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noons; “Understanding Your Teen-Asa”â€" 4 afternoons. _ Events of the past few years and particu- larly this last year, with the A.C.W._W. Con- ference meeting in Canada, have given In- stitute members a live interest in their re- sponsibilities as citizens. The extensmn serv- ice course “You and Your Citizenship“ is really a conference on a woman’s citizenship respon- sibilities as an individual, as a member of the family, as a parent and as a member of the community, the nation and the world. Thls is a one day course. V A few years ago the Women’s Institutes asked the Department to provide a course 1n “Cultural Activities” â€" a course that would develop cultural interests in literature, mus1c. art. drama and a deeper appreciation of the things at hand, as learned through natural science. This course has been very well reâ€" ceived. It takes one day. Then there are the courses planned to strengthen and improve the Women's Institute as an organization by training women in “How to Conduct Meetings,” “Programme Planning,” “What Makes a Good Officer,” "Effective Speaking.” Each of these is a one day course. Applications for courses will not have to be made before the end of June, but it is not too early, now, for Institute members to be considering what phases of the service might be of most interest or help. Each Institute is free to choose whatever course it likes, pro- vided it can get a class of the required number. (These numbers are given in the bulletin “Extension Services for the Homemak 1953-54,” copies of which were distributegm members last spring.) ‘5‘ If there is difficulty in getting the re u. , number for the class from the head Infiltll'e} very Often this can be solved by asking or two neighboring branches if any of ,h’f members would like to join the class {if structors have found very lively, stmul‘atf; classes where neighboring Institutes i we 5:" two or three or a car load of Wome. 101-“? the group. But it is more important tilâ€"3",; bringing in visitors from outside, to W m every woman in the community is 1‘ med the course whether she is an Institutl Nomi-p or not. One president had a warm new; when she invited the women's ergo 23th.”; of the local churches. And almost ey. “4,6,, the officers seem to be more COHSCim of th- importance of publicizing a courso mm the local press and radio. Wherever extension services are 1,-9.1 H is important to serve as many womc s p03. sible. So we would suggest that Inst for courses only when the members :. interested and are ready to support 11 «._ 7 with their attendance. It is not neces \- ,- an Institute take a course every year 51- um it take a course at any time; but 11 “1,5, we are being so wisely reminded .1 m. Women's Institute is, first of all, an ad hung] organization it is likely that more 1.1 mm branches will want to promote 1| adult education especially planned and ties "1] in homemakers. In Memory INCE our last issue was published, the Women’s Institutes have lost two friends of long standing in the deaths of Dr. Helen Macs Murehy and Miss Gertrude Gray. Dr. Helen MacMurchy 'From the earliest days of the Women‘s Inâ€" stitutes, Dr. Helen MacMurchy, then a pracâ€" tising physician in Toronto, was the organi- zation's staunch ally. Her warm personality her human understanding and her way of in-' terpretmg medical science in the most under- standable terms, made her a popular speaker at conventions. Later when she went to Otâ€" tawa to head the Maternal and Child Welfare Diwsion of the National Department of Health her “Little Blue Books" were circulated and read by Institute women all ma Canada Always keenly interested in the problems of the mentally defective or otherwise handi- capped child, when Dr. MacMurchy retired from Ottawa she did some valuable writing on this subiect. One of her books Was “The Almosts," now out of print. At this time too well after she was seventy years old she'took' over the health departments of two magazines and had a wide following of readers. F 1. few years she traveled about, giving her . lec- tures at the Normal Schools of Onta . and Some Of the younger women ‘in the 1 lines will remember her as guest speaker ; Giiis‘ Conferences not so many years ago. Dr. MacMurchy enjoyed remarkabli saith until. in her ninetieth year she was . .L‘iIé-R with an incurable, lingering illness. 5 died last summer at the age of ninety-thre Gertrude Gray Gertrude Gray was one of the Won-.1 -' 111' stitutes’ early field workers. After tt 11:: I1 “Domestic Science” course in Toroni Mr.- Gray did her first work with the = 1131!“ Women’s Institutes in 1903, giving den’ -II'-=' tions in Foods and Cooking and speak ,1 “ll various phases of homemaking, In 19‘ am 1907 she did extension work in New State and Ontario alternately and f1‘01 19” to 1912 she assisted in organizing gr" ‘5 “‘ rural women in Delaware and Ohio; '01: in” demonstration-lecture courses were intr 11M 111 Ontario in 1912, Miss Gray was ‘8”? steadily employed by the Ontario W 6“: HOME AND C0"NYRY