Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1964, p. 6

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McGill University. in her final speech before leaving the next day for a new career in another country. In a most stirring address she urged that W. [. members spearhead an attack to imâ€" prOVe the calibre of the teaching profession. particularly for very young children. A good teacher should regard her profession as the un- folding of a human personality. Only a teacher who is adequately prepared and who loves and understands children can give them a sense of self-esteem, an ability to adapt to situations without changing their principles, an indepenâ€" dence which will help them to make good deâ€" cisions and to think clearly, and an emotional stability to enable them to cope with the prob- lems of the world. A child should be taught to care for his neighbour and the world, and quali- ty and ability should be the criteria, not the colour of the skin. All humans grow from the head to the feet, and so do nations â€" if we have goodwill all things will open up to us. “Proud members of a proud organization such as yours can teach the lion to lie with the lamb by turning your lights outward into all the world.” At the close of the Banquet a very interest- ing and unique presentation was made on be- half of the Nova Scotia Minister of Agriculture to Mrs. Haggerty, Mrs. Spry, the Provincial Presidents and Mrs. H, G. Taylor, National Secretary. These were specially engraved cer- tificates of the Order of Good Time, the oldest Fraternal Order in Canada founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1606, representing fellowship and good cheer. All delegates and visitors to the Convention received similar unengraved certificates, courtesy of the Government of Nova Scotia. “The Devel0pmental Society" was the subject used by Mr. Guy Henson, Director, Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, to show that every country must be a developing counâ€" try because we are living in a rapidly-changing present which will lead to a very different fu- ture. The real rural community in cam, disappearing into history and is being ruj by a low-density urban community, who nomic conditions range from mild dept to shocking poverty. Democracy provm machinery of government for justice am in a world of conflict and gives the -.- good for the greatest number of peopii emergence of long-view planning in bot' areas and towns is the road to the fun. study of social facts shows that in SEV't‘. dred years there will be “standing won, on the earth with the present rate of pop growth. He stated that the future we more demands and more challenges that pioneer days because of the Chung€must come about in our developmental ~ THE HUMAN FAMILY Dr. J. Roby Kidd, Chairman, (7. Committee International Co-operatiOn who addressed the Convention on the “Home and Country and the Human [- expressed the same thought of widening ons and reiterated that Canadians must i unto themselves alone. He briefly outli. purpose of ICY and what it hopes to plish in 1965, the year selected for the because of the 20th anniversary of the ing of United Nations. For Women‘s it every year is International Co-operatio but he suggested that our effort be in through educational programs among 01. bers and in our communities; that we t our support of projects such as Gift I No. 367, Myore Plan for India and tlv dom from Hunger Campaign; that we new projects; and that we exert influt our political representatives. In conclu quoted from a prayer of J. S. Woou “What we desire for ourseIVes we wish To this end we take our share in the work and the world’s struggles.” At the conclusion of his address. sented Mrs. Haggerty with a Silver ICH These were pre5e the Nova Section the Good Time right: Standing Ted Adams, Ntld. G. Taylor, Notion teary; Mrs. Hurpr' N.B.; Mrs. Grnh« F.W.I.C. Represeii‘ A.C.W.W. Counci‘ V. Fulton, Mom; G. Ramsay, P,E.| â€" Mrs. M. G. Aha..- Mrs. L R Ont; Mrs. 105. H Mrs. R. C. Poll-n- Mrs. F. l. Former. HOME AND C0" [in is lacuj NCO. .lon the AtiET lest [he Ural A lill4 at” Itjn .i I er Ihe tch ,7”. .m. iECl ilLi- illefi at. ted m- iLlE loll lie. lCh OD he [h .t“. id‘s ll'C' ialv wth :r at t IO Mrs. 1,3. with. Spry, e to 5, J. tting -erts. 'verS. .arly; B.C.; NTRY

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