Catholic Pupils Win Bus Rides
The Town of Berkley School Committee must pro vide transportation for Cath oUe boys and girls attending diocesan secondary high schools in Taunton as long as it offers transportation facilities to other students attending public schools i!l other communities. : This is the ruling of Attorney General Edward W. Brooke to State Education Commissioner Owen B. Kiernan. _ The transportation dispute ~rose during the hist scholastic year when Berkley refused to transport boys and girls attend ipg Msgr. James Coyle High ~nd Bishop Cassidy High in Taunton. Berkley has no high' school, It tuitions its high school pupils to a public regional high school in neighboring Dighton. Several Berkley Catholic boys and girls
State Education Head Directs Berkl·ey To Provide Facilities for T rasportation See Page Three for Opinion and Decision preferred to attend Coyle and Cas sid Y high schools but were denied transportation to those dioc e san schools, hence the protest which was carried to the State EduCMR. KIERNAN cation Commis- sioner who petitioned the Commonwealth's chief law enforcement officer for an opinion as to the legality of the town's Education Board action. The Berkley School Committee is obligated to provide transportation for private school
pupils to the same extent as for public school pupils even though the cost per capita may be greater for the private school pupils, Atty. Gen. Brooke has declared in a written legal opinion to the State Education Commissioner. "A school committee could lose its right to State reimbursement if it seeks to discharge its. obligation by paying a transportation allowance to the parents of school children instead of providing the actual transportation," the Attorney General sai4 in his official ruling.. "We are pleased that the Attorney General has so clearly defined the concept of equal
treatment which the Jaw requires," . said Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Dioc esan Superintend ent of Schools, when advised of the legal advisory opinion today. "In den yin g transportation to FR. O'NEILL private s c h 0 0 r children, the Berkley School challenged what we consider very basic rights of parents. Throu~hout the issue, the Berk ley School Committee has as serted their good faith in wish ing to observe the law ail they
A record number of ele. mentary and secondary pupils~24,600-were in at~· tendance i n 7 5 schools· throughout the diocese as the first bell of the 1965-66 year sounded yesterday.
"We have registered approx imately 5,300 in 12 high schools in the diocese," Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill reported today. "And, we have about 19,300 in 63 elemen tary schools," the diocesan su perintendent of schools said. Sister Marie Celeste, R.S.M.,
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'Diocesan Unity Board Swings Into Action
Bishop Gerrard to Attend Vatican ·Counc·il Session
CAPE COD SCHOOL: Rev.. Finbarr McAloon, SS.CC., pastor. of Holy Trinity School, W. est Harwich, and Sister Marie Celeste, principal, welcome Patrick Ritchie and Sharon Bouvier to classes 'at the opening of this new parochial ele~entary school.
Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Big-hop of the Diocese, and pastor of St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, and Rt. Rev. Msgr. Humberto S. Medeiros, Diocesan Chancellor and pastor of St. Michael Church, Fall River, fly from New York to Basilica of the Holy Crolla ia Rome on Sunday to attend Turn to Page Eleven 'Very Rev. Roland R. Bed'ard, M.S., provincial superior the opening of the fourth of the La Salette Fathers, announced today the transfer Appointment Session of Vatican Council II. Monsignor.Medeiros is a Vat Most Rev. James L. Connolly.. of the La ·Salette's provincial headquarters from South ican Peritus, an appointment re Ordinary of the Diocese of Fan bridge to Attleboro and the transfer of the 01'001"8 stu ceived from Pope John XXIII. River, announced today that :at. dents .of theology from the Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Consi ireats and days of recollection. D.D. Bishop of the Diocese, plans dine, Diocesan Director of the Attleboro Seminary to study Rev. Armand Proulx, M,S., hu to depart for this session at a Propagation of the Faith and at the University of Ottawa been named superior of the Pro later date. . pastor of st. William Church, where they will reside tem vincial House. Ordained in 1955 Bishop Gerrard will join more Fall River, will act as Vicar porarily with the' Oblates of. in Grenoble France, the new than 2000 Bishops f!'Om every General of the Diocese dUring Mary Immaculate. superior has served as a teacher corner of the world in a pene Bishop Gerrard's attendance at In addition to 'serving as a at the La Salette Minor Semi tential procession through the the fourth SessiOil of Vatican provincialate, the building will nary, Enfield, director at Camp 5tceets of Rome from the Council II. Turn to Page Fifteell !lave facilities for priesb' l'e-
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is principal of the new parochial school at Holy Trinity parish ill West Harwich, which opened ibl doors for the first time yester day to 138 pupils in the lower four grades. The opening of the Cape Cod elementary unit marks another milestone in the diocesan educa tional system. The Sisters of Mercy comprise the faculty at West Harwich where Rev. Fin barr McAloon, SS.CC. is pastor. The expanse of Catholic ele mentary school education on Cape Cod is also noted in the opening of a combination pre primary and first grade at St Peter the Apostle parish, Prov incetown. A total of 105 are en rolled at the new school which Turn to Page Three
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Three members of the newly-formed Diocesan eom mission for promoting Christian Unity have already met in Boston and swap notes with' committeemen from 10 other New England Dioceses. Present at the regional meeting were R·t. Rev. Henri, Hamel, chair- assembled group of priests, sis man, Rt. Rev. Thomas Walsh ters and laymen: "Our six states 'tch II and eleven dioceses of New End M 1 e, gland are so closely tied to each and R ev. Ed war' secretary. The meeting was other that we must of necessity chaired by the Rev. Charles work to~ether for our common Von Euw, a Boston Seminary ecumenical goal." These goals professor long active in ecumell- for Christian Unity w~re then ical work. Father Von Euw sum- discussed by the delegates in a inarized the purpose of the New four-hour session. England-wide conference for the Turn to Page Eighteea l
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understood it," the diocesan school head said, adding: "Now that they have an au thoritativ.e interpretation, we trust that they 'will prove their good will by providing for these children without further delay," Commissioner Kiernan imme diately issued a directive to the Berkley School Board, advising its members that they are re quired to provide the same transportation to and from the diocesan high schools that it offers to other town pupils at tending the out-of-town Dighton regional high school. The opinion of the Attorney General stands a's the law for all Massachusetts communities if and until it ilii altered, changed or reversed by the courts of the Commonwealth.
Bishop Connolly .will J)r& side and the guest speaker wjll be Lt. Col. Phyllis J.. Verhonick; R.N., Ph.D. at graduation ex ercises for St. Anne's Hospi tal School of Nursing, Fall River, to be held at 2:30 Sunday after noon, Sept. 12 at St. Anne's Schooi Audito rium. Lt. Col. Verhonick h e a d I the Department at. Class Preside lit Nursing at Walter Reed Arm,. Institute of Research, Washint ton, D.C. Turn to 'Page Four
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Sister Georgine Joins Diocesan School Staff The appointment of Sister Georgine, R.S.M. has beell announced to the Supervi sor's Office of the Diocesall School Office. A graduate of Holy Family High School, New Bedford, and Catholic Teachers' College, Providence, she is a candidate for the master of artll degree at St. Xavier College. Chicago. Turn to Paile Twelw