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New Bedford Nurse ReceivesAssignment
Lucille Lebeau Leaves For Brazil on Feast of Assumption Imagine a city the size of 'New Bedford
ti" Fall River with one doctor and two nurses
to care for its entire population. Imagina tion will become fact for one young New
Bedfordite next month.
Slender and brown-eyed, she looks like thousandH of smart career girls with minds
~n nothing weighter than what to wear on Wleir next date.
But Lucille Lebeau is different. She has a country on her mind, and the problem
of how best to help its needy people with
her skill as a nurse.
It is a country where year old babies may weigh less than 10 pounds, where a young mother, with the in<lifference born of destitution could say, when told that 20 eents worth of medicine would save the life
of her baby, "I don't want it. I already have five children and I'm young and will have more."
Next month Lucille will go to Brazil as a Papal Volunteer for Latin America, first from the F~ll River Diocese. She will work
in the Salvador Bahia area of the country. With a population of 100,000, it is as large
as her native New Bedford, as large as Fall River.
For all its people' there will be Lucille,
David. Frenette Will Miss His Aunt Lucille
one other nurse and one doctor to supply
medical service. They will work in a hospi- ' tal erected through the efforts of Sister
Dulce of the Sisters of the Immaculate
Conception. Lucille is looking forward to meeting Sister Dulce, who has established
three orphanages in Salvador in addition to
. the hospital.
"She must be quite a person," she says. Lucille is quite a person herself. Con
cern for others is nothing new for her. She
has long been active in the Legion of Mary
praesidium attached to St. James' parish, New Bedford. A member herself of St. Anne's parish, she is a Fisher for· the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine recently erected there.
Both the Legion and CeD assignments involve home visiting and unraveling such problems as mixed marriages, fallen-away
Catholics, and children failing to attend catechism classes. , Lucille expects this background ~o stand
her in good stead in Brazil, where nursing will be combined with the activities of a
social worker. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
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Federal Grant 01 $7,245,500
The ANCHOR . Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 25, 1963 Vol. 7, No. 31
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Sisters of Mercy List School Appointments The Sisters of Mercy, Province of Providence, an nounce the following appointments affecting Sisters in the Fall River Diocese: From Holy Ghost Convent, Providence: Sister Mary Chabanel to Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall River. From Holy Name Convent, New Bedford: Sister Mary Austin to Our Lady of Mercy
Convent, New Bedford. Sis
St. Anne's Hospital· to Build New Wing Adding 64 Rooms A federal grant of $1,245,500 will aid in construction of a four story addition to St Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Total cost is estimated at $2,419,000. Mother Pierre Marie, hospital administrator, said that work on the addition will begin _by Oct. 1. Plans are in Washington awaiting authorization, she noted, and bids will be called for Sept. 15. St. Anne's now has a bed 'Capa Anne's. An automobile driveway St. Anne's has a staff of 30 city of 166. The addition will be provided at the corner of and Forest Streets and Sisters, 294 full time worken will provide. 64 m<.1re beds, Middle the present entrance to the and 40 part time workers, noted for a total of 230. It will in maternity wing will be enlarged. Mother Pierre Marie, who has
clude on the first floor an exten An old nurses' home at the cor· been administrator for over 16 sion of the present X-ray depart ner of Middle and Forest will be years. Its' yearly payroll is over ment; an emergency suite, in. demolished. $1,000,000. cluding police and press accom.
modations; an outpatient clinic;
business and administration
offices. The second floor will com prise major and minor operating rooms, a recovery room and an intensive care room. APPLETON (NC) - Catholics will have to develop a A new pediatrics section, in profound spirit of supernatural optimism in or?er to cluding special accommodations weather the inevitable crisis in store for the Church and for teen-agers from 12 to 16, will human society, Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburg said occupy the third floor. Patients' rooms will be on the here in Wisconsin. Speaking ference, the conference's episco fourth floor. to the second regional work pal adviser predic~ that the The construction will face For shop of the National Catho fortitude and optimism of aU est Street and connect with the Catholics were in for some present maternity wing of St. lic Laymen's Retreat Con- "tough testing."
Need Optimism to Weath~r Crisis Ahead for Church
Missioners AllOver JJ'7orld Express Thanks To Fall Riv~r Diocese for Aid to Lepers
ter Mary Constance to eighth
grade and choir, st. Patrick'.
School, Fall River.
"You can imagine the joy felt here caused by the arrival of your letter and donation Sister Mary Gracelle to St. when I tell you our leper fund was exhausted. God bless you and the wonderful people who !tdary's School, Newport. cooperated with you so admirably. God prosper the Diocese of Fall River!It This is only From Immaculate Conception Convent, Westerly: Sister Mary a sample of similar letters received from all parts of the world by the Fall River Diocesan Beningna to seventh grade and office of the Society for the and no plumbing fixtures. The choir, S8. Peter and Paul School, Propagation of the Faith, children were neglected, under Fall River. directed by Msgr. Raymond fed, and had not had a bath in From Mt. St. Mary T. Considine. They are ex three months. I could not refuse From Mt. St. Mary Convent, pressing appreciation for dona to send Sisters. I sent four of Fall River: Sister Mary Geoffrey tions sent from the proceeds of my Korean Caritas Sisters to to eighth grade St. Mary's School the Diocese's annual collection take charge and tried to make North Attleboro. the houses habitable. We now for the benefit of lepers. They have 202 children in this home; Sister Mary Nathan to princi are expressing appreciation to they are clean and pretty well. palship and eighth grade, Holy you. fed and cared for." Name School, New Bedford. You have helped the Arch Sister Mary Evangela to St. bishop of Kwangju, Korea, writ You helped Bishops in India er of the heartfelt thanks above.
Patrick's School, Providence. and Africa, as well ao; communi Sister Mary Richarda to St. Archbishop Harold W. Henry ties of Sisters aiding lepers in lames School, West Warwick. went on to say: "Two years ago these areas. Bishop S. Ferrando Sister Marie Lucinda to St, Leo the Korean government asked of Shillong, India, writes: • I am School, Pawucket. confident that in 10 years we me to take over the home for Sister Rita Mary to St. Mar non-infected children born of shall be able not only to stop the leper parents. There were then caret School, Rumford. progress of the disease, but grad From Mt. St. Rita Convent, 172 children in this home. ually to stamp it out." Cumberland: Sister CharIe. You have helped l!~ather Jos"The buildings were dilapi Turn to Page Twent1' ANNIE - THE LEPEIt GIRL . Turn to Page Eighteen dated, no l:lass in the window.
The retreat movement, he said, \ Turn to Page Eighteen
Two Assignments Aff'eet Parishes In New Bedford Most Rev. James Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, has approved assignment of two members of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual affect ing two parishes in New Bedford. Presented by the Very Rev. George Rozkwitalski, O.F.M. Conv., Provincial, the following priests have been appointed by the Most Reverend Bishop to serve as follows: Father Fulgence Gorczyca,
O.F.M. Conv., to Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish to relieve Father Seraphin Stachowicz, O.F.M. Conv., who is assigned to the Mission Band. Father John Bambol, O.F.M. Conv., to St. Hedwig parish, suc ceeding Father Emil Tokarz,
O.F.M. Conv., who is assigned to
Mater Dolorosa parish, Ho4'oke.
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