Catholic Interracial Council

...also join the council: Villanova University, La Salle University, Rosemont College, Immaculata University, and Chestnut Hill College.[4] One of the people in attendance at this first meeting was Mrs. Anna McGarry, who would be a major player in interracial programs in the city of Philadelphia throughout the following decades.[5] Halvey_L860_006:

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John J. Bonner papers, 1909-1945 (MC 49)

...ting from Roman Catholic High School. He transferred to the North American College in Rome, and was ordained there in June 1917. Upon his return to the United States, he was appointed assistant rector of St. Bridget’s Church (1917-18), left this post to serve as a U.S. Army chaplain (1918-19),

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Cardinal John P. Foley

..., Foley was a graduate of St. Joseph’s Preparatory School and St. Joseph’s College (now University). He was ordained a priest on May 19, 1962 by then-Archbishop John Krol. John P. Foley, circa 1964 His earliest assignments were Sacred Heart in Havertown and St. John the Evangelist Parish in Philadelphia,

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...Dr. Hannah E. Croasdale, a professor of Gynecology at the Women’s Medical College or M. Carey Thomas, president of Byrn Mawr College.[7] The correspondence collection of Jane and Marianne gives glimpses into their activism. For example, writing in 1920 from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Jane stated that “The women in Rhode

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