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FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

of the

Womai/s Division of v*hristian bervice

of the

Board of Missions and C^hurch extension

The Methodist Church

1943 - 1944

Headquarters: 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Contents

(See Index, Page 346)

Goals for 1944 3

Charter 4

Officers of the Woman's Division of Christian Service 6

Members of the Woman's Division of Christian Service 8

Executive Committee 10

Standing Committees 10

Departments 12

Co-operating Agencies 15

Journal of Fourth Annual Meeting 17

Memorials 68

Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii,

Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic 74

Department of Work in Foreign Fields 135

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities. . 184

Reports of Editors and Publication Manager 191, 229

Appropriations 197

Report of the Treasurer 200

Reports of Secretaries of the Joint Division, Woman's Section 232

Reports of Standing Committees 245

Constitution and By-laws 258

Jurisdiction Officers 312

Conference Officers : . 314

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Sin^in^ and Servin;
Local Woman s
Society or
Christian Service

I — Spiritual Life.

II — Visitation (co-operation in the Cru-
sade for a new World Order extend-
ing throughout the year).

Ill — Education (program, literature, mag-
azines, and study courses).

IV- — Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities (Christian Social
Relations growing out of study) .

V — To live is to give (Stewardship of
our service and our gifts).

VI- — Promotion of Missionary Education
of students, youth, and children.

VII — Supplies (each society doing some
supply work).

VIII — Reports (records of progress) .

CHARTER

WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE

OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHURCH EXTENSION

OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

LAWS OF NEW YORK— CHAPTER 99

AN ACT to facilitate the unification and integration of the mission-
ary organizations and societies of The Methodist Church and for
that purpose to incorporate Woman's Division of Christian Serv-
ice of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Meth-
odist Church.

Became a law March 12, 1942, with the approval of the Governor.

Section 1. All persons associated, or who may become associated, together
in the corporation hereinafter named are constituted a body corporate under the
name and style of "Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Mis-
sions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church."

§ 2. The objects of said corporation are religious, philanthropic and edu-
cational, designed to diffuse more generally the blessings of Christianity and
education in every part of the world and to promote and support Christian mis-
sions, missionary schools and all phases of religious activity at home and
abroad; to develop and maintain Christian work among women and children
at home and abroad; to cultivate Christian family life; to enlist and organize
the efforts of Christian women, young people, and children in behalf of native
and foreign groups, needy childhood, and community welfare; to assist in the
promotion of a missionary spirit throughout the church; to select, train, and
maintain Christian workers; to cooperate with the local church in its responsi-
bilities, and to seek fellowship with Christian women of this and other lands in
establishing a Christian social order around the world.

It may conduct and carry on its work directly as well as through corporate
or other agencies of The Methodist Church now existing or hereafter established,
including all agencies and corporations of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, which
are now united in The Methodist Church, and through such denominational, inter-
denominational, or other agencies as it may determine.

Said corporation shall be under the direction and control of the General Con-
ference of The Methodist Church.

§ 3. The management and disposition of the affairs and property of said
corporation shall be vested in its members who shall collectively constitute its
Board of Managers. The Board of Managers may delegate its power and author-
ity to an executive committee. The number of its members, qualifications for
membership, method of choosing members, number and qualifications of mem-

Charter 5

bers to serve on the executive committee and the method of choosing such com-
mittee shall be as heretofore, or as from time to time hereafter, prescribed by
the General Conference of The Methodist Church. The managers and executive
committee appointed as prescribed by said General Conference at its last previous
session shall be entitled to act as such from and after the time this act shall
take effect, until successors, chosen as prescribed by the General Conference
shall assume their duties.

§ 4. Said corporation shall have perpetual succession, may adopt a com-
mon seal and alter the same at pleasure, may sue and be sued, may acquire
property for corporate purposes by grant, gift, purchase, devise or bequest, and
hold or dispose of the same subject to such limitations as may be prescribed
by law, may sell, transfer, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of such property,
whether held in trust or otherwise, without obtaining leave of any court, may
borrow money and secure the same by mortgage or otherwise, shall be competent
to act as trustee in respect to any gift, devise or bequest pertaining to the objects
of the corporation, may accept contributions to its funds subject to annuity, and
may make such by-laws and rules for the management of its affairs as may
be consistent with law and with its constitution which shall be adopted and
may be altered from time to time by or under the authority of the General Con-
ference of The Methodist Church, and shall have all the general powers and
privileges of a corporation organized under the corporation laws of the state
of New York.

§ 5. Said corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious and
educational purposes and not for profit. None of its members, executive com-
mittee or officers shall have any share or interest in its assets or earnings; no
shares of stock shall be issued and no part of its net earnings shall inure to
the benefit of any private individual and no part of its activities shall be attempt-
ing in any way to influence legislation.

§ 6. In the judgment of the legislature the objects of this corporation can-
not be attained under general laws, and the provisions of this act shall be
liberally construed with a view to effecting its objects and promoting its purposes.

§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

Woman's Division of Christian Service

of the

Board of Missions and Church Extension
The Methodist Church

(Cable Address: MISSIONS, NEW YORK)

OFF IGERS

President

Mrs. J. D. Bragg 3666A Montana Street, St. Louis 16, Mo.

Vice-President

Mrs. J. W. Mills 2434 Liberty Avenue, Beaumont, Tex.

Vice-President

(Chairman of Department of Work in Foreign Fields)
Mrs. Albert E. Beebe 247 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Vice-President

(Chairman of Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic)

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds 106 West University Parkway, Baltimore 10, Md.

Vice-President

(Chairman of Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities)
Mrs. James Oldshue 434 East 88th Street, Chicago 19, 111.

Recording Secretary

Mrs. Fred A. Lamb 6635 Edgevale Road, Kansas City 5, Mo.

Treasurer

Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Associate Treasurer

Miss Henrietta Gibson 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Assistant Treasurers

Miss Jean Bothwell (Foreign) 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Miss Marjorie Eicher (Home) 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Disbursing Officer

Miss Glenn Moore 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Administration 7

Executive Secretaries

(All addresses are 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.)

Department of Work in Foreign Fields

China, Central and South Africa: Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Latin America, Europe, and North Africa: Miss Elizabeth Lee
Japan, Korea, and the Philippines: Mrs. Velma Maynor
India, Burma, Malaya, and Sumatra: Mrs. Otis Moore

Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Haivaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Dominican Republic

Educational Institutions: Miss Muriel Day

Town and Country: Mrs. J. W. Downs

Urban Work: Miss Mary Lou Barnwell

Social Welfare: Miss Miriam V. Ristine

Medical Work (Assistant Secretary): Mrs. Robert Stewart

Deaconess Work: Miss Grace G. Steiner

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities

Miss Thelma Stevens

Editors and Secretaries of Literature

The Methodist Woman and Other Literature Publications

Editor: Miss Bettie S. Brittingham, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.
Assistant Editor: Mrs. Helen Cox Exman, 420 Plum Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio

Publication Manager

Mrs. Geo. W. Keen, 420 Plum Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio

Joint Division of Education and Cultivation — Woman's Section

(All addresses are 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.)

Executive Secretary — (Organization and Promotion)

Mrs. V. F. DeVinny

Secretary of Missionary Education and Cultivation

Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Associate Secretaries

Wesleyan Service Guild: Miss Marion Lela Norris
Student Work: Mrs. Lenore E. Porter
Youth Work: Miss Helen L. Johnson
Children's Work: Miss Ruby Van Hooser

Editors — The World Outlook and Other Joint Literature Publications

Editor: Miss Dorothy McConnell
Assistant Editor: Miss Juanita Brown

Field Secretaries

Miss Lillian Warrick Miss Oscie Sanders

Mrs. F. B. Godfrey Miss Margaret Dodd, for Wesleyan Service Guild

Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel

Secretaries to be elected.

Transportation and Purchasing Department

Miss Faye Robinson, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

8 Woman's Division of Christian Service

MEMBERS
Woman's Division of Christian Service
Northeastern Jurisdiction

Bishop James H. Straughn 1724 Koppers Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mrs. J. Howard Ake 2227 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. Albert E. Beebe 247 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mrs. W. Raymond Brown 65 Walnut Street, East Aurora, N. Y.

Mrs. Carl S. Ell 20 Beaumont Avenue, Newtonville, Mass.

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland 1219 Sixty-eighth Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. T. R. Matthews 4301 Greenway Avenue, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds 106 West University Parkway, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. Harry E. Woolever 209 Cornwall Drive, DeWitt, N. Y.

Advisory Members

Mrs. F. J. McConnell 460 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y.

Mrs. Albert T. Morgan 412 Maple Avenue, Edgewood Park, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mrs. Millard L. Robinson 316 West Seventy-ninth Street, New York, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

Bishop Clare Purcell 405 Poplar Apartments, Charlotte, N. C.

Mrs. W. M. Alexander 1800 Primrose Avenue, Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. Paul Arrington 1735 Piedmont Street, Jackson, Miss.

Mrs. W. H. Ballengee Edinburg, Va.

Mrs. D. S. Coltrane 1611 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, N. C.

Mrs. J. T. Feaster 540 N. E. Ninety-sixth Street, Miami, Fla.

Miss Mabel K. Howell Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. A. C. Johnson 3622 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky.

Mrs. J. W. Perry 198 Ridge Avenue, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Mrs. W. J. Piggott Irvington, Ky.

Mrs. Homer Tatum Alamo, Tenn.

Miss Sara McConnell Perrysville Road, Danville, Ky.

Advisory Members

Mrs. C. C. Weaver 898 Linwood Avenue, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Mrs. L. M. Awtrey Acworth, Ga.

Mrs. Isaac Morris 1430 28th Street, Fairview Station, Birmingham, Ala.

Mrs. Arthur Huestess 1805 Madison Avenue, Montgomery, Ala.

Central Jurisdiction

Bishop Robert E. Jones 1375 East Long Street, Columbus, Ohio

Mrs. M. W. Clair 1020 Russell Avenue, Covington, Ky.

Mrs. H. R. Hargis 420 East Dover Street, Easton, Md.

Mrs. Irma G. Jackson 1119 Pierre Avenue, Shreveport, La.

Mrs. David D. Jones Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C.

Advisory Members

Mrs. Robert E. Jones 1375 East Long Street, Columbus, Ohio

Mrs. W. H. McCallum 69 N. 21st Street, Columbus, Ohio

Mrs. Robert K. Gordon 304 South Main Street, Sumter, S. C.

Mrs. Charles A. Wade Calvert, Tex.

Administration 9

North Central Jurisdiction

Bishop Ralph S. Cushman 1987 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minn.

Mrs. E. R. Bartlett 723 East Washington Street, Greencastle, Ind.

Mrs. F. G. Brooks Mount Vernon, Iowa

Mrs. James Oldshue 434 East Eighty-eighth Street, Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel 2364 West Lake-of-the-Isles Blvd., Minneapolis, Minn.

Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger 52 Warder Street, Dayton, Ohio

Mrs. C. N. Timmons 406 Fourth Avenue, Sterling, 111.

Mrs. William H. Veenboer 2701 Reeds Lake Blvd., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Mrs. Foss Zartman 1120 West Elm Street, Lima, Ohio

Mrs. Dayrle N. Crabb 2020 South St. Aubin Street, Sioux City, Iowa

Advisory Members

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode Whitby Place, Sidney, Ohio

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson 812 Summit Avenue, Mount Vernon, Iowa

Mrs. Ralph S. Cushman 1987 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minn.

Mrs. Anna E. Kresge 70 West Boston Blvd., Detroit, Mich.

South Central Jurisdiction

Bishop William C. Martin First Methodist Church, Omaha, Neb.

Mrs. J. D. Bragg 3666A Montana Street, St. Louis, Mo.

Mrs. Fred A. Lamb 6635 Edgevale Road, Kansas City, Mo.

Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter 1134 Dalzell Street, Shreveport, La.

Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis 555 Glendale Avenue, Webster Groves, Mo.

Mrs. J. W. Mills 2434 Liberty Avenue, Beaumont, Tex.

Mrs. C. M. Randal. . . . : Seymour, Tex.

Mrs. Joe L. Ely 1819 Northwest Twelfth Street, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Advisory Members

Mrs. Gid Bryan Italy, Tex.

Mrs. Hinkle Pewett Jonesboro, Ark.

Mrs. E. B. Dunlap 1002 B Avenue, Lawton, Okla.

Mrs. William C. Hanson 5306 Windsor Lane, Kansas City, Kan

Western Jurisdiction

Bishop James C. Baker 125 Marchessault Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

Mrs. J. K. Cecil 440 Melville Avenue, Palo Alto, Calif.

Mrs. Charles Cole 711 East 32d Avenue, Spokane, Wash.

Mrs. C. P. Colegrove 1079 North Marengo Avenue, Pasadena, Calif.

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter 4857 Northeast Eighth Street, Portland, Ore.

Mrs. R. T. Andersen 641 North 5th Street, Phoenix, Ariz.

Advisory Members

Mrs. Frank I. Hollingsworth 624 South Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver, Colo.

Mrs. Charles Latimer Grand Junction, Colo.

Mrs. F. L. Beck 218 West 26th Street, Cheyenne, Wyo.

Mrs. Jennie Fulton 4105 Brooklyn Avenue, Seattle, Wash.

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Executive Committee

Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Chairman
Mrs. James Oldshue
Mrs. H. R. Hargis
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. A. C. Johnson
Mrs. Homer Tatum
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Mrs. C. H. Van Meter
Mrs. L. R. Peel
Mrs. J. W. Mills

Mrs.
Mrs.
Miss
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.

W. M. Alexander
A. E. Beebe
Mabel K. Howell
J. Wesley Masland
Fred A. Lamb
W. R. Brown
Foss Zartman
David D. Jones
Charles Cole
Wiltz Ledbetter
C. N. Timmons
J. Howard Ake

Administrative Committee

President of the Division
Chairmen of the Three Departments
Executive Secretaries

Mrs. J. Wesley Masland
Mrs. J. Howard Ake
Mrs. David D. Jones

Standing Committees

Constitution and By-Laws—

Mrs. Homer Tatum, Chairman

Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode

Mrs. F. C. Reynolds

Mrs. W. J. Piggott

Mrs. J. W. Perry

Mrs. V. F. DeVinny

Mrs. A. E. Beebe

Mrs. James Oldshue

Mrs. C. C. Weaver

Mrs. T. R. Mathews

Co-operation With Other Agencies —

Mrs. Homer Tatum, Chairman
Mrs. Millard L. Robinson
Mrs. Leon Roy Peel
Mrs. E. B. Dunlap
Mrs. C. H. Van Meter
Mrs. Robert E. Jones
Mrs. Charles Latimer
Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter

Education and Cultivation —

Mrs. Albert T, Morgan, Chairman

Mrs. E. R. Bartlett

Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter

Mrs. F. L. Beck

Mrs. Isaac Morris

Mrs. Irma Jackson

Ex-Officio:
Mrs. W. M. Alexander
Miss Thelma Stevens
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny
Mrs. Helen B. Bourne
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. Helen Cox Exman
Miss Dorothy McConnell
Miss Juanita Brown
Mrs. Geo. W. Keen

Finance and Estimates —

Mrs. W. R. Brown, Chairman
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Mrs. J. Wesley Masland
Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Mrs. Foss Zartman
Mrs. W. J. Piggott
Mrs. J. Howard Ake
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Mrs. James Oldshue
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. F. G. Brooks

Ex-Oflicio:

Executive Secretaries

Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers

Editors

Publication Manager

Library Service —

Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Chairman

Mrs. F. J. McConnell

Mrs. Carl S. Ell

Miss Sara McConnell

Mrs. Charles A. Wade

Mrs. Hinkle Pewett

Mrs. Frank I. Hollingsworth

Literature and Publications —

Mrs. J. N. Rodeheaver, Chairman

Miss Annie G. Bailed

Miss Noreen Dunn

Mrs. Ellis McFarland

Mrs. W. H. McCallum

Mrs. George Sexton, Jr.

Mrs. W. A. Roberts

Standing Committees

Advisory:

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Mrs. James Oldshue
Mrs. W. M. Alexander

Ex-Officio:

Mrs. J. D. Bragg
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Miss Dorothy McConnell
Mrs. Helen Cox Exman
Miss Juanita Brown
Mrs. Geo. W, Keen
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny
Mrs. Helen B. Bourne
Miss Thelma Stevens
Miss Marion Lela Norris
Mrs. Lenore E. Porter
Miss Helen L. Johnson
Miss Ruby Van Hooser

Missionary Personnel —

*Mrs. Leon Roy Peel, Chairman
♦Miss Mabel K. Howell
*Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis

Mrs. Isaac Morris

Mrs. Fred A. Lamb

Miss Henrietta Gibson

Mrs. David D. Jones

Mrs. F. G. Brooks

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter

Ex-Officio:

Home and Foreign Executive Secretaries
Mrs. Lenore E. Porter
Secretaries of Missionary Personnel

Spiritual Life —

Mrs. W. M. Alexander, Chairman

1800 Primrose Ave , Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. T. R. Matthews
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. H. R. Hargis
Mrs. Ralph Cushman
Mrs. William C. Hanson
Mrs. J. K. Cecil

Status of Women —

Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis, Chairman

Mrs. L. M. Awtrey

Mrs. Arthur Huestess

Mrs. Mayme Gordon

Mrs. Daryle N. Crabb

Mrs. Joe L. Ely

Mrs. Charles Cole

Supply Work —

Mrs. H. E. Woolever, Secretary

DeWitt, New York
Mrs. J. Howard Ake, Assistant Secretary
Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Assistant Secretary
Chairmen and Executive Secretaries of the
Departments of Work in Home and For-
eign Fields
Treasurers

One Representative from Purchasing, Ship-
ping and Transportation Department

To Fill Vacancies —

Mrs. J. W. Mills
Mrs. A. C. Johnson
Mrs. Charles Cole
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. David D. Jones

To Nominate Committees

Mrs. J. D. Bragg
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. Fred A. Lamb

Permanent Funds and Invest-
ments—

Mrs. J. W. Masland, Chairman
Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton
Mrs. W. J. Piggott
Mrs. Anna E. Kresge
Mrs. Foss Zartman

Co-opted:

Dr. Morris W. Ehnes
Mrs. H. E. James
Mrs. Millard Robinson
Mr. Gordon J. Campbell
Mr. W. M. Mooney
Miss Henrietta Gibson

Wesleyan Service Guild-

Mrs. David D. Jones
Mrs. Anna E. Kresge
Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. W. H. Veenboer
Mrs. H. E. Woolever

♦Elected by the Board upon nomination of the
Woman's Division.

Miss Louise Young, Chairman
Miss Dorothea L. Keeney
Mrs. Adella M. Langill
Miss E. Jane MacDonald
Miss Martha B. Shannon
Mrs. W. A. Tribble
Miss Mae Wilson

Member s-at-Large:

Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. Olyn Hull
Miss Lena Knapp

Jurisdictional Representatives:
Miss Ruth B. Weed (NE)
Mrs. K. W. Warden (SE)
Miss Sylva Snedaker (NC)
Mrs. L. C. Thomas (C)
Mrs. I. J. Ayers (SO
Miss Gertrude M. Hutchinson (W)

World Federation of Methodist
Women —

Mrs. J. W. Mills, Chairman
Mrs. Thomas Nicholson
Mrs. C. P. Colegrove
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Mrs. M. W. Clair
Mrs. A. C. Johnson
Mrs. Gid Bryan
Mrs. Anna E. Kresge
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Mrs. R. T. Andersen
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Mrs. James Oldshue
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny
Mrs. Helen B. Bournb
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Departments

Department of Work in Foreign Fields—

Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Chairman
Bishop James C. Baker
Bishop Clare Purcell
Mrs. F. J. McConnell
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. F. G. Brooks
Mrs. J. K. Cecil
Mrs. L. R. Peel
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. Thomas Nicholson
Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. C. N. Timmons
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Mrs. R. T. Andersen
Mrs. M. W. Clair
Mrs. C. H. Van Meter
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Mrs. C. C. Weaver
Mrs. W. H. McCallum
Mrs. F. I. Hollingsworth
Executive Secretaries

Ex-Officio:

President of the Woman's Division
Treasurer of the Woman's Division
Assistant Treasurer for Foreign Fields
Secretary of Missionary Personnel

Standing Committee

Mrs. A. E. Beebe, Chairman
Mrs. William T. Anderson (NE)
Mrs. H. L. Talbert (SE)
Mrs. Frank E. Baker (NC)
Mrs. M. A. R. Camphor (C)
Dr. Mary Shannon (SC)
Mrs. C. H. Van Meter (W)

Executive Committee

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. L. R. Peel
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. C. N. Timmons
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Mrs. C. H. Van Meter
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Executive Secretaries

Finance and Estimates Committee

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. F. G. Brooks

Ex-Officio:

Executive Secretaries
Treasurer

Administrative Committee

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Executive Secretaries
Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Mrs. H. E. Woolever

Committee on Missionary Personnel

Mrs. L. R. Peel
Miss Henrietta Gibson
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. F. G. Brooks

Committee on Co-operation With Other
Agencies

Mrs. L. R. Peel

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter

Foreign Field Committees

China and Central and South Africa:

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon, Executive

Secretary
Bishop James C. Baker
Mrs. J. K. Cecil
Mrs. M. W. Clair
Mrs. R. T. Andersen
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Mrs. L. R. Peel

India, Burma, and Malaya:

Mrs. Otis Moore, Executive Secretary

Bishop Clare Purcell

Mrs. C. C. Weaver

Mrs. C. H. Van Meter

Mrs. W. H. McCallum

Mrs. H. E. Woolever

Mrs. C. N. Timmons

Japan, Korea, and Philippine Islands:

Mrs. Velma Maynor, Executive Secretary

Bishop James C. Baker

Mrs. F. J. McConnell

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson

Mrs. F. I. Hollingsworth

Mrs. J. W. Masland

Mrs. J. W. Perry

Latin America, Europe, and North Africa:

Miss Elizabeth Lee, Executive Secretary

Bishop Clare Purcell

Miss Henrietta Gibson

Mrs. J. W. Mills

Mrs. F. G. Brooks

Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger

Commission on Central Conferences of
the General Conference

(Discipline, Ts 1702 and 1843)

Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. H- E. Woolever

Departments

Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Dominican Republic —

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds, Chairman

Bishop William C. Martin

Bishop Robert E. Jones

Mrs. W. J. Piggott

Mrs. W. R. Brown

Mrs. Charles Cole

Mrs. Fred A. Lamb

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode

Mrs. J. Howard Akb

Mrs. Foss Zartman

Mrs. H. R. Hargis

Mrs. F. F. Lewis

Mrs. A. C. Johnson

Mrs. W. M. Alexander

Mrs. Joe L. Ely

Mrs. Homer Tatijm

Mrs. M. L. Robinson

Mrs. Isaac Morris

Mrs. Arthur Huestess

Mrs. Mayme G. Gordon

Mrs. Charles A. Wade

Mrs. Anna E. Kresge

Mrs. Hinkle Pewett

Mrs. F. L. Beck

Mrs. Charles Latimer

Mrs. W. C. Hanson

Executive Secretaries

Ex-Officio:

President of the Woman's Division
Treasurer of the Woman's Division
Assistant Treasurer for Home Fields
Secretary of Missionary Personnel

Standing Committee

Mrs Fred C. Reynolds, Chairman
Mrs. W. L. Crowding (NE)
Mrs. C. C. Sapp (SE)
Mrs. C. M. Waggoner (NC)
Mrs. Ethel Clair (C)
Mrs. Frank L. Davis (SC)
Mrs. Charles Cole (W)
Executive Secretaries

Executive Committee

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds
Mrs. J. Howard Ake
Mrs. W. Raymond Brown
Mrs. Charles Cole
Mrs. H. R. Hargis
Mrs. A. C. Johnson
Mrs. Fred A. Lamb
Mrs. Homer Tatum
Mrs. Foss Zartman
Executive Secretaries

Finance and Estimates Committee

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds
Mrs. W. Raymond Brown
Mrs. Foss Zartman
Mrs. W. J. Piggott
Mrs. J. Howard Ake

Ex-Officio:

Executive Secretaries
Treasurer for Home Fields

Administrative Committee

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds
Executive Secretaries
Mrs. J. Howard Ake
Mrs. W. R. Brown
Mrs. W. J. Piggott
Mrs. M. L. Robinson

Inter-Division Committee With the Divi-
sion of Home Missions and Church
Extension

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds
Executive Secretaries

Committees of Co-operating Boards

Co-operation With the Board of Education:

Miss Muriel Day
Mrs. Irma Jackson
Mrs. David D. Jones
Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Mrs. F. F. Lewis

Home Missions Council of North America:

Promotion and Publicity — Mrs. V. F. DeVinny
Town and Country— Mrs. J. W. Downs
Cities and New Americans —

Miss Mary Lou Barnwell
Alaska— Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
West Indies — Mrs. M. L. Robinson
Intermountain Area — Miss Miriam V. Ristine
Indian — Miss Muriel Day
Christian Approach to the Jew —

Miss Thelma Stevens
Young People's Work — Miss Helen L. Johnson
Migrant Work — Mrs. J. D. Bragg
Government Projects and Sharecropper Work —

Mrs. Foss Zartman

Ex-Officio:
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds

Board for Christian Work in Santo Domingo

Mrs. Robert Stewart
Mrs. Fred B. Newell

Bureau Advisory Committees

Educational Institutions:

Miss Muriel Day, Executive Secretary
Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Mrs. W. M. Alexander
Mrs. David D. Jones

Town and Country Work:

Mrs. J. W. Downs, Executive Secretary
Mrs. J. Howard Ake
Mrs. S. E. McCreeless
Mrs. H. R. Steele

Urban Work:

Miss Mary Lou Barnwell, Executive

Secretary
Mrs. C. C. Travis
Mrs. F. B. Godfrey
Miss Margaret Young

Social andMedical Work:
Social —

Miss Miriam V. Ristine, Executive Sec'y
Miss Lora Lee Pederson
Mrs. Frank L. Davis
Mrs. Frank Carter
Mrs. Anna E. Kresge

Medical —

Mrs. Robert Stewart, Secretary

Mrs. Foss Zartman

Mrs. May L. Woodruff

Mrs. Homer Tatum

Deaconess Work:

Miss Grace G. Steiner, Executive Sec'v
Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. Charles Cole
Mrs. W. H. C. Goodk

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities —

Mrs. James Oldshue, Chairman
Bishop James H. Straughn
Bishop Ralph S. Cushman
Mrs. D. S. Coltrane
Mrs. E. R. Bartlett
Mrs. Wm. H. Veenboer
Mrs. Paul Arrington
Mrs. W. H. Ballengee
Mrs. David D. Jones
Mrs. C. M. Randal
Miss Sara A. McConnell
Mrs. Irma G. Jackson
Mrs. C. P. Colegrove
Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter
Mrs. T. R. Matthews
Mrs. Carl S. Ell
Mrs. Daryle N. Crabb
Mrs. Ralph S. Cushman
Mrs. Gid Bryan
Mrs. E. B. Dunlap
Mrs. Robert E. Jones
Mrs. Jennie Fulton
Mrs. Albert T. Morgan
Mrs. L. M. Awtrey
Miss Thelma Stevens, Executive
Secretary

Standing Committee

Mrs. James Oldshue, Chairman
Mrs. E. R. Bartlett
Mrs. Jennie Fulton
Mrs. Wm. H. Veenboer
Mrs. David D. Jones
Mrs. Paul Arrington
Mrs. W. H. Ballengee
Mrs. C. M. Randal
Mrs. L. M. Awtrey
Mrs. H. M. Selby (NE)
Mrs. M. E. Tilly (SE)
Mrs. Ellis McFarland (NC)
Mrs. R. b: Scott (C)
Mrs. W. B. Landrum (SC)
Mrs. C. F. Van de Water (W)
Mrs. Helen B. Bourne
Mrs. Lenore E. Porter
Mrs. Adella Langill
Miss Louise Young
Miss Thelma Stevens

Ex-Officio:

Mrs. J. D. Bragg
Mrs. J. W. Mills
Miss Marion Lela Norris

Committee on Local Church and Com-
munity Co-operation

Mrs. Jennie Fulton
Mrs. Carl S. Ell
Mrs. Ralph S. Cushman
Mrs. C. V. Adair
Miss Lora Lee Pederson
Mrs. Ellis McFarland
Mrs. R. E. Connell

Associate Members:
Mrs. Gertrude Apel
Mrs. Ruth M. Worrell

Committee on International Relations
and World Peace

Mrs. E. R. Bartlett
Mrs. D. S. Coltrane
Mrs. T. R. Matthews
Mrs. Merle N. English
Mrs. W. H. McCallum
Mrs. N. W. Selby
Mrs. Wallace E. Streeter

Associate Members:
Miss Dorothy McConnell
Dr. Chas F. Boss, Jr.

Committee on Economic Relations

Mrs Wm. H. Veenboer
Mrs. C. P. Colegrove
Mrs. W. A. Newell
Mrs. M. E. Tilly
Miss Florence Teague
Mrs. Adella Langill

Associate Members:
Miss Frances Williams
Dr. A. E. Barnett
Dr. Willard Uphaus

Committee on Minority Groups and Inter-
Racial Co-operation

Mrs: David D. Jones
Mrs. Paul Arrington
Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Miss Sara A. McConnell
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune
Miss Louise Young
Miss Mina Klayman
Mrs. Robert E. Jones

Committee on Christian Citizenship

Mrs. W. H. Ballengee
Mrs. Irma G. Jackson
Mrs. E. B. Dunlap
Mrs. Joy Elmer Morgan
Mrs. Fred Bradfute

Associate Members:

Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames
Mrs. Wm. H. Reals

Committee on Alcohol and Other Narcotics

Mrs. C. M. Randal
Mrs. A. T. Morgan
Mrs. C. F. Van de Water
Mrs. R. B. Scott
Mrs. W. B. Landrum
Mrs. E. K. Barss

Associate Members:
Mrs. Bertha R. Palmer
Miss Winnie Buckels
Dr. E. H. Cherrington

Committee on Christian Family

Mrs. L. M. Awtrey
Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter
Mrs. Daryle N. Crabb
Mrs. Gid Bryan
Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton
Mrs. Mamie Gordon

Associate Members:
Mrs. S. M. Duvall
Miss Oscie Sanders
Mrs. Delbert Mann

Co-operating Agencies

Representatives on Co-operative Committees
and Commissions

Inter-Board Committee on Mis-
sionary Education —

Miss Helen L. Johnson
Miss Ruby Van Hooser
Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Missionary Education Movement —

Mrs. Helen B. Bourne
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Miss Dorothy McConnell
Miss Helen L. Johnson
Miss Ruby Van Hooser
Miss Marion Lela Norris

Committee on Town and Country
Work (Joint)—
Mrs. J. W. Downs
Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Mrs. J. Howard Ake

Committee on Co-operation and
Council With Board of Educa-
tion—

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Miss Muriel Day
Mrs David D. Jones
Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis
Mrs. Irma Jackson

Joint Committee on Religious Edu-
cation in Foreign Fields —

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Mrs. J. K. Cecil

Mrs. W. S. Piggott

Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger

Mrs. A. E. Beebe

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel (Alternate)

Commission on Evangelism—

Mrs. W. M. Alexander
Mrs. J. D. Bragg

Commission on World Peace —

Miss Thelma Stevens

Interdivision Committee on For-
eign Work —

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Executive Secretaries

Interdivision Committee on Home
Work—

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds
Executive Secretaries

Co-operating Agencies

Home Missions Council of North
America — See page 13 for com-
mittees and representatives

Board of Christian Work in Santo
Domingo — -See page 13 for com-
mittees and representatives

Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America — ■

Department of Race Relations

Board of United Council of Church
Women —

Mrs. I. J. Ayers
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Mrs. J. D. Bragg
Mrs. Arthur C. Elliott
Miss Henrietta Gibson
Dr. Georgia Harkness
Miss Mabel Head
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. J. N. McEachern
Mrs. Joy Elmer Morgan
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Miss Louise Young

Union Colleges —

Special Committees of Associated Boards
for Colleges in China and Representa-
tives on Boards of Trustees

Cheeloo (Shantung Christian University)
Woman's College

Mrs. J. M. Avann (1944)
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1944)
Mrs. H. E. Woolever (1945)
Mrs. E. L. Phillips (Co-opted)
Mrs. Frank C. Hughson (Co-opted)

Glnling College

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel (1946)
Mrs. Francis J. McConnell (1944)
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1945)
Mrs. Harry E. James (Co-opted)

Hwa Nan College

Mrs. J. D. Bragg

Mrs. A. E. Beebe

Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf

Mrs. J. W. Masland

Mrs. H. E. Woolever

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel

Miss Elizabeth Congdon

Miss Edna Ambrose

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie

Mrs. J. W. Mills

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger

Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Miss Elizabeth Lee

Miss Bettie S. Brittingham

Miss Faye Robinson

Dr. Frank T. Cartwright

Mrs. Ralph E. Diffendorfer

Dr. L. O. Hartman

Mrs. Anna E. Kresge

Miss Henrietta Gibson

Mr. J. C. Haley

Soochow University

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

West China Union University

Mrs. Frank E. Baker

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (Co-opted)

Yenching University

Mrs J. K. Cecil

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1944)

Mrs. J. M. Avann (1946)

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Woman's Union Christian Medical Col-
lege, Shanghai

Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Miss Mabel K. Howell
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Colleges in India —

Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie
Mrs. H. E. Woolever
Miss Florence Hooper
Mrs. Otis Moore
Dr. George Briggs
Dr. Thomas S. Donohugh
Mrs. Fred A. Victor (Alternate)
Mrs. E. L. Phillips (Advisory)
Miss Lulie Hooper

Woman's Christian College of Madras

Mrs. Otis Moore
Miss Esther Hay
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham (Alternate)

St. Christopher's Training College,
Madras

Miss Esther Hay

Miss Dorothy McConnell

Miss Bettie S. Brittingham (Alternate)

Missionary Medical College for Women,
Vellore

Mrs. Otis Moore

Miss Clementina Butler

Miss Esther Hay

Colleges in Japan and Korea —
Woman's Christian College of Japan,
Tokyo

Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs, Velma H. Maynor
Miss Margaret Forsyth
Mrs. Fred A. Victor (Alternate)

Ewha College, Korea

Mrs. J. W. Perry
Mrs. F. J. McConnell
Mrs. J. M. Avann
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger
Miss Henrietta Gibson

Ex-Officio:

Bishop J. C. Baker
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Dr. C. W. Iglehart
Mrs. Velma H. Maynor

Christian Literature for
and Children in
Lands —

Miss Clementina Butler

Women
Mission

Christian Literature for Africa,
American Section —

Mrs. T. S. Donohugh

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Committees of the Foreign Mis-
sions Conference

Committee of Reference and Council:
Miss Elizabeth Lee
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Africa:

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Mrs. Charles H. Hardie

East Asia:

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Mrs. Velma H. Maynor

Europe:

Miss Elizabeth Lee

India:
Mrs. Otis Moore
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham

Latin America:

Miss Elizabeth Lee
Mrs. J. W. Perry

Philippine Islands:

Mrs. Velma H. Maynor
Mrs. Harvey W. Harmer

Associated Missions Medical Office:
Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. Otis Moore

Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work,
Mrs. Otis Moore

Promotion and Interest:

Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny

Rural Missions Co-oPerating Committee:
Mrs. Otis Moore
Miss Elizabeth Lee

Woman's Work:
Miss Bettie S. Brittingham
Mrs. Helen B. Bourne
Mrs. A. E. Beebe

Ex-Officio:

Miss Elizabeth Lee

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Committee on Special Program and Funds:
Mrs. A. E. Beebe

Committee on World Literacy and Christian
Literature:
Miss Dorothy McConnell
Mrs. Velma H. Maynor

Committee of Work Among Moslems:
Mrs. Otis Moore

Treasurers Group:
Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton

Joint Executive Committee on Life and Work
and Faith and Order (American Section):
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Mrs. Velma H. Maynor (Alternate)

North American Administrative Committee
of World Sunday School Association:
Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Miss Elizabeth Lee

Hospitals —

Willis Pierce Memorial Hospital, China:
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon
Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf
Mrs. E. Wesley Shaw
Mrs. Frank Horne (Alternate)

FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING

of the

WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE

BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHURCH EXTENSION

THE METHODIST CHURCH

Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, December 3-8, 1943

First Session — December 3, 1943

THE fourth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Division of Christian Service
was called to order at 7:30 P. M., Friday, December 3, in the East Room of
Buck Hill Falls Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pa., by the President, Mrs. J. D. Bragg.

Devotions. — The devotional period was one of quiet meditation with prayer,
song, and praise, closed with prayer by Mrs. Bragg.

Roll Call. — The roll was called by the secretary. Messages had been received
from the absentee members expressing their regret at not being able to be
present.

Minutes. — The secretary called attention to the following changes in the
June Executive minutes:

June 12-15, 1943, page 28—

Under II, Specific Cases: 1., add to (a) "with years of service reckoned from
April, 1940, to include her years as a contract teacher." Omit (b); change
(c) to (b) and (d) to (c).

Under 2., add to (a) "with years of service reckoned from April 15, 1941, to
include her months as a contract teacher." Omit (b); change (c) to (b). Add
new (c) "There is no pension obligation on the part of the W. F. M. S. for Miss
Knapp other than the deposit to the pension fund of the Woman's Division as
mentioned in (b)."

Introductions. — The jurisdiction secretaries of foreign work, the jurisdiction
secretaries of home work, jurisdiction and conference officers, deaconesses and
missionaries, Wesleyan Service Guild Standing Committee, who were present,
were introduced and extended the privilege of the floor. The presence of Bishop
Robert E. Jones, Mr. J. Wesley Masland, Dr. R. L. Russell, Dr. E. C. Peters, Dr.
David Jones, Dr. Wade C. Barclay was noted.

Presentation. — Mrs. E. L. Hillman, President of the Southeastern Juris-
diction, rose to a point of personal privilege. She called to the front representa-
tives of the other five jurisdictions asking Mrs. Bragg to stand with them;
then, in some beautiful words, expressed their deep appreciation for Mrs. Bragg's
efficient service, presenting her with an Honorary Life Patron Pin.

Mrs. Bragg responded in her own inimitable way, voicing her gratitude for
this gift of love.

Communications. —

Oregon Conference — concerning reports, referred to By-law Committee.

Virginia Conference — concerning name of Young Women's and Girls' Work,
referred to By-law Committee.

New England Conference — concerning Wesleyan Service Guild Meeting, re-
ferred to Wesleyan Service Guild secretary. •

Virginia Conference — concerning Youth Funds, referred to Young Women's
and Girls' secretary.

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Southeastern Jurisdiction — referred to Policy Committee.
Kansas City District — concerning E. Stanley Jones at Peace Table, referred
to a special committee.

Resignation. — The resignation of Miss Henrietta Gibson as an advisory
member of the Division was accepted as she is now a member of the staff.

Report of Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Ac-
tivities.— Mrs. James Oldshue, Chairman; Miss Thelma Stevens, Executive Sec-
retary; Mrs. Oldshue presented the following report and recommendations, which
were adopted:

Methodist women face grave situations at this time of global warfare.
The nature of peacemaking is clarified if we see that it begins at home, that
it involves "the presence of justice" in one's local community. Proposals to
smash Germany and Japan and take over the policing of the distant parts of the
globe sometimes tend to divert attention from evils near at hand and within our
power to correct. It is important that we see that abuses and failures within
our own society weaken all recommendations we make for world order. If we are
realistically interested in peacemaking, let us make the United States a proving
ground for democracy.

This will make us more rather than less concerned with international issues.
However enmeshed we become with the needs of our communities, we must see
their correlation with the needs of the world community. There should be no
such complete absorption in the immediate as will make the world situation
of no concern. The two concerns belong together and each lends realism and
urgency to the other.

One of the most vital issues for us today is preparation for the employment
of those who may be dropped from jobs when peace comes. Since employment
is an integral part of peace, we believe that all church women should study the
situation to determine where they can best throw their influence to remedy this
situation as a step to building a lasting peace.

We recognize that the social, economic, and public-health aspects of the
narcotic problem are of such magnitude that Methodist women must reaffirm
their principles of total abstinence and increase their efforts in support of ap-
proved educational and legislative procedures that may work effectively toward
the solution of this problem.

Racial tensions and anti-Semitism have increased during the past year. The
treatment of minorities in America has been a constant embarrassment to the
United States in the present world conflict. If this country is to take its place
of leadership in planning for peace and in the postwar world there must be a
closer relation between the theory and practice of democracy. Likewise, the
church by the nature of its faith is constrained to become more adequately
Christian in its own practice. It is deadening to the effort to achieve brotherhood
to assume that we have it when it has not yet been achieved. The jurisdictional
organization of our church tacitly accepts the principles of segregation. Meth-
odist women have an obligation to stimulate within the church an increasing
awareness of the contradiction between our Christian ideals and our plan of
organization.

We recognize that the current world situation is producing an unusual strain
on family living, the home itself should be a unit of democratic living where
decisions are arrived at co-operatively. The democratic spirit and the attitude of
Christian appreciation bears its finest fruit when family life is conducted on a
basis of mutual superiority. If each member recognizes the contribution of the
other there results a creative fellowship in which differences add color, richness,
and completeness to family experiences.

In light of these situations we make the following recommendations:

I. General Recommendations

We recomn^end :

1. That one of the approved studies for 1944-45 be "Christians and the New
World Economy."

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2. That the Department of Missionary Education prepare a Bible study
using the theme, "The New Testament Teachings on Race."

3. That the department set up workshops in various geographical areas of
the church with emphasis on phases of postwar planning with interracial leader-
ship and for interracial groups.

(a) That a free leaflet be issued suggesting techniques for setting up
similar workshops in local, district, and conference groups.

4. That the future policy of the department be that of centering its efforts
on one or two timely emphases selected from the department's general program.

5. That the department formulate a statement of undergirding principles
based on the social tenets of The Methodist Church, to be used as a guide by the
department in building its annual programs.

6. That The Methodist Woman and the World Outlook be requested to include
some time during the coming year, the following articles :

(1) Guidance in interpreting subtle propaganda on alcoholic beverages.

(2) Alcoholism as social, economic, and public-health problems.

