The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
SOCIAL SERVICE
GROUPS OUTLINE
CITY MEETING
Annual Session to Open at
Ciaypool Tomorrow for
Three Days.

The forty-fourth annual session
Of the Indiana State Conference on
Social Work and Affiliated Organi-
cations is to open in the Claypool
tomorrow night. DR.. Max A. Bahr,
Central State Hospital superintend-
ent, who is to preside, is to speak
on Mental Hygiene as a Factor in
Social Work" and Or. Hedley S.
Dimock, George Williams College,
Chicago, is to speak on Trends in
Group Work"
Thursdays session is to include
addresses by DR.. j. Allen Jackson
State Hospital, Danville, Pa, who is
to talk on The Relations of a Men
tai Hospital to the Social Service
Field" and Howard r. Knight, Ma
tional Conference Of Social Work
secretary, who is to speak on Social
Work and Politics"
officers are to be elected Friday
afternoon at the annual business
meeting, at which DR.. Bahr is to
preside. Following a dinner at 6
Friday. Charles Marshall, liasion
officer Of the Indiana Works Prog
ress Administration, is to explain
the state program and an address is
to be given by Robert w. Kelso, In
stitute of Health and Social Sci
ences, extension division of the Uni
versity of Michigan.
Division Meetings Arranged
Division meetings are to be held
each day, and with leaders Of CO.
operating organizations directing
discussions. Affiliated groups in
clude the Indiana Chapter Of the
American Association of Social
Workers, State Association of
Boards of Children's Guardians, In
diana Children's Home Association,
child welfare committees Of the
American Legion and the Indiana
American Legion Auxiliary, the In
diana Probation Association, State
Institution Trustees and Superin-
tendents, State Association of
County Poor Asylum Superinten-
dents and Matrons, Indiana Chap
tiers Of the American Red Cross, and
the Indiana Society for Mental Hy-
giene.
Division meeting discussions are
to include mothers allowances,
mental health, the pre-school child,
illegitimacy, and lay participation
in social work
Also offered this year is a series
of study courses on questions of
policy and technique arising from
activities in family service, child
welfare, group work, probation and
parole.
Membership Limited
Group memberships are to be
limited to officers, employees and
board members of social welfare
agencies and institutions; emergency
relief workers, and public officials
connected with social work.
The study course committee, I'M
der the Craftsmanship of Mrs. Mar
ian F. Gallup, Indiana Woman's
Prison superintendent, includes
Amos w. Butler, Indiana Society for
Mental Hygiene president emeritus;
l.. A. Cortner, Knightstown Soldiers
and Sailors Children's Home super
intendent; Donald Du Shane, Bar
tholomew County Board of Chill
dren's Guardians president; F. NJ.
Vreland, De Paw University sociol-
ogy PROFESSOR, and Miss Laura
Greedy, Indiana Department of
Public Welfare clerk.
Officers of the Indiana State Con-
ference on Social Work, in addition
to DR.. Bahr, are Wayne Coy, In
diana Department of Public We'll
fare director, secretary; Miss Greedy,
assistant secretary, and Murray A.
Auerbach, Indiana tuberculosis As
sociatio executive secretary-treas-
urer.