FIRST GRADUATIONS AT TWO SCHOOLS: Commencement exereises will be held this year for the first time at Sacred Heart, Taunton and St. John the' Evangelist, Attleboro. 'Eighth grade class officers (left) a~, Sa~red Heart: l-eft to righ~, James Bradshaw, president; Michael'
Bianchi, vice president; Mary Ann Martin, treasurer; Mary Kelly secretary. . St. John's officers (right) are: Nancy Arruda', president; Elaine Jette, secretary ; Neil Cassidy, treasurer; Robert Lynch, vice president. Many of the graduates h6pe to attend Catholic high schools.
Elementary Schools to Graduate ..1,827 . "
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, A total of 1,827 boys and girls will graduate from the grammar schools of tho Diocese this month, an increase, of 231 over 1960. First graduations 'will be held by twe schMls: St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro, which will graduate 43; and Sacred Hearl School, Taunton, graduating 34. Sisters of Mercy staff St. John's and Religious of the ,Holy Union are at Sacred Heart. This .year's' largest , graduating class, as for the last two years, will be that of St, Mary's, School, North Attleboro, which' has 90 in the eighth grade., It. will be closely. foliowed by St. ~atriGk's,School, Fall River, which will graduate 83.' ' . ,
Smallest class will be that of St.·'MarY's Home, New Bedford, n'J:nberihg three. St. Mary's 'also, .tft AnchtW of the Soul. Sur. and Pirm-ST. PA.uL ',han las~ year's smallest class. Many ,of the eighth grade graduates will continue their education in: one of the '11 'Catholic high· schools in the'Dio-' PRICE 10e ces~. "By September a twelfth © 1961 The Anchor $4.00 per Year will be added: Bishop Feehan" Second Class Mail Privilefles Authorized at' Fall River: Mass High School in Attleboro. This year's number of elementary ,school graduates-l,827_is 1m increase of 231 or about 15% over last year's figure of 1,596.
fall River, Mass., Thurs4;lay, June 15, 1961
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New Bedford,' Jesuit Ordi~@)ftiorrn Saturd~v
Rev. Mr. Raymond P. Bertrand, S.J., will be one of 24 J'esuits ordained tQ the priesthood Saturday at Weston College, Weston, by Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston. )Born in New Bedford on Dec. 21, 1929, Father Bertrand is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Bertrand. After attending St. Anthony High School, New Bedford, and
Boston College, he entered the New England Province of the Society of Jesus on Aug. 14, 1951. He made his novitiate at ShadowQrook, Lenox, and studied philosophy at Weston College. From 1955 to 1958 he taught at College No~re Dame de Jamhour and the University <of St. Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon. ][n September, 1958 he returned 00 Weston College where he has iust completed three years of theology. Father Bertrand will celebrate his first Solemn Mass at St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, !it 11 A.M. Sunday, June 25. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis E. Prevost, pastor of St. Joseph'!>, will be the assi~tant priest. Rev. Gerard Boisvert of Notre Dame de lLourdes, Fall River will be the ]l)reacher.
Stating tha,t there was no national "catholic position'O on federal aid to education, .Very Rev. Arthur T. Geoghegan, Sup e ri n tend e n t of Schools 'of the Diocese of ProviANNIVERSARY MASS: Rt. Rev. Louis dence, expressed his personal belief that federal aid to parochial pastQr ,of St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, schools should be limited to the, Deacon at his Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving. pu~chase of texts and materials" . in "areas of nationai concern" such ~sscien.ce, mathemat.ics,'
E. Prevost, blesses the
Msgr. ' LOUIS .' Prevos t Mor ks Ordination Golden Jubilee
Emphasizes Lay Apostolate Need In World Work
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phYSical Speaking at 'Brown University. ' Monday to the 1961 Conference Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis E. Prevost, pastor of St. Joseph of ·the Women's. Council on InChurch, New Bedford, observed the Golden Jubilee 'of hill tergroup Relatlo~s, of Rhode, ordination and First Solemn Mass by celebrating a Solemn Turn to Page Four High'Mass in the church Sunday. He was assisted by Rev. and Seated lnthe sanctuary were Lou is R . Boivin'deacon .' Rt. Rev. Msgr. Alfred J . E• Re v. Roland Bousquet , sub- Bonneau, pastor of Notre Dam. deacon. Rev. Joseph A. de Lourdes,'Fall River, and RtJ Martineau directed congre- Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher. gational singing and preached. pastor of St. James, New Bed'"' ,PATERSON (NC) - The The three priests are the JUbi- ford. ,Turn to Page lEightelm founder of a lay apostolate larian's assistants.
. : The Most Reverend Bishop celebrated a Pontifical Requiem Mass Monday morning in St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, for the late Rev. John S. Czerwonka, assistant at the: parish, who died Wednesday in Middletown, R. I. Assistant priest' was Rt. Rev. Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis, deacon; Msgr. HumbertoS. M.edeiros, Rev.' Adalbert' Szklanny; SUbdeacon; Rev. John G. Carroll and eh~ncellor of the, Diocese. Rt: Rev. Msgr. Alfred J. Rev. ~rnest E. Blais, ac;olytes. Bonneau and· Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hugh A.'Gallagher were dea~QnB . , n<>nor.
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New Bedford ,Rallies to Aid
that they live in an international community." "If, they don't act to help the In an outpouring of fraternal charity, New Bedford un,derdeveloped countries, the area Catholics have joined to welcome 17 Sisters, Religious communists will," warns Gerald Mische, founder of the Associaof -the ,Love of God, who are refugees from ,Castro's Cuba.. tion for International- DevelopThe'Sisters, who arrived in New, Bedford Saturday, are ment. from 14 schools operated by Chief guardian angel for tpe Representatives of the Grail, the, International Catholic Auxi- their community in Cuba. All Sisters is Rev. Clement R. Kil.. liaries, the. Young Christian ln,stitutions were confiscated goar, SS,cC., pastor at· St, Workers and the Women Volun. by' ,the government.. They Anthony's. He has headed ef· teers Association are contemare, ,staying, at St. Anthony's forts to make their acoommodtl plating a four-point educational Convent;'Mattapoisett, where tions comfortable. , : Many Helpers program . d~signed to spark spe-' 'M:othet Angeles 'Perez, R.A.D.. is, He has had many helpers !tI'l ciftc action, Mr.· Misch~ reports., ,superior. They. will remain,there '"First," he' said, "tnere ,is the' until' planaare'made' for theil' laM project. They include (1M Tum M PaMlel !i'!ftoo~ . Tum io Page lWeiV-. , . .fut\,Jl'e. .'
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