Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1973, p. 20

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F.W.I.C. PRESIDENT An adopted Nova Scotian. Mrs. .Iohn McLean t‘rom Eureka. was elected Presidcnt ol' the Federated Women‘s Institutes ot‘ Canada at the National Con- vention held in Band" in June. 1973. Ellen McLean. graduated from McGill University in Arts and Library Science. Her work lead her to Gc- neva. on the stafi‘ of ILO with the United Nations. The work of the Women's Institutes in Nova Scolia has involved her at all levels. Besides holding many of- fices in Springville Branch and East Pictou District. provincially. she held the Cont'enership of Legislation and Citizenship: United Nations and International Exchange: and President. Nationally she served as Covener of Citizenship and Education: Senior and Junior Board Director. Member at Large. second Vice President. first Vice and on to the top. as President. Internationally she has attended the last four Con- fcrences. Her capacity for involvement in Community aCIi\'i- ties is almost unlimited. A weekly radio program. her church. half a dozen County organizations. chairman of the MacPherson’s Mills Farm Homestead Com- mittee as well as the Maritime Co-operation Services Consumers‘ Committee. All this as well as a busv housewife and mother of three. u Federated Women‘s Institutes of Canada Officers and Conveners: Triennial Term. 1973-76 Executive Committee: Honorary President Mrs. E. V. Fulton. Box 212. Birtle. Manitoba ROM 0C0 President Mrs. John A. McLean. Eureka. NS. Ist Vice-President. Mrs. Austin S. Zoeller, RR. 2, New Hamburg. Ont. NOB 260 20 [ST VICE PRESIDENT Mrs. Austin Zoeller ol‘ RR. 2, New Hamburg; ’ .. been a member lor the past 36 years of the Hair it Womcn‘s Institute Branch. Waterloo County. Sit. .., held oltices and converterships in the branch. til [I Guelph Area and as a Director of the Fruit .| Board ol‘the Federated Women‘s Institutes ol‘On .. She was elected F.W.I,O. president in I968 and t. .i a three year term. She has held the position of Public Relations cer l'or F.WI.0.. chairman of the committee I'm . 75th Anniversary celebrations of the founding n .» Ontario Women‘s Institutes. chairman of the - .. miltee for purchasing and renovating the Erlantt i; Home at Stoney Creek. and chairman ofa comm appointed by F.W.I.O. for revising the Handbn. .i the Ontario Women‘s Institutes. Mrs. Zoeller has been honoured for her coat - tion to Women‘s Institute work by being prest l with life memberships in the Haysville Branch District of Waterloo South and the Associated t. trywomen ot‘ the World. This outstanding Women's Institute career . started when Margaret (Sudden) Zoeller becat t member ol‘ the Ontario Junior Farmers. She h.: A ways been active in church and community afi‘air I was awarded a Centennial Medal in I967. Margaret and Austin live on a farm near Hamburg. and have two children and two gr children. 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Joseph Bielish. Box 67. Warspite. Alta. 3rd Vice~President Mrs. Neal Burden. RR. 3. Nackawic. N.B. 4th Vice-President Mrs. Frank Ross. 20 Hawthorne Ave. Charlottetown. P.E.L Directors-at-Large: Mrs. C. L. Alexander. Cayley. Alberta Mrs. Clarence Diamond, Box 81 I. New Hamblll‘é- Ontario NOB 200 Mrs. A. K. Seggic. Holbein. Saskatchewan

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