Early Parish Totals Show Appeal Gains
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Catholic Charities Appeal Headquarters announced a new total of $102,007.63 this morning. Continued increases in Special Gift contributions joined to some very obvious surges in Parish contributing combined to achieve the total. Parish Committees are at the midway point in their solicitation for the 1959 Appeal. The committees of each parish are being paced by Immacu. late Conception of North Easton; St. Mary's, Fairhaven; and St. William's of 0
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Fall River, all of which have already exceeded their 1958 total. -----..,..~-..,..---------The signs that are clear in the PRICE tOe Seeond CluB Mail Privilelre8 three leading parishes are ob. $4.00 per Y_ Authorized at Fall Rinr. Ma... vious in the Appeal in many , parishes. Ten dollar contributions by each working person have been accepted as the norm. A large segment of those who formerly gave less than ten dollars have now raised their standard to the new figure. There has ,been another remarkable trend in the increaseC' number . The fourth annual Convention of the Catholic Teachers noted giving gifts of over ten dollars. • 8S~iation will be held next Thursday and Friday, May 14 Widespread use of the pledge, and. 15, at St. Anne's School, Forest Street, Fall River. system has accounted for the Approximately 700 teachers in the elementary and high notable increases in both of categories. . IIChools of the Diocese will cuss pertinent educational ?Cob- these Special Gift solicitors are reaesemble for the two day lems. quested to turn in their final NEW OFFICERS: Elected to serve Attleboro District Conference to hear some of There will also be an exhibit returns to the· Area Headquar-· No.4, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women are (left to the 'outstanding educators of of the latest educationa1 ·mate- ters ·immedi~tely. Chairman Sul- . right) seated, Miss Cecile Brais, North Attleboro, area viceTurn to Page Eighteen . ~. !lection of the country disTurn to Page Four president; Mrs. George Bauza, Norton, president; Mrs. Leo
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Thursday, May 7, 1959.
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E·ducators to Meet Here Next··Week
Top Scien~e Studen'ts Compete· for .Priz8s . : In conjunction with next week's convention of the Cathollc Teachers' Association of the Diocese, a two-day Science Fair will be held Thursday and Friday, May 14 and 15, at Dominican Academy, Park Street, Fall River. High school sCience students criteria used in judging· the ef the Diocese will exhibit winners of the Diocesan-wide displays that indicate re-. even~. . . . .. March beyond the ordinary PrIzes mc~ude .$100 fIrst pr~ze, limits of the high .school curric. .lum. Many e~trants WIll a~:.ead.r ~ave carrl.ed off ho~ors In prehmn:tary sCIence faIrs at,· iDeir respective schools. Originality, scientific basis,. thoroughness, presentation, and ~book work will be among
$5? secon~ pr!ze, $25 th,lrd prIze and SIX prIzes of $10 each. All entries will receive certificates of merit. Exhibits wil(be·set up ·Thu'rsday morning, May 14,. and judged that afternoon. On Fdday the displays will be open to. the public. .
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Bishop Cassidy Requiem 'Mass On May 15·
South Attleboro, treasurer.· Standing (in same order) Mrs.· James Clemmey;· Mansfield; corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Albert Jackson, Mansfieid, Diocesan vice-president. .
A Pontifical Anniversary Mass of Rp.quiem for the repose of the soul of the late Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, D.D. third Bishop of Fall River, will be celebrated on Friday morning, May 15, at 9 o'clock in St. Mary's .Cathedral, Fall River. This ·will bt: the .eighth anniversary of Bishop Cassidy'. death.
HameArizona Woman 1959 Catholic Mother . WASHINGTON (NC)-A 44-year-old Arizona woman who f~und time to establish a retreat movement for married couples, while rearing nine children, has been chosen as the National Catholic· Mother of the Year. Mrs. Charles N. . Ronan of Scottsdale, in .the With her husband, Mrs. RonaR Tucson diocese has been · founded the Holy Family Reselected for the honor by a treat Association, believed to be committee of the National the 'first U. S. organization dedCatholi<; Conference. on Family Life~
Diocesan Physic.ians, Nurses Plan May Spiritual Events
Diocesan Cath·olic Women·to Hear New. Bedford Home Chaplai-:-
P~ychology of children will be discussed at a workshop lIdteduled for-the morning session of the annual convention mthe Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to' beheld Saturday, May 16 at Kennedy Center, New Bedford. Leading t.he workshop will be Rev. . John Hogan, chaplain of St. Mary's Home, New Bedford and supervisor of Catholic
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Catholic nurses and doctors of the Diocese will gather at ··two spiritual· events this month, .both at St. Anne'. . Hospital, Fall River. ·Th~ annual·ineeting of the Dioce'san Council· of .Catholic· Nurses is scheduled to start· at 3 :30 . . Saturday afternoon, May 9, with a tea in the hospital cafeteria. Spea:ker of the afternoon will be Rev. Alfred
&harities for the New Bedford .ea. Rev. Lee Sullivan, Diocesan director of CYO activities and in charge of Kennedy Center, will delive. the invocation. ~rn
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Bishop Sanctions Self-Supporting· Pa rish Schools
THree Cardinals Plan to Welcome New Delegate
BAY CITY (NC) - Permission to charge tuition and .. drop some elementary achool grades that are not
NEW YORK (NC)-Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi will be formally welcomed tomorrow as Apostolic Delegate to
.elf-supporting has been granted pastors in this diocese by Bishop Stephen S. Woznicki of Saginaw, with the hope· these tW'Q steps will put the diocese's educational aystem ·back on an even financial kieel. He said schools in this See are . Ilarassed by a shortage of teaching Sisters and that it is iinancially unsound to continue hiring large numbers of lay teachers. 'l"he Michigan prelate said that til some instances, parishes in this diocese of about 140,000 Catholics are spending nearly .eir entire income in operating IICbools. This leads to the neglect ." building, repairs .and other
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· the United States by some 50 members of the U. S; hierarchy, including three cardinals, In a special ceremony at St. Patrick's cathedral here. attendance will be Their. Eminences Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, and John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Archbishop of Philadelphia. On his arriva- at the cathedral the Apostolic Delegate will be greeted by Auxiliary Bishop · Joseph F. Flannelly of New York, • cathedral administrator, and accompanied to the Sacred Heart Altar. After remaining there ill prayer, he will be conducted t. the sanctuary, where he will be
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1959 CATHOLIC MOTHER AND FAMILY: Mrs. Charles N. Ronan, 44, of Scottsdale, Ariz., (Dioc-ese of Tucson) has been chosen as the 1959 National Catholic Mother, by the National Catholic Conference on Family Life. She is shown here with her husband and their nine children. Mr. & Mrs. Ronan founded the Holy Family Retreat Associationio :f.o8ter closed l'etreata' for married ,eouples. NC· Photo. ",:.,
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