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VOL. IV., NO. 21 . ATLAJ^TA^GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1966 $5.00 PER YEAR SATURDAY Schools To Graduate Largest Senior Class The graduation ceremonies for the high schools of the Arch* diocese of Atlanta will take place on Saturday, May 28,10:00 a.m. at the Fox Theatre. The senior classes of the three dio cesan high schools this year to tals 293. This constitutes the largest graduating class in the history of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, according to Father Daniel J. O’Connor, Secretary for Education. St, Pius High School grad uates 166; St. Joseph High School, 97 and Drexel Catholic High School, 30. Archbishop Hallinan will pre side at the graduation, and Fath er O’Connor will read the In vocation and welcome the sen iors, their parents and their friends. The Right Reverend Monsignor Alexander O. Sig- ur, J.C.D. Newman Chaplain at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, will address the sen iors and their parents. Most Reverend Joseph L. Be» nardin, Auxiliary to the Arch bishop will present the Arch bishop’s award for scholastic excellence to the boy and girl from each school with the high est scholastic average. The principals of the high schools, Father John J. Cotter, St. Plus X High School, Fath er Daniel J. O’Connor, St. Jos eph High School, and Father William G. Hoffman, Drexel Catholic High School, will read the names of their graduates and Archbishop Hallinan will in turn present the diplomas. Mr. Robert Van Camp will play the organ. Archbishop Hallinan will in their turn present the diplo mas. KEANE Savannahan To Head State K Of C Daniel J. Keane of Savannah has been elected state deputy of the Georgia State Council of Knights of Columbus. He will succeed Gerald B. Gardner Jr. of Brunswick on July 1. Also elected at the council’s 64th annual convention on Jek- yll Island last weekend were Walter C. Clark of Marietta, state secretary; Frank Horn- yak, Macon, state treasurer: Mario Moscardelli of Atlanta, state warden, and John D. My ers of Augusta, state advocate. Principal speaker at the con vention’s annual banquet was the Very Rev. Charles F. Willis, provincial of the Washington province of the Society of Mary, Other speakers at the Satur day night banquet were attorney William R. Killian and Gardner. Anthony J. Albenze, 114 Cy press Mill Road, was recipient of the Knight of the Year Award. Next year's convention site will be Augusta. FROM SAVANNAH Mother O'Byrne Retires From Manhattanville PURCHASE, N.Y. (NC)—Mo ther Eleanor M. O'Byrne, 69, president of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart since 1945, will leave her post in July after completing 33 years of service at the Catho lic women’s school. She will be succeeded by Mother Elizabeth J. McCor mack, currently academic dean. Mother O’Byrne, a native of Savannah, Ga., was educated at Manhattanville, Fordham Uni versity and Oxford University. She joined the Manhattanville staff in 1933 as a professor of history and became dean in 1934. She plans to move to the pro vincial house of the Sacred Heart Order In Albany where she will set up education and advisory projects-. Mother O'Byrne's announce ment of her retirement at the end of a routine faculty mee^ ing (May 19) touched off a sen timental salute by a majority of the college’s 935 students who on learning the news sounded the chapel bells and gathered outside the meeting room to serenade the nun. ROVING REPORTER’ Quotes And Comments Taken From Delegates The roving reporter of the Georgia Bulletin went from de legation to delegation on last Saturday afternoon getting ca psule impressions of the Lay Congress from elected dele gates, observers and guests. In an atmosphere which might be likened to a political conven tion in one respect various delegations were seated toge ther and their respective pla ces marked off by placards tell ing what parish they represent ed. Stalls were erected for the Protestant Observers so that they might be able to get a pano ramic view of the whole pro ceedings. Members of the Young Catholic Adults were on hand like ’’page boys” ready to de liver messages, bring coffee to the tired delegates and an swer the call of a delegate when ever he wished to use the mi crophone. A note of seriousness and de dication prevailed. It was ot^ vloiis to even the cursory ob server that much time and study had been done by the delegates before the Congress took place. Lawyer delegates gave their special flavor, while Doctors showed interest In another as pect and housewives displayed a keen Interest. It was truly an amalgumation of ideas cry- stallzed into one concerted ef fort to improve the image of the Church In North Georgia. It was another “First” for Georgians for it Is believed that this Lay Congress was not only the first of its kind in the nation but in the world. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Following the tremendous ovation for his keynote address, Dean William Cannon of Candler School ot Theology of Emory University is congratulated by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, Official Observers were Invited and occupied a special section during the sessions of the Lay Con gress. Pictured are: George Dawson, Observer, Diocese of Charleston, Spartanburg, S.C.; Rev. Edward A. Driscoll, Observer, Georgia Council of Churches; Rev. Kempton Haynes, Church of the Covenant (Methodist), Symrna, Ga.; Rev. Anthony Malek, Eastern Orthodox Church of Atlanta; Mrs. John Olsen, visitor. Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. Linda s^i«<<oTih«iif-n, of the Young Adults Council of the Archdiocese, holds the microphone for Joseph Mans our of Sacred Heart Parish. The Young Adults acted as ushers and helpers all dur ing die Lay sessions. TIRED BUT SATISFIED Congress Ends With Overtone Of Optimism Sunday evening the Exhibition Hall of the Biltmore Hotel was the scene of a rapid and back- stretching exodus by the dele gates to the Lay Congress. The concelebrated Mass which marked the closing of the Con gress had climaxed with the presentation to Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of the resolutions of the Congress by James W. Callison, president. The dele gates left tired from their long sessions and hard work but sat isfied and optimistic about its results. Seventy-two delegates from 32 parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta had met at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel over the week end of May 20 to 22 to speak as ’’the authentic voice of the lai ty,” as the meeting was de scribed in the episcopal direc tive of Archbishop Paul J. Hal linan. Another 72 alternates to the delegates were also in at tendance, along with numbers of visitors from Catholic par ishes and many guests from Other churches. The occasion was the First Congress of the Laity, describ ed by observers as not only the first in the Archdiocese but possibly the first in the world. The documents published fol lowing the Second Vatican Coun cil set the tone of the meeting. Very Reverend John L. Hein, S.J., consultant on conciliar documents to the Lay Congress, had supervised several courses of instruction for the delegates. Fou£ participants in the Con gress had played important roles in the Council at Rome: Archbishop Hallinan, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Bernardin, The Reverend Dean William Cannon of the Candler School of The ology at Emory University, and Martin Work, Executive Direc ta the interest of accurate reporting of the resolutions of the Lay Congress, the editors will delay until next week the publication of a summary of the Congress conclusions.The wrap-up story published here, written by Louis Fink, gives the main lines of what took place during the Congress. tor of the National Council of Catholic Men in Washington, D.C. The latter two were audi tors by invitation at the Vatican Council. Dean Cannon delivered the keynote address at the Congress on Friday night. He stressed the role of laymen in the Church, reminding his audience that laymen were no longer in the Church, but rather that they were the Church. He also indi cated his pleasure at being in vited to speak - as a Methodist in a Roman Catholic Congress - as an indication that the ecu menical spirit of the Council was being made a reality in At lanta. Like other speakers to follow, Dean Cannon urged lay men to take their proper place in the Church. With an obvious reference to exponents of the “God is dead" theory, he made the point that amateurs should not be dabbling in theology. Archbishop Hallinan also re minded the laymen that they were components of the Church. He described the Congress as an effort to rebuild the Church in Atlanta, opening doors and windows where necessary and re-vamping the structure. At both the beginning and end of the Congress, he expressed his confidence in the laity, guided as they were by the Holy Spir it. The Archbishop made the further point that laymen would suggest changes and assume their own duties, but that the Church “was not under new management.” Several speakers during the three days emphasized the point of the Lay Congress: to offer suggestions to the Synod of priests which meets this Fall, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CITATION FOR The Georgia Bulletin “General Excellence, one to eighteen thousand circulation. An emphasis on local "news” plus sharp, clean offset print ing and excellent reproduction of photographs weighed heavily in favor of The Georgia Bulletin as first place choice. Inside pages apparently received as much attention as page one. There is an orderliness to The Bulletin that distinguishes it. Its departments are sharply defined and its features are in telligently grouped without jeopardizing the individuality of each story.” The Canadian Register of Kingston received second place and the Herald of Sacramento third place. “Among other noteworthy papers,” die Catholic Press citation continued, “The Southern Cross of Savannah stood out for its clean and bright look.” FIRST MASS AT CATHEDRAL Ordained For Benedictines The Reverend Edward Paul Markley will be ordained to the Holy Priesthood in the Order of Saint Benedict by the Most Re verend Joseph A. Du rick, Bis hop of Nashville, on Friday, the tenth of June at ten o’clock in the morning at Saint Ber nard Abbey Church in Cullman, Alabama. He will offer a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving on Sun day, the twelfth of June at five- thirty o’clock In the evening at the Cathedral of Christ the King with his Marlst High school mates, Father Jerry Hardy and Paul Kelley, officiating as con- celebrants. The Right Reverend Monslgnor Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A. will preach the sermon. Bom September 5, 1939 In Atlanta, Georgia, Father Mark- ley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Leslie Markley. He re ceived his elementary educa tion at Saint Benedict School In Greensboro, North Caro lina, and at Christ the King School in Atlanta, graduating from Marlst College High School with the class of 1957. A graduate of Saint Bernard Seminary in 1962, he took his final vows as a Benedictine In 1964. He has spent the pest two years finishing his theological studies at Saint Anselm’s Abbey and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Having received his Dlaconate in February of this year at the served on Sundays throughout Shrine of the Immaculate Con- the Spring at the Immaculate ceptlon In Washington, he has Conception Parish in that city. REVEREND EDWARD P. MARKLEY Rev. Edward P. Markley To Be