Total of 23,586 Boys and Girls to Attend
78 Elementary, High Schools in Diocese
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The ANCHOR f(OJU River, MiDJss. o Thursday, Se~lt. 1, 1961
V@t 11, No. 36
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$4.00 per Year PRiCe IOc
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Secondo ry Institutions" 18,035 Early Grade PUP;~$ and 94' in Special C.lasses
More than 23,000 students today are in attendance in the 78 diocesan schools fo[' the 1966-67 academic year. The large group is enrolled in special classes, elementary grades and secondary in8ti tutions. Approximately 5,131 2,201 boys and 2,930 girls - are enrolled in 13 high schools in the dioceHe. The estimated enrollment in 63 elementary schools is 18,035, made up of 8,910 boys and 9,125 girls. And, in addition, kindergartens will
accommodate 174 boys and Yesterday, the two ConnoUy 152 girls. : classes reported at the perr Registration at two Naz manent school. areth academies for excep The larger Connolly Hig-ro tional children, willapproxi enrollment has of necesgity mate 94. The special classes resulted in the assignment are in Fall River !,\nd Hyan of a larger Jesuit faculty to> nis. accommodate the ~ldditionaR Bishop Connolly High in students. This will be the first aca Fall River, the fourth re gional diocesan secondary demic year in the histOl'y of the diocesan schools that school, has added a Sopho students will attend classea more class this Fall. It com menced lasot year with only on holy days. The dioces&m a Freshman Class which schools, in almost all iIm studied at the St. William's stances, will follow the puio> parish center in Fall River. lie school program.
Parish . E~plainsWhy Tuition in School Joining many ~t)1er parishes in ~he )Fall River Dioce~e, S~. Mary's in N~rt~ Attl~ OOro will be forced. 'to charge tuition for. children attendmg Its school, begmmng thIS month. The explan&ti6n of the paris~ ~ouncil for the move clearly embodies the lllany problems and expen~es. involyed in opep~tihg' a: non-public sChool' and as suehmay help .catholics in other parishes to understand why lnodHrate Mary·s. For example, the cost .tor, commenting on the .rates, for one child·.from a family res- 'reminded parents· that the newly fees must be charged. ident in St. Mary's parish would announced charges include text St. Mary's decision, said be $50 annually. For two chil- book fees which average $8 per
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Fr.T.J. Ha 'rrington Named to Study In Washington" Bishop Connolly announced the. assignment of Rev. ,,"homas J. Harrington, assist flnt at Immaculate Conception OUturch, Fall River, to the grad nate school at Catholic Univer ~y, Washington. Father Harrington, the son of Rtl.ward J. Harrington and the !ate Esther F. Yates Harrington, was born in .New Bedford, Olll 4luly 28, 1938. He is a graduate of Holy l?amily High School, New lBed fiord, and received an A.B. de gree from Holy Cross College, ~orcester, in 1960. Following Turn to Page Sill: ~ay
Curia Cardina~ Discounts Wecdth Of Holy See ASSISI (NC) -The oord wl)o i,s persistently rum (j)1l'ed to be Pope Paul VI's ~oice as his first financial ~~al
~fficer under the newly reor !lanized administration of the Holy See hilS discounted pub fished reports that the Ho'ly See ~ fabulously wealthy. Angelo Cardinal DeM' Acqua ~ the Roman CUlI"na, the (j$llllUrch's administrative oances, ~mmented, "If the figures thlllt Turn to ;Page Niueteella
the council, was arrived at after a careful study of school ex penses . revealed that increased costs for teachers' salaries, texts, equipment and maintenance .left the parish no choice but to charge tuition. Even now, said Edward Smith, council chairman, tuitiqn will cover only 40 per cent of' the. school's operating cost. Balance will continue to be met from general parish funds. . ''The entire parish and for that. matter the entire community benefits from continued opera tion of the school," he stated.. "Therefore the burden of meet ing the major portion of the ed ucational expense remains are': sponsibi'lity of the parish at .large." The tuition plan features graduated 'decreases in the cost based on the number of children from a family attending· St.,
