Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

City Will Ml PrelalAJ. The speakers who paid honor to Bishop Buddy, in addition to Bishop LeBlond and .Mayor 'Welch, were Col. John D. McNeely, Dr. Daniel Morton, Fred Karr and Mr, Corby. Mr. Corby said the occasion was one when the sorrow on losing Bishop Buddy should be smothered by pride over the honor "one so completely our own has deservingly received." The city administration will miss Bishop Buddy from the city family, said Mayor Welch, who eight months ago appointed him to the city board of health. Friend to AIL "He has been a friend to all, re- gardless of color or creed, He has given his time unselfishly to public service, .An outstanding citizen, a man of great personality, he shall Indeed be missed by the people of St. Joseph," said the mayor. Colonel McNeely, who has known Bishop Buddy since boyhood, em- phasized the humility of the new bishop, and said that the people of St. Joseph now are aware of what the people of Cleveland went through when Bishop LeBlond was transferred from that city to this. He told of Bishop Buddy's work in St. Vincent's cafeteria, and said; "When depresson came, when men, women and , children lost heart, and when many were going hungry, Bishop Buddy did not wait for government. He knew no sec- retarian or religious bounds or frontiers. That mission that he es- tablished stood like a lighthouse in time of storm." century the phy~1c1an of the Buddy family, Dr. Damel Morton spoke of the beauty of the home life of the bishop and told of the members of the family. ~e also ~welt on the bishop's early mterest m humanitarian problems. "For the city of St. Joseph, I am a witness to the fact that he has been a benediction to thousands of our citizens to whom the 1·oad of life was rough and wearisome, and bl~cked by overwhelming disaster," said Doctor Morton. "It is my belief that the most ac- ceptable se,·vice that one can ren- der God Is doing good to one's fel- lowman. Bis:iop Buddy went about doing good. Doei, 'hat not compass it all? Can I say anything better than that about him? Quotes Apostollc Secretary, "And now I am sure that I voice the sentiments of all when I bid , Bishop Buddy goodby in the beauti- ful language of that old apostolic secretary to Pope Boniface IX Francesco Giovanni: ' " 'And so at this Christmas time I greet you, not as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem, and with the prnyer for you now and forever that the da.y b,·eaks and the shadows flee R,\Va_r.' It Praised by Physlcian. Fo: . nea1·ly half a

thlS city who will miss Bishop Buddy most. He told of the detail that fell to the lot of Bishop Buddy to work out in connection with the opera- tion of the cafeteria, but said that the cafe eria for the poor wru; only one of Bishop Buddy's g1'eat ac- complishments. St. Joseph by losing Bishop Buddy is making a sacrifice to help another city, San Diego, Bishop Le- Blond said. The occasion yesterday, he said, was one of happiness tinged with selfish sadness. "It is difficult to speak of Bishop Buddy. Words are not made to express the sentiment of one's heart when a friend speaks of a friend,'' Bishop LeBlond said, "H is losses such as that of Bishop Buddy that a city or a man must take in stride." Recept!on on St.age, ~ince the day he arrived in St. Joseph a little more than three years ago Bishop Buddy spared nothing to assist him with his work, Bishop LeBlond said. He closed by wishing the new bishop long years of happy labor in the diocese of San Diego. the program Bishop Buddy met the audience in a recep- / tion on the auditorium stage. Following

In Farewell Message to City He Points to Conditions in Foreign Lands. RECEPTION FOR PRELATE ATTENDED BY THRONG Six Civic Leaders Laud New Bishop for His Work in St. Joseph. In a touching farewell to the peo- ple of the city he has served for twenty-two years as assistant pas- tor and later as rector of St. Jos- eph's Cathedral, Bishop Charles F. Buddy, consecrated a week ago as the first bishop of the diocese of San Diego, Cal., warned yesterday against the insidious dangers of communism. Catholics and non-Catholics alike tilled the auditorium of Central High School yesterday afternoon for the reception at wl1ich six civic leaders, including Mayor Phil J, 'Welch, lauded tbe new bishop for his work along religious, charitable and civic lines. Gift of Purse Presented, Joseph E. Corby, who presided, on behalf of the members of the Ca- thedral parish, presented Bishop Buddy with a purse as a token of their esteem. "Although I shall be far away, roy thoughts and prayers shall al- ways be with the people of St. Jos- eph," said Bishop Buddy. "I shall not bid farewell, but shall use the Anglo-Saxon term 'goodby,' which means God be with you." Points to Foreign Nations. In his warning against commu- nism, Bishop Buddy pointed to con- ditions in Russia, Mexico and Spain. "In those lands the red flame of cornmunism has burst out among many unsui

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Declaring that Bishop Budd:,· is cmrnen:t1y fitted for the new post !~, which he ha.~ been chosen, Fred ha1·r, who worked hand in hand l\·itt, the prelate In the operation of 8t. Vincent's cafeteria ,said that it "' the poor and the unfortunate of