FRED WALKER
IA Hall
I
ame
]d Walker Jr., of Wash-
tll, founder of the Vin-
s University Journalism
"in 1964 and its director
years, has been inducted
tile National Community
[e Journalism Hall of Fame
ata, Georgia.
lslker was among eight jour-
3 educators/journalists cho-
:u I the CCJA to be the origi-
"J %tubers of the Hall of
.h,
101ds degrees from V.U.
Zldiana University; he
It at Washington
01ic High School from
1964.
the son of M. Eleanor
tee) Walker of Washing-
kl the late Fred Walker Sr
Happy Birthday!
Msgr. Omer Meyer, Invest-
ment Manager and Senior Con-
sultant to the Treasurer of the
Diocese of Evansville, cele-
brates his birthday Aug. 19. He
resides at Sacred Heart Church
rectory in Evansville.
Anniversaries
of ordination
Father John Breidenbach,
pastor at Corpus Christi
Church, Evansville, was or-
dained a priest Aug. 21, 1987.
Father Michael Madden,
pastor of St. James Church,
St. James, was ordained a
priest Aug. 22, 1975.
Director
of Music
Bernadette (Newland)
Haury is the new director of
music at St. Benedict Church,
Evansville. She is the daughter
of Paul Newland, advertising
manager at the Message.
First place
Emily Elpers, a student at
St. Philip School, St. Philip,
has won first place in the Ameri-
can Lung Association drawing
contest. She will now compete at
the national level.
New minister
Frances Cannon is begin-
ning her job at Director of Litur-
gical Music at St. Simon
Church, Washington.
National institute
Margaret Wichman and
Anniversaries
at St. Joseph
Congratulations to couples at
St. Joseph Church, Evans.
ville, celebrating wedding an-
niversaries: Martin and Helen
Kelley, 41 years; James and
Mary Ann Grossman, 40
years; Tom and Mary Lou
Kunkel, 40 years.
Theresa Matthews, members "
at St. Mary Church, Washing- Anniversaries
ton, recently attended a Na-
tional Pastoral Musicians' Insti- at Sacred Heart
tute for choir directors. Congratulations to couples at
Sacred Heart Church, Vin-
cennes, celebrating wedding an-
niversaries: Bob and JoAnn
Grundman, 49 years; Bill and
Virginia Duesterberg, 47
years; Frank and Mildred
Becher, 44 years.
Please send information
for AROUND THE DIOCESE
to Mary Ann Hughes, The
Message, P.O. Box 4169,
Evansville, IN 47724. The
deadline for copy is
9 a.m. the Friday before
publication.
I 00¢ten Jubilarians
nd Pauline (Stangle) Sampson of Monroe City
]ebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a
of their marriage at a 10"0 a.m. Mass on Aug. 21
tathedral, Vincennes. A reception, hosted by their
the.and grandchildren, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.
kUld Cathedral Parish Center. The couple requests
I They were married Aug. 22, 1944, in the rectory
:ratneis Xavzer Church, St. Franciswlle. They are
Lrents of two chzldren: Mary Jo Sampson and
Sampson, both of Monroe City. They have two
t;s. Mr. Sampson is employed with the Knox
ighway Department and Mrs. Sampson is a
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UMOJA
Latoski McCarty explains the National Black Congress quilt to Clara McClure and
Gwendolyn McClure at St. John Church, Evansville. African.American Catholics from
around the diocese attended the Unity (UMOJA) Celebration June 26.
National study to assess Catholic parish, school finances
WASHINGTON (CNS)
Researcher Joseph C. Harris
has announced a new study to
analyze how the nation's
Catholic parishes and schools
collect and spend about $12
billion each year.
The Lilly Endowment
awarded a $61,070 grant for
the study July 21. It is to be
conducted under auspices of
the Life Cycle Institute of The
Catholic University of America
in Washington, with three
Catholic University re-
searchers as project advisers.
The new study will:
Replicate and expand on
the 1992 research, also funded
by Lilly, of contributions per
Catholic household in 278
parishes from 40 states around
the country.
Analyze financial operat-
ing statements of each of the
278 parishes, using a stan-
dardized accounting system
they all use, in order to com-
pare data and assess the fiscal
condition of the parishes.
-- Study the income and ex-
penditure structures of
Catholic elementary and sec-
ondary schools, using data col-
lected by the National Catholic
Educational Association.
The 1992 study analyzed
1991 contributions and giving
patterns of nearly 330,000
Catholic households, as re-
ported in the records of the 278
parishes studied. The new one
will study 1993 contributions
in those same parishes, again
using parish records.
The separate studies two
years apart will provide some
indication of how Catholic
parish giving may be changing
and will set a stronger data-
base for use in future studies
on long-term patterns and
trends in Catholic giving.
Dean Hoge, a Catholic Uni-
versity sociologist and adviser
to the project who has done ex-
tensive research on U.S.
Catholic life, said use of con-
gregational records for na-
tional data on religious giving
is common among non-Catholic
denominations but "unique in
the Catholic scene."
He and Harris said past na-
tional studies on Catholic giv-
ing have been based on results
of surveys in which Catholics
were asked to tell a survey-
taker how much they give each
Sunday. The study on 1991
giving was the first to use
Catholic p/rish contribution
records as the basis for a na-
tional study.
Harris said his 1992 re-
search showed that in 1991 the
average amount of recorded
parish contributions that could
be traced to the household giv-
ing it was $280.15 per house
hold. When anonymous cash
contributions in the Sunday
collection were also added, the
average per registered house-
hold increased to $301.19.
He estimated that Catholic
parishes nationwide received
just under $5.5 billion a year
from Sunday collections. They
got about $1.5 million more
from other parish fund-raising
and program income, he said.
According to NCEA data,
about $3.7 billion is being
spent on Catholic elementary
schools across the country this
year and $2.6 billion on
Catholic high schools, for a
combined total of $6.3 billion.
Harris found that the
parishes without schools re-
ported an average of 670 regis-
tered households and an aver-
age collection income of
$185,636 a year.
The typical parish with a
school, he said, was nearly
twice as large and had more
than twice as much collection
income. The average school
parish in the study had 1,318
registered households and a
collection income of $446,257.
The average household in a
parish with a school put
$338.59 a year into Sunday col-
lections, while the average con-
tribution per household in a
nonschool parish was $277.07.
