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A vislor at the Officers' Conference, Mrs. Davis from Rhodesia (second left) with Miss McKercher (left), Mrs. Austin Zoeller and Mrs. Everett Small. The Annual Officers’ Conference “To live for oneself alone is not to live at all.” This quotation front the words of the late General Georges Vanier was the theme for the 1969 conference for officers of the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Canada. Mrs. Austin Zoeller presided for the two- day sessions which opened in Memorial Hall. University of Guelph at nine o’clock on Wednesday. April 30. Over six hundred dele- gates participated in the opening by repeating the Women's Institute Ode and singing 0 Can- ada. Mrs. Zoeller. the newly elected president welcomed the delegates and told them that their participation w0uld assure them of a meaningful and happy two days together. The president introduced MiSs Helen Mcv Kercher, the Director of the Home Economics Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Food and the Honourary President of the Fedâ€" erated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario. Miss McKercher brought greetings from the Home Economics Branch and expressed her delight at becoming the honourary president of F.W.I.O. and for receiving the official badge. She assured the members that she felt eminent, celebrated and illustrious since no other person has a badge similar to hers. Miss McKercher explained her statement by saying “It is said that a person is eminent when he or she has something which makes her stand apart from others in the public View." SUMMER 1969 Miss McKcrcher continued. “Women's Instiâ€" tutes with the combined thinking of all mem» hers and positive leadership can continue to grow in the next forty years. We must aim not merely to build bigger. but to build better to improve the quality of life for all mankind. Our community is the world and I think we all agree that we must think and plan in terms of people outside the Women's Institute. There is no reason if the leaders in the Women's Insti- tute have foresightedness and courage why you should not continue to flourish. The need for what you have to offer increases with every new development of science and society," John Ruskin said “And (is we build fl let us think we build forever.“ Mrs. Zoeller expressed the gratitude of the F.W.I.0. members and the delegates for the use of the facilities of the University of Guelph and said that Women's Institutes al- most considcr the University of Guelph as a Women‘s Institute home. She welcomed Dr. Winegttrd. President of the University and the Deans of the Colleges who were present at the opening sessions. Addressing the delegates. Dr. Winegard said that he hoped that Women's Institute members would be coming to Guelph for conferences. et cetera for many years to come; that he felt that so many of the students who are causing unrest on university campuses have come from 13