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The Indiana Knights of Columbus founded Father Gibault Home for Boys in 1921 and was originally administered by Priests of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. As the facility quickly exceeded its original capacity of 25 boys, two new halls were added: Chartrand Hall was completed in 1922, and Aldering Hall in 1926.
The Columbian Squires is an international youth fraternity run by the Knights of Columbus for Catholic boys between the ages of 10 and 18. Its stated mission is "to develop young men as leaders who understand their Catholic religion, who have a strong commitment to the Church and who are ready, willing and capable of patterning their lives after the Youth Christ."
Samuel F. Williams, a black man, was a member and among other activities, spoke on the stage of the 1896 Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Convention to an audience that included two future Supreme Knights. [19] The path to individual membership in a local Knights council did not explicitly exclude African Americans. Each local council ...
The weather report across the state for the week of May 9, 2022, in Indiana was just about perfect, and yet that didn't stop 71 baseball and 19 softball high school games from being cancelled.
The Knights of Columbus was the first organization to provide college scholarships to veterans returning home from World War I. [51] The War Activities Committee first announced in August 1919 that 50 scholarships would be awarded, including tuition, fees, books, equipment, and room and board. [51]
The first Knights of Columbus state organization to recognize the Squire Roses was Washington, D.C., and was followed by the Knights of Columbus in Virginia. As of 2016, the formation of new Squire Circles in the United States and Canada is discouraged, since the Catholic Church has a desire to move youth activities from exclusive clubs into ...
The Daughters of Isabella is a spiritual, social and charitable organization that was started as a female auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus.The first circle of the Order was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1897, as an auxiliary to the Rev. John Russell Council of the Knights of Columbus for the purpose of uniting all Catholic women in a sisterhood to achieve the following aims; to ...
The Muscatatuck Urban Training Center is located on the grounds of the former Muscatatuck State Developmental Center (MSDC). [6] MSDC was created in 1920 as the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded. [7] It became one of Indiana's largest mental institutions approximately 3,000 patients and around 2,000 employees. [8]