The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-14
Education Confab
 At Conn. College

A LWO Qdy COHlGicHCC Oil iNNu- cation for Public Affairs. designed to improve college procedure along these lines, will be, held at Con- necticut College Thursday and Fri day May 16 and IT. Participating in the conference will be represen- tatives of fifteen women's colleges, members of the Connecticut Col lege faculty and board of trustees, and large group of men and wo- men active in public affairs either professionally or as volunteers. An open meeting win be held Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in Knowlton house at which three women leaders will speak on var ious aspects of service by women in public affairs. Miss Ruth Tay- Tor, commissioner of public well fare in Westchester county, New York. will present the subject from the viewpoint of the Elected Public Servant. Miss Marguerite Wells. president of the National League of Women Voters, will talk on The Volunteer Public Servant. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College will speak on The Part of the College. President Katherine Blunt of Connecticut College will preside.
 Two closed sessions in the form fo round table conferences will be held Thursday afternoon and Fri day morning. In these the discus- sion will center around the needs of young college women for in- telligent participation in public af- fairs and how the college can meet these needs.
 The college representatives par ticipating in the discussion will be Dean Gildersleeve of Barnard; Thomas r. Broadway and James McCarney of Bennington; Dean Helen Taft Manning and Profess sor Marion P. Smith of Byrn Mawr; Dean Harriet Allyn and Professor Ellen Deborah Ellis of Mount Holyoke; Dean Margaret Corwin and Professor Francis Hop kins Of New Jersey College for Women; Dean Margaret Morriss and Professor Matthew Mitchell of Pembrowe; Dean Bernice Brown Cronkhite and Mrs Elizabeth Wa terman Gilboy of Radcliffe; Pres- ident J. l.. Meader and a member of the faculty of Russell Sage; President Constance Warren and Miss Beatrice Doerschuk of Sarah Lawrence; President Bancroft Beatley and Professor Harry Var rell of Simmons; Miss Kathryn Starbuck and Miss Margaret D.. Smith of Skidmore; Dean c. Mill dred Thompson and Professor Dor- othy Schaffter of Vassar; Profess sor Louise Overacker and Profess sor Lucy w. Killough of Wellesley, Professor Mabel Magee and Pro- lessor George Ridgeway of Wells; and Mrs Muriel E. Hidy of Whea- ton.
 Other participants will be Mrs Ruth Dadourian, president of the Connecticut League of Women Vo- ters; Dr. Luther Gulick, director of the Institute of Public Adminis- tration and secretary of the com mission of Inquiry on Public Ser vice Personnel which recently pub- lished its important reort on Bet ter government personnel; Miss Little, relief administrator of the Connecticut Emergency Relief conn mission; Miss Kathryn McHale. gen. eral director of the American as- sociation of University Women; women; Mrs James Morrison. an organizer and prominent leader of the League of Women Voters; Dr. William Mosher, chairman of the department of Political Science at Syracuse university. who is serving during a leave of absence from the university. as director of the Elec- tric Rate Survey of the Federal Power commission; Mrs Edgerton Parsons of the Institute of Wom- en's Professional Relations; Miss Ruth Taylor. commissioner of public welfare in Westchester county. New York; Miss Marguer- Ito Wells, president of the Nation- al League of Women Voters; Mrs Canpar Whitney, chairman of the New York committee of the In. stitute of Women's Professional Relations; Mill Helen Wood. d.. rector of the Connecticut State Employment service; Mrs Samuel fInryoy of New Haven't Miss Vir. KinIa nuiterworth, investigator for the Connecticut state department of labor and factory Inspection, and Mrs William f. ffnrIe, jf. on. enullre director of the WUmen's . ciis Club vf New York,