The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-30

PCCW's can be formed. 1t was
pointed out that the responsibility
for an active diocesan council rest
ed with the parishes. Speakers in
cluded the chairman, Mrs. Eliza
beth Flanagan, Miss Anna Marie
Cline, Mrs. Elizabeth Feist and
Miss Josephine Roundtree. Father
Vincent Mooney, pastor of Immac-
ulate Conception Church, Kenton,
served as honorary chairman and
moderator.
Public Relations
The nature of public relations
and its function as the means of
putting ones best foot forward
with the public" was outlined by
two experts on the subject, Miss
Margaret Mahoney, the Director of
Industrial Relations for the State
of Ohio and Mr.. William G. Will
cox, the Director of the Bureau of
Public Relations of Ohio State I'm
iversity.
Clearing up an often misunder-
stood point, Miss Mahoney distin-
guished between public relations
and publicity. Publicity is con-
Quoted on the impersonal idea that
if you talk long enough and loud
enough and in the most conspic-
uouS places somebody is bound to
believe you - even if you are talk
ing a pack of lies" she declared.
Public relations, on the other
hand" Miss Mahoney noted, is
aimed at the individual. 1t doesn't
attempt to overpower or stupefy
him. II Just presents an honest
picture and trusts his good sense
to recognize and accept it"
In publicity" Miss Mahoney
concluded, "the budget and the adj
vertising gimmick are the impor-
tant items. In public relations, it
is the people who are important. %
Mr.. Wilcox pointed out that each
individual in an organization us
that organization and everything it
stands for in the minds of people
outside"
Good public relations" he poin-
ted out, is each individuals re.
sponsibility. You are your groups
public relations personel. You
can't escape this responsibility"
Mr.. Wilcox concluded his ad.
dress by outlining a public rela-
tions TO-" and presenting a list
of questions each member could
ask herself to determine her eff.
fectiveness as public relations
representative for her organization
Miss Ann M. Rickard, Assistant
Editor of the Ohio State University
Monthly presided at the public re
lationS workshop. Father David
Dennis of the Catholic Times was
honorary chairman.
Alice curfayne
In her speech at the closing ban.
quet, Mrs. Alice Curtayne Rynne,
noted Irish author, contrasted the
lives of St Catherine of Siena and
st. Catherine de Ricci. She de.
clared:
Both of them we're so emancipa.
ted that they seem to make modern
feminism look foolish. They did
not pursue emancipation as an end
in itself; they never wrote about
it, or talked about il. They just
lived it,"
Citing the influence exercised by
ST. Catherine of Siena in restoring
the papacy to Rome, Mrs. Rynne
outlined the attractive aspect of
the saints character. She told of
her "faiety with mixed company
her human affection, her recrea-
tions, her liking for Dante's works
and for walks in the country"
Catherine de Ricci presents a
complete contrast, Mrs. Rynne said
adding that where her namesake
was mobile, she remained in the
same convent all her life, and she
was passionately devoted to the
cloister." She asserted:
"St. Catherine was great mys-
tic and her notifications were, at
first sight, terrifying. She tasted,
wore a hair shirt, kept vigil, fell
into ecstasies, received the Stig.
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