The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-12
Delegates Hear
Rural Women's
Program Extolled
235 Here Friday
For Eight County
District Meeting

Training in intelligent planning is
making home demonstration club
members organized persons" and
new program emphases are help
ing rural women strength Ameri-
can family life Significantly. the
235 delegates to the annual meet
ing of District III. Virginia Fedora
ton Of Home Demonstration Clubs,
were told here Friday.
From their start in home organi-
cation and homemaker techniques.
club members are enlarging study
horizons to include family relation
ships, health and safety. the com
munity and international citizen
and applied art, Mrs c. G. Babcock
of Prince George, Virginia Fedora
ton president. said in her report
to the delegates assembled in Jar
man Auditorium of LongWood Col
lege.
Her annual message. read in her
absence by Mrs. L. j. Crowgey. Of
Wytheville. state vice president.
showed Virginia now has more than
10000 members in the federated
program. which on the national
level lis the largest adult educa-
ton program in the world"
Growth Cited
In District HIS eight counties of
Prince Edward, Charlotte. Apo
mattox, Campbell, Amherst. Nelson.
Pittsylvania and Halifax. five new
clubs were organized in the past
year adding 81 members, the re-
port stated.
Dean Ruth Wilson. Of Longwood
College, was the keynote speaker
for the annual regional meeting.
her talk being based on the day
theme. Reminding Home Fires
Through the Three RS. Religion.
Recreation and Realism"
Religion. most important of the
three. provides the home with the
cementing characteristic of love,
consideration. gratefulness an d
character. Dean Wilson said 1t
is the neglect of religion in the
home and absence of these quail
ties that sends family members off
to seek peace outside the home,
she added
Recreation, placed on a family
basis comparatively. is the antidote
to commercialiZed recreation, which
IS causing Americans to lose the
art of self expression. To miss the
pleasure Of communication in tense.
noisy and personalized engulfment
in mass media is real tragedy.
the speaker said.
Realism. which provides the key
to intelligent sorting out of unessen-
tials from the essentials. relieves
the pressures and tensions created
by false idealism. the Longwood
dean said
IFYE Speaks
Another program highlight was
an illustrated talk on Bolivia pre-
scented by Paul Saunders, of Mel
son county. Now an orchardist and
surveyor he spent four months in
the South American country in 1855
as an International Farm Youth
Exchange student
A VPI graduate and former ma
tional All Club winner in soil con
servation 1852 and achievement
1854, Saunders used slides he
made during his visit to bring to
life Bolivian farming and family
life.
The eight county groups in the
District presented Sl53 to support
the Federation s effort in interna-
tlonal understanding as an affiliate
of Associated Country Women of
the World.
The gifts. collected at club meet
ings as Pennies For Friendship
were presented in a special cere-
mony presided over by Mrs. Luther
D. Lea, of Massies Mill District
III vice president. The presenting
delegate and the gifts were.
Prince Edward, Mrs. L. s. Simp-
son. Sl7.34; Charlotte, Mrs. P. W.
Bartholomew, SIPS: Campbell.
Mrs. o. P. Snow. S23 so: Amherst.
Mrs. Richard Camden, So o.. Mel
son, Mrs. H. E. Robertson. Sl3 80.
Appomattox. Mrs. Fred Waldridge
SIS: Halifax. Mrs. Willard Reeves
S13.24. and Pittsylvania, Mrs. Mar
tin Matthews, $2132
The 235 registered delegates came
from Campbell q. Amherst-Appo-
mattox 60; Charlotte "A. Pittsyl-
vania Al Halifax IA; Nelson. six,
and Prince Edward 49,
Mrs. Bert Bailey. of Charlotte.
district president. presided during
the morning-long session. which
also included a devotlons period led
by Mrs. Calvin Bass. of Prince Ed
ward. Mrs. june Ellington pre-
scented the Prince Edward county
annual activity report. which
showed the cOunty's program en-
phasis on farm. home and com
munity safety the past year.