Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...Corps Aides In addition to the nightly events, the club would offer other services. When it opened at noon, it would often have a line of men waiting to get in. The popular offerings included recording letters home on phonographs and a foot clinic staffed by the Philadelphia Chiropody Society.[13]
Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools
...ld lay the ground work for the eventual Catholic League.[8] Soon after the opening of Roman Catholic, there were calls to open a similar high school for girls. While a full high school was not feasible at first, the superintendent of schools, Father Philip McDevitt, did open 5 learning centers
Parish and School Closing
...High School for Girls; however, because of community support both remained open. Parish schools would also be affected by the closures, and even parishes that remained open saw their schools close, such as St. Patrick’s in Norristown. Halvey_644J_073 Halvey_440K_072 Protests and Renewals Following the large closings of 1993, other
Black Catholic periodicals
...great Catholic Church a hearing and show that it is worthy of at least a fair consideration at the hands of our race, being as it is the only place on this Continent where rich and poor, white and black, must drop prejudice at the threshold and go hand in