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REPORT THIRD LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF BUFFALO
Number of Amount of
School Registration Quota Bonds Sold Bonds Sold
Grammar School, No. 47 770 6,000.00 162 8,950.00
Grammar School, No. 48 .' 541 3,000.00 92 5,050.00
Grammar School, No. 49 539 10,000.00 196 13,400.00
Grammar School, No. 50 550 , 3,500.00 134 7,050.00
Grammar School, Nos. 51 and 20 997 7,000.00 207 12,700.00
Grammar School, No. 52 1,119 15,000.00 457 30,000.00
Grammar School, No. 53 1,197 20,000.00 599 42,900.00
Grammar School, No. 54 980 32,000.00 702 46,450.00
Grammar School, No. 55 800 6,000.00 142 7,650.00
Grammar School, No. 56 1,096 100,000.00 1,557 222,400.00
Grammar School, No. 57 852 5,500.00 73 3,950.00
Grammar School, No. 58 1,111 6,000.00 64 3,550.00
Grammar School, No. 59 992 6,500.00 97 9,900.00
Grammar School, No. 60 1,111 8,000.00 275 16,400.00
Grammar School, No. 61 676 5,000.00 76 3,900.00
Grammar School, No. 62 1,115 6,000.00 127 6,800.00
School of Practice 310 20,000.00 428 54,900.00
The number of subscriptions, per capita, obtained by the pupils of the leading schools
was as follows: South Park High School, 2.32; Hutchinson High School, 1.85; Lafayette
High School, 1.588; Grammar School, No. 56, 1.368; Grammar School, No. 16, 1.289;
Elm Vocational, 1.196; School of Practice, 1.084.
The Parochial Schools of Buffalo, nearly doubled their previous sales record.
PAROCHIAL A portion of the Oppenheim, Collins & Company prize fund was allotted to
SCHOOLS the Parochial Schools as an incentive in bond sales. The total sales made
during this contest was $281,500. Additional sales of $4,500 were made after
the close of the contest, making a grand total of sales amounting to $286,000 divided among
thirty-seven hundred individual subscribers. The prize fund was awarded in the following
order:
$100—St. Teresa's School, Rev. E. F. Gibbons, 1974 Seneca Street $32,750.00
$ 75—St. Bridget's School, Rev. D. O'Brien, 397 Louisiana Street 32,400.00
$ 50—Holy Family School, Rev. J. J. Nash, 556 South Park Avenue 25,400.00
$ 40—Annunciation School, Rev. Msgr. J. S. Biden, 248 Lafayette Avenue . . . . 17,700.00
$25—Mount Carmel School, Rev. Angelo Saino, 41 Fly Street 12,650.00
$ 20—St. Joseph's New Cathedral School, Rev. J. McGloin, 330 Linwood Avenue . 11,300.00
$ 15—St. Ann's School, Rev. J. Kirschmeyer, S. J., 371 Watson Street 9,650.00
$ 10—St. Nicholas School, Rev. C. O'Bryne, 18 Welker Street 9,400.00
$ 10—St. Mary Magdalene, Rev. J. Pfluger, 24 Urban Street 9,250.00
$ 10—Transfiguration School, Rev. F. Kasprzak, 144 Mills Street 8,050.00
$ 10—St. Vincent's School, Rev. J. Hummel, 15 Eastwood Place 7,800.00
$ 10—St. Joseph's Old Cathedral School, Rev. T. J. Walsh, D.D., 50 Franklin Street 7,400.00
$ 10—St. Stanislaus School, Rev. A. Pitass, D. D., Townsend Street 6,600.00
$ 10—St. Joseph's School, Rev. J. Schemel, 3269 Main Street 6,150.00
$ 10—St. Margaret's School, Rev. T. J. Timmons, 1406 Hertel Avenue 6,000.00
$ 10—St. Stephen's School, Rev. T. Barrett, 793 Elk Street 5,750.00
$ 10—Nativity School, Rev. D. Walsh, 21 Herkimer Street 5,650.00
St. Bridget's School received the special award of $75.00 given to the school securing the
largest number of individual subscribers. Their records show four hundred forty-seven
bond subscribers.
The Liberty Loan campaign placed a heavy burden upon the time and effort of each of
the parish pastors. Each had to set up within his school the necessary machinery to
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