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Canadian elected ACWW president Canada’s Dr. Ellen McLean was elected ACWW president in Van- couver â€" the first ACWW president to be elected on her own home soil! Dr. McLean defeated Mrs. Phyllis Howard and Mrs. Fayola Muchow, both of the United States, in the presidential race. She is a farm wife and mother of three, from Eureka, Nova Scotia and was born in Winnipeg of Danish parents. Dr. McLean became a WI member in 1953 and was Nova Scotia's president from 1963 to ‘65. From 1973 to ‘76, Ellen was presi- dent of FWIC and later became Area Vice President for ACWW for Canada in 1977. Currently Dr. McLean is chairman of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, vice- chairman of the Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Pensions. vice- president of the Atlantic Ecumenical Council and has served as weekly hostess for 3 WI radio program since 1966. In 1976. Ellen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish. In 1981, she was ap- pointed Officer ot‘ the Order of Canada. Dr. McLean also finds time for her community where she is a church worker, a 4-H leader for the past 19 years, has served as a municipal councillor and a school board trustee. Her job as ACWW president will extend for a three-year term. until the I986 ACWW conference. which is to be held in Northern Ireland. Marion Timmins . "he" "_ Dr. McLean Members are life blood, says outgoing president Mrs. Westebring-Muller, the world president of ACWW, in her opening address. expressed pleasure and con- sidered it an honour to be welcomed by the hostesses in Canada. “Many delegates have been look- ing forward to this event for three years with the triennial conference ol‘ ACWW to be a highlight in their lives.” said Mrs. Muller. "Life and contributing members havc come to meet again and to visit as our American friends say. with each other, to take home personal impres- sions, ideas. experiences and lessons for the future. All of these life and contributing members are the public relations officers of ACWW. and each of them is contacting the ones at home who are the grass roots of the organization. What would we do without its members at the grass roots. They are the life blood of an organization. it is through them that ACWW receives information that can be used as guidelines. Resolu- tions. and recommendations give an organization instructions to imple- ment or instruct the top councils of the world in such a way that these desires cannot be ignored. in the past ACWW worked on its own but now it is cooperating with other non- governmental organizations to send in our mutual voice on specific items, and it gives our actions more weight." Mn. Muller thanked all the Cann- diun members for their I'lnuncial conâ€" tributions which made tltc conl’crcncc possible. Mu) Brown Constitution changes squelched Prior to the Plenary Session at which the ACWW Constitution and Amendments were to be dealt with. the FWIO Delegates together with some of the accredited visitors met to consider all aspects ol‘ the proposals which were to be put forward, and to agree on the course to be taken, At the Plenary Session, 232 amendments to the proposed new Constitution were considered with approximately one-third being carried. However, when put to the votc the amended proposed Constitution failed to receive the two»thirds majority necessary for its adoption and so the present Constitution will stand for the next Tricnnium. It is to be hoped that from the very open discussions which took place at this Session a new Constitution will eventually result. At a later meeting of the Con- l'crcncc Constitution (‘omntittcc chaired by Senator Martha Bcilish, n more \tlcccsslul rcsult was obtained when thc dclcgulcs (one from each Constituent Society) considered :1 rc- qucsl from the Prcsidcnlittl Area. which has been in csistcncc I'nr Forty years and consists of countries itt South America and the Currihcun, that they be allowed complctc Arcu Status with the right to nominate and clcct u Vicc-Prcsidcnt. A unanimous solution acceptable under the Con stitutton was reached and u recom- mendation made that the World Prcsidcnt appoint a Co-ordinator for Arca No. 9 at prescnl classified as a Presidential Area. pending rcdcslgnalion and the necessary pro- cedure to nominate and elect an Area Vice-Prcsident at the next l‘ricnnial ('onl‘crcncc. Iris (Joy nt-