Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-31
CAPITOLA IS
COLLEGE SHRINE
SOUTHERNERS REACH THE Y.
w. C. A. CONFERENCE
Much Pleasure and Profit in Store
for the Organization, Which
Has a Ten Days Meet
Ahead
BY Vera Brooke

CAPITOLA, March SO.-Tired and
happy and here.
Capitola, that point which has been
uppermost in the thoughts of college
girls of Southern California, as well as
many of the northern sisters for many
weeks has been reached at last.
Tomorrow the annual students con-
ference of the Young Women's Chris
tian association of the Pacific coast
will open.
The Southern California delegation
arrived here at 10:30 o'clock tonight
and the 14O girls of the party, repre-
senting Occidental college, the Uni
versity of Southern California, Po-
mona, Normal school, Girls Collegiate
school, Sherman Indian school and
Long Beach high school, were met by
a large delegation of girls who had
arrived here earlier in the day from
Berkeley, Stanford and other northern
colleges.
A large summer hotel has been
turned over to the Y. w. G. A. dele
gates, caterer has been employed and
the girls will care for their own rooms.
Field Sports
Many of the meetings will be held on
the beach, and in addition to the regu-
lar sessions there will be all sorts of
field sports and sightseeing excursions.
Before the arrival of the train from
the south tonight the girls from the
north were informally addressed by
Mrs. Lawrence Thurston of New York
city, secretary of the students volun-
teer movement among American COL
leges, and Miss Florence Simms of Chi
cago, national city secretary.
New Features
The girls of Occidental are to have
charge of the reception this year and
they expect to introduce many unique
features.
The Southern California delegation is
the largest ever sent north. The rep
resentatives left the Arcade depot this
line. A special car was decorated with
college pennants.
Occidental sent % delegates, Pomona
81, U. S. C. 10, Girls Collegiate 3. Whit
tier college 7, Los Angeles normal 4,
Whittier high school 1, Long Beach 4,
Sherman institute 4. Friends of the
girls came to speed them on their way,
and not a few of them of the sterner
sex, who enlivened the parting with
yells both loud and characteristic.
The girls reserved their efforts in that
line until they were we'll on their way.
For Ten Days
The conference will last for ten days
and the speakers will include: Rev.
William Horace Day, d. D., pastor of
First Congregational church, Los An
geles; Rev. Dwight E. Potter, pastor of
Presbyterian church, Oakland; Rev.
Hugh K. Walker pastor of Emmanuel
Presbyterian church, Los Angeles; Miss
Helen Brooks of Mills college, Cali
fornia; Miss Emma Hays, city secre
tary for the American committee;
Miss Bertha Conde, student secretary
for the American committee; Miss
Ruth PaXson, student secretary for the
American committee.
Mrs. Lawrence Thurston, New York,
secretary of the student movement,
will have charge of the missionary in
terests of the conference. Miss Mar
garet King will be the missionary |
guest of the conference.
Rev. William Horace Day will teach |
a course in 1.-THE Teachings of Jesus
and His Apostles"
Miss Mary Cunningham of Occiden-
tai college, Highland Park, will teach |
a course in 1.-THE Life of Christ"