The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-17
WELT ARE Ass N j!
MADE PROGRESS
IN 19l8-l919
Achievements Shown in Reports
Read Last Night
IN MEMBERSHIP
Business Session Was Followed by
Hour of General Fun and
Enjoyment

An unusual combination of business
and pleasure characterized the annual
meeting of the Public Welfare Associ-
alton held at Library hall last night
The usual reports from the different
departments were given as briefly as
possible in order to leave time for a
program of fun and enjoyment later
That the year 191S-1919 has rec
ord of achievement of which those in
terested in the organization may well
be proud is, the opinion of everyone
who has watched the work either crit
ically or sympathetically, although
the epidemic of flu in the fall, and
other factors of the first year after
the war were handicaps which only in
cessant and conscientious endeayor
on the part Of our very able supervis
or, Miss Delnia jacobson, could over
come.
The reports of the president and
secretary outlined the general work
of the year and laid especial en-
phasis on the need to enlarge the
scope of effort during the coming
years.
Memberships, as reported by Mr.,
Philip T. H. Pierson, were the largest
by far in the history of the Associa-
tion with the prospects as estimated
by the very able chairman of that de-
partment of reaching the five hundred
mark during the next year.
Mrs Southall covered the depart
ments of Clubs and Athletics, and
touched upon some of the new fea-
lures of the work carried out by Miss
Jacobson, notable among which we're
the introduction of physical training
at the Cora B. Whitney school and
the community afternoons and even
ings at the "Y" for girls and young
women, both features that were dis
tinctly successful and much appreci-
ated
A review of the Social Center de-
Partment by Mrs. George NJ Hawks
included the Christmas cotillion, the
many parties given at the hall for diff
ferent groups and the observance OF
special events at holidays and other
occasions.
Dramatics and the Welfare Players
were combined in the report of Miss
Perkins, the latter given for MI.
Luther Graves who heads that; depart
ment. This included the second and
most successful play given by the
Welfare Players, Believe Me Zan-
tippe." three-fourths of the proceeds
of which we're given to the Kings
Daughters
Community Celebrations were re-
viewed by Mr. George M. Hawks,
president of the Association and chair
man of that committee. In particu-
lar the 4th of July parade and picnic
stood out as the largest and finest
ever held.
No election of officers took place
last night, and after the business
meeting closed, two hours of solid
fun were enjoyed by a large number.
who entered into the program arrang-
ed and led by Miss Perkins and Miss
Pratt with joyous abandon and de-
light. Formality was a word not in
the vocabulary for this part of the
evening, and the marching, the
games, the contests, the play and the
eats contend for first place in the
catalog of happy events. 1t was
easy to see how and why these re-
cent war workers had achieved their
successes in the same kind of work
and why the organization with which
they were connected were most anxi-
Gus to retain their services. This
was a real community evening and it
is to be hoped that the Welfare AS
sociation may be able to repeat the
success many times in the future.