The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-15
TO REPRESENT GIRLS
CLUB AT CONVENTION
Miss Irene Buss and Miss Eliza Stew.
art Attending Gathering
at Vassar.


Miss Irene Buss and Miss Eliza
Stewart will attend the 18th biennial
convention Of the National League OF
Girls clubs at Vassar college. June Is
IS, as official representatives of the
Bennington Girls club. This organiza-
tion has rather strong place In
this community and in hundreds of
communities throughout the country
but some OF the purposes OF the clubs
and the parent league are not too
we'll known.
The convention will be held i'm.
mediately after commencement and
Vassar students, alumni, and faculty
are making preparations. One thousand
girls from factories. offices and stores
will throng upon the college campus
and make II echo again with the songs
OF their League and their clubs.
The National League OF Girls clubs
reaching form Maine to Ohio, is fed
Grafton OF Independent clubs Of women
workers Girls Of every faith and oc
cupation meet together in these cen
ters during their leisure hours, plar
their own programs, elect their own
officers and shape the policies OF their
organization. Every two years the
League holds a national convention &c
which delegates are sent by the cubs
to elect officers and plan national
policies and programs. This year Vas
sar college will entertain the conven
tion of 1000 delegates.
There Is a special fitness In Vas
sar's entertaining the League. Twent,
years ago Miss Jean Hamilton lef
Vassar college to become the genera
secretary of the League which wat
then a struggling organization who's,
doctrines OF non.sectarianism and self
government were considered danger
GUS for working girls. Miss Hamilton
was determined to bring TO girls o
all occupations some advantages of in
dependent life which come to colleg,
girls. She had unbounded faith In tn
ability of all girls to accept respon
sibility. The record OF her work 70
20 years and the results of II as ex
emplified in this coming convention
at Vassar amply justify her faith
The convention program will b
divided between fun and study. A YER
valuable part of II will be the Roun
Table discussions on practical prof.
lens of democratic club life and o.
the wider topics of citizenship and ur
employment. One afternoon will b
devoted to a big inter.league fiel
meet on the athletic field. Mrs. Bel
nard Pollak, Vassar 1903 president O
the National League, will present
cup to the winning league.
A historical pageant, which is TO b
given by the girls in the outdoo
theatre, will be notable event. Th
pageant has been written for the o,
casion by Mary Conger Vanamee, Vat
sar 1905, and traces the development
of opportunities for women from IN
earliest time until now. pointing th
way for American womanhood fc
years to come. League girls in six di
ferent centers are busy rehearsing III
episodes and when they meet at Va
sar will give the complete and finishC
production for the first time
Both faculty and students of III
college are eager TO receive this col
ventlon of girls, whose substitute Il
college life is their evening clut
where through their classes and par
les and out.ofdoor sports they d
velop good fellowship and gain co
fidence in their own powers of admi
istration and government. The depaI
ments of economics, of history, of En-
lish and of music are helping vii
the educational side of the conventic
. program. Vassar students are compe
ing for the privilege of remaining {
+ the campus to act as a reception col
/ mittee for the National League cir
and as general assistants in any c
pacity, however humble
|. II am more than glad said
j. Henry Noble MacCracken of Vass5
4 ito be able to use. the college bull
S ings In the summer. IL Is our aim th
Vassar college shall serve the col
Q munity in every possible way and u
d convention OF girls clubs brings us
big opportunity."