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AUGUST 3, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
Committee On Legislation, One Of
18 National Council Committees
(Continued from Page 6)
ed States Supreme Court,” —
Vanguard Press, preface and in
troductory notes by Ambrose
Doskow (1935).
“Lions Under the Throne” —
Charles P. Curtis, Jr., Houghton
Mifflin Co., (1947).
“The Life of John Marshall” —
2 vols., Albert J. Beveridge.
Houghton Mifflin Co. r (1929).
“The Moral Obligations of
Catholic Civil Judges” — A dis
sertation by Revi John Denis
Davis, M.A., S.T.L. .1952 Catholic
University of America Press,
submitted to Catholic University
in partial fulfill of requirements
for Degree of Doctor of Sacred
Theology.
As a second source of informa
tion for a local Legislation Com
mittee is the page printed EVE
RY MONTH in MONTHLY MES
SAGE called ‘CITIZENSHIP IN
A DEMOCRACY.” This page is a
report of what is happening at a
National level on legislation
One of the best sources of ideas
for Parish Legislation Committees
which effects us in one way or
another at the grass roots,
is the Convention Yearbook
which was prepared for the 28th
National Convention of NCCW at
Chicago. This is available from
NCCW and on Pages 56 and 57
you will find concrete ideas
which are geared to your neigh
borhood needs — Registration
and Voting; Panel Program on
Women and Jury Service; Study
of Traffic Conditions; What are
Your Community’s Provisions for
Health Care? On page 75 of this
book you will find listed Legis
lation Resources and where to
get these study helps and in
many cases, the nominal prices
of what is available.
IS LEGISLATION COMMIT
TEE WORK FUN? Yes, make
it fun, make use of current events
skits to put your project over,
get your committee, people to
plan a skit and act it out, join in
a local “Get Out the Vote Pa
rade” and meet your community
neighbors.
WHO ARE THE WOMEN
WHO HEAD THE NATIONAL
COMMITTEE ON LEGISLA
TION? Mrs. Backus, National
Committee Chairman, was born in
Connecticut, attended Catholic el
ementary and high school, attend
ed and graduated from Barnard
College with an AB and has an
LLB from Fordham Law School.
Mrs. Backus is a practicing at
torney and a very delightful per
son. She carries a long list of
titles from years of Catholic Ac
tion in the field of Legislation.
She served as Legislative Chair
man of Kings County Council of
Catholic Women and of Brooklyn
Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women, before her appointment
as National Chairman of Legis
lation. Mrs. Backus is serving her
second term as National Chair
man of this committee. Just to
show that people who like legis
lation also enjoy life, Mrs. Back
us’ hobbies are: Theatre, fiction
and golf. As National Chairman
of Legislation Mrs. Backus was
part of the history making train
ing session in Washington, D. C.
in March of this year, when for
the first time National Council
called in chairmen and vice
chairmen for special training.
While as National Vice Chairman
I attended the Hendersonville
NCCW Institute, Mrs. Backus at
tended the Lakewood, New Jer
sey Institute. As National Chair
man of Legislation Mrs. Backus
writes the Committee on Legisla
tion plan for the year in co
operation with the planning of
Miss Irma Piepho, National Staff
Secretary and the National Vice
Chairman. _ ,
Miss Irma Piepho, Administra
tive Assistant of NCCW, is also
Staff Secretary for the Commit
tee on Legislation. Miss Piepho is
a graduate of Rosary College,
River Forest, 111, and has done
graduate work at Loyola Univer
sity School of Social Work, Chica
go, Illinois, and Catholic Univer
sity of America in Economics.
Miss Piepho is responsible for
the monthly page “Citizenship in
a Democracy” and serves as rep
resentative for the National
Council at various meetings in
her field of work. Miss Piepho
is also Staff Secretary to the
National Committees on Inter-
American Relations, Internation
al Relations, Rural Life and So
cial Action. During the past ten
years she has represented us at
such national meetings of impor
tance as Mid-Century White
House Conference on Children
and Youth; National Conference
on Citizenship. President’s Com
mittee for the Employment of the
Physically Handicapped.
Mrs. John S. . Correll, National
Vice Chairman and the writer of
this article, this year is respon
sible for closer communication
with Diocesan chairmen through
our national office by means of
quarterly letters pertinent to
committee problems. The first of
these letters has been published
and another is in the making.
The national vice chairman,
along with the national chair
man, also is privileged to study
the reports of the Diocesan com
mittees who submit annual re
ports. We urge the Diocesan com
mittee chairmen to send these
reports, and to write to us
through the national office, their
reactions to the committee pro
grams; in this way the best ef
forts of all Diocese and local
chairmen are put into one big
picture to help all the Catholic
Women of this country become
better informed citizens.
The National Consultant for the
Legislation Committee is the lay
man who heads the legal depart
ment of the National Catholic
AVelfare Conference. Our consul
tant is the man who makes sure
that any NCCW Legislation Com
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NOW THE MOST IMPORT
ANT LINK BETWEEN THE NA
TIONAL LEVEL AND THE
PARISH COMMITTEE ON LEG
ISLATION — THE DIOCESAN
LEGISL A T I O N COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN — Pictui’ed on page
six is one of the 65 Diocesan
chairmen ■— Mrs. F. P. Rossman,
Atlanta Diocesan Legislation
Committee Chairman — Pro-Tem
—She was born in Philadelphia,
followed a business career as ex
ecutive secretary in the automo
tive, publishing, manufacturing,
and national association fields
from her home town to New
York and Washington. There she
married Fred Rossman, also of
Philadelphia, and then moved to
Atlanta. The Rossmans have
lived in Atlanta since 1943. They
have one daughter, Susan.
Mrs. Rossman has been active
with the League of Women Vot
ers 1 of Atlanta since 1951 and for
15 months in ’53-54 was an offi
cial observer at all meetings of
city and county boards. She has
served as a Deanery chairman of
Legislation and since May, 1957
has served as Diocesan Legisla
tion chairman, ProTem.
Mrs. Rossman is at present
making plans for her Diocesan
Legislation program in coopera
tion with the Diocesan president
and spiritual moderator and will
be responsible for the planning
of the Legislation exhibit which
will be a part of the committee
exhibits of the First Annual
Meeting of the Atlanta Diocesan
Council, of Catholic Women to be
held in Sacred Heart Parish, At
lanta, on September 21, 1957.
As a Diocesan Legislation
Chairman Mrs. Rossman’s com
mittee members will be those
chairmen of Parish Legislation
committees in the Diocese of At
lanta Council of Catholic Women.
The Most Reverend Bishop Hy
land has selected nine of the
eighteen national committees of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, for development in the
Atlanta Diocese; these nine are:
spiritual development, public re-
j iations, organization and devel
opment, committee cooperating
with Catholic charities; family
and parent education; libraries
and literature, Civil Defense,
foreign relief, and LEGISLA
TION. While each parish coun
cil selects those committees best
suited to the interests of its mem
ber organizations, there is much
enthusiasm in each of these fields
in the Atlanta Diocesan Council
and as in all other fields of or
ganized effort, the strength of a
program is in the grass roots, the
local committees where Women
at Work are returning all things
to Christ through a program of
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