Arizona republican., 1911-11-25
'. W. |. 4. HAS A ACONFERENCE Gathering Took Place in
 Los Angeles 10 HAVE LUNCHEON TODAY In This Conference Hun dreds of Young Women Are Brought Together, and it is Expected Much Good Will Result
10 HAVE LUNCHEON TODAY

Several hundred students Of south
 crn California are holding a confer
 ence in the interests of the Young
 WOmans Christian association. The
 meeting place is the University of
 southern California in Los Angeles
 With the solid serious conference work
 is mingled that social life and enthu-
 siasm which always marks student
 activities Miss Flora ]. Miller, for
 mcrly a national worker among state
 university students, is toastmistress
 at the Saturday luncheon and a num-
 Der of student leaders are on the list
 for toasts. Because the regular spring
 conference arranged by the national
 Ioard in New York will occur late
 this year, this southern conference k
 used as the means of bringing to-
 gether many students who otherwise
 could not receive the notable confer
 cnce benefits Mrs. O. Shepard Bar
 mum presides at the Saturday seS-
 sons. morning. afternoon and evening and the address of welcome will he
 given by President George F. Bovard,
 |
 other address of the morning will
 be given by Miss Theresa Wilbur. on
 The Power of United Effort" Miss
 Wilhur's engagement to Mir Fred NJ
 Paist of Philadelphia has recently been announced and this has brought copsteTpation to many student camp. for Theresa Wilbur is known to more than fifty thousand students personally or by the direct influence of her work first as student secretary and later as executive of the field Go opartment. It is only a few years ago that she herself was a student at Stanford. then a teacher in the Pasadena high school From this po- sitiOn she was few years ago re- leased for ten days to attend the spring conference. This conference as the event that decided assOcia- ton leaders that Miss Wilbur must jcin their ranks and she was at once chosen as state secretary for Califor- nia and Nevada. She travelled over this territory organizing and strength cning student and city associations. but ere long a higher authority spoke and she was called to do for the country what she had done for two states. Her brother Judge Curtis b Wilbur is to Los Angeles what Judge is to Denver and every mem Der of the family is a distinguished worker. each along a different line. As executive of tho field department of the national board. Miss Wilbur held one of the highest positions in this country. The framing of policies for newly organized groups of states. searching out and appointing women to positions of responsibility, con ferring with leaders in this country and al the worlds headquarters in London fell to her lot As a resident in Philadelphia. after her wedding early in the year. her association friends are assured that her interest iE the work she has been identified with can never flag and that her proximity to the national office will admit of her containing her close re- lationship there.
 Miss Helen Salisbury. also a Stan ford girl. at present is doing the stu dent work for this section. which now comprises California. Nevada and Ari- zona. About two thousand students are members of the associations. i'm cludinS state universities. womcn's colleges. co-educational colleges. nor maj. private and Indian schools Miss Salisbury is q graduate of the Ma tional Training school in New York and is considered as one of the best student secretaries in this country. She is keenlv alive to the interests holds before her the highest ideal. One of her aims is to have the entir.. support of the general secretary in Tokyo, Japan. carried by the stu dents She often gives lectures to the training class of half dozen girls in Los Angeles and has also lee tured to the students in New York Immediately upon the close of the three days conference in Los Angeles, her attention will be turned to the for the larger meeting to be held next May at the Hacienda. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's home in Pleas anton. This is largely q student gath ering and the fourteen student asso- citations are entitled to delegates. which usually come about three hun- dred strong. There is a mingling of the city girls and more mature board and committee women from the dozen cities where associations exist. repre- senting twelve thousand members. The forms of work undertaken are travel CTS aid employment. lunch and rest rooms. educational classes. extension work and gymnasiums. At present there is but one association in Ari- zona, that at Bisbee, but with an in- creased staff of travelling secretaries. t is expected that other cities may be organized in the future.