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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE Prepared and presented by Mrs. Lily Walt April 22,1988 The century in which we live, and which is so quickly drawing to its close, has been auaaof enormous change. The whole world has been involved in a period of growing pains wherein we have eXperienced at the same time both unspeakable tragedy and sincere efforts toward human betterment. As women, we have attained a position of merited importance in a country where, when the century began, we were not even allowed to een so much of what has been accomplished by that to which has been applied the term, Women's Lib. But the change to which I refer has been a development, not a demand for certain rights and privileges. It has been a birth of our organization in the little group of Women at On April 22, 1913 a meeting of local women was held at the W.W. Ward, North Lakeside with Mrs. Jonathan Talcott of Bloomfield giving expert guidance to the pro- Mrs. Ward, Rae Weeks to her Consecon friends, dicated teacher in several local schools when teachers were most unusual. It was she who was be president of the newly formed Consecon Branch, - ion which she held for nine busy years. Mrs. Ward find a loyal supporter in her capable secretary, Mrs. Those early meetings were held mainly on the Friday evenâ€" . r before the full moon â€" â€" â€" not a matter of super- or of romance ---purely a matter of convenience. mobile was not yet a common form of transportation; t that lady drivers were even less common. Rural ec - I susp d it most convenient to be accompanied by a wives foun