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.,L tits L. Ft‘. Trlvers, Pas! PreSIdent 0/ FWIO, holds bouquet .tresented to her at the testimonial dinner, Pressntatton of 1A C Medal by Dean Switzer. Photo Saul! Daily Star MRS. L. R. TRIVERS Mrs. Leonard Trivcrs tnee Mary Ahleson) was ‘orn tn Algoma. She taught school. and then. In 1938. harried Leonard Trivers. In 1939 they began farming ltl Kynock. and Mrs. Trivers joined the Victoria Women‘s Institute. The family moved to a farm near fhessalon in l945. and she transferred to the Royal branch. in 1948 when the Queen Elizabeth Women's lt‘hlllUlE was organized in her community. she became 1 Charter Member. and Life Member. Mrs. Trivers has been actively involved in various letels of the women‘s institute organization. She was elected a provincial board director in NS"). and in NM was elected president of the Federated Women's lttsltltltES of Ontario. serving until 1905. She headed the Ontario delegation to the Conference of the Asso- .tated Country Women of the World in Ireland in 1905. She served as second vice-president on the na- tional board of the F.W.l.C. until I973. retiring from nfiice because of her husband's health. The Trivers family have a close assoeiation with the Ontario Agricultural College and University of Guelph, The father. Leonard Trivers. entered the OAC. in 1935 but. after one year. returned home beâ€" cause of his father‘s death. There are seven children. four sons and three daughters. Three sons received de- grees at the University of Guelph. and a daughter be- gan studies this fall. [1 is fitting that Mrs. Leonard Trivers be awarded an O.A.C Centennial Medal for her contributions to rural life through the women‘s institute and :15 £1 homemaker in northern Ontario. A; m Mrs, J H. Fulcl‘rer, Past PreSident of FWIO, displays her O A C Medal Immediately after presentation by Dr C L Swirzer, at London Area Convention. MRS. J. R. FUTCHER Mrs. J. Robinson (Dorothy) Futeher was born in St. Thomas. She taught school and then married a dairy and cash crop farmer. They have two daughters. one of whom graduated from Macdonald Institute. and two sons. one of whom is an Associate Diploma graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College. She joined the Middlemarch Women's Institute and served as President; later she was President of Elâ€" gin West District. She was elected to the Provincial Board. and became Provincial President in 1947. She led the Ontario delegation to the Associated Country Women of the World Conference in Copenhagen in 1950. and was Program and Hospitality Committee Chairman at the [953 A.C.W.W. Conference in T0» ronto. She was awarded a Federated Women‘s Insti- tute of Canada Life Membership for her efforts. She has served as a Director of the Royal AgriculA tural Winter Fair. She assisted with the Tweedsmuir History of Elgin County. and spearheaded the estabâ€" lishment of the Elgin County Museum. opened in May. 1957. Her weekly column. Museum News. in the St. Thomas Times Journal. is widely read. From 1956 to 1970 she was a Member of the An chaeologieal and Historic Sites Board of Ontario. in I955 she was appointed to the Advisory Comâ€" mittee for the Macdonald Institute. and later. became a Member ofthe Advisory Board for Conjoint Adminâ€" istration of the three Colleges, It is fitting that Dorothy Futeher be awarded an O.A.C. Centennial Medal for her contributions to ru- ral cultural developments in her community. and pro vincially, nationally and internationally. and for her services to the educational programs of Macdonald In- stitute and the Ontario Agricultural College. 23