(3) Alcohol education in the public-school program.

(4) The dramatic and sacrificial struggle of the coal miners.

(5) What is involved in full employment.

(6) An article showing the financial obligation of The Methodist Church
to the historic peace churches for the maintenance of Methodist Youth in
Civilian Public Service Camps challenging the support of interested
persons.

(7) Information on "The Christian Family."

7. That a legislative committee be formed, composed of one member from
each of the seven resource committees, to assist in the analysis of proposed
measures before Congress. The information thus secured to be used at the
discretion of the secretary.

8. That a seminar be authorized for 1944 similar to the Garrett Seminars
of 1942-43 with a $50 sudsidy allocated to each jurisdiction, and that the juris-
diction and conference societies promote the seminar and where possible provide
similar subsidies for their leaders.

9. That seminars and studies in the area of Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities be planned for the jurisdiction schools, and the depart-
ment provide a $10 subsidy for each conference secretary attending.

10. That the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America be asked to
prepare a syllabus on "Education for New Homemakers" which can be used
by the local church. We further recommend that the United Council of Church
Women be asked to co-operate in the promotion of this study.

II. The Church and Community Needs

We recommend:

A. That we urge the women of the local societies

1. To foster in the community a recognition of alcoholism as an immediate
and long-time problem of public health and mental hygiene and encourage the
community to provide medical and psychiatric care for alcoholic patients and that
they discourage present tendencies in some communities toward "jail treatment"
of alcoholics, since this serves no rehabilitative purpose and tends toward further
demoralization of the alcoholic and his family.

2. To study state and national laws protesting those tendencies which weaken
laws regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages and supporting those which are
protective in nature.

3. Through the secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities to co-operate with and secure the co-operation of school people and
Parent-Teachers' Associations in carrying out adequately the provision of state
laws requiring instruction on alcohol and other narcotics.

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4. To work for the development of educational methods in the understanding
of the ballot as an instrument for promoting general welfare.

5. To support Federal aid to public education provided the administration
of schools remains under local supervision and that Federal funds be used with-
out discrimination.

6. To be watchful to prevent curtailment of local educational funds with
the attendant detrimental effect on recreational and educational opportunities.

7. To urge upon their congressmen the continuation with adequate financial
support of the FSA and OPA, and also to examine the practices of these and
other agencies to see that all people are serviced in a democratic manner.

8. To study church agencies in the light of current trends in social work,
comparing methods and effective practices with those of other community agen-
cies in order to avoid duplication and to bring about effective co-operation.

9. To learn the provisions of the Lanham Act under which care for children
can be made available and the local secretaries are urged to see that funds are
used in needed areas.

10. To continue their concern for the administration of courts, rehabilitation
of prisoners, and treatment by public officials of suspected violators of the law.

B. We further recommend:

That we urge the church to study the effectiveness of its program in meet-
ing the needs of industrial and low-income groups in the light of the growing
response to the various cults and sects.

C. That special study and action be directed toward the provisions for juvenile
and adolescent protection and that a packet on this be made available
with a free pamphlet expediting its use.

III. The Church and Postwar Planning

We recommend:

1. That continuous and vigorous influence on public opinion be directed
toward a peace that will liberate minorities and insure them rights as absolute
as those of majorities, that will abolish to the utmost racial discrimination,
that will give labor full rights of organization, and insure to all who are em-
ployable a reasonable chance of productive employment, and that will re-establish
the foundations of civilization.

2. Recognizing the significance of the Moscow and Atlantic City (UNRRA)
Conferences and the fact that foundations for future peace and for building
a new world order are being laid now by the United Nations, we recommend
that Christian groups give strong support to the formation of an organization
in which all the peoples of the world may have representation when political
decisions which determine the future world order are made.

3. In view of the danger of postwar trends toward unfair displacement of
women employed in industry, we recommend that the Woman's Division authorize
the calling of a small findings conference of experts for the purpose of securing
relevant facts with their Christian and ethical implications, bearing on these dis-
criminatory plans and practices, such facts to be publicized as early as possible.
We further recommend that the Department of Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, in co-operation with other interested lines of work in
the Woman's Division, initiate and plan such a conference.

4. Realizing that through their government the people of the United States
own new plants valued at $21,000,000,000 and that Christians have an imme-
diate responsibility to see that these plants will not be taken over for a song at
the close of the war by selfish financial interests, we recommend that the local
societies watch processes of conversion of such plants into the production of
actual necessities of all people, and that suggestions and constructive protests
be made to the proper authorities at the critical time.

5. That we support the intent and substance of H. R. 2861, sponsored by
John H. Dingill and the companion S. R. 1161 introduced by Senator Robert
Wagner, insofar as it provides for extension of Old Age and Survivors Insurance

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to farm laborers and domestic workers, self-employed persons, and employees
of non-profit institutions.

6. That in a study of postwar problems, attention be given to the influence
of alcohol and other narcotics in relation to the conservation of human and
material resources and economic adjustments between nations, and to the whole
pattern of international trade.

7. That church women acquaint themselves with the present method of
treaty ratification in Congress and work for a more democratic method for same.

IV. The Church and Family Solidarity

We recommend:

1. That women utilize the' opportunities for religious development emerging
in the normal routine of life; and that they develop Christian living in the family
by means of worship within the home, within the church, and by the observance
of special occasions.

2. (a) That education for counseling in the field of Christian Marriage and

Family Life, and other related areas, be made available by the
Woman's Division of Christian Service to persons preparing for work
as deaconesses and missionaries,
(b) That the Woman's Division suggest through proper channels that
increased provision be made in pastors' or conference-wide schools
for courses to help pastors to counsel in the area of marriage and
family life.

3. That we urge the provision of opportunities for wholesome companion-
ship, community-wide recreation programs, and vigilant care lest children be
exploited by commercialized recreational agencies.

4. That we seek to establish family solidarity through active support of
measures for the protection of juveniles and others by the elimination of outlets
for the sale of alcohol and other narcotics.

5. That local societies in co-operation with other agencies make a study
of their child-labor laws and their abuses.

V. Ways of Building Group Unity

1. In view of the increasing racial tensions and the growing anti-Semitic
propaganda, we call attention of Methodist women that any racial and group
discriminations are contrary to the ideals of democracy and Christianity. Meth-
odists are called upon as individuals and groups to actively combat such tenden-
cies by seeking to trace rumors to their source and by refusing to spread sus-
picion and distrust.

We recommend:

2. That we lend our support to the formation of interfaith and interracial
groups, which build upon the common elements of our religious heritage and
human interest.

3. That a simple leaflet be prepared as a primer enunciating clearly dem-
ocratic principles, and acquainting people with antidemocratic and devisive tech-
niques practiced by Fascists.

4. That church women be alert to the opportunities for creating occasions
for larger and more inclusive fellowship in observing the great Christian festivals
of Christmas and Easter, as well as for fostering an appreciation of the achieve-
ments of great artists.

5. That in carrying forward the program of the Woman's Society of Chris-
tian Service, study and action groups be formed on the basis of common interests
and geographic proximity in order to further co-operation and fellowship across
jurisdictional lines.

6. That general meetings of the church be held where there will be no
segregated arrangements and that church-wide programs of promotion and in-
spiration be planned for all groups without regard to race.

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7. That church women concern themselves in their local communities that
democratic procedures be followed in setting up groups representative of the
entire community to study community-wide problems and needs and how to
meet them.

8. That recognition be given to the alcohol problem as one affecting all
groups in the community, furnishing opportunity for building group unity through
study and action.

9. That church and trade-union groups come together for better understand-
ing and to co-ordinate their energies and programs for the common welfare.

10. (a) Continued work for Federal antilynching legislation.

(b) Continued work for removal of restrictions on voting:

1. Poll Tax.

2. White primary.

Additional Recommendations

I. We recommend :

1. That, in consideration of the expanding responsibilities and enlarging
program of the department, the funds allocated by the Woman's Division to the
department be increased.

2. That the department shall make recommendation to the Woman's Division
for such workers in the department as may be essential for the supervision and
promotion of the on-going work of the department.

(a) That an associate secretary be added to the staff immediately, and that
$3,000 be provided for salary and travel. (Referred to the Finance and
Estimates Committee, requesting them to try to adjust the budget so
this can be done.)

3. That there shall be a Committee on Finance and Estimates composed of
those members of the department who are members of the Committee on Finance
and Estimates of the Woman's Division. It shall do such work as the need may
require. The committee to study the needs of the department.

4. That the department exert itself in renewed effort to acquaint women in
the societies and Wesleyan Service Guilds of the local church with increased
opportunities for national and international service in areas covered by the
department.

These opportunities can only be realized as they increase their giving to the
total work of the Woman's Division.

5. The department suggests that it would be desirable for the Woman's
Division to bring together early in the quadrennium a small group of leaders in
the Division to study the function and scope of the several departments for the
purpose of strengthening mutual understanding and co-operation.

11. The Woman's Division requests the Joint Division of Education and
Cultivation to consider the desirability of establishing a Commission or Com-
mittee on Social Education and Action in the General Section.

III. The department recommends that the president of the Woman's Division
write a letter to the President of the United States, to the chairmen of the
Foreign Relations Committee, to the Speaker of the House, and the President
of the Senate, expressing gratification for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

IV. The following report concerns the co-operative program of Methodist
women in relation to the leadership schools for Negro women particularly of the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church:

We recommend:

(a) The allocation of funds in the amount of $200 for specialized instruc-
tion in leadership training looking toward accreditation of the women in the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. The administration of this fund will be
determined after consultation with the general secretary of the Board of Re-
ligious Education of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the president
of the Woman's Connectional Council of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.

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(b) That the Gulfside School of Missions and Christian Service continue to
give emphasis to co-operation with women of the Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church and that opportunities for seminars be given in the jurisdiction school,
wherein the problems of the Colored Methodist Episcopal women in relation to
their organization may be studied.

(c) That this committee to restudy their co-operative efforts be continued
and that the president of the Woman's Connectional Council and the general
secretary of the Board of Religious Education of the Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church be added to the committee.

V. The department recommends that the Woman's Division suggest to the
Joint Division of Education and Cultivation that in the near future a joint
study be based on "The Social Teachings of John Wesley."

VI. The department recommends the name of the Resource Committee

Minority Groups and Interracial Co-operation be changed to Interracial and Inter-
cultural Relations. (Adopted.)

VII. The department recommends the continued use of members of the de-
partment who live in Washington as representatives of the Division in hearings
on legislation before Congress. (Adopted.)

VIII. Bill on Lottery introduced by Mr. Sabath — as a matter of information
— recommend the Woman's Division continue to oppose lottery.

Reports of Editors and Publication Manager.

Publication Manager. — Mrs. George W. Keen presented her report (see page
195), and following recommendation, which was adopted:

That the financial year of The Methodist Woman and Literature Headquarters
of the Woman's Division shall correspond with the fiscal year of the Woman's
Division, June 1 to May 31.

(The next report printed in the Fourth Annual Report will be for five months
only, January 1, 1943, to May 31, 1943. See page 229. The full report for 1942
appeared in the Third Annual Report of the Woman's Division.)

Literature and Publications.— Mrs. Helen Cox Exman presented a list of
publications printed from 1940 to 1943. (See page 194 for report of editors.)

Joint Literature Publications. — Miss Juanita Brown, Assistant Editor, gave
an interesting verbal report telling of some of the literature we may expect in
the near future. (See page 194 for report of editors.)

"The Methodist Woman." — Miss Bettie Brittingham, Editor, gave a report
for this periodical. (See page 191.)

Adjournment. — The session was dismissed with prayer by Bishop Robert
E. Jones.

Second Session — December 4, 1943

THE second session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order Saturday, December 4, at 9:15 A. M., at Buck Hill Falls Inn, by
the President, Mrs. Bragg.

Devotions. — Prayer was offered by Mrs. Gid Bryan.

Status of Women. — Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis, Chairman, presented the report
and the following recommendations, which were adopted. (See page 252.)

We recommend:

1. The Department of News Service of the Board of Missions and Church
Extension of The Methodist Church will publish on January 1 a weekly news
column of approximately 300 words, entitled "Women in the Church." This
news, interdenominational and intei-national in character, will be offered free of

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charge. We believe that because of the constantly enlarging place of women in
church life this news will be of great value. The committee recommends that
local chairmen urge editors of local papers to print this news in their papers
each week as it is released.

2. That in every jurisdiction, conference, and district program a presenta-
tion be made of the work of the Committee on the Status of Women, and at the
time of this presentation the Handbook be shown and its purchase and study
urged.

3. Recognizing that the building of a scrapbook has helped women to sense
something of the larger problem of women in relation to their tasks, we recom-
mend that each local chairman make a scrapbook of articles relative to the work
of women in current life.

4. Believing that the great increase in juvenile delinquency is largely a
problem resulting from women going into industry and other interests: We
recommend that church women make every effort to encourage these women
wherever possible to leave their employment for the larger employment of home-
making.

5. Whereas the public is concerned with the questions involved in the Equal
Rights Amendment, in committee now in Congress, we recommend that women
make an extensive study of the principles and problems presented by this amend-
ment so as to be ready to discuss the amendment and act on it intelligently when
the opportunity for registering their opinion is given.

6. That since the church has sent so many of its ministers to the armed
forces and pulpits have been left vacant, we recommend to the Woman's Division
that the Woman's Division send a memorial to General Conference requesting
full clergy rights for God-called and prepared women that they may be assured
of the security of the ministry as their profession.

Report of Vice-President. — Mrs. J. W. Mills, Vice-President, presented the
following report:

The year has been full of effort to advance the cause of missions. It began
with study and work on the seminar at Southern Methodist University for the
Delaware Conference on World Order; then, the conference itself, and the priv-
ilege of making several talks about it, and leading groups to organize for the
study of "World Order."

I attended Ministers' Week, and the South Central Jurisdiction Conference in
Dallas. I was guest helper at five conference meetings — the Texas, Central
Texas, North Mississippi, Mississippi, and Kansas. At each of these I talked
on the World Federation of Methodist Women, and the Delaware Conference.

I have attended the various committee meetings and the Executive Meet-
ings in New York each quarter, and two board meetings at Scarritt College.

In twenty-nine pulpits, and at one annual conference of ministers, I have
made talks on "World Missions and the World Church."

We all know that Mrs. Nicholson had what Lloyd Douglass would call "A
Magnificent Obsession" in her dream and work for the World Federation of Meth-
odist Women. It is sincerely regretted that she could not have been with the
united missionary organization of Methodist women long enough to get us all
thoroughly imbued with the plan. However, an "Idea come to its time" is
mightier than armies, and nothing can stop the joy and satisfaction which Meth-
odist women have in their sisterhood of service around the world.

War always intereferes with an ordered program, and delays the work of
missions. It is not possible to get mail to and from many of the units now, but
such reports as have come in are so full of life, and show such a spirit of con-
secrated devotion to the goal of "Making Christ known," that they are almost a
rebuke to those of us who live under most favorable conditions. Christian women
are related by a loyalty which transcends closed boundaries.

Reports come from Mexico and South America. The Protestant women of
ten republics have published their common textbook, which they say is "sig-
nificant." A project of the women of Bolivia is to find young women for mis-
sionary work among the intellectual classes, to be supported by their Con-

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Federation. They complain that their advance is not so rapid now in a time
when so much time and energy is given to the problems of democracy.

Oslo, from the Scandinavian Unit reports that they have a new missionary
ready to send out to India as soon as the way is open.

From China comes encouraging news. With all they have suffered, and un-
certain as the future is, and as greatly as the cost of living has advanced, our
Chinese women are still taking "Thank Offering collections" for local missionary
and church support, and also for their objectives in India, Africa, and even an
"over-and-above offering for the orphan children of Europe."

From India, Mrs. Chitambar writes a full report, having spent several months
itinerating, organizing, instructing, strengthening the women. Of a meeting in
Agru, with representatives from many parts of India, she writes: "I could
hardly believe my eyes and ears when I heard the discussions and plans proposed.
The work is growing by leaps and bounds. The women are really catching a
vision of what the womanhood of India can do."

The unit of the United States — the Woman's Division:

The Foreign Department: Naturally, we think of the Federation as having
developed through the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The missionaries
of the Foreign Department guide the work in our mission lands, and have
helped to organize local societies, conferences, and in Latin America a Con-
Federation of conferences and lands. They are laying the basis for understand-
ing and co-operation. But — no ONE department, or even Division, can claim
a global task.

It is also related to the Home Department. As we have home-mission projects,
the women of other lands have babyfolds, tuberculosis hospitals, orphanages,
schools, kindergartens, and all sorts of conference and local projects to support.
Their methods are similar to those of our Home Department, and their objective
also to make their nations Christian.

You recognize the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities working in the most remote corners of the world as reports from other
lands speak of "Christian Family Week, Temperance Education, Women as
Citizens, and Speakers in Churches — Peace Programs — Laying Foundations for
International Organizations for Promotion of Permanent Peace, Race and Class
Studies, Problems of Youth, Child Labor, Support of Pastors, and Pensions for
the Aged, Poor Members of the Church, and Local Work."

Without the literature and cultivation and continuous increase in organ-
izations, and the educational program of the Joint Division, the work of the
World Federation would not be known in America. Most generous space is given
in the World Outlook and The Methodist Woman. Thrilling programs are included
in the Yearbook. Attractive leaflets and the Prayer Card have been broadcast
to the most unexpected places. Other boards have asked permission to use the
Prayer Card in their societies, and in a book of Prayers for Peace. The reprint
for the current year was a small, plain white card, easy to slip in a letter.

The Standing Committee on the World Federation has had splendid co-
operation with all departments and committees of the Woman's Division. The
Department of Christian Social Relations asked the chairman to point up the
relation between the department and the Federation in spiritualizing the forward
look of the program for 1944. At the same time, the chairman of the Spiritual
Life Committee asked that a Joint Prayer Project be worked out for the spiritual
life and the World Federation. This is in the making, and we know that the
united effort of these three groups will strengthen the work of all.

Goals of the Standing Committee of the Woman's Division have been (1) To
make the World Federation of Methodist Women known in every conference in
Methodism, and to create an interest in this sisterhood of service around the
world; (2) to show that "united prayer" has power to change the world.

Methods: To get the work of the World Federation before Methodist women,
it has been presented in large gatherings — The General Conference, the assembly,
jurisdiction conferences, annual conferences of the Woman's Society of Chris-
tian Service, groups meetings, and the book of programs for local societies gives
every member an opportunity to have a part in the World Federation.

Each year I have attended one or more jurisdiction conferences, and at least

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five conference society meetings, where the Federation has been featured on the
program.

The jurisdiction vice-presidents have shown creative ability in interesting
many conference vice-presidents in promoting the program, and carrying out the
recommendations of the Standing Committee. Many letters which come to my
desk from conference vice-presidents show growing interest, and ask questions
about ways to present their work most effectively.

One jurisdiction vice-president has asked the By-law Committee to give all
vice-presidents, division, jurisdiction, conference, district and local society, definite
responsibility for program presentations. She also indicates the need for a
meeting of the division vice-president and the jurisdiction vice-presidents that
definite direction may be given, and unity achieved in their work.

Finance: The former Woman's Foreign Missionary Society made an annual
appropriation toward the World Federation of $1,000 per year. This was for
expense of cultivation, and holding of meetings, such as that at General Confer-
ence, for travel for designated women on organizational work, such as Mrs.
Chitambar, and Maria Aguerre of Bolivia, for the publication of informational
literature, etc. The work is circvimscribed at present by war, but when peace
comes, the opportunities for development will be most pressing and numerous.
The question now is whether this $1,000 shall be appropriated through the
Foreign Department of the Woman's Division, or by the Woman's Division as a
whole, since it is so clearly a part of the entire program of woman's work.
The "dues" or offering of other lands are stated as "The smallest coin of the
realm," and many lands are careful to make this a part of their budget. Such
a method in the American Unit would have educational value, since it would
bring the Federation before the members of each society, if this were asked. A
definite policy should be adopted before another quadrennium begins.

A quotation from Benjamin Kidd is pertinent to this World Program. He
says: "The highest expression of power is the science of organizing the indi-
vidual mind in the service of the universal."

Because women are concerned for the next generation, they are able to
relate the present scene to the future.

Because a woman's business is caring for her family, her mind can think
in terms of the whole human family.

Woman has the potential capacity to make the interests of the present
day secondary to the larger meaning which lies in the universal. It is our
business to so develop this potential capacity, that Christian women may see the
tasks of the present emergency in relation to the needs of the postwar world.
The Office of Civilian Defense has asked women to help with the problems of
nutrition, housing, education, and health. These only take her home tasks,
which are age-old, out into the community and the nation. We must go further —
into the universal. Our board is already planning ways to help feed peoples in
need — to reconstruct devastated countries, to resettle families, to plan for full
employment, and to raise living conditions around the worid. These are not
local tasks, but those of a World Federation. Harold Rugg says: "There are
moments in history when tomorrow is today."

We are living in this future now — thinking of the whole human race as the
family of God.

This challenge comes from one of our missionaries to South America:

"Forward, ye women of Argentine, Chile,
Peru, Uruguay, and the rest of the South!
The fetters of custom that hold you, unloose;
Bring all your talents to use for the Master,
Move forward, and onward, and upward with Him.

"Forward, ye women of God's favored Northland,
Forge now on the anvil of prayer, the strong links
That shall bind in a sisterhood all of God's own;
And think as one body, devoted and loyal,
Move forward and onward, and upward with Him."

— Helen Gilliland.

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Introductions. — Miss Semeramis Kutz, from Federation of Peru, South Amer-
ica, and Miss Emma Collins, from India, were introduced.

Message. — It was voted to send a telegram to Mrs. Thomas Nicholson from
the Division.

Standing Committee on Literature and Publications. — Mrs. J. N. Rode-
heaver, Chairman, presented the report and the following recommendations,
which were adopted. (See page 248.)

We recommend:

1. That the Division endorse the action requesting conference and district
societies to give adequate time for promotion of the program material, with
methods for its use and sale.

2. That the Committee on Annual Report (of the Division) consider the
advisability of including material in the Annual Report which will be of special
interest to the local society, but which is not included in the Journal of the
Division nor of the Board.

It was suggested that a directory of conference officers be published semi-
annually in order to keep the list up to date and that it should be in such
form that it could be used with the Annual Report but would not be included in it.

3. That a committee be appointed to study the use of The Methodist Woman
as a trade magazine, this committee to take into consideration the possibility
of harmonizing the facilities of the magazine with the numerous requests for
bulletins.

4. That the interdivision staff of the Board of Missions and Church Exten-
sion provide at least one meeting each year at which time editorial and promo-
tional persons would be invited to discuss prevailing trends in fields and make
suggestions for timely articles in magazines and promotional activities.

5. That the theme for program material for 1945 be "An Open Door," based
on Revelations 3:8, "I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it."

6. That the editors be invited to sit in on all meetings held for postwar
planning.

On motion of Miss Brittingham, it was voted

That the Woman's Division of Christian Service endorse the news release,
"Women in the Church," prepared by the Department of News Service of the
Joint Division of Education and Cultivation and request secretaries of Literature
and Publications, in co-operation with the secretaries of Status of Women in the
Woman's Societies of Christian Service in the local church, to secure sample
copies of these releases from the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation,
150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y., and contact their local newspapers in an
effort to secure the use of this column in the local newspapers.

Recommendations of Department of Work in Foreign Fields. — Mrs. A. E.
Beebe, Chairman, presented the following recommendations, which were adopted:

I. MISSIONARIES.

On Salary With Assignment.

1. The following appointments have already been approved. We now submit the
dates for approval:

Helen Couch, Japan, April 1, 1943, to do writing in connection with Miss Brittingham.
Ethel Hempstead, Japan, October 1, 1941, working with Japanese in America.
Charlie Holland, Japan, June 15, 1942, working with Japanese in America.
Azalia E. Peet, Japan, January 1, 1942, working with Japanese in America.
Alberta Tarr, Japan, July 15, 1941, working with Japanese in Honolulu.

Extension op Term of Service.

2. Recommended that an extension of term for one year from conference session of
1943 for the following be approved, subject to medical clearance:

Adis Robbins, India. M. Louise Perrill, India.

Mabel Lawrence, India. Ruth Robinson, India.

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Furloughs.

3. Mary McMillan, who has been on leave of absence without salary for the past year,
and been teaching in the Japanese Relocation Center at Topaz, Utah, is to study at the
Nashville School of Social Studies.

Recommended that Mary McMillan, Japan, be returned to furlough status with
salary as of September 1, 1943.

4. Barbara Bailey last went to Japan in 1939. She was evacuated in 1941 and spent
five months in the United States before going to Cuba. She asks whether her furlough
will be granted in 1945.

Recommended that Barbara Bailey be given a regular furlough beginning in the sum-
mer of 1945.

5. Recommended that Catherine Parham, Central Congo, be given an extension of
furlough from September, 1943, to May, 1944, in order to complete the work for her mas-
ter's degree at Hartford Seminary.

6. Recommended that the following regular furloughs be approved, with the under-
standing that necessary adjustments may be made in harmony with the action of the Di-
vision Executive, March, 1942, page 9, C:

Burma (in India) —
Stella Ebersole, April, 1944

India
Jennie L. Ball, November, 1944
Jessie A. Bragg, December, 1944
Marie Corner, February, 1945
Janette Crawford, October, 1944
Grace Davis, March, 1945
Winnie M. Gabrielson, December, 1944
Ruth Hoath, October, 1944
Opal Holland, January, 1944
Minnie Huibregtse, November, 1944
Josephine Kriz, March, 1944
Marie Kennard, November, 1944
Ollie Leavitt, June, 1944

Mabel Reid, November, 1944

Eva Logue, March, 1945
Florence Masters, October, 1944
Blanche McCartney, November, 1944
Mathilde Moses, December, 1944
Ella Perry, September, 1944
Eleanor Stallard, October, 1944
Maren Tirsgaard, January, 1945
Ruth Warrington, April, 1945
Nora B. Waugh, November, 1944
Doris Welles, December, 1944
Mildred Wright, June, 1944

7. Recommended that the following furloughs be approved as of December 1, 1943:

China —
Marie Adams
Anne Herbert
Louise Robinson
Alice Alsup
Elizabeth Hobart
Ruth Stahl
Emma Wilson
Mary E. Hawk
Margaret Prentice '
Mary Culler White

Japan — ■
Olive Hodges

Ethel Bost
Myra Jaquet
Ellen Studley
Eloise Bradshaw
Louise Killingsworth
Leona Thomasson
Mary Blackford
Bessie Hollows
Lillie Stephens
Florence Evans

Mildred A. Paine

Ida Frantz
Clara Nutting
Marguerite Twinem
Alice Green
Alice Powell
Lucy Jim Webb
Rosa May Butler
Emma Knox
Nina Troy

Evelyn Wolfe

Leave of Absence Without Salary.

8. Recommended that the following be given the status of leave of absence without
salary:

Margaret Billingsley, Korea, August 1, 1941, taken a position.
Gertrude Byler, Japan, September 1, 1941, taken a position.
Sallie Carroll, Japan, October 1, 1941, taken a position.
Mabel Cherry, Korea, February 1, 1941, taken a position.
Marie Church, Korea, September 1, 1941, taken a position.
Lois Cooper, Japan, January 1, 1942, taken a position.
Ruth Field, Japan, October 3, 1939 (by W. M. C. action).
Mary Finch, Japan, September 9, 1938 (by W. M. C. action).
Vera Fehr, Japan, October 1, 1941, taken a position.
Blanche Hauser, Korea, July 1, 1941, taken a position.

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Jeannette Hulbert, Korea, January 1, 1942, taken a position.
Katherine Johnson, Japan, October 1, 1941, taken a position.
Lela Kintner, Burma, November 1, 1943, taken a position.
Sadie M. Moore, Korea, September 1, 1940 (by "W. M. C. action).
Bertha Odee, Philippine Islands, October, 1939 (by W. F. M. S. action).
Mozelle Tumlin, Japan, July 1, 1942, taken a position.
Lois Witham, China, October 1, 1943, taken a position.
Caroline Peckham, Japan, October 1, 1941, taken a position.

Medical Grants.

9. Recommended that, in accordance with the Manual, Article 63, page 22, all medical
bills over $100 require Executive Committee action, the following be paid:

Roxana Mellinger, $281.00 Agnes Malloy, $125.30 Alberta Simmons, $113.00

Resignations.

10. Recommended that we accept the following resignations:

Mildred Burton, M.D. (Mrs. Fred W. Gabbard), India, November 21, 1941.

Louise Landon, R.N., India, July 1, 1941.

Carol Culver (Mrs. Roland Scott), India, November 3, 1942.

Louise Leonard (Mrs. Eugene McGraw), Malaya, August 11, 1941.

Nan Parsons (Mrs. John Waters), Peru, October 9, 1943.

1 1 . Ruth Hillis served one term in Brazil and returned to the United States of America
on furlough on January 1, 1942. During furlough she received $250.00 in educational
grants for study at Scarritt College and Union Theological Seminary in preparation for
return to the field. She returned to Brazil on April 24, 1943, and served four months in
Colegio Piracicabano. She resigned on September 1, 1943, and entered work with the
USO in Brazil. The cost of Miss Hillis' travel to Brazil was $761.91.

Recommended that the resignation of Ruth Hillis, Brazil, be accepted as of September
1, 1943; that she be asked to refund $761.91 travel expense and $250 educational grants.
Miss Lee is to take up with Miss Hillis the question of refunding six months of furlough
salary, according to the rules of the Manual.

Retirements.

12. M. Belle Markey served in Cuba (1902-1925) and Mexico (1926-1941). She
returned to this country in December, 1941. In December, 1943, she will have com-
pleted two years of furlough prior to retirement.

Recommended that M. Belle Markey, aged sixty-eight, be retired as of December 1,
1943, with retirement allowance to be paid from the funds accumulated by the Board
of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woman's Work, Foreign Depart-
ment, and in accordance with its regulations.

Temporarily Allocated to the Home Department.

13. Recommended that the following be temporarily appointed to the Home De-
partment:

Kate Cooper, Korea, Harwood Girls' School, September 1, 1942.
Ida Hankins, Korea, Erie School, September 1, 1941.
Blanche Loucks, Korea, Harwood Girls' School, September 1, 1943.
Grace Wood, Korea, Sue Bennett College, January 1, 1942.

Transfers.

14. Recommended that the following be temporarily transferred:
Barbara Bailey, Japan, Cuba, July 1, 1941.

Helen Boyles, Korea, Argentina, June 24, 1941.

Ruth Diggs, Korea, Cuba, June 24, 1941.

Nell Dyer, Korea, Philippine Islands, April 1, 1941.

Gertrude Feely, Japan, Philippine Islands, April 1, 1941.

Opal Holland, Japan, India, April 1, 1941.

Carrie Kenyon, Malaya, Cuba, November 1, 1943.

Patricia McHugh, Korea, Philippine Islands, April 1, 1941.

Helen G. Moore, Japan, Philippine Islands, April 1, 1941.

Maude Nelson, Korea, India, October 1, 1941.

Jeanette Oldfather, Korea, Burma, November, 1940.

Elizabeth Roberts, Korea, Philippine Islands, November, 1940.

Elston Rowland, Korea, Philippine Islands, November, 1940.

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Withdrawals.

15. Ingle Johnson went to Angola in 1927. She returned to this country and went
off salary in 1936.

Recommended that since Ingle Johnson, Angola, has been on leave of absence with-
out salary for five years, her name be withdrawn, as of January 1, 1942, from the mis-
sionary roll with appreciation for her years of service.

16. Harriet Howey went to Japan in 1926. She returned to this country in 1937
and went off salary in 1938.

Recommended that since Harriet Howey, Japan, has been on leave of absence with-
out salary for five years, her name be withdrawn from the missionary roll as of October

I. 1943, with appreciation for her years of service.

Closed Contracts.

17. The following contracts have been terminated as of the dates indicated:
Marion Draper, Japan, December 31, 1941.

Blanche Hager, Japan, March 31, 1941.
Miriam Spaulding, Japan, May 31, 1941.

II. TRUST FUND.

18. Inasmuch as the Margaret Hughes Trust Fund from the Washington Park
Memorial Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut, will pay $117.50, and inasmuch as legal
advice has stipulated that this amount must not be included within regular income or
appropriations,

Recommended that this $117.50 be allocated annually to the training of national
Christian workers in China.

III. BRAZIL.

19. Dorita Smith, the daughter of missionaries of our Board in Brazil, is available
for full-time work under our mission. Miss Smith is a graduate of Asbury College.
She is now in Brazil and is unable, because of the war, to carry out her plan to return
to the United States for graduate work in order to prepare herself further for missionary
service. Since she cannot at this time be accepted as a missionary, a request has come
from the field that she be employed in Brazil at a salary of $750 to substitute for a mis-
sionary of the Woman's Division recently resigned.

Recommended that we approve the employment of Dorita Smith in Brazil at a
salary of $750 a year, to be paid from the lapsed salary of Virginia Neel.

IV. CHINA.

20. Miss MacKinnon reports:

Edna Jones and Pauline Westcott have reached the United States. Mollie Town-
send has arrived in Chungking and been appointed to Yutu, Kiangsi.

A cable has arrived, sans origin, saying that Elizabeth Carlyle and Sylvia Aldrich
have arrived, supposedly, in India.

21. Inasmuch as $300 has already accrued from the Margaret Hughes Trust Fund
from the Washington Park Memorial Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut,

Recommended that this $300 be included in the China Emergency Fund, Tran-
sient.

22. Recommended that the annuity of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Harris, Colorado Con-
ference, amounting to $263.92, be included in the China Emergency Fund, Tran-
sient.

23. Recommended that the following be transferred to the China Emergency
Fund, Transient:

September 30, Cash Supplies Undesignated:

General Credit Balance $1 , 529 . 85

Where most needed , 68 . 50

Relief (Florida Conference) 55.25

One half General Medical Credit 296.40

Total $1,950.00

24. A cable has come announcing that Alma Ericsen, Lena Nelson, and Mary
Shearer are en route to the United States, and that Charlotte Trotter expects to sail soon.

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V. INDIA.

25. Pithoragarh, one of our bill stations in North India, long ago acquired a con-
siderable stretch of land, practically all of it on hillsides, terraced into narrow strips.
The supervision of these small fields, some of them remote from the missionary residence,
has been a great care. Last year some strips were sold and it is now proposed to dispose
of others.

Recommended to approve the sale of such land in Pithoragarh, North India, as the
Field Committee may recommend for sale.

26. Recommended that we approve the election of Rev. W. J. McLaughlin to mem-
bership on the North India Field Committee, replacing Dr. H. H. Weeks, who is on fur-
lough, subject to similar action by the Foreign Division.

27. Recommended that the $7,000 available for evangelistic work in India through
the lapsed annuity honoring Dorothy Schooner Hageman, be allocated as follows:

Training village teachers, North India Conference (two or more years), $1,000.

House for district evangelist, Indus River Conference 3,000.

Village centers — Bastar and Nander 3,000.

28. An urgent request has come from the Hyderabad Field Committee asking that
the Woman's Division approve the erection of "Bishop Chitambar Memorial Hall" at
Stanley Girls' High School, Hyderabad; to complete the building of which the classroom-
dormitory unit was built last year. Stanley is one of our strongest institutions, of high
academic standard, definitely Christian, responsible for the training of many of the
women of Hyderabad state.

Recommended: (1) that we express approval of the project at Stanley Girls' High
School, Hyderabad; (2) that the building be undertaken as soon as funds can be secured
and general conditions permit, no debt to be incurred; (3) that the hall honor both
Bishop and Mrs. Chitambar, first Indian bishop and the first executive secretary of the
Indian Woman's Society of Christian Service.

VI. MEXICO.

29. The Council of Co-operation of Mexico has recommended that the evangelistic
work carried on by the Woman's Division in Ramos Arizpe be closed and that the ap-
propriation for that work be transferred to evangelistic work in Reynosa. The reasons
for this change are: (1) a strong Catholic opposition in the small town of Ramos Arizpe
has greatly hindered the work; (2) the city of Reynosa has a large group of Protestants,
a new Methodist church has just been built there, and the people have themselves
asked for a deaconess to carry on social-evangelistic work.

Recommended that the work in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, be closed, and that the
annual appropriation for the same be transferred to social-evangelistic work in Reynosa.

VII. PERU.

30. Since Nan Parsons, Lima, Peru, has married, and will therefore not receive
salary from the Woman's Division, the Field Committee requests that her salary be paid,
beginning October 9, 1943, to Bonnie Korns. Miss Korns has previously been paid
by the school. If Miss Parsons' salary can now be transferred to Miss Korns, the school
can employ another teacher locally.

Recommended, that beginning October 9, 1943, the salary of Nan Parsons, Lima,
Peru, be transferred to Bonnie Korns, a special-term missionary.

VIII. NORTH AFRICA.

31. Because of the death of Emilie Loveless, in North Africa, the station at Con-
stantine is short of workers, while the volume of work has increased. It has become
necessary to employ a housekeeper for Gamble Home, of which Miss Loveless used to be
superintendent. The Field Committee asks for a grant of $350 to pay the salary of this
additional worker up to May 31, 1944.

Recommended that a grant of $350 be paid from the lapsed salary of Emilie Loveless,
deceased, to cover the salary of an additional worker at the Gamble Home, in Constan-
tine, North Africa, until May 31, 1944.

IX. AFRICA.

32. The Foreign Division voted to provide $500 for the school building at Lodja,
Congo Beige, Africa. (Action of Foreign Division taken September 15, 1943, to approve
the erection of a second-degree school at Lodja, and to grant $500 for the building to sup-
plement a similar amount from the Woman's Division.)

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Recommended that $500 be requested from Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Woman's Work, Foreign Department, funds held for this purpose for
the station school building at Lodja, Congo Beige, Africa.

33. Miss MacKinnon reports that Jessie Pfaff has arrived in Lisbon en route to
Rhodesia.

34. The Field Committee minutes of Central Conference, Congo, state that the
Southern Presbyterian Mission has made a refund for the service of Mr. and Mrs. Lovell
and Miss Lorena Kelly, who taught in the school of missionary children in Lubondai for
a few months. The Field Committee recommends that the money refunded be placed
in unclassified funds of the respective divisions on the field in order to meet unforeseen
expenses.

Recommended that permission be granted to the treasurer of the Central Congo
Conference to place in the unclassified funds of the Woman's Division of Christian Serv-
ice on the field the money refunded for the services of Miss Lorena Kelly to the Presbv-
terian School for Missionaries' Children, in Lubondai.

X. URUGUAY.

35. In Uruguay, for the year 1942, there was a loss on exchange in work budget
of $215 U.S.A.

Recommended that $215 U.S.A., which is the loss on exchange in Uruguay for 1942,
be refunded to this field from Unexpended Appropriations (Exchange).

XL INTERDIVISION ITEMS

Manual Revisions.

The Manual for Foreign Missionary Work is prepared for the use of both the Foreign
Division and Foreign Department of the Woman's Division. Therefore, all sections
of it must be approved by both Divisions. We now present for approval certain re-
visions.

36. Article 51, dealing with the discontinuance of a missionary after the first term
of service reads, "If terminated the furlough salary shall be paid for six months from-
date of leaving the field . . . ." In the actual administration of such cases it is felt
that circumstances will determine whether the salary shall be field or furlough salary
and that if it is furlough salary it should necessarily harmonize with Article 32, which
provides that such salary begins upon arrival in the United States.

Recommended that in the Manual, Article 51, page 18, second and third lines, the
word "furlough" and the phrase "from date of leaving the field" be deleted so that the
sentence shall read: "If terminated salary shall be paid for six months unless remuner-
ative employment is found earlier."

37. It is proposed by the staff of the Foreign Division that the rental allowance per
month for a married couple shall be increased from $25 to $45 in view of the increased
cost of renting in this country.

Recommended that in the Manual, Article 32, second paragraph, first line, the
figure for rent allowance per month for married couples be revised from $25 to $45, the
remainder of the paragraph remaining the same.

38. It is proposed by the staff of the Foreign Division that in the Manual, Article 33,
the increase of salary for years of service shall be according to the scale adopted by the
Foreign Division at the last Annual Meeting, in which the advances for missionary
couples are matched at the scale of 60% by those for single missionaries. This involves
changing the increase for single missionaries at the end of twelve years from $75 to $90.

Recommended that in the Manual, Article 33, the increase in salary of single mis-
sionaries at the end of twelve years shall be changed from $75 to $90.

39. Recommended that a clause be inserted in the medical section of the Manual
to provide that in the case of normal confinement one half the expenses will be paid
by the Division of Foreign Missions; that in exceptional cases the bills will be reviewed
by the medical adviser.

40. Recommended that a clause be inserted in the Manual stating that the Board
does not pay funeral expenses.

41. Recommended to approve the section on Medical Care as revised.
Mid-term Furloughs on the Field.

42. The adoption of the following principle is recommended: That isolated mission-
aries in Africa who labor under peculiar climatic conditions, where annual vacations

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are not feasible, may be allowed a brief mid-term leave of absence. The time and place
for such leave is to be recommended to the Board after consultation with the bishop and
Field Committee.

XII. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE.

The following actions taken from the Minutes of the Administrative Committee,
October 5, 19, and 26, are brought to you for information and inclusion in the printed
Minutes:

Administrative Committee Meeting, October 5, 1943.

43. Mrs. Moore presented the following re the Exchange Gain and a Special Grant
to India:

Receipts, as per Treasurer's Report

1941 Balance $18,930.00

1942 Gain 34.010.00

1943, January-May Gain 12,778.45

Total $65,718.79

Expenditures Already Approved

Repairs $4,000.00

Bank Charges, two years 1 , 123 . 75

Emergency Grant, 1942 8,201.20

Emergency Grant, January-May, 1943 .. . 6 , 878 . 59

Emergency Grant, 1943-44 32 , 867 . 36

Total $53,070.90

If all approved expenditures were charged to gain already accrued, there would be a
balance of $12,647.89. If exchange continues at the rate of the first half of 1943, we may
expect a gain of $2,555.69 per month.

