Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-15
TELLS HOW COMMUNITY
 CLUB WILL WORK HERE

Now that the need for refugee sew ing and Red Cross work is ended, the Parish House associati of Park church has resumed its regular rou- tine.
 At the usual meeting held on Friday afternoon at the Osgood Memorial, with Mrs. Frank Bunnell presiding, the reports of several months were read, after which a delightful half hour of music was provided by Miss Mildred Wightman, pianist, who played three numbers-Sonata, Opus P, Shuman, Nocturne, Opus g, Chopin, and Con- certo Etude, Mcdowell. This trio of selections, all of them varied and diff cult each requiring expert lingering and technique, were given with much artistic feeling and brilliant execution, which called forth enthusiastic ap- plause.
 Following this very enjoyable musi- cal feature, Mrs. Bunnell introduced Miss Margaret c. Carey, who is inter- ested in the community club to be soon organized in Norwich.
 Miss Carey gave a brief history of war camp community service and showed how it will be applied here.
 AS the submarine base is so near Norwich, and will be permanent in stltuion, the community club in our town is going to be a permanent thing also. The commission decreed that this war service was to be used in industrial centers; the scheme is more easily understood as a ordinating agency which comes into a town and sees what it can do to help enlarge and get new members for others clubs, | to combine with them, but never to overlap. Such community service ~n1, organizations.
 Whatever girls clubs there are in town are urged to come in as a unit, not losing their own identity in any | way.
 | Three committees will take charge of this work: the business recreation and educational communities. In some towns which are not so fortunate as
 to have rooms like those of the former Halle club, schools have been used for night classes in millinery folk dancing, music and singing. Every school house ought to be used in thai
 way, and the various boards of edu-
 cation should join hands with :his up- lift movement.
 After the local club is well started
 workers will be trained for extensior work among the outlying districts. The problem of reaching and inter.
 esting girls between the ages of four.
 teen and eighteen is a serious one
 tc which the Community club worker.
 will give much thought. It is planned
 to make the local club pleasan
 place where girls and young men ma! meet, properly chaperoned, to enjo.
 the privileges of refined and socia surroundings.
 There is to be no hard aud fast pro | of al, o1JJl Sc
 to find out what community want
 and then plan to do just that. No on
 set of conditions will fit two conlmu
 mites. Each must be first tried out
 The Norwich people themselves ar
 the ones to tell the war camp work CTS what is the best method of pro cedure, and to give suggestions, whic : will be most gratefully received. 7 Many questions regarding her wOr l were asked Miss Carey, who told
 number of ideas, still in the making l and how it was planned to solve tn problems of Saturday nights and Sur l days. The plan is, to bear first no7 l the community feels about these mat ters, and how to deal with those youn e people, who are not church attendant and yet, must have some place 10 2 = CT Sunday. This is a difficult prot = lem in every town.
 :, On week days, there will be classt V of all kinds, with plenty of social goo : times as everyone who has ever Ina
 anything to do with industrial Ii = knows the value of recreation. O The two clubs will be opened ju '. as soon as they can be furnished, ar = anything in that line old or new, st . fas, rugs, pictures. chairs-everythir s but washstands-will be gladly recei' Il cd It is hoped that the Girls clr : will open on Saturday night, Feb. = with a social evening and dancing ft :. it's members and the sailors. h Following Miss Carey's interestir talk tea was served at a daintily al
 pointed table by the social conmitte
 Mrs. John s. B1ackmaT, chairman, a!
 sisted by Mrs. Wallace Allis Mrs. V
 Tyler Brown, Mrs. Frederick Care ) and Mrs. Charles Tyler Bard.