia. They are
coming from as close as Augusta, itself,
to as far away as St. Louis and Chicago.
While the Volunteer Program is
diocesan-wide in scope, the Augusta
group will be a Pilot Program, as
emphasis will also be given to
Community. The students, scheduled to
arrive on June 15th, will work out of
the old Sacred Heart Rectory and live in
community - praying, studying and
acting out of one central communal
atmosphere.
The men will be housed at the
Rectory, while the women students will
be provided housing facilities at the
Franciscan convent. Father Michael
Burke is the Chaplain-coordinator for
the Community. The volunteers aim to
serve by helping in parish programs,
working with Meals-On-Wheels and in
other areas of community need.
Bob Cushing is the seminarian who
planned the Pilot Program. It is being
sponsored by the parishes of Augusta,
through the Augusta Deanery Vocations
Committee, in response to the Diocesan
Vocation Committee’s call for activities
to develop vocations to the priesthood
and religious life.
PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, June 7,1973
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AQUINAS GRADUATES - Most Reverend Raymond W. Lessard, newly appointed
Bishop of the Diocese of Savannah, presided at the Graduation Exercises of Augusta’s
Aquinas High School and awarded diplomas to the 105 graduates of the Class of 1973. The
Graduation Exercises were held at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity on Telfair Street.
Overflowing crowds were on hand to greet the new Bishop and to congratulate the seniors.
Reverend John Fitzpatrick of the faculty of Aquinas High School called out the names and
the diplomas were presented by Bishop Lessard. In his short address during the exercises,
Bishop Lessard told the seniors of the challenge that awaited them in their future careers.
He said, “In these days when education at all levels and in all types of schools is being
questioned, I feel that the graduates with a Christian education should have an added
something to take with them into the future lives.” Bishop Lessard, the priests of the area,
the members of the Aquinas School Board and the faculty were entertained after the
Graduation at the Holy Trinity Rectory. Father William Simmons was the host on this
occasion.
FOUR BOYS AND THREE GIRLS received their First Holy
Communion at St. Patrick’s Church, Perry on May 20. They are shown
here with their pastor, Father Hugh Marshall, S.T. and their teacher, Miss
Susan Sirmans.
$7,000 CHECK - Dr. W. S. Odom, President of Pacelli High
(Columbus) Home and School Association, presents Father Robert
Mattingly, Principal of Pacelli, with a Check in the amount of $7,000
raised by the Association during the year. Looking on is P.C. Arrington,
1973-74 President of the Home and School.
FIRST CONFESSION OF ST. ANNE’S - Fourth graders of St. Anne’s
(Columbus) received the sacrament of Penance for the first time at a
Penance Service held in the church on May 26th. Pictured are some of the
children holding candles as they left the service.
6 Circle of Life’ Bracelets
ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC) - Initial
response to the nationwide campaign
promoting pro-life bracelets has been so
heavy that organizers are already a
month behind in filling orders according
to the Minnesota coordinator of one of
the sponsoring groups.
In a little less than two months,
orders for more than 88,000 Circle of
Life bracelets have been received,
Douglas Dahl, state coordinator of Save
Our Unwanted Lives (SOUL), said.
“The response has been great. We’ve
just been snowed under with orders,” he
said. The national right to life campaign
-- aimed at focusing attention on efforts
to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion - has been
endorsed by the National Right to Life
Committee, the National Youth
Pro-Life Coalition and other pro-life
affiliates like SOUL.
The pro-life bracelet campaign,
patterned after the success of prisoner
of war bracelets in calling attention to
the plight of POW’s, originated in
Minnesota with Dr. Thomas Hilgers, a
physician at the Rochester Mayo Clinic
who long has been active in the
anti-abortion movement.
In addition to calling attention to the
right to life effort, the bracelet
campaign also is designed to help fund
the pro-life movement.
While the vast majority of bracelets
have been ordered directly by pro-life
groups around the country to be resold
locally, Dahl said that more than 800
orders from individuals have already
been processed and another 600 are on
back order.
Dahl, who believes that 1,000,000
bracelets eventually can be sold, said the
campaign has already received letters of
support from every state in the union.
He said the backlog in filling orders
should be cleared up within a month.
A separate corporation - Circle of
Life, Inc., headquartered in Rochester -
has been set up to oversee the bracelet
sale.
For pro-life groups ordering large
quantities, Dahl said, requests should be
sent to Circle of Life, P.O. Box 6524,
Rochester, Minn. 55901.
Individual orders should be directed
first to local pro-life groups, Dahl said,
but in the event that those groups are
out of the bracelets, requests can be
directed to SOUL, 4803 Nicollet Ave.,
Minneapolis, Minn. 55409.
Georgians to Attend Meet
Four Georgians will travel to Detroit,
Michigan, next Friday to explore
citizens programs for safeguarding
human life at all stages of existence.
They will join over 500 other delegates
to the Fourth Annual National Right to
Life Convention, which will be held at
the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, June 8-10.
Jay Bowman, Chairman of the
Ellises Mark
Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary
Georgia Right to Life Committee
(GRLC), will lead the Georgia
delegation. Mr. Bowman was elected to
the National Right to Life Committee,
Inc.’s nine-member Executive Board in
April. Last month, he was elected
Treasurer of the organization. He will be
accompanied by Mrs. Shirley Williams
of Atlanta, past Chairman of GRLC,
and by members from Augusta and
Savannah, as yet unnamed.
Since its formation in 1971 as a
non-profit, non-sectarian organization,
GRLC Has grown to over 1000
members, with chapters in Atlanta,
Augusta and Savannah. New chapters
are being formed in Albany, Stone
Mountain, Sandy Springs, and
Macon-Warner Robbins.
Kennington Ordained
Henry A. Kennington was ordained to the priesthood on May 11 at the
Cathedral in St. Louis, Mo. A member of the Society of Jesus, Father
Kennington is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Kennington of St.
Joseph’s parish, Macon and the nephew of Mrs. James E. Sherling and Mrs. Nick
Camerio, also of St. Joseph’s parish.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS — Shannon Brooks, Aquinas High School
Senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Brooks of 561 Martin Lane,
Augusta has won the Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship of I.B.M.
Corporation to Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, Shannon
who was Aquinas’ STAR Student for the year qualified as a National
Merit Scholar. Billy Real, also an Aquinas senior and the son of Dr. and
Mrs. William E. Real of 553 Martin Lane in Augusta received the President
Bradley Academic Scholarship to Belmont College in Belmont, N.C.
Young Real an honor student and member of the National Honor Society
played Varsity basketball on the Aquinas Shamrock team.
May 8th marked the 25th Wedding
Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Ellis of Alma. They were married in
New Athens, Ill. in St. Agatha’s Catholic
Church twenty-five years ago, in a
double wedding ceremony with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hess. Mrs. Ellis and Mrs.
Hess are twin sisters.
To celebrate the occasion, Mass was
celebrated in their home by Fr.
Lawrence Lucree, pastor of St.
Christopher’s Church, Baxley, on
Saturday, May 12th. This was followed
by a dinner at the Debby House
Restaurant.
Those attending were the couple’s six
children: Frances, her husband Frank
Barber and little daughter Sharon,
Michael, his wife the former Betty
Lewis, Marian, whose husband James
Glass is presently serving in the U.S.
Army in Korea, Thomas, David and
John all at home.
Mrs. Karl, a sister of Mrs. Ellis flew
down from Michigan to attend the
celebration. She served as the Matron of
Honor in the Ellis-Hess wedding party
twenty-five years ago and was delighted
to be with the couple at this time.
Many of the couple’s friends and
relatives joined them later for a buffet
in their home.
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