The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-18

delighted to have the privilege of hear
ing the chairman of the American de-
partment of the worlds work.
While the conferences and all the work
incident to the several meetings has been
so well arranged. the business side OF
the conference, the many details that
had TO be completed for so large gath
ering, has been left to Miss Burnard,
the business manager of the conference.
The result has been that the annual
meetings held by the American commit
tees and the committees of the gulf states
are as finely organized as it Is possible
to make them.
Besides Mrs Gladding, who so ably
presented the worldwide reports or the
association, the conference was addressed
last night by Mr.. Robert Il. Speer of the
PRESBYTERIAN board of foreign missions.
He is a superb speaker and hundreds
of young women listened to his inspir-
ing messages His work in the collegi-
ate department especially has made him
well known to the conference.
The gulf states are well represented.
Mrs Arthur MncDermette Wilson of At
lanta. chairman of the gulf states com
! mittee Is present, and, in fact. no con-
ference would be complete without her,
as she has for years been an actlVe
worker among southern women in organ
izing associations. Through her untirlng
efforts interest in association work mas
never been allowed to flag in that desul-
tory way that means death to any or
penization She is a most interesting
woman, bright and attractive and fond
of society She is well known in the
south. having been regent OF the Atlanta
chapter of the Daughters OF the Anerl-
can Revolution, and equally prominent
in the work of the Daughters OF the
confederacy. She is one of the few wo-
Al fn prNQf1lllZR
ments into something tangible, and to
hold together organizations until they
mean something beyond merely the cleo
ton of officers and the annual meetings.
Mrs. Wilson will visit Birmingham IN
November at the meeting OF the gun
states conference. 81,
Miss Stafford secretary OF the Iuil
states association, and who has been
guest of the Birmingham association, IS
attending the conference. Miss Louia
Lake, the former secretary OF the BIZ
minpham association, is among the
Young women seen at all OF the sessions
Birmingham is represented at the con-
ference by Miss Mabel Wheeler, the sec
rotary of the association, whose work
has made the organization one Oh the
most successful in the gulf states.
Miss Wheeler is familiar with every
department of work, but she naturally
has been most interested In the vari-
Gus reports made by the city associa-
tions.
Miss Morton of the Birmingham SEMI
nary and Miss Bergman, who IS MEM
her of the faculty are among the proml-
mont women at the conference. Win
bright party of seminary girls, they ar
rived at Kenilworth inn some days ago.
Miss Morton and Miss Bergman are es-
pecially interested in the student work.
his branch of association work now ex-
tending into hundreds of schools and col
ieges throughout the country. MISS MOT
ton considers it one of the most heipiul
q pencies. and she promotes in every way
the work of the Y. w. G. A. among col.
lege girls AS one of the principals OF
one Of the leading schools for young
women In the south, she Is in daiiy
touch with hundreds of girls, ana sne
hos seen from the work accomplished
b,, the Seminary association the possi-
hi,ities of student organizations.
The young women in the seminary
,,.rtv are, besides Miss Bergman MISS
Eannie Little. Miss Ellen Warnock, MISS
pose Gillespy, Miss Elizabeth Grove.
rshe seminary girls formed a picturesque
group on field day. when the hunoreus
Of Young women. in white gowns anu
carrying the pennants and coiors OF .ne..
diefarent schools, made brilliant pictoie
On the terraces at the inn.
Miss bergman. who Is grauua'e