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Home and Country Today As Reviewed at the F.W.I.C. Triennial Convention By Ildn Holder T WAS TRULY a National Convention in 1 every sense of the word, the Third Naâ€" tional Convention held at Acadia Univer- sity, Wolfville, N.S., from June 22â€"26. 1964 â€" a gathering of enthusiastic members from the ten Provinces and an observer from the Northwest Territories who crossed Canada from West to East to meet and take stock of “Home and Country â€" Today”, both in Canâ€" ada and throughout the world. This was not a time for retrospect, for looking back and reminiscing on past achievements. It was time devoted to assessing the present and looking to the future, for viewing the growth and de- velopment of the projects undertaken at the Second National Convention in 1961. and for broadening our horizons far beyond those of our own shores. From the beautiful setting at the University. a telescopic View was taken of the globeâ€"encircling organization which exists today and the magnitude of the work waiting to be done by willing hands in our bountiful country, for those who have not been so for- tunately endowed. Anti Canada and the world watched. as evidenced by the greetings showen ed upon this Convention. Messages came from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; from the Rt. Hon. L. B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada; from the Hon. Harry Hayes. Federal Minister of Agriculture: from the Hon. Arthur Laing. Minister of Northern Affairs and National Resources; from His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. Henry F. MacKeen; from the Hon. Robert L. Stanfield. Premier of Nova Scotia; Special guests at the con- vention were: Second from left, Dr. Margaret Nix, speaker at the banquet; next Mrs. L. F. Semmler at Indian background, an ob- server from the North- west Territories. At ex- treme right, Mrs. John McLean, Nova ScotiU, Senior F.W.I.C. B o a r d Member. A? left, Mrs. Jus. Huggerly, F.W.I.C. retiring President. FALL 1964 from Mrs. Geerda Van Beekhoff. President of the Associated Country Women of the World; from Mrs. Keith Rand. A.C.W.W, Area Vice- President for Canada; from Mrs. Graham Spry. F.W.[.C. representative of the A.C.W.W Coun- cil and Chairman of the A.C.W.W. General Purposes Committee: and from many other very important people and from other National organizations. From the President of Acadia University. founded in 1842. came the state- ment that “Women’s Institutes are a uniquely Canadian product." None of the nearly six hundred delegates and visitors attending the Convention could fail to be impressed with the prestige in which our organization is held in the eyes of others. nor could they hpr being proud of having the privilege of being a link in a society of friends. In her opening address to the Convention. Mrs. Haggerty set the stage when she said: “And what are the boundaries 0! ‘our (‘oune try"? . . . With automation and communication making such strides in progress. what is new today is outdated tomorrow. our country can- not he bounded by lines that separate Canada from the rest of the world. The universe is our neighbour and concern for people in other lands is a ‘must' for us. As long as there are hungry people in the world. our responsi~ bility must never waver . . . our Country has become the wide world." THE ROAD AHEAD The Convention Banquet on the first eve- ning featured Dr. Margaret Nix. Associate Proâ€" chSOr. Dept. of Health and Social Medicine.