ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTION OF NEW BISHOP JAMES L. CONNOLLY HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS IN FALL RIVER
School Construction
Starts Next Week
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The contracting firm of F. L. Collins & Sons, Ine., of Fall River announced today that it will commence the building of the new Bishop Connolly High School for Boys in Fall River next week. The successful low bidder currently is arranging for the purJ chase of material which will go into the secondary institution where the Society of Jesus will serve as in has been filled and roughly sur for easy transfer of pianos and structors. The entering faced, leading in from Elsbree other bulky paraphernalia of the Freshmen Class next Sept . Street on the west; there is an performing arts.
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temporarily in the new CCD building at St. Williiam's parish in Fall River. The smaller cate· chetical building is now under construction and, will be ready for· the entering Freshmen next PRICE tOe Fall. $4.00 per Year © ,1965 The Anchor . \ The buildings; all connected into one continuous structure, will extend more than 900 feet long in an approximately east· west direction, and will be about 190 feet deep at the widest point. · A large portion of the structure · will be single-story, settled com· fortably into the landscape. It will look southward across a The 11th annual Bishop's Charity Ball in January will · clearing dotted with OPen clusterl! of trees to the traffic circle , have Vincent Lopez and his 'noted orchestra for dancing. ·'and the exit ramp from. Route . Lopez and his orchestra will interrupt a Las Vegas, en 24. . gagement for. this single' eastern appearance. "It is an · The principal approach road
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 18, 1965
Vol. 9, No. 46
Bishopls Boll Music ·By Vincent Lopez engagement", the famous ',orchestra leader said" "to which I have long been look ing forward. My orchestra , shares the anticipation of play ing New England's foremost so cial and charitable event." Scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1966, at the Lincoln Park ballroom, the charity ball is not only an evening of joy for those attending but also brings' an emotional uplift when all re member that they are present in order to aid the exceptional Turn to Page Twelve
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giving Clothing Drive, an nounced today that the Drive that took place. throughout the Diocese the week of Oct. 31st netted just over 123 tons of us able clothing, bedding and shoes. The clothes have already been shipped to warehouses on Long Island where they have been re sorted, fumigated and baled for Turn to Page Ten
Toward~
Close
It is now official. Pope Pa.l,ll will close the Second Vatican Oouncll on Wednesday, Dee. 8, during an outdoor ceremony which shall be attended by diplomatic missions, observers from various Christian and non-Christian denominations, and most of the world's bishops. Today, after listening to the final tallies representing the Council Fathers' approval 'of the Divine. Revelation and the Lay Apostolate Decrees, the Holy Father proclaimed .them as henceforth offi~j.al Catholic doctrine and practice. ,Tuesday, Dec. 7, will be the final council meeting' during which the same ceremony will be repeated for the remaining decrees: The Missions,· Priestly, Life and Ministry,Religious Liberty and The Church in the Modern World.
Decrees Clothing Appeal Today's • DIVINE Reaches Total REVELATION • LAY APOSTOLATE Of 123'Tons To the evident joy of many Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Somerset, and direc tor of the Annual Thanks
,the north, off Langley Street. As the visitor drives in off Elsbree Street, he will first ap· proach the auditorium on the west end of the complex, the exterior stepped walls and slop ing roof suggesting, its function. Within it will seat about 800 on a floor that slopes gracefully downward toward the stage along carpeted aisles. The stage opening is a gener ous 50 feet wide, and corre spondingly high. Steps -lead from it to the floor at each side, and · lead also to the front exits. Back stage there is ample room for action and storage, and for some hoisting. Off at one side there is additional workspace, with 'di ,rect access by large door from · outside at loading-dock level-
Protestant religions but with a little disappointment too, the Church will now officially pro claim her position not only in favor of the Bible but showing the Bible to be the sine-qua-non, the absolute necessity for all the Church thinks or does. Actually, this is not something very strange or different. It has always been so. However, to say so in clear and most public language is new. For too long it has been thought that the Bible has taken a back seat in the Turn to Page Eleven
Actual Voting • MISSIONS • PRIESTS • CHURCH IN WORLD With most of the decrees hav ing come up for a final review and the. Fathers having ex pressed their thoughts on each paragraph, all attention is now Turn to Page Eleven
Dispensation The Chancery Office an nounces that the faithful are dispensed from the law of ab stinence on Friday, November 26, the day following Thanks giving J)aT.
'Outside Business • LECTURES • RETREATS • INDULGENCES Only two weeks remain for the Bishops' stay in Rome. Al ready some of them have be gun to say their farewells to 'many they have gotten to know, reverence and truly appreciate and whom they realize they shall meet again only in heaven. But Bishops have also been .taking advantage of this meeting by discussing problems with the experts that are there in Rome, by attending lectures by. some of the most reknown theologians, by making a retreat under Fr. Lombardi of the Better World Turn to Page Eleven
the auditorium there are dress ing rooms, double-purpose facil ities both for stage service and to accommodate visiting officiala at games in the adjacent gym nasium. Public entrance to the audito rium is through a spacious lobby, which also admits directly to the gymnasium through two broad doorways to the banks of folding bleachers on either side. When these are extended for an exhi bition game, they wjll seat about 1000 spectators at a regulation size basketball court. When folded, they clear the floor for two practice courts. Locker rooms, with shower and dressing ·rooms, storage space, and office space for coaches and staff, stllnd at each side behind the bleachers. Off the same lobby to 'the right is the Office of the Dean of Men, who usua~ly, supervises school athletics, together with the connected Health Rooms. Directly beyond there is a medi um-sized lecture room, seating about 110. . , Academically, it is pianned for some of the new experimental lecture work in group teaching; and otherwise, it will be avail able for smaller groups and 'special functions that would be lost in the large auditorium. At its front is a two-step platform or dais, for debaters or partici pants in forum discussions or other academic presentations. Turn to Page.Ten
Doctor to Speak To N'ew Bedford Newman 'Club The Newman Club of Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, New Bedford branch, will continue its series of lectures tonight with a talk on the Cursillo Movement by William S. Downey, M.D. The schedule of future lec tures is as follows: Dec. 2.-Rev. John R. FoIster, ''The Council and New Develop opments;'~ Dec. 16-Rev. Edward Tum to Page Eleven