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Here and There With the Women’s Institutes More Gleanings From Reports of Meetings In our last issue we had part of the notes taken from the secretaries’ “Reports of Meet- ingsj’ Following is the rest of the material taken from these reports:â€"Editor. More Outstanding Programmes Programmes on historical research and cur- rent events were cons1dered the most outâ€" standing in a number of branches. Highland Park appreciated “seeing what had been put in their Tweedsmuir history and the old pictures yet to go in." Lee Valley, Little Rapids and Massey said that the members' lack of knowledge of the community's history showed the need of historical research. At Massey the members brought antiques and heirlooms from their homes and told their histOries. Bethany had papers on "The History of Bethany School,” “Advantages of Living in Grandmother’s Day" and “Advantages of Modâ€" ern Living." At their meeting they had an opportunity to see the renovated schoolâ€"some- thing in the way of a current event. Harrowâ€" smith reports: “Through a talk by a librarian from Queen’s University we learned what ‘his- torical research’ means." The feature of Mano- tick's outstanding programme was "a local man telling of life in the village in his youth." Bowen Road combined its historical research programme with a visit to the Museum at ‘Jordan. Manilla: a programme on “Old Houses” with songs in keeping with the theme. Glasgow’s programme dealt with the possiâ€" bilities of a museum in the district. At Giliortl four members told the histories of their farms and the roll call was "A beauty spot in thc township." Haystack Bay: a meeting to which members brought antiques to be shown in an exhibit at the fair. In Unionville’s historical research programme, a member traced, with diagrams, the journeys and settling of llircc pioneer families in the neighborhood. Activities of the Women‘s Institute in the community are reported later; but a number of branches considered their programme on Community Activities and Public relations the outstanding one of the year. It will be noted that many of these meetings take in the whole communityâ€"good public relations. South Tarentorus reports that a study of Child Safety resulted in a metal safety police- man being placed at a dangerous traffic inter- section near the school. At MacLennan as the result of an addreSS on Group Hospitalization 3 group was formed in the community and the 0”“?ng district. Allenford placed first a social evening with the programme prepared by the men. School children contributed WINTER 1957 speeches and each speaker was given a “prize” of a dollar. Solina: an address on Mental Health at a meeting with the members' hus- bands as guests. At Corinth the girls of the 4â€"H Supper Club planned and prepared a dinner in the Hall. The Institute members and the girls' mothers were guests. The girls stayed for the regular meeting that followed. The secretary adds: "We feel that we may have interested the girls' mothers in our Inslilulc work." Rodney for its Community Activities and Public Rela- tions meeting held a mock country fair "which provided lots of gnyely and fun." Antrim held a meeting in the school with lhc children providing the progrnnmie and the Institute serving a bean supper. Bothwell's Corner had :1 panel discussion on Public Relations, dealing' with the following questions: "Do we receive enough publicity locally and provinciully'.” “How can we crcnlc more intcrcsl in our local radio pronrnmmcs'?" "What is the proper mcnninc oi 'non-pohlicul' as used in our llzmcl Book?" "Whnl is lhc cor- rcct inlci'prctalimi of 'l'itll'lASl‘t'lilI‘lilll‘?“ "ls lhc selling of lickcls and holding rallies and bingos :1 good way of HHSlltt: moncy for lhc Institute?" Mount Albion: :i lncclmu oi which lhcy cntcrlnincd four ncighhoi‘lug lnslilulcs and "tho district alliccrs \\'('l'l' llll'l't' .‘IIHl Sllllkl‘ briclly," ‘Willoughby: lhu :Iimuril lriciirlship tea and Inslilulc mcclmp. to which :ill lhc women of Hip comimmlly .‘ll‘l‘ lll\'ll(‘(l. South Gillies: llic mill-tint: nl which lhcy lllSl‘ll‘i‘il‘Il having :1 night school in lln- l‘llllllllullll)’ rntllr standing lll'l‘;lll>-l' lhct' ":iclimlly lim'l lhc might school and Il licin-lllcrl many in lhc commu- nity " Bolt-lover says of lirt [)mm‘nmnn- on Cum- mumly Activile nod l‘uhlir iii-lotions: "'l'hc pupcrs brouan homo to us our ilulics us nciglc bars and our pl'npct‘ pIm-i- in our public rclnr lions with othcr groups." Salford rcporls u dcbuti- which wc think must lluw- hurl inch us well (is womcn (lchnlcrs: "llcsnlw-rl that n woman (low. :1 man's work lll‘lll'l‘ than :1 mun (loos n woman's work." Rossenu lian n lunchâ€" cnn for tin:- lmllus ul' lln- community :it. which fivc new mcmln-rs )l)ll||'(l llic lllfilllllll'. Brit-h School in lJ-lldfl had a nil-clng wilh sin-ukcrs on Crmpcrnlwc Nll'tlll‘ill Scl'yiccs and Form Forums with n pom-l nml opcn (lim'ltmzinn fol- lowing. ('rediton says: "All our progrunimcs wcrl: excellent but wn thought. lhc highlight of thr- vcnr was the night wc [1.5.ch our r-ldcr citizens in turkey banqucl. Glen Gowrie and Gods-hill placed first their parties and moi-tings held at the County Home with thc rcsirlcnts of thc- Humc taking part in the programme. 25