Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-12
SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE
 TO BE IN STAMFORD


 The twelfth annual session of the Con necticut conference of social work will be held in Stamford. April 30, May 1 and g. It will bring together, representatives of numerous associations and institutions en- gagged in various forms of welfare work The speakers include persons of national reputation, who will discuss subjects of timely interest, especially to people of Connecticut The sessions on Sunday, April 30, will be held in the high school au- ditoriurn. Those of Monday, May l. will be held in the hall of the Wonlan's club. A visit will be paid to Stamford hall, a large private sanltarium for treatment of persons afflicted with nervous diseases. The meetings on Tuesday, May will be at the Stamford Yacht club, and will be de- voted mainly to round ta5le discussions. Conference members will be luncheon guests ot the president, Edward Y Weber.
 At the opening session. April 30, at ) D. m. (the convention will be on daylight saving schedUle,) the principal speaker will be the Rev. John A Ryan D. D., of the Catholic University, Washington, who will speak on Essential Need of Coop eration Between Employer and Employe." pr. Ryan is the author of "The Living Wage and is regarded as an authority on questions involving capital labor and in A ''The Family will be held at 8 p. m. with Malcolm s Nichols as chairman Dr. Arthur S. Todd, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, is to speak on ''Tlle Family as a Social Institution Dr. McIlyar H. Lichliter of Newton. Mass, is to discuss Work With Handicapped or Disadvantaged Families"
 Delinquency and Correction" will be the subject of sectional meeting on Mon day, at 10 a. In.. with Rev. Matthew J. Judge of Hartford as chairman. Joseph P. Murphy, chief probation officer of the Erie county court. Buffalo N. Y. will an- swer the question, Has probation met the test2" The effect of prohibition on de- short talks. The speaker at the luncheon meeting on tho same day Cat 12.30 p. m will be Dr. Graham Romeyn Taylor, ex- ecutfve secretary of the American Assp- citation of Social Workers. The section on Child Welfare will have it's session on Monday at 2.30 p. m. with Mrs. T. l. Guild of Stamford as chairman. CriIi- labor conditions in the eastern states will be explained by Owen R. Lovejoy. genera secretary of the National Child-Laibol committee Street Trades in Connecti- cut" will be exclaimed by pr. Herbert N Diamond, assistant secretary of the Connecticut ChilS Welfare commission Dr. Joseph Lee of Boston will speak or Recreation. n
 The section on Health" will hold it' meeting on Monday, at p. m with Mrs | Edmund D. Smith of Stamford as chair man One of the speakers at this meeting will be Dr. George E. Vincent. head of th' Rockefeller Foundation. Prof c. B. A 1 Winslow of Yale University will speal on Present Day Obiectives of a Com
 nunity Health Program
 | In the round-taIble discussions on Tues day, May 2, when the convention will as semble in the beautiful building of tn Stamford Yacht otrb, there will be dis cussions on Children" and ''Delinquenc! and Correction" led by Dr. William Healey, director of the Judge Baker Foun dation, Boston. Miss Helen P. Kempton associate field director of the Americar Association for Organizing Family Work will tell about problems of administration | in family welfare societies. Stockton Raymond. general secretary of the. Bostol Welfare society, will speak of responsi bility for family social work before, dur | ing and after period of unemploymen The section on health will be presided oVel | by Dr David Russell Lyman. superln | tendent of the Gaylord Farm sanitarium and various phases of the health proble1 will be considered by Miss Dorothy Dem | ing. Harlem Health Center and Dr. Phllil | Platt of the New Haven Health Center l Dr. PIatt is to tell of rickets and it's effect on the community. Dr. Frank W. Robert son of New York and Stamford is to pre- l side at the section on Mental Hygiene Discussions will be led by Dr. E. T. Nc Sweeney, chief medical officer of the NeV l York Telephone company; Charles E Dow of the Child Welfare Commission who will speak of the problem of tn | Predetermined in Connecticut. and Miss A J. Massatust, director of social servic at Manhattan State hospital, New York. The section on Mental Hygiene will b 1 addressed at 2.30 ?. m. by Dr. Frank w Robertson, chairman; Dr. Roy L. Leak O i the state hospital. Middletown, and Dr. L Vernon Briggs head of the medical clini of Boston Dispensary.
 The annual meeting of the Diocesan 1 Bureau of Social Service will be held oi Sunday, April 30 at 2 p. m. An address 0 i welcome will be made by the Right Rev John J. Milan. D. D. Rev. Matthew J Judge will report for directors and a re port will be read by the executive secre tary, Miss Marguerite Boylan. A. M. The Connecticut Child Welfare -Associ alton will hold it's meeting on Monday May l. at 5 D. m. There will be repor of the years work and an election of of l fcers.