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The rocking chairs were pre- sented to the Davey Home for the Aged in Sou” Ste. Marie by West Tarentorus Women's institutes. The nurse in charge at sick cure and the superinâ€" tendent of the Home test the chairs for comfort. Institute officers are in the background. with us, then they were introduced and each told why he was here and what he was study- ing. They answered many questions and sang our Christmas carols beautifully in English. They were thrilled and said they would surely remember this Christmas in Canada. We think if we had more geHogethers like this it would ease the color barrier." Bayview reports: “We studied from Home and Country reports of Institutes in the far North. We bought a Coupon 367, had papers on the Indians and Eskimos of the North West Territories -â€" such as ‘Housekeeping in an Igloo'; ‘Homebuilding in the Arctic”; ‘The Story of Eskimo Artists’; ‘The First Eskimo Boy Scouts’; ‘The Story of Oskiak’, Eskimo for owl â€" a six-inch doll dressed in seal skin: stories of Clare Brant, a Mohawk Indian now a medi- cal student on a scholarship at Queen‘s Uni- versity; of James Gladstone, the first Indian in the Senate at Ottawa; and Alfred Scow the first Indian to graduate as a lawyer from the Uni- versity of British Columbia." Maple Ridge had a local woman, a native of Holland speak on “The Netherlands, Home of the A.C.W.W. President." Kooka had a New Canadian Night at which new Canadians set up displays of their handi- work and spoke briefly about it. Fordwich: Our citizenship convencr arrang- 8d an exchange program with Bullinghope Women's Institute in England, through the A.C.W.W. office. The preparation of the pr0« gram we sent to England created a great deal of thought and interest. We enjoyed the ma- terial the English Institute sent us and we feel we have made some friends and broadened our horizons”. . . On International Day the speaker was a South African teacher at the district high school; and the Motto was given by Mrs. FALL 1964 Wm. Karo a Japanese Canadian graduate of Toronto University Walton says: “We had a missionary from Hong Kong speak and show slides which really brought the terrible conditions there home to n us. Seymour East had a paper on Indian and Eskimo women. Delhi sponsored a high school student going to the U. N. Seminar. Teeterville: “Two of our members spoke on their native countries. Hungary and Belgium. Refreshments were Belgian honey bread. Hungarian sweet bread and Canadian fruit bread with coffee. Several branches held UNlCEF Hullowe‘cn parties for school children. Snelgrove: “Members divided into ten groups and drew the name of a country at a previous meeting. Then each group prepared a short program on that country and gave it ill the International meeting." Mar‘s International program included a talk on “Why Women Should Know and Underâ€" stand World Events," "What Economic Aid Means to Forty Countries" an explanation of the Colombo Plan and a quiz on persons of international tame or notoriety. Clarksburg had an address on “The Educa- tion of Indians in Ontario." Brooke reports: "In our 4-H Homsmaking Clubs we have a number of new Canadian Dutch girls. These girls go [o n Scpumtc Dutch School but in the clubs they get to know the other local girls, They also learn Canadian ways and introduce some of them in their own homes. Sometimes they introduce us to something from Holland.“ For their International meeting the convcncr was a Dutch Canadian member who arranged for the showing of a film on H01- 35