The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27

QUOTA IS $500
7. w. G.. A. of Vermont
Plans State Campaign to
Raise $4,000
FINANCE DIRECTOR
MAKES VISIT HERE
Appoints Miss Gretchen Goldsmith and
Miss Bessie l.. Farnum to Have
Charge of Local Campaign - Older
Girls Conference Here Next Year.

Girls Conference Here Next Year.
Five thousand dollars for the work of
the \. w. c. A. in Vermont will be
sought in a campaign which will close
about Nov. Is, and BrattIeboro's quota
of the investment for womanhood" fund
has been set at $500.
The campaign will begin in Brattleboro
Saturday, Oct 30, and it is the hope OF
those in charge that it can be completed
by Nov. 10. 1t will be impossible to
make a house-to-house canvass, but
young women viii be assigned within a
day or two to various sections of the
town.
Mrs. d. c. Jones of Waterbury, f.
nance director for 1920, was in ~Brattle-
boro yesterday to get the work underway
and appointed Miss Gretchen Goldsmith
and Miss Bessie u. Farnum to have
charge Of the campaign, and eontribu-
tlons to the fund may be sent to either.
1t is especially desirable that Brattle-
boro meet her quota III this campaign
inasmuch as the Chamber Of Commerce
has invited the Older Girls Conference
to meet here next June. The conference
was held in Burlington last June and
was attended by between 800 and 600
girls from every section of the state III
Guiding six or eight from Brattleboro
, The conference will cover a period Of two
or three days.
The Vermont Y w c. A. council is
asking funds for the work of organiza
| ton, which means to Vermont its service
/ program with something for every CIR
| who viii avail herself of it, and people
are asked to give-not as a charity, but
as an investment for womanhood.
A resume of what the Y w. c. A. has
| done in Vermont shows that two state
| conferences for girls have been held
1 touching nearly 900 girls from almost q
| hundred towns: three district vocationa
| conferences have been held, reaching ov
| er 4e0 girls and a state committee on vO
| cational guidance for girls has beer
| formed: small educational camps have
| been organized for two seasons for girl
| Of limited environment attbrdlng more
! than so girls two weeks of eonstructiv,
| camp life, paying part of the expense
| and receiving scholarships for the res
| at the expense of the Y. w. {. A. Ih'
/ camps were located at St Adams Bay
| and on Coates Island. A state camn fo
| girls has been organized on Grand Isle
girls who We're in the camp in 1920 IS at
J tached to the posters which have beer
/ placed about town today.
/ I'm addition to this the Y. w. c. A
! initiated the Blue Triangle Hospltaht!
| House In Burlington. which is a hom,
center for business girls and women witt
I attractive social features, a public cafe
terra, room registry bureau, and a serv
| ice exchange 4 community leader TO
| girls work and recreation has been fur
/ nished in st. Johnsbury, the leader &c
! operating with the schools and churches
4 and is executive of a community girls
i league 1t conducted three-day inten
sive training course for volunteers in rec
reation work at the University Of Ven
mont in March and plans already are be
ing made for a similar course next spring
/ A travelling recreation secretary was fun
nished for July and August for two sea
sons. by whom 20 towns have been bene
flied each year An industrial seeretar
had made a brief study of conditions a.
fecting employed women and girls l
Of the Y w. c. A. being of greater serN
ice to them.