It was voted that in view of the above statement, and of the official requests from
India for additional funds to meet greatly increased" cost of living, a special grant up to
$2,000 monthly be authorized for hostels and Indian workers for one year from Decem-
ber 1, 1943, this to be in addition to the grant of two annas to the rupee of work budget
already voted. The required amount will be paid as far as possible from gain on ex-
change. The best method of administering it is to be determined by the secretary for
India, in consultation with the treasurer and the field.

Administrative Committee Meeting, October 19, 1943.

44. It was voted that the salaries of all China missionaries be equalized at $900.

45. It was voted that the salaries of missionaries in the Africa Conferences of Angola,
Rhodesia, and Portuguese East Africa be raised to $900, adjustment to be made within
the Africa budget.

46. A cable has come stating that beginning October 1, eight dollars a day will be
necessary for minimum living expenses for all missionaries in China. In view of this fact,
at a recent meeting of the Inter-Division Committee, it was recommended that each
Division approach the Methodist Committee on Overseas Relief, asking that the Com-
mittee assume the responsibility for the full $15,000 monthly for aid to Chinese Meth-
odist workers, leaving to the respective Divisions the responsibility for living expenses
of the missionaries.

It was voted that in accordance with the general permission given by the action
taken at the Executive Committee Meeting, June 12-15, 1943, page 22, V. 34 (2) b., a
relief grant be paid to give to the missionaries in Free China, $8 for living expenses.

It was voted to ask M. C. O. R. to provide $3,500 monthly (Woman's Division
share of the $15,000 mentioned above) for Chinese relief, with the understanding that
the Woman's Division assume the relief grants for its missionaries.

47. In the consideration of the estimates for the Committee of Reference and Coun-
cil of Foreign Missions Conference, it was reported that CRC makes its requests on the
basis of }4% of the Board's appropriations for fields.

It was voted that we accept this ^2% as a principle upon which to base our appro-
priations to CRC and that we hold it as a goal for appropriations as soon as we are able
to make them so.

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Recommendations No. 2
MISSIONARIES—

1. Alberta Simmons, Brazil, will complete a year's furlough in January, 1944.
She is studying at Scarritt College and can secure her M.A. Degree by continuing
through the winter quarter.

Recommended that the furlough of Alberta Simmons be extended until
June, 1944.

2. Ruth Warner, of Mexico, will complete a year's furlough on February 15,
1944. She is studying at the University of Southern California, where she will
receive her M.A. Degree in June, 1944,

Recommended that the furlough of Ruth Warner, Mexico, be extended until
the summer of 1944.

3. Recommended that Mittie Shelton, China, be placed on leave of absence
without salary from September 1, 1943, allocated to the Home Department, and
that retirement be postponed until she is no longer employed.

4. Recommended that the resignation of Irene Gugin, Rhodesia, be accepted
as of September 1, 1943, with grateful acknowledgment of her twelve years of
service.

MISCELLANEOUS—

5. Recommended that we express our appreciation of the work Dr. Barclay
has done through the years and our hope that we may still counsel with him
through the years.

6. Recommended that we acknowledge receipt of the following amounts from
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and that the treasurer of the Woman's
Division be instructed to make disposition of them as noted below:

(1) From the estate of Jennie C. Walker, Ashland, Ohio, for

"China Emergency Fund, Transient" $100.00

(2) From Northwestern Branch:

(a) For general receipts, applicable to appropriations for

"China Emergency Fund, Transient" 5,000.00

(b) From the estate of A. P. Stover, of Illinois, to be placed

in restricted funds for the nurses' unit of the building
program, Clara Swain Hospital, Bareilly, India 2,364.31

7. At a recent meeting, Philadelphia Branch of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society voted to transfer the following to the Woman's Division. When
these funds are received —

Recommended that the treasurer be instructed to make disposition of them
as indicated below:

(1) Conroy Bequest for West China University, Woman's Depart-

ment, to be held in restricted funds $3,340.00

(2) Balance in the Annie Sollenberger Bequest for medical work

in India assigned by the Executive Committee of the Wom-
an's Foreign Missionary Society, prior to unification, to
Kolar Hospital, India, to be held in restricted funds 5,303.77

(3) Balance in the Carrie J. Carnahan Memorial (a fund raised by

the Branch prior to October 31, 1940) for the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to be remitted
as a special over and above gift 399.97

BURMA—

8. Recommended that approval be given for a study conference on Burma to
be held in India, the expenses of the three missionaries of the Woman's Division
to be paid from Burma Emergency Fund.

BELGIAN CONGO—

9. The Division of Foreign Missions has received $1,000 for the school at
Lodja, Belgian Congo, and is proposing to send the total to the field for build-

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ing and furnishings. The plans for the building have now been received and are
presented for approval.

Recommended that the plans for the school building at Lodja be approved.

CHINA—

10. Recommended that Methodist Committee on Overseas Relief be asked
to assume costs for relief of missionaries in China, as well as relief of national
workers.

11. If Methodist Committee on Overseas Relief accedes to this request and
assumes the costs for relief of missionaries in China,

Recommended that the $30,000 now included for this in Non-Recurring
Items be designated for some other Non-Recurring Item in the Foreign De-
partment.

12. A cable has been received from Pearl Fosnot, China, as follows:
FIELD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS BOARD SALE WOMAN'S DI-
VISION SMALL NORTH GATE SCHOOL PROPERTY TZECHUNG.

Recommended that the sale of the North Gate School Property, Tzechung,
be authorized.

CUBA—

13. Recommended that approval be given for the purchase of several small
lots adjacent to the campus of Colegio Buenavista, Havana, Cuba, in order to
provide for the future expansion of this school, and that the remainder of the
Latin-American reserve, $15,625 be used for this purpose.

INDIA—

14. A plan for co-education in Bidar, Hyderabad Conference, has been under
consideration. Last spring the scheme was completed and in July the Field
Committee recommended approval by the Woman's Division.

Recommended that we approve the extending of co-education to the three
remaining higher classes in Bidar, so that the Girls' School and the Boys' School
shall be merged; the financial responsibility for the Middle School staff to be
charged equally to the Foreign Division and the Foreign Department, provided
that there be concurrent action of the Foreign Division. Budgets already ap-
proved will not be increased by the merger.

15. The furlough of Mabel Lawrence, alternate to Ethel Whiting, Central
Treasurer for India, is due in 1944. It is therefore necessary to choose a second
alternate.

Recommended that E. Lahuna Clinton be, and she hereby is, appointed second
alternate to the Central treasurer for India of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church;
that in case of the death or disability of Ethel L. Whiting, Central Treasurer,
and Mabel Lawrence, alternate, she is authorized to operate the banking accounts
of said Woman's Division of Christian Service.

16. SUGGESTED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES— FOREIGN DEPARTMENT,
WOMAN'S DIVISION—

Paragraph 99 J,. Change (1) to read: There shall be a Standing Committee
composed of the Chairman, the Executive Secretary or Secretaries of the Depart-
ment of Work in Foreign Fields, and the Secretaries of Foreign Work in the
several jurisdictions.

In order to include necessary statements regarding missionaries and organ-
izations on the field, the following paragraphs transposed from the constitution
of the Foreign Division should be included after Paragraph 994.

Paragraph 944 (as amended) Foreign Field Committees and Estimates: In a
Foreign Mission Field of the Board each Annual Conference and each Provisional
Annual Conference shall have a Field Committee, consisting of the following
members: The Resident Bishop; the Mission Superintendent; the District Super-
intendents, if requested by the Conference; the Mission Treasurers; and wher-
ever possible an equal number of missionaries of the Division of Foreign Mis-

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sions and of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, chosen by the mission-
aries within the bounds of the Conference; and national men and women, wher-
ever possible of equal number, to be elected by the Conference. The personnel
of the Committee shall be approved by the Division of Foreign Missions and
the Woman's Division of Christian Service. The Committee shall be responsible
to the Divisions for the administration of the funds provided by the Board of
Missions and Church Extension.

The duties of the Field Committee shall be:

(1) To elect its Chairman and Secretary; to forward its minutes, quarterly,
to the respective Divisions of the Board, and the report of its recom-
mendations to the Divisions for approval.

(2) To study and co-ordinate the work of the Division of Foreign Missions
and the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

(3) To consult with the Boai'd of Missions and Church Extension through
the respective Divisions on all matters of mutual concern.

(4) To prepare estimates for the work of both the Foreign Division and the
Foreign Department of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the
Annual Conference or Provisional Annual Conference, except the finan-
cial requirements for missionary support, which is the direct responsi-
bility of the Divisions. The estimates shall be presented Conference by
Conference, and by projects within the Conference, and shall be pre-
pared and submitted separately for the two Divisions in such form as
may be required.

Paragraph 945. First 8 lines; in line 3 omit the word Budget; in line 4, insert
before development the words maintenance and.

Paragraph 946. Change the last two lines to read, of each Annual Conference
and Provisional Annual Conference.

Paragraph 948. In line 3 and line 7, for Central read Joint. In line 5, omit
the before Missionaries.

Paragraph 949. In line 1, change Missions to a Mission.

Paragraph 950 becomes 5 under Paragraph 949. In line 1, omit the words
Missionaries' Meeting. In line 3, omit comma after Board.

Paragraph 951. Missionaries in Fields in which there are Autonomous or
Independent Methodist Churches. 1. The Missionaries of The Methodist Church
appointed to work in Mission fields where there are autonomous or independent
Methodist Churches, while retaining their membership in their home Local
Churches, shall, while in service in such fields, be free to accept the rights and
privileges of membership in the Local Churches and the Annual Conferences of
Affiliated Autonomous Churches as offered to them by such churches. 2. The
Missionaries in such Mission fields may be organized into Mission Councils under
the constitution approved by the Board of Missions and Church Extension.

Paragraph 952 as it stands.

Paragraph 16 referred for further consideration to the Legislative Committee of
■the Board.

Introductions. — Miss Sallie Evans, Miss Bernice Burroughs, and Dr. A. J.
Walton were introduced.

Adjournment. — Adjourned by expiration of time to reconvene at 2:15 P. M.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 37

Third Session — December 4, 1943

THE third session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 2:15 P. M., Saturday afternoon, December 4, 1943, at Buck Hill
Falls Inn, by the President, Mrs. J. D. Bragg.

Devotions. — Miss Henrietta Gibson offered prayer.

Report of Department of Work in Home Fields. — Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds,
Chairman.

Bureau oj Educational Institutions. — Miss Muriel Day, Executive Secretary,
introduced Mrs. C. M. Waggoner, Dr. E. C. Peters, and Dr. D. D. Jones. Dr.
Jones spoke in behalf of educational institutions of the Woman's Division of
Christian Service. (For report of this bureau see page 75.)

Bureau of Town and Country Work. — Mrs. J. W. Downs, Executive Secretary,
presented the work of her bureau. (See page 82.)

Bureau oj Urban Work. — Miss Mary Lou Barnwell, Executive Secretary, in-
troduced Miss Margaret Marshall, who told of her work in a community center.
(For report of this bureau see page 86.)

Bureau oj Social Work. — Miss Miriam V. Ristine, Executive Secretary, intro-
duced Miss Mabel Wagner and Mrs. C. A. Wade, defense workers, who told of
their work in defense areas. (For report of this bureau see page 91.)

Bureau oj Medical Work. — Mrs. Robert Stewart, Assistant Secretary, pre-
sented the report of this bureau. (See page 95.)

Bureau oj Deaconess Work. — Miss Grace G. Steiner introduced Miss Alice
McCurry and Miss Dorothy Judd, who spoke of their work as deaconesses. (For
report of this bureau see page 98.)

Home Department Recommendations. — The following recommendations were
presented by Mrs. A. C. Johnson, in the absence of the chairman of the depart-
ment, and adopted.

BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—

It is recommended that:

1. We approve the expenditures of an amount up to $400 for the repair of
the fire escape at the National Training School, to come from the current ex-
pense of the institution.

2. That the amount of $500 authorized for the water softener at Pfeiffer
be transferred toward the new pump at the institution.

3. We give permission to Miss Mildred Hudgins, teacher of Bible at Texas
State College for Women, Denton, Texas, to become, beginning the second
semester, a hostess in a dormitory, for which she would receive her board
and room.

4. Following the resignation of President W. S. Sharp, we confirm the ap-
pointment at Pfeiffer Junior College of Dean G. G. Starr as acting president,
until such time as the board of trustees of the college shall make other pro-
vision for the presidency.

5. We confirm the appointment of Miss Gwendolyn Scavella as superin-
tendent of Peck Hall.

6. That $184 be granted from the Contingent Fund for the registration,
entertainment, and part travel of four students from minority groups in our
schools, to attend the Planning Conference of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment to be held in Wooster, Ohio, December 28-January 3.

7. That $250 be granted from the Dormitory Fund for the modernization
of two classrooms at Allen School through the purchase of tables and chairs.

8. The matter of policy concerning insurance recommendations made by
auditors be considered by the Insurance Committee with power to act.

9- ,That $1,750 be approved for Wood Junior College, for the exploration
and laboratory analysis of a water supply, this amount to come from the Alice

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Elwood Bequest ($908), if in accordance with the terms of the will, and the
balance to come from the Contingent Fund. If this is not possible from the
will, that the entire amount come from the Contingent Fund. This is half of
the total of $3,500, the other half being pledged by the Woman's Home Mission-
ary Society.

BUREAU OF MEDICAL WORK—
It is recommended that:

1. That $200 from undesignated funds in the Supply Department be sent
to the Hospital Internacional in Santo Domingo as soon as possible for the
purchase of linens for hospital use.

2. The secretary of the Bureau of Medical Work be given authority to sign
application blanks for the purchase of tax-free alcohol for the Columbus-
Maynard Hospital, Nome, Alaska, and the Seward General Hospital, Seward,
Alaska.

BUREAU OF TOWN AND COUNTRY WORK—
It is recommended that:

1. The superintendent of schools, Pharr, Texas, has requested the use of the
buildings because of crowded conditions in the schools. He asked for this use to
be permitted without any compensation. It was voted that we reply to Mr.
Buckner we regret our inability to let the buildings, but that if there are one or
two rooms that are vacant, he might make use of them.

2. The department reaffirmed the replacing of the roof of Oliver Chapel to
the amount of $1,000.

3. On the advice of the State Department for fire protection, it was voted
to place fire extinguishers in Oliver Chapel and McCrum Community Center,
expense not to exceed $200, to come from the appropriation for insurance.

4. It was. voted that we look toward the sale of the Harwood Community
House, in Pennsylvania. A committee composed of Mrs. Downs, Mrs. Ake, Mrs.
Crowding, study this proposition and bring further report to the next meeting.

BUREAU OF URBAN WORK—

// is recommended that:

■ 1. A pension of $30 a month be paid to Miss Frances Barber who has served
more than twenty-five years as director of Hattie B. Cooper Community Center,
Roxbury, Massachusetts; $15 a month to be paid by the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society and $15 by the New England Conference, to take effect October
1, 1943.

2. That $2,108.50 be approved for repairs at Bethlehem Center, Nashville,
Tennessee, the amount to be taken from the Contingent Fund, to take effect
immediately.

3. The recommendation of $2,400 for repairs at the Mexican Community
Center, El Paso, Texas, was referred to the Administrative Committee of the
department for study, in consideration of the entire question of such work at
El Paso, including the Rose Gregory-Houchen Settlement.

4. An Anna Heistad Memorial Fund of $15,000 be established for the pur-
chase of a camp for the constituency of Marcy Center in Chicago. About $1,000
toward this fund has already been contributed by community friends, $1^000
by the Woman's Home Missionary Society, the balance to be placed within ap-
propriations for 1944-45 Building Fund.

5. Approximately $40,000 for the erection of a gymnasium for Bethlehem
Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, be placed in the appropriations for buildings
and that the building be erected as soon as those already authorized are com-
pleted.

6. An adjustment be made in the insurance at Bethlehem Center, Augusta,
Georgia, which does not at present cover fully the total property, and be re-
ferred to the Committee on Insurance of Property.

7. A committee be appointed to investigate the advisability of the immediate
sale of Japanese Neighborhood House in Los Angeles, California. Committee:
Miss Barnwell, Mrs. C. P. Colegrove, and Mrs. Foss Zartman.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 39

8. Miss Monica Purviance be reinstated as a home missionary and be given
leave of absence for 1943-44.

9. That $441 from the Contingent Fund be approved for interior painting
of Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, East St. Louis, Illinois.

10. A building for a gymnasium at Campbell Friendship House, Gary,
Indiana, be approved. This is to be erected with no expense to the Woman's
Division.

BUREAU OF DEACONESS WORK—
77 is recommended that:

1. Leaves of absence granted to the following because of illness: Laura
M. Galliers, of the Deaconess Home Settlement, Camden, New Jersey, with
help from the Deaconess Emergency and Relief Fund for November and De-
cember; Carrie N. Dixon, from the Mt. Lebanon Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, with sick benefit for November and December; Arabella G. Crothers,
from the Deaconess Home Settlement, Wilmington, Delaware, sick benefit to
begin October, 1943; Esther Bucke, Deaconess Home Settlement, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, October 1, no sick benefit requested as yet; and Dolores Diaz,
from the Wesley House, Key West, Florida, beginning with January, 1944.

2. Leaves of absence be granted to Hazel Bulifant to enter nursing service
at the Buxton Hospital, Newport News, Virginia, and Grace D. Nettleton, of the
McKelvey Deaconess Home, Columbus, Ohio, to be at home with her aged mother.

3. We approve the withdrawal of Ellen Beitler, who was transferred to the
bureau from the Department of Foreign Work in December, 1942, by the Joint
Committee on Missionary Personnel; and Mrs. Minnie Webb Forrest, of the
Bureau of Town and Country Work, who plans to be married.

4. That $600 a month for five months, beginning with January, 1944, be
transferred from the Contingent Fund to the appropriation for deaconess pen-
sions, and that beginning with June, 1944, approximately $7,200 be transferred
from the appropriation for deaconess endowment to the appropriation for dea-
coness pensions in the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

BUREAU OF SOCIAL WORK—

It is recommended that:

1. The following payments be approved for the Peek Home, Polo, Illinois,
to be paid from the balance in the Peek Home treasury:

(a) Water softener, $450.

(b) Fire escape for boys' building, $647.

(d) Wage increase for Mr. Kelley, $10 per month.

(e) Electric heater for pump house — no estimate to date.

(f) Condensation pump on heating system.

2. (a) The action secured by mail in regard to the fire at Friendship Home,

Cincinnati, be approved and that any balance needed for this loss over
and above free-will contributions shall be taken from the Contingent
Fund,
(b) The steel smoke stack be replaced by a brick chimney.

3. Claims of losses of personal property by the girls in residence at Friend-
ship Home, Cincinnati, be paid from cash for undesignated supplies, total not
to exceed $700.

4. That $16 additional be appropriated for weather stripping for Friend-
ship Home, Cincinnati, to come from Iowa National Esther Hall Institutional
income.

5. The matter of insurance of furniture, equipment, and livestock of our
institutions be given consideration by the Committee on Finance and Estimates
of the department.

6. The balance of $27.61 for Esther Hall, Salt Lake City, be taken from in-
stitutional income fund held to the credit of Iowa Esther Hall.

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7. The $75 appropriated for fire extinguishers for Esther Hall, Salt Lake
City, be used to apply on repairs to the hot-water system of the home instead.

8. The request of the board of the Gum Moon Residence for an increase
of $25 in the monthly salary of each of the three members of the staff of that
institution be approved. These amounts are to be taken from institutional
income.

9. Mrs. J. M. Williams' salary be increased by $14.17 from $60.83 to $75
per month, the difference to come from institutional income of the Iowa Esther
Hall.

10. The increase in salary for the home economics teacher at Epworth School,
which was approved by the Finance Committee for June 1, 1944, be made retro-
active to November 1, 1943 ($6.16 per month for seven months to be taken
from Skeer Rest Home).

11. We approve the new application blank for admission to our rest homes,
including the specific clause referring to bequests of property.

12. We approve the request of the Southern California Conference that they
may be allowed to institute and conduct a Friendship Home in Los Angeles, with
an estimated budget of $20,000 annually — $10,000 from institutional income,
$5,000 from direct gifts and other organizations, and $5,000 from the Wom-
an's Society of Christian Service.

13. The $200 appropriated to Miss Seibert's work (in addition to the $1,800
salary) be sent to her each month for current expenses and that her travel
to and from the field be charged to the appropriation for missionary and dea-
coness travel, not to exceed $200.

14. The sum of $600 be transferred from the appropriation of this bureau
for the work at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to the Bancroft-Taylor Rest Home
annual budget to provide a salary of $50 a month and maintenance for Miss
Lanning who is working at the home temporarily, having charge of the office
and doing some housekeeping.

15. The sum of $405.91 be assigned from Contingent Fund to cover the bills
for rewiring at Friendship Home and Mothers' Memorial Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

General Recommendations

It is recommended that:

1. The projects recommended for jurisdiction promotion be referred to the
Committee on Expanded Program. Northeastern : Valley Institute Rural Com-
munity Center, Pharr, Texas, and Navajo Methodist Mission School, Farming-
ton, New Mexico. Southeastern : Ponca Indian Methodist Mission, Ponca City,
Oklahoma, and Peek Home, Polo, Illinois. Central: Bethlehem Center, Memphis,
Tennessee, and Freeman Clinic and Newark Conference Hospital, El Paso, Texas.
North Central: Arizona Rural Work, Eloy District, Arizona, and Methodist
Sanatorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico. South Central: Italian Settlement,
Utica, New York, and Puerto Rico. Western : Mothers' Memorial Center, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, and Vashti School, Thomasville, Georgia.

2. Men be commissioned by the Board General Executive, June, 1944, for
appointment in work under the Department of Work in Home Fields.

3. The Woman's Division memorialize General Conference asking that en-
dorsement be given for a definite study of a plan providing social security for
lay workers of the church.

4. That in the postwar program, the Woman's Division co-operate with the
Division of Home Missions and Church Extension in the following projects to
the extent of the amounts suggested:

Asking for Quadrennium
New Orleans, Louisiana: People's Community Center

2 workers on basis of $2,000 per year W.D.C.S. $8,000

Nez Perces Indian Mission

1 full-time worker — additional salary W.D.C.S. 3,200

John's Island — Recreational Center

For salaries and current expense W.D.C.S. 5,000

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St. Mary's County, Maryland

Worker to work among the women in the

county; automobile also needed W.D.C.S. 5,000

Puerto Rico

Training Institute, which could be used for

all groups — young people, pastors, etc. W.D.C.S. 4,000

Home Division 4,000

Health worker to cover section that is

Methodist responsibility W.D.C.S. 10,000

5. A thorough study be made of needs for missionary work in every con-
ference in view of expanding the work of the Home Department in the imme-
diate future as well as after the war.

6. When home missionaries or deaconesses are commissioned, the confer-
ence from which the worker came be given the privilege of supporting that
worker by raising additional funds, this to be a method of increasing income to
the Woman's Division.

7. We refer to the committee which may be set up to implement the ex-
panded program the recommendation that a special policy be approved allowing
conferences to meet certain temporary needs due to the war emergency; these
projects to be approved by the Division, the funds to be over and above the
pledge and not to affect the basis of appropriation or appropriations.

8. That a new worker with the Lapwai Indians be approved; the support to
be provided by Pacific-Northwest Conference and credited on basis already within
appropriations.

9. The trusteeship for holding West Virginia Conference property be ap-
proved.

10. We accept $2,000 cash for the sale of the Mountain Lake Park Rest
Home and allow time on $500 and that if this agreement cannot be reached the
chairman be authorized to accept $2,000.

11. That the Woman's Division memorialize General Conference, asking that
endorsement be given for definite study and recommendation as to procedure for
the plan providing Social Security for lay workers of the churches, thus adding
weight to other church groups who are participating. (Adopted.)

BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—

It is recommended that:

1. The policy be adopted providing salaries compatible with dignified living
and a sense of security. This to be referred to the Committee on Salaries to be
implemented as soon as possible.

2. Long-range planning be used to cultivate the highest type of workers.
As these workers may most readily be found coming out of Christian-centered
educational situations, we should seek to turn our Christian young people where
their education will be shot through with Christian purpose.

3. Candidates for Christian service in the high-school and college years be
carefully cultivated and (a) that the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel
contact the pastors of local churches, encouraging them to place greater em-
phasis on Christian service, assisting them in counseling and vocational guidance
and providing information and standards for such service, (b) A memorial go
to the General Conference, from the Woman's Division requesting there be in-
cluded among the disciplinary questions asked of pastors, one concerning the
number of Christian service recruits in their churches, (c) A service flag for
those in Christian service has been suggested.

4. We refer to the secretary of Young Women's and Girls' Work the recom-
mendation that the committals made at youth institutes, assemblies, and con-
ferences be followed through with a definite plan that will be related to the
Board of Missions and Church Extension.

5. We refer to the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel in consulta-
tion with the Board of Education the recommendation that wherever possible
local churches seek to co-operate with high schools in giving vocational guid-
ance to young people that Christian service may be presented.

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6. We refer to the Committee on Student Work in consultation with the
Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel the recommendation that student
work in colleges place renewed emphasis on service as the mark of a Christian
and on Christian service as a calling.

7. We refer to the Committee on Family in the Department of Christian
Social Relations and Local Church Activities the recommendation that a definite
effort be made to create within the home Christian standards of success measured
by service rather than by monetary values.

8. In order that the schools of the Division may carry out their larger
mission and achieve their specific goals in the light of present demands and
future possibilities, we recommend that they be strengthened professionally, that
long-range cultivation be planned for adequate staff provision, that programs
be adjusted to present postwar needs, and that they be undergirded finan-
cially and spiritually for an even larger service in the future.

BUREAU OF MEDICAL WORK—
It is recommended that:

1. (a) The education of the public in the value of our specialized hospitals
which minister to the soul as well as the body; (b) the need for new equip-
ment and new buildings in some places and new locations in others; (c) nurse-
training schools which is one way of manning hospitals adequately; (d) more and
better nurse homes; (e) we increase salaries to maintain standards and to give
a sense of security as is to be found in other positions into which many are going
today. (This to be referred to the Salary Committee, to be implemented as soon
as possible.) (f) Newer methods of treatment; (g) need for a higher type
and more stable personnel — those with Christian mind.

2. Emphasis be placed upon the opportunities and privileges of hospital
trustees, the contacts they may have in the community, in attracting fine Chris-
tian young women to the profession of nursing, and in enlisting special gifts.

3. We go on record as opposing the compulsory medical insurance under
the Social Security plan of the Wagner Bill. This recommendation was referred
back to the Findings Committee for clearance with the Department of Christian
Social Relations and Local Church Activities.

4. As Christian women we redouble our efforts to secure increased giving
for an enlarged program in the field.

BUREAU OF TOWN AND COUNTRY WORK—

It is recommended that:

1. A manual for town and country workers shall be prepared.

2. A constant effort be made to dignify rural life.

3. We recognize our responsibility and privilege to work with people as
individuals as well as in mass, realizing that good communities must be made
up of good people.

4. The workers of the Town and Country Bureau be encouraged to avail
themselves of the books that can be secured through the circulating library
of Vanderbilt School of Religion, Nashville.

5. There be a concerted effort at study toward the best methods through
seminars, special conferences, and planned group meetings for the workers of
the bureau.

6. In every conference the president of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service as a member of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of the con-
ference, shall emphasize the work of the Town and Country Commission of the
Board of Missions and Church Extension, thus making it a working organization.

BUREAU OF DEACONESS WORK—

It is recommended that:

1. A plan be set up whereby we may find the young women who may be
interested in being trained as deaconesses through presenting the need, the op-
portunity, and the requirements to (1) our educational institutions; (2) our local

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churches — especially the smaller churches which have no contacts with dea-
coness work; (3) our local and conference Woman's Societies. This recom-
mendation was referred to the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel.

2. Deaconess work be included in the program of each annual conference in
order that the members may become better acquainted with the deaconess, her
qualifications, her duties, and her relationship to the Woman's Division and
to The Methodist Church as a whole. That such a request go to the program
committee of the annual conference, through the office of the executive secretary
of the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

BUREAU OF URBAN WORK—
It is recommended that:

1. A statement embodying the findings of the executive secretary in the
recent survey of the work in the home fields, be made available to the con-
stituency of the church, through the pages of The Methodist Woman.

2. The secretary of missionary education of the Woman's Section of the
Joint Division be asked to arrange for a course on the composition, functions, and
procedures of boards for board members, this course to be given in summer con-
ferences, schools, and seminars; that permission to be obtained from Western
Reserve University to use the material contained in a thesis written in the
Department of Group Work by Margaret Marshall, entitled: "The Organization
of an Effective Board (or a Study of the Composition, Functions, and Pro-
cedures of the Boards of the Settlements of The Methodist Church With Sug-
gestions for Their Reorganization)," and that the bibliography contained in
it be made available to local boards.

3. In view of the urgent need for the co-operation of social, educational,
religious, and recreational agencies within local communities, the church agency
board co-operate with interagency committees in the community. In communi-
ties where, no such co-ordinated committee has been set up, we recommend that
our agencies take the initiative in organizing and promoting such a committee.

4. An adequate amount, to be fixed by the department Committee on Finance
and Estimates, be placed in a maintenance fund in order to put or keep the
buildings of the Department of Work in Home Fields of the Division in good
condition-. This was referred to the Finance and Estimates Committee of the
department for further study.

5. A sum of money, included in the institutional budget, be made available
to enable workers to attend conferences such as the National Conference of
Social Work, the National Council of Churches, and the National Federation of
Settlements.

6. Regional meetings be held annually for the purpose of bringing board
members, conference representatives, and workers together to evaluate their
work, study the needs, and make plans for future action. It shall be financed
within the region.

7. Volunteer service in these agencies be given the prestige and importance
it deserves and that methods be worked out by the executive secretary taking
the initiative to recruit and train these volunteers.

8. The advisory committee of the bureau be enlarged and that, as soon as
possible, appropriation be provided for bringing this committee together for
study and consultation.

9. The staff and the board of each local settlement have yearly meetings
to evaluate the work of their agency and to outline future policies.

BUREAU OF SOCIAL WORK—

It is recommended that:

1. In light of facts the Woman's Division give special emphasis to the fol-
lowing: (a) A new awareness of the role of the church in meeting the problems
facing humanity today and the days yet to come; (b) a concern for and an
interest m preventive methods rather than remedial work for the uplift of the
human family; (c) a willingness to spend more time in surveying the need of the
community rather than passing on rumors of existing conditions; (d) a better

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use of the many facilities of our churches and schools for the groups whose
needs are unmet and a consuming zeal to do something for people.

2. We stimulate more interest in the work of the Woman's Society of the
local church and discover wherein the church has failed when the Red Cross,
women's clubs, and other organizations can get our church women in such large
numbers.

3. We find a better way to express our urge to share at special seasons of
the year rather than invading the privacy of the home and persons to find their
needs.

4. Much thought be given to family welfare as our chief concern in our
approach to all phases of child care; the preservation of the natural home is the
child's first need.

5. We work toward a remedial plan whereby children who work at terrific
hours may be released from child labor which is blotting out their childhood.

6. We co-operate closely with the Department of Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities in the field of race relations and that we use our
influence with newspaper editors and radio commentators to state facts im-
partially and not to exaggerate the shortcomings of any race.

7. The Woman's Division appoint a committee to study the matter of coun-
seling, not only of young people, but also of mothers in industry.

8. The Woman's Division request the Woman's Section of the Joint Division
to point up what should be the approach to the problems facing local church
leaders in the Sunday evening activities of young people.

9. The study be made by the Woman's Division of plans to reinterpret the
term "Missions," seeking to eradicate the attitude of paternalism too often
associated with it.

Board Annual Meeting Committees. — The following representatives on the
Board's Annual Meeting Committees were announced:

Committee on Appropriations

Bishop William C. Martin Mrs. R. K. Gordon

Bishop Robert E. Jones Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger

Mrs. Carl S. Ell Mrs. W. H. C. Goode

Mrs. F. J. McConnell Mrs. Gid J. Bryan

Mrs. Albert T. Morgan Mrs. Hinkle Pewett

Mrs. Homer Tatum Mrs. R. T. Andersen

Mrs. Arthur Huestess Mrs. F. L. Beck
Mrs. Robert E. Jones

Committee on Treasurer's Reports

Mrs. J. Howard Ake Mrs. Thomas Nicholson

Mrs. D. S. Coltrane Mrs. Anna Kresge

Mrs. Isaac Morris Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter

Mrs. H. R. Hargis , Mrs. E. B. Dunlap
Mrs. David D. Jones Mrs. C. H. Van Meter

Mrs. C. N. Timmons Mrs. F. L. Hollingsworth

Committee on General Reference

Bishop Clare Purcell Mrs. W. H. Veenboer

Mrs. M. L. Robinson Mrs. D. N. Crabb

Mrs. W. H. Ballengee Mrs. Ralph S. Cushman

Mrs. A. C. Johnson Mrs. C. M. Randal

Miss Sara McConnell Mrs. Joe Ely

Mrs. L. M. Awtrey Mrs. W. C. Hanson

Mrs. C. C. Weaver Mrs. Charles Cole

Mrs. W. H. McCallum Mrs. Charles Latimer

Mrs. Charles Wade Mrs. Jennie Fulton

Adjournment. — Dismissed with prayer by Mrs. Bragg.

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Fourth Session — December 5, 1943

THE fourth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 7:30 P. M., December 5, by the President, Mrs. J. D. Bragg.

Devotional Service. — A beautiful program called "Christmas Lights"
was used as an opening for the evening session.

Report of Department of Work in Foreign Fields was continued by Mrs.
A. E. Beebe, Chairman.

Miss Elizabeth Lee spoke on Latin America, an open field, and of the post-
war planning. (For report see page 159.)

Mrs. Otis Moore spoke on Malaya, a closed field, giving the pattern to be
used in postwar planning, and the need for more workers in the future. (For
report see page 136.)

Report of Joint Missionary Personnel. — Miss Ruth Ransom, Executive Sec-
retary, presented the following recommendations, which were adopted:

Miss Reba Frances Cupp, Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford, Connecticut.

Home address: Fairfax, Virginia.

Miss Cupp appeared before the committee, and after interview and dis-
cussion it was voted: That we approve Miss Reba F. Cupp as a candidate for
foreign missionary service in the Foreign Department of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service, subject to final medical clearance and the satisfactory
completion of specialized study. She is now presented to the Woman's Division
of Christian Service for recommendation to the Board of Missions and Church
Extension for acceptance as a foreign missionary.

Miss Doris Beryl Rhodes, Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee.

Home address: Route No. 3, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The papers of Miss Rhodes were presented, together with the favorable
recommendation of the Nashville Regional Personnel Committee.

It was voted: That we approve Miss Doris B. Rhodes as a candidate for dea-
coness service in the Home Department of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service, subject to final medical clearance and the satisfactory completion of
specialized study. She is now presented to the Woman's Division of Christian
Service for recommendation to the Board of Missions and Church Extension for
acceptance as a deaconess.

Miss Elizabeth Ruth Bromley, Alvan Drew School, Pine Ridge, Kentucky.

Home address: Route 2, Box 165, Whitewater, Wisconsin.

The papers of Miss Bromley were presented, together with the favorable
recommendation of the Nashville Regional Personnel Committee.

It was voted: That we approve Miss Elizabeth R. Bromley as a candidate
for home missionary service in the Home Department of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service, subject to final medical clearance. She is now presented
to the Woman's Division of Christian Service for recommendation to the Board
of Missions and Church Extension for acceptance as a home missionary.

It is also suggested that Miss Bromley be given an opportunity for further
training in Bible and religious education and noted that the training may be
taken in the summer quarter without interfering with her work.

Miss Lois Mary Davidson, Route 4, Salem, Illinois.
Home address: Same.

The papers of Miss Davidson were presented, together with the favorable
recommendation of the Chicago Regional Personnel Committee.

It was voted: That we approve Miss Lois M. Davidson as a candidate for
home missionary service in the Home Department of the Woman's Division of
Christian Service, subject to final medical clearance. She is now presented to
the Woman's Division of Christian Service for recommendation to the Board
of Missions and Church Extension for acceptance as a home missionary.

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Miss Dorothy Belle Marquart, Marcy Center, 1539 S. Springfield, Chicago, Illinois.

Home address: 515 N. Ridgeland Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois.

The papers of Miss Marquart were presented, together with the favorable
recommendation of the Chicago Regional Personnel Committee.

It was voted: That we approve Miss Dorothy B. Marquart as a candidate
for home missionary service in the Home Department of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service, subject to final medical clearance. She is now presented
to the Woman's Division of Christian Service for recommendation to the Board
of Missions and Church Extension for acceptance as a home missionary.

Miss Martha Vanderberg, 140 Mechanic Street, Clyde, Ohio.

Home address: 8507 South Ada Street, Chicago 20, Illinois.

The papers of Miss Vanderberg, who has served in India as a missionary of
the Reformed Church in America, were presented.

It ivas voted: That we approve the transfer of Miss Martha Vanderberg
from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America to the
Board of Missions and Church Extension for short-term foreign missionary serv-
ice in the Foreign Department of the Woman's Division of Christian Service.
She is now presented to the Woman's Division of Christian Service for recom-
mendation to the Board of Missions and Church Extension for acceptance as a
short-term foreign missionary.

Report of Spiritual Life Committee.

Mrs. W. M. Alexander presented the report. (See page 251.)
The following recommendations were adopted:

1. That the Woman's Division of Christian Service through the Spiritual Life
Committee co-operate with the General Commission on Evangelism in the plans
and promotion of the Day of Fasting and Prayer at the place of the Genera:
Conference on Tuesday, April 25, 1944, and also to help in the plans for the ob-
servance of this period of fasting and prayer in the local churches of Methodism.

2. That the Woman's Division share with the General Commission on Evan-
gelism in the plans for a prayer room to be maintained throughout the period of
the General Conference.

3. That an annual retreat day or a day apart be held in each local church
Society of Christian Service in preparation for the Easter season, preferably
during the week before Holy Week.

4. That the committee co-operate with the World Federation of Methodist
Women in special prayer projects.

The jurisdiction secretaries of Spiritual Life were introduced.

Report of Committee on Library Service. — Mrs. C. N. Timmons, Chairman,
presented this report. (See page 245.)

Report of Supply Work. — Mrs. Harry Woolever, Secretary, presented the
following report, which was adopted: (See also page 254.)

Unusual needs are facing the Committee on Supply Work during these days
— needs which should bring an immediate response and which do bring such a
response when the women know about them. Rising prices bring problems to all
our institutions. Unusual war conditions increase the needs both at home and
abroad. As illustrative of this is the appeal for Christmas gifts for children
in the Japanese Relocation Camps in our own land and the continually increas-
ing need for relief supplies in China. Additional supply work undertaken by
the societies can help answer the tremendous demands facing us.

The greatest obstacle, we believe, to increased supply work is the lack of in-
formation reaching the women of the local society. To make sure this informa-
tion is available, a news sheet called the Suppy-O-Gram has been published during
this quarter. The executive secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments
furnished the material which explains and emphasizes the supply askings and

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the supply projects for the year. We are hoping this information will be pre-
sented to every society and that every society will make unusual effort to
meet the needs therein portrayed.

The totals for the third quarter are as follows: $32,268.54 in materials
and in cash for supplies for our home institutions; $14,590.26 for our foreign
institutions and projects and $3,189.24 for ministerial supplies, making a grand
total of $50,048.04. Comparing the totals of the past three quarters with the
grand total of last year, we find that to equal the supply work of 1942, this
fourth quarter in which we now are must show a total of $99,297.55. The annual
reports which leave the societies next January 5 will tell the story. (See page 255.)

Introductions. — The missionaries who had returned on the "Gripsholm" who
were present, and other missionaries, were introduced by Miss MacKinnon:

China :

*Mary Culler White
*Alice Green
*Mary Blackford
*Louise Robinson
*Eloise Bradshaw
*Nina Troy

* Louise Killingsworth
Matilde Killingsworth

*Lucy Jim Webb
*Anne Herbert
*Mary Ellen Hawk
*Alice Powell
*Emma Knox
*Myra Jaquet
*Ellen Studley
*Ida Frantz
Minta Stahl
*Ruth Stahl
*Emma Wilson
*Maggie May Prentice

* Clara Nutting

* Marguerite Twinem
indicates passengers on "Gripsholm."

Adjournment. — Adjourned by expiration of time.

China :

*Florence Evans

Mary Katharine Russell

Rose Waldron
*Bessie Hollows

Etha Nagler
*Lillie Stephens

Philippines :
Hazel Davis

Japan:

* Evelyn Wolfe
*01ive Hodges

India:

Emma Collins

Peru:

Semeramis Kutz

Argentine :

Olive Given

Fifth Session — December 6, 1943

THE fifth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 9:15 A. M., Monday, December 6, 1943, by the President, Mrs.
J. D. Bragg.

Devotions. — The members observed a period of silence in petition and prayer.

Report of Committee on Co-operation With Other Agencies. — Mrs. Homer
Tatum, Chairman. Mrs. L. R. Peel presented the report, which was adopted.
(See page 247.)

Report of Annual Meeting Committee on Appropriations. — Mrs. W. R.
Brown, Chairman.

Mrs. F. F. Lewis, Secretary, presented the report.

After quite a thorough study of the appropriations, it was voted that the
Report on Appropriations as presented by the Finance and Estimates Com-
mittee be recommended to the Woman's Division of Christian Service for their
approval and reference to the Committee on Appropriations of the Board of
Missions and Church Extension. (See page 197.)

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Report of Finance and Estimates Committee. — Mrs. W. Raymond Brown,
Chairman, presented the report. (See page 197.) Mrs. F. C. Brooks, Secretary,
presented the following recommendations, which were adopted:

It is recommended that the following items be approved:

Item I.

It is recommended that Item I, No. 4, of the report of the Committee on
Trust Funds and Investments, found on page 38 of the September minutes of
the Woman's Division, shall be amended by the addition of the clause "until
adequate protection shall be provided." The item will then read: "That at the
close of each fiscal year unexpended interest shall be held in the income accounts,
until such time as adequate protection to the income reserve has been provided."

Item II.

It is recommended that Item II of the same report shall be amended by
adding a similar clause. The item will then read, "That the residuum of un-
designated annuities shall be held in the annuity fund as a protection to the
fund, until such time as adequate protection to the investment has been provided."

