Catholic Record Society Summer Meeting
September 24, 2006

“Bishop Hartley Recruits Scholars

– And Does Well”

Members and Non-members Are All Welcome

Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 2 o’clock p.m.

Speaker: Louis V. Fabro

Society Member

Lifetime Columbus resident 

Summer Meeting -- September 24 

Our Summer quarterly meeting will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 24, in the meeting room below the theater at St. Charles Preparatory School, 2010 E. Broad St., Columbus.  Lou Fabro will speak on "Bishop Hartley Recruits Scholars -- and does well."  This talk recalls the effort of Bishop James J. Hartley more than eighty years ago to build a teaching staff at the then new St. Charles College-Seminary, which today survives at St. Charles Preparatory School.  The prep school originally was a department of the college-seminary.  Among those selected to teach at the "bishop's school" were several outstanding scholars, three of whom will be the focus of this presentation.  They are Msgrs. Paul J. Glenn, George T. Wolz, and Joseph A. Cousins.  All were tremendously influential and left enduring legacies.

Louis "Lou" V. Fabro  

The speaker, Lou Fabro, is a member of the Society and a lifetime Columbus resident.  He graduated from St. Peter School in 1945 and from St. Charles in 1949, and in 1953 earned a B.A. degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.  He served two years in the U.S. Army, worked as a newspaper reporter for several years, did public relations work for 37 years at Nationwide Insurance, and wrote sports stories as a sideline for thirty years at the Catholic Times.  He continues to do some writing.  

Membership

Three long-time members of the Society have recently gone on to their eternal recompense:  Dorothy (Murphy) Brunney, passed away on May 22  at the  age  of  91  years;  Father Alan Sprenger on April 15, and Martin (Hank) Russell on July 29.  Please remember their souls in your prayers.  May all of the deceased members of the Society rest in peace.

Society dues remain $15 per calendar year for one person (or two persons at the same address), $25 per institutional subscription.  Those enrolled since the last newsletter are:

William Antoniak, Columbus

Sr. Jacqueline Baum, O.P., Columbus

Bernadine Bauman, Columbus

Alan Borer, Westerville

Sr. Rosalie Graham, O.P., Columbus

Colby Grimes, Columbus

Linda Hamilton, Columbus

Julia Herman, Preacott, Arizona

Rev. Kevin Lutz, Columbus

Rosemary McMahon, Dayton

Rev. Jack Maynard, Dresden

Rev. William J. Metzger, Columbus

Lori & Dave Mitchell, Columbus

Ellawanda O'Keefe, Delaware

Jack Reser, Bellefontaine

Robert & Ann Marie Smeltzer, Nashport

Robert & Mary Lou Smeltzer, Nashport

Marianne Wenger, Reynoldsburg

St. Mary, Mattingly Settlement

Sesquicentennial

We congratulate the Mission of St. Mary for a fine sesquicentennial celebration.  And we apologize that our newsletter is coming out too late to make the event better known beforehand.  But we hear they had an overflow attendance, wonderful services and food, and excellent weather. May the Holy Angels continue to smile on Mattingly Settlement! 

Gifts to the Society

We always appreciate donations to our collections and library, especially those of local interest. 

Thirteen 8x10 photographs from the late Father John Eyerman, including several taken at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Newark in 1961 at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of his ordination.

            - gift of his niece, Nancy Eyerman

The Catholic Columbian, paper copies of 1920 through 1924 and 1927 through 1939

            - gift of the Ohio Historical Society

St. Mary High School [Lancaster] Class of 1955, 50th Reunion (booklet), and

William V. Fisher Catholic High School, Alumni Directory, 1995, and

Aquinas Scroll, 1942 (St. Thomas High School, Zanesville, yearbook)

Photo of the attendees at the Diocesan Summer School of Liturgical Music, held at St. Charles College, August, 1952

            - anonymous donors

Shrine Center for Renewal, 50 Years, 1931-1981 (photocopy of booklet, including a history by Mary Murphy)

            - gift of Mary Murphy

A large, colorized, heavily touched up portrait of Bishop Ready.  We thought this would be more appropriate in the Jubilee Museum collection and have passed it on to them.

            - gift of Deacon Tom Berg and the Chancery

Tony Lisska has donated a nice collection of materials that belonged to his aunt.  Included are:

- The Tabernacle Society, Convent of Notre Dame, St. Joseph Academy, Columbus, Ohio 1957 (booklet)

- Oscar DeLiso, Padre Pio, The Priest Who Bears the Wounds of Christ; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960

- Sackville-West, V., Saint Joan of Arc; New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1938

- Hatch, Alden, A Man Named John, The Life of Pope John XXIII; New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963

- Gregory, J. H. (translator), Bernadette of Lourdes; New York: Louché, Keane & Fitch, 1915 (inscribed "Florence Wolfel, Christmas, 1918")

Mathias, Father X., (Regens Seminarii Episcopalis Argentinensis), Officium Pro Defunctis cum Missa et Absolutione...  Editio Tertia; Ratisbone, Frideric Pustet, 1925; and

Predmore, Rev. George V., Sacred Music and The Catholic Church; Boston: McLaughlin & Reilly, 1936 (inscription by Rev. Walter J. Minder)

            - gifts of Donald Schlegel

The Catholic Record Society

Are you interested in the history of the Diocese of Columbus? The Catholic Record Society of the Diocese of Columbus is looking for new members. The Catholic Record Society is an organization dedicated to research, preservation, presentation, and publication of materials pertaining to events, persons, organizations and places historically associated with the Diocese of Columbus.

One of the Society’s objectives is to make known the works of the Church by bringing into better light the heroism of the missionaries, nuns and the lay people who laid the foundation of today’s Diocese of Columbus. The Society supports the Diocesan Archives, which preserves the official records of the Diocese. Meetings of the Society are held quarterly and always include a presentation on Diocesan history. The public is always invited to attend.

If you would like to join the Record Society, regular membership in the Society is only $15 per calendar year. Society members receive a subscription to the monthly historical Bulletin of the Society, the Barquilla de la Santa Maria. You may join by sending $15 along with your name, address, phone and email address to Catholic Record Society, 197 East Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio, 43215. You can also find more information at our website, catholicrecordsociety.org.