Evening star., 1941-04-06
Catholic Social Service School
Looks Toward Postwar Needs
Choice of Positions
Awaits Graduates
In June Class
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

First institution of its kind in
America, the National Catholic
School of Social Service, Washing
tons only graduate school for social
service work, is meeting the present
national emergency and looking
toward reconstruction problems
which will demand trained social
workers in increasing numbers after
world peace is re-established.
In its school overlooking Rock
Greek Park at 2400 Nineteenth
street, 80 young women between the
ages 81 and 35 are among those
being fitted to meet the problems
of the present and of tomorrow.
Students are required to be gradu-
ates of accredited colleges and uni
versities. They come from 26 States
and several island possessions. Their
training is for social service where
ever the need is greatest. A red,
pin-bestrewn map in the Office of
its director of administration, the
Rev. Lucien L. Lauerman, nation
ally known Catholic social service
worker, indicates graduates of this
school are functioning today in 38
States, insular possessions and IL
countries. One is supervisor OF
war work in Australia, another per-
forms a similar service in Canada
and another is in charge of Puerto
Rico'S welfare work with children.
Many Jobs Await Graduates.
According to Father Lauerman,
who came to Washington from
Portland, Greg, where he conducted
an emergency soup kitchen organ
lied at the beginning of the de-
preston, the 80 June graduates of
this school have each been offered
their choice of at least three posi-
tions in social service fields"
mo one can predict the problems
we must face" said Father Lauer-
man, but as far as we can, we must
be ready for them, since We are in
directly in a war. Old social needs
and relationships are mounting and
new ones developing. For instance,
one of our workers recently was
faced with the problem of helping a
mother who was the mainStay of an
orphaned family where there were
younger children still to be reared
and educated. In her anxiety over
what might be happening to her two
older sons. both of whom had been
drafted into the service of our coun-
try, she was about to have mental
collapse. The acquisition of detailed
information about the daily life of
these sons at their camps, their food
and physical and spiritual care, so
reassured her she is again taking
over home responsibilities.
ours is a duty" he emphasized,
"to teach that there can be no de-
mocracy without religion, no morale
without morality. AS human beings
we must learn to know the value of
something beyond us established by
God"
Christian Life Stressed.
"The things that will hold in peo-
pie for all time" he charged, are
such fundamental things as God and
the good of society We must de-
veIop leaders who shall in turn be
capable of helping people to live the
Christian, democratic way of life"
As background for its assistance in
solving problems of the present
emergency and of the future. the
National Catholic School of Social
Service has its service record of the
last World War. Out of its drama
and tragedy and the tremendous
need for humanitarian service it
came into being, Opened in No
vember, 1918, it was for the next
21a years an emergency wartime in
stitution. Under the auspices of the
Committee of Special War Activities
of the National Catholic War Coun-
Gil it met the urgent need for trained
Catholic Ynung women for war and,