Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1964, p. 26

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Mrs. Philip Carr, extreme right, with her night school class in Millinery. Mrs. Carr learned millinery through Women's Institute home economics extension courses. â€"Fhotn by J. A, Morris, (ourtesy Prescott Journal people may see the blocks at once. For pro- tection each masonite page is covered with acetate. Recalling that among the reasons listed for choosing quilt blocks for the handicraft com- petition was the collecting and preserving of old patterns as well as making them available, West End members wonder what better destiâ€" nation could have been found for their book than to have it placed in the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead. property of F.W.I.C. Short Course Leads to Vocation By Mrs. Bruce Connell HEN MRS. PHILIP CARR a member of Maynard Institute took the exten- sion course in Millinery with Miss Nora Creyke as instructor she was "smitten" with the millinery idea. Later in the year she took the course again with a neighboring branch. Then she went to the course in Lead- ership Training at Kemptville Agricultural School. In the autumn of 1963 Mrs. Carr applied for a position as Millinery teacher at Night School and was accepted. Soon she was teach- ing night claszzes at both South Grenville High School and Brockville Collegiate. Forty-five ladies attended her classes and are high in their praise of her abilities as a teacher. In addition to this, Mrs. Carr does remodel- ling, designing and repairs to hats in her home. Quite an outstanding result, I feel, from a De- partment extension course. 26 Adeption Project Popular By Mrs. G. Sawyer NDER THE SAVE the Childn, I l the members of Gilford Womt stitute are sponsoring a child it Kong for the second year. The bu: Yan-Kay is twelve years old and live. Simon's Hostel, 3. home for the chil,‘ workmen and fishermen. The money ceives from the Institute is used to blu and in general assist in his education. An Institute member writes to him larly and letters return telling of his p»: He writes that he is interested in tooth. that he helps his father during the holittzw was delighted to receive a set of oil p equipment for his birthday. This yew member of the Institute will send a gilt card. We have a special interest in this he because one of our Institute members daughter taking a scholarship university in Hong Kong and she visited the boy a Lim Chung Hyun, “I? 't' another boy irom the Orient sponâ€" sored by Thom: lon Institute. .‘lilfl in, mg 0W SI. HI [L’- .iil‘s‘ nu. wx’, HlLl l lilfl me his HOME AND COUNTRY

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