Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-23
Y. ". c. A. CENTERS FOR
GREEN MOUNTAIN GIRLS
Miss Marion Gary of Rutland, as
Northeastern Field Secretary,
to Look After Their Interests
Outdoor Social Life to Be
Featured

with the appointment or Miss Marion
Gary of Rutland as northeastern field Sec
retary or the Y. w. C. A. for Vermont.
II mas developed that from the young girls
OF the State came the first demand for
i. w. {. A. activities and 1t Is the ex-
tension OF this demand that Miss Gary
is now preparing to supply.
III was the Vermont school girls who
TOOK the initiative in their State and in
troduced Y. w. c. A. work in the form of
student organizations in the University
or vermont and Middlebury College. be-
sides three or four other academies: and
II was the school girls about Brattleboro
who combined to form the Green Noun
tain Girls camp. Now, however. that Ver-
mont Is represented in the northeastern
feid OF the Y. w. c. A. by the appoint
ment OF Miss Gary as field secretary, II
is reported that the demand of the school
girls Is extending to the older women,
ana Miss Gary Is preparing to add to the
Y. w. c. A. work the assistance of all
that the older girls and young women of
vermont can bring to 1t. 1t was during
the United War Work campaign that
these young women first learned that the
y. w. c. A. was seeking exactly what
lhey mad to give, and in return would
oifer them means for living the fuller
life they were demanding. Miss Gary is
therefore going over the entire State,
seeking and finding leaders among the
women, ana plans for the establishment
OF L. w. C. a. centers in the country dis
trlcts are already nearing completion.
REPORTS at the recent conference in
New York of the northeastern field of the
Y. w. c. A. indicated that in Vermont
are groups of the strongest women of
New England to whom New England
must look for help in building back the
sane, substantial life upon which the war
intruded In going about the State Miss
Gary reports that while doing their part
for the winning of the war; these women
began to realize their own power, and
have now become restless under old condi-
tons. Their demand that these old con-
ditions shall be changed, Miss Gary is
preparing to meet through the Y. w. C.
A., and the establishment of Y. w. C. A.
centers is to be her first work.
1t Is announced that as such centers are
established, the Green Mountain Girls
camp is to expand until every school girl
in Vermont shall have the advantage of
the outdoor social life that is now enjoyed
by the school girls about Bratteboro
These advantages include n broader ac-
quantance among the girls themselves,
during the four weeks spent in sleeping in
tents, walking, picncking, and reading
during the day, with campfire singing and
games in the evening. Such advantages
also included the training in cooking
dishwashing, bedmaking and wood carry
ing incident to the maintaining of camp
! life, besides daily lessons in home nur-
sing, hygiene, first aid, child welfare, and
dietetics. The progress already reported
in Vermont gives a romise of camps for
every school girl in the state by the time
the summer makes camping possible.