Milford chronicle., 1954-11-05
University News

A significant and unusual confer
ence, "Our Older Citizens-An I'M
pOrtant Resource But Little Under
stood" will be held on Thursday,
November II, on the campus of the
University Of Delaware.
Governor J. Caleb BOggs has
been named honorary chairman
and over forty organizations have
been asked to cooperate in spOn-
soring the statewide affair.
The conference will deal with
the problems of aging people and
is being planned by the Univer-
sity's Extension Division and the
Committee on Aging Of the We'll
fare Council of Delaware.
A number of prominent local and
national speakers have been Sc
cured for the program which will
deal with three principal topics:
Social and Psychological Aspects
of Growing Older" Economic AS
poets of Aging" and Health and
the Later Years"
A small conference by the We'll
fare Council was held last year
but this years program is the first
major effort to confront this i'm
pOrtant problem within our state.
Principal speaker at the dinner
meeting will be G. Warfield Hobbs,
III, vice president of the National
City Bank Of New York. Mr.. Hobbs
also holds the position of chairman
of the National Committee on Ag-
ing of the National Social Welfare
Assembly.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Hobbs
graduated from Johns Hopkins I'm
iversity and since 1928, except for
four years of military service, has
been associated with the National
City Bank of New York and its
trust affiliate, City Bank Farmers
Trust Company He is a specialist
in investments and employee bene-
| fit plans
Mr.. Hobbs other activities make
him especially well suited to his
role as speaker in this conference.
He is director and treasurer of the
National Social Welfare Assembly
and a trustee of the Research COun-
Gil for Economic Security. His
Subject will be "a Free Country
Faces the Problem of Aging"
Other prominent conference par
ticipants will be: William K. Patton
president of the Farmers Bank OF
the State of Delaware; DR.. John A
Perkins, president of the Univer-
sity of Delaware; Evan Clague
special assistant to the Secretary
of Labor and Commissioner of La.
Dor Statistics; Dr. G. GOrham
Lane, chairman of the psychology
department of the University Of
Delaware; Dr. w: Ralph G.. Bender
manager of the Personnel Research
Section, E. l. DUPONT de NemOurl
and Company; DR.. Allston ]. Nor
ris, Welfare Council Committee OIL
Aging; DR.. Lemuel c. McGee, med
ical director of the Hercules Pow
der Company, and Charles A. Cary
vice president, r. I. DUPONT d.
NemOurs and Company.
The conference will open at 12:0l
noon with registration in the lObb,
of Wolf Hall and adjourn at so
p. m, following the dinner meeting
} and address.
William X. Brown, a Universit,
of Delaware junior from New Cas-
tie. has been selected as studen
representative to the National AS
sociatiOn of Manufacturers Con
gress of American Industry, No
vember 80 to December 4, in New
} York City.
Each year the Education Depart
ment of the National Association o
/ Manufacturers sponsors a pro
gram which brings one college stu
: dent from each state and the Dis
tTict of Columbia to it's Annus
Congress of American Industry a
its guest. The Congress, which at
tracts some 5000 outstanding bus
inessmen and industrialists, serve
: to focus attention on national an
r world problems and brings dis
t tinguished speakers TO the plat