A final report of the Archdiocesan Expansion Campaign shows that $1,689,663 was collected on a minimum pledge of $1,750,000.

The final report, released by the chancery this week, said a preliminary report was issued last June, but the final accounting is now being published after an audit for the 1967-1968 fiscal year.

The three year fund drive which began in May 1965 had a minimum goal of $1,750,000 for three specific projects. Two of these projects are now in operation, the Village of Saint Joseph in southwest Atlanta and the Newman Center and Spalding Chapel at the University of Georgia in Athens. Land was purchased in downtown Atlanta for the Catholic Center and plans are now being studied on this project. It is hoped that the center will be completed in 1969.

The final report on the fund drive is as follows:

RECEIPTS:

Pledges $1,689,663

Bequest 318,000

Due to Archdiocese (loan) 140,071

Total $2,147,734

EXPENDITURES:

Village of St. Joseph $1,336,688

Newman Center and Chapel 390,875

Catholic Center 285,458

Operational Expenses 125,044

Cash on Hand 9,669

Total $2,147,734

The statement said, “While the original budgets for the Newman Complex and the Village were lower, construction costs escalated before final plans were made. However, in completing these two facilities the people of the archdiocese have provided needed programs for our young and growing community. The chapel and center in Athens gives a constructive program in religious education to young people attending our largest University from throughout the whole archdiocese. The Village has provided an up to date program for our dependent children, one which is tackling the problems of treating the products of broken homes. Since the beginning of this century, the Church in Georgia has pioneered in this great work in Saint Joseph’s Home in Washington, Georgia.

“Archbishop Donnellan has expressed his gratitude for the sacrificial generosity of all our people. The success of this Expansion Campaign, he said, stands as a memorial to the concern of our young, growing Church in North Georgia for the needs of the total community.”