The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-11

ceed Mrs. Peter L. Harvie of Troy, N. Y, who has headed the Asso- ciation for the past two years. Miss Leovy has, for the past four years, been treasurer of the Association. She is former president of the Pittsburgh Junior League.
 Mrs. John L. Hutchinson, Jr., of Chattanooga, Tenn, nominee for treasurer, and Mrs. George V. Fer guson of Winnipeg, Canada, nom- inee for secretary, have both been serving on the Associations Board as regional directors. Mrs. Hutche- son, for the past two years, has been Regional Director of Region VI rep resenting the 12 Junior Leagues oi Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky Mrs. Ferguson was appointed to the board last October to serve an un- expired term as Director of Region VII to represent the 19 Leagues of | the Province of Manitoba and the States of north Dakota, South Da- kota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illi- nois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minne- sota.
 Regions VT, VII, VIII, and TX will elect new directors this year. The candidates being Mrs. Jack M. Bass of Nashville, Tenn. who will succeed Mrs. Hutcheson; Miss Marjorie Kimball of Chicago, who will suc- ceed Mrs. Ferguson; Miss Constance Parry of Mexico City who, as direc- tor of Region VIII, will represent 15 Junior Leagues in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Mex ico; and Mrs. Bradner w. Lee, Jr., of Los Angeles, Cal, who is the can- d1date to succeed herself as director of the far-f1ung Region TX which consists of 16 Leagues in Hawaii, the Provinces of British Columbia, AL berta, Saskatchewan and the States of Montana, Utah, Idaho, Washing ton, Oregon, Nevada and California.
 The high spots of the conference program begin with the opening dinner to be held at the William Penn Hotel on Tuesday evening, May 17th, at which time Mrs. James A. Bell, president of the Junior League of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Peter L. Harvie, president of the Associa- ton will welcome the guests. The principal speaker of the evening will be President Alan Valentine of the University of Rochester.
 A general meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning, May 18th, in- cludes James G. Mcdonald, editorial writer of the "New York Times, who will talk on Types of Govern ment Today and their Effect on the Individual Citizen: Philip Wickser, well-known Buffalo attorney and president of the Buffalo Children's Aid Society, and Mrs. DeForest Van Slyck, executive secretary of the As sociation, who will discuss "The Junior Leagues Contribution to the Community" At Magazine Forum to be held that afternoon, Henry Pringle, author and member of the faculty, Graduate School of Jour- nalism, Columbia University, will be the principal speaker.
 On Thursday morning, the dele gates will be addressed by Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh who will discuss the question, What is Cultured Man Today?": John Handlan, director of information Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, V. Va. whose topic will be Public Relation "a New Pattern" and Miss Helen T. Findlay, secretary of the associa. tion's arts department, who will talk on Community Significance oi League Arts Programs" At a gen. eral meeting scheduled for Thurs. day afternoon, Mrs. Robert E. Ding. man, secretary of the Association Ways and Means department. wil