Item HI.

It is recommended that interest from lapsed annuities, bequests, and en-
dowment funds, which may be received beginning June 1, 1943, shall not be in-
cluded in the divisible income for appropriations.

Item IV.

At the organizational meeting of the Woman's Division, among the assets
brought from the constituent corporations to form the basis for appropriation was
approximately $80,000 to be met by undesignated bequests and lapsed annuities.
At that time it was recognized that it was an unwise policy to include funds from
bequests and annuities in current income for appropriations. It is recommended
that we now reaffirm this fact and recommend that annually the continuing
corporations of the former women's organizations cease to contribute bequests
and lapsed annuities to be used as current income for appropriations in a diminish-
ing proportion as the amount from such sources needed to meet the total
appropriation diminishes.

Item V .

It is recommended that a bimonthly appraisal of the investment portfolio
of the Woman's Division be prepared at an annual cost of $200. This $200 shall
be a first claim on the income account of the Division.

Item VI.

It is recommended that the appropriations for 1944-45 be approved as pre-
sented.

Item VII.

It is recommended that the Woman's Division present these appropriations to
the Committee on Appropriations of the Board of Missions and Church Exten-
sion for their approval with the request that necessary adjustments within the
total appropriations be made by the Finance and Estimates Committee of the
Woman's Division, according to changing conditions on the mission fields or
in the administrative procedure, following the General Conference and the re-
organization of the Board of Missions and Church Extension.

Report of Committee on Handbook on Finance. — Mrs. F. G. Brooks, Chair-
man, brought the following report, which was adopted:

The committee to prepare a Handbook on Finance was appointed by the
Executive Committee of the Woman's Division last June. I should like to re-
view for you our procedure and to report that the copy for the Handbook is ready.

It has been known for some time that there is a desire among the women
of local and conference groups for a Handbook on Finance, which would present
in a simple, concise, usable form the details of our financial setup.

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A short questionnaire was prepared and sent with a covering letter to all
conference treasurers. The following are a few of the questions that were asked
in this questionnaire:

1. What problems would you like to have discussed in a Handbook on Finance?

2. How are your cultivation funds raised?

3. Do you think credit should be given on your conference pledge for culti-
vation funds ?

4. Do you apportion your conference pledge to your Woman's Societies
in the local church or do you receive voluntary pledges from the societies ?

The response to this questionnaire was excellent. Sixty-nine conferences
from all sections of the country replied; many treasurers sent out their own
questionnaires to local treasurers before sending in their suggestions. You may
be interested in a few summaries of the answers.

Thirty-one conferences wanted credit on their pledge for cultivation funds;
thirty-eight did not. The answers were not regional.

It was discovered that the amount paid for cultivation funds varied greatly
in the conferences: from five cents a member in one conference to forty cents
in another. Many conferences raise their cultivation fund by taking a percentage
of the entire budget: one takes one per cent; another takes thirty-five per cent.

Thirty-eight conferences apportion their pledge; thirty-one makes voluntary
pledges. The answer was regional.

Almost every conference requested that credit be given on the pledge for
cash supplies, youth, and children's work. Several feel very strongly on this point.

Certain members of the committee assumed the responsibility for particular
sections of the Handbook. Important sections, such as the sections on local, con-
ference, and jurisdiction finance were presented in their entirety for criticism
and correction at the September and October meetings of the Finance and Es-
timates Committee.

The tentative copy for the section on conference and district finance was
sent to all conference treasurers with the request that they read it carefully and
make suggestions for changes, if they so desired. A number replied with con-
structive criticism. The jurisdiction treasurers, in a similar way, were asked
to assist with the jurisdiction section.

Every effort has been made to have as many persons as possible see the
tentative copy for the Handbook.

At the September meeting of the Executive Committee of the Woman's
Division it was voted to make the Handbook on Finance available for conferences
in quantities at 5 cents and to be for sale at Literature Headquarters for 10
cents. It was also voted that a free copy be sent to each treasurer of each con-
ference Woman's Society of Christian Service with the request that she secure
sufficient copies for local societies at conference expense and that these be sent
without charge to local societies.

It is hoped that the Handbook on Finance will be ready for distribution in
January or February.

Report of Committee on Advance Program on the Fields. — Mrs. Otis Moore,
Chairman, presented the following report, which was adopted:

More funds are required to care for the work of the Woman's Division as
it is and to meet further immediate needs. In order to put these needs on the
hearts of our women and to stimulate giving, the following plan is suggested
for the year 1944:

1. At the close of the year, publicity will be given in The Methodist Woman
to the names of conferences in three classifications: (a) Those that pay their
pledges in full; (b) those that pay their pledges and a five-per-cent increase;
(c) those that pay their pledges and a five-per-cent increase, and in addition
take one or more shares ($100 each) in a proposed expansion. This expansion
becomes possible only after the appropriations of the Woman's Division have
been met in full.

2. The Woman's Division will give special recognition to the conferences in
Classification C. (The Joint Division will devise appropriate insignia.)

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3. To provide material for publicity for this plan, the staff of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service shall name specific items within the appropriations
which can be publicized attractively. (Note that these must be items which
are not already being supported as special missionary projects.)

For the proposed expansion, the staff of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service shall name priorities in advance. The total of $100,000 will make 1,000
shares to be taken by the conferences. These priorities in advance may not be
assumed as special projects during 1944.

It will be necessary for the staff to provide these items by January 1.

4. At the end of the conference year, if the appropriations have been met
in full, any increase from the conferences shall be shared proportionately.

Report of Treasurer. — Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton, Treasurer, presented the
financial statement for six months of 1943-44. (See page 200.)

Report of Annual Meeting Committee on Treasurer's Report. — Mrs. W. J.
Piggott, Chairman. Mrs. F. G. Brooks, Secretary, presented the following report,
which was adopted:

The reports of the treasurer of the Woman's Division and the reports of
Lybrand, Ross Brothers, and Montgomery, auditors for the Woman's Division
for the year 1942, and the five-months' period of January 1-May 31, 1943, have
been carefully reviewed and accepted by the Treasurer's Committee, the Finance
and Estimates Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Woman's Division.

The Committee on Treasurer's Reports, therefore, recommends the approval
and acceptance of these two reports.

Report of Committee on Annual Report. — Mrs. Fred Lamb, Chairman. Miss
Bettie Brittingham, Secretary, read the report as follows (adopted):

The Committee on Annual Report make the following recommendations to
the Woman's Division of Christian Service:

1. That the Fourth Annual Report shall follow the same form as the Third
Annual Report with the inclusion of pages of pictures representing all lines
of work.

2. That the price of the Annual Report shall be 35 cents.

3. That the Annual Report Committee, in co-operation with the Committee
on Literature and Publications, make a thorough study of the Annual Report,
evaluating the nature of the present report in line with the needs of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service and the Woman's Society of Christian
Service, and recommend plans for the future.

Report of Committee on Trust Funds and Investments. — Mrs. J. W. Masland,
Chairman. Mrs. Foss Zartman, Secretary, presented the following report, which
was adopted:

The Trust Funds and Investments Committee has, in the year 1943, added
to the committee five members.

A subcommittee meets bimonthly in the treasurer's office.

The Spencer Trust Company furnishes a bimonthly appraisal of the account.
Their recent statement shows holdings valued as of November 24, 1943, to be a
total of $870,819 invested.

Of this amount there is in

United States Government and Municipal bonds 57 . 2

Public utilities 22 . 1

Rails 15.8

Foreign bonds 1.4

Industrials 3.5

Report of Committee on Schools and Colleges. — Mrs. J. W. Perry, Chair-
man, presented the report, which was adopted. (See page 252.)

Adjournment.— Dr. Hugh Stuntz, President of Scarritt College, dismissed
the session with prayer.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 51

Sixth Session — December 6, 1943

THE sixth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 2:15 P. M., Monday, December 6, 1943, by the President, Mrs.
J. D. -

Missionaries Introduced. —

Mrs. Beebe asked that all missionaries present be introduced. Their names
are listed elsewhere. Short talks were made by Miss Olive Hodges, from
Japan; the Misses Ida Frantz, Ellen Studley, Marguerite Twinem, Ann Herbert,
Mary Blackford, Louise Robinson, all from China; and Florence Evans, from
China via Philippines. Mrs. Bragg paid tribute to these missionaries. The
Division stood and sang the doxology.

Report of Joint Division of Education and Cultivation. —

Organization and Promotion. — Mrs. V. F. DeVinny, Executive Secretary. (See
page 232.)

Missionary Education. — Mrs. Helen B. Bourne, Secretary. (See page 237.)
Wesley an Service Guild. — Miss Marion Lela Norris, Associate Secretary. (See
page 241.)

Student Work. — Mrs. Lenore E. Porter, Associate Secretary. (See page 242.)
Young Women's and Girls' Work. — Miss Helen L. Johnson, Associate Secre-
tary. (See page 243.)

Children's Work. — Miss Ruby Van Hooser, Associate Secretary. (See page 244.)

"World Outlook."— Miss Dorothy McConnell, Editor. (See page 192.)

Field Workers. —

Miss Lillian Warrick, field worker, Central Jurisdiction, told of some of her
experiences.

Miss Oscie Sanders, field worker in the realm of education, spoke on this
phase of the work.

Miss Ruth Wheaton, field worker, told of the work in several jurisdictions.

Reports from Continuing Corporations. — Miss Bettie Brittingham presented
the report from the Methodist Protestant Church, which was adopted as follows:

BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH
In the journal of the third annual meeting of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension of The Methodist Church, page 158, a complete statement of
the transfer of securities of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant
Church to the various divisions of the Board of Missions and Church Extension
of The Methodist Church was made.

The Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church is now working
on the transfer of properties to the various divisions of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension of The Methodist Church.

Church Extension

The Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church at the time of the
merging of the missionary and church extension work of the uniting groups, held
titles to eighteen churches throughout the denomination. All the deeds, papers,
insurance policies to these churches were turned over to the Department of
Church Extension of the Division of Home Missions and Church Extension of
The Methodist Church. Most of the transfer of titles to these properties to the
local churches have been made. Value of property, $445,514.

Home Department

The property of Alvan Drew School, Pine Ridge, Kentucky, will be trans-
ferred to the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions

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and Church Extension of The Methodist Church. This property will soon be ready
for transfer. Value of property, $100,000.

Foreign Department
India

It is recommended that the properties of the Methodist Protestant Church
in Dhulia, West Kandesh, India, be transferred to the Executive Board of The
Methodist Church in Southern Asia, to be held for the use of the Division of
Foreign Missions and the Department of Work in Foreign Fields of the Wom-
an's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and Church Exten-
sion of The Methodist Church. The secretary of said Executive Board is hereby
authorized to effect the transfer in India on the following basis:

For the Division of Foreign Missions, property valued at. . . . $29,451 00
For the Woman's Division of Christian Service, valued at. . . 49,487 00

China

$78,938 00

The property in China will likewise be transferred to the Woman's Division
of Christian Service and Division of Foreign Missions of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension of The Methodist Church. These properties are in Oc-
cupied China. Value of property to be transferred:

Division of Foreign Missions $11,800 00

Woman's Division of Christian Service, Department of Work

in Foreign Fields 8,600 00

$20,400 00
Japan

The school property in Japan is held by the Zaidan and the church property
by a Shadan. Value of property, $509,532.50. The division of these properties
on our books follows:

Division of Foreign Missions $318,862 50

Woman's Division of Christian Service, Department of Work

in Foreign Fields 190,670 00

$509,532 50
RECAPITULATION

Home Department
Properly Values:

Woman's Division of Christian Service, Department

of Work in the United States $100,000 00

Division of Home Missions and Church Extension.. 445,514 42

$545,514 42

Foreign Department
Japan —

Division of Foreign Missions $318,862 50

Woman's Division of Christian Service,

Department of Work in Foreign

Fields 190,670 00

$509,532 50

India —

Division of Foreign Missions $29,451 00

Woman's Division of Christian Service,

Department of Work in Foreign

Fields 49,487 00

78,938 00

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 53

China —

Division of Foreign Missions $11,800 00

Woman's Division of Christian Service,
Department of Work in Foreign

Fields 8,600 00

20,400 00

$608,870 50

It is the desire of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church
to complete all transfer of properties insofar as possible prior to General Con-
ference in order that the merger of the Board of Missions of the Methodist
Protestant Church into the Board of Missions and Church Extension may be
complete.

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode presented the report from the Woman's Home Mission-
ary Society, which was adopted as follows:

THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST

EPISCOPAL CHURCH

There are no other deeds ready for transfer at this time. I have, however,
a report of some which are in process and probably will be completed by the next
Annual Meeting.

We reported last year that the society had voted that buildings which were
being erected or building programs which had been pledged, would be completed
before deeds were transferred. Of three pieces of work thus involved, (1) the
Navajo Methodist Mission, is ready for transfer but the "law's delay" prevents
our handing the deed over today.

The second, Wood Junior College, is hindered because of some commit-
ments which might be jeopardized by immediate change.

The third building is the San Juan project. The law of Puerto Rico requires
that there be an "attorney in fact" appointed for either or both contracting
parties if they are nonresidents. We appointed the superintendent of George O.
Robinson, Mrs. Estelle Howard, to act for the Woman's Home Missionary Society,
and the supervisor of kindergartens, Miss Bernice Huff, for the Woman's Division
of Christian Service. While the deeds have been prepared, they are to be held
in San Juan until the building is completed. I am asking that a member of
the Building Committee report the present state of the building — Mrs. Kresge.
(Mrs. Kresge reported that the building was 96 per cent completed. Two boats
which were carrying building materials to San Juan were torpedoed and the com-
mittee has not been able to secure priority for the balance of materials needed.
She also reported that the cathedral glass window was ready for shipment when
the building is completed.)

I have a resolution prepared by the attorney in San Juan which must be
passed by this body and signed by the secretary of the Division.

CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY

The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the

Board of Missions and Church Extension

of The Methodist Church

I» , Secretary of the Woman's

Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and Church Extension
of The Methodist Church, a charitable corporation duly organized and existing
in accordance with the laws of the state of New York, U. S. A., with principal
office in the city of New York, hereby certify:

That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of this corporation duly held
on the 6th day of December, 1943, at which meeting a quorum duly and unan-
imously adopted, to wit:

"Whereas, on the 17th day of August, 1943, Miss Bernice Huff, as attorney
in fact for this corporation, appeared before the Notary Public, Mr. Rafael
Castro Fernandez and executed, on behalf of this corporation, deed No. 17,

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whereby this corporation accepted title to certain real estate situated in the place
of Bayola, ward of Santurce of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, transferred
to this corporation by the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church;

"Whereas, The said Miss Bernice Huff was duly authorized to accept title
to said real estate under the terms and conditions specified in said deed, a copy
of which is before this Board: It is hereby

"Resolved, That the act of Miss Bernice Huff in accepting title to said
real estate under the terms and conditions specified in deed No. 17 executed be-
fore the Notary Public, Mr. Rafael Castro Fernandez on the 17th day of August,
1943, and in executing said deed on behalf of this corporation, is hereby ratified
and confirmed as the free act of this corporation."

/ Further Certify, That the foregoing resolution is a true and exact copy of
the original thereof as set forth in the original minutes of said meeting which
I have before me in this act and which I keep in my possession as secretary
of this corporation.

In Witness Whereof, I execute this certificate under my hand and the seal

of this corporation at , this 6th day of

December, 1943.

Secretary.

There are a few other deeds which are still being held up by our attorney
for further investigation.

Since coming to this meeting we have been asked to give consent to con-
demnation proceedings by the government for a small piece of property in
Seward, Alaska, which the government is using. The property contains about
9/10 of an acre and a small cabin.

The money from this sale will be placed in a restricted fund for the re-
habilitation of Jesse Lee Home, and no institution that I know of is more needed
than this.

The treasurer of the Woman's Home Missionary Society will present the
statement of the transfer of funds for the period of January 1-November 30, 1943.

Funds of the Woman's Home Missionary Society
Transferred to the Woman's Division
For the Period
For: January 1-November 30. 1943

Endowment $78,596 . 90

Hospital Indebtedness 50,000 . 00

Special Legacies 7,000 . 00

To the Appropriations on Building 84^567.57

To the Deaconess Pension Fund from which the Woman's

Division receives annual interest 5,000.00

Anna Heisted Memorial Camp 1,000 . 00

Market Value of securities to Board of Trustees of two in-
corporated institutions of the Woman's Division 175,000.00

A total of $401,164.47

On June 1 we assigned approximately sixty-seven group insurance policies
to the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

Respectfully submitted,

IDA H. GOODE, President;

C. LOUISE ZARTMAN, Treasurer.

Mrs. J. W. Perry presented the report from the Woman's Missionary Council,
which was adopted as follows :

THE BOARD OF MISSIONS, METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH,
ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY COUNCIL, TRANSFERS TO THE WOMAN'S
DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE THE FOLLOWING:

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 55

A. Foreign Department

I. Annuities $57,475.00

All annuities transferred at par value.

II. Endowed Funds.

Maria Laying Gibson Retirement Fund 500 , 000 . 00

Maria Laying Gibson Retirement Fund Interest ; . 10 ,000 .00

Interest to be used for retirement salaries of the foreign mis-
sionaries of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Woman's Work, Foreign Department.
The Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woman's
Work, Foreign Department, recommends to the Woman's Division
of Christian Service:

1. That the appropriation of $19,000.00 for the retirement of
foreign missionaries of the Board of Missions, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, Woman's Work, Foreign Depart-
ment, be continued; that as much of the interest from the
Maria Laying Gibson Fund as is needed be used to supple-
ment the appropriations to pay the retirement obligation for
foreign missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Woman's Work, and that any balance in the interest
be added to the fund each year as long as necessary.

2. That when the interest from the funds set aside for the re-
tirement of the foreign missionaries formerly under the
Woman's Work, Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is no longer needed for that purpose, it be used
to increase the retirement allowance of the foreign mission-
aries of the Woman's Division of Christian Service who have
been commissioned on or since July, 1940.

Bennett-Gibson Lectureship Fund 50 . 000 . 00

Bennett-Gibson Lectureship Fund Interest 3 , 106 . 37

The Committee recommends that:

1. $50,000.00 be held as the principal fund. That in accordance
with the original purpose of the fund, the interest be used for
the enrichment and counsel of foreign missionaries and
native Christians.

(a) By sending to the fields persons to lecture and to assist in
retreats, or experts to counsel in special projects;

(b) By co-operating with other denominations or agencies in
sending such persons to the mission fields;

The Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woman's
Work, recommends that the money spent in one year not exceed the
accumulated interest at the beginning of the fiscal year.
The Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woman's
Work, requests that the Woman's Division of Christian Service
appoint a standing committee on which the executive secretaries of
the Foreign Department are members, to direct the use of the inter-
est of this fund each year.

Specialized Training Fund 30 , 000 . 00

Specialized Training Fund Interest 16,371 .97

Interest to be used for advanced training for foreign missionaries
and native Christian leaders. No interest to be included in
appropriations.

Bennett College Scholarship Fund, Bennett College 4,140.75

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Interest to be used for scholarships in
the College department.

Miscellaneous Endowment Fund. Interest to be used each year. (In-
terest formerly used in appropriations) 52 , 167 . 72

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Pratt Berry Memorial Fund $5 . 000 . 00

Interest to be used each year as directed by the Alabama Con-
ference, Woman's Society of Christian Service of the South-
eastern Jurisdiction.

III. Special Funds.

To be held for the specific institutions, conferences, purposes or per-
sons named, the accruing interest to be added to each fund, principal
and interest to be used as needed.

Central Congo Conference Building Fund 14,277.39

Mexico Property Fund 16 , 345 . 94

For capital expense or improvement of property in Mexico.

Fannie Holt Scholarship Fund 651 . 29

For scholarship or educational grant for Mexican or Cuban girl.

Deaconess Emma Burton Bequest 400 . 00

For specialized training at Scarritt College for a student pre-
paring for foreign service.
(Scholarship, $300.00; personal incidentals, $100.00.)

IV. Undesignated Reserve Fund 69 ,156 . 99

Undesignated Reserve, to be used, principal and interest, as
determined by the Woman's Division of Christian Service on
recommendation of the Foreign Department of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

Total $829,093.42

B. Home Department

I. Annuities $17 , 925 . 50

All annuities transferred at par value.

II. Endowed Funds.

Ella Knox Keener Bequest for the following:

MacDonell Institute, Houma, Louisiana 3,333.33

New Orleans Board of Home Missions, for St. Marks Hall. ... 3,333.34

Sue Bennett College, London, Kentucky 3 ,333.34

Scarritt College 3 ,333 .33

Interest on these funds to apply on appropriations each year
for these institutions.

Miscellaneous Endowed Funds 55 , 858 . 30

Interest to be applied on appropriations each year.

Pratt Berry Memorial Fund 5 , 000 . 00

Interest to be used each year as directed by the Alabama Con-
ference of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the South-
eastern Jurisdiction.

The MacDonell Jubilee Fund 50 ,000 .00

This fund to be used in accordance with the following action
of the Woman's Missionary Council:

"The entire Home Jubilee Fund be set aside for specialized
training of deaconesses and such other workers as shall be em-
ployed for tasks in the Home Department; that in memory of
Mrs. R. W. MacDonell this fund is named ' The MacDonell Ju-
bilee Fund'; that the fund shall be invested and the interest shall
be used as a scholarship fund, any unused interest to be added
to the principal; that these scholarships shall be assigned by the
home secretary of Woman's Work in consultation with the
Committee, whose duty it is to recommend to appointment of
deaconesses."

It was voted that the fund of $50,000.00 and interest be trans-
ferred to the Woman's Division of Christian Service to be used
for the purpose designated under the direction of the Home De-
partment.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943

MacDonell Retirement Fund $500 , 000 . 00

MacDonell Retirement Fund Interest 25,000 .00

Interest to be used for retirement salaries of the deaconesses
of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
Woman's Work, Home Department. When the interest on this
fund is no longer needed to pay the retirement salaries of the
deaconesses of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Woman's Work, Home Department, it is to be used
to increase the retirement allowances of the deaconesses of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service who have been commis-
sioned on or since July, 1940.

That if at any time the interest on the fund does not provide
enough income to pay the retirement salaries a sufficient
amount of the principal be used to meet the need.

III. Special Funds.

To be held for the specific institutions, purposes, or persons named,
the accruing interest to be added to each fund, principal and interest
to be used as needed.

Holding Institute Funds 20 ,635.09

Principal and interest to be used for repairs and improvements on
buildings and grounds at Holding Institute, Laredo, Texas.

Holston Conference Fund 7 , 612 . 22

To. be used for equipment and repairs under the direction of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service in Holston Conference.

Bethlehem Houses 1 , 345 . 70

To be used for repairs and equipment as needed.

Charlotte (North Carolina) Bethlehem House 5.069.68

To be used for repairs and improvements.

Key West Community House 3 ,023 . 39

To be used for repairs and improvements.

Moore Community House, Biloxi, Mississippi 438 . 65

To be used for repairs and improvements.

Vashti School Building and Improvement Fund 32 , 372 . 37

Building and Improvement Fund, to be used as needed.

Bluefield (West Virginia) Fund 8 , 100 . 93

To be used for equipment and repairs under the direction of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service in the Bluefield District
coal fields.

Wolff Settlement Fund 5 , 511 .02

To be used for improvements and repairs or for a non-recurring
project at Wolff Settlement, Tampa, Florida.

Nashville Bethlehem Center Fund 2 , 957 . 56

To be used for non-recurring projects, or for improvements and
repairs at Bethlehem Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

War (West Virginia) Building Fund 5, 128 .29

To be used for a building fund for work under the direction of
the Woman's Division of Christian Service in the Bluefield
District coal fields.

Total $759,312.04

C. Joint Division of Cultivation and Education — Woman's Section

Summer Schools and Conferences

To be used for summer schools of missions and conferences at
Lake Junaluska and Mt. Sequoyah, for the promotion of mis-
sionary education in the Department of Woman's Work of the
Joint Division.

$2,350.40

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D. The Department of Christian Social Relations

Carrie Parkes Johnson Endowment Fund $5 , 000 . 00

Carrie Parkes Johnson Endowment Fund Interest 191 . 98

The interest to be used under the direction of the Department
of Christian Social Relations for the training of Negro rural
church women for church and community service.

Experimental and Educational Work 4 , 000 . 00

To be used for experimental and educational work in Minority
Groups in Interracial Co-operation and International Relations
and World Peace, under the direction of the Department of
Christian Social Relations.

Total $11,542.38

TOTALS

Foreign $829,093.42

Home 759,312.04

Christian Social Relations and Joint

Division 11,542.38

Grand Total $1,599,947.84

Mrs. Harry E. Woolever presented the report from the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, which was adopted as follows:

REPORT OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

From the time of organization of the Board of Missions and Church Ex-
tension of The Methodist Church, the General Executive Committee of the Wom-
an's Foreign Missionary Society has been seeking to complete the transfer of
all funds to the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

Income from Permanent Funds has been transferred each year and applied
on the appropriations of the Woman's Division.

Undesignated bequests and lapsed annuities accumulated prior to July,
1943, have likewise been transferred for the use of the Division.

During the period from January, 1941, to date, there has been paid to the
Woman's Division $196,908, which has been used on appropriations and $325,029
for projects not included in regular appropriations, such as building funds, re-
volving fund, and emergencies, a total of $521,937.

All properties in foreign fields of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
have been transferred to the Foreign Department of the Woman's Division by
deed of trust until such time as the deeds may be legally conveyed. The Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society has also made available through quitclaim resolu-
tions the field balances estimated at about $20,000.

Each of the merging organizations comprising the Woman's Division is
being held responsible for sufficient funds to provide pensions for those who
had been retired prior to August, 1940, and also for all those active missionaries
and deaconesses transferred to the Woman's Division at the time of unifications,
if and when they are eligible for pension, to be paid in accordance with the plans
and rates of the organization under which they had served and from the funds
accumulated by that organization. An actuarial study is now in process and its
findings will be ready for report to the March Executive Committee meeting of
the Woman's Division. Pending this report, lapsed annuities and undesignated
bequests received by the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
since July, 1943, are being reserved in case it is necessary to augment the present
funds for retirement provision of these missionaries, active and retired, on the
Woman's Foreign Misisonary Society roll as of August, 1940.

The Permanent Funds of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society are being
held pending further legal advice on turning these over to the Woman's Division
with the understanding that until such transfer can be completed, income on
Permanent Funds shall continue to be paid promptly to the Woman's Division.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 59

Furthermore, undesignated bequests and lapsed annuities not needed for the
retirement fund of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall continue to
be paid promptly to the Woman's Division.

Memorials to General Conference. — Mrs. A. C. Johnson and Mrs. J. Howard
Ake were appointed a committee to frame memorials from the Home Department
to be presented to General Conference. Mrs. F. F. Lewis and Mrs. L. M. Awtrey
were appointed a committee to frame memorials for General Conference from the
Committee on the Status of Women.

Message. — It was voted to send a message of sympathy to Mrs. Charles
Wade on the loss of her brother.

Report of Committee on Week of Prayer. — Mrs. J. W. Mills, Chairman.
Mrs. W. J. Piggott, Secretary, presented the following report, which was adopted:

The Committee on Week of Prayer and Self-Denial gave careful consideration
to the projects chosen by the Home and Foreign Departments for which the
offerings of the 1944 Week of Prayer and Self-Denial shall be used. In response
to these askings, the committee recommends:

That the Home Department be authorized to use its share of the Week of
Prayer fund for:

1. Friendship Home and Mother's Memorial Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Friend-
ship Home serves as a residence for young Negro working girls separated from
their families who need a decent, comfortable, Christian home. The facilities
need to be expanded to give greater security to more girls. The center ministers
especially to working mothers and their little children through the day nursery
and club activities. The building in which teen-age groups meet is inadequate
and all activities are carried on under difficult circumstances in quarters which
cannot be expanded.

2. Wesley Community House Building Fund, Houston, Texas. Wesley House
serves Mexican people. The activities are now conducted in a rented frame
house which is entirely inadequate. Lots have already been purchased for a
new location and a building fund has been begun within the conference.

A full program of community service is carried on, giving the Mexicans
opportunities that are not open to them through other channels and building
Christian attitudes as the Mexicans and Anglo-Americans are brought into a
closer relationship and wider understanding.

The committee further recommends that the Foreign Department be author-
ized to use its share of the 1944 Week of Prayer funds for:

1. Building and equipment at the Medical College for Women, Vellore, India.
Medical College at Vellore must raise its standards. Among other things, the
staff must be enlarged, the hospital space doubled, and equipment improved.

A Christian College for Men parallel to the Woman's College is being
projected by the Christian Medical Association of India and British and Amer-
ican Boards. The whole will become one of the most important institutions in
India.

2. Needs for educational and medical work in the Congo, Angola, Rhodesia,
and Portuguese East Africa Conferences.

From the many proposed needs, specific projects will be selected after
further correspondence with the field.

Report of Committee to Fill Vacancies. — Mrs. Mills, Chairman. Miss Mabel
K. Howell, Secretary, presented the following report, which was adopted:

The Committee to Fill Vancancies met and took under consideration the one
vacancy which has occurred in the membership that came by the resignation
of Miss Henrietta Gibson, Advisory Member from the Northeastern Jurisdiction,
who has accepted the position of associate treasurer of the Woman's Division.

The Northeastern Jurisdiction reported that it was their desire not to nom-
inate anyone at this time to fill this vacancy because it was so late in the
quadrennium and the person nominated could not have opportunity to serve.

The committee, therefore, recommends that this vacancy be not filled.

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Report of Committee on World Federation of Methodist Women. — Mrs. J. W.
Mills, Chairman. Mrs. A. C. Johnson presented the report. (See page 257.)

Resolution. — Miss Ruby Van Hooser presented the following resolution,
which was adopted:

Since overwhelming public opinion is needed to be felt at once to assume the
passage of Senate Resolution No. 100, and House Resolution No. 117, to feed the
starving children of the occupied countries of Europe, we recommend:

1. That all members of the Woman's Society of Christian Service be urged
by the Woman's Division to write at once to the President of the United States,
the Secretary of State, and their senators and key representatives, urging the
passage of the bills.

2. That the president of the Woman's Division be requested to send tele-
grams to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the
chairmen of the Senate and House Committees considering the bills, urging
the passage of the bills at once.

3. That a small delegation representing the Division be appointed by the
president of the Division to appear before the committees concerned in Wash-
ington to express the opinion of the Woman's Division in regard to the passage
of the bills.

On motion of Mrs. Oldshue, it was voted to include the president of the
Division and the secretary of Children's Work in the delegation to appear before
the committees concerned in Washington.

Report of Standing Committee on Missionary Personnel. — Mrs. L. R. Peel,
Chairman. Mrs. Isaac Morris, Secretary, presented the following recommenda-
tions, which were adopted:

It is recommended :

1. That the Missionary Personnel Committee of the Woman's Division plan
jurisdiction study conferences for the conference chairmen of Missionary Per-
sonnel early in the next quadrennium.

(a) It is further recommended that the jurisdiction provide a subsidy of
ten dollars for the expense of each conference chairman and that addi-
tional funds be provided by the conferences.

2. That a mimeographed guide setting forth duties, qualifications for
missionary service, procedure for making application and information regard-
ing grants for specialized study be sent to each conference chairman of Mission-
ary Personnel.

3. That a leaflet presenting the call to missionary service in all areas of
life be prepared by Miss Mary Catherine Russell or some other missionary.
This leaflet to be confirmed by the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel
and referred to the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation with the hope
that this Division will provide the expense for printing.

A. That when it seems expedient to act upon an application for missionary
service, which is made after April 15, that the Joint Committee on Missionary
Personnel be asked to name a subcommittee to consider the application with
the power to act.

5. That the ruling concerning the time of the required year of experience
be made flexible and subject to the discretion of the Joint Committee on Mis-
sionary Personnel.

6. That Study Grants of the Woman's Division be made only to candidates
who have been recommended by the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel
and tentatively accepted by the Woman's Division.

(a) It is further recommended that young women who are engaged to be
married be not eligible for a Study Grant.

7. That the amount of the Study Grant and the place the candidate will
study shall be decided on by the secretary of Missionary Personnel and the staff
of the department in which the candidate will serve.

Fourth Annual Meeting, December 3-8, 1943 61

8. That funds for Study Grants be sent by the conference treasurer to the
treasurer of the Woman's Division and included as credit on the pledge through
the regular procedure.

9. That money for the Study Grant shall be paid to the candidate by the
treasurer of the Woman's Division.

10. That when a young woman accepts a Study Grant, but withdraws before
being commissioned, the secretary of Missionary Personnel is responsible for
arranging the agreement by which the grant is to be repaid to the treasurer
of the Woman's Division.

11. That when a young woman accepts a Study Grant, is commissioned as a
missionary or deaconess of the Board of Missions and Church Extension and
does not finish her term of service, the executive secretary concerned is re-
sponsible for arranging the agreement by which the proportionate part of the
grant is to be repaid to the treasurer of the Woman's Division.

12. That we consider the use of a service flag or similar emblem to honor
persons from a local church in Christian service inappropriate for general use.

Recommendation. — On motion of Miss MacKinnon, it was voted that the de-
votional material for the Week of Prayer for the year 1944 include an emphasis
on the need for missionaries and deaconesses. (See reconsideration at later
session.)

Introduction. — Mrs. Beebe introduced Miss Alice Powell, nurse, who had
sailed as a missionary to China thirty-seven years ago this date.

Adjournment. — Adjournment to meet at 5 P. M., Wednesday, December 8.

Seventh Session — December 8, 1943

THE seventh session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was
called to order at 5:15 P. M., Wednesday, December 8, by the President,
Mrs. Bragg.

Nominations. — The following nominations were approved and referred to
the Board of Missions and Church Extension for election:

Staff Members :

Associate Treasurer, Miss Henrietta Gibson.

Assistant Treasurer, Foreign Department, Miss Jean Bothwell.

Assistant Treasurer, Home Department, Miss Marjorie Eicher.

Disbursing Officer, Miss Glenn Moore.

Editor, Miss Bettie S. Brittingham.

Assistant Editor, Mrs. Helen Cox Exman.

Publication Manager, Mrs. George W. Keen.

Members of Committee of Board of Missions and Church Extension : ,
By-laws Committee: Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds, Mrs. Helen B. Bourne.
Committee on Finance: Mrs. J. W. Masland, Mrs. Foss Zartman.
Committee on Pensions: Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton, Mrs. J. W. Masland.
Interboard Committee: Miss Helen Johnson, Miss Ruby Van Hooser.
Committee on Joint Missionary Personnel: Miss Mabel K. Howell, Mrs. L.

R. Peel, Mrs. Franklin F. Lewis.
Committee on Co-operation and Counsel With Colored Metbodist Church:

Mrs. J. W. Downs, Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Miss Thelma Stevens.
Committee on Resolutions and Memoirs: Mrs. L. R. Peel, Mrs. Fred A. Lamb.

Field Workers. — The following nominations were presented by Mrs. De-
Vinny as Field Workers for 1944, and the report was adopted:

Mrs. F. B. Godfrey, Miss Lillian Warrick, Miss Oscie Sanders.

Report of Committee on Constitution and By-laws. — Mrs. Homer Tatum,
Chairman. Mrs. Helen B. Bourne, Secretary, presented the report. The By-laws
of the Woman's Division of Christian Service were considered.

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Committee on Youth Work. — It was voted that an advisory committee on
youth work be appointed to study the Methodist Youth Fund and assist Miss
Johnson as need may arise.

Adjournment. — Adjourned by expiration of time to meet at 5 P. M., Thurs-
day, December 9, with Constitution and By-laws report continued.

Eighth Session — Deeemher 9, 1943

THE eighth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 5 P. M., Thursday, December 9, 1943, by the President, Mrs.
Bragg.

Matter of Privilege. — Mrs. L. R. Peel introduced Dr. L. 0. Hartman, who
presented the matter of personnel secretary, bringing the following recommenda-
tion from the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel:

"To refer the whole question of the number of secretaries and associate
secretaries and the co-ordination of their work back to the three Divisions for
further study, and to postpone action until their reports were received."

On motion of Mrs. Beebe, it was voted that there be three co-ordinate sec-
retaries, two of whom shall be assigned to the Woman's Division.

Report of Wesleyan Service Guild Standing Committee. — Mrs. Harry
Woolever presented the following recommendations, which were adopted:

1. The Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild appreciates the de-
sire of the Woman's Division of Christian Service to do all it can to reach the
employed women of the church and believes that there is an opportunity for
increasing Guild membership and financial support in the present emergency.

Therefore, the Wesleyan Service Guild requests the Woman's Division of
Christian Service to approve an additional worker in the office of the Guild
who will give time to both office and field work, and we recommend the refer-
ence of this request to the Finance and Estimates Committee for implementation.

2. The Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild heartily endorses
the recommendation of the Southeastern Jurisdiction in regard to changes in the
report blanks of the Woman's Society, making clearer the total membership
and missionary giving of the woman power in the local church.

Similar suggestions have been received from the Woman's Society and the
Guild in another jurisdiction.

3. The Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild received with
appreciation the recommendation referred to it by the Woman's Division from
the New England Conference, and recommends that the Wesleyan Service
Guild hold a district, subdistrict, or zone meeting at least once a year, and when-
ever feasible on the day of a similar meeting of the Woman's Society. This
is in addition to the week-end Guild conferences already set up in many areas.

The Standing Committee of the Guild urges all the Woman's Division mem-
bers to implement these meetings in their own areas.

4. Voted to eliminate from the Standing Committee listed in Article V
of the Guild Constitution, Sec. 2, "a corresponding secretary," because the six
jurisdiction members of the Standing Committee and the Division secretary
of the Guild are given the responsibility of carrying on the necessary corre-
spondence for the Guild.

5. Voted, that the Guild encourage the presentation of Life Memberships to
those whom the Guilds wish to honor, following the plan of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service, and request the Woman's Division of Christian Service,
whenever possible after the war, that the Life Membership Pin be modified
by using the letters "W. S. G." instead of "L. M." at the lower edge of the
pin for Guild members.

Consideration of By-laws (continued). —

It was voted to refer the matter of a "Standing Committee on Policy" to a
special committee.

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The By-laws of the Division were adopted as amended. (See page 268.)
The By-laws of the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities were next considered and adopted as amended. (See page 282.)
// icas voted to recommend that when committees of the Section of Educa-
tion and Cultivation shall be set up, officers in the jurisdictions charged with
the responsibilities of missionary education shall have membership on such com-
mittees.

Referred Item. —

It was voted to refer the item concerning the appropriation of $3,000 for an
additional secretary in the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities to the Committee on Finance and Estimates.

Adjournment. — Adjourned by expiration of time to meet at close of evening

session.

Ninth Session — December 9, 1943

THE ninth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 10 P. M., Thursday, December 9, by the President, Mrs. J. D.
Bragg.

Memorials. — The following memorial to General Conference was presented
by Mrs. Oldshue:

The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension of The Methodist Church memorializes General Conference
of The Methodist Church in session in Kansas City, Missouri, April 26, 1944, to
endorse the following:

That general meetings of the church be held where there will be no
segregated arrangements and that church-wide programs of promotion and
inspiration be planned for all groups without regard to race.

Mrs. Ake presented the following memorials:

Whereas, The entire church is facing the need of an increasing number of
Christian workers in every avenue of its work, especially the missionary enter-
prise; and

Whereas, Greater emphasis should be placed on presenting the need, the
opportunity, and the requirements for Christian service to young people; and

Whereas, Pastors in the local churches are key men in seeking and cultivat-
ing the highest type of workers as they give counsel and guidance to the youth
with whom they come in contact.

Therefore, The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Mis-
sions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church memorializes the General
Conference that provision be made to include, among the disciplinary questions
asked of pastors, one concerning the number of Christian service recruits in their
churches.

The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension of The Methodist Church memorializes the General Con-
ference that

Whereas, At present there is no plan for Social Security for lay workers of
The Methodist Church, nor are they eligible for Social Security under the gov-
ernment plan; and

Whereas, The Board of Education of The Methodist Church and the Wom-
an's Division of Christian Service have initiated a study of a plan to provide
Social Security for lay workers of the church; and

Whereas, This committee, appointed by the two boards, desire the support
of the entire church, inasmuch as many local church workers will be involved;

Therefore, The Woman's Division of Christian Service respectfully requests
the General Conference to give endorsement to a definite study of a plan, pro-
viding Social Security for lay workers of The Methodist Church.

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Another memorial in regard to clergy rights for women is in process of
preparation.

Report of Standing Committee on Education and Cultivation. — Mrs. E. R.

Bartlett, Chairman pro tern. Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter, Secretary.

The following recommendations were presented by Mrs. Ledbetter:

In considering more effective means and methods for promoting the total

program of education and cultivation, we submit the following recommendations:

We recommend:

1. That in interpreting Section 5, Article 2 of By-laws for Jurisdiction So-
cieties, concerning the Committee on Summer Schools and Conferences, further
recommendations may be channeled to the leaders of conference summer schools,
suggesting standards and goals to bring such schools into conformity with the
study and action program of the Woman's Division and giving information re-
garding the availability of missionaries and deaconesses for itineration.

2. (a) That the conference Committee on Study and Action be used as an

Advisory Committee by the Conference Summer School Committee,
(b) That the conference Committee on Study and Action be responsible
for planning the work and itinerary of the educational field worker
within the conference.

3. That the Committee on Literature and Publications make a study of policies
regarding the preparation of supplementary materials to be used in connection
with approved study courses, and that the secretary of Missionary Education, the
secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the chairman
of the Spiritual Life Committee, and the editor or editors involved recommend
to the Committee on Literature and Publications the topic and plans (includ-
ing types of material and probable authors) for the approved study courses
(other than the Missionary Education Movement).

4. That the following new study themes be approved for 1944-1945:

(1) The American Indian.

(2) Southeast Asia.

(3) Christians and a New World Economy.

(4) The Christian Faith and The Christian Way (Bible study based on
Ephesians using the book, The World of His Grace, by Dr. Costen J.
Harrell).

