Each parish in the archdiocese this week named its chairman for the Archdiocesan Charities and Development Fund Drive to take place on Sunday, March 9. Assisting the pastor, each chairman will organize teams of workers in the parish so that every wage earner can be contacted on that one day. The drive is being organized to net $225,000.00 needed to continue the programs in education, social services and to assist the missionary activity in the archdiocese.

On Sunday, March 9, each wage earner throughout the archdiocese will be requested to donate a minimum of $25.00. The parish chairman will take charge of the organization so as to insure that every family is contacted in their homes on that day. Information concerning the programs and projects of the drive will already have been mailed to each home.

In a letter read at every Mass last Sunday, Archbishop Donnellan said: “Working together as we have in the past, we can extend our assistance to every avenue of need in our archdiocese through the Archdiocesan Charities and Development Fund.”

The success of every project of this kind depends on the men of the parish and in particular by their leader, the parish chairman. All priests and parish chairmen will be meeting with Archbishop Donnellan the last week in January to further study the drive.