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Ontario Acling Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mr. T. R. Hilliard, speaking at the Conference banquet. MiSs Collett, as a yotmg home economics graduate in her first job. moved up from home demonstrator to public relations with the Conâ€" sumers‘ Gas Company, “University education is not enough,” she said. “Always be ready to take further study; every experience helps." When she found that she would be required to write booklets of recipes she took a course in journalism at night school â€" “and when you’re young it isn’t easy to give up nights for night school,” she admitted. As a public relations person she was often called on to say someâ€" thing in public so she took evening classes in public speaking; then a course in psychology, also at night school. “Sometimes,” Miss Collett confided, “an em~ ployer gives you an opportunity to take a spe- cial course because he wants to fit you for a promotion; but employers say that girls, gen- erally, aren’t interested in courses which would advance their work.” Mrs. Allan Scott, formerly a registered nurse and public health worker, now a young farm wife. made a moving appeal for the career of nursing. “The training is one of the least ex- pensive of all professions,” she said. “You liter- ally ‘work your way through college’. It gives you a unique opportunity to work closely with people. It will take you around the world if you want to travel. And what you learn will be useful to you â€" and to others â€" for all of your life." Challenge of the Future Members of a panel discussion, "We Chal- lenge You" were Miss Marilyn Stewart, a se- nior club member, who acted as moderator; Mrs. T, L. Gillespie, a mother and a club leader; Mrs. Ian McAllister, a yonng home- maker. formerly a county home economist; Jane Hare, a high school girl planning to enter 14 university this fall; Catherine Waugh, :1 young graduate nurse and Vicki Crowe, a club gig] thirteen years old. "When you apply for a job one of the illsl questions asked you is “What grade did )‘lvu complete in high school?” " said the chain-“M, “And the girl with a good education is mml likely to get the position." But, she went 0;, 1., explain. education is important for other n1. sons too. It is a part of the process of living. it is needed for mature thinking, for broadsI horizons, for not just earning a living but it. prepare for a happy, satisfactory life, One of the questions discussed was, WhC! .. girl finds herself involved in too many activit ,'apart from high school how can she dEL n: which to give up and which to continue. In . Gillespie felt that a girl should discuss this v. it her mother, trying to decide which commur ,v interests will interfere least with school . ml with her family life. Personally she felt ll it 4â€"H Homemaking Clubs and 001.1". â€" or equivalent in the church of the girl’s denomi -- tion â€" would help more than most or r activities in a girl‘s development. “If y0u an it some group activity which means only I . gOSsip, drop it," she advised. Jane Hare j that when she came to Grade XIII she kl" she must have more time for school work J she gave up the Junior Farmer meetings, m: h as she enjoyed them, knowing she could i" 2. them up again. She considered giving up ‘ r music lessons but decided she could carry (It 1 without too much strain if she didn’t tr_\ .t music examination that year. Catherine Waugh’s story of her experic: c in meeting a challenge was most import. She said that in her first years at high SCll' -1 she let social interests take precedence L‘ r study with the result that she failed in Cr c XI. At first she felt too discouraged to again but with her mother's moral support :2 went back to school, completed Grade X l. entered a hospital for training and this _\‘ I graduated in nursing â€" the vocation she l l always wanted but could never have had it 3 had not gone back to school. Asked how her college education had heir l her as a homemaker, Mrs. McAllister said 15- it even such things as algebra exercises whi l1 may not seem to have any relation to hem making, train the mind for organized thinkii 9 “An education helps me to put into practi‘c what 1 learn from books,“ she said. And sin.c her specialized education was in home 603- nomics, her family benefit by her knowled.1e of what to feed them. There are few est-11 dollars in the early days of farming and if marriage so it is a help that she can male clothes and that she has had some training H1 the best use of money. Besides, her vocation HOME AND COUNTRY