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Pennies for Friendship After eight years of hard work on the finances of the A.C.W.W., with each year‘s budget of reâ€" quirements increasing much faster than the re- ceipts. and after several enquiries have been made into possible grants towards the work of the A.C.W.W. had all been unavailing, I became conâ€" Vinced that the members of A.C.W.W. would have to pay for the work themselves. I remembered that Local Authorities make large sums of money by means of a very large number of small contributions and the idea flashed into my mind “Why not apply the same principle to A.C,W.W.?” I took this suggestion to our President at that time, Mrs. Watt. She looked at it and said, “It seems harmless," and told me I could draw up a report on the subject and show it to the Comâ€" mittee. After calculation, 1 found that it would be possible to put the contribution as low as one penny per person. per year. This, I hoped, would Oakland’s Book Quiz Big;- Eilitor’s Note." Hearing that Oakland Women’s Institute in Bran! County llfld for three years conducted a book quiz for school children we asked the president at that time, IUrs. Gerald Ripley, to tell us about it. This is Mrs. Ripley's reply: I had read in Home and Country about the Book Quiz held by Elmview Women’s Institute, and being president of our Oakland branch I was on the look-out for new ideas; also. being on our local school board I was “school-conscious.” Our committee consisted of four members plus myself. Two were former Institute members and teachers, new teaching again. Two were former teachers now young married women and not In- stitute members but nevertheless very much inâ€" terested. Two other mothers assisted when two dropped out over the three-year period. Our com- mittee met early in the fall of 1956 and letters were sent to the teachers telling them about our proposed project and asking for their co-operation. As there are only two schools in our Institute area with about sixty students in one school and forty-five in the other. the quiz was open to all students who wished to enter, but mainly from Grades 3 on. We divided into two groups: Juniors â€" Grades 3 to 5, Seniors â€" Grades 6 to 8. Juniors were required to read three books. Seniors five. The first year we gave everyone entering a book as prize and also prizes to first, second and third place winners. We tried when possible to hold our book quiz on the Thursday before Easter, Questions (about twenty per book) were prepared by different com- mittee members With the answers attached to he used by the quiz master. Our quiz masters were 26 be the answer to the oft repeated request fro country audiences for a cheaper contribution 111:; the £1 Contributing Membership, or thy 4/5,] for the paper “The Countrywoman”. ' I announced the idea in my finance spurth at the 1939 Conference in London. It was then hiilcd by Mrs. O'Connor and Mrs. Stofherg ol smut] Africa as a good idea and I hoped that it might indeed be so. The fund grew slowly at [1, {I in” later grew steadily, till the years ’55-‘57 it iii-tried between r£9,000 and £10,000 a year. I 1953 the total rose to £12,000, but this ycm- m m] alas, to £10,000. Let us hope that after this year‘s great :2. ant- cessful conference many more will feel it . on, work is worth contributing to. Editor's Note: In recognition of outsmmi. L-t'l'l- ice, Mrs. Drage has been made a Mow. i [ll Honour of the Associated Country l‘VOlncr. [lip World. l lit our School Inspector, Mr. I. C. Webster {he first year, and his assistant, Mr. Ward the next two years. They made the childrm .1 .1[ home and were a big help. When possible we chose books by t Jllitll authors_for prizes, as for example, one ' we gave Kristlees Trees by the late Mabel i mm. It proved to be so well liked that we chr : lot a quiz book the following year. We foo titer the first quiz, that girls didn’t mind rend ms” books but boys didn’t care to read girls” is, One difficulty encountered was that bLll mills didn’t always have the books chosen b_\' .m- mittee or the same edition, and for this i- in we bought the books for the schools the last I and presented them to the school library. 1" Ash- ers co-operated well and this is very no. M” in order that one pupil doesn‘t keep a ho: 1.1le the library for an indefinite time; also to .l‘ “1' couraging the pupils. Some of the books chOSen for read: there: Paddy the Beaver, Peter Pan, Wind in lVIl' lows, Robinson Crusoe, Black Beauty. 1 i 3:111" yer, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, ll. mrlet Force, The Force Carries On. We found that where the parents were :f't‘Slt‘d and expected their children to enter we h.. a A good response, although we didn’t feel WC J “50' good results in encouraging poor readc'! W UK? the interest we had hoped for. Juniors "We eager to participate than seniors, and v Wind that older pupils who were quite CaPi‘l"' 0f m tering and didn't take an interest had a w Ami“? in]; effect on others who might enter Mi 3 We encouragement. Hams AND igOUNTl"