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1 should like her to learn at least one language other than English thoroughly and have a reading knowledge of another. I should like her to spend one summer hostelling around Ontario and some other parts of Canada. preferably with a group of girls of different backgrounds and different faiths. i should like her to have camping experience, to learn self-reliance and a love of the out-of-doors that will be a point of contact with many Euro. pean young people» If she is good enough in her studies, I hope she will want to go to college. even though she has to work a year or so first to earn money for L. I should like her to have a good grounding in he arts as well as in her specialty, In college I till encourage her to have one or two outside ctivities which will bring her into contact with variety of people â€" the Student Christian Move- ient, the drama club. sports. Somehow or other hope she can spend one summer touring Europe. r from the haunts of the camera-laden tourist. She might spend a month in a service project of some sort, perhaps a work camp where half a dozen nations are represented, and where she stays in one spot long enough to feel her way into it. and where she lives with the same people long enough to learn their language and think their thoughts. If she becomes a nurse. or stenographer. or teacher. I will encourage her to spend a year or 50 moving around, taking jobs in dilferent countries on an exchange basis. learning about other coun- tries and other people. When she comes home I hope she talks about what she has learned. because she will be a woman. and a woman‘s greatest conâ€" tribution in any field is in the area of human understanding and human tolerance. While she is travelling around. I hope she writes many, many letters home. And when she has children of her own. I hope she reads this. Our National President Editor's Note: Knowing that Ontario Women's wimre members would he very much interested their new National President. we asked Mrs. trlance to tell us mnmrhing ulmn! herself and hopes and plans for the Federated Women‘s dilutes of Canada. This is her reply. l am the elder daughter of the late Mr. and rs. Donald McLarcn: we were a family of five. parents came from Owen Sound. Ontario, -th were raised on farms and although my father is a blacksmith by trade. he took up a section of id in this part of British Columbia after pioneer- : on the prairie. We were all born on the Dead od Ranch and raised there. I married a farmer .l we ran a dairy farm for a number of years. : have two children. a son and a daughter. now ah married; and we have three grandchildren. tr daughter. a Registered Nurse. married an hardist in the Okanagan Valley. We sold our dairy when the children were of ‘00] age and moved into Greenwood where my aband became Maintenance Foreman for the partment of Highways. He was superannuated l year. home years ago I commenced work in the local -\[~ol"fice and when the postmaster was super- nuated last year I was promoted to the position post-master and also supervisory postâ€"master of other seven offices in this district. By co- .idence my father was the second post-master the Kettle River area in the very early days and Years my mother was post-mistress of the 1 tie town of Deadwood, now non-existent as a : arm. 1 have been an Institute member for about 1 irty years and have gone through the chairs l 'm local to district and provincial and since l {55 I have been on the Board of F.W.I,C. I am, I leel. honoured to have the opportunity of serv- Ir’g F.W.I.C. as president and I take this responsi- lj'my with every sincerity. I know I speak for the Board when I say we FALL I959 Mrs. E. J. Roylonce, Greenwood, B,C., President of the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Canada. realize we are at a place where we have crossed the first level after a long climb. and are now ready for real national growth. We have had our national office now almost a year and it is serv- ing us wonderfully well. We found the First National Convention a marvellous experience for our membership. increating an awareness of Can- ada as a whole. Now that the second national convention is set for 196l. in B, C. our program will become of necessity. as well as desire, a national program. adaptable to all ten provinces. We have had wonderful leadership in past-presi» dents and their Boards. They have succeeded in bringing our organization to the prominence and sound functioning we enjoy to-day. It is our challenge to hold all this, and we hope. to add to it and strengthen it. Mrs. E. I. Roylance. President, F.W.I.C. 17