New Britain herald., 1916-05-04
Nembership A. 7. ". C. 4.
 Increased 282 in Past Year
Reports of Officers Presented at Annual Meeting Last Night Show Association Is Becoming Big Fac
 tor Among Fair Sex of New Britain.

C. A.
 association building on Hungerford
 Court The exercises opened with a
 parade by the members from the
 general secretary's office to the recrea-
 ton hall. Mrs. c. E. Wetmore
 president of the Y. w. c. A., presided
 and the following reported for the
 various activities of the institution:
 Mrs F. J. Porter for the boarding
 committee, Miss Flora l.. Humphrey
 for the lunch room committee, Mrs.
 w. F. Brooks for the educational de-
 partment, Miss Mary E. Rogers for
 the physical department, Miss Flor
 ence P. Andrews for the religious
 committee, Miss Louise H. Noble for the social committee and Miss Edith
 M, Bradley for the membership com-
 mittee.
 The report of Miss Emma L. Zan- ginger general secretary, showed the institution has been very popular with it's members during the year. The at tendance has been doubled during the past six months, from 275 to 450 girls enjoying the building each week at present.
 The following were presente1 for mem bers of the directorate by the nominating committee whose report was accepted: Miss Florence B. An drews, Mrs. William E. Brooks, Miss Eliza beth F.. Eastman, Mrs. Philip B. Stanley, Miss Rose Churchill, Mrs. c. B. Parsons, and Miss Bertha Sheldon. The latter three names were presented as successors to Mrs. Justus A. Traut, Miss Edith Bradley and Mrs. Edward J. Skinner, whose terms expired.
 The various reports follow:
 General Secretary's Report.
 Since the Young Women's Chris titan association is an organization in which the public has always been in terested, we feel that they, the public. are justified in asking, what have you done this year?' And as we try to look at the work and it's results we would answer, very comprehen- sively, also by asking a question: what have we not done this year?' The term whirlwind must no more be exclusively applied to campaigns, for certainly we have had a whirlwind of activities during the last twelve months, which you will already have surnised from the reports of the various committees.
 Our fiscal year begins at awk- ward time,-April first, therefore last uOllSS vllluSC pIeCSuo tAe winters work, and last summers do- ings stand out very wildly as con- sisting chiefly of men working at every corner and angle of the house, both inside and out,-a few perform ing acrobatic stunts on the roof which was badly in need of repairs, others hanging in mid-air applying much needed coats of paint, others indoors with paints and brushes per forming longed-for miracles,-and still others tearing up floors here and there for the purpose of installing electricity-and the result of it all was very much worth the expense of money and patience, for we looked , more like a Christian association in the fall than in the spring. The com- mittee who had this work in charge gave themselves untiringly during [ those trying summer months, and this | would seem a fitting time to say a thank you'' to the Boarding Home | girls who bore with us so patiently the confusion of house being re- juvenated.
 It would seem as if the summer have been devoted entirely to the l improvement and brightening of the inanimate but not so, girls of all sizes and ages found their ways in and out of the building in spite of con- fusion, and the progress of the new building was very much in the minds of all our members.
 There were conferences to attend during the summer and vacations to be planned at our association camps. Three of our younger girls were sent to the High school Girls Conference at Altamont Camp, New York in the Helderberg mountains; three dele gates went to the Industrial Girls Conference at Makoniky Camp on Martha's Vineyard and eight enthu- siastic members journeyed to Silver Bay on Lake George, N. Y, 10 attend the City Conference. The in spiration gained at these conferences always supplies considerable amount of what we might call back bone to our future success. Besides the conferences, and many picnics and outings of both large and small groups, the Ramona club, a club cf fourteen year old girls, had a camp ing party at East Hampton with their club leader, Miss Randall, where they spent a week never to be forgotten by one of them; and 9, week that has convinced us that the Y W. c. A. ought to have a small place of it's own, or the use of some ones unused cottage where our girls may spend short vacations in expensively, and come into more per sonal touch with our workers as is always possible when actually living together on these camping trips.
 The summer was scarcely over when the completion of the new building warranted our inhabiting the same. consequently we had our week of Dedication on September 19 to 26,-a week full of pleasant hap