The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-10-28
CONVENTION Of
CATHOLIC ALUMNAE

VHbIlV1uO H6ONBIuISA
The fifth biennial convention of the
International Federation of Catholic
Alumnae will open at Hotel Seelbach,
Louisville, KY, October 26, and con-
tinue in session until November 2.
Delegates from almost every state in
the Union and from at least four Ca
madam provinces are expected. Al
though only eight years have elapsed
since it's organization, the Federation
already has Affiliations in four Euro
pean countries-Belgium, France, Ire
land and England. These also are ex-
pected to be represented at the con-
vention. Special sessions will be de-
voted to reports and discussions Of the
work Of the departments of Education,
Social Welfare and Literature, the &C
tivities of which are becoming broader
and more far-reaching every year.
Founded in New York in 1914, with
the appreciation Of Cardinals Gibbons,
Farley and O'Connell, and with char.
ter membership Of more than one hun
dred Alumnae Associations in the
United States and Canada, the Inter-
national Federation of Catholic Alum
nae ranks foremost among declarations
of educated women throughout the
world.
The object as set forth in it's char
ter is "to uphold the ideals Of Cath
olic womanhood and to formulate
plans for the extension of Catholic ed
ucation, Catholic literature and Cath
Ollie social service" but that gives only
faint idea of the variety and extent
of it's activities conducted, in the main,
by committees. For example, one COM
mittee directs it's energies to urging
upon parents and guardians the ne
cessity of giving to children under
their care thorough, practical educa.
ton; another plans for instruction in
parish halls, settlement houses, rural
places, where parochial school facili.
ties are wanting; another plans for
summer schools, night schools and
similar work to supplement parochial
| school activities; another assists in
supplying lay teachers where these
are needed; another keeps an eye on
legislative proposals calculated to at
feet school work or educational stand
ards; another makes a survey of the
fields open to girls in the graduating
classes of high schools, colleges and
universities; and all of these are CO
ordinated in one bureau, which is
guided by the principle that Catholic
education, which educates the heart as
we'll as the mind of the pupil, which
cultivates the moral as well as the
material impulses of youth and trains
the spiritual as well as the physica
powers of human nature as they de
velop in the child, is the true system
of education, in the neglect of which
only lopsided results can be attained.
In other fields also, this information
al federation of educated women il
no less active. The Bureau of Liter
ature covers wide field, one of it,
committees being devoted to placin,
books in public libraries, another be
ing engaged in inducing alumnae t,
call for one book each month from thu
public libraries, another endeavorin,
to discover young women writer's, an
other trying to stimulate create
demand for books of high moral ton
and acknowledged literary merit
while yet another committee review
the new books and publishes lists o
those that have merit and those tina
have not.
Then there are Press Bureau,
Theater Bureau, Motion Picture Bu
reau, Dramatic, Choral and Dancin
Bureau, and three separate Bureau
of Social Work, enc for the promotion
of citizenship and characterization
one for girls welfare and one TO
child welfare.
The convention will be opened by tn
Right Reverend Thomas J. Shahar
rector of the Catholic University @
America The delegates will be off
cially welcomed by Mayor Husto
Quin, and the whole city will col
daily entertain them; for in additio
to the proyerbial spirit of hospitalit
which pervades the people of Ker
lucky, it will be remembered that tn
first school of any kind to be starte
in Kentucky was the work of an et
, ucated Catholic woman, such as ar
these alumnae.