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Al the Officers‘ Conference. Miss Florence Reynolds. F. A. 0., Washington; Mrs. Front row, left to right: Nancy Adams, Saskatchewan, First Vice-President, F. W. I. C.; Mrs. J. H. McCullozh, Sec'y, F. W. I. 0.,- Mrs. R. G. Purcell, Pres., F.W,I.O.; Mrs. R. G. Marshall, who spoke on United Nations; Mrs. J. R. Fulcher, Past President, F. W. I. 0.; Miss Anna F. Lewis, Director. Women's Institute Branch and Home Economic: Service. Back row: Mr. and Mrs, R. Kidd, who provided music for the conference. Programmes With a Broader Vision Notes From the F.W.I.0. Officers’ Conference once for Women‘s Institute presidents and secretaries at the Ontario Agricul- tural College on May 1 and 2. The conference theme was, “programmes With a Broader Vision". Welcoming the delegates, the College Presi- dent, Dr. J. D. MacLachIan, observed that we are in a year of very high costs in farm opera- tions, also in a time of restricted markets. "At the College we are very conscious of farmers’ problems". said Dr. MacLachlan, “and We are anxious to do anything We can to reduce, even by a few cents, the cost of proâ€" ducing a pound of beef or a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs. Anything the Women’s In- stitutes can do to help along this line will be a valuable contribution to agriculture and country life.” Dr. Margaret McCready, Director of Mac- donald Institute, thanked the Women‘s In- stitutes for their scholarships and their general interIESt which has had a valuable influence 'in getting certain extensions made to the Home Economics Buildings such as the craft centre and home management apartment now being built. Macdonald Institute, Dr. McCready said. is now the fifth largest of the fourteen home economics schools in Canada â€" surpassed only by the Universities of British Columbia. Mani- toba, Toronto and Macdonalcl College, Quebec. If the school is to meet its responsibilities it OVER 1100 women attended the conferâ€" SUMMER 1952 should have a Child Study Centre. and audir torium for large meetings and demonstrations. and class rooms for post graduate studies. More residence accommodation for students will soon be needed too_ Dr, McCready hoped these improvements would have the support of the Women's Institutes. Mrs. R. C. Purcelll President of F.W.I.O_. opened the conference and expressed her satis- faction on finding that almost all of the eleven hundred delegates were attending this annual conference for the first time. The women came from points as far west and north as Rainy River‘ Kenora and Cochrane with a good rep- resentation from over the whole prownce. Miss Anna P. Lewis, bringing greetings from the Women‘s Institutes Branch, recalled the planning of the first conference, under the en- thusiastic leadership of Mrs. Futcher and of Mr. W. D. Tolton, “with his everâ€"ready Willâ€" ingness to cooperate for the good of rural folk“. Miss Lewis saidY "Officers' and Conveners' Conferences have gone down in Women's Institute history as an annual event fashioned to help our Institute leaders to give of their best and develop a more abundant life in then‘ rural communities". The National President Speaks Commenting on the conference theme "Pru- gramme With a Broader Vision". Mrs. Hugh Summers. President of F.W.I.C. remarked that 9