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f National Convention Report New F.W.I.C. President . . J BERNICE B. NOBLITT Bernice B. Noblitt, a native of Alberta and a resident of Ottawa and area for the past 25 years, has been elected President of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada at the National Convention held in Frederic- ton. NB. in June. 1982. She had held the position of President Elect since I979. Mrs. Noblitt is a graduate of Ed- monton Normal School, has taken courses at the University of Alberta and Carleton University in Ottawa. She has taught public school and high school and was a high school principal for three years. She lives at Gloucester. Ont. arid has been a supply teacher in the Ottawa area for many years. In l971. Mrs. Noblitt was elected President of the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario. a position she held for three years. While serving in that capacity. she travelled to ACWW conventions in Oslo. Norway; in Perth. Australia where she led the Ontario delegation: and in Nairobi, Kenya where she was a voting delegate. Although FWlC is an organization of 50.000 mainly rural women, Ber» nice Noblitt sees it as an extremely valuable one for the homemaker, the academic and the woman who seeks involvement in current issues, par- ticularly so since it is nonâ€"sectarian, nun-political and non-partisan. Her ob- jectives include policies that will keep the organization strong and viable in 20 rural Canada while projecting that image and giving it visibility everyâ€" where. Women‘s Institutes have been a part of Bernice Noblitt‘s life from her girl- hood in Waskatenau, Alberta where her mother was a devoted WI member. While teaching near home, Bernice joined the WI temporarily since ‘she “was driving Mother to meetings anyway." Following marriage, she left Alberta with her mining engineer- metallurgist husband for the mining camps of Northern Ontario. No op- portunity existed for W] participa- tion until 1944 when they moved to Combermere, Ont. where she then joined the WI and served two years as its secretary. When a new WI was being formed in her present location 22 years ago, she was invited to be its first president. She accepted and moved steadily up- ward from Branch to District Presi- dent, to Federation Representative and to the provincial board as Board Director. She was FWJO President for three years, served three more as Past President. She then became Vice President for Ontario on the FWIC Board. As Past President, she was on. tario’s converter of resolutions. is Ontario’s Vice President to Fun she summarized a law book on r. if. ried women‘s legislation and l. sis as they pertain to children in Can. ‘3. She has prepared FWIO and PVC briefs for submission to the Rt 1| Commission on Violence in the Cl .i. munications Industry and to the Ct _ A number of honors have Ct re Mrs. Noblitt‘s way because of :r dedication to WI work. She has in n awarded a life membership in AC" 'i' from her WI District; an award is been set up in her name by the i:- tawa Area WI (her home area); a she was the recipient of the Que. ‘3 medal in 1977. Community involvement outs r the sphere of her WI activities has - eluded church work 7 CGIT lear. A ship, Sunday School teaching, at i work and a life membership in . WMS. She has also been involved 1 the Red Cross and public speaking. She has one daughter, four gra. 7 children and “a husband who suppr 3 her in all her endeavours because behaves as firmly as she does in . - objectives and worthiness of Women’s Institutes.” F WIC Officers â€" 1982â€"1985 Past-President President President Elect Vice Presidents â€" British Columbia 7 Alberta 7 Manitoba â€" Quebec 7 New Brunswick 7 Nova Scotia 7 Newfoundland National Executive Secretary OWEN w. HAWKINS,R.n. misnomer NOL 1:30,: '9‘ a Mrs. Emmie Oddie, Sask. Mrs. Bernice Noblitt, Ont. Mrs. Beatrice Reeves, P.E.I. Mrs. Jacquelyn Linda Mrs. Bette Ballhorn Mrs. Lois Neabel Mrs. Ina Kilgour Mrs. Beryl Burgess Mrs. Jennie E. Mclnnes Mrs. Audrey Woodman Mrs. Janet Morgan, FWIC Office ire " e tion are available. Cost is $5.00,each.Hgaselsehdrcherffie an. o