The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-27

tage place. The reports of the man. aging director and treasurer were read and approved; also the finan- cial statement for the past year, which shows the club to be in 8 prosperous condition.
 The following is the report of the managing director, Nicholas Com bellack. who has been with the in- stitution for over forty years:
 Annual Report-193O.
 In offering this report to our pub lie. l first wish to express my deep regret in not being able to say that our new building is under way and that we will open to the public for inspection in the near future. We have had to carry our desires to d further point in the future because of conditions apparently affecting the whole world.
 we felt that it would not be policy to attempt to raise money for our new building when there were so many in dire straits and to whom offerings of help would touch more directly. Indirectly we know that a bigger and better building would give to these very same people Q great deal in helping to build the future in character and strength of the sons and younger generation ot our community. But we will persist and hope and pray that when con ditions are such that we can raise money without handicapping others, we will obtain what we desire and deserve,-a new building or sub Stantial addition to our present building, plans which we have had in view for some time. We had had visions of the postoffice department oi the government accepting our building for its expansion program. but this did not materialize inas- much as they were able to obtain a lowed us to retain the site which we have had for upwards of 25 years and which is very suitable if only we could enlarge it to suit our needs.
 We have been very fortunate in being able to retain our staff of workers over a period of years. I have found them faithful and CO., operative in all of our work and they have continued to carry on their departments to the full ca ,pacity We have been aware for a good many years of the need of smaller group club activities to sup 'plement the work of gymnasium, game room, social and other depart sments. Social workers realize that more can be accomplished amongst a small group where individual at- tention can be given than in very large groups where only the leaders stand out. With this in mind we have added to our staff an experi- ,enced worker for the purpose of or- .sanizing these groups into self-g gov erning, character rebuilding clubs. Supplementing these groups, we have organized new vocational classes in leatherworking. wood working and metalworking, hoping 'tO add to these as conditions per- init. Upwards of fifteen clubs are already meeting, but lack of room, allows us to use but one room for all of these groups. We are forced to restrict to definite schedule these group meetings so that all can be accommodated.
 Tn work such as ours. and espe- cia3ly where there is but limited space in which to carry on our work, the program or routine work does not change to any great extent. We have given over most of the space in our building to permanent activities and if a change is made. those en- gagged in the activities affected feel put out for what is done. As an illustration. we felt that the forma- lion of group clubs would benefit more boys than those connected with weight lifting group. We. necessarily. had to give up the room used for weight lifting to be used ns the club room for our group clubs. Our boys have talked Of re- vivlDg bowling. but at the present iIme our alleys have been covered over and are used as training room for boxers. As 1t now Is. it benefits more by using 1t in this way han if used for bowling. It just illustrates what We are up against \ great number Of activities must he turned aside because of lack Of room-n0 place in which to conduct them. That has been our reason for desiring expanslOn--t0 give us the loom 10 enlarge our work, bringing ln new mediums of work and play, and still allowing us 10 carry on our old activities.
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