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392 stitute for Catholic teachers. Membership is open to the clergy of the archdiocese, to teachers in Catholic schools in Oregon and to the laity who are interested in Catholic education.

The officers of the association are: Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara, St. Mary's Cathedral parish, president; Sister Mary Flavia, St. Mary's academy and college, vice-president; Rev. George F. Thompson, St. Mary's cathedral parish, secretary; Rev. William A. Daly, St. Mary's Williams Ave., treasurer. The executive committee is composed of: Rev. J. H. Black, St. Francis parish; Rev. Hugh Gallagher, C. S. C. Columbia university; Sister Mary Rose, O. S. B. Mount Angel academy and college, and John O'Hara of The Catholic Sentinel.

Through this organization the Catholics have effected a thorough organization of all their teaching orders and missionaries. And the fact that their teachers receive practically no salaries, and adopt the service of teaching as their duty through life, and look for no other reward than the success of their work, their schools and their teachers give the church an instrument of power and influence even greater than the preaching priests in the propaganda of church work.

There are now in the Catholic schools of the state about six thousand pupils, one-half of which are in the city of Portland; there being now seventeen Catholic schools in the city, with one hundred and six teachers, as follows:

St. Mary's Academy, Sisters of Holy Names in charge; Sister M, Stephens, superior.

Columbia University, Congregation of Holy Cross in charge; Rev. J. Gallagher, superior.

C. B. Business College, Christian Brothers in charge; Bro. V. Andrew, superior.

St. Mary's Annex, Sisters of Holy Names in charge; Sister M. Olivia, superior.

St. Joseph's School (Gr), Dominican Sisters in charge; Sister M. Aloysia, superior.

St. Stephens, Sisters of St. Mary in charge; Sister M. Threesa, superior.

St. Mary's, Dominican Sisters in charge; Sister M. Aloysia, superior.

St. Ignatius, Sisters of Holy Names, in charge; Sister M. Esdras, superior.

Sacred Heart, Benedictine Sisters in charge; Sister M. Alphonea, superior.

St. Francis Academy, Holy Names Sisters in charge; Sister M. Julietta, superior.

Holy Redeemer's School, Holy Names Sisters in charge; Sister M. Lucide, superior.

Saint Andrew's, Immaculate Heart of Mary in charge; Sister M. Loyola, superior.

Blanchet School (Italian), Holy Names Sisters in charge; Sister M. Maxilinda, superior.

Ascension School, Sisters of Mercy in charge; Sister M. Agatha, superior.

St. Patrick's School, Holy Names Sisters in charge; Sister M. Archangel, superior.

St. Lawrence, Immaculate Heart of Mary in charge; Sister M. Camillus, superior.