Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-04-29
THREE DAYS PROGRAM
HAS MUCH OF INTEREST
Second Annual Conference of
Older Girls of Vermont to Be
Held in Burlington May z, 8
and 9-Banquet and Boatride
Social Features

The second annual conference OF the
older girls of Vermont will be held in
this city Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
May 7, 8 and 9. and preparations for the
entertainment of some 400 or 500 girls
are now being made by the people of
Burlington
The initiative for the conference has
been taken. as It was last year for
similar one in Rutland, by the Y. w.
c. A. council. But it is organized through
the cooperative interest OF church, school
and community leaders all over Vermont
and through the active cooperation Of
those who extend hospitality to the girls.
The conference will open with get
together banquet at the university gym
nasium on Friday. May :. There will
be after-drner speaking, with greetings
from variou. State and local leaders
The evening session, to DO held In the
First Church, will be addressed by the
Rev. Arthur II. Bradford. =. D. Of Provi-
dencc r. J.. formerly OF Rutland and
well known in NermontA
Saturday morning there will be a girls
council. with the officers elected last year
in charge-Miss Mergaret Peck Of Rut-
land. chairman, and Miss Elizabeth Chit
tenden " Burlington, secretary. The
business OF the conference will be con-
Quoted at this session, and the speakers
will include Siou-An-Chiu, foreign
student from Teachers College. New
York, Miss Sadie Goodman OF New York,
an industrial club girl, and a representa-
tive of the coored student work. Group
conferences for the leaders. college girls.
and high school girls. will come at II
O'Clock and will be led by Miss Ruth Colt,
Miss Mary Weisel. Miss Do1 othy Smith.
Miss margaret O'Connell, Miss Marie
| Neahr, Miss Gladys Bryson and others
| of the northeastern field and headquar-
| tiers staff in New York city.
The University Of Vermont students.
assisted by Miss Margaret Pilling, club
! director at the Blue Triangle House in
| Burlington, have charge of Saturday
| afternoons recreation, which will include
n boatride on Lake Champlain.
Miss Anna NJ. Clark. national town and
| country secretary for the Y. w. c. A.,
will be the speaker on Saturday evening,
| and moving pictures or summer confer
| ences also will be shown at that time.
Sunday morning the girls are expected
| to attend church services with their hos
tesses. There will be special organ ves-
pers in the afternoon at 4:So in st. Paul's
Church, pnd the conference will close
with an evening service. to be addressed
by Mrs. Lawrence Thurston. president Of
Chilling College. Marking, China. a most
able and inspiring speaker.
| Dr. Arthur II. Bradford, the Friday
| evening speaker. Is too well known in
Vermont to really need Introduction. He
came to the passionate Of the Rutland Con-
gregational Church in 1913 from Spring
field, Mass, being the son of the late
DR.. Amory II. Bradford Of Montclair,
". J. He went from Rutland to Provi-
| dence, r. l., in 1918 to become pastor of
the Central Congregational Church, where
he has met very successfully large and
difficult problems. DIR. Bradford is much
in demand as a speaker at schools and
colleges. and is very popular as such with
students
Miss Anna NJ. Clark. the speaker for
Saturday evening. is not unknown in Ver-
mont having made several visits here as
town and country secretary for the north
eastern field. She also was a speaker a,
last years conference. She now comes
ms town and country secretary for the
national board. Y. w. C. A., and she has
just returned from a three months trir
to the Pacific coast.
Mrs Lawrence Thurston has friends
In Vermont, having been heard here or
previous occasions. She is an alumna OF
Mt. I1olyoke College and spent two years
in India Immediately after leaving college
! IN I"z MT. ana MTS. Lawrence ThurS
ton were sent to China as leaders Of tn.
famous Yale band, to set up work there
absolutely non-sectarian in nature and te
be supported by Yale College. Aftel
Mr.. Thurston's death a few years later
Mrs. Thurston returned to China and To-
five years has been president of Gininl
! College at Nanking-an institution o
higher learning planted there as part Of
big educational scheme. 1t is supported
, by womens mission boards of the Pres
byterian, Baptist, Methodist and Christia
l Churches and by Smith College. Mrs
Thurston will give an inspirational ad
dress rather than one with a mssionar,
, emphasis. She is very popular speake
at colleges.
Miss Ruth Colt, who will contribute T.
several conference sessions. is executiv
6 secretary for the northeastern field
, y. w. c. A. She has been well know
, , in educational and church circles for som
. years, having been connected with S,
j., Paul's school at Concord, n. H., and wit
. the Cambridge School for Girls at Cam
= | bridge. Mass
The arrangements of the conference ar
in charge of Miss Marion Gary of Rut
land, Y. w. c. A. field secretary for Vel
. mont.