The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-21

To MT Rodney Chase. President, and the Board of Directors of tho Lincoln House Association, Inc.
 My sixth annual report of the work of the Lincoln House As- sociation covers the twenty. fifth year of this organization and mark the end of Q quarter of a century of service to the families of this community.
 An examination of the daily record sheets. at Lincoln House indicate that 17,325 requests for aid were made in 1884. Not all of these folks needed our services. Frequently some other agency was better able to care for the particular problem. In all cases, we acted as a clearing house, where persons perplexed and often hopeless, standing at the cross roads, received a new vision and the proper direction.
 For the first time in four years sickness has exceeded unemptoy- ment as the underlying problem of our case load. This would indicate Q return to >normalcy were it not for the fact that the EZRA and Mutual Aid have more people on their rolls today than they did at this time last year. Consequently, we must infer that the relief organizations are caring for their cases more adequately and that they are re" ferring fewer cases to the pri- vate agency.
 Personnel
 During the past year we have lost two outstanding workers from our staff. Mrs Mary D. Camp and Miss Marion Kramer. Mrs Camp went to the Public Welfare Department of the city where her experience with the needs of the community and her Knowledge of the city's resources are invaluable. Miss Kramer married and Is living in Fall River. Massachusetts. Mrs Camps position has been taken by Miss Lydia Haywood of Cheshire. Miss Hayward is a graduate of Radcliffe College and the New York School of Social Work. She was employed two years by the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities and three years by the Family Welfare Society of New Haven. We have also added two new case workers to our staff--Miss Mary P. Robinson, a graduate of St Mary's of Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana, and Miss Julia McGrath. a graduate of St Elizabeth College at Convent Station, New Jersey.
 Because long and faithful service is frequently overlooked and not fully appreciated, wish to remind the board of directors that Miss Elizabeth Gustafson whose services are indispensable, came to us in January of 1918 and has just finished her sev- enteenth year with this organiza. ton. It would be difficult for me to imagine Lincoln House without her pleasing personality, her ability to adjust herself to the many difficult situations which arise in our work and her knowledge of every phase of our program.
 My services have been made available by your board to the CWA, the FERA and the Mutual Aid Fund. The latter organiza- ton completed it's fourth year in November when 1t had raised and spent nearly two million dol. lars for relief. The EZRA was an outgrowth of the CWA with much restricted work program and confined to strictly relief cases. In December 1t had ap- proximately 500 men and women on it's rolls, while the Mutual Aid had 1,250. Recently the Mutual Aid transferred 400 of it's work CTS to the EZRA. thus making available more funds for It's own relief.
 Case Work
 During the past year, Lincoln House workers. have done in. tensive case work in 4Se families. Of this number 146 families were new to this organization and it lis fair to assume, were asking for assistance for the first time. Tn 459 families with which we worked. there were i,063 people over IA years of age and STA boys and girls under 14. We hope to make a study of this latter group to see how many of them are in character building organ. izations and the effect that such membership may have on the family life.