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th h an- ": 3mg? lnsfltuwtgdgzsgy' I Eii'eal meeting here ' nam- ' \ Stanley Stevens n2" mar ey'fsi'xst vies pro??? 1959 to i " s o 'ce m e TEEGEJfiVE are: :mndsfisf "maiden, Mrs. Le :- Ausun rSignetaryutreasurer, ~ den ' . 'Efiyleiifisf'efi .Browiilee,d; ms" . Ar ' 'rillbim Starratt 3'" at McKBYv m8, - Committe'?5 appofiea l 1 Standing" Economfis P3}, Trantor; _' eytion.M'5- D atAiiichnrds 1"" e rn ; c ' m'w zawp'ifis 313w, while Mr. Seek Home- By HELEN SUDDABY Sault ' Star Correspondent PORTLOCK -- Another 4-H Homemaking Club Achievement Day has come and gone. In ' 1two wccks the, Women's Insti- tutes district annual meetings for 1959 will be past history. Where is the proposed Algo- ma Scholarship Fund for girls of the Homemaking Clubs? It still is just a dream in the minds of a few dedicated Wo' men. True, a few branches have offered to support such a fund. But some are indifferent and many report they don't under- stand it Perhaps this will make all clear and raise the enthus- iasm enough to make a reality of a dream. . Unlike the 4-H Potato Clubs. Calf Clubs and Forestry Clubs the Homemaking Clubs are non- competitive. Nor do they have any service club to assist them in their work. Each member must attend at least six meetings for each unit, keep a record book, make an exhibit at Achievement Day and attend Achievement Day herself to get credit for her work. AThe sponsoring organization, in all the Algom'a Clubs it is the Women's Institute -- pro- vide leaders and pay transport- ' i ation toTraining Schools and to Achievement Day, help with sup- plies for the unit and some- times provide the record books. The units are of different types; five are cooking, five are sewing. two on house fur- nishings, three on gardening and one each on health and hospitality. ' But as important as these units are the member learns far more 1: leadership 3 she conducts mee' as secretary: £1" able funds are sponsibility as she comes to meeting with needed supplies or lunch; cooperation as the group works together, pinning on patterns, making casserole dishes or bandaging; assurance as she demonstrates to'her classmates the proper way of doing things as diversified_as sewing on a button to setting a table correctly. At the end of each unit, if the club leader and'home econ- omist think she has progressed, each member receives a sterl- ing silver spoon. After each two units she receives a certificate. When six units are complct-. ed the sponsoring organization is asked to provide funds for a county honour pin and the De- partment of Agriculture pro- vides a provincial honor pin for the completion of twelve units. Each year the home econom- ist selects four girls to attcnd the 4-H Homemaking Conference in Guelph in early July, and another four to attend the CNE in late August. Her choice is based on the number of units, girls ability to go and her club work. But there is much incentive in any of these awards to make any girl out- standing. A scholarship is a sum of money given to an outstanding person. There are two ways the Women's Institutes might raise the money. ' The first and perhaps easiest way would be to assess each branch $2 yearly for as long as the award be given. In this way the scholarship would amount to approximately $88 each year. But someone would have to be responsible for col- lecting this amount, reminding the branches, in arrears, issu- ing recei ts an not too' d; accounting to money for 3 Scholarship is to provide a sum of 52.000 m be invested and the'interest used to provide the Scholarship: If each of the 44 Algoma W._I. would donate $50 the Soholarship would be a reality in 1960. But W.I.'s are.not moneY- making organizations. Instead they are adult educators and leadership trainers. Fifty dol- lars is much more than some branches make in one year and from this the needs of their communities must come first. So lhat the smaller branches would be able to contribute their share, a suggestion was made that the fund remain open for six years. In this way the smaller groups could surely do- nate $5 or $9 per year while those whofelt able could send in the full amount to be put in a bank where intErest would help to build the fund. In 1958 three of the four Al- goma districts appointed a member to the committee to study the matter with these dis- trict members reporting to Mrs. Brock Suddaby as to their dis- tricts' wishes. To date 11 branches have sig- .nified a willingness to partici- pate in raising funds for Algoma Scholarship Fund. Perhaps this article will lead to some action at the 1959 dis- trict annuals so at least a start can be made by 1960. If the Women's Institutes and any other organizations can pro- vide the funds for a scholar- ship for Homemaking Club members, our home economist Miss Phippen and the Director of Homemaking Clubs, Miss Florence P. Eadie of Toronto will provide a worthy Home- making Club member who has not only completed several un- ' shows such qualities as hip, responsibility and in- the