Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1968, page 6

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Mrs. l. R. Trivers: Miss Nancy Hook, Home Management Department, Maedonaid Institute, University of Gpelph; Mrs. Clarence Diamond; Dr. Mary E. Singer, chow-man, Department of Home Management, Mucdonald Institute, University of Guelph, and Miss Elizabeth Miles, Depart- ment of Textiles, Clothing and Design. Macdonald Institute, University of Guelph. Photo courtesy of lhe Audio Visual Services Dept., University of Guelph. A donation of $125 from past National Presidents, Mrs. E. V. Roylance and Dr. Nanâ€" cy Adams, as gifts for the Women’s Institute 70th birthday in 1967, has been left with the Northern Canada Women‘s Institute Commitâ€" tee for consideration and recommendation. Miss Helen McKercher will represent F.W.I.C. on the panel at the A.C.W.W. Trien- nial Conference. in Lansing, Michigan. The panel is entitled “Learning To Live" and Miss McKercher will speak on the topic. “Consumâ€" er Education." Mrs. L. R. Vear, Discovery, Northwest Terâ€" ritories, and Mrs. M. Lambert. Destruction Bay, Yukon, will attend the A.C.W.W. Conferâ€" ence as Federated Women’s Institutes of Canaâ€" da aceredited visitors. Mrs. Vear and Mrs. Lambert will be carrying on the field work in the Northwest Territories in 1968. More than 2,000 copies of “Heritage of Caâ€" nadian Handicrafts" are still available from the National Office. F.W.I.C. expects to present their brief to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in October. A desk set with a base of Canadian Centenâ€" nial coins is to be presented to A.C,W.W. from F.W.I.C. The next Tweedsmuir competition project will be held in 1970. Later in the Board meet» ing the Directors voted to participate in Cul- tural and Handicraft projects. Provincial dead- line for entries to be received is February 1. 1970. Mrs. Kozdrowski will continue as editor of Federated News and Provincial P.R.O.s are asked to assist in supplying material. 6 F.W.IO. accredited visitors to the Co: - ence will be: Mrs. Milton Pardy, Mrs. E 1.] Armstrong, Miss Florence P. Eadie, Miss i h E. Moyl-e. M153 Betty Kirby, Miss Roser Clark. Mrs. Philip Rodgers. Mrs. John 1 t- head and Dr. Helen Abel. F.W.I.O.’s or; ii delegates, chosen at Annual Board Met- 1, were assigned to plenary sessions as foil Mrs. Austin Zoeller. Resolutions; Mrs. Rollins, Finance; Mrs. Clarence Dian1 i. Publicity; Mrs. Stanley Bride, Constitu ' and Mrs. John Bell, Policy. I I Mrs. R. Westlake gave a detailed outln‘ -t tentative plans for the Ontario lot]! it A.C.W.W. delegates from other countries. A.C.W.W. Report Mrs. E. Small. presented the Spring rt of A.C.W.W. Registration for the Trier Conference in September has not been as i as expected and we are awaiting inform: re U.S.A. day, September 5, when a quot 5,000 was set. Each constituent society may send one at c for an Amateur Art Exhibit at the Confer L’ and Board members later accepted Miss - Kercher‘s offer of a hand-made quilt \she purchased last year. Societies are t asked whether they feel the A.C.W.W. l towel should be up-dated and F.W.I.C. \‘ J in favour of this. New description sheets for Unesco-i it Coupon #390 have been prepared. Unit v. which is sponsored by A.C.W.W. has been :3 named “Nutrition for Better Family Ln ' and the Villa Maria project in Colour South America, which had been Unit 5. is been given the code number FH/Col. 3. Mrs. Haven Smith was to have started Er ‘â€".:1ru ri,;_i HOME AND couu EV

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