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Oflicers’ Conference "When planning for a year, sow corn; When planning for a decade, plant trees; when planning for life. train and educate people” Kwan Tsu The 29th Officers‘ Conference, May 3-5 held at the University of Waterloo attracted 510 Conveners of Citizenship and World Affairs. Education and Culâ€" lul'ai Activities and Family and Consumer Affairs. “Let‘s Sing” sessions were again in charge of Mrs. Hugh Baird and Mrs. Wm, Stone both of Sunderland. Dr. Matthews The University President Dr. Burt Matthews welâ€" i~omed the delegates to the campus stating that “the \V1 has been known to me from the days of my youth growing up on a farm near Kerward." Briefly he told the history of the University of Wa- .crloo which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. ln 3957 there were 75 engineering students enrolled now here are 18000 across Ontario in such programmes as ,ngineering, human kenetics, optometry, physics etc. l'here are 38 buildings on the 1000 acre site, 250 of .hich are developed, the remainder rented. The co-op -.rogramme plays an important role, (halfthe students ire in this programme) four months alternating work wperience allowing students the opportunity to work nd attend classes alternately. Dr. Matthews said “Education is our business“, were never has been a time when education is more .Irtportant, to know ourselves and know our country :ud how our country will continue to remain a great nation. Director Speaks Miss Molly McGhee, attended the Conference uaking her first appearance as the newly appointed ")irector of the Home Economics Branch she paid trib- rte to the leaders who support the programme. It was nfinterest to note that the total number of participants uiking part increased over 8%. New appointments announced were. Lorraine Holding. Home Economist in Halton and Fee] to Re- gional Supervisor in Guelph and Heather Barnett. Clothing Specialist, Toronto to Kingston. Vacancies in .ome counties will be filled as quickly as possible. Excellent planning over the past 80 years has reâ€" vulted in the training and education of many memâ€" 'lEI‘S. The membership has made a great contribution. and will be called upon to play a much greater role in the future, assisting the rural population especially. to rope with the problems and changes that will affect life from now until the 100th anniversary. Along with the problems we may see many imâ€" provements and new methods of growing crops. using minimum tillage to prevent soil erosion, the control of weeds with bio-degradable chemicals. upgrading of protein content in cereal grains and the hybridizing of additional crops. Worldâ€"wide, we may anticipate the advancing of food technology, particularly the modification of plant protein, so as to provide meat analogues to the many millions who cannot afford palatable and nutritious meats, milk and eggs. Miss Molly McGhee Director, Home Economics Branch Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food delivering keynote address to delegates. Hopefully family planning techniques will improve and there will be greater public acceptance of the smaller family, so that mankind may move out from under the malthusian shadow. It was T. R. Malthus who said the population tends [0 increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence, and that wide- spread poverty and degradation of the lower classes inevitably result, unless population growth is checked by moral restraint or through disease. famine or war. At home, we are already experiencing changes in agriculture and family life. these will continue. Agri- culture will lose its uniqueness. the future demise of the family farm. Cash receipts are declining and pro- duction costs increasing, resulting in a substantial drop in total net farm income. The family farmer will relucâ€" tantly give up his historical role of supplying all the factors of productionfland. labour. capital, manage ment. The production of crops will require larger farm enterprises, so that a single person will be unlikely to supply them all. World markets. oil prices, and energy shortages will continue to determine whether we become inâ€" creasingly vulnerable to continued inflation rates. with their consequent, increases in unemployment rates. All of these changes will afiect family life. Many believe that there is no such thing as the family today. This may be very distressing to members of FWIO whose motto is "For Home and Country”. However Miss McGhee said we must be realistic in 1977 and recognize that there are many types of families. apart from the nuclear family; communal, unmarried fe- males with children, unmarried couples living to- gether. and divorced. separated or single parents with 5