The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-17
Attendance OF Past
Year Larger Than In
1884, Report States
Miss Kathleen Crowley Reviews Work of Girls Club;
1918 Members Participated in Various Programs;
Greater Work in North End, South End in 1896

An active and successful year
by the Waterbury Girls club is re-.
Elected in the, annual report of
Miss Kathleen Crowley, director,
which has been submitted to Mrs.
Frederick w. Ho1comb, president
of the board of directors. The re-
port reveals a total attendance for
the year of 45,208, which means
that each of the clubs 1918 girls
spent an average of SO hours in
her classes.
The Girls club program for the
year ended yesterday noon. At
tendance at swimming and public
baths in the Brooklyn center was
larger than last year until .infan-
tile paralysis began to appear in
the city. The Brooklyn center has
been closed till Sept. 9th when
registration for fall and winter
classes will begin. Leavenworth
house, however, will not be closed.
Miss Crowley, whose report
praises the work of her staff, left
Allerton, Mass.
Club Activities
In sewing classes conducted by
the club, there were 1884 articles
made by members. Sewing classes
were attended by 14.971 girls.
Gymnasium classes drew 18,441.
Cooking was next, with total of
4349, while miscellaneous activities
were participated in by 1927.
Assisting Miss Crowley on the
stair of the Waterbury Girls club
were Misses Madeline Monroe,
Beatrice Thompson, Irene Fennell,
Anna Meehan and Lucy Russo.
Part time assistants were Mrs.
Mary Skahan, and Misses Helen
Sullivan. Rita Bergin, and Kath-
leen Fitzgerald. Junior Assistants
included Misses Mary Marsele,
Lucy Biondi, Christine Kelly, Anna
Danaher, Dorothy Blacker and
Eleanor Lahy.
Miss Crowley's report follows:
have the honor to submit
my annual report for nineteen
thirty-five.
The year just passed found
all of us attempting to keep
our work up to the standards
of other YEARS.
Leavenworth House has
been the rallying point for the
largest number of Juniors in
the afternoon and seniors in
the evening, that have been
on the rolls for ten years.
This was particularly true in
3. the sewing classes.
Brooklyn Community Cen
ter has been next in popular
tty and use. In addition to
this Brooklyn, as it has done
nine years out of ten, has had
the largest attendance of all
the physical education classes.
Miss Fennell's resignation
and the illness of her success
or handicapped the cooking
classes sadly. Any change in
the staff during the year is
fought with danger and diff
Guilty. Miss Fennell's sue
cessor, Miss Beatrice Thomp-
son, was well equipped to
teach cooking but her health
failed and classes suffered as
result. Fortunately for us
Miss Rita F. Bergin, part time
staff assistant, agreed to carry
on every evening and this kept
the classes together. Undoubt-
eddy, these abrupt shifts ac-
count for the fact that the
girls did not receive the same
benefits as the members of
classes of former years.
The accident which befell
Miss Lucy Russo, physical d.
rector, handicapped the Ath-
letic Association, the high
school girls classes and the
dancing classes. The younger
children continued to play and
have fun under the Junior
leaders. That Miss Helen
Sullivan had time to take Miss
Russo's classes was a great