Catholic Record Society - Diocese of Columbus

Society News

April, A.D. 2007

197 E. Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio  43215     614-241-2571      www.catholicrecordsociety.org

Spring Quarterly Meeting -- May 20

Our Spring Quarterly Meeting will be held on Saturday, May 20, 2007 in the first floor meeting room of Trinity School (behind St. Christopher Church, 1420 Grandview Avenue).  Our program will be “Remembering Bishop Fulcher: Priest, Teacher, Pastor, Bishop, and Family Member,” a conversation with George Fulcher, the bishop's nephew.  Anyone with a memory or memorabilia of this much loved and respected teacher, pastor, and bishop is invited to share it at this meeting.

Most Rev. George Avis Fulcher was born in Columbus in 1922, ordained a priest in 1948, appointed auxiliary bishop of Columbus in 1976, and Bishop of Lafayette in 1983.  Along this path he was assistant pastor at several parishes and founding pastor at St. Anthony Parish and rector at St. Joseph Cathedral; he taught theology at the Josephinum; he was editor of the Catholic Times; represented the Church at many local ecumenical meetings; and worked with the NCCB Committee that wrote the bishops' “peace pastoral.”  His life was cut short by a tragic auto accident in 1984.  Twenty-three years later, he is still fondly remembered by many in this diocese.

Membership

Long-time member Marty Finnegan of New Philadelphia passed away on March 1 at the age of 81.  We will have a Mass offered for him.  May he and all of our deceased members rest in peace.

Society dues remain $15 per calendar year for one person (or two persons at the same address), $35 per institutional subscription.  Those enrolled since the last newsletter, as of April 20, are:

Sr. M. Paulette Boll, Columbus

Alan B. Borer, Westerville

James E. Gatterdam, Columbus

Rev. Peter M. Gideon, Lancaster

Arlene Imlay, Newark

Gwendolyn F. Jordan, Townsend, Tenn.

Rev. Jack G. Maynard, Dresden                                      

Billie Mckouen, Lansing, Mich.

Marcia McLaughlin, Cincinnati

Rosemary McMahon, Dayton   

Sr. Mary Agnes McMahon, O.P., Columbus

Mary Lou Messmer, Columbus

Rev. Robert E. Metzger, Junction City

Jim & Jean Morris, Columbus

Joseph & Theresa Reinhard, Galloway               

Mike & Mary Reinhard, West Jefferson

Rev. Michael J. Reis, Heath

Davod M. Schilder, Chillicothe

Dennis C. Seidel, Columbus

Mary Alice Bentz Shea, Columbus

Anna Smith, Lancaster

Rev. Luke Tancrell, O.P., Columbus

Rita Ann Lacher Thomas, Columbus

Ray & Terry Thomas, Columbus

Pat Vigue, Junction City

Rev. Michael B. Watson, Columbus

Dorothy Wright, Lancaster

Gifts to the Society

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

A set of 37 photographs of the funeral of Bishop Ready, by A. J. Drugan; and

A Scrapbook of clippings at the death of Bishop Hartley

                                                - gifts of Sr. Rosalie Graham, O.P., Archivist, St. Mary of the Springs

Foley, Katie, A History of Our Lady of Victory Through the Years, 1922-2007; Columbus: San Patrizio Press, 2006                       - gift of Don Schlegel

The Catholic Columbian, January 1, 1898 (newspaper of the Diocese of Columbus)

                                                - gift of Mary Murphy

Clem Labine's Traditional Building, The Professional Resource for Public Architecture, Vol. 19, No. 6 (December 2006), Annual Religious Buildings Issue.  On pages 16 through 18 is an article on St. Edward the Confessor Church, Granville; also included are articles on the restorations of the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore and Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Sacramento.

                                                - gift of St. Edward the Confessor Parish

Program: Solemn Vespers and Dedication of the Grand Gallery Organ... St. Joseph Cathedral...  15 December 2006                          - gift of Mary Hauslbetz

A History of Clergy and Parishes of the Diocese of Steubenville, 1944-2006

                                                - gift of Mrs. Linda Nicholas, Diocese of Steubenville

Burton, Katherine, Make the Way Known (story of St. Mary of the Springs); New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959.                               - gift of John Hemmer

Ackerman, Gian, Ursula Ostermann, O.S.F., and Mary Serbacki, O.S.F, editors, Called by God's Goodness, A History of the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity in the Twentieth Century; Stella Niagara: Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, 1997; and

Archer, Mary Urban, O.S.F., A History of HolyNameProvince of the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity; Stella Niagara: 1987; and

Cools, Angelita, O.S.F. and Hildegard de Wijnpersse, O.S.F., Mother Damien and Her Congregation; Asman, Clarissa, O.S.F., translator, and Mary Urban Archer, O.S.F., editor; 1966

                                                - anonymous gifts

Progress of the Catholic Church in America and the Great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893, 4th edition; Chicago: J. S. Hyland & Co., 1897

                                                - gift of Phyllis (Riesbeck) Davidson