Text transcribed from caption: C-30871 AT CONFERENCE ON NEGRO WELFARE ST. LOUIS, MO. -- Officers of the Midwest Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare confer at the organization’s three-day meeting at St. Louis. Left to right, they are Father Matthew Gottschalk, O.F.M. Cap., of Milwaukee, vice-president; Father Bernardin Patterson, O.S.B., of South Union, Ky., president; Father Clement Faistl, of Columbus, Ohio, secretary; and Father Philip Allen, of Wichita, Kans., treasurer. Father Bernardin, prior of St. Maur’s Priory, South Union, Ky., is the first Negro to head a Benedictine monastery in the United States. The agency is studying recommendations that it establish a national office to assist priests active in interracial work. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RAC-STL-4C-64-W)
