The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
P.-T.A. Congress
Opens Institite
Monday Evening

Teachers, o matchmaking OFF,
GERS and chairmen of local asso-
Citations with traditions and proce-
dures of the organization, will op-
en- Monday night at the Woman's
college and continue in operation
through noon Thursday. C.. w.
Phillips, who holds the dual Of
fees of director of public relations
for the host college and president
of the state congress, is institute
director.
Preceding opening of the insti-
tute, the executive committee and
board of managers of the state
congress will have an all day
session at the college. The execu-
tive committee will meet Sunday
night, and the full board will 60
into session at 9 am. Monday.
Tentative plans will be made tor
the 1945 convention, dates and pro-
gram for the fall district confer
ences will be set up and a legis.
lative program will be outlined.
Each of the three evening SEES
sions of the institute will be given
over to a special phase of Parent
Teacher work with visiting speak
crs taking part. Daily schedule will
start with an $3.50 devoti oaal serv-
ice conducted by Miss Maxine
Garner, college director of relisi-
Gus activities. And will include
from 9 until 1926 a workshop peri
cd conducted by Mrs. Charles E.
Rec. national field representative.
from 10:45 until IL and from 2
until $3.50 each day state coc'mit.
tee chairmen will discuss their
work and from $3.50 init 4:30 a
question hour will be conducted by
Mrs. E. n. Howell, Swannanoa,
state field worker, and Mrs. S.
Blair, Elizabethtown, past presi-
dent.
Health will be theme Of the op.
ening session at 1880 Monday night
in Students building, where all
programs will be carried out. DR.
w. P. Jacocks, director Of the
School Health Coordinating serv-
ice, is visiting speaker, and Mrs
E. B. Hunter state chairman OF
this committee and first vice pres,
ident, will preside. Other speakers
will be Mrs. Bess N. Rosa, state
and national social hygiene chair.
man, and I. E. Ready, Rocky
Mount, mental hygiene chairman
At 9 o'clock Greensboro Council Of
Parents and Teachers, will enter
tain the visitors with a reception
in Alumnae house.
First session for committee
chairmen to present their pro
programs will be presided over
Tuesday morning by Mrs. Hunter
Topics and speakers will be: lunch
room program. Mrs. H. B. Thiel
ing, Charlotte, with DR.. Clyde Err
win, state superintendent Of public
instruction, and Mrs. Louine Moore
state supervisor of the school feed
ing program; war program, Mrs
Mayor Parker, Ahoskie, chairman
!, and recreation, DR.. Harold Mayer
Chapel Hill, chairman.
H In the afternoon, Mrs. Alice Flu
trell, Hartford, second vice 2resi
dent, presiding, the program will
include art, Mrs. B. c. Parker
Il Albemarle, chairman; music, Mis-
J Virginia Lowrance, Winston Sa
lem, chairman; libraries, Mrs. w
H. Wander Linden, Hickory; his
torian, Mrs. N. A. Edwards, Colds
boro, and safety, Mrs. Raymoat
Fuson. New Bern.
International relations is them,
for the Tuesday evening session
with c. c. Erwin, Forest City
presiding, and DR.. Eugene E
Pfaff, Greensboro, executive sec
rotary of the Southern Council OF
International Relations, and Edwin
L. buckles, Greensboro, executive
secretary Of. the Carolina Institute
of International Relations. speak
ers.
With Mrs. Hunter again i:
charge, the Wednesday morning
study will include the exceptiona
child, Miss Annie Laurie Low
rance, Winston Salem. chairman
audio visual education, Mrs. Cur
tbs Baldwin, Asheville, and goals
Mrs. H. B. Carter, Asheville.
That afternoon, with Mrs. Flu
trell in charge, Mrs. Blair will dis
cuss the Bulletin, Mrs. Claudiu
Dockery, Jr., Greensboro, publica
tons and exhibits; Mrs. E. S
Adams, Carthage, membership
Mrs. ]. G. Tingen, Burlington, pro
gram, and Russell Grammar
Chapel Hill, field service.
Felix A. Grisette, Chapel Hill.
executive secretary of North Caro-
lima Planning commission, will dis
cuss work of that body at h
Wednesday night meeting. Phillip
will preside, and the program WI
also include a review of rura
service by Mrs. B. T. Williams o
Stedman, and of proposed legisla
ton by Mrs. Blair.
For the closing program Thurs
day morning. Mrs. Hunter preSid