The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-09
Directors Report
 Shows Attendance
 Figure Of 43,155
Despite Conditions Organization Has Maintained Its Many Activities and Shown Steady Growth Some Expansion Planned By Miss Kathleen Crowley, Director, This Year

During a year filled with feelings of doubt and insecurity the Water bury Girls Club has been most suc- cessfui, 43,155 young ladies crowd ing the various centers during 1932-33, according to a statement in Miss Kathleen Crowley's (direc- tor) report released this morning.
 Evidence is given that the growth in membership, while not spectacular. was healthy and steady and attendance only satisfactory. but all that the staff can handle without lowering their standards of work and effort.
 The attendance in sewing classes was 14,941, an average of 405 girls per week. Cooking classes totaled 3.675, an average of 116 per week. There is no duplication of attend ance in these classes. The total number of articles made in the sewing classes was 3,652. The South End and Brooklyn classes brought problems of altering and tnakeover to Mrs Skahan, our old- est teacher, that would try the pa- tience of a saint.
 (This year marked the beginning of definitely vocational classes in sewing, cooking and physical edu- cation. In the vocational sewing class, taught by Miss Madeline Monroe, head of the clothing de- pertinent, girls who had completed three years of regular sewing in the children's classes were eligible. The course was given to further the girls knowledge in the more difficult processes of sewing; thus enabling them to sew for others at profit.
 The following subjects were stud jed:
 1. Singer sewing machine at- tachments. Nearly fifty samples were made and mounted in their notebooks for future reference.
 2. Samples of bound buttonholes. set-in or tailored pockets, embroid- cred button holes and loops, entri- cate scanning for woolens and many others were also made for the notebooks.
 3. Color in dress was studied. with color readings for the girls.
 4. Outside reading with class reports was required.
 5, The subject of buying clothes and getting your moneys worth was given careful attention.
 8. A complete study of all cot ton materials was made. There IS much more ground to be covered in a course like this. The girls will continue from where they left off next year.
 Three problems were given.
 1. Making of garment with em- brosdery, fagotting or shocking.
 2. An article which demonstrat- ed the practical use of attach ments,
 3. A make-over problem. After the subject had been carefully studied.
 of the total membership ap- years of age. An increasingly large number of young business women are joining all of the class es--secretaries, teachers and young women who are at the head Of businesses of their own. The in- dustrial girl has always been the back bone of the senior member ship and statistics show a healthy growth in their number. Many of those enrolled in the Home Economies Courses are engaged to be married; others are like the young woman in the Colonies in 1850 who was given permission by her parents t6 marry when God by his providence should afford her an opportunity, while the remain der belong to the modern group known as career women. They are a fine, upstanding, sensible type with a sense of humor which often causes the passerby to smile in- voluntarily when passing any of the centers where our classes meet.
 For the next year the club is planning an expansion in all of its