The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-08-05
National And Local Recreation
Leaders Unite In 3-Day Session
At Campbell College
Soldier Center and USO Plan
Entertainment For Delegates
and Visitors

ers in recreation for Negroes will
convene in Jackson August TO for
a three day recreation conference
and workshop All sessions will be
held at Campbell College. The pro-
gram and conference agenda will
include discussions of community
organizations, recreation for war
production workers and for the
members of the armed forces on
leave in communities adjacent to
military camps; and recreation for
youth.
The agencies sponsoring the con-
ference and workshop are: Missis-
sippi Negro War Recreation Com
mittees; Recreation Division, FEEDER
al Security Agency, United Ser
vice Organizations, Inc, and the
Federal Public Housing Auhotrity.
A local planning committee, under
the craftsmanship of Elizabeth
Moman, Thelma Sadler and George
L. Edwards, w. L. Mhoon, Percy
Greene, and Willie Miller along
with registered delegates and re-
cruiting volunteers from all sec
tons of the state.
Responses from Meridian, Lau-
rel, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Gulfport,
Biloxi, Pascagoula, Centerville, Nc
Comb, Camp Van Dorm, Natchez,
Vicksburg, Greenville, Greenwood,
Mound Bayou, Clarksdale, Grenada,
Hazlehurst and Columbus indicate
that the conference will be well at
tended.
Although the business sessions
will occupy the greater part of the
time of the delegates, two social
programs sponsored by the local
planning committee have been
wored in. Sunday night at o'clock
the soldiers center directorate will
provide a dinner and hold open
house to the delegates registering
Sunday. On Tuesday night the Far
ish street USO is planning a social
evening for delegates and invited
guests.
Among the national leaders par
ticipating in the conference are:
James w. Geater, recreation spe-
cialist, office of the administrator,
Federal Security Agency, Washing
ton, D. c.; Henry w. Pope, race re
lation consultant, United Service
Organizations, Inc, New York City;
A. L. Thompson, race relations adj
visor, Federal Public Housing Au-
thority, Atlanta, Ga; Mary Dean,
arts and crafts specialist, United
Service Organizations, Inc, New
York City; Wallace O. Hawkins,
consultant on negro work, Army
Navy department of Young Mems
Christian Association; James w.
Farley, regional associate, USO-NC
CS., New Orleans, La; William E.
Hogan, religious consultant for Ne
gro USO, New York City, and
Leander c.. Blackus. field recrea-
ton representative Negro rela-
tions) recreation division, Federal
Security Agency, Atlanta, Ga, with
A L. Thompson of Federal Public
Housing Authority, Atlanta, Ga.
has has been assigned to aid the To-
cal committee in setting up the con-
ference. The sancentional figures
will serve as resource persons and
will participate in the formal con-
ference program.
Local and state leaders have rec
ognized the advisability of coming
together to share experiences, to
discover trends. to develop techni-
que to harness the community re-
sources, and to build up standards
in leadership and facility that will
make supervised recreation and di-
rected leisure time activities a part
of theI ife experience of all the
people, in urban centers and rural
areas throughout the state.
This conference and workshop
will rely extensively on the ex-
perience and participation of volun-
teers from many fiends of service
The participants represent the pub
lie and private agencies, commun-
ity center and Fairgrounds person
mel, housing managers and project
aides, Housing Tenant Organize
ton leaders, All clubs, volunteer
War Recreation Committee mem
bers, USO council members and
USO management committees, day
camp leaders, municipal recreation
leaders and committee members
church recreation organizers, recre-
alton and physical education lead
ers in schools, farm extension per-