SCHOOLBOY MEMENTO

A visitor to the new disused St. Charles School at Brentwood, Essex, is going back home to Windsor, Ontario, with a memento of his schooldays of more than 40 years ago. The visitor was Mr. William Donovan, and the memento is a brick on which he had marked his initials in tar when he was a pupil of the Irish Sisters of Charity there.
ROAD SAFETY TROPHY St. Kevin's boys secondary school, Leeds, has won the championship trophy in a road safety contest sponsored by the education committee and city police. A record number of 1,132 teams competed.
ABBEY SCIENTISTS
An exhibition illustrating the original work of scientists, doctors and engineers buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey opens in the Great Hall of Westminster School on Monday. It will be open, except on Sundays, until September 3. Modern developments in science will also be shown.
WORKSHOPS OFFER Plans of the Council of Social Service of the London borough of Richmond upon Thames to start workshops for the retired elderly people of the borough have been advanced as a result of an offer by Fr. S. F. Dommerson of St. Margaret's Church. He has offered two large rooms rent free in a house used as a church hall.
RICHMOND REBUILDING After many years of waiting, the governors of St. Elizabeth's Catholic primary school, Richmond, Surrey, have been told that the rebuilding of the present school, erected in 1871, has been included in the 1967-68 programme approved by the Minister of Education. A new school, costing £66,000 and providing 280 places, is expected to be built in Queens Road.
FARES PAID
Children travelling more than a certain distance in public vehicles to Catholic schools in the Kesteven area of Lincolnshire are to have their fares met by the education committee. This applies to children between five and seven travelling over two miles, those between eight and ten 21 miles and those over 11 three miles.
TIMBER CLASSROOMS New classrooms made of Norwegian timber and imported by a Brighton firm were opened last week at St. Paul's Catholic secondary school at Haywards Heath. They were assembled in three weeks, and a saving of 30 to 40 per cent. against traditional methods is claimed.
WOMEN'S ROLE St. Joan's International Alliance is holding a discussion and open forum on women's role in the Church at Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk. Chelsea, on August 26 between 2.30 and 5.30 p.m. It will be opened by the president of the Alliance, ,Mme. Leroy-Boy.
NEW CATECHISM A new six-volume Catechism, integrating the spirit and decrees of the Vatican Council, will be introduced in Dublin primary schools in the next three years. Three of the books were written by Mary Purcell, a teacher, and the other three by Brother J. C. Moore, of Dublin. They include hymns, prayers and meditations as well as the instructional text.
MONKS WITH ANGLICANS
Two Trappist monks attended Anglican ordination and baptismal ceremonies in the Anglican Cathedral at St. David's, Pembrokeshire, at the invitation of the Anglican Bishop. He had previously visited their monastery in Caldey Island, of the Welsh coast.
CONVENT IN INDIA Mother Josephine D'Oyle and Mother Claire Horrigan, of St. Cecilia's Convent, Ryde, Isle of Wight, have arrived in India to establish the first Benedictine
convent there, at Kengeri, near Bangalore. Eventually it will have 300 pupils, and seven Indian nuns are being trained at St. C,ecilia's.
ROAD TO NAZARETH Tomorrow's episode in the ABC Television series "Journey of a Lifetime", produced by Terry Ashwood, is "Taxi to Nazareth", featuring Anne Lawson and John Bonney. Whole John acts as Good Samaritan, Anne explores by herself.
COST OF SCHOOLS Bishop Ellis of Nottingham, opening a new primary school at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, spoke of the financial difficulties ill bringing a new school into existenee. "A school like this," he said, "Which does not replace an existing one, is built at the entire cost of the Catholic community, with no grant from the Ministry." And no "hidden Vatican resources" were available.