The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-10

and t3pewriting, bookkeeping, dress | makinA millinery, home nursing so- | cia1 sehvice, business English, dra- l matics and a choTad society. Regis
 traitor in these classes and clubs Jan
 uary 1 was PIP. The work for chiI- | dren includes recreational work and l occupationaI classes, including sewing and manual training. The recrea- | tional program includes card parties | socials, teas and all sorts of social gatherings, some of them having the purpose of bringing interested volun- | teers to the Community House, in the | hope that they will become interest l ed in our work. It also includes l wI1 olesome recreation for our Cath olic young people and a wholesome place | where our Catholic young women
 may meet our Catholic young men The childrens recreationaI program includes picnics and outings.
 Basketball Team
 l '"The girls have formed a Catholic | Community House Athletic Associa- tion. which has a splendid basketball
 team, which has played some 20 | excellent one and great credit is due Miss Elizabeth Crehan, who has been largely responsible for its success" Catechism Centers
 | The year 1291 resulted in a marked l increase in volume of every activity | of the bureau, and one new departure, the catechism centres, organized last May at Sylvan avenue. the hilltop
  which received considerable publicity about this time last year because of the large number of children failing in school because of lack of proper nourishment Referring to this phase of the work Miss Larmour comment ed:
 'ewe realized that the Department of Public Charities and the Charity Organization Society had covered the helief problem. The thing that dis tressed us was that a very small per centage: of the parents living there were attending church or sending their children to church. Not many of these families had lived there more than two years. It was new settlement growing up on that hfll- top, a colony of children who would grow up to the dangerous age of 13 to 16 without any religious influence, and We could foresee a. very serious problem in delinquency. We felt wo, could do a big piece of preventive work if we could bring the Catholic children on that hilltop under relig- ious instruction. l secured volun- teers. We made a survey and found in that district 60 Catholic families representing 12 nationalities, and that the children of only four of the fam files were receiving religious instruc- ton. We hired a small hall, secured volunteer teachers and one afternoon | week gave religious instruction. We had also occupational classes, games and entertainments during the sum- mer, but since school has opened the religious instruction has been all, ex- cept for an occasional party. The average attendance is 65 children. The total enrolment is about 100.
 Many of those enrolled are little tots who cannot come great distances in the winter months, so we feel the great majority of the children in that district Of an age to be instructed are being instructed. On Sundays we send a bus to bring the children to the nearest church, St. Patrick's. This winter there has been the problem of insufficient clothing. Last Sun day, 40 children were taken to mass the Sylvan avenue district. We were the first organization attempting any thing of the sort in that district, and are practically the only one doing that sort of work there now. The chill dren welcome it and like it.
 we have to be careful about non Catholic children wishing to attend the religious instruction. When they sh ow upon on days when we have par ties, we don't feel that we should ex- clude them, but we have tried to be very scrupu1ous about only admitting children of Catholic parents into the classes for religious instruction.
 we organized three other cate chisn centers last summer and have two more in contemplation. There is no limit to the possibilities of this pre- ventive work of the highest type, bringing into the lives of children re- ligious influence where the parents have failed. If we had more interest ed volunteers, there would be no limit to the volume of this york;
 The committee on catechism cen- ters is composed of Mrs Grover Brennan, James Conors, Andrew Krause, Joseph E. McQuail Michael J. O'Dwyer, John T. O'Reilley, John ". Seedlings and Misses Agnes Carey, nie Daley, Catherine Donovan, Mar | garet Dorsey, Agnes Fitzpatrick, Marie | Green, Esther Honan, Frances Hur- l ley, Mary Lovely, Catherine McElroy, | Elizabeth McNamara, Lillian Powers, | Grace Sheridan. Marcella Stapleton and Helen Ward.
 Garment Committee
 One of the most active committees of the Bureau is the Garment Com | mittee, of which Mrs. M. J. Flanagan l is chairman. This committee has charge of an important phase Of ma terial relief, providing or clothing. | Mrs. Flanagan is assisted in her work | by Mesdames Joseph Coughlin, simon Crehan, Thomas Downey, Frank l Andrew Krause, William McCombs, l Fred Mullins. Mary Murphy, May O'Brien, M. L. O'Connor, William A. | Redden, James Stapleton and Henry | Streck and Misses Ellen Cullinan and
 Volunteers Needed
 Miss Larmour stated that the az gregate attendance at the clubs and classes last year was 3,09S, at the recreat:ona1 activities 3,16e, and at the catechism centers 2,S10, making | a total aggregate attendance of 9,O71. |
 Summing up, Miss Larmour said: l ''In a nutshell we have a, family wei | fare department handling 431 fami- | lies, a child welfare department han | ding 404 children, and Q community | welfare department with an attend l ance of over 5000. This is done with | staff of six people. We couldn't carry on the work without the lime | and assistance our volunteers give us | We had last summer 32 volunteer | teachers for our catechisna cenIerS. | We need more volunteers who will give their time and personal services.
 Big Sisters |
 In concluding Miss Larmour stated l that the Bureau also did much Of the work that was done in other cit | ies by Big Sisters, through it's voIun- | H-iSitnrs Rig SiSte C,nI1n mil 1