Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-12
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club.
Establishment of students
Night" in each club in the state
this night to be devoted to high
school girls, especially the seniors,
at which time a special program to
be provided, the aim being to bring
the girls about to graduate into clos
er touch with the business world.
Social contact with school girls
through parties, visits to school. vo-
cational conferences to impress upon
| them the Importance of proper bust
ness training.
Z Ar effort should be made to inter-
est ten students of the senior class
having the highest rank, for the four
years in a college or some higher
| education, this to be worked out by
! the clubs.
Prizes should be offered to girls
| in grammar school for the best ar
ticle written on why Should Go to
High School,
The formation of classes of DIFF
ferent kinds in the club for club
members.
We should all bear in mind that
the federation stands for high
education idal of the business girl
and should cooperate in every way
possible with the schools and other
agencies interested in the same
thing.
1t is suggested that the educational
committee in each club work with
the program committee in arranging
several programs through the year OF
an educational nature.
Committee ON Legislation
The committee on legislation
through the report given by the
chairman, Mrs. Nellie HunnewelI OF
Pittsfield, recommended that the
clubs study parliamentary law; that
education and information be the
keynotes in disseminating informa-
ton along the line of legislation;
that the legislative chairmen study
national and state issues and avoid
using undue influence in giving to
other members information regard
ing proposed legislation, making
sure to give both sides of every ques-
ton.
personal Research" Recommends
tons
The report of the committee on
personal research, presented by Miss
Pearle Greene of the University of
Maine, contained the following rec
concentrations:
That each club should make a
survey OF it's own mernb with re-
gard to occupational training, work.
ing conditions and living conditions.
Such data should be put in available
form so that women from other
states wishing to locate in that COM
munity might refer to it.
That the state committee should
cooperate with economics and social
ogy departments of the state and
private universities and colleges to
secure surveys and studies of the
occupations of the state.
That the national committees
should cooperate with the Women's
Bureau Of the U. S. Department OF
Labor and the Bureau of Research
in the work they are doing, which
bears upon our problems.
That the committee should con-
stitute itself an agency for the dis
semination of information about
occupations for women and also
about anything in the nature of re-
search or analysis of women in re-
lation to their work.
That vocational guidance should
be the ever present aim.
That in due course of time we aim
to establish a National Occupation
al Bureau" which may have branch
es in each region, or in time in each
state, which shall be an employment
bureau and research bureau COM
bined. The director of such a ma
tional bureau should be a paid ex-
ecutive. Such an office we believe
would be of inestimable value to the
women of our clubs in every city and
state, however large or small.
That during the coming year great
emphasis be placed upon the work
of this committee in every local club
and close cooperation with the ma
tional committee effected
Committee ON Health
DR.. Barbara Hunt of Bangor,
chairman of the health committee,
presented the report of that COM
mittee. which recommended individ-
ual examination of members, medi-
cal and physical, to determine the
best training or exercise for each
member; the establishment of gym
nasium classes by the local clubs and
the promotion of organized recrea-