Jersey Hiradó, 1964 (45. évfolyam, 3-39. szám)
1964-09-18 / 38. szám
6 September 18, 1964 Two Diocese Schools at Top In Mission Aid in the Nation Two schools in the Trenton Diocese are among the first three of the 10,000 parochial schools in the nation in the number of mission children adopted during the past year. They are Sacred Heart School, Riverton, which recorded 847, and Holy Spirit School, Asbury Park, 840. Leader in the nation, with 850 adoptions, was St. Mary Academy, Milwaukee. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Emmett A. Monahan, diocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and of the Holy Childhood Association, disclosed the proud report for the Diocese of Trenton, based on statistics from the national office of the Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood, in Pittsburgh. Fr. Augustus O. Reitan, national director of the association, informed Msgr. Monahan that HCA members in the United States had set a record during the period from July 1, 1963, to June 30, 1964, by adopting 322,660 mission children. The Holy Childhood Association is an international mission-aid organization made up of children under 13 years of age who provide funds for the Baptism, care, shelter and Christian education of less fortunate .children of the world. There are more than 4,500,000 Holy Childhood members in the United States. Vatican City Signs Satellite Agreement WASHINGTON (NC) — Msgr. Luciano Storero, an auditor at the Apostolic Delegation here, signed for the State of Vatican City when 14 nations agreed on establishment of an international communications satellite system under United States management. The system was begun at a formal signing ceremony in the State Department August 20. Non-Public Schools Valued at $6.6 Billion WASHINGTON (NC) —The United States Office of Education has estimated that non-public education in the nation is now worth about $6,600,000,000 annually This is 22 percent of the total estimated expenditures of $33,- 700,000,000 for all United States education in the 1963-64 school year, according to statistics released by the Federal education office. It said that anticipated enrollment increases this Fall presumably will be accompanied by still greater expenditures. It said 8,300,000 students were enrolled in non-public schools and colleges last year. The office gave these amounts as estimated expenditures of nonpublic education: $2,800,000,000 for elementary and secondary schools and $3,800,000,000 higher education. The figure for non-public education is higher than the office’s estimate of $2,400,000,000 for the Federal Government’s total contribution to education in the 1963-64 fiscal year, which closely corresponds with the 1963-64 academic year. The office’s estimates for nonpublic schools are what are generally described by Catholic educators as the “savings to taxpayers.” This is because the figures are based on the expenditures per teacher in public schools. Largely because of the decentralized financial operations of non-public school systems, including those churchrelated, no actual national figures on their school costs are available. The office’s 1963-64 estimate of $6,600,000,000 represents an increase of $500,000,000 over its estimate of $6,100,000,000 for the 1962-63 school year. Get set for Cold Winter Months Mire a fák levelei lehulnak s a tar ágakat dér lepi be. barátságos meleg otthona lesz, ha most áttér gázfűtésre. Tiszta, csendes, megbízható, olcsó. Díjmentes ajánlatért forduljon vízvezeték- és gáz-szerelőjéhez, vagy a Public Service-hez. Demand for Teachers Will Pass Peak in 1965 WASHINGTON (NC) — The demand for teachers in elementary and secondary schools of the United States will reach its peak in the year 1964-65. Schools will have to recruit some 210,000 teachers for the next academic year to . take care of new classrooms, replacement of teachers leaving service and the retirement of some emergency teachers. The challenge is described as “reflecting the final academic accommodation of the elementary-secondary schools to the high birth rate of the mid- Forties.” The number of teachers needed in the years following this record-breaking need “will fall well below the peak level.” This situation mirrors the drop in the number of births for a few years after 1947 and their slow down in rate of increase in the 1950’s. These projections are made in a study prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. The study was concerned with manpower in teaching rather than pupil movement. (A study by Auxiliary Bishop Clarence E. Elwell of Cleveland made public last March said the Diocese of Cleveland had a 72 percent increase in religious teachers in the 20 years between 1944 and 1963. The Bishop, superintendent of Cleveland’s diocesan school system, noted that the June, 1964, high school graduating class was to be “the first of the large post-war classes (the 1946 birth class now 18 years old),” and said that “if the increased percentage of vocations holds, it should mean a larger-than-ever number of vocations this Fall.” This, he added, would mean “a sharply increased supply of teachers, lay as well as religious, within four or five years when they have completed college and novitiate training.” (Bishop Elwell said “the actual number of vocations and religious teachers has been on the increase without interruption, calamity howlers to the contrary notwithstanding.” “We have not, of course, had a supply equal to the tremendous increase of babies since 1946, but wait until the 1946 baby group gets old enough to knock on the convent door, which is June' of 1964, this present year,” the Bishop continued. “Then wait four or five years more for them to finish college and novitiate years. Then, I am confident, the crepe-hangers will have to eat their predictions.”) For the next 11 years, the supply of elementary school teachers is expected to total 1,200,000, with the demand totaling 1,300,000, leaving a deficit of about 100,000 teachers a WANTED 1 am looking for a capable woman to do housework, some cooking, for a family of two adults and two school children, five days a week. Please call TU 2-4158 if you would like to discuss the position. year for the period. For the secondary schools, it is thought that 1,300,000 new teachers and “reentries” will be available over the 11 years, while the demand is not expected to total more than about 953,000. After the peak year, 1964- 65, when close to 105,000 secondary school teachers must be recruited to take care of classroom growth and replacements, annual requirements drop nearly one-half to 57,000, reflecting the decline in the number of births after 1947, the record-breaking year. Even though an upward trend in secondary school teacher requirements is expected after 1965, it will be 10 percent below the 1964-65 peak as late as 1975. The demand for new teachers comes mainly from two sources: (1) to staff additional classrooms, and (2) to replace teachers who leave teaching for a variety of reasons. Just to take care of increased enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools, the supply of teachers estimated at 1,800,000 in 1963-64 must be increased to 2,200,000—a gain of 400,000 or 23 percent—by 1975. The estimated 47,000,000 pupils in public and private schools — kindergarten through high school—in the Fall of 1963 are expected to increase to 57,000,- 000 by 1975 . The present rate of school attendance is 97 percent of all children of elementary school age and is expected to increase slightly- by 1975 . . . The secondary school rate is 91 percent of all children of that school age . . . Nearly four times as many new teachers are needed to fill vacancies in existing staff than to fill new jobs created by expanding enrollments . . . The average separation rate for classroom teachers is eight percent . . . Women represented 86 percent of all classroom teachers in elementary schools and 47 percent of the secondary school teachers in 1960 . . . The separation rate for women teachers is higher in secondary than in elementary schools, and higher than that for men on both levels .. . Only about 82 percent of all newly trained teachers enter the teaching field . . . About one-fourth of the teachers newly hired each Fall are “reentries” ... A little more than 13 percent of those taking bachelor degrees each year are trained for elementary school teaching. The study discloses many interesting facts, including the following: LARGE AUTOMOBILE PARKING AREA • 825 Chambers Street Phone: EXport 6-3354 * I JOSEPH J. MAZZOLLA, Mgr. 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