5. (a) That a committee of persons experienced in the area of Bible training

be appointed to study the future policy of Bible study for the Woman's
Division and that this committee submit its findings to the Committee
on Literature and Publications. Personnel of committee — Mesdames
Alexander, Bourne, Bartlett, Rodeheaver (co-opted), Misses Stevens
and Brittingham.
(b) That the recommendations of the Woman's Section of the Joint Divi-
sion of Education and Cultivation from the Department of Christian
Social Relations and Local Church Activities referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and Cultivation regarding a new Bible study shall
be referred to the above-named committee.

6. That the Pastors' Journal be requested to give space at intervals for in-
formation concerning the Woman's Society of Christian Service, which will lead
to a better understanding of the program.

7. That in view of the appreciation recorded for the co-operation of district
superintendents and pastors in organizing Woman's Societies of Christian Serv-
ice, a letter expressing this attitude go from the office of the executive secretary
of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation to them.

8. That definite approaches be made to the Methodist theological seminaries
for an annual presentation of the work of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service by some member of the staff or Division.

It ivas voted to adopt the report and that the secretary of the Standing
Committee on Education and Cultivation be authorized to include in the report
all previously adopted policies concerning jurisdiction schools and conferences
and interdenominational schools and conferences.

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Policies of the Woman's Division in Relation to Interdenominational Schools of
Missions and Missionary Conferences

1. The representatives on interdenominational committees shall be elected
by the Woman's Division when requested by those charged with responsibility
and when nominated by the secretary of missionary education of the Joint
Division, the number of Methodist representatives and terms of service on any
interdenominational committee to be determined by the by-laws of the committee.

2. Membership on such interdenominational committee does not imply finan-
cial obligation to the schools or conferences on the part of the Woman's Division.

3. The Woman's Division shall meet the expenses of one of its committee
representatives at the school if she is to be on the program or have official
responsibility at the school.

4. The Woman's Division shall meet the expenses of one of its home or
foreign missionaries or deaconesses at the school if it is advisable to have such
a person on the program.

5. The Woman's Division representatives on interdenominational summer
school committees shall nominate their camp director in such summer schools
and conferences, expenses for the director to be met by the Woman's Division.

6. All such expenses shall be paid from appropriations for schools of mis-
sions and summer conferences, on order of the secretary of Missionary Education
of the Joint Division, Woman's Section.

Policies Regarding Jurisdiction Schools

1. The Woman's Division recommends that the jurisdiction Woman's So-
ciety of Christian Service, working through its jurisdiction Committee on Sum-
mer Schools and Conferences, give primary consideration and support to juris-
diction schools, but cultivate in the interest of all summer-school opportunities.

2. That teachers of accredited courses in jurisdiction schools receive hon-
oraria on an equal basis with those paid by the Board of Education. Such
honoraria shall be paid from appropriations for schools of missions and summer
conferences.

3. That teachers in jurisdiction schools be secured by the secretary of mis-
sionary education in consultation with the chairman of the jurisdiction com-
mittee and the dean of the school; that other details of the jurisdiction school
program be worked out by the jurisdiction committee in consultation with the
secretary of missionary education; that the jurisdiction and the school shall
finance these additional program plans.

Report of the Annual Meeting Committee on General Reference was pre-
sented by Mrs. W. C. Hanson, as follows:

Being organized for the first time, with its duties as yet not fully interpreted,
this committee opens its report with certain practical considerations.

Inasmuch as a committee of general reference needs to face with conscious
appraisal and an understanding of its duties, the entire proceedings of an annual
meeting from its beginning, we recommend to the Policy Committee:

1. That the Annual Meeting Committees be appointed early in the opening
session.

2. That the duties of the Committee on General Reference be defined in a
by-law such as the following:

"It shall be the duty of the Committee on General Reference to consider
the reports of the executive secretaries and such other matters as may
be referred to it."

In accordance with the above interpretation, your committee wishes to com-
mend the excellent reports of and other members of the staff with their compre-
hensive presentation of all phases of the work, their clear grasp of immediate
problems, their foresighted planning for the future, and their far-reaching
recommendations. The attractive form in which these reports are made avail-
able in print will facilitate and doubtless increase their use.

The committee desires to commend also the procedures used at this Annual
Meeting by the various departments for the consideration of their activities,
such as the "workshop," the review of bureaus, and of fields of work; and it

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suggests that the workshop plan may well be extended through jurisdiction, con-
ference, and district on an interracial basis.

Through the sessions of this Annual Meeting, we have become increasingly
aware of the interrelationships of the three departments of the Division, and
of the vital need of some plan whereby the members of each department may
acquire a closer understanding of each of the other two departments. There-
fore, your committee recommends that the Policy Committee give study to a
plan for the Annual Meeting that shall afford members of each' department
opportunity to sit in on each of the other departments in action in at least one
session.

We have heard repeated reference throughout the sessions to the Bishops'
Crusade. The plans for a postwar world are the drep concern of the women
of Methodism. A just and lasting peace based on Christian principles is the
foundation step toward the reconstruction of a Christian world. We recognize
the Crusade for a New World Order as the major channel this year for the
informing and mobilizing of Methodism in the interest of a Christian peace,
and we recommend the Avholehearted participation of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service in the complete program, hoping that the meeting will be
conducted without racial discrimination.

Your committee has detected three major notes of emphasis sounding through
every department of work: (1) Personnel needs; (2) the need for increased
giving; (3) the need for expanded program.

In regard to personnel, we recommend to the Committee on General Ref-
erence of the board that increased study and emphasis be given through every
possible channel to the cultivation of personnel, in order to meet the crescendo
of need for Christian workers in all fields.

Touching the plans for increased giving, we commend the desire of the
Division to face as a whole the compelling needs pressing from all sides, and
the plan for capturing the imagination of our women for larger giving by the
presentation of certain outstanding needs of immediate appeal, while at the
same time insisting that the regular appropriations shall be met before these
additional projects can be benefitted.

With the emergency appeals of a world in upheaval and the imperative
of postwar planning we can do no other than go forward. We commend the
note of hopefulness in the plans of the expanded program that leads the Division
with vision prophetic, faith undaunted, and confidence in the women of Meth-
odism, to launch out into widening fields of opportunity.

And finally, we have been deeply stirred by the glowing report of the
working of the spirit of God in fields that have been subject to the devastation
of war, as given by the missionaries from the "Gripsholm." We express our
gratitude for the kindling power of this word.

Respectfully submitted,

MRS. A. E. BEEBE, Chairman;

MRS. WILLIAM C. HANSON, Secretary.

Report of Subcommittee of the Executive Committee was presented by Miss
Muriel Day, as follows:

A meeting of this subcommittee was held on October 29, 1943, at which
time the following action was taken:

It is recommended that permission be given to the secretary of the Bureau
of Medical Work to apply for a grant of funds under the Lanham Act, through
the United States Public Health Department — for the erection of a nurses'
residence of at least thirty beds, two classrooms, a demonstration room, and
dietetic and science laboratories at Brewster Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida.

Finance Recommendation. —

It was voted that since the Division will not meet until March, a subcom-
mittee of the Finance Committee study the appropriations of 1944-45 for finding
the $3,000 for salary and travel for an associate secretary in the Department
of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities.

It icas voted, on motion of Mrs. Brown, that the chair appoint the committee.

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An Appreciation. — On motion of Mrs. Oldshue, it was voted that the presi-
dent of the Woman's Division write the president of the Curtis Publishing Com-
pany, expressing appreciation of the action taken by the company to continue
its policy not to accept liquor advertising.

Reconsideration. —

It was voted that the action concerning material for the Week of Prayer
be reconsidered.

// was voted that the need for personnel be considered as a suggestion for
emphasis in the Week of Prayer material.

Assembly. —

// was voted that the Assembly, due to be held in 1944, be postponed because
of war conditions.

Constitution and By-laws (continued). — By-laws for jurisdiction and confer-
ence societies were considered and adopted as amended. (See page 291.)

Adjournment. — Adjourned with prayer by Mrs. Bragg to meet at 5 P. M.,
Friday, December 10.

Tenth Session, Friday, Decemher 10, 1943

THE tenth session of the Woman's Division of Christian Service was called
to order at 5 P. M., Friday, December 10, by the President, Mrs. Bragg.

Constitution and By-laws (continued). — The Constitution and By-laws
of the Local Society of Christian Service were considered and adopted as
amended. (See page 302.)

The Constitution and By-laws of the Wesleyan Service Guild were con-
sidered and adopted. (See page 306.)

The Constitution and By-laws of the Deaconess Bureau were considered
and adopted. (See page 286.)

It was voted to adopt the report as a whole.

On motion of the secretary, it was voted that Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds, Miss
Juanita Brown, and Mrs. Helen B. Bourne be asked to serve as an editing com-
mittee to prepare the several Constitutions and By-laws for inclusion in the
Annual Report. That any suggested editorial changes be written and handed
in before the close of the board meeting.

Subcommittee on Additional Budget for Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities. — Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. James Oldshue, Mrs. F. G.
Brooks, Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton, Miss Henrietta Gibson.

Field Worker. — Mrs. V. F. DeVinny presented the name of Miss Margaret
Dodd for field worker for the Wesleyan Service Guild and she was elected.

titffffWf//SfOy Report from Secretarial Council. — This

»l0 «*\ 0* PLn^Sz- .report was brought by Miss Day concerning

Handbook for General Conference.

On motion of Miss Brittingham, it was
voted that the following committee be ap-
pointed to consider the matter of the Hand-
book: The president, chairmen of depart-
ments, recording secretary, and editor.

Adjournment. — Adjourned with prayer,
subject to the call of the president.

MRS. J. D. BRAGG, President;
MRS. FRED A. LAMB, Secretary.

MEMORIALS

Recognition of workers who passed to their reward during the year:

"There is no death.
The stars go down

To rise upon a fairer shore,
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown

They shine forevermore!"

Mrs. Charles D. Morris

Clara Louise Ogilvy was born December 19, 1882, in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
In 1900 Miss Ogilvy went to Korea as teacher of missionaries' children. On Sep-
tember 10, 1903, she was married to Charles David Morris, a missionary of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Korea. Together they served in Korea until Mr.
Morris' death in 1927.

Those of us who had the privilege of knowing Mr. and Mrs. Morris will
never forget the cheerful courage with which they faced the cruel separation
which ended their life together on earth.

Mrs. Morris remained in Korea carrying on her work under the W.F.M.S.
until 1940. She was retired by the Woman's Division of Christian Service as of
January 1, 1943, and died on January 4, 1943, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Henry Knutson, in Hellertown, Pennsylvania.

As wife, mother, friend, and counselor, Louise Morris gave to every person
with whom she came in contact uplift and blessing.

Mrs. Morris is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Henry Knutson and Mrs.
P. A. Lewis. To them we express our sympathy and with them we rejoice in
the beautiful life of the parents and in the comforting knowledge that they are
reunited in our Father's home.

Roxana Mellinger

Word has come of the death in Bombay, India, on January 19, 1943, of Roxana
Mellinger, a missionary of the Woman's Division of Christian Service. Miss
Mellinger was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was a graduate of the Cincinnati
Ti-aining School in 1910, received her A.B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan in 1913
and her M.A. at Columbia University in 1921.

She went to Burma in 1913 under Cincinnati Branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society. Her work was in English with the Anglo-Indians and Anglo-
Burmese, and she was principal of Kingswood School in Kalaw for many years.
Under her leadership it became one of the most beautiful of all hill schools; its
collections of butterflies and beetles, made by the students under her direction,
were remarkable and the compound had become an arboretum for Burma.

She left Kalaw — forced out by the war — on March 13, 1942, and after a
short rest in the hills was appointed to Taylor High School, an institution for
Anglo-Indians in Poona, India. She served there until November when a recur-
rence of an old malady made it necessary for her to go to the hospital in Bombay.
A beautiful life has come to a brave end.

Grace Manly

Grace Manly was born September 19, 1899, in Chungking, Szechwan, West
China, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Manly, West China missionaries
from 1893 to 1937. Miss Manly spent the first decade of her life in West China,
where she learned to know the Chinese people and their language as few Amer-
icans do. She received her A.B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan in 1923 and did
graduate study in Christian education at the University of Chicago and at Union
Theological Seminary in New York, N. Y. In 1931 she received a Master's degree
in religious education.

In 1924 Miss Manly returned to China to engage in full-time Christian service
as a representative of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Except for two years of furlough (1930-31 and 1937-38) Miss

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Manly spent the rest of her life in the work she loved in China. She carried
heavy responsibility in the educational and church work in Chengtu and in the
surrounding district. In 1942 she was the first missionary to be appointed to
work in Neikiang.

Miss Manly was a keen student, interested in many subjects, and always
eager to understand other peoples and their ways of life. She was a devoted
friend and helped wherever she went. Seldom can one find a better example of
selflessness than was demonstrated in Grace Manly's life.

A radiogram from a friend in West China said, "The church in West China
has lost its most effective worker in the death of Grace Manley, on May 8, 1943."
Truly she laid down her life for her Master and for her friends, the Chinese.

Edith T. Swift

Edith T. Swift died in Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 13, 1943. From 1902 to
1914 she was a missionary of the New England Branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society and served in Crandon Institute, Rome, Italy. After she
accepted the retired relationship in 1914, Miss Swift was for more than twenty
years a member of the staff of the Lincoln House, one of Boston's well-known
social settlements, where she worked among the Italian people.

Lola May Kidwell

Lola May Kidwell was sent to Japan in 1894 by the Cincinnati Branch of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She
was appointed to Kwassui College, where, with the exception of some months
in charge of Fukuoka Jo Gakko, she spent twenty-three years, returning to
America in 1917.

A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, Miss Kidwell possessed a brilliant
mind and rare ability as a teacher. In all the varied duties that fall to a mis-
sionary, she was exceedingly conscientious and painstaking. She was retired in
1918.

For a long time she had been a patient sufferer from a lingering disease.
She lived for some years at Thoburn Terrace, the Methodist Home in Alhambra,
California. Death brought release to her on June 5, 1943, at a sanatorium near
San Diego.

Edith T. Morehouse

Dr. Edith T. Morehouse was sent to India in 1921 by the New York Branch,
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She
was appointed to Ellen T. Cowan Memorial Hospital at Kolar, South India, and
gave splendid service there for full two terms. Because of failing health, Dr.
Morehouse was retired in 1931 by the society, and since that time she has been
a patient sufferer from a lingering disease and passed away in the home of her
sister in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Hehna J. Fernstrom

Helma Josephine Fernstrom was born September 26, 1894, in Ogallala, Ne-
braska. By sheer force of character she rose above the difficulties of her child-
hood, and in 1922 received her B.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and later
her R.N. from its school of nursing. In 1925 she was sent to India by North-
western Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, to be associated
with Dr. Cora I. Kipp in the development of a health program for the schools
and district conferences of northern India. To this program she gave her life,
working first out of the Mary Wilson Sanatorium in Tiluania and then from
Clara Swain Hospital, Bareilly. Traveling from school to school, she gave
physical examinations to pupils and teachers, established courses in hygiene,
reinforced with fascinating storybooks and puppet shows, and worked with all
sorts of groups in the constant fight against India's hideous preventable diseases.
Her success led the Christian Medical Council of India to request the Woman's
Division to make her services available to them as all-India secretary of public
health.

It was while she was on furlough making preparation for this important
position that a break in her own health came. She was sent to Clifton Springs

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Sanatorium in September, 1942, and from there to Brigham Hall Hospital,
Canandaigua, New York, where she died June 20, 1943.

Her going is a tremendous loss to India and to a host of friends there and
here, to whom her six feet of strength and her flashing smile were symbols of
the health she sought for them.

Mary Reed

The Methodist Woman of February, 1941, contained the story of Mary Reed.
For this world that story ended on April 4, 1943. Miss Reed died in her home in
Chandag Heights, India, after nearly a month of acute suffering caused by a fall.

Mary Reed was born in Lowell, Ohio, December 4, 1854, graduated from Ohio
State Normal in 1878, and was sent to India by Cincinnati Branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society in 1884. During her first furlough she was found
to have leprosy. She returned to India and gave the rest of her life to the service
of lepers. Her own case was arrested, but she lived apart, superintending the
leper asylum which she built on the ridge above the beautiful Shor Valley, three
days by mountain paths from Almora in the Himalayas. She introduced the
most modern treatment for her lepers, she supervised their homes and little
farms, taught them the Bible, built them a lovely chapel, and did such a magnifi-
cent all-around job that the government of India awarded her its highest honor,
the Kaiser-i-Hin Gold Medal. She had not been down to the Plains for more
than twenty years, but she kept keenly aware of the outside world through wide
and constant reading. She never stopped giving herself, and in her last painful
days her great regret was that she was useless. Not only her lepers, but all those
others to whom her life had been an example of steadfast sacrifice, rise up and
call her blessed.

Emilie R. Loveless

Emilie R. Loveless was born in London, England, March 1, 1873. A cable-
gram received on April 12 announced her death in Constantine, Algeria, North
Africa, on April 11, 1943. Educated at the Doric Lodge Training School and
the Harley College Missionary Training School, Miss Loveless went to North
Africa in 1902 under the North Africa Mission. She was one of that little band
of English missionaries who became workers of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in North Africa in 1912. In July, 1915, she was accepted as a missionary of the
Board of Foreign Missions, and in 1919 she was transferred to work under the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

Miss Loveless gave her life to work among the Arabs. She had gained great
proficiency in Arabic and understood the needs of these people. Most of her life
was spent in the city of Constantine where for many years she was in charge
of the Gamble Memorial Home for Arab girls. Under her leadership a new
building was erected and she developed an excellent institution where many
girls were trained for practical Christian service.

Although her retirement was several years overdue, Miss Loveless was
unable to leave North Africa because of the war. She continued to work with
unstinted zeal and faced the increasing problems of war days with fortitude.
Several months before her death the Gamble Home was commandeered by the
Allied Military Forces and it became necessary to find new quarters for the girls
under her care. Due partly to this unusual strain, her health failed and, after
several months of illness, she slipped away.

Twice Miss Loveless spent her furloughs in the United States and became
acquainted with the friends in New York Branch who supported her. Her keen
insights and her merry spirit made her greatly beloved by all who knew her.
Among her missionary colleagues in Algeria she was a cherished friend and leader.

Clara M. Organ

Clara M. Organ, a retired missionary to India, died in Concord, Massachu-
setts, April 9, 1943. She was born November 23, 1862, in Farmington, New
Hampshire, was appointed to India by New England Branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society and sailed late in 1899. Her first term was spent in
Bidwell Memorial School at Shahjahanpur, and her second in evangelistic work
in Budaun and Moradabad. Her health was never robust and she was obliged to
return to America in 1913 and to retire in 1916. She was known as an excellent

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teacher and a devoted servant of Christ. The last six years of her life were
spent in the Methodist Home for the Aged in Concord, Massachusetts.

Miss Grace Hutcheson
The sudden death of Miss Grace Hutcheson, deaconess, on February 7, 1943,
came as a shock to her many friends. Miss Hutcheson was retired from the
faculty of the National Training School, Kansas City, Missouri, in January, 1942,
under which appointment she entered deaconess work in 1919.

Mrs. Eliza E. Hanger
Mrs. Eliza E. Hanger, a retired deaconess, who served in the Northern Min-
nesota Conference, died at the age of 87 years in the Memorial Hospital, Port
Clinton, Ohio, on April 3, 1943. Mrs. Hanger expressed her gratitude shortly
before going by saying, "The Lord is so good to us who are waiting his time."

Miss Martha Morgan
Miss Martha Morgan, a retired deaconess, a member of the family at Ban-
croft-Taylor Rest Home, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, slipped into the life beyond
on May 12, 1943, after a very short illness. Miss Morgan was graduated from
the Training School in Kansas City and spent her deaconess life in Duluth,
Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Washington, D. C.

Miss Lulu Milliman

Miss Lulu Milliman spent her years of active service as a deaconess in
the Methodist Hospital and Dietz Memorial Church, Omaha, Nebraska. She
passed away at her home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on May 18, 1943.

Miss Gertie O'Rear

Miss Gertie O'Rear, a graduate of the Training School in Kansas City, passed
away on June 14, 1943, at the Home for the Aged, Topeka, Kansas. Miss O'Rear
spent the majority of her deaconess life in the State of Kansas.

Miss Nellie Curtiss

Miss Nellie Curtiss, a member of the family at Thoburn Terrace, Alhambra,
California, died after a long illness on August 8, 1943. Miss Curtiss was a public-
school teacher before entering the Chicago Training School from which she was
graduated. She spent a number of years in Chicago as a parish deaconess and
served for sixteen years as superintendent of the Deaconess Home, Portland,
Oregon, from which institution she retired in 1934. Burial took place in Fremont,
Nebraska.

Miss Elizabeth Russell

Miss Elizabeth Russell, a deaconess in active service as case worker at the
Children's Village, Detroit, died suddenly from a heart attack on June 26, 1943.
Her funeral was conducted from Wesley House, Louisville, Kentucky, where she
spent eleven years giving herself that others might live more effectively.

Mrs. Mattie J. Beck

Mrs. Mattie J. Beck, a retired deaconess and member of the Agard Rest Home,
Chicago, died in Lake Forest Hospital, Chicago, September 23, 1943. Mrs.
Beck was graduated from the Chicago Training School in 1911 and did welfare
work in that city until the time of her retirement. During the years of her active
service she was a member of the Chicago Deaconess Home.

Mrs. Helen D. Evans

Mrs. Helen D. Evans passed away quickly on November 7, 1943, at Bancroft-
Taylor Rest Home, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where she lived since her retirement
twenty-three years ago. She would have reached her eighty-sixth birthday in Jan-
uary, 1944. Mrs. Evans was graduated from Scarritt Training School, Kansas City,
Missouri, and Bethany Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas, and served as a deaconess
under the former Woman's Home Missionary Society in the Baltimore Conference.

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Miss Alice M. Fulton

Miss Alice M. Fulton, of the Methodist Home for the Aged, Mt. Lebanon,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, retired from active deaconess life in 1929, after having
spent a number of years as a parish worker in the city of Pittsburgh. The date
of her going home is November 5, 1943.

Miss Delia Howard

Miss Delia Howard, who made her home with a sister in Wapakoneta, Ohio,
spent her active deaconess life in Cleveland and Coshocton, Ohio, and at Taylor
University, Upland, Indiana. She was graduated from Lucy Webb Hayes Train-
ing School in 1902 and was retired in 1936. Miss Howard passed away in Novem-
ber, 1943.

Sister Julia Gross

Sister Julia Gross passed away on December 23, 1943, at Bethesda Hospital,
Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a graduate of that hospital and trained for kinder-
garten and nursery schoel work, having given thirty-six years of service as
supervisor in the Emanuel City Mission-Nursei*y, Cincinnati, retiring from active
service in 1936.

Miss Carrie M. Dickerman

Miss Carrie M. Dickerman, who lived at Alhambra Terrace, Alhambra, Cali-
fornia, passed away in The Methodist Hospital, Los Angeles, on November 29,
1943. She spent her active years of service in New York City, with the exception
of two years as Travelers' Aid worker in Boston. Miss Dickerman served the
Church of the Saviour, Park Avenue, and John Street Churches, New York, N. Y.,
from which appointment she retired in 1930.

Miss Louise E. Gill

Miss Louise E. Gill, deaconess, died suddenly on December 27, 1943, at the
Cleveland Deaconess Home, Cleveland, Ohio, where she had spent nearly forty-
two years in deaconess work. She would have retired in 1945. So near the end
of her long years of service, she was active up to the last minute. Miss Gill served
many churches and was beloved by the people in every parish.

Miss Anna Heist ad

Christmas, 1942, was an unusually happy season for Miss Anna Heistad as
she shared the joys of her friends in the celebrations at Marcy Center, Chicago,
Illinois. Throughout the week she had continued her ministry of loving service
in the name of Him whose birthday was being celebrated. Christmas Day found
her radiantly happy with her dearest friends and loved ones, with no problems
on her mind — everything seemed to have been temporarily solved. The day was
perfect.

When a member of the staff went to her room the following morning to wake
her there was no response — her beautiful life had reached the end of its earthly
trail.

After the body had been returned to the Marcy chapel it was very fitting that
the first two callers should be refugees whom Miss Anna had befriended. One
of them brought a bouquet of flowers and asked that the following words be
written to accompany them:

"There is a realm of the living
And the realm of the dead,
And the bridge between them is love."

Her influence shall continue to be part of the great work which she began
and in which she invested a life of loving service.

Miss Margaret J. Tripp

Miss Margaret J. Tripp died on July 23, 1943. Miss Tripp had been a faithful
worker under the Woman's Home Missionary Society for twenty-six years. Her
field of service included: Harwood School; El Paso, Texas; Frances DePauw

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School; and the Mary J. Piatt School. After retiring, Miss Tripp lived at the
Bancroft-Taylor Rest Home, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

Mr. W. F. Baldwin

Mr. W. F. Baldwin died on June 23, 1943, in Nome, Alaska. Mr. Baldwin
was a graduate of the Missionary Training School in Brooklyn. He and Mrs.
Baldwin arrived in Nome, July 8, 1909, to work at our mission there, and retired
from the work in 1932.

Dr. McQueen Weir

Dr. McQueen Weir, teacher of Bible at the Texas State College for Women,
Denton, Texas, died in August, 1943.

She had retired from that position in June of that year, having served in
the capacity of Bible teacher for twenty-one years under the Woman's Mission-
ary Council and the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

In 1938 (according to Dr. Weir's record), the Texas State College for Women
was the first State institution to offer a Major and a Minor in Bible.

Dr. Weir had the degrees of Master of Arts; B.A. in Classical Philology;
M.A. in Religious Education; Bachelor of Divinity; Master Sacred Theology, and
received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Literature (L.H.D.) in 1938
from Taylor University.

Mrs. H. S. H oiling siv or th

Mrs. H. S. Hollingsworth, Des Moines, Iowa, for many years a church leader
in the activities of women, died on September 8, 1943. Mrs. Hollingsworth was
conference president of the former Woman's Home Missionary Society for fifteen
years. She was a member of the Uniting Conference and helped unite the work
of the Woman's Society and had been a conference officer since the beginning of
the new organization.

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Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the

Dominican Republic

Annual Report of Executive Secretaries

MISS MURIEL DAY

MRS. J. W. DOWNS

MISS MARY LOU BARNWELL

MISS MIRIAM RISTINE

MRS. ROBERT STEWART

MISS GRACE G. STEINER

Bureaus —

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
TOWN AND COUNTRY
URBAN WORK
SOCIAL WORK
MEDICAL WORK
DEACONESS WORK

Bureau of Educational Institutions

Our Opportunities

rPHE impact of Christian teachers upon the youth of our nation is incalculable
■*■ today. Young people of all races and nationalities are perplexed, are in-
creasingly without the undergirding of the home, and need the sense of direction
that a Christian purpose can give. Through its educational centers, the Woman's
Division of Christian Service reaches out to young people and children and
seeks through its missionary teachers and staff members, to give a Christian
interpretation to the overwhelming problems of the world in which these young
people find themselves. These young people are trained to go out into their
communities as Christian leaders; a noteworthy number, 23%, of our own grad-
uates are serving in these schools.

It is our opportunity, also, to give examples of interracial co-operation, in
a day when hatred is rampant in the world, and yet when, to save the world, we
must begin to have understanding and world collaboration. In many of our
Negro schools biracial staffs help to bring about an understanding between the
races. In three schools, American-born Japanese (Nisei) are working either
as students or as members of the staff.

There are areas in our nation where there is not equal educational oppor-
tunities for the so-called underprivileged groups. This is evident among the
American Indians. The Woman's Division is serving through its Navajo Meth-
odist Mission School in Farmington, New Mexico. Yet there are 6,000 children
on the reservation for whom there are no public-school facilities. In those
sections where there is the dual system of Negro and white education, the states
and cities are gradually bringing about an equalization of salaries. Still there
is great disparity in the school facilities afforded the two groups. To help meet
the need, the Woman's Division has eleven student centers among Negroes, with
grade, high school, and college work offered.

Today our student counselors on five state university campuses face a new
opportunity in their service to hundreds of young people in the armed services.
"The homelike atmosphere of the student centers continues to call both students
and soldiers there for relaxation and fellowship."

From an academic standpoint, our schools should be pioneers in progressive
education — from the viewpoint of the church, they must point the way to a
type of school wherein the best of educational procedure is combined with a
Christian philosophy of life. Looking toward a postwar world, these oppor-
tunities to influence those who will be making a new world are intensified many
times. Quoting from The School Executive, September, 1943: "We think the
American people are expecting something bigger and more enduring than a

mere military victory We think the American people are regarding

this war as a struggle to make their ideals of life prevail. If this is true, it
is national folly of the first magnitude to neglect to produce good citizens while
producing munitions."

Our Limitations

To meet to the fullest, the above opportunity, requires first of all, the finest,
best-trained, most Christian educators. It requires far better physical plants
than we have been able to establish and maintain in many places. Equipment
should be improved. It requires better provision for the material needs of our
faculty members and students. It requires in some cases — in most cases —
larger salaries, and more definite provision for regular summer and winter study.
We should be able to select our teachers from among a progressive and Chris-
tian group who would make our schools examples of the most up-to-date kind
of teaching. A study for the Committee on Expanded Program reveals that we
need from the financial standpoint $486,522 to maintain our educational centers
on an adequate basis, exclusive of buildings.

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Personnel

As was to be anticipated, the year brought many openings, and many changes
in personnel. For the fall of 1943, more than ninety vacancies had to be filled
in the bureau. With the numbers of men and women entering defense work as
well as those who are drafted into the armed forces, and with the increased
salai'ies offered in industry, it was most difficult to secure the new teachers
and workers, and several schools opened in the fall with a shortage in staff.
We pay tribute to those who remained at their posts, and who have assumed
added duties in the emergency and remained co-operative throughout. Ten of
our workers are foreign missionaries, "temporarily allocated to the Home De-
partment."

An unusual number of administrative changes in personnel occurred, with the
following new appointments made:

Navajo Methodist Mission School, Farmington, New Mexico — Mr. Willard P.
Bass, Superintendent; Sager-Brown Home and Godman School, Baldwin, Louisiana
— Miss Rosie Ann Cobb, Superintendent; Peck Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana
— Miss Gwendolyn Scavella, Superintendent; Wood Junior College, Mathiston,
Mississippi — Mr. C. M. Waggoner, President; Sue Bennett College, London, Ken-
tucky— Miss Jeannetta Harrison, Acting President; Pfeiffer Junior College,
Misenheimer, North Carolina — Dean G. G. Starr, Acting President; Louisiana
Southwest State Teachers' College, Lafayette, Louisiana — Miss Helen Strickland,
Student Counselor; Louisiana State Teachers' College, Natchitoches, Louisiana
— Miss Genevieve Reynolds, Student Counselor; Eastern Carolina State Teachers'
College, Greenville, North Carolina- — Miss Mamie Chandler, Student Counselor
(transferred from Natchitoches); Harwood Girls' School, Albuquerque, New
Mexico — Miss Iva Maye Carruth, Superintendent; George O. Robinson School
and Kindergartens, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Miss Verr Zeliff (to assume her
duties as superintendent as soon as practicable); Texas State College for Women,
Denton, Texas — Miss Mildred Hudgins, Teacher of Bible.

The Board of Trustees of Scarritt College elected Dr. Hugh C. Stuntz as the
new president, succeeding Dr. J. L. Cunninggim.

Institutional Progress

Many questions have been asked about the development at the George 0.
Robinson School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the present writing (October,
1943), 96% of the new buildings are completed, but priorities have made it im-
possible to secure the rest. During the erection of the new buildings, a nucleus
of a few girls have been given the opportunity to stay at the Faculty House with
Mrs. Estella S. Howard remaining as their superintendent. As soon as the final
equipment reaches the island, the new building can be completed at once and
135 girls reside there. In the meantime, expansion of our kindergarten work
has taken place, with eight kindergartners in various centers, and about 250
children reached. This is a much-needed service with the thousands of Puerto
Rican children without school facilities, and with the possibility of finding the
worthiest children as applicants for the new Robinson school, when it is main-
tained at its fullest capacity.

At Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the Woman's Societies
have long maintained Rust Hall as a dormitory for girls, a unified plan has been
adopted whereby the Woman's Division will be represented on the Rust College
Board of Trustees and the administration of Rust Hall will be through the
college, with the Woman's Division making an annual appropriation directly
to the college, as well as caring for repairs and painting of the hall, as far as
the appropriation will permit. The appointment of the superintendent of Rust
Hall is made by the president of the college.

As the program at Valley Institute was evidently more adapted to rural
needs and should be developed along community lines, it was voted by the
Home Department, upon the recommendation of the two executive secretaries
concerned, that the institution should be transferred from the Bureau of Educa-
tional Institutions and should be administered by the Bureau of Town and
Country Work. This became effective September 1, 1943.

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Sue Bennett College was the recipient of a gift of $500 for equipment for
the home economics department, which will be fully established as soon as possible.

The endowment fund for Bennett College has been notably increased through
gifts from the General Education Board and from individuals, a substantial
amount coming from the estate of a Negro woman.

Pfeiffer Junior College was the scene of the dedication of three new build-
ings on May 2, 1943 — the Industrial Arts Building, the George Washington Pfeiffer
Dormitory, and the Henry Pfeiffer Chapel. All the buildings are beautiful and
admirably adapted to their respective purposes.

It has been the desire of the principal of Gilbert Academy, Mrs. Margaret
Davis Bowen, to have the building formerly used by the NYA on the campus,
refurnished for the school. For the fall of 1943, the upper floor was made
l'eady as a model home economics department and practice house.

At the Navajo Methodist Mission School a beautiful three-paneled art win-
dow, "Christ Knocking at the Door," was installed in the Ryder Memorial Chapel,
as a memorial to Mrs. Henry Harris, for whom one of the former students,
Lucina Harris, was named. The school has also built a new farmhouse.

Allen School had two outstanding occasions — the observance of its 55th anni-
versary, on November 22, 1942, and in the fall of 1943 the dedication of the
chapel draperies and chancel furnishings, gifts from the Anniversary Day and
from Western District of the North Carolina Conference.

Changes in curriculums were made in order to adapt them to the changing
war needs. Among them was the holding of a summer school session at Pfeiffer
Junior College, which though not lai'ge, was considered very worth while. Paine
College continued its service through a successful summer school, in addition to
the Leadership Training School for Christian Workers held on the campus, and
several other important conferences through the year. Vashti School held a
"Defense Camp" in the summer of 1943. Browning Home and Mather Academy
held a summer school for senior boys to complete high school before induction.
Eliza Dee Hall was open as a dormitory for summer school. Sue Bennett held a
summer work-shop course in education in co-operation with Union College.

One of the years of high school was dropped at Paine College in the fall of
1943, leaving only the fourth year to be maintained by the college. The city
(Board of Education) will assume full responsibility for four years of high-
school training for Negro children, beginning with September, 1944.

At Pfeiffer Junior College, Dr. John R. Ludington, of the State Department
of Education, has served as consultant in the field of industrial arts. At Bennett
College, Dr. Wilford M. Akin, who directed the eight-year study of secondary
schools, has been appointed curriculum consultant through a grant from the
General Education Board. The same board made a special gift to Bennett for an
all-year health camp for malnourished children, because of the experimental
summer camp, which had been carried on at the college.

Eliza Dee is strengthening its home economics department through the ap-
pointment of an assistant by the college and the encouragement of students to
enroll in the department. The Board of Trustees of Samuel Huston College of
which Eliza Dee Hall is the girls' dormitory, recently appointed Dr. Karl Downs
as the new president, following the resignation of Dr. Stanley Grannum, be-
cause of ill health.

We are impressed by the way in which our students are sharing with others
both in service and in their limited resources. Boylan-Haven School contributed
to the war-chest committee; to the infantile paralysis drive, and for Christmas
seals. The school also showed its sense of civic responsibility by again being
the center for the distribution of 10,000 ration books, by seniors and teachers,
who received special recognition from the executive secretary of the Office of
Price Administration.

Vashti School gave $65 for the Greek sufferers, through a white gift program,
and presented a Christmas cantata with a free-will offering of $43 for the
Fellowship of Suffering and Service Fund. The glee club also sang at the gov-
ernment hospital.

In these and other ways our schools are centers of community influences,
which could be multiplied if the staffs were large enough to carry their school
load and the additional duties connected with community activities.

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Interracial relations were furthered at Pfeiffer Junior College when a group
of Negro students from Livingston College, at Salisbury, presented a program in
the chapel and an informal program in Merner Hall. Between Sager-Brown
Home and the near-by white churches, there has been an exchange of musical
events. The Institute on Socio-Religious Affairs held for the ninth year at Paine
College is a co-operative interracial student conference with the Candler School
of Theology of Emory University. The outcome in wholesome Christian fellow-
ship is noteworthy.

The National Training School has taken care of twenty young people under
the hostelry arrangement with the War Relocation Administration. One of these,
young Japanese, a Buddhist, recently was converted, and joined a Methodist
church in Kansas City.

Scarritt College was able to complete the special Latin-American project
under the direction of Prof. Wesley M. Carr. This enterprise was financed par-
tially by the three co-operating institutions, and financial support was secured
from the Co-ordinator of International Affairs and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The results are embodied in a book now in press, which will provide the scientific
basis for the study of Portuguese language for use in Brazil. This is the first
serious attempt to prepare study materials for the learning of the language of
Brazil. It is a beginning of a series of Latin-American projects sponsored by
Scarritt College and co-operating institutions.

"Religious Emphasis Week" was a climax to the ongoing programs of the
schools. This emphasis resulted in decisions for church membership. Other
occasions through the year emphasized the spiritual values in a marked way —
as, for instance, the New Year's Eve communion service at Pfeiffer Junior College,
or the Christmas candlelighting service at Erie School, and the observance
of special days in all schools.

Conferences

The second Workers' Conference held in a jurisdiction under the auspices
of the Woman's Division was planned in Dallas, Texas, preceding the meeting of
the South Central Jurisdiction, February 22-23, 1943. Twelve workers from the
bureau joined with those from rural and from city work in a most helpful
conference, carrying the theme, "Our Opportunities in This Emergency." Mrs.
Frank L. Davis opened the conference with a worship service, followed by timely
messages by Mrs. J. D. Bragg and Prof. James T. Carlyon, of Southern Methodist
University, who also directed the discussion of the group of educational workers.

The publication of the report of the "Eight- Year Study of Secondary Schools,"
conducted under the direction of the Progressive Education Association's com-
mission on the relation of school and college, led to plans for a Curriculum Con-
ference for secondary schoolteachers of the Southeast. This was held June 1-3,
at Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, with Dr. W. Carson Ryan, of the
University of North Carolina, as leader of the discussion throughout. The con-
ference was made more meaningful also through the worship services held in
the beautiful new Bennett Chapel. The hospitality of President and Mrs. David
D. Jones contributed greatly to the feeling of unity and renewed inspiration,
which was the experience of all who attended.

A conference which developed as a direct outgrowth of the Curriculum
Conference was the faculty conference held at Vashti School the week before
the school opened. Each member of the faculty presented a paper introducing
the discussion on a phase of student life, and the following committees were
selected to carry on various aspects of student activities: Honors and Citizen-
ship; Social Activities; Religious Activities; In-Service Training; Community
Related Programs. It was the unanimous opinion that the conference was the
most worth-while project conducted at the school for a long time, in bringing a
sense of unity of purpose and of understanding of the total program of the school.
The superintendent, Miss Mary F. Floyd, was responsible for the excellent
planning and fine results of this conference.

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Campus scene at Pfeiffer
Junior Colleqe, Misen-
heimer. North Carolina.
The physical plant is one
of the most beautiful and
best equipped of its kind
in the South

Bennett College Singers.
Bennett College, Greens-
boro, North Carolina, is
one of the only two col-
leges in the country de-
voted exclusively to the
higher education of Ne-
gro women

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Surveys

On June 30, 1943, there was presented by Dr. M. S. Davage, Secretary for
Educational Institutions for Negroes of the Board of Education, to the Com-
mittee on Co-operation and Counsel meeting in Chicago, the results of the
Survey of Negro Schools and Colleges, made under the direction of Mr. John E.
Brewton, of the George Peabody Field Study Staff. The Woman's Division, with
its eleven educational centers for Negroes, had co-operated with the Board of
Education in the study. It was received with a conviction that it marked a real
achievement and will lead to a new appraisal and evaluation of the work among
Negroes. This will be followed by intensive study of the reports concerning
our work, by a special committee of the Home Department in collaboration with
the George Peabody staff.

In order to have certain essential facts about our schools, we sent out ques-
tions for a "Factual Study." Soon after this, when the Home Department
recommended a general survey of all its institutions, we sent out a more detailed
questionnaire to thirteen schools (not including the Negro schools, which were
covered as described above). This is an important step in progress in raising
the standards of our schools.

Publicity

We have continued to send items of interest and importance concerning
our schools to the various publicity channels of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension of the church.

"Opportunity," a new leaflet on Allen School, and another on Alvan Drew
School, were published during the year, and helped, with the various pamphlets
and bulletins issued directly by the schools, to give added publicity to the edu-
cational centers.

Missionaries represented the bureau at several summer schools: Miss Julia
Titus, Superintendent of Allen High School, the Jurisdiction School at Ocean
Grove, New Jersey; Miss Helen Andrews, also of Allen, at Silver Lake, New
York; Miss Frances Hutchison of the National Training School at the Juris-
diction School at Mt. Sequoyah, Arkansas; Miss Lulu Bryan, Superintendent of
Browning Home and Mather Academy at Mather Camp and Christian Workers'
School, South Carolina Conference; Mrs. Elizabeth Brubaker, Superintendent of
Ritter Hall, at Carrie Barge House Party, Central Pennsylvania Conference.
President Cloyd V. Gustafson, of the National Training School, was present at
the National Conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship at MacMurray Col-
lege, Jacksonville, Illinois, in September, 1943, and brought a stimulating
address.

