Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1953, page 26

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Members of the Oshweken Women's Institute, Six Nations Reserve, at their twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. Mrs. H. M. Hill, centre at front row was presented with a life membership, the presentation being made by Mlss Lewis who was guest speak2r at the meeting. Mrs. Hill has served as brunch president, brunch secretary, and district president for South Brant, and has taken an active interest in the Hamilton area. A Bond Through Basic English Among her many human welfare interests, Mrs. E. E, Morton of Vegreville, Alberta, past president of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada and vice~president of the Associated Country Women of the World, has been active in teaching basic English to New Canadians, and has gone so far as to send Basic English books to a group of rural women in Norway. These books are issued by the Canadian Citizenship Branch of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration at Ottawa. The following letter which Mrs. Morton received recently from Bergen, Norway, shows how well the Norwegian class are progressing in their study of English, and how effective this study has been in establishing a bond of friendship between women in Europe and in Canada. This is the letter: “We are celebrating the end of the season for English courses and we all want to send you our love and gratitude. We are indeed indebted to you for your inspiring talks about Basic English, and for your kindness in sending us books. We have had a busy year and we feel that we have learnt some English. The worst part is not to be afraid to open our mouths. We are so dreadfully afraid of making a fool of ourselves. It is of course vanity, but our teachers say we must throw ourselves into deep water and sworn ashore. It doesn’t matter so much in what manner we reach the shore as long as we get there, In Sandvike at Mrs. Saeveruds house we meet once a week and we have two pages to read and translate and we must know all the words by heart. As a rule Mrs. Saeverud is content. We are all housewives and must of course take care of our homes first of all and we can’t always get enough time to learn our lessons as well as we ought to. We can’t honestly say that the difficult English words rush 26 out of our mouths as fast as peas “U! I a bag, but still our aim and hope is In I able to make ourselves undel‘sluur] would be lovely if we could get 5W; Canadian housewives to visit us. mm m distance is far too great, and we nun-1 map“ the best of the summer tourists. 1.7an us have chances to meet them hill”: and hotels during the summer 51%,; Mrs. Saeverud plans to Visit Can; H. m, year, and we are looking forward =o all about the World Congress in 7 m h,,'_ loved Canada when she returns. ' 1M} ‘ and pray that all is well with M yours and may God bless and keet (The letter is signed by twentyâ€"foul om, members of the class in English.) We quote this letter partly for it interest, partly because it seems to . way in which some of our own 01- stitutes might be of service to New l women coming to our community. hard to teach English with the to Basic English book, which can be from the Department of Citizenship migration at Ottawa. * it i 'k * i "What is it then to live? To is to talk with the world. \Vork, I love and worshi are four good of keeping up t e conversation. â€"â€"Dr. Richard Cabot in “What i Live By.” Every member of Mit‘berto lnstituts, South Tin; tor-1w. had 0 Part in making this Sul'ada Tau competltwn 51"" shown at Englehart convention. HOME AND comm

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