Second Retreat Week Begins On Monday The second week of re treat for priests of the Dio cese will;- begin Monday eve ning, Sept. 11, at Cathedral Camp. The retreat conducted by Rev. William F. Hill, S.S., of St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, will close Friday evening, Sept. 15. The following priests will at tend this second week of retreat at which Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, will pre side: Rt. Rev. John A. Silvia, Rev. E~ward B. Booth, Rev.•10hn J. Casey, Rt. Rev. George E. Sulli van, Rev. Ubalde J. Deneault, Rev. Joao de Medeiros, Rev. J. Omer Lussier,Rev. A. Castello Branco. Rt. Rev. Raymo'nd T. Consi dine, Rev. Jose M. Bettencourt e Avila, Rt. Rev. Johu J. Hayes, Rev. Arthur G. Considine, Rev. Maurice H. Lamontagne, Rt. Tum w Page Sil
dren from the same family, the student for the coming ~,ear. total cost would be $80. For Father Annunziato said that three children, $100 would be . the rates were purposely kept charged. There would be no ad- low so that the student body of ditional charge for 'subsequent St. Mary's would "continue to be children from the same family. representative of all income For students from outside the levels in the parish.'~ The aver boundaries of St. Mary's, a sim- age weekly expense for. a family ilar but· slightly higher rate with three children attending St. schedule would be charged. The Mary's is calculated by the par rate for one child would be $75, ish council to be 85 cents per for two children, $125, and for child. three or more children from the "This is well ~ithin the budget same family $150. Rev. Armando of our parishioners," Father Annunziato, school adminish'a- Annunziato stated, adding. that - no one would ever be turned away because of inability to.pay. "The Catholic Church has a spe cific responsibility to the· poor which it will continue· to meet under any and all .'circum
stances," he said.
A similar financial policy is in effect in other Diocesan Mo~t Rev. James. J. Ger . rard; D.D., V.G., Auxiliary schools.
Memorial .Mass .For Fr. Hatton
On
Sat~rda.y
Bishop .of the Diocese of Fall River and pastor of St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, will celebrate a Memorial Re quiem High Mass in that Church on this coming Saturday at 8 o'clock for the repose of the soul of Rev. Francis R. Hatton Tu,rn to Page Six
Ordinary Asks For Extension Work Support Bishop Connolly has en dorsed the program of the Catholic Church Extension Society for the Home Mis sions and has urged the faithful of the Diocese to support i~ work. ' In a letter read at aU Masses in Diocesan churches Sunday, His Excellency recommends 'sub scriptions to the magazine Ex tension, the society's official publication, as CIl medium of support: Beloved in Christ: Once again, we dl'aw your at tention and solicit your support for the significant work of Cath Turn to Page Fourteen
investiture
REV. FRANCm R. HATTON
The Most Reverencll Bishop will formally invest 'lIle new Diocesan Monsignori at cere monies in St. l'lary's Cathe dral, Fall River, tl1lis Sunday evening at 7:3"
REV. EDMUND T. DELANEit'
Fr. E. T. Delane, Plans to Study
At Illini Univ. '
I
Rev. Edmund T. Delaney, u. sistant at St. Jo~eph's Parislll. Fall River, has been granted Ii leave of absence to do graduate work at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill. Born Oct. 13, 1936 in Failll River, the son of Joseph R. anm Jane E. Bourke Delaney he at tended Coyle High School, Taun ton, Cardinal O'Connell Minor Seminary, Jamaica Plain, anell St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Ordained on Feb. 2, 1962 in St. Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Connolly, Father Delaney has served in Holy Name Parish, Fall River, for two years and has been in his present assignment at St. Joseph's since July 9, 1964. Father Delaney has taught a course in theology for three years to elementary and second ary teachers for the In-Service program of the diocesan school system. For five years, he has served! as instructor in theology at the College of the Sacred Hearts fOil" the Holy Union' Sisters and fOil" one year, he has served as i'n structor at the St. Joseph Teach ers' Institute for the Sisters oil St. Joseph. Father Delaney received master's degree in guidance 01Ill Aug. 11, 1967 from Bridgewatefl' State College. Turn to PO\&e Six
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