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in December Miss McKercher and I attended the Awards dinner at the Federated Colleges. Guelph. where I presented the entrance awards to Macdonald Institute. In March I attended the Girls‘ Sessions of the Junior Farmers Conference at the same place. The Girls’ Ses- sion was well attended with our Mrs. Drayson presiding. and we enjoyed a fashion show by the Mac Hall students and Miss Jean Mcâ€" Dougail's report of the Board Meeting. I con- ducted the election for the new Board Director for the Juniors, since Jean was completing MISS Elizabeth Barker‘s term. In the evening I at- tended the 50th anniversary banquet. One of the guest speakers at the conference this year was a young woman who is studying at the Coady Institute, Antigonish, N.S., sponsored by the Junior Farmers through the Share-A- Loaf campaign of the Freedom From Hunger Organization. A native of Holland, she is a social worker in Pakistan who felt she needed more training in leadership. The things she told us of conditions in Pakistan are a direct echo of the facts given by Mr. Hulse in his address to the Officers” Conference last year. On April 16 a delegation of six: Mrs. Lym- burner. Miss McKercher, Mrs. Florence Mont- gomery of the Canadian Restaurant Associa- tion, Miss Margaret Calder of the Hospital for Sick Children and Mrs. Linda Johnston from Mt. Sinai Hospital. and myself met with Mr. Stewart, Mr. W. G. Davis and Mr, E. Biggs to present the emergency resolution regarding Macdonald Institute. We were very well re- ceived. Correspondence has been heavy, much of it being in protest of the increased membership fee. In addition to the letters which have gone out from Toronto abont 95 have gone from my home. I appreciate having received letters and clippings from some of you Board Memâ€" bers and if at any time you have suggestions you wish to make for the good of the organiza- tion, they are very welcome. Report on Jury Duty This delegation was led by Miss Margaret Hyndman and Mrs. Trivers as F.W.I.0. repn resentative, along with a representative of the Business and Professional Women and Zonta Clubs. The delegation asked that there be an amendment to the Jurors’ Act, the deletion of the words “I being a woman am released from Jury Duty." The Women’s Institutes are In sympathy with this amendment and will sup- port the Clubs leading this delegation. Rural Readership Forum Mrs. Trivers gave the following report of the provincial Rural Leadership Forum. The meeting this year was held at the beauti- ful new Y.M.C.A. Building, Geneva Court, 6 Office of Secretary-=- Treasurer Open for Applications the Federated Women’s Institutvy ; i 0,,_ topic will be vacant at the tiim i ii Annual meeting of the Board of Dina .m in November 1964. The services of a it iliiipd bookkeeper and typis! are required. '1‘; pm. {ion entails the keeping of a set of boat-t i i rin- General Accounts, Investments, Selim“. .iiipt‘ Life Membership Funds and spec-inf um! funds. It also involves the carrying on _ gm, eral correspondence, minutes of Flt’i i- and committee meetings, arrangements fell "riil‘u‘ meetings and clearing of business arisiii. i')‘(‘- from, Inquiries for further details Silt» “ in directed to Federated Women’s India of Ontario, 20 Spadina Road, Toronto â€"-‘ llm see Hand Book, page 51, section 5 iii-5 :ng 52, section 13. Applications for the position will (in an. tember 15th, after which applicants wt!“ in- terviewed by the committee at 20 '- iiim Road, Toronto 4. 3’ [HE position of Secretary-Tremuw, ,m if Lake Couchiching. 67 delegates attendc cp- resenting the Federation of Agriculture. 'iot' Farmers, Women’s Institutes and Hon. ind School. There were a great many your! iii-o- ple in attendance as well as one farmer his eighties who was very lively and yon at heart. The court is ten miles from Orillin we were a self-contained unit, you might sa- [\t- tendance and interest were good throi out the week. After registration on the Sunday evm ; a getâ€"acquainted session was held, in whit. met the members of our discussion grout nd had to state why we had come or win we hoped to gain from the sessiOn. The then or the forum this year was “We and Our ' imâ€" munities.” A week before, each of us had “CU sent a questionnaire to complete, asking - ital we considered to be our community and iii? its employment opportunities, its facilitit- “In. der 9 headings), and what in our opinion our communities needed most; how our com tin- ity had improved and regressed over tht: Wit 2.0 years. These were for the information of Dr. Helen Abell and I have just receivun‘he‘r analysis of the reports submitted in Satin-Mi 5 mail so I cannot give you her conclusions. Each morning the first hour and a hall MS spent with a speaker who directed our thOl'3h[S to one aspect of community development. Monday Prof. Ralph Dent dealt with “AD 0" HOME AND COUNIRY