Milford chronicle., 1963-09-20
Wom en- Challenged
To Think Creufively

yet untapped, natural and ma
tional resource, former dean
Of women told homemakerS at
the annual University Days for
Women banquet last Friday
Sept. 81 at the University Of
Delaware.
Mrs. Randle Elliott, Of Fred
erick, Md, a former dean at
the University, and now wife OF
the Hood College president,
challenged the nearly 200 wo-
men to think more creatively.
"What does a homemaker
think about while she performs
the many routine household
chores that really require no
thought or concentrations" she
asked. "a woman doesn't have
to concentrate on loading a
washing machine or ironing a
blouse. House work may re-
quire a woman's time, she said,
but It doesn't require her
thought.
"Yet, SO few women exercise
their minds at such times to
think OF better methods Of doing
things, or Of new products that
would be useful, or Of ways to
resolve today's complex prob
lens Of human relationsI" she
said.
The major food and appliance
firms "pay good salaries to men
and women to cook up novel
ideas for streamlining American
home life," she commented,
hand all the while the women
Of our country are in the most
natural laboratory and they
don't producer"
Mrs. Elliott pointed out that
women could be using their
minds "to think Of new inven-
tions, or to help solve the many
moral, spiritual and human re-
lations problems, or to evolve
an effective answer to counter
act the lies Of communism, or
to iron out the complexities Of
racial interdependence."
A chemistry professor, an art
professor and an international
education specialist spoke at the
opening session at University
Days for Women Friday morn
ing.
DR.. Elizabeth Dyer, professor
" chemistry at the University
II Delaware, told the women
about recent scientific advances,
pointing out some Of the work
done by Nobel prize winners in
chemistry, medicine and physi-
ology. She also explained recent
progress In understanding the
large molecules which affect
growth and heredity.
Miss Helen Strow, inter-
national education specialist for
the Federal Extension Service
in Washington, based her re-
marks on her worldwide
travels, explaining that despite
some obvious surface differ
ences, people throughout the
world are really quite similar.
III we try to view the world as
other people see 1t, we can
achieve q better under standing
OF their actions, their wishes
and their problems" she said.
DR.. Arthur Young, professor
Of art education at Pratt Insti-
tute, Philadelphia, pointed out
to the women that art is found
In all phases Of contemporary
living. cart is not limited to
just paintings and sculpture"
he said, "but is found in the
designs Of home equipment,
furniture, glass and table ware,
as we'll as in the overall de-
signs Of buildings, shopping cen
ters, automobiles, highways,
movies, teleUsion and many
other phases Of modern living"
"Too often," he said, "the e
world Of art is associated only
with the distant past to the ex-
clusion Of the present, as though
the creative spirit no longer
nurtured the art Of today" He
pointed out that today's art
"engenders the most vital re-
Sponses because what 1t ex-
presses is closest to our living
experiences"
"The World Of Human Re-
lations" was the theme OF Uni
versity Days Saturday general
session. DR.. Marjorie Conrad,
a Wilmington physician, pointed
out that nearly all families are
in some way concerned with
health, shelter, food, clothing,
education, Jobs, children, care
Of the aged and infirm and the
need for friends.
She explained that the value
Of an annual physical examina-
tion is important not only In
strictly physical sense, but
helps the patient by relieving
the fears that he might be Ill,
or by discovering an illness In
time for a cure, and also by
giving him a chance to un-
burden his problems to his
physician. "This brief, but pro-
ductive discussion with a doc
tor has often meant the differ
ence between the need for psy-
chiatric care and a 'leveling
Off under the physicians guid-
ance to emotional stability" she
pointed out.
DIR. Conrad discussed ths
various local agencies and
groups which are available for
help in solving physical, mental
and emotional problems OF fam