Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...every night from seven to midnight.[10] In the first year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...to Dougherty asking him to release them from their pledge and stating that many of their friends had already abandoned it. Many complained that the movies were their only form of entertainment and that seeing an approved movie at a theater was better than going to a beer hall or
Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication
...Halvey_T201_010 New Shrine Built The chapel became a popular pilgrimage site for Polish Americans and soon plans were made for a new larger shrine. Atop of Beacon Hill in Doylestown, ground would be broken on August, 23, 1964. The shrine would be completed in time for the Polish Millennium
Catholic Interracial Council
...9 Folder History CIC [18] Letter to Anna McGarry from Budd Rockower, chairman Anti-Defamation League, 10/7/1959, 1999.047 Box 10 Folder McGarry Testimonial Dinner, 1959 [19] Notes from La Farge Papers, 1999.047 Box 11 folder CIC 1963 [20] Krol collection Box 24C Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations. Archives Archives Select