Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate

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Research guide for parish histories

...descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the bishop in certain matters pertaining to the administration of the diocese. Information relating to parishes usually consists of votes on a request to

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Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

...same time, he taught part-time at several local colleges, such as La Salle College, Rosemont College, and Villanova University. Reverend Nolan made many scholarly contributions over the years. For ten years, starting in 1945, he served as editor for the American Catholic Historical Society. In addition, Reverend Nolan contributed biographies

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Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia

...ege was established.[9] In 1938, it would change its name to Chestnut Hill College and in 2013 it became accepting males into its undergraduate program. Sisters' Summer Program, 1971, Halvey X351 Besides education, the sisters have had a history of working in healthcare in the archdiocese. The first instance was

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