Actions

Following the action taken at the Workers' Conference in Dallas, and con-
firming the recommendation which came from the Department of Christian
Social Relations, the Woman's Division took the following action concerning the
Victory High School Corps: "It was voted that the Woman's Division of
Christian Service register an interest in the preparation of Government High
School Victory Corps courses with particular emphasis upon character building
and intercultural courses." The committee appointed to implement this action
was composed of Mrs. Bragg, Miss Day, and Miss Stevens. To implement this,
a letter was sent over Mrs. Bragg's signature to United States Commissioner of
Education, Dr. John W. Studebaker, registering its "interest, and suggesting
courses in intercultural education, that include such objectives and methods as
outlined by Vickery and Cole in 'Intercultural Education in American Schools,'
and in other materials pointing the way toward a more democratic community
in a postwar world; and intensive courses on alcohol education and other ques-
tions relating to parent-youth problems created by this war emergency." A
reply was received describing the ways in which intercultural relations were
promoted by the United States Department of Education.

The interdenominational Committee on Wardship of the Indian has held
several meetings and asked the boards if they would endorse the principles
under which the committee was proceeding. The Woman's Division and the

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Board of Missions and Church Extension expressed themselves as being in
sympathy with the purpose of the Committee on Wardship.

Enrollment

Many schools report increased enrollment. Holding Institute has the largest
in many years, and has turned away one hundred. The total number of students
reached in the educational centers of the bureau in the fall of 1943 is 5,531.

The Teacher

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, in Living Under Tension, writes as follows: "In
the chapel at Harvard University is a tablet in memory of old Dr. Peabody, and
the end of the inscription runs thus:

" 'His precept was glorified by His Example
While for thirty-three years
He moved among the teachers and
Students of Harvard College
And Wist Not that His Face Shone.' "

So do we pay tribute to those teachers and workers among us whose lives
reinforce and undergird their teaching.

^lii'ii'itttfraaiuaua^

Wood Junior College students, at Mathiston, Mississippi, learn modern ways of cooking in

their well-eguipped kitchen

Bureau of Town and Country

'T'HE Town and Country Bureau of the Woman's Division of Christian Service
-*• in reporting brings messages to you from many sources: Quotations from
"The School and the Changing Pattern of Community Life," quotations from
studies of various communities, questions asked by young women after months
of experience in rural community work, questions for discussion at the Rural
Seminar group meeting held in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, and a pertinent
quotation from the October Readers' Digest.

For a week young women who work in rural areas and representative con-
ference officers met daily to discuss questions that had arisen in their experience.
Recommendations concerning the preparation of literature for the small com-
munity and other matters pertaining to community work were sent to the
boards of the church and different departments. In this the conference officers
agreed.

We, as a group of churchwomen, believe that the church is an essential
agency in building not only America but the world. "Improved physical
standards of life are meaningless except as they contribute to the satisfaction
of the deeper longings and needs of humanity. Any movement for building a
new rural condition must be at heart spiritual." Is the church in a position
to take the vital place it ought to take in a movement for a better rural life ?
May we answer that question to ourselves? With three fourths of the popu-
lation of the world living in rural areas, does not the highest interest of all
call for the best effort of all church people that the total world group may
benefit? Already it is said the small community is the pattern for the world
where a letdown in civilization comes. We are bound together so that success
or failure comes to all of us.

Studies reveal that the church leaders are mostly urban-minded. They do
not make adequate plans to occupy the country places and enable the church
to fill its rightful place in the total effort for a good rural life. We need to
think and plan how we can with benefit serve the whole rural population, not
forgetting the neediest and the minority groups. Thousands of rural people
are too far away from any church to be a part of its life and the closing of
open country churches leaves more and more of others in that condition. All
of the churches with all of their resources are needed in an effort to help build
the best possible rural America. We need to pool our resources, our knowl-
edge, and our interests in an effort to secure right locations, necessary buildings
and equipment, but most of all, we need to put forth our best effort to provide
and carry out an adequate program and to provide skilled and devoted leadership.

Valley Institute, Pharr, Texas, was tranferred from the Bureau of Educa-
tional Institutions to the Town and Country Bureau. The new staff consists of
Deaconess Susie Teel, superintendent; Deaconess Felicidad Mendez, kindergart-
ner and young people's worker; Missionary Bessie Oliver, in charge of com-
munity organization of adult work and community music. Work has begun
with much local community interest manifested and looking forward to a larger
development as needs are discovered. The adjoining communities plan to co-
operate and participate in the developing program. Already it is apparent that
canning equipment will be needed and that opportunities for a class in weaving
depends on securing two or more looms. The kindergarten is to have a library
to meet its needs and a parents' library is also to be provided. The staff will
co-operate in both the English and Mexican churches.

Robstown, Texas, a new community center, has gone to work with a will
and without delay to provide building with equipment and playground facilities.
Deaconess Ollie Willings, in charge of the work, is delighted with the prospect,
and as has always been the case where Miss Willings serves, the people like her
and follow her leadership.

Calexico, California, needs a house for the community work with the Spanish-
speaking people. A building with equipment is a part of the postwar plan.
This also calls for an adequate staff.

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In a community in Arizona where there are only people and opportunities
for service, there is also a postwar need for a small community building with
equipment and a staff of two or three members.

Have you heard of a community that was willing to share its local income
with more needy groups? We have one to report. Can you guess what com-
munity this is, who is at the head of it? There is a spirit of interest and co-
operation that is very encouraging.

Have you seen the studies or surveys of work projects and institutions in the
Town and Country Bureau? They bring to our attention details of what we
have, how we work, and changes in planning that need to be made. If you are
like a friend of mine who frankly stated she did not want anything else on her
conscience, you would not get much comfort or satisfaction from the messages
these reports bring. Otherwise, you will agree with me that there is a challenge
to the Woman's Division of Christian Service in knowing even a few of the many
thousands of small communities in this country. We do not need many new
buildings nor large amounts of equipment, but we need scores of trained women
with messages of understanding and sympathy who are not afraid of work.
However, I promise you work will not be more exacting or difficult than that
of thousands of women who have gone into the service of their country.

Would you like to know about the communities in which we work? If you
cannot enter full-time service, you can still find much that you can do as a
volunteer helper.

If you were trained to work in the town and country places of America and
were asked to help with twenty-five churches located in a country area of 760
square miles with a population of 21,000 people, the nationalities being 9,000
white, 12,000 colored, with only the white group being served, how would you
plan to meet the situation ? Would you co-operate with other church denomina-
tions? Would you also seek the use of the available libraries, the health agencies,
and the public schools ? Would you want to relate the church to the whole
community life ? How would you do this ?

How would you begin in a community where there is no Methodist church,
no Woman's Society of Christian Service, no library, no free mail delivery ?
How would you face only needs ?

What would you do in a community where the variety of needs is so great
that no two days are alike but where each case must be given personal super-
vision, and where a library is of little value except in individual cases ? Would
your objective be to teach a religious life that would free from superstition,
raise health standards, inci'ease interest in formal education, raise standards
of living, moral and personal, and to be sure that you personally so live that
confidence in you is established after which you can give a larger service?

Would you like to visit your own community house in a mining community,
spend a few months meeting the people of some nine nationalities who do not
speak English and undertake a program in education for Americanization, home
hygiene, recreation, cooking, serving, handcrafts, religion, personal and formal,
church school, Woman's Division of Christian Service, and clubs and classes
in all of this, conduct a library and teach how it can best meet the needs?
In other words, a community of nine nationalities in applied religion, living day
by day before the community so that the staff and people will see Him whom
you serve in your life.

Or might we go to an Italian community where we forget we are Italians ?
We are just Americans trying hard to learn to live so that the largest and fullest
life may be ours.

And could you continue your journey into an agricultural community where
every activity group meets at the community center where recreation, church
services, and study are conducted?

Would you still find time to visit some of the many communities where
our Mexican friends live and especially where the people live in one part of the
village? Where in a community of 1,200 people they boast of three million-
aires with several others who are responsible for almost as much? The local
people built their own community house and provided the equipment and just
this year have given a separate cottage home for the church workers. Where
the people who are being served provide their own playground equipment and

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Tuesday Bible class composed of

Pawnee and Ponca Indian boys and

qirls, Ponca Indian Mission, Ponca

City, Oklahoma

Many community activities are
carried on at Leisenring No. 3,
Community Center, Dunbar, Penn-
sylvania. These boys are sand-
papering end tables they made
in the woodshop

A kindergarten group at the Mex-
ican Center, Alpine, Texas

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take full care of the grounds and buildings? Where there is a committee for
consultation and advice about all work and especially discipline? Where the
volunteer workers are both Spanish and English speaking? In short, a much-
needed example of what can be done in a community of this type.

Would you be interested in a community where there are only people and
opportunities for service, no property, no denominational church, no Woman's
Society of Christian Service, no free mail delivery, few schools but many chil-
dren? All of this in the United States of America.

Are you surprised that the following questions were brought by the workers
to a Rural Seminar?

1. What should be done when a woman is asked to serve from twelve to
twenty -five churches ?

2. What can she do about the community?

3. Should the conference women object to a plan of this kind and have a
counterplan that would be superior and with which they would be familiar enough
to sell it to the persons who should have it?

4. Can using homes in the neighborhoods and communities make a real
contribution to the work of the church and the deaconess who leads the work in
the commuunity?

5. What would you do in a community in which churches of many denom-
inations, schools, and community organizations are working together on a plan
of permanent and constructive spiritual values?

6. How would a worker approach a Jewish rabbi, Roman Catholic priest,
a county judge, or the police?

7. What shall a woman do when there is no money allowed for current ex-
pense in the community or when that salary which includes room and board is
not sufficient to cover it?

8. What have you done about community organization?

Quotation from the Readers' Digest:

"We make no apology for our small community localism. We rather are
proud of it for it holds the germ of soundly based world hope. It is close to
the lives of men and women. We talk too much of peoples in mass and not
enough of people who make a locality. We will never get a good world except
through good localities; we will never get good localities except through good
people. A good world, based on good localities, a healthy and prosperous whole,
based on healthy and prosperous parts. This will reveal to skeptical and wearied
human eyes the basic truth upon which peace must be built, the truth of the
eternal sameness of human desire and aspirations. And that, after all, is the
truth of man's essential brotherhood." (From a talk to Britons by Eric Johnston
from the Readers' Digest of October, 1943.)

Bureau of Urban Work

'"THE annual report from Wesley House, Louisville, Kentucky, opens with this
■*■ paragraph:

"One of the first great casualties of this war, as of all wars, has been
character. Such casualties can be found in all ages; adults with more money
than usual to spend, throw it away in dissipation; small children neglected by
parents who are working, pick up the vices of the street; especially, perhaps,
is there a breakdown among the teen-age girls and boys. J. Edgar Hoover, of
the FBI, in the July American Magazine, shows the alarming wartime increase
in delinquency, especially among girls. At one and two in the morning young
girls and their soldier or sailor escorts can be heard on the court or street out-
side of Wesley House. Mr. Hoover says: 'In our struggle to defeat our enemies
we have at times forgotten that to become invincible and remain that way, we
must also develop resolute citizens for tomorrow. In our headlong hurry to
win on the battle fronts, there has been an increasing tendency to forget our
duty to the youngsters of the land.' Amid the storms of war, Wesley House,
stands, more needed perhaps than ever before. A Christian center, a house
founded on the Rock, it offers to individuals in the neighborhood, hope and
guidance, and the chance for each to develop his best."

So the projects in the Bureau of Urban Work are confronted with the
increasing difficulties of this war period and are making great effort to under-
stand the "cause and effect" as children, young people, and adults are en-
veloped in the throes of a suddenly changed community.

Effect of Leisure Time on Delinquency

A few years ago the settlement program was largely based around "leisure
time," of which there was an abundance. Today, there is still leisure time
among certain groups, but the approach and the nature of the program has
undergone adjustments to keep abreast of present needs. As long as mothers
were unemployed, they were urged to take the responsibility of their children,
reducing the need for day nurseries to a minimum. Now that parents are em-
ployed in such large numbers there is necessity for day care for children pro-
vided by public and private agencies. Institutional Neighborhood House in
Kansas City, Missouri, has had as many as 123 children in its day nursery
during one month. All of these nurseries have a continuous waiting list. The
scarcity of workers means that staff members are desperately overworked
trying to meet the demands made upon them. They must be ready to receive
children as early as six o'clock in the morning and caiTy on a strenuous
schedule throughout the day.

The after-school care of children of working parents is giving the entire
nation a headache. The increase in juvenile delinquency is alarming. And
even more alarming is the fact that many of the parents are unaware of the
dangers threatening their children. Upon asking one mother what provision
is made for her eight-year-old son when he returns to his trailer-camp home
after school, she replied: "Oh, he's eight years old. He can take care of him-
self." The children of this age are given money to spend for amusement. They
spend much time in theaters, on the streets, and crime finds a breeding place
in these very young boys and girls because the home life has disintegrated.
Toward the needs of this group our settlements are particularly sensitive
— making a place for them, counseling, guiding, trying to give right direction
to young, impressionable minds. Recently a young Mexican girl said to one
of the workers at Homer Toberman Settlement in San Pedro, California, "This
is the only place we can have a party where we do not have to call the police."

One could probably say that the problem of "parent delinquency" is one
of the greatest liabilities today. My observation has discovered that parent
delinquency is largely responsible for juvenile delinquency. Therefore we be-
lieve that parent education is one of the most vital, as well as one of the most

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difficult phases of our work in our community program. Helping the parents
understand children and their reaction to the present situation, helping them
make wise decisions regarding their own employment and employment of
children, helping them place proper values, such as determining which is of
greater importance — a larger income or a home where children have love and
protection and guidance — these are some of the responsibilities being under-
taken in the community centers in our cities.

Last year we reported a new type of service being rendered at Manley
Center in Portland, Oregon — providing dormitory facilities for working girls.
The center has been equipped to take care of thirty-four girls at a time. Since
it is dormitory arrangement it is not ideal for housing girls permanently but
does give them a temporary, comfortable home until they can locate private
rooms. During the past year 350 girls have been housed at this center. Those
who find private rooms return to Manley for recreation, to have dates, and to
visit with new friends they've made.

The third and last of the stained-glass windows in the lovely chapel at
Manley Center, Portland, Oregon, was dedicated on Sunday, October 17, by
Bishop Bruce Baxter. This window depicts the Christ surrounded by children
of all races saying unto them, "Follow me." It was given in memory of Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Adler who gave themselves sacrificially to the work at Manley.

Urban Work in Defense Areas

All over the world our settlement boys are proving themselves. It has
been my privilege to read letters from many of the boys in service expressing
appreciation for the centers with which they had been affiliated. One of these
boys is now director of music for the armed forces in Australia. Some are
chaplains, some are assistants to chaplains, some are directing recreation. Others
are finding their places in the regular line of duty and are doing a creditable
job. Letters go from our settlements regularly, keeping in touch with the boys,
and informing them about community happenings in which they are so interested.
One boy in service recently sent a check for $50 to apply on a stained-glass
window at the chapel in Biloxi, Mississippi.

For several years the Methodist Co-ordinating Couitcil has served Norfolk,
Virginia, in various capacities. During recent years there has been increas-
ing evidence of the need of a settlement house in the Brambleton area. In the
midst of that community was found a large brick residence which could be re-
paired and altered to make a splendid community center. Request came from
Norfolk and the Virginia Conference that part of the Week of Prayer offering
for 1943 be used to purchase the available property. The request was approved
and $7,500 advanced to purchase the building and adjoining lot. The Norfolk
churches and the Virginia Conference took care of repairs and furnishing the
building. On October 15 the Norfolk Wesley Community House was dedicated
in a fitting service conducted by Bishop Peele. Two workers are now serving
in this new community center. The staff needs to be greatly enlarged for a
great program of community service.

Aware that proper housing accommodations is one of the greatest needs
in that city, the Methodist churches in Newport News, Virginia, have purchased
and reconditioned a home which will take care of fifty working girls. The
home has been deeded to the Methodist Co-operating Council and will be managed
by that group.

The South Carolina Conference is placing a worker in the navy-yard area
in Charleston. The Rock River Conference has temporarily discontinued the
support of a deaconess at Rockford-Winnebago Church in order to place a worker
in the Seneca defense area. Other conferences are likewise making adjustments,
raising additional funds, and placing workers where needs are so intense at
this time.

Bethlehem Centers

Expansion of interracial work is probably one of the most urgent requests
to be considered. Racial tension is increasingly felt throughout the nation.
From Negro and white groups come repeated appeals for the establishment of

Woman's Division of Christian Service

The pingpong table at Bethlehem
Center, Charlotte, North Carolina,
is used by various club groups.
These girls are decorating nap-
kins with the patterns that they
are cutting out

A weekday Bible class in ses-
sion at Manley Center, Port-
land, Oregon

An adult English class group at

Marcy Center, Chicago, Illinois.

Marcy Center is able to help

many refugees these days

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more Bethlehem Centers. In co-operation with Gammon Theological Seminary,
plans have been made for opening a Bethlehem Center in Atlanta, Georgia,
using the old Thayer Hall. I can think of no place that would provide greater
opportunities for interracial work than will this new center which will be sup-
ported by the North Georgia Conference, the Atlanta Conference, and interested
local white and Negro groups. Located on the campus of Gammon Theological
Seminary, it will be used as a training center for Gammon students. Since
Atlanta is the home of the Interracial Commission, the Atlanta School of Social
Work, Emory University, and that great Negro university center, certainly one
can expect this to become one of the outstanding social centers in Methodism.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Columbia, South Carolina, are looking to
the Woman's Division to make possible similar centers in those cities. Certainly
we cannot let these pleas continue to go unheeded.

Co-operation and Planning

During the year several institutes have been held with staff and board
members in order that we might come to a better understanding of our present
needs, the effectiveness of our work, and planning for the future. Workers,
board members, and conference officers are feeling the need of more such
institutes, and it is our hope that the coming year may provide opportunity
for a larger number of these meetings. Getting together to discuss matters
in which we have a common interest has proved most helpful.

A well-known authority has made the statement that in the past the social
worker has not been considered a social planner, but in the future that will be
one of the most important social-work functions. That calls for a well-trained
group of workers, it necessitates keeping abreast, it means participation in
a wide-range plan. There will be no place for an isolated agency or worker
in the future plan. We must enter with other agencies for the total planning
of community service. Our church social workers must be ready to assume their
role in this new form of social work which includes social planning.

In recent visits to various cities I have had opportunities to confer with
city planning councils and find that plans are well under way for reconstruction
of areas in which our work is now located. We know it might mean drastic
changes in some instances. It is necessary that our workers be aware of these
plans, that they participate in planning a new community, that they serve as
interpreters to the public. Some of the workers have requested an organiza-
tion of urban workers, that we might bring a large group together to consider
our work and our place in the future and that as a group we might make an
impact upon the plans for the future.

Furloughed Missionaries and New Workers

While we recognize the necessity for special training from time to time,
the shortage of workers has made it impossible to grant the usual number
of furloughs this year. Miss Julia Southard, formerly head resident, St.
Mark's Community Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, is studying at the New York
School of Social Work. Miss Pearle Edwards, formerly head resident, Kingdom
House, St. Louis, Missouri, is studying at Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee.
Miss Frances Howard, formerly head resident, Bethlehem Center, Richmond,
Virginia, and Miss Ruby Lannom, formerly girls' worker at Wesley House, St.
Joseph, Missouri, are spending their furlough year at Scarritt College. Miss
Fae Daves, girls' director at Marcy Center, Chicago, Illinois, is enrolled at Cen-
tral Y.M.C.A. College, Chicago, Illinois.

After completing work for their degrees in the School of Applied Social
Sciences, Western Reserve University, Miss Margaret Marshall has been ap-
pointed to Little Rock, Arkansas as director of City Mission activities, and Miss
Cleo Barber has accepted appointment as head resident, Kingdom House, St.
Louis, Missouri. Miss Pearlye Maye Kelley, who studied at Scarritt last year,
is now club worker at Wesley House, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Miss Ruth Heflin,
after a year at Scarritt College, is serving as head resident of Bethlehem Center,
Richmond, Virginia. Miss Julia Lovin spent her furlough year at Scarritt and
the New York School of Social Work and is the first worker appointed to the

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Bethlehem Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Miss Dorothy Norton returned to
Utica, N. Y., after a year at Hartford and succeeds Miss Helen Edick as head
resident of the Italian Settlement.

Graduates from Scarritt and Kansas City Training School receiving their
first appointments in the Bureau of Urban Work this year are:

Miss Grace Butler, Kingdom House, St. Louis, Missouri.

Miss Sarah Massey, Wesley House, Danville, Virginia.

Miss Hazel Williamson, Wesley House, Norfolk, Virginia.

Miss Fautina Moreno, Mexican Community House, El Paso, Texas.

Miss Eunice Stockton, Italian Settlement, Utica, New York.

Miss Marjorie Heid, Wesley House, San Antonio, Texas.

Upon her graduation from Northwestern University, Miss Edna Sexton has
been appointed to Centenary Institute, Nashville, Tennessee.

Several workers from the Foreign Department are under temporary ap-
pointment in the Bureau of Urban Work. They include:

Miss Lily Swords from India, Italian Settlement, Utica, New York.

Miss Susie Peach Foster from Korea, Bethlehem Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

Miss Etha Nagler from China, Bethlehem Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

Miss Ortha Lane from China, Hattie B. Cooper Community Center, Roxbury,
Massachusetts.

Resignations, marriages, and leaves of absence have taken a few workers
from active service in the bureau. A small number of the institutions have a
complete staff at this time. But a magnificent job is being done.

Wesley Community House boys of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, enjoy many delightful hours in

their craft shop

Bureau of Social Work

NEVER have the needs in this field been greater, and never have our workers
found more ways of usefulness. It is possible that world-wide tragedy
makes our eyes and ears more sensitive to the job that is at hand. In any case,
our home missionaries and institutions are finding unprecedented opportunities
for service in the world in which they live. The dh*ectors of our residences are
finding that girls away from home are not just problems, they are eager for
social life and for a part in church and community life. Our rest homes have
more applicants this fall than for a long time.

Homes for Children

Parts of a report on the work of the David and Margaret Home from the
Department of Social Welfare of California follows: "The home continues to
provide a good standard of care, training, and supervision for the children and
to utilize to the fullest extent all available community resources in maintaining
and rounding out its program.

"Despite handicaps due to shortages, longer hours, and other inconveniences,
the morale of the staff is high. A splendid spirit of co-operation with the ad-
ministration exists and warm friendly relationship between members themselves
and the children. Higher salaries for staff members should be paid as it is
increasingly difficult to secure capable people at the wage scale now being paid."

Recommendations were also made for enlargement of staff, a different kind
of audit, and careful study of the need for expansion of facilities.

Epworth School is planning to introduce occupational therapy into its work.
The school and the community feel the need for this further opportunity for the
girls there.

Mr. J. N. Smith gives a glimpse of our Mothers' Jewels Home at York,
Nebraska: "The children are getting along very well. We have had less acci-
dents and sickness this summer than any time I can remember. All the older
ones have taken the first-aid course with Miss Freda Wirz and know better
how to prevent accidents and sickness. Miss Wirz has permission from the
authorities here to take some special school work at the University of Minne-
sota. She has done a great job in social, religious, and health work in our
home and in the community, during the past year."

Miss Frances Taylor, of Susannah Wesley Home, writes: "With the polio
and flu epidemics in evidence we gave up movies and Waikiki swimming on the
recommendation of the Board of Health doctor. Substitutes to a certain extent
have been made, but the girls were thrown upon their own resources. With
the gifts from the Hawaiian Pines and the church at Maplewood, New Jersey,
we've rented movies about every two weeks. This was a novelty which ap-
pealed to the girls almost more than the regular shows.

"Six girls graduated from high school. Elizabeth Lindley was May Queen
for the afternoon section at Farrington May Day program. Several of the girls
sang in the chorus or took some other active part.

"Recently we decided to do some painting as a summer project. Two dormi-
tories downstairs were finished and a bathroom upstairs has been decorated.
The painters, except the staff, were first- to ninth-grade girls."

Peek Home has had a fine year. There are twenty-eight children in our
care at this time. They go to the district school, and to our church school in
Polo. They live in a very informal atmosphere which approaches a natural
home as nearly as an institution can. Appreciation is due to the staff who bring
this about despite a cut in numbers. The superintendent, Miss Brandes, and Mr.
Kelley, the farmer, keep the buildings and farmland in efficient and productive
order. There has been a fine harvest, and the cows, hogs, and chickens have
brought in considerable revenue. This is all used for improvements on the place,
making it possible to conform to strict state regulations.

Spofford Home, in Kansas City, has led the way in many respects in that
community. "It is a child guidance home. Children come here unhappy, out
of sorts, and maladjusted to their environment. They are given psychiatric

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guidance and are made to feel that there is love in the world and an understand-
ing heart is ready to help them. These children are not orphans, nor are they
necessarily delinquent children.

"Behavior problems are studied from a scientific and religious point of
view. After spending a few weeks or months here, the child may be returned
to his own home, if it is a good home, or he may be given a foster home where
the environment will prove advantageous to his development."

The Ethel Harpst Home is fairly overflowing. At a recent meeting of the
board, Miss Harpst reported: "There are 16 workers and 143 children in the home.
Fifteen of the children are in the nursery, 11 in the kindergarten, and others
range to high-school age. Four will graduate from high school this year. The
health of the children is exceptionally good. The home has been included
again in the Community Chest for this year." Miss Harpst reported the need
of a matron for the boys' dormitory, and an additional salary for a nursery
worker. The two major physical needs at present are a dairy barn and a
laundry building with equipment.

'*> Work at Immigration Center

Miss Katharine Maurer in addition to her work at the Immigration Station
in San Francisco, has been regularly visiting the people who are being detained
at Sharp Park. The Japanese men, women, and children were recently moved to
a family camp in Texas. Now a group of ninety-six Javanese seamen from
the Dutch ships have been placed there.

Under her care there are about 200 persons of 27 nationalities: Mexicans,
Germans from Peru, Chinese without papers, and many others beside the
Japanese and Javanese at Sharp Park.

Miss Mary Chun Lee is listed in the Oriental Mission minutes as secretary
of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service and chairman of the
Methodist Youth Fellowship. Miss Lee is being transferred to the Bay Area,
after doing a masterly job of organization in southern California. She has this
to say: "This year emphasis is laid upon using the abilities of the younger
women of the churches and in organizing junior societies within the present So-
cieties of Christian Service, to be called the Service Guild. Two churches now
have this form of organization. It is felt that there was too wide a gap between
the ages of the older women's groups and that of the younger."

Defense Work

Last December we reported on the first half year of our work in war-in-
dustrial areas which was being carried forward by Mrs. Charles Wade and Mrs.
Mabel Wagner. Miss Lena York joined this little staff in February, and Miss
Eleanor Neff on September 1. We receive excellent reports on their work from
our local women.

Mrs. Wagner has served in Mobile, Alabama, and Portland, Oregon, during
the past year and is now in Seattle. Her report shows: "Situation — Upon ar-
rival church activities had been started in only one housing area. Now the work
under United Church Ministry is well organized in all seven large housing
areas. Besides this, Vanport has four church centers in school buildings and
recreation centers.

"Because of interdenominational approach, the project service advisers, school
authorities, and recreation leaders have been most co-operative in giving space.
Miscellaneous religious groups have come to see the necessity of working together."

"The newcomers in housing projects on the whole welcome church services
and activities conveniently held in their area, regardless of the denomination.
'I'm so glad we're going to have a church right here where we live — I've been
praying for one,' was the typical reaction of a Lutheran mother to a Methodist
worker.

"In Vanport, we had been unable to find space for vacation school until the
advisor under the Housing Authority happened to see one of our schools of
150 children in another area. He asked why Vanport couldn't have one. When
we said the only reason was lack of space, his reply was, 'We're crowded, but
we'll find space for anything as important as that.' A new community building

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Gum Moon Residence Hall, San Francisco, California, houses forty young women in
well-furnished single and double rooms, with social halls, large open fireplace, laun-
dry, dining room, recreational room, pianos, radio, sewing machine, modern showers
and baths, and yard space

At the Bancroft-Taylor Rest Home, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, retired workers fre-
guently enjoy a game together

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in Vanport, not yet opened, was immediately prepared for the use of the vacation
school where we had over 300 children.

''The following is an extract from a letter received from the U. S. Housing
Authority in another area: 'The Administrator of National Housing Agency
from Washington, D. C, stated this vacation school was one of the most im-
pressive activities he had seen during his recent nation-wide tour of housing
projects.'

"Helped organize interracial council for Christian work in Vanport. In
the building where largest percentage of Negroes live, there now is a church-
school young people's group, and morning and evening church service. The
vacation school was a happy experience with colored and white children and
teachers working together. One afternoon, the whole group trudged through
the streets for a picnic under some trees. The administration office received
a telephone call that day saying: 'Who are those colored and white folks I
see going on a picnic? That's the first real sign of democracy I've seen in Van-
port!' Answer — 'It's the church folks — daily vacation Bible school.' "

Mrs. Wade has served enthusiastically and well in four Texas communities.

Miss York's work has been in the Fairfield-Osborn District in Ohio, and
during this summer and autumn, Detroit. It was decided, a year ago, at the
request of the Wesleyan Service Guild, that one of our defense staff would work
especially with unattached girls who have come into these industrial areas, and
are without family or friends. The plan is to help our Wesleyan Service Guilds,
and other employed women's groups in churches or the city at large, to find ways
of serving these girls. It was experimental at first, but the Guild was sure
there was great opportunity at this point. A committee was set up in Detroit,
interdenominational, interfaith, and community-wide to prepare for a worker.
Miss York went to Detroit early in the summer and has worked there with the
exception of a month's vacation. She expects to go to North-East Ohio this
fall, where she will be working with families again according to our usual plan.

Miss Neff is carrying on the Guild project. She has been in Richmond,
Virginia, since October 1.

Bishop Moore and the churches of the Florida Conference have been con-
cerned to discover how they can best serve the members of the Women's Army
Corps stationed at Daytona Beach. Last summer, they asked us to place a
woman in that field to work with the chaplains and the churches for this pur-
pose. Miss Harriet Seibert, formerly of Christ Church, New York, has been
sent to this important post. She has been received warmly by the churches and
the members of the Corps. She is co-operating with other denominations and
with the Florida United Council of Church Women.

Residences for Employed Women

We are meeting a very vital need in our residences for young employed
women in large cities throughout the country. The directors of our Co-operative
Homes in Houston and Birmingham are adapting their schedules for girls who
are working on different shifts in those cities. Our Wilson Inn at Richmond,
Virginia, not only is a home for girls away from home, but has a friendly wel-
come for many boys in our armed services who are stationed in or near that city.

The situation at Nome, Alaska, has changed within the year. The Con-
gregational Board has sent a pastor and his wife to serve the Federated Church
there, and this makes it possible for our deaconess to concentrate her efforts
on the native mission of which she is director.

Future Need

The survey that we have been making of the institutions in this bureau
brings to light many shortcomings. Many of these may, we hope, be put to
rights before too long. But it will take time, intelligence, and good will.
There are lacks in equipment and there is understaffing which cannot be cor-
rected without more adequate support. Probably the most urgent need is for
an increase in salaries all along the line for the people who are carrying for-
ward with such unselfish devotion. We rely on them. We hope they can count
on us for a practical expression of thanks.

Bureau of Medical Work

'"PHE work of the hospitals in this bureau has increased each month during
-*• the past year. Unskilled labor fills accident wards, long hours of unaccus-
tomed work with irregular meals are causing physical breakdowns, and the
soaring birth rate keeps maternity departments filled to overflowing.

Medical authorities are telling us that this winter of 1943-44 is the time
when epidemic flu will probably scourge the country again, since it occur?
about every twenty-five years. However, it will not cause the fatalities of
the epidemic of 1918-19, because of the sulfa drugs used in the treatment of
the pneumonia which followed flu then and was the cause of the death. But with
the shortage of doctors and nurses it will be difficult to give afflicted patients
the close care and attention they will need. Therefore in all outpatients and
clinics, greater emphasis is being given preventive measures, and student
nurses in the training schools are giv«n special instruction in the care of patients
with respiratory diseases.

The stress and strain under which we are living is causing an increase
in nervous and mental diseases, and psychiatry is being made obligatory in
training schools in many states where it has been elective.

A recent statement in a medical journal estimates that not less than 10%
of overseas troops will return with disabilities not connected with battle injuries.
There will be thousands of mental cases; those who have been in cold countries
will have arthritis and kindred ailments; others will have tropical diseases
we have not known in this country, and these may not develop until some time
after the men have returned home. In spite of the great care the government
is trying to give those in the service, hundreds have already been invalided
home with malaria.

Military hospitals are not now adequate to take care of the cases that will
return within the next six to twelve months, and civilian hospitals must be
ready to carry some of the load. This means that there must be thoroughly
trained personnel — nurses, technicians, house doctors — who will be able to
recognize unfamiliar diseases, make skillful laboratory tests, and give correct
treatment and care, not only to cure the patient but to prevent the spread of
these diseases among the civilian population.

Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D. C.

The student nurses at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D. C,
all 116 of them, are members of the U. S. Cadet Nurses' Corps, and a February
class is to be admitted as part of the program to increase the number of nurses
who are so greatly needed in this emergency. Classes were admitted in June
and September of this year, so the program has been greatly accelerated here.
It is becoming a problem to house and care for so many students but we are
fortunate in owning several residences adjacent to the hospital that have been
used by tenants in the past. Two of these have been made into residences for
interns, residents, and graduate nurses, and the rest will now be used as an
annex to the Nurses' Home. There has been an additional gift from the Variety
Club of eight humidici'ibs, which gives us the best-equipped premature nursery
in this part of the country at least.

A bond drive by the hospital for the sale of sufficient bonds to purchase
an ambulance transport plane has been highly successful. Members of the boai'd,
the faculty, nurses, and students co-operated, and the amount needed, $110,000,
was oversubscribed by more than $3,000 at the last count reported. The plane
was purchased in October, and the drive is continuing in anticipation of buying
a mobile ambulance unit for the Army. Twenty-seven of our graduate nurses
are now in military service.

Brewster Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida

Brewster Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, admitted a class of twenty-six
probationers in September. Eight seniors are at Freedman's Hospital, Wash-
ington, D. C, for affiliation in pediatrics and dietetics, and since psychiatry is

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It is very difficult to keep hospital
personnel these days at Maynard-
Columbus Hospital, Alaska, but the
hospital itself is needed more than
ever before

Brewster Hospital, Jack-
sonville, Florida, as are
the other hospitals in the
Bureau of Medical Work,
is trying to prepare for the
future to be ready for the
emergencies that must be
met

Graduates of the Hospital International, Santo Domingo, are serving on the
nursing staff of the hospital

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to be a "must" study, we are hoping that an arrangement may be made with
St. Elizabeth's Hospital where students take their work in nervous and mental
diseases. As there are 7,000 cases in this hospital, a very fine training is given.
We are in the process of signing up for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps here also,
and the clerical work involved makes it a most difficult task, especially as
state board examinations are soon to be taken and every effort is being made
to "condition" the girls for these exams. We are greatly in need of additional
stenographic help in both the nursing office and the record room, but it seems
impossible to secure it. We have had only one resident physician for most of
the summer, and we have been greatly concerned about the very heavy burden
he has carried. We are most fortunate in having a young woman whose hus-
band is a naval officer doing shore duty this year at the Jacksonville base, who
feels she should be using her training during the shortage of doctors. Dr. Ray
is coming in for eight hours a day to help in the clinics and wards, which is a
great relief. We still need another full-time resident doctor to share the heavy
obstetric and accident load, for storks have no regard for hours, seeming to
prefer the night air!

Methodist Sanatorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico

At the Methodist Sanatorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we have had
an addition to the nursing staff of a Japanese nurse who came from one of the
camps in Arizona. She is proving a real asset, and her young son of fourteen
is earning part of his board by helping the Spanish boys after school hours.
We have a real international situation here with several nationalities among
workers and patients, and there has been no friction whatever. We are still
running to capacity with a long waiting list, and the same personnel shortage we
have lived with for more than a year, but we are serving our patients acceptably
in spite of handicaps.

Medical Dispensary, Boston, Massachusetts

The Medical Mission Dispensary has had its institutional income consid-
erably reduced because of the infantile paralysis situation in New England.
The medical men on our own board and other welfare agencies have thought
it unwise to perform tonsil operations. Since the three to seven dollars we
receive for these operations when the families are able to pay it is the principal
source of our institutional income, we will be more dependent upon the Division
than usual, for the time being anyway. Here also we are carrying on, and one
of the doctors who has been close to the institution through the years said:
"If the mission weathers this storm with all its vicissitudes, it will prove how
greatly she is needed in this community." We are sure that the mission is sea-
worthy enough to weather much worse storms than this, and will come through
gallantly.

Maynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, Alaska

Dr. Thomas Morcom, of Maynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, Alaska, was
seriously concerned about the seeming necessity for closing the hospital at one
time this fall. Three nurses left unexpectedly and there seemed to be no one
to replace them. It was surely answer to prayer that made two fine young women,
one who had been with us in our Newark Conference hospital, accept the chal-
lenge of the pioneer work in this far corner of our country, and went to Seattle
on November 1 to go to Nome. At this writing we do not know whether plane
passage has been secured, but nurses are given priorities and we have no
misgivings as to their reaching Nome. We hope they may not be long delayed
as they are so badly needed. Our prayers go with them.

Ready for the Future

These institutions of the Woman's Division of Christian Serivce are trying
to prepare themselves for the future, to be ready for the emergencies that must
be met, to give such service as only a Christian hospital can give, vindicating
their existence, and proving their worth to the communities in which they are
located and the value of nonprofit, voluntary hospitals to skeptical propagandists
of government-controlled institutions.

Bureau of Deaconess Work

FN COMPILING the annual report of this bureau we wish to recall the first
-*■ group of deaconesses to exist under The Methodist Church in America.
They were mentioned in 1887 at a meeting of The Woman's Home Missionary
Society held in Syracuse, New York. The report states:

"The Training School in Chicago, for missionaries, by its remark-
able success, suggests a new and efficient agency for city evangelization.
Nine young ladies have enlisted in the Order of Deaconesses and give
their whole time and strength, without compensation, to mission work
in Chicago."

The following year, 1888, the General Conference of the former Methodist
Episcopal Church approved this work and added a section to the Discipline,
providing for the recognition of a needed order of Christian workers and the
supervision of such work under the authority of the church.

General Conference of the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, took
similar action in 1902, and their first class of young women to be consecrated
as deaconesses numbered five.

Deaconess Homes

Deaconess homes as residences and centers for community work were opened
in many large cities. In 1898, or after a period of ten years, 19 homes and 188
deaconesses were reported by The Woman's Home Missionary Society alone.
Such homes were and are held in trust by different bodies. Some of them are
owned by the organized Conference Woman's Societies, and others are controlled
by local boards of trustees or managers under annual conferences. They all
serve the purpose of furthering and aiding the work of the Methodist deaconess.

As neighborhoods and communities change, new needs often arise. Indian-
apolis, Indiana, and Denver, Colorado, felt the need for homes for working
girls and the Indianapolis Deaconess Home and the Margaret Evans Deaconess
Home have been converted into Esther Halls. Deaconesses who may be work-
ing in these cities still have the privilege of living in the Esther Hall.

In other areas the properties of deaconess homes have been sold and dea-
conesses live within close range of their parishes. The Detroit Deaconess Home
which was the first to be established under the former Woman's Home Missionary
Society was sold in 1942. Consideration for the sale of the Brooklyn Deaconess
Home is now under way.

The deaconesses who reside in deaconess homes, in addition to the ones
living outside, are all related to the Bureau of Deaconess Work by act of the
1940 General Conference. Since this bureau is in the Department of Work in the
Home Field of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, the deaconesses are
also a part of the Board of Missions and Church Extension. The deaconess
homes of today are herewith listed, according to conferences:

Baltimore: Baltimore Deaconess Home, Baltimore, Md.; Washington Deaconess
Home, Washington, D. C.

Central Pennsylvania: Ellenberger Memorial Deaconess Home, Harrisburg, Pa.

Erie: Irene Maitland Deaconess Home, New Castle, Pa.

Genesee: Buffalo Deaconess Home, Buffalo, N. Y.

Michigan : Aldrich Deaconess Home, Grand Rapids, Mich.

New England Southern: Fall River Deaconess Home, Fall River, Mass.;
Providence Deaconess Home, Providence, R. I.

New Jersey: Camden Deaconess Home, Camden, N. J.

New York: New York Deaconess Home, New York, N. Y.

Northern Minnesota: Tourtellotte Deaconess Home, Minneapolis, Minn.

North-East Ohio: Cleveland Deaconess Home, Cleveland, Ohio; Holloway
Deaconess Home, Bridgeport, Ohio.

Ohio: McKelvey Deaconess Home, Columbus, Ohio; Gamble Deaconess Home,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Bethesda Deaconess Home, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Oregon: Portland Deaconess Home, Portland, Ore.

Peninsula: Riddle Memorial Deaconess Home, Wilmington, Del.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Deaconess Home, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Deaconess Home. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Rock River: Chicago Deaconess Home, Chicago, 111.

West Virginia: Holloway Deaconess Home, Bridgeport. Ohio.

Wisconsin : Milwaukee Deaconess Home, Milwaukee, Wis.

The United Groups

From 1888-1940, or for a period of over fifty years, the deaconesses were
under several bodies for the purpose of administration. Naturally, such an
arrangement created much sectionalism because of the different rulings and
regulations. We have sought to unify these differences without creating serious
disturbances within the activities of any group.

The recommendation and approval of deaconess appointments, the setting
up and administration of the temporary disability fund, and the recommendations
for and payments of pensions are now executed through the office of the
Bureau of Deaconess Work. The individual records of qualifications, and ap-
pointments from admission to retirement are kept in this office, as well as
the minutes and reports of the conference deaconess boards. Annual reports
are requested from all deaconesses and placed on file as we attempt to keep
in personal touch with them and the work they are doing throughout the chui'ch.

Applications from ministers, churches, and other boards for deaconesses
to work in settlements, homes, hospitals, and churches, as workers are received
and considered from annual conferences in addition to the number required
by the bureau secretaries of the Woman's Division to fill their various openings.

Conference Deaconess Boards

Each conference deaconess board provides for a Committee on Promotional
Work which functions within the conference for the purpose of interesting
young women to seek the training and preparation which will qualify them to
become deaconesses of The Methodist Church. All candidates are then referred
to the bureau and to the Missionary Personnel Department. We reiterate the
statement that the greatest influence for recruiting new deaconesses always
has been and still is the life and work of the deaconess as she is known among
the people in her own specific field.

