The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-09
Internationai Federation Of Catholic
School Graduates Has Just Com
peted Meeting at
Dubuque.
MUCH OF IMPORTANCE
Resolutions Call Attention to Duty to
Use Ballot, and Provide for Other
Matters Of Inter
est

The third biennial convention OF
Federation of Catholic Alumnae was
held at the Visitation academy, De
Sales Heights, at Dubuque, this week.
ST. Peters high school alumnae,
charter member of the Iowa chapter,
was represented by the president,
| Mrs. Robert Walker, who has also
| been for four years the vice governor
of the state chapter.
Resolutions covering many fields
Of activity were adopted by the dele
| gates from nineteen Iowa Catholic
schools in convention at Dubuque on
September 4, and G.
I, Members were urged to feel 1t a
sacred duty to use the ballot in event
of the privilege being given to
women. They were also reminded of
| the necessity of great preparation on
| their part for this important duty.
The state chapter decided to make
! a very generous donation to the
MERCER fund to help rebuild the Bel
gian institutions Of learning Mrs.
| Robert Walker, of Keokuk, is the
state chairman.
! Many other plans were discussed
| for the broad work planned by mem
bers of this federation, who pride
themselves that their resolutions are
not only words, but deliberate prom
| Uses of action
| After the regular informal recep-
| tion and registration of delegates and
visitors on Saturday, the convention
was formally opened Sunday morn
! ing in the Visitation chapel with the
celebration of pontifical high mass by
| the Right Rev. Monsignor George
Heer, of ST. Marys church, Dubuque.
The sermon given by the Very Rev.
J. G. Stuart, president Of Columbia
college, Dubuque, was most fitting
and effective call to Catholic women,
urging them to realization of the
futility of work without prayer.
| Father Stuart's sermon was inspir-
| ing and was the keynote of the con-
| vention, which was devoted to the
service for which the federation was
formed. "For God, for home, and
country"
After the address of welcome by
Mrs. H. c. Becker, president of the
| Visitation alumnae, and the response
by Mrs. Robert Walker, of KeokuS.
the first business session was opened
with an address given by the Rev.
Thomas Conroy, S. T. B., of Columbia
college, Dubuque.
Reports of the past two years &C
| tivities were given by the presidents
of the nineteen Iowa schools repre-
! scented in the convention. Great work
has been accomplished by these asso-
Citations of Catholic alumnae, cover
ing almost every established line of
usefulness and progress.
The alumnae of Mt. st. Joseph's
College for Women entertained in
the afternoon, receiving all the dele.
! gates and visitors, with their teach
ers, the Sisters of Charity and c. 3.
V. M.
Banquet in Evening.
| The alumnae Of the Visitation
academy gave the banquet in the
evening, the state governor, Miss
Ada X. Cannon, of Davenport, pre-
siding as toastmistress. Several mu
! steal numbers were rendered by the
| De Sales Heights orchestra and the
various alumnae of Dubuque schools.
For the theme of the evenings ad-
! dresses, Miss Cannon chose the sub
ject, ITO Be Consciously Catholic"
and the different phases Of the sub
ject were presented by the following:
LII lHc MIS-. nODtIl VAIN.
er, st. Peters high school alumnae,
Keokuk, Daughters of Charity
In Business" Mrs. ]. J. Meyers,
Carroll, Iowa. st. Angela's institute,
Dominican Sisters.
'In the School," Miss Stella Blake, |
A. B. Visitation alumnae, Dubuque. !
'In Politics." Miss Elizabeth King,
Chicago, national president, alumnae |
of Sisters Of Charity, c. B. v. M.
A reading, And Their Children |
Shall Judge Them" by Miss Marie
Rhomberg, A. B., Immaculate Concep- |
ton alumnae, Dubuque, was most ap
propriate and perfectly rendered.
The closing address Of the banquet |
program, For God, and Home, and
Country the Iowa federation motto, /
by the Rev. w. H. Schultz, A. M. of |
Columbia college, was masterpiece
and, recognizing in it a great treat |
for all people interested in Catholic
education, the committee in charge |
have arranged to send printed copies
of this address to all affiliated asso-
Citations. #
The day was closed with pontifical
henediction given by the Right Rev