The 68th annual meeting of the Georgia State Council Knights of Columbus was held in Augusta the weekend of May 15-17. The annual convention is the highlight of activities o the Knights of Columbus in the State of Georgia and was extremely well attended with the fifteen councils located in most major cities in the state well represented.

At the final business session, officers for the fraternal year beginning July 1, 1970 and ending June 30, 1971 were elected, with Bernard J. Mulherin having been elected to the post of state deputy.

Mulherin presently is serving this fraternal year in the capacity of state secretary and is a past Grand Knight of Patrick Walsh Council No. 677 in Augusta, Ga. where his two brothers Patrick R. Mulherin and Matthew W. Mulherin, both of Augusta, served as Grand Knight and his father, the late James B. Mulherin, served on two occasions as Grand Knight and his grandfather, Captain P. H. Rice was the first Grand Knight in 1902.

Other officers elected for the coming fraternal year were:

John E. Dayton, state secretary, Council 4371, Warner Robins; Xavier M. Dugas, re-elected state treasurer, Council 1939, Brunswick; William S. Purdy, state advocate, Council 4599, Marietta; William Baker, state warden, Council 5484, Augusta, Georgia.

The convention also elected the following as alternates to the Supreme Convention which will be held in Houston, Texas in August of this year: Charles C. Chester, Council 677, Augusta; Daniel J. Keane, Council 631, Savannah, GA.

Monsignor George Lewis Smith, pastor of St. Mary’s Help of Christians parish, Aiken, S.C. was keynote speaker. He addressed the Saturday night banquet.