The Louisville Conference Deaconess Board made history at the session
of its annual conference held in September, in Columbia, Kentucky, when they
planned for the consecration service of Miss Martha E. Prescott, a deaconess
who was commissioned by the Board of Missions and Church Extension in June.
Bishop J. Lloyd Decell held the service for Miss Prescott. She was the first
deaconess consecrated at the session of the Louisville Annual Conference.

Today there are forty-four conference deaconess boards organized, accord-
ing to the requirement of the Discipline, in areas where deaconesses are .serving-.
which leaves a possible twenty-five yet to be organized.

Looking Toward the Future

Insofar as deaconess cultivation is concerned, it is encouraging to have
word from both coasts that two of our deaconesses are giving specific attention
to the matter. Miss Ella B. Baker, one of the two city deaconesses working in
San Francisco, writes that she is the conference chairman of the Committee on
Missionary Personnel for the Woman's Society of Christian Service and that
she is corresponding with and personally interviewing young women who are
considering seriously what their lifework shall be. Miss Pearl L. Eble, of Fall
River, Massachusetts, is working in a similar capacity and had the privilege of
presenting deaconess work at the Annual Meeting of the New England Southern
Conference Woman's Society in October. Miss Thelma M. Stouffer, of New
York, N. Y., presented deaconess work at the session of the New York Annual
Conference at Newburgh, N. Y., in May.

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Since our last annual report to the Board of Missions and Church Extension,
twenty young women have been accepted as deaconesses: four were commissioned
at the Annual Meeting held in December, 1942; fourteen were commissioned at the
Executive Meeting held in June, 1943; one was transferred from the Depart-
ment of Foreign Work, and another was reinstated. It is always stimulating
to study the jurisdictions and conferences from which our young women enter
deaconess work. They are as follows:

Northeastern Jurisdiction :

Conference Name and Appointment

Baltimore: Miss Lola M. McKinney, Union Church, Washington, D. C.

Central Pennsylvania: Miss Kathryn E. Esterline, Boylan-Haven School, Jacksonville, Fla.

Erie: Miss Marguerite E. Brightman, Fayette-Bennett Church, Baltimore, Md.

Maine: Miss Amy G. Sherman, High Street Church, Auburn, Me.

New York: Miss Mary Perricelli, Deaconess Home Community Center, Fall River, Mass.

New Jersey: Miss Dorothy Woolverton, Washington Square Church, New York, N. Y.

Philadelphia: Miss Frances M. Kieffer, Faith Community Church and Center, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pittsburgh: Miss Roberta Lowden (withdrawn).

Wyoming: Miss Thelma M. Stouffer, Broadway Temple, New York, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction :

Conference Name and Appointment

Florida: Miss Jennie Davis Flood, Rural Work, Mt. Vernon, Ala.

Miss Florence C. Jones, Louisiana Tech., Ruston, La.
North Carolina: Miss Bessie L. Estep, Freeman Clinic and Newark Conference Hospital, El

Paso, Tex.
South Georgia: Miss Mary Elisabeth Pryor, Holding Institute, Laredo, Tex.

North Central Jurisdiction :

Conference Name and Appointment

Indiana: Miss Virginia I. Tague, Rural Work, Roderficld, W. Va.
Wisconsin: Miss Ellen Beitler (withdrawn).

South Central Jurisdiction :

Conference Name and Appointment

Louisiana: Miss Arline Tyler, Rural Work, Florence, Ala.

Missouri : Miss Martha E. Prescott, Rural Work, Central City, Ky.

New Mexico: Miss Faustina G. Moreno, Mexican Community Center, El Paso, Tex.

North Arkansas: Mrs. Minnie Webb Forrest, Rural Work, Magnolia, Ark.

North Texas: Miss Grace E. Butler, Kingdom House, St. Louis, Mo.

Deaconess Legislation

In May, opportunity was given to seventeen deaconesses from the former
various administrations to participate in a meeting of the subcommittee of the
Policy Committee of the Woman's Division. Plans for the future of deaconess
work were considered and recommendations were made to the committee. It
was a time of mutual benefit as ideas were exchanged. These recommendations,
in part at least, will go to General Conference in April.

In the expanded program for the bureau, the attempt is being made to
raise the allowances of the deaconesses throughout the country, at least to the
minimum amount recommended by the bureau at its organizational meeting.
Five conferences have taken the lead in this respect and we are encouraging
others to do likewise.

It is a joy to report the widespread interest on the part of the deaconesses
who are on sabbatical leave. Seventeen of them are in eight different institu-
tions of higher learning — Northwestern, Syracuse, New York, Montana, Cin-
cinnati, and American Universities; and Scarritt College, and the New York
School of Social Work. Two of them have been honored with Fellowships:
Miss Eva Crenshaw has been granted a study and research Fellowship by the
Southern Rural Life Council at Scarritt College, and Mrs. Edith M. Carter was
given a Fellowship at Northwestern University in order to do some graduate work.

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The Woman's Society
of Christian Service of
Pavillion, Wyoming,
serves dinner at farm
sales to help earn
money for their pledge

Philip Methodist
Church, Philip, South
Dakota. Lena A. Mof-
fet, deaconess, is the
pastor

Parish deaconesses

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A Junior League

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Active Relationship

The total roll of deaconesses in active service today numbers about seventy-
five times the little group of nine who started out so valiantly in 1887. .However,
if all the deaconesses who prepare for service remained in active deaconess work,
barring necessary retirements, there would be a more adequate supply for the
many calls that have gone unanswered. Each year it has been impossible to
secure a sufficient number to equal the loss from our ranks through retirement,
marriage, home duties, and withdrawal to enter work outside the church.
Despite the great need for deaconesses in our field, we have had to grant leaves
of absences to those who preferred serving in such organizations as the USO
at home and overseas; enlisting in the WAVES, and doing defense work. The
largest number since unification has withdrawn this year to go into secular work.

Deaconesses —

Withdrawn : 22

Retired 15

Married 8

Deceased 8

Appointed to work under The Methodist Church 589

Granted sabbatical leaves 17

Granted leaves of absences :

Illness 14

Home duties 19

Working outside 39

678
Retired deaconesses 229

Total 907

Inactive Relationship

The number of deaconesses applying for retirement whose places must be
filled by new recruits is increasing rapidly. The decrease in the number of
workers will probably continue during the next few years. There are today
about thirty-five deaconesses eligible for retirement who are still in active
service and they wish to remain at work as long as health and circumstances
permit them to do so.

Seven deaconesses were retired in September after having given an ag-
gregate number of 271 years of service or an average of 38.5 years each.
We submit the names, the years of service, the type of work, and the last
appointment of the fifteen deaconesses retired since the Annual Meeting in 1942:

Name Years

Miss Jessie E. Arbuckle 48

Miss Eva V. Bangs 41

Miss Bertha A. Beadles 44

Miss Ada Lee Bennett 30

Miss Rosa M. Bradley 31

Miss Susan D. Colson 40

Miss Hattie E. Davis 25

Miss Emma C. House 23

Miss Bertha Ott 42

Miss Minnie Pike 40

Miss Mary Schaible 41

Miss Mae Smith 36

Miss Edith M. Spicer 42

Miss Minnie Willmarth 36

Miss Grace Woodside 35

Field

Parish, Educational, Children's

Home
Nurse in Hospitals and Homes

Parish, Educational

Educational, Hospital

Parish, Settlement

Parish, Settlement, Homes
Parish, Settlement
Educational, Home
Pharmacist
Educational

Hospital

Settlement, Soldiers and Sail-
ors, Parish, Deaconess Home
Educational, Hospital

Parish, Home

Last Appointment

Methodist Deaconess Orphanage,
Lake Bluff, 111.

Methodist Old Peoples* Home,
Chicago, 111.

Chaddock Boys' School, Quincy,
111.

The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati,
Ohio

Forest Glenn Community House,
Battle Creek, Mich.

J. W. Wilbur Home, Natick, Mass.

Powhatan Church, Powhatan, O.

Grant Hall, Milwaukee, Wis.

Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, O.

The National Training School,
Kansas City, Mo.

The Methodist Hospital, Omaha,
Neb.

The Deaconess Home, Washing-
ton, D. C.

The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati,
Ohio

Methodist Old Peoples' Home, Chi-
cago, 111.

Methodist Old Peoples' Home. Chi-
cago, 111.

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Active Relationship in the Church Triumphant

Eight deaconesses, one of whom was still in active service, have joined the
Church Triumphant during the past twelve months. We miss hearing from
them but we know they have made a place for themselves in the Eternal City.
Their memoirs may be found elsewhere in the journal of the Fourth Annual
Meeting.

"I commend unto you Phebe, .... a servant of the

church .... for she hath been a succourer of many " —

Romans 16:1a, 2b.

The office of the deaconess has figured in the work of the church universal
since the time of Paul and it is still of international import. A minister from
Brazil stopped in the office some time ago to inquire about the possibility of
establishing deaconess work in that country. A request for the Constitution and
By-laws of the Bureau of Deaconess Work came through the World Alliance of
International Friendship from Australia where there is a desire for such a move-
ment also. The minister of the New Dorp Moravian Church, Staten Island, New
York, is advocating an American Order of Moravian Deaconesses. The Right
Rev. Basil Archimandrite, of the Russian Orthodox Church, is likewise promot-
ing the idea of a deaconess order in that church and has made inquiry concerning
the plan of the Methodist deaconess. Sister Anna Ebert, of the Lutheran
Motherhouse in Philadelphia, has been studying our unified plan in the light of
their needs.

We commend unto these friends of international fellowship, and to you,
the deaconesses of The Methodist Church.

The chefs are ready to do their part in a community settlement according to the
deaconess in charge of this work

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BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS— National

California —

Frances DePauw School, 4952 Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles 27, Calif. (Mexican)
Founded: 1899
Enrollment: 93
tHelen Aldrich, Superintendent
Blanche Coolbaugh, Laundry Matron
Ada Daum, First Cook
Carol Gibby, B.A., High School English and

Spanish, Librarian
Mrs. Corinne Jones, Assistant Superintendent

and Housemother
Mrs. Birdie Long, Housemother
Jeanne Mahoney, B.S., Primary Grades
*Reva McNabb, B.S., Home Economics
tLouise Murray, B.E., Junior High and Art
Dorothy Sterling, R.N., School Nurse, Physi-
cal Education and Science
Elizabeth Sterling, B.M., Music
tFaye Straley, B.A., Bible, Social Studies
Mrs. Almeda Tapp, Housemother
Clay C. Watkins, B.E., Mathematics and
Social Studies

Florida—

Florida State College for Women, Talla-
hassee, Fla.

Work opened: 1927
Methodist students: 581
*Alpharetta Leeper, B.A., M.A., Student
Counselor, 705 W. Jefferson St., Talla-
hassee, Fla.

Boylan-Haven School, Jessie and Franklin Sts.,
Jacksonville 6, Fla. (Negro)
Founded: 1886
Enrollment: 182
fA. Jennette Lehman, Superintendent
Mrs. Sallye R. Blocker, Clothing, Crafts
Mrs. Louise S. Brown. B.A., English
*Kathryn E. Esterline, B.A., Religious Educa-
tion, Physical Education, Science
fGeorgia A. Hurd, Office Secretary
Rebecca Jacobs, Mathematics
tMary MacNicholl, B.A., History
Katherine McKinney, English, Geography,
■ Negro History and Literature

Mrs. A. G. Morgan, B.Ped., B.M., Music

Frances Tyson, Mathematics

Mabel G. Williams, B.A., Cooking, Science

Mrs. Anna B. Warren, Cook

Joseph Warren, Janitor

Georgia —

§Gammon Theological Seminary (Woman's De-
partment), Atlanta, Ga. (Negro)
Work opened: 1935
Classes per week: 12
Enrollment: 33
Mary De Bardeleben, M.A., Director
§Clark College, Atlanta 4, Ga. (Negro)
Founded: 1870
Enrollment: 432
James P. Brawley, Ph.D., Sc.D., President
David H. Blackwell, Ph.D., Mathematics and

Physics
Luther E. Brookes, M.A., Chemistry
Stella Brewer Brookes (Mrs. L. E.), M.A.,

English
Waymon A. Carver, B.A., Music and Social

Sciences
Joyce S. Carver (Mrs. W. A.), B.A., Biology

(part time)
Frances E. Clark, B.A., Secretary to the Dean
Mrs. Leona Collier, Assistant Director of

Dormitory
Sarah Harris Cureton (Mrs. R. E.), M.A.,

Spanish and French
Nellye L. Davis, M.A., English
J. J. Dennis, M.A., Mathematics (leave of
absence for study)
Thelma F. Elliott (Mrs. O. H.), B.A., Director
of Dormitory

"Deaconess.

tEnrolled Missionary.

O. H. Elliott, B.S., Bursar

John W. Emmanuel, B.A., Subsistence Ac-
countant

Peter T. Fletcher, B.A., French (part time)

Wilhelmina J. Gilbert, B.A., Secretary to the
President

Fannie B. Gore, Director of Dormitory

Flora Griffin, M.A., Home Economics (Foods)

Ruth E. Harris, B.A., Assistant Bursar

Curtis V. Holland, M.A., Social Sciences,
Proctor for Men

B. Doreen Jolly, M.A., Home Economics
(Clothing)

Marvel B. Johnson (Mrs. J. A.), B.A., Acting
Secretary to the Dean

J. D. Killingsworth, M.Mus.Ed., Music

Rose Ella King, M.A., Education, Counselor
to Women

Carrie J. Leigh, M.A., Mathematics and
Secretarial Science

Alphonso A. McPheeters, M.A., Dean of the
College, Registrar

Bernard H. Nelson, M.A., Social Sciences
(leave of absence for study)

Josie M. Pittman (Mrs. Avery), M.A., Dieti-
tian

Collye L. Riley, B.L.S., Librarian

Ralph C. Robinson, B.A., Coach, Superin-
tendent of Buildings and Grounds

Ruth Sellers (Mrs. J. H.) Assistant Director
of Dormitory

Mrs. Zilla M. Smoak, B.A., Assistant Registrar

Lloyd B. Stuart, M.A., French (leave of ab-
sence for study)

Daniel Thompson, B.A., Social Sciences (part
time)

Adolphus B. Wright, M.B.A., Business Ad-
ministration

§Paine College, Augusta, Ga. (Negro)

Founded: 1883

Enrollment: College, 164

Cadet Nurses, 42
Extension Students, 44
High School, 80

Edmund C. Peters, M.A.. President
*Ruth L Bartholomew, M.A., Librarian, Eng-
lish

James W. Brown, M.A., Economics, History,
Physical Education

Rebecca Sue Craig, M.A., English, Dramatics,

Mrs. Alberta Everett Douglas, M.M.E.,
Music, Art Appreciation

Mrs. Mabel N. Ervin, Registrar

Wheeler C. Ervin, Business Manager

Mrs. Frances Mason Franklin, B.S., High
School English, Phvsical Education

James A. Gabriel, B.S., High School Mathe-
matics and Science

Mrs. Lola I. Gabriel, B.A., Secretary to Presi-
dent

Mary C. Gartrell, Matron of Young Women

Emma C. W. Gray, M.A., Dean of Women,
English

Laurence R. Harper. M.A., Dean of Men,
Mathematics, Physics

Wesley John Lyda, Ph.D., Director of Studies,
Teacher of Education

Mrs. Ethel P. Peters, M.D., Health Education

Freddie P. Polean, B.A., Dietitian, High
School Home Economics

Eleanor R. Powell, B.S., Home Economics

Alice C. Reeves. -B.S.Ed., Dietitian, High
School Home Economics

Mrs. Marguerite Steffan, M.A., Modern
Languages

Emory A. Wadlowe, B.D., Principal of High
School, Bible

Mrs. Sarah Walton Wallace, B.L.S., Assistant
Librarian

Marion Edward Zealey, M.S., Chemistry,
Biology

Mrs. Anne Brown Upshur, B.A., Assistant in
Business Office

§In co-operation with other boards.

Department of Work in United States

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Vashti School, Thomasville, Ga. (While)
Founded: 1903
Enrollment: 110
*Mary F. Floyd, B.A., M.A., Superintendent
*Esther Boggs, Business Secretary, Bookkeeper

Lena Chambers, Industrial Arts, Campus

Ruth E. Collins, Secretary
JNorma Craven, B.A., Mathematics

Mrs. Adele Dahlberg, Matron

Juliet Endly, B.S., B.S.L.S.. Foods and Science

Mrs. Georgia English, Clothing

Mrs. Elo Green, Matron

Mary Russell Hamer, B.A., English, Biology,
Latin

Lulu King, Dining Hall Matron

Mrs. H. P. Langlois, Dietitian and Nurse
*Leone Lemons, B.A., Music

Mr. P. M. Lyman, Utility Work

Mrs. P. M. Lyman, Laundry Matron

Mrs. E. R. Overbey, Matron

Mrs. W. B. Parrish, Matron

Mr. T. H. Ricks, Farm Foreman

Emma Ritter, B.A., M.A., Grades

Annie S. Selfridge, History and Grades

Ruth Wyche, B.A., M.A., Assistant Superin-
tendent and Principal

Kentucky —

Alvan Drew School, Pine Ridge, Ky. (While)
Founded: 1911
Enrollment: 75
I. H. Thiessen, B.S., M.A., Superintendent

Bible, Paste, Principal
Ross L. Bancroft, B.S., M.S., Farm Manager,

Supervisor Green Garrett Dormitory
Mrs. Ross L. Bancroft, B.S., Dietitian, Super-
visor kitchen and dining room, Home Eco-
nomics
tElizabeth Bromley, B.Ed., Librarian, English,

Social Science
"Catherine Colson, B.A., Mathematics
Sarah Hiebert, B.A., M.A., Seventh and

Eighth Grades, Spanish, Bible
Harkins Howard, Science, Bible, Boys' Ath-
letics, Orear Dormitory
Myrtle A. Meade, Store Manager, Book-
keeper
JArza Maude Smith, B.A., M.A., Commercial

Subjects, Music, Office Secretary
Leslie Snell, Maintenance, Supervisor Boys'

Work
Mrs. Leslie Snell, Matron, Laundry Supervisor
Mrs. I. H. Thiessen B.A., Bible, Piano

Erie School, Aiken Hall, Walker Neighbor-
hood House, Olive Hill, Ky. (White)
Founded: 1913
Enrollment: 189
tM. Edna Lukens, B.S., Superintendent
tRuth Adams, B.A., Principal
Mona Dyer, B.A. Director of Religious Edu-
cation
tEsther Edwards, B.A., Home Economics
Mrs. Ora C. Forrest, Matron
tlda Hankins, B.S., M.A., Primary
tHelen Holliday, B.E., English, Commerce
tEdna Jones B.A., Grades
Lola Long, Music
[Helen Meredith, B.S., M.A., Librarian, Social

Science
tPhoebe Powell, Secretary and Asst. Matron
tGrace Reuter, Grades
James Stallard, Maintenance
Esther Stevens, B.A., Science
Mrs. Cordia Tabor, Kitchen Matron
tMrs. Margaret Weatherstone, R.N., Nurse

Sue Bennett College, London, Ky. (White)
Founded: 1896
Enrollment: College, 51

Training School, 60
*Jeannetta P. Harrison, B.A., M.A., Acting

President
'Ola Lee Barnett, B.A., M.A., Education
Lucy Jane Dabney, B.A., M.A., Spanish
Pauline Glazier, B.S., Secretary

Mrs. Malena Murray Hackney, B.A.,r M.A.,

Mathematics
Mrs. Mary E. Hulse, B.A., Home Economics

and Dietitian
Edwin W. McClain, B.A., M.A., English

(Armed Forces)
Mrs. Ross Powell, B.A., Dean of Women
Mildred Rutherford, B.S., B.L.S., Librarian
Ethel Shaw, B.S., M.A., English
Havis L. Stewart, B.S., M.A., History
Margie Walker, B.S., M.A., Critic Teacher
Mrs. Mary White Wells, B.A., M.A., Critic

Teacher
Wendell W. Williams, B.A., M.A., M.S.

Sociology, Physical Education
tGrace H. Wood, Music
JMary E. Young, Music

Louisiana —

Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette,
La.

Work opened: 1940
Methodist students: 240
Helen Strickland, B.A., M. A., Student Coun-
selor, 115 E. College, Lafayette, La.

Louisiana State Normal College, Natchi-
toches, La.

Work opened: 1939
Methodist students: 169
Genevieve Reynolds, B.A., Student Counselor
Box 1244, Normal Station, Natchitoches, La.

Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La.
Work opened: 1941
Methodist students: 506
tFlorence Catherine Jones, M.A., Student
Counselor, 105 Everett St., Ruston, La.

§Peck Hall, 5323 Pitt St., New Orleans 15. La.
(Negro), (Co-operative with Gilbert Acad-
emy)

Founded: 1889

Enrollment: Residents at Peck Hall, 48
Gilbert Academy, 495
Mrs. Margaret Davis Bowen, M.A., D.Ed.,

Principal Gilbert Academy
Gwendolyn A. Scavella, B.S., Superintendent

Peck Hall
Iris Angelyn Butler, B.A., French
Grace Omega Taylor, B.A., Mathematics
"Laura Hart Tucker, B.S.Ed., B.S., Library

Science, Librarian
Cornelia Anita Williams, B.S., Dietitian

Sager- Brown Home and Godman School, Bald-
win, La. (Negro)
Founded: 1921
Enrollment: Resident, 51

Non-resident, 120
tRosie Ann Cobb, B.S., Superintendent
Agnes A. Adams, B.S., Principal
Geraldine Allen, B.A., Primary Education
Mrs. Elnora Bernard, Kitchen Matron
Rev. L. A. Lester, B.A., Mathematics and

Science
Mrs. Antonia F. Jackson, Girls' Matron
Mrs. Evelyn Thomas, Fourth and Fifth Grades
Mrs. Elizabeth Reed, Boys' Matron
Bernice I. Vaughn, B.A., Home Economics

Mississippi —

§Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss. (Negro)
Founded: 1866
Enrollment: 220
Lee M. McCoy, B.A., Litt.B., President
S. F. Brittenum, B.A., Commercial Subjects
Wm. L. Brannon, M.A., English
H. M. Burns, B.A., Matron, Cafeteria
G. O. Caldwell, M.A., Chemistry, Physics,

Mathematics
Nathalie Doxey, Music
F. N. Eaton, B.A., Music
J. H. Graham, M.A., Religious Education,
Sociology

'Deaconess. fEnrolled Missionary.

{Foreign missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field.

§In co-operation with other boards.

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C. T. Griffin, B.A., English, French

S. L. Griffin, B.A., Shop Work

H. M. Hayes, B.A., Preceptress, Girls' Dormi-
tories

Robt. B. Hayes, M.A., Litt.D., Dean

P. T. Holmes, B.A., Home Economics

M. R. Jackson, M.A., Biology

Bessie Jones, B.A., Matron Boys' Dormitory,
Jones Hall

B. L. Lee, Assistant Preceptress, E. L. Rust
Home

Edna M. McCoy, B.A., Librarian

P. G. Mcintosh, B.A., Bursar, Secretary

H. Pegues, Assistant Preceptress, Mcintosh
Hall

S. K. Phillips, Superintendent Buildings and
Grounds

S. E. Simmons, Chef

L. B. Ward, Assistant Preceptress, Teachers'
Cottage

E. B. Waters, B.A., Art

W. A. Waters, MA., Social Science

Wood Junior College, Mathiston, Miss. (White)
Founded: 1886
Enrollment: 107
Chi M. Waggoner, B.A., M.A., President,

Education
Florence E. Bedford, B.A., M.A., Foreign

Languages
Mrs. Lucy P. Buchanan, Matron Wood Hall
Carolyn J. Cowell, B.S., M.S., Mathematics,

Social Science
Mrs. Jewelle B. Hardin, B.S., M.A., English
Mrs. Jessie A. Helms, B.S., Matron Miller Hall
tSylvia Huitema, B.S., Commerce
fErvilla A. Masters, B.S., M.S., Home Eco-
nomics
Sallie Parnell, Financial Secretary
Hugh Peacock, College Farmer
J. Mack Peacock, College Farmer
Mrs. J. O. Sisson, Dietitian
J. O. Sisson, Superintendent of Buildings and

Grounds
Benjamin H. Thompson, B.S., Agriculture,

Science
Mary I. Townsend, B.M., B.F.A., Music,

English
Hartsell G. Williamson, B.A., B.D., M.A.,

Dean, Bible

Missouri —

Hendrix Hall (University of Missouri), Colum-
bia, Mo.

Founded: 1925
Residents: 85
Mrs. Sue Jones Cotton, Director

The National Training School, 15th St. at
Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 1, Mo.
Founded: 1899
Enrollment: 53
Cloyd V. Gustafson, B.D., M.A., President,

Homiletics
tM. Elizabeth Cooling, B.S.. Education
•Bertha Cowles, B.S., Dietitian
*Ruth E. Decker, Ph.D., Religious Education

Chairman, Philosophy
Edward Stanton DePoncet, Ph.D., Language
*Louise Dutcher, B.A., Registrar, Physical

Education, Sociology
tFrieda M. Gipson, M.A., Education, Chair-
man, English
Nina Griffith, B.M., Music
Dagney Berg Gustafson, B.M., Dean of Stu-
dents, Music
Frances N. Hutchison, B.S., in L.S., M.A..

Librarian
Mayme L. Johnson, Bookkeeper
'Dale C. Keeler, M.A., Religious Education,
Graphic and Fine Arts, Principal of Week-
day Church School
Mary E. Renich, Ph.D., Science

William Schuhle, M.A., History, Economics,

Political Science
tCecilia Sheppard, Ph.D., Bible
Eureath White, Th.M., Sociology and Social
Work Chairman

New Mexico —

Harwood Girls' School, 1114 N. Seventh St.,
Albuquerque, N. M. (Spanish)
Founded: 1887
Enrollment: 160

tlva Maye Carruth, B.A., Superintendent
Mrs. Alice Brown, Housekeeper

{Kate Cooper, B.A., M.A., Religious Education
Kathryn Crissey, M.A., Spanish, Physical

Education
Mrs. Norma Graham, Housemother
Alice Ichikawa, B.A., Intermediate Grades
Mrs. Luna Jacobs, Assistant Kitchen Matron
Mary Kanazawa, B.A., Social Science
Mary Gail Leach, B.A., Little Girls' Matron
Donna Loew, B.A., Primary

{Blanche Loucks, M.A., Science and English
Mrs. Tom O. Meeks, B.A., Music
Jacquelyn Melton, Commercial (part time)
Modesta Montano, Laundress (part time)
Fusa Nagai, M.A., Home Economics

tjane Ellen Nevitt, B.A., M.A., Mathematics
Leona Ruppel, B.A., Ph.B., Office Secretary
Frances Snyder, Kitchen Matron
Gazelle Traeger, B.A., English and Librarian
Jerry Torres, Supervisor of Grounds

Navajo Methodist Mission School, Farming-
ton, New Mexico (Indian)
Founded: 1890
Enrollment: 130
Willard P. Bass, B.S., Superintendent, Coach
Zoe Anne Alford, Relief Matron
Raymond J. Bartels, Maintenance, Laundry
Elsie Born, B.S., Seventh and Eighth Grades
D. C. Burd, B.A., S.Th.D., Director of Re-
ligious Education
George Burns, Gardener
tEtta Devine, B.S., Home Economics
tBarbara Dunker, R.N., Nurse
Charles J. Fowler, B.S., Boys' Supervisor
tGladys Hays, Office Secretary
Beulah Hogan, Third and Fourth Grades
fMabel Huffman. B.A., Primary Grades
Ella Landstra, Girls' Housemother
Wm. M. Malehorn, M.A., Principal, Social

Science
Mrs. Wm. M. Malehorn, B.A., English
{Alice McMakin, B.A., Music
Dora Regier, Assistant Girls' Housemother
Harriet Regier, Kitchen Assistant
Byron Tharp, B.S., Farm Supervisor
Mrs. Byron Tharp, B.A., Mathematics and

Science
t Bessie Ullery, Grade Boys' Housemother
Vera Way, Kitchen Matron
Helen Wolfarth, B.A., Fifth and Sixth Grades

North Carolina —

Allen High School, 331 College St., Asheville.
N. C. (Negro)
Founded: 1887
Enrollment: Resident, 68

Non-resident, 68
tjulia Titus, B.A., M.A., Superintendent and

Principal
Mineola A. Booker, B.R.E., Library and High
School English
tLucille Campbell, B.A., Office Secretary
tDora Mae Feldmann, B.A., Dietitian
Mary E. Frizzell, Housekeeper
Jennie Hann, B.A., Eighth Grade, Latin,

Shorthand
tlsabelle R. Jones, Director of Music
Mrs. Elsie King, Laundry Matron
Noah H. .King, janitor

*Deaconess. tEnrolled Missionary.

{Foreign missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field,

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107

Mrs. Claire Lennon, Home Economics
Josephine Litchfield, B. A. .[Sixth and Seventh

Grades
Frieda Morris, B.A., History
*Sue Emily Watts, B.A., M.A., Mathematics

and French
Maude M. Worrall, B.S., Science and Art

Eastern Carolina State Teachers' College,
Greenville. N. C.
Work opened: 1936
Methodist students: 291
*Mamiej Chandler, Student Counselor, 409
Holly St., Greenville, N. C.

JBennett College, Greensboro, N. C. (Negro)

Founded: 1926
Enrollment: 371
David D. Jones, M.A., LL.D., President
Beate Berwin, Ph.D., Philosophy, German
T. Ruth Brett, B.A., M.A., Dean of Students,

Social Science
Almore M. Dale, B.S., Business Manager
Thursa Davis, B.S., M.S., Chemistry, Physics
Mrs. Mamie Elam, B.S., M.A., English
Gladys I. Forde, B.A., M.A., English, Dra-
matics

F. Nathaniel Gatlin, B.S., Public School Music
Mrs. Annie Gilmer, R.N., Nurse

Mrs. Willie Grimes, B.Lib.S., Assistant Li-
brarian
Dr. Frederic A. Jackson, B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Economics
Nancy MacDowell, B.S., Art, Education
Mrs. C. H. Martenna, B.Lib.S., Librarian
Doris McKinney, B.S., Physical Education
Mrs. Gwendolyn B. McMillan, B.M., Piano,

Public School Music
Frances Monroe, B.A., M.A., Psychology,

Director of Kent Hall
John Parnell, B.S., M.A., Biology
Geraldine Patterson, B.A., Voice, Public

School Music
Dr. Muriel Petioni, Resident Physician,

Physical and Mental Health
Willa B. Player, B.A., M.A., Registrar, French
Mayme Powell, B.S., M.A., Home Economics,

Clothing
Mrs. Blanche Raiford, B.A., M.A., Romance

Languages
Alice Reid, B.A., M.A., Sociology
Mrs. Clara Rogers, B.S., Dietitian
Dr. J. A. Satterwhite, B.A., B.D., S.T.M.,

Visiting Professor, Religion
Alice Smith, B.S., M.A., Education
Elizabeth Stanfield, B.S., Physical Education
Orrin Clayton Suthern II, B.A., Organ, Music
J. A. Tarpley, B.A., M.S., Visiting Professor,

Education
DuDonna Tate, B.A., Assistant in Business

Office
Dr. Ivan E. Taylor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean

of Instruction, English
Mrs. T. C. Taylor, B.S., Secretary, Bookkeeper
Marion Thacker, B.A., Piano
Peggy Toatley, B.S., Assistant Dietitian
Barbara Ware, B.S., M.Ed., Home Economics,

Foods
P. E. Wilson, B.S., M.A., History
Velma L. Thomas, B.S., Commercial Educa-
tion
Esther E. Carter, B.A., M.A., Health Camp

Pfeiffer Junior College, Misenheimer, N. C.
(White)

Founded: 1903
Enrollment: Resident, 160
Non-resident, 7

G. G. Starr. B.A., M.A., Acting President,
Dean, Physics

JAllie M. Bass, B.A., M.A., Religion and Social
Science

E.'I. Blevins./'B.A., B.D.,lM.A., English and
Speech

Frances Chapman, B.S.P.E., Commerce. Book-
keeper

Mrs. Etta Lee Coates, Assistant Dietitian

Mrs. Colin Davis, Housemother, Rowe Hall
tMabel Edgerton, Financial Secretary and Art

Nelle Flinn, B.S., M.S., Home Economics

Mrs. H. Grady Hardin, B.S., Housemother
Washington Hall

Mrs. R. C. Kennedy, B.A., Housemother
Merner Hall

Nicholas Lefko, B.P.E., Physical Education, '

Biology
tEmma Madciff, B.S., M.S., Mathematics and
Psychology

Arthur Meyer, B.S., M.S., Agriculture, Chem-
istry

Edythe Moore, B.A., M.A., Commerce

Mrs. Mary P. Morris, B.A., Housemother
Cline Hall

Worth S. Moser, B.A., M.A., Foreign Lan-
guages

Mrs. Mabel Peterson, B.A., B.A.L.S., Li-
briarian

Ruth Ricketts, Mus.B., Mus.M., Music
fMaud Spencer, B.S., M.A., English

John Stillwell, Engineer
rVeda Stryker, B.S.. M.A., Registrar, Bible

Mary A. Thayer, B.S., Physical Education

Mrs. Myrtle Young, Dietitian

Oklahoma —

University of Oklahoma (School of Religion)
Norman, Okla.
Work opened: 1921
Helen R. Tittle, B.A. (part time)

Puerto Rico —

George O. Robinson School and Kinder-
gartens, Box 1068, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Founded: 1902

Enrollment: 12 (reduced until fall of
1944, when new building
completed and enroll-
ment will be 135)
tVerr H. Zeliff, Superintendent
Sara Bentz, Office Secretary
Angel Serrano, Caretaker
Luz Maria Rodriquez, Housekeeper
Ester Encarnacion, Seamstress (part time)
Justo Morales, Gardener (part time)
Theodora Warner, Laundress

Kindergartens:
t/Bernice Huff, M.A., Director of Kindergartens,

Teacher at Sol St.
Sylvia Davila (Jayuya), Teacher
Eladia Diaz (Aibonito), Teacher
Maria A. Maldonado (Puerto de Tierra, San

Juan), Teacher
Esther Nunez (Sol St., San Juan), First Grade
Antonia Perreles (Sol St., San Juan), Helper
Carmen Perez (Ponce Playa), Teacher
Noemi Rodriquez (Barrio Obrero), Teacher
Lydia Roldan (Sol St., San Juan), Helper
Marita Rosich (Sol St., San Juan), Helper and

University Student
Ida Luz Rosa (San Juan Moderno), Teacher
Angelica Sanche (Rio Piedras), Teacher

South Carolina —

Browning Home and Mather Academy, Cam-
den, S. C. (Negro)
Founded: 1886
Enrollment: Resident, 128

Non-resident, 151
tLulu B. Bryan, B.A., Superintendent and

Principal
Mattie Aiken, B.A., Grades
James Aiken, Agriculture

•Deaconess. tEnrolled Missionary.

{Foreign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field. §In co-operation with other boards.

108

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Nezzie Bell, B.A., Physical Education, Social
Studies

Alice Brevard, B.S., Home Economics, Cloth-
ing

Virginia Carson, B.S., Nursery School

Ruth Collins, House Supervisor

Mrs. Ethel Mae Cooper, B.A., Social Studies

Inez Curtain, Kitchen Matron

Evelyn Gittens, B.S., Home Economics, Food

Mrs. Mary Frances Harper, B.A., Boys' House
mother

J. R. Harper, B.S., Industrial Arts

James Jones, Caretaker

Mozelle McCullough, House Supervisor

Alma Metcalfe, B.A., Religious Education
tCaryl Moar, B.A., Financial Secretary

Doris Park, B.A., Librarian

Golda Tague, B.A., French

Addie M. Thomas, B.S., English
"Vivian Unruh, Music
*Avis Wallace, M.S., Music

Wilma Wigham, B.S., Latin

J. R. Williams, B.A., Physical Education,
Science

Tennessee —

§Ritter Hall, Athens, Tenn. (Co-operative with
Tennessee Wesleyan Junior College),
(White)

Founded: 1891
Enrollment: 40
*Mrs. Elizabeth A. Brubaker, M.A., Superin-
tendent, Dean of Women, Bible
fMrs. Anita Collins, Assistant Superintendent,

Housekeeper
Mary Ethel French, R.N., Nurse, Assistant

Housekeeper
Mrs. Magdalene Harrison, Dietitian
tEthel M. Pryor, B.S.Ed., Home Economics,
Supervisor of Dining Room

§Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.
Founded: 1892
Enrollment: 89
Hugh C. Stuntz, B.A., B.D., M.A., D.D.,

President
Jesse L. Cuninggim, B.A., B.D., D.D., Presi-
dent Emeritus
Leila Bagley, B.A., M.A., Dean of Women,

Associate Professor of Religious Education
Joseph M. Batten, B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D.,

Professor of History
Ina Corinne Brown, B.A., Ph.D., Visiting

Professor of Social Anthropology
Wesley M. Carr, B.A., B.D., S.T.M., Th.D.,

Professor of Bible and Missions
Noreen Dunn, B.A., M.A., Associate Professor

of Religious Education
Mabel K. Howell, Ph.D., M.A., Professor of

Missions
Charles M. Laymon, B.A., B.D., Professor of

Literature and History of Bible
*Sarah McCracken, B.A., M.A., Instructor and

Director of Rural Field Work
Delbert M. Mann, B.A., M.A., Professor of

Sociology
Donald M. Maynard, B.A., B.D., Ph.D.,

Professor of Religious Education
Richard G. Milk, B.D., M.A., Instructor of

Rural Economics
Charles C. Washburn, B.S.T., Professor of

Music
Louise Voung, B.A., M.A., Professor of

Sociology
'Margaret A. Young, B.A., M.Sc., Associate

Professor of Group Work
Mrs. Eliza Buford, Dietitian
Mrs. Mary Luter, House Director
William R. Cate, M.D., College Physician
Frances Wilson, R.N., College Nurse
A. F. Kuhlman, Ph.D., Director of Libraries
Jane Duncan, Librarian
Sarah Louise Locke, College Organist

D. E. Jackson, Bursar
Annie L. Winstead, Secretary to President
Mrs. J. C. Crawford, Cultivation Secretary
J. W. Slagle, Engineer

Texas-

§Eliza Dee Hall, 1203 East Ave., Austin 22,
Texas (Co-operative with Samuel Huston
College), (Negro)
Founded: 1888
Enrollment: Resident, 63

Home Economics, 30
tCarmen Lowry, M.S., Superintendent
Mary F. Jordan, Dietitian
Mrs. Elizabeth McKeoun, M.A., Home Eco-
nomics
Mrs. Maxine Lombard, M.S., Home Eco-
nomics

Holding Institute, Laredo, Texas (Mexican)
Founded: 1880
Enrollment: 292
Anton Deschner, B.A., M.A., Superintendent
Warren C. Black, B.A., M.A., Mathematics

and Science in High School
Bessie Brinson, B.A., M.A., Special English
Austre Cavazos, B.A., M.A., Bookkeeper
Mrs. Martha Chandler, Boys' Matron
Mrs. Esther R. Deschner, B.R.E., Mathe-
matics in grades
Mrs. F. A. Downs, Dietitian
JLorena Foster, B.A., R.N., Nurse and Health
*Mary E. Glendinning, B.A., Dean of Girls and

Home Economics
*L. Ora Hooper, B.S., M.A., Social Science in

grades
*Ura Leveridge, B.A., M.A., English and Bible

in High School
Mrs. Reba W. Morrison, Violin, Voice, and

Orchestra
Gertrude Nuckolls, B.A., Commercial in High

School
Mrs. Emma Pilley, B.M., Piano and School

Music in grades
Elizabeth Pryor, B.A., M.A., English in

grades
Gertrude Richards, B.A., M.A., First and

Second Grades
Margaret E. Schirmer, B.S., M.A., Spanish in
High School
JMittie J. Shelton, B.S., Assistant Dean of Girls

, Third and Fourth Grades

JMarion Walker, B.A., M.A., Social Science in
High School

Kirbv Hall (University of Texas), Austin, Texas
Founded: 1925
Enrollment: Residents, 112
Mrs. Maud B. Corlette, B.M., Director

Texas State College for Women, Denton,
Texas

Work opened: 1917
Classes per week: 15 hours
Enrollment: 50
JMildred E. Hudgins, B.A., M.A., Teacher of
Bible

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Conference

Iowa —

Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa (Iowa-Des
Moines Conference)
Work opened: 1926
Methodist students: 1200
Rev. Larry Eisenberg, Student Counselor

*Deaconess. fEnrolled Missionary.

{Foreign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field. §In co-operation with other boards.

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109

BUREAU OF TOWN AND COUNTRY WORK— National

Alabama —

Cajan Work, Mt. Vernon, Ala.

'Muriel Bell "Jennie Flood

North Alabama Conference Rural, Box 25,
Childersburg, Ala.
'Elizabeth Thompson

North Alabama Conference Rural, Waterloo,
Ala.
'Arline Tyler

Arizona —

Arizona Rural, Box 902, Eloy, Ariz.
'Frances Taylor

Yuma Methodist Indian Mission, Box 844,
Yuma, Ariz.
Rev. Adolph M. Krahl James Hammond
Mrs. Adolph M. Krahl

Arkansas —

Little Rock Conference Rural, Fordyce, Ark.
Frances Priebe

Little Rock Conference Rural, 617 S. Main
St., Camden, Ark.
'Martha Stewart
North Arkansas Conference Rural, Box 181,
Waldron, Ark.
'Estelle Mcintosh

North Arkansas Conference Rural, Box 171,
Danville, Ark.
Dorothy Few

California —

Mexican Border Work, 521 Fourth St., Cal-
exico, Calif.
'Ruth Ferguson

Florida—

Florida Conference Rural, Box 112, Mulberry,
Fla.
'Mary Hill

Georgia —

McCarty Settlement, Cedartown, Ga.

fFlorence Vann 'Mildred Avery

North Georgia Conference Rural, Canon, Ga.
Bert Winter

North Georgia Conference Industrial
Rural, 311 Vernon, La Grange, Ga.
jDoris Miller

South Georgia Conference Rural, Box 338,
Mclntyre, Ga.
'Frances Allen

Kansas —

Potawatomi Indian Mission, Mayetta, Kan.
Rev. Alex Eckert

Kentucky —

Kentucky Coal Fields, Hardy, Ky.

fChristine Snyder

Louisville Conference Rural, Box 283, Cen-
tral City, Ky.
'Martha Prescott

Louisville Conference Rural, Monticello, Ky.
'Lucile Ringer

Louisiana —

Louisiana Conference Rural, Oberlin, La.
'Shiela Nuttall

MacDonnell French Mission, Box 270, Houma,
La.

