The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-18
CATALAN FUND is
INCREASING DAILY
Enthusiastic Meeting of ASso-
citation Held Yesterday
NEARLY $1,000 SUBSCRIBED
President Otto Marx Appoints Commit
tee on subscriptons-E. K. Camp
bell Writes Letter on Pro-
posed Memorial.
NEARLY $1,000 SUBSCRIBED

Nearly $1,000 has been donated towards
the Mary A. Catalan memorial fund
A report to this effect was made at a
meeting of the officers of the association
| held yesterday afternoon at $3.50 o clock In
the rooms of the Commercial club.
The officers present spoke enthusiastic
cally of the work undertaken, and a
| resolution was introduced and adopted in
strueting President Otto Mark to appoint
general committee on subscriptions.
| The following were named on this COM
| mitee:
| Miss Edna Smith, Mrs. M. V. Joseph
Miss Daisy N. Rowley and j. Cary Thomp-
| son.
| The committee was instructed to call
upon DR.. ]. H. Phillips, superintendent
| of the Birmingham public schools and
confer with him with reference to asking
| for contributions from the children at
tensing the public schools of Birming
ham for the monument fund. The idea
| is to receive from the school children any
| amount from 10 cents up. The committee
| will call upon DR.. Phillips within the
! next few days.
| The president was also instructed to
| appoint committee of five to draft a
circular letter with reference to contri-
! buttons towards the fund. This committee
will probably be named today
The following additional subscriptions
! to the fund were reported:
Lewis Phillips. So; Caheen Brothers, $40;
| T. S. Smith. $40; John w. O'Neill, So
Jack I. Stallings, ST.
| Among the officers of the association
present at the meeting yesterday.
| President Marx. Secretary Isadore Sha-
| piro, Mrs. j. H. Phillips. Mrs. NJ. v.
Joseph, Miss Edna Smith, Mrs. s. M.
Adler, j. Cary Thompson and John W.
| O'Nell
The following letter from E. X. Camp
bell, addressed to the association, was
read by President Otto Marx:
Scholarship Is Suggested.
Mrs. William M. Walker has made
suggestion with reference to the fund
| being raised to commemorate the virtues
| of Miss Mary A. Catalan, which it seems
to me is worthy of consideration and it is
! this:
That the fund be used to establish
and endow a scholarship in the Birming-
ham High school to be called the Mary
A. Catalan scholarship The money
| could be invested in Alabama bonds and
the interest used as a reword of excel
| lence in some department of the school
| work. And this idea would serve to
| connect the name of Miss Catalan with
! educational work for years to come and
would be promotive of that excellence
| which she taught to teach. 1t would, in
other words, project her work into the
future Just what form the scholarship
would take could be best ascertaned by
conference with those who are engaged
in school work. If your purpose is to
keep alive the memory of Miss Catalan
and her devotion to our public schools,
how can you better do 1t than by linking
her name with a scholarship that will
serve for years to come to inspire the
efforts of the boys and girls that will at
tend the High SCHOOL,"
From Miss Daisy N Rowley came the
following communication addressed to
President Marx of the association:
Being unable to attend the meeting
this afternoon l wish to express by let
ter my opinion in regard to a suitable
memorial for Miss Catalan. This matter
most deeply interests me- and | hope to
see nothing less than a magnificent marble
statue in East End park to her memory.
Tribute to Deceased.
1.-The woman whose magnetic influence
reached not only the pupils who have be-
come the leading business and professional
men of our city but also an innumerable
number who have struggled for and at
tanned the top of that proverbal ladder
of success inspired solely by that beau
tiful hand ever reaching out to us with
its unlimited help and sympathy.
AT our last meeting some one sug-
gested drinking fountain. This l think
would be most appropriate. What could
be most symbolical of Miss Mary's char
acter and personality than this marble
figure-with the outstretched hand from
which flows a sparkling stream of water
still giving to the countless hundreds?
"A portrait or a bust put away within
the boundaries of any one building is not
large enought gift to represent the SEN
timent of this community. l should think
that everyone would wish something as
great as the Margaret monument of New
Orleans to which our citizens may point
with pride. a hundred years from now.
Needless to say, | am ready to offer
you my undivided time and attention In
any way that will help further this move
ment."