The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-11
Diocesan Bureau Ten
Years Old; $50, 900 Spent
On Work During 1881
Annual Meeting Yesterday Hears Addresses By Rev
Eugene Cryne, Miss Lenroot and Mayor Hayes
Reports Reveal Vast Amount of Work Done

4 day afternoon at the waterbury
Catholic high school, Rev Eugene
p. Cryne, director, opening the
meeting with an address of well
come to those present and the
i reading of the financial and statisti-
cal report for 1881. The occasion
4 marked the tenth anniversary of
the start of the bureau in this city
and the formation of the Council
of Catholic Women which Is affili-
| ated with the bureau. Father
/ Cryne has acted as director for the
ten years and has been assisted for
| the past few years by Rev. Francis
M. O'Sheaa Among the honored
! guests attending yesterdays meet
1 ing were Mayor Frank Hayes of
this city; Rev Matthew J. Judge,
| diocesan director Of charities in
Hartford; Miss Katharine r. Len
root, acting chief of the children's
bureau, U. s. department Of labor
| in Washington, who was the prin-
| cipal speaker; Miss Regina O'Con-
nell, executive secretary at Hart
ford; and Miss Mary p. O'Flaherty,
state chairman of the Connecticut
Council of Catholic Women.
Miss Rose e. Clarkin, chairman
Of the local council presided dur
| ing the local council reports, read
| ing the reports Of the committees
| Of the council and summarizing the
| social and business activities of the
year. Miss Kathryn Hayes, secre-.
! tary read report Of the minutes
Of the 1881 meeting and the report
of the nominating committee, the
officers all reelected for the year
1882, as follows: Chairman, Miss
Rose E. Clarkin: vice-chairman,
Mrs Harry Parsons; secretary, Miss
Kathryn Hayes; Rev Eugene p.
| Cryne, treasurer and director
assistant. The committee CHAIR
men elected follows: 1nstitu-
tional visiting, Miss Catherine
Burns: garments, Miss Mary,
Skehan; immigration, Miss Julie
McGrath; motor corps, Miss Grace
DAILY; international relations, Mrs
William Shea; education and leg
islation, Miss Kathleen Fitzgerald;
and Industrial relations, Miss Mary
Hennessey.
Following the reading of his re-
port Father Cryne introduced the
mayor of Waterbury, T. Frank
Hayes who gave brief address
commencing the bureau and coun-
Gil on their work and cooperation
with other branches of the charit-
able work in the city. Brief ad-
dresses were also made by Rev
Matthew. Judge. who has missed
but one Of the ten annual meetings
here. by Miss Regina O'Connell.
newly appointed executive secre-
tary in Hartford succeeding Miss
Marguerite Boylan who is now as
ISOLATED with the Brooklyn, N. Y.
diocese, and Miss Mary p.
O'Flaherty.
Miss katharine Lenroot Of
Washington, D. c., gave very In
teresting address, taking as her
topic, Trends in Child Welfare"
Miss Lenroot who has been engag-
ed in this branch Of work for
many years outlined in detail the
workings of the bureau since its
beginning twenty years ago, stating
statistics relative to its functioning
and giving a very good idea in her
talk of the great amount of work
this bureau is doing in the child
welfare movement. She said that
the appropriation for this work by
the government is $395,500 as
against a sum more than twice that
amount for the investigation Of
the grasshopper situation. 1.-THE
children's bureau is still baby
bureau" she said. For the con-
tinuance Of this work and to right
ly carry on the activities needed
to care for and properly educate
the children of today for the future
we "need q new renaissance" Miss
Lenroot remarked.
While the infant mortality rate
is still high in this country, Miss
Lenroot pointed out that it had
been lowered appreciably since the
formation of the children's bureau.
Over 5000 letters are received in
the course of week, she stated.
reading a few samples of some of
them. The children of today, the |
speaker explained. are living dur
ing great changes in economic |
conditions, but the children of the
future will see the greatest changes |
of all. ! In closing Miss Lenroot |
spoke of the necessity of being |
identified with this or some other |
type Of social work in order to be-
come acquainted with affairs So |
cial. economic and polite. I
scented consisting of selections by
lLlC IfOtkC 1dAlO ShOAaA CAuO VA
rected by Isaac Beecher Clark, an
instrumental trio by Miss Clare
Murphy, and the Misses Anna Pas
auskas and Yvette LaVallee, stu
dents Of the Waterbury Catholic |
high school. the Waterbury Cath
Ole high school ensemble. Charles
f.. Farnham conducting. and q
harp solo by Miss Catherine
Sayers. The following comprised
the instrumental ensemble:- Violin
lists, Misses Anna Pasauskas.
Yvette LaVallee, Dorothy Bergen.
Anna Paghense and Rita Mon
nerat; pianists. Misses Clare MUIR
ply and Rejane Bernard; and
harpist, Miss Catherine Sayers.
The report submitted by Father
Cryne follows:
1.-THE receipts included. Parish
assessments. $4,000; Council Of
Catholic Women, $1,9S6: gifts,
$3.713; children's board, $1,000: |
reimbursements. s6,ss3 these with
q small balance from 1880 make
the total s2e,16s. with these fig-
ures Ia mind. the total being the
largest annual budget ever handled
by the bureau, we wish 10 express,
our appreciation first OF all 70 the
pastors for the prompt payment Of |
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