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To Branch Convenersâ€" Study your new Handbook with the suggested topics for this convenership. Keep a constant watch for any materials which you might use through the year. Your District Convener W111 be your first source of help. Use her. Report to District Convener immediately after Branch Annual Meeting. Include highlights of your year‘s study. To District CDDVBDBI'Sâ€" Duties of District Conveners are outlined in the new Handbook. Study them carefully. Keep in touch with your Branch Converters. Reports from the Branches should be sent-to you by the end of April. If you do not receive them all, then it is your duty to write and ask for them. Send your reports to the Area Convener im- mediately after the District Annual meeting. Please include highlights of the Branches, number of Branches, and the number report- mg. To Area Convenersâ€" Study the duties of the Area Convener in the new Handbook. ‘ Be prepared to aid your District Conveners in all their work. District reports should reach you by June 30. If you do not receive them all, then it is your duty to ask for them. Please give the number of Branches and Dis~ tricts reporting. Send your report to your Provincial Convener as soon as possible. Do not wait for the Oct. 30 deadline. Include in your report, highlights of meetings. follow-up discussions, and any information you think would help others in this conâ€" venership. Suggestions: 1. Workshops are excellent, if feasible in your District and Area. 2. Strive for 100% reporting. Do not be the one to let your Branch, District or Area fail in this effort. 3. Be PROMPT in your reporting. Everyone has a deadline to meet, 4. Make use of news letters, quizzes, radio programs, where available, speakers, panels, newspapers, Home and Country magazine, re- source kits, loan library, local library where there is one, and clippings which should be kept in a scrapbook and passed on to your successor. 5. Establish a regular meeting with Conveners at each level â€" i.e. District with Branch. Area with District, to discu55, evaluate and work out effective action. 28 6. Study: 21. Civic Affairs â€" democratic citizcnxlm, with emphasis on the obligations of the in. vidual; regional, municipal, provincial, federal governments. b. Legislation â€" Laws pertaining to wot-y and children; wills, estates, taxes, welfare, .-. laWs concerning legalization of such prohlc as marijuana, drugs, and abortion. c. Immigration â€" New Canadians, tights ., duties of a citizen, steps to be taken in or." to obtain citizenship. d. Current Events â€" Keep abreast ot times, be well-informed on world affairs. e. United Nations â€" Study the work of \‘ organizations as â€"~ F.A.O., WH. U.N.I.C.E.F., and U.N.E.S.C.O. The wort the A.C.W.W. representative at the U.N. ‘ the A.C.W.W. work in the different count. to raise the standard of living. f. Exchange Programs and Letters Friends FAMILY AND CONSUMER AFFAJRS Mrs. Brock Sudaby, Convener Here we are ready to change with the l and hoping it will be a forward step for organization. Family and Consumer Affairs â€" “’ilit all-encompassing title. We all are part family and definitely are consumers. The topics to be included in our year’s" gram are easily understoodâ€" Food and Nutrition Clothing and Textiles Family Relationships Housing and Home Management Home and Money Management 4H Homemaking Clubs -â€" and all aspects of Health and Safety Our organization is woefully lackin communication between the various | There is a definite communication gar. tween mast Branch and District Conw between District and Area Conveners at. tween Area and Provincial Conveners. only time there is much contact is when port is missing and the Convener recei' letter asking about it. This contact usual? fects both Conveners adversely. With tlit Convenership let us try to narrow the g3. 'k i’ * See ye not, Courtesy Is the true Alchemy, _ Turning to gold all it touches and tries? George Meredith it * * HOME AND COM-tka