'Ella K. Hooper
'Lillie Hendricks

'Elizabeth Covington

Mississippi —

Mississippi Conference Rural, DeKalb, Miss.
'Catherine Ezell

North Mississippi Conference Rural, Mal-
vina. Miss.
'Cora Lee Glenn

North Carolina —

North Carolina Conference Rural, Route 3,
Goldsboro, N. C.
Ruth Brooks

North Carolina Conference Industrial
Rural, Box 644, Laurinburg, N. C.
Priscilla Steger
Sunny ^Acres, Lewisville, N. C.
*Hyda Heard
Anna Ogburn (employed part time)

Western North Carolina Conference Rural
Boone, N. C.
Mrs. Cyrus Dawsey, Jr.

Western North Carolina Conference Rural
192 S. Main St., Mt. Airy, N. C.
'Mary Cameron

Oklahoma —

East Oklahoma Conference Indian, Box 4
Atoka, Okla.
'Mary Beth Littlejohn

East Oklahoma Conference Rural, Box 292,
Hartshorne, Okla.
tMary Lou Reynolds

Ponca Methodist Indian Mission, Route 4,
Ponca City, Okla.
Rev. and Mrs. Linn Pauahty

West Oklahoma Conference Rural, 320 W.
Oklahoma, Anadarko, Okla.
tjewel Mantooth

Pennsylvania —

Blodgett Community House, 950 Peace St.,
Hazleton, Pa.

tGrace Bate
Dorothy Gage

Evelyn Evans
fDorothy Marsh

Leisenring No. 3 Community Center, Route 1,
Dunbar, Pa.

'Sarah D. Church

Beulah Morton

McCrum Community House, 26 Nutt Ave.,
Uniontown, Pa.

t Bessie K. Van Scyoc fAlice Farrington

tBozena Sochor (Oliver)

South Carolina —

Wesley House, 67 S. Boulevard, Orangeburg,

'Eula McCoy

*Deaconess.

tEnrolled Missionary.

110

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Tennessee —

Crossvjlle Rural, Box 186, Crossville, Tenn.
*Martha Almon *Arthelia Hilleary

Memphis Conference Rural, Route 1, Spring-
ville, Tenn.
*Marjorie Minkler

Scarritt Rural Training Project, Scarritt
College, Nashville 4, Tenn.
*Sarah McCracken

Texas—

East Texas Oil Fields, 3939 27th St., Port
Arthur, Texas

*Willie May Porter
Mexican Rural, Box 276, Alpine, Texas

*Lois Tinsley
Mexican Rural, Beaumont, Texas

*Evelyn Waddell

Mexican Center, 170 S. Fredericksburg, San
Marcos, Texas
*Mattie Cunningham

Mexican Rural Social Settlement (Valley
Institute), Pharr, Texas
*Susie Teel Bessie Oliver

*Felicidad Mendez

Southwest Texas Conference Rural, Stock-
dale, Texas
Irene Ellis

Southwest Texas Conference Rural, Box 172,
Robstown, Texas
*OHie Willings

Southwest Texas Conference Rural, Box 508,
Ozona, Texas

*Mary Riddle

fVivian Stallworth

Utah—

Highland Boy Community House, Route 1,
Box 30 B, Bingham Canyon, Utah
*Ada Duhigg Mrs. Duhigg

Alice Brown

Marysvale, Utah

|Rev. Hettie Mae Parsons

Vermont —

North Barre Community Center, 101 Smith
St., Barre, Vt.
fMarjorie Hanton Marion Faye Stickney

Mildred Ralston Wallace St. John

Lillian Westcott

Virginia—

Buchanan County Coal Fields, Box 175,
Oakwood, Va.
Mae Wess Bell Olive Thompson

Virginia Conference Rural, Bassetts, Va.
*Edith Leighty

West Virginia —

West Virginia Conference Coal Fields, Am-
herstdale, W. Va.
*Nellie Mitchell *Mary Lou Huck

West Virginia Conference Coal Fields, Blue
field District:

Hemphill Mrs. Erlene Tuell

"Vera Falls

Bradshaw *01a Gilbert

Carrie Brown

Roderfield *Myrta Davis

'Virginia Tague

Ashland Emma Johnson

Maybeury *Willa Boynton

Wyoming —

Pavilion Project, Pavilion, Wyo.
*Mary F. Smith
Esther Mae Ruggles

BUREAU OF TOWN AND COUNTRY WORK— Conference

Colorado —

Leadville, Colo.

Idaho —

Nez Perce Indians, Lapwai, Idaho

Illinois—

Langleyville Settlement House Langleyville,
111.

Indiana —

Glenburn-Van Hook Mission, Linton, Ind.
*Nola Voder

Kansas —

Mexican Work (Co-operative), Garden City,
Kan.

Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Castro
Mexican Mission (Co-operative), Lyons, Kan.

Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Valenzuela
Crawford County Larger Parish, Arma, Kan.

Bertha Saville

Michigan —

Frontier Work, North Michigan Oscado
Indians, Detroit Conference
Rev. John B. Silas

Frontier Work, North Michigan, Michigan
Conference
Dr. W. H. Helrigel, District Superintendent
Rev. W. Maylan Jones

Mexican Pastor, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Rev. Albert Moreno

Washington —

Wilkeson Community House, Wilkeson, Wash.
Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Bennett

West Virginia —

Engle Settlement House, 137 Maple Ave.
Fairmont, W. Va.
fRebecca Moddelmog fMary Carol Cone

Minnie Nay Settlement, 43 Marshall St., Ben-
wood, W. Va.
*Sophia Fetzer *Helen Carter

Scott's Run Settlement, R. F. D. No. 7, Mor-
gantown, W. Va.
"Lillian Ellis *Zane Brooks

*Deaconess.

tEnrolled Missionary.

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BUREAU OF URBAN WORK — National

Alabama-

Bethlehem House, 801 N. 46th St., Birmingham,
Ala.
*Alice McLarty
Mrs. Clara Wilson
Annette Adams
Sarah Moses
Mrs. Mabel Small

F. A. Curtis

Dumas Wesley House, Box 31, Crichton, Ala.
'Margaret Hodkins
Louise Hodkins

Ensley Community House, 1404 Avenue H,
Ensley, Ala.
*Dorothy Crim
"Virginia Tyler

Pauline Goodwin

Mrs. Ann Kron

Mrs. Dorothy Reeves

Jo Lee Mallory

Lawrence Fullington

Carl Hanna

G. C. Morrow

Mrs. Beatrice Kay
Mrs. Thelma Bryant
Matilda McNei
R. E. Blount

Open Door Community House, 2700 Second
Ave., Columbus, Ga.
•Gertrude Grizzard
fAnn Averitt

Wesley House, 342
Atlanta, Ga.
"Mary Lou Bond
'Louise Weeks
*Rosamond Johnson

City Missions, Augusta, Ga.
*Athalia Baker

Richardson St., S. W.,

Wesley House, 314 Chandler St.
Ala.
*Bessie Bunn

Montgomery,

Arkansas —

City Missions, 723 Center St., Little Rock, Ark.
*Margaret Marshall

California —

St. John's Italian Church, San Francisco, Calif.
"Agnes E. Vose

Homer Toberman Settlement and Clinic, 115
N. Grand Ave., San Pedro, Calif.
"Caroline Porter
"Mabel Clark
Myron Engle
Mrs. Nellie O'Beirne
Bertha Partida

Stockton Community Work, 1320 S. San
Joaquin St., Stockton, Calif.
Mary Iungerich
Robert Nawman

Florida—

Rosa Valdez Settlement, 1802 N. Albany St.,
Tampa, Fla.
Mary Anna Howard
*May Coburn
Fern Cherrie

Wesley House, 1106 Varela St., Key West, Fla.
"Martha Robinson
"Birdie Reynolds
France Coleman

Wolff Settlement, 2801 17th St., Tampa, Fla.
"Thelma Heath
"Mabel Harrell
tLee Ola Foust
Rev. J. Paul Touchton

Georgia —

Bethlehem House, Gammon Theological Sem-
inary, Atlanta, Ga.
To be supplied

Bethlehem House, Conklin Ave., Augusta, Ga.
"Fannie Bame
"Ida Bilger

Neighborhood House,
East St. Louis, 111.

S. Springfield Ave.,

Illinois—

Lessie Bates Davis
1200 N. 13th St.
tLillie R. Sheffer
tEthel Vanek
fEmma Vanek
tLena Larcom
"Una Smith
"Eva Calloway
Irene Pritchard Curry

Marcy Center, 1539
Chicago, 111.

Wallace O. Heistad

Sylvia Heistad
fBertha Engel
fEda Jacobson

Adrienne Tyssen

Maude Pomeroy

Hyman Levine

Dorothy Marquart

Vivian Pease

Newberry Avenue Center, 1335 Newberry
Ave., Chicago, 111.
A. A. Smith
Marjorie Witts
Erma Woods
Robert Runde
Jane Smith
Erwin Hoffman
Mabel Smith

Seneca Defense Work, Seneca, 111.
JMary Marguerite Bugby

Indiana —

Campbell Friendship House, 2100 Washington
St., Gary, Ind.
Emma Freeman
Evangeline Morse
Thompson Napoleon
Velma Williams
Eleanor Morris
Evelyn Ferguson
Madge Foster
Mary Louise McMickens
Charlie Mae Bean
Rosalie Keaton
Mr. Edwards

Kentucky —

Wesley House, 801 E. Washington St., Louis-
ville, Ky.
"Annie Rogers
"Helen Mandelbaum
Mrs. Bessie Keeling
Mrs. Lucile McDowell
Ray Roberts
William Riddle
Wallace Hough

"Deaconess. fEnrolled Missionary.

JForeign Missionary under temporary appoint-ment in Home Field.

112

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Louisiana —

St. Mark's Community Center, 1130 N. Ram-
part St., New Orleans, La.
W. H. Owens
Mrs. Mary S. Owens
'Emma Vogel
Mrs. Frances F. Tooke
Mrs. Erma Best I
Mrs. Frank Ruano

Mississippi —

Moore Community House, 932 Davis St.,
Biloxi, Miss.
'Sallie Ellis
*Sophie Kuntz

Wesley House, 1520 8th Ave., Meridian, Miss.
*Maude Fail
Mrs. Virginia Langlois

William Johnson Bethlehem Center, 508 N.
Farish St., Jackson, Miss.
*Ruth Carryer
Mrs. Maggie Dunson
Neal Pearson

Missouri —

Institutional Neighborhood House, 702
Admiral Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
'Dorothy Dodd
'Ruby Russell
Mrs. H. G. McCullough

Kingdom House, 1102 Morrison Ave., St. Louis,
Mo.
*Cleo Barber
*Grace Butler
'Emma Burris
Geraldine Harper
Louise Stone
Horton Rogers

Wesley House, 200 Cherokee St., St. Joseph, Mo.

'Annie Alford
Mary Elizabeth Ford
Kenneth Barnes

Wesley Community Center, 720 N. Montgall,
Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. F. S. Burden

New York —

Italian Settlement, 615 Mary St., Utica, N. Y.
tDorothy Norton
fMay Webster
t Eunice Stockton
JLily Swords

Ruth McKune

Frank Parker

Mrs. Victor Centola

North Carolina —

Bethlehem House, 301 S. Caldwell St., Char-
lotte, N. C.
'Ruby Berkley
Drusilla Poole
Mary Moore
J. C. Kibler

Bethlehem House, 408 Hickory St., Winston-
Salem, N. C.
Marian Brincefield
Mrs. Katie Morrow
Mrs. Videssa Davis
Mrs. Audrey Springs

Oklahoma —

Wesley House, 1112 S. Walker St., Oklahoma
City, Okla.
*Nettie Stroup
"Helen Reeves

Oregon —

Helen Kelly Manley Community Center,
2828 S. W. Front St., Portland, Ore.
tEthel R. Decker
tEunice Allen
*Iva Conner
Mrs. Gilbert Heald
Lillian Hillburn
Mrs. Pierce

South Carolina —

Bethlehem House, 388 Brush St., Spartanburg,
S. C-
*Berta Ellison
Ruth Crawford
Charles Watson

Wesley House, 1310 Huger St., Columbia, S. C.
'Bess Eaton

Tennessee —

Bethlehem House, 1403 College St., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
'Josephine Berglund
fLillian Kelly
Ella C. Armistead

Bethlehem House, 749 Walker Ave., Memphis,
Tenn.
*Mary Ora Durham
'Roma Cupp
Mrs. Mildred Jordan
Mrs. Daisy Blackburn
Mrs. Lula Pope

Bethlehem House, 1417 Charlotte Ave., Nash-
ville, Tenn.
JSusie Peach Foster
JEtha Nagler
Mrs. Ollie Butler Moore
L. H. Pitts
Mrs. L. H. Pitts

Centenary Institute, 612 Monroe St., Nash-
ville, Tenn.
Mary Freeman
Mrs. Lillian Christian Stout
tEdna Sexton
Mrs. Gladys Harvey
Thomas V. Page

Wesley House, 1505 Polk St., Chattanooga,
Tenn.
'Willena Henry
'Pearlye Maye Kelley

Wesley House, 1217 Marion St., Knoxville,
Tenn.
Mrs. Zack Goodwin
Ella Milligan

Wesley Institute, 562 N. 5th St., Memphis,
Tenn.
'Willia Duncan
Mrs. Bessie Williams Buquet

Texas —

Bethlehem House, 929 E. Leuda St., Fort
Worth, Texas
'Julia Lovin

Floyd Street Mission, 2901 Floyd St., Dallas,
Texas
Mrs. Marie Moreno

'Deaconess. fEnrolled Missionary.

{Foreign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field.

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Mexican Community Center, 515 S. Kansas
St., El Paso, Texas
*Mollie Womack
*Sue Herrick
'Faustina Moreno
Mrs. Margaret G. Wittkamper
Rev. William Wittkamper

Rankin Community Center, 3000 Crossman
St., Dallas, Texas
*Alice Randall

Wesley Community Center, 2502 N. Akard
St., Dallas, Texas
*Lila May Campbell
{Catherine Smith
Mrs. E. E. Monteeth
Mrs. F. Lewis
Mrs. Slicker
Joshua Gonzales

Wesley House, 2131 N. Commerce St., Fort
Worth, Texas
'Jennie Congleton
*Mattie Varn
'Lena Mae Rust
Mrs. A. B. Carson
Mrs. R. W. Bickham

Wesley House, 1815 Rothwell, Houston, Texas
'Eugenia Smith
'Elma Morgan

Wesley House, 150 Colima St., San Antonio,
Texas
'Julia Reid
Ella K. Butcher
Blanche Ratliff
Marjorie Heid
Gertrude Weir

Virginia—

Bethlehem House, 501 Oilcans Ave., Richmond,
Va.
'Ruth Heflin
Anita Evans
Mrs. Elsie Moseley
Mrs. Alice Pelham

Methodist Co-operating Council, Box 73,
Newport News, Va.
Rachel Divers
Mrs. Charles F. Swan

Trinity Institutional Church, 2000 E. Broad
St., Richmond, Va.
'Ella Bowden
'Edith Forbes

Wesley Community Center, 822 Park Ave.
Norfolk, Va.
'Grace Thatcher
'Hazel Williamson

Wesley House, 626 Upper St., Danville, Va.
'Lottie Green
Sarah Massey

Wesley House, 229 Henry St., Portsmouth, Va.
'Inez Martin

On Furlough

'Pearle Edwards
'Frances Howard
'Ruby Lannom
'Julia Southard
fFae L. Daves

Leave of Absence

fMonica Purviance
tHelen Edick
tRuth Wright
Frederick D. Rogers

BUREAU OF URBAN WORK — Conference

California —

Church of All Nations, 824 E. 6th St.. Los
Angeles, Calif.
Ora Marie Hoge

Delaware —

Mary Todd Gambrill Neighborhood House,
400 S. Heald St., Wilmington, Del.
tElizabeth Colton

Riddle Memorial Deaconess Home, 307 West
St., Wilmington, Del.
'Darla Brown
Mrs. Grace Schoell
Mrs. Anna Lutton
Louise Whitsitt

Illinois—

First Bohemian Church, 1109 W. 19th PI.,
Chicago, 111.
'Martha Strobl
Rev. Joseph F. Sefl

Halsted Street Institutional Church, 1935
S. Halsted St., Chicago, 111.
Geneva Bastrom

Lincoln Street Institutional Church, 1849
W. 22d PI., Chicago, 111.

Indiana —

Kate Bilderback Neighborhood House, 2004
John St., Fort Wayne, Ind.
Rev. Edgar Moore
Mrs. Edgar Moore
Marie de Keyser

Iowa —

Bidwell Deaconess Home, 921 Pleasant St.,
Des Moines, Iowa
'Hanna K. Binau

Harriet Ballou Day- Nursery and Industrial
Work of Wall Street Mission, 312 S.
Wall St., Sioux City, Iowa
Mrs. Leona Austin

Helping Hand Mission, 920 4th St., Sioux City,
Iowa
'Alice Nearhood

John Huss Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa
Rev. V. C. Grant

Riverside Community House, S. E. 14th St.,
Des Moines, Iowa
'Mabel Hopkinson

Kansas —

Methodist Mexican Mission, 1044 S. 26th St.,
Kansas City, Kan.
'Catherine Ferguson
'Martha M. Hanson
Mrs. Roberta D. Salazar

Mexican Mission, 905 S. St. Francis Ave.,
Wichita, Kan.
Rev. Hector Franco

Louisiana —

First Methodist Church, Shreveport, La.
'Grace Gatewood

'Deaconess.

tEnrolled Missionary.

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Woman's Division of Christian Service

Massachusetts —

Hattie B. Cooper Community Center, 36
Williams St., Roxbury, Mass.
JOrtha Lane
Mrs. Effie MacKerrow
Patricia Warren
Mrs. Priscilla Burnett
Mrs. Ada Hastings
Mrs. Edna Taylor
Mrs. Maude Higgins

Mississippi —

First Methodist Church, Greenville, Miss.
"Louise Law

Missouri —

Dunbar Neighborhood Project and Bruce
Nursery, Kansas City, Mo.
National Training School students

North Carolina—

City Mission Work, Wilmington, N. C.
'Mary Nichols

Nebraska —

Omaha City Missions, 2201 Cass St., Omaha
Neb.
W. G. Sullenger

New Jersey —

New Jersey Conference Deaconess Home
and Community Center, 278 Kaign Ave.,
Camden, N. J.
l*Leota Kruger
*Ethel Agans
'Ruth Flaherty
Mrs. Erma R. Beskett

New York —

Jefferson Park Italian Church, 407 E. 114th
St., New York, N. Y.
'Caroline P. Wilson

Methodist Deaconess Home and Settlement,
24 Kosciuszko St., Buffalo, N. Y.
*Mrs. Emmeline Lonsdale
•Marie H. Frakes
'Fannie L. Graves
'LolalB. Timm
Russell J. Renner

St. John's Italian Mission, W. 6th St., Elmira,

N. Y.

Mrs. Josephine Buono

Ohlo-

Cleveland Deaconess Home and West Side
Community House, 3000 Bridge Ave.,
Cleveland, Ohio

Lydia Gerhart
•Lalah G. McClellan
'Bernice R. Whipple
'Mrs. Mildred Cheever
jLois Merselis
•Dorothy Judd
•Martha Bucke
•Ary Shough
t Bernice Borders

Edna Poole
•Grace McCallister

Mrs. Flo Jones

Mrs. Elfrieda Daiber
•Beatrice McKee
tEmily Guigou
•Gertrude Saathoff
'Mary M. Fendenheim

Pearl Street Community House, 334 N. Pearl
St., Youngstown, Ohio
Mrs. Ruth'O'Dea
Angelina Agnesi
Mrs. Mary Santore
Rebecca Williams Community House, 1089
Pine Ave., S. E., Warren, Ohio
'Emily M. Fox
Charles F. Cooley
Paul Uhlinger
South Side Settlement House, 363 Reeb Ave.,
Columbus, Ohio
Charles W. Mason
tErma Jenkins
Margaret James
Erma Dickerson
Elizabeth McCrone
Mrs. Ora Moore
•Naomi Coger
♦Anna K. Nestor

Pennsylvania —

Harrisburg Deaconess Center, 1220 N. 7th
St., Harrisburg, Pa.
*Ula M. Garrison
'Bertha M. Rogers
Mrs. Helen Linn
Neighborhood Center, 714 Foreland St., Pitts-
burgh, Pa.
'Alice McCurry
Eleanor Hickok

Philadelphia Centers of Work, 114 South
38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
'Blanche MacVeigh
'Frances Kieffer
'Margaret Wilson
'Neva Carden
tJosephine Beckwith

Pittsburgh Deaconess Home and Settlement,
2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
'Florence R. Jury
'Mary E. Ritter

Rhode Island

Silver Lake Center, 267 Pocasset Ave., Provi-
dence, R. I.
'Ella M. Hay ward

Tennessee —

Wesley House, 202 W. Castle St., Murfreesboro,
Tenn.
'Constance Palmore

Wesley House, 129 Wharf Ave., Nashville,
Tenn.
•Moselle Eubanks
Mary Bope
JClara Howard

Centenary Methodist Church, 401 McCallie
St., Chattanooga, Tenn.
'Dorothea M. Reid

Washington —

Japanese Methodist Mission, Spokane, Wash-
ington
Rev. S. Niwa

Tacoma Community House, 1311 S. M St.,
Tacoma, Wash.
*M. Blanche Kinison
•Jennie C. Trumbull
Mrs. Velma G. Greene
•Mildred Williams
Guy Kennard

Wisconsin —

Italian Mission, 814 Regent St., Madison, Wis.
•Carrie E. Adams

•Deaconess. fEnrolled Missionary.

^Foreign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field.

Department of Work in United States

115

BUREAU OF SOCIAL WORK— National

Alaska —

Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska

Founded: 1890 at Unalaska; 1925 moved

to Seward
Capacity: 107
Thomas E. Howell, Caretaker
Lavinia Wallace Young Mission, Nome, Alaska
Founded: 1913
*Constance Erickson, Director

California—

Chinese and Korean Worker, 3667 McClintock
St., Los Angeles 7, Calif.
Mary Chun Lee
David and Margaret Home, LaVerne, Calif.

Founded: 1910

Capacity: 100
W. D. Michener, Superintendent
Mrs. Ethna C. Michener, Asst. Superintendent
Ethel Smith, Nurse
Ida Clements, Housemother
Sarah Charles, Housemother
Mrs. Alice Vennink, Housemother
Mrs. Muriel Schuelke, Housemother
"Ada Tarr, Housemother
Orrie Fraser, Housemother
Margaret Kelley, Housemother
Mrs. Cora Parker, Relief Housemother

Esther Hall, 2580 C St., San Diego, Calif.
Founded: 1921
Residents: 30
fMrs. Clara B. Butler, Superintendent
Mrs. Ada Hildreth, Assistant Superintendent
Mrs. Lela Firth, Housekeeper

Gum Moon Residence Hall, 940 Washington
San Francisco 8, Calif.
Founded: 1870
Residents: 45
flsabel Fleming, Superintendent
fMabel Wiggins, Associate

Mary Elizabeth Inn, 1040 Bush St., San Fran-
cisco, Calif.
Founded: 1914
Residents: 104
*Mary E. Daniel, Superintendent
{Sue S. Stanford, Assistant Superintendent
Arne Petterssen, Engineer

Robincroft Rest Home, 275 Robincroft Drive,
Pasadena 3, Calif.
Founded: 1924
Residents: 36
tMabel Metzger, Superintendent
'Ethel Ard, Assistant Superintendent
tlsabella Knapp, Matron
jOna Parmenter, Nurse
JMary Leckliter, Matron
Elizabeth Merritt, Housekeeper
George Walsh, Caretaker

United States Immigration Station, 801 Silver
Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

Since 1910 daily visitations to Immigra-
tion Station
•Katharine Maurer

Georgia —

Ethel Harpst Home, 740 Fletcher St., Cedar-
town, Ga.

Founded: 1924
Residents: 140
fEthel Harpst, Superintendent

t*E. Louise Nichols, Secretary and Music
Teacher
'Mary Hebrew, R.N., Nurse
Victoria Perry, Girls' Matron and Sewing

Instructor
Edith Evans, Dietitian
Mrs. Floyd Gober. Boys' Matron
Mrs. Peter N. Kramer, Girls' Matron
Mrs. Lola Pitts, Housekeeper
Eula Brasher, Girls' Matron
Mrs. D. F. Brewster, Boys' Matron
Laura Lewis, Laundry Supervisor
Mr. C. L. Smith, Farm Manager
Mrs. C. L. Smith, Housemother at farm
J. A. Harwell, Engineer

Hawaii—

Susannah Weslev Home, 1117 Kaili St., Hono-
lulu, T. H.

Founded: 1903
Residents: 54
Frances L. Taylor, Superintendent
Beatrice Hayashi, Senior Housemother and

Dietitian
Loretta Rolf, Junior Housemother
Ruth Doi, Intermediate Housemother and

Sewing Teacher
Mary Moore, Intermediate Housemother
Mrs. Norma E. Davis, Junior Housemother
Nevada Moore, Senior Housemother
Beatrice Dryden, Intermediate Housemother

Illinois—

Peek Home, Polo, 111.
Founded: 1916
Residents: 27
fGrace E. Brandes, Superintendent
"Laura Robbins, Supervisor of Older Girls
Mrs. Bonnie W. Sowers, Supervisor Youngest

Girls and Boys
Mrs. W. O. Kelley, Supervisor Older Boys
fViola Leese, Relief Matron
Mr. W. O. Kelley, Farm Manager
Mr. W. R. Cole, Farm Helper
Mrs. W. R. Cole, Cook

Iowa —

Iowa National Esther Hall, 921 Pleasant St.,
Des Moines 14, Iowa
Founded: 1931
Residents: 77
Mrs. J. M. Williams, Superintendent
Mrs. Sadie E. Muncy, Office Secretary
'Sylvia Rankin, Matron
Gladys Hilmer, Assistant Matron
Mrs. J. B. Johnson, Housekeeper
Mr. W. J. Newcomb, Custodian

Louisiana —

Business Girls' Inn, 412 Fannin St., Shreve-
port. La.

Founded: 1928
Residents: 25
•Mrs. Bithia Watts
Leper Colony, Carville, La.
Clifton E. Rash, Chaplain

Maryland —

Thompson Rest Home, Mountain Lake Park
Md.

Founded: 1899
Residents: 40
'Octavia Hicks, Hostess

•Deaconess. tEnrolled Home Missionary

{Foreign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field.

116

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Missouri —

Epworth School, Elm and Marshall PL, Web-
ster Groves 19, Mo.
Founded: 1909
Residents: 48
Elva Lee Perry, Director
Helen Pierce, Superintendent
fEsther L. Claus, Teacher
Agnes Alvey, Teacher
Rhasneh Tidwell, Case Worker
Ella Bruner, Secretary and Housemother
Ella Ross, Housemother
Eulalie Cook, Housemother
Stella Denison, Housemother and Teacher
Dr. Sidney Maughs, Physician

Spofford Home, 5501 Cleveland Avenue, Kansas
City, Mo.

Founded: 1916

Residents: 16
Mrs. Elizabeth Lingenfelter, Co-ordinator
Opal Morrison, House Director
Loris Golden, Nurse and Supervisor
Mrs. Marjorie Newell, Assistant Supervisor
Lucille Baird, Office Assistant
Mrs. Hazel Ryser, Dietitian
James Avery, Relief Supervisor

Nebraska —

Mothers' Jewels Home, York, Neb.
Founded: 1890
Residents: 75
tj. N. Smith, Superintendent
JMrs. J. N. Smith, Assistant Superintendent
ttFreda Wirz, R.N., Nurse and Social Worker
William Coupland, Boys' Supervisor
Mrs. William Coupland, Boys' Matron
Mable Stahley, Girls' Matron
Frank Johnson, Janitor
Hattie Hembery, Stewardess
Lois Tuttle, Secretary
Fay Church, Assistant Girls' Matron
Helen Herschfelt, Cook
Mrs. Edna Sauter, Assistant Boys' Matron
Wayne Stevens, Assistant Boys' Worker

New I lampshire —

Soldiers and Sailors, Portsmouth, N. H.

New Jersey —

Bancroft- Taylor Rest Home, 74 Cookman
Avenue, Ocean Grove, N. J.
Founded: 1896
Residents: 60
Mrs. Orah T. Hilkert, Superintendent
Lillian Wainwright, Assistant Superintendent

and Dietitian
Edith G. Lanning, Housekeeper and Office

Secretary
Anne Lee Oliver, Nurse and Housekeeper

(Sunset)
Inez B. Smith, Nurse

New York —

Alma Mathews House, 273 W. 11th St., New
York 14, N. Y.
Founded: 1889
Residents: 18
"Leona A. Gill, Superintendent
*Evelyn Bloomer, Assistant Superintendent
Mrs. H. Gray, Housekeeper

Chautauqua Rest Home, Chautauqua, N. Y.
Founded: 1923
Residents: 20
Mrs. Thomas G. Landers, Hostess

Fenton Memorial Rest Home, Chautauqua,
N. Y.

Founded: 1917
Residents: 7
*Mrs. Emmeline Lonsdale, Hostess

Japanese Work, 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11,
N. Y.
JLois Curtice, Director

Ohio—

Esther Hall, 221 W. Ninth St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Founded: 1891
Residents: 30
Sadie Markee, Superintendent
*Bessie Musick, Associate

Friendship Home, 549 W. Seventh St., Cincin-
nati 3, Ohio
Founded: 1920
Residents: 21
tMrs. Willa Stewart, Superintendent
Florence Wheeler, Assistant Superintendent

Mothers' Memorial Center, 549 W. Seventh
St., Cincinnati 3, Ohio
Founded: 1920
fLucile Holliday, Superintendent
tMrs. Effie V. Madden, Asst. Superintendent
Maggie Shepherd, Director of Nursery School

Pennsylvania —

Skeer Rest Home, 102 S. Chancellor St., New-
town, Pa.

Founded: 1912

Texas —

Young Women's Co-operative Home, 111 Mc-
Kee St., Houston, Texas
Founded: 1907
Residents: 60
'Carmen Blessing, Director
*Iva Lou Matkin, Assistant Director
Mrs. Willie May Lindsey, Dietitian
Elizabeth Weaver, Custodian

Utah—

Esther Hall, 475 25th St., Ogden, Utah
Founded: 1913
Residents: 12
*Anna Corneliussen, Superintendent
Hazel Cooper, Assistant Superintendent

Esther Hall, 347 S. Fourth East Street, Salt
Lake City 2, Utah

Founded: 1936
Residents: 13
"Anna M. Othiem, Superintendent

Ogden Mission Worker. 475 25th St. Ogden,
Utah
"Helen Spessard
Utah Mission Worker, Salt Lake City, Utah

Virginia—

Wilson Inn, 3208 E. Broad St., Richmond 23, Va.
Founded: 1911
Residents: 56
"Mary Miller, Superintendent

Temporary Appointments in Connection with
Work in War-Industry Communities and One
with the WAC:

Mrs. Charles A. Wade
Mrs. Mabel Garrett Wagner
Lena O. York
Eleanor NefY
Harriet Seibert

"Deaconess. fEnrolled Home Missionary.

JForeign Missionary under temporary appointment in Home Field.

Department of Work in United States

117

BUREAU OF SOCIAL WORK— Conference

Alabama —

Eva Comer Co-operative Home, 1 730 Eighth
Ave., N., Birmingham, Ala. (North Ala-
bama Conference)
Founded: 1920
Residents: 50
'Florence Whiteside, Superintendent
Blanche Kemp, Dietitian

California —

Beulah Rest Home, 4690 Tompkins Ave., Oak-
land, Calif. (California Conference)

Founded: 1909

Residents: 43
Frances M. Marston, Superintendent
Edith Matthiesen, Day Nurse
Margaret Redmond, Night Nurse
Clara Jones, Relief
Hugh Jones, Caretaker
Mrs. S. Thompson, Matron

Colorado —

Margaret Evans Hall and Deaconess Home,
1630 Ogden St., Denver, Colo. (Colorado
Conference)
Founded: 1898
Residents: 13
Harriet Chapin, Superintendent

District of Columbia —

Swartzell Methodist Home for Children,
6200 Second St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
(Baltimore Conference)
Founded: 1912
Residents: 40
tFrances Harms, Superintendent
Mrs. Tommie J. Moore, Older Girls' Matron
Mrs. Cedelia Brownell, Small Girls' Matron
Mrs. E. W. Gore, Boys' Matron
Mrs. Nelly Philips, Relief Matron
Mrs. Emma Davies, Dietitian

Illinois—

Cunningham Children's Home, Urbana, 111. (Illinois
Conference)

Founded: 1895

Residents: 65
Charlotte Fitzgerald, Superintendent
Luverne Waltmire, Office Secretary
Ellen Gustafson, Matron
Laura Mills, Matron
Greta Brown, Matron
Priscilla Leeds, Matron
Virginia Metzger, Matron
Ilia Wood, Matron
Ethel Triplett, Matron
Eugene Hadfield, Farmer
Leota Bigler, Case Worker

Esther Hall, 537 Melrose St., Chicago, 111.
(Rock River Conference)
Founded: 1916
Residents: 27
*Marietta Eckerman

Indiana —

Esther Hall and Deaconess Home, 1241 N.
New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Ind. (Indiana
Conference)

Founded: Esther Hall, 1942
Residents: 12
Mrs. Frances Anderson, Superintendent

Iowa —

Shesler Hall, 1308 Nebraska St., Sioux City,
Iowa (Northwest Iowa Conference)
Founded: 1901
Residents: 31
Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, Matron

Kansas —

Esther Hall, 1002 S. Broadway, Wichita, Kan.
(Central Kansas Conference)
Founded: 1923
Residents: 33
*Lulu M. Patterson, Superintendent
Mrs. Myrtle Haynes, Housekeeper

Maryland — ■

Meth-Pro Home, 810 St. Paul St., Baltimore,
Md. (Baltimore Conference)
Founded: 1928
Residents: 24
Mrs. Susan Duff, Superintendent
Mrs. H. L. Murphey, Asst. Superintendent

Wo-Ho-Mis Lodge of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Inc., 607-609 Park Ave., Balti-
more, Md. (Baltimore Conference)
Founded: 1919
Residents: 67
Myrtle M. Harrison, Superintendent
Mrs. Edgar L. Annan, Asst. Superintendent

Michigan —

Aldrich Deaconess Home and Esther Hall.
523 Lyon St., N. E., Grand Rapids, Mich.
(Michigan Conference)
Founded: 1921
Residents: 28
Mrs. Viola A. Lewis, Superintendent

Esther Hall, 1191 Merrick Ave., Detroit, Mich.
(Detroit Conference)
Founded: 1921
Residents: 40
Lillie M. Macomber, Superintendent
Friendship Home, 6100 Scotten Ave., Detroit,
Mich. (Detroit Conference)
Founded: 1926
Residents: 10
Mrs. Emma P. Walker, Superintendent

Olney Rest Home, Ludington, Mich. (Michigan
Conference)
Founded: 1900
Residents: 16
Mrs. S. C. Pierce, Hostess

Minnesota —

Deaconess Home and Girls' Club, 181 W.
College Ave., St. Paul, Minn. (Minnesota
Conference)
Founded: 1917
Residents: 32
Mrs. J. L. Nelson, Superintendent

Missouri —

Work in Camp Community, Waynesville, Mo.
(St. Louis Conference)

New York —

Children's Home of Wyoming Conference,
1182 Chenango St., Binghamton, N. Y.
Founded: 1913
Residents: 33
Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Lowry, Superintendent
and Associate

•Deaconess.

fEnrolled Home Missionary.

118

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Mrs. Mabel McKune, Housemother
Mrs. Elizabeth Tinklepaugh, Nursery Matron
Kathryn Boulton, Nursery Matron
Mrs. Clara L. Burdick, Girls' Matron
Mrs. Clara Hunter, Boys' Matron
Howard Pat ton. Caretaker
Edward Evans, Assistant Caretaker
Mrs. Margaret Keith, Relief Worker
Mrs. Margaret Patton, Relief Worker
Maude Richards, Relief Matron
Agnes Kline, Secretary
Friendship Home, 300 Jefferson Ave., Buffalo,
N. Y. (Genesee Conference)

Founded: 1924

Residents: 18
Mrs. Margaret Smith, Superintendent

Ohio—

Flower Esther Hall, 1324 Superior St., Toledo,
Ohio (Ohio Conference)
Founded: 1908
Residents: 32
Bonnie B. Basden, Director
J. H. Basden, Bookkeeper
Marie Palmer, Housemother
Friendly Center Community House, 1334-36
Superior St., Toledo, Ohio (Ohio Confer-
ence)

Founded: 1920
Registration: 682
Bonnie Basden, Director
Warner C. Silver, Boys' Director
Mrs. Dorothy Boyson, Kindergarten and Girls'

Club Worker
Luanna Managham, Office Worker
William Jacobs, Junior Boys' Worker
Herbert Nakad, Junior Boys' Worker
James Martin, Handicraft
Pauline Lederer, Music

Oregon —

Methodist Old People's Home, 1625 Center
St., Salem, Ore. (Oregon Conference)
Founded: 1909
Residents: 52
Mrs. Beatrice Blatchford, Superintendent

Pennsylvania —

Elizabeth Bradley Children's Home, 214
Hulton Rd., Oakmont, Pa. (Pittsburgh
Conference)

Founded: 1903
Residents: 19

"Olive M. Morgan, Superintendent

"Frances L. Angell, Assistant Superintendent

Esther Hall, 2021 Mount Vernon St., Phila-
delphia, Pa. (Philadelphia Conference)

Founded: 1926
Residents: 16

tPhoebe Geyer, Superintendent
Mrs. E. B. John, Assistant Superintendent

Friendship Home, 1911 N. 12th St., Philadel-
phia, Pa. (Delaware Conference)

Founded: 1923
Residents: 13

Mrs. Mary F. Thompson Asst. Superintendent

Louise Home for Babies, 336 S. Aiken Ave.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. (Pittsburgh Conference)

Founded: 1913

Morals Court, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Pittsburgh Con-
ference)

Mrs. Eleanor H. Srodes, Social Worker

Ruth M. Smith Children's Home, Sheffield, Pa.
(Erie Conference)

Founded: 1921
Residents: 32

Gladys R. Mudford, Superintendent
Zoe Hersh, Boys' Supervisor

Travelers' Aid, Pennsylvania Station, Pitts-
burgh, Pa. (Pittsburgh Conference), (Co-
operative Work)

Fredericka Hays, Executive Secretary.

BUREAU OF MEDICAL WORK— National

Alaska —

Maynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, Alaska

Founded: 1913

Capacity: 21 beds
Dr. Thomas Morcom, Superintendent
Clara Kuhlman, R.N., Head Nurse
Faye Watson, R.N., Floor Nurse
Reba V. Todd, R.N.. Floor Nurse

Seward General Hospital, Seward, Alaska
"Ruth Murrell, Superintendent
Mrs. Hannah Chesnutt, R.N., Floor Nurse
Anna Mae Horton, R.N., Floor Nurse
Bertha McGhee, Dietitian
N. M. Noess, Technician
Mrs. Betty Justis
Mrs. Margaret Van Gorder

District of Columbia—

Sibley Memorial Hospital, 1140 N. Capitol
St., Washington, D. C.
Established: 1894
Students: 131
Capacity: 351 beds
John M. Orem, M.D., President
Edith V. Youngquist, Treasurer
Mrs. Helen Shoemaker, R.N., Director of

Nurses
Mrs. Elsie Casassa, R. N., Assistant Director
of Nurses

fEnrolled Home Missionary.

Margaret Hayes, R.N., B.S., Nursing Arts

Instructor
Rowena F. Roberts, Chief Dietitian
Dr. James F. Everett, Pharmacist
Frederic Gisler, Purchasing Agent
Mrs. Oneida B. Robertson, Housekeeper
Velma Hedges, Assistant Treasurer
Mrs. Johnnie Garrity, President's Secretary
Viola Sellers, Medical Secretary
Reba McClain, Secretary Training School

Office
Mrs. Florence Hansen, Record Librarian
Mrs. Dorothy Berger, Chief Laboratory Tech-
nician
Mrs. Olga Priovolos, X-ray Secretary
Mrs. Augusta Colman, R.N., X-ray Technician
Rexford G. Schroyer, X-ray Technician
Laura W. Field, Physical Therapist
Stella Dinkelspiel, R. N., Obstetrical Super-
visor
Mrs. Fay M. Gentry, R.N., Operating Room

Supervisor
Mrs. Alice Wilson, R.N., Assistant Operating

Room Supervisor
Mrs. Harriett Dutton, R.N., Student Health

Supervisor
Mrs. Helen Simms, R.N., Medical and Surgical

Supervisor
Mrs. Loretta Sherwood, R. N., Medical and

Surgical Supervisor
Mary Bryant, R.N., Nursery Supervisor
Mrs. Hazel Eury, R.N., Assistant Nursery

•Deaconess.

Department of Work in United States

119

Mrs. Josephine Wenrich, R.N., Acting Ob-
stetrical Supervisor
Mrs. Hope McDonough, R.N., Acting Ob-
stetrical Supervisor
Mildred Feagans, R.N., Acting Floor Super-
visor
Nellie Hummer, R.N., Head Nurse, 4th Main
Mrs. Frances Kerr, R.N., Head Nurse, 5th

Main
Lucy Scaggs, R.N., Head Nurse, 6th Main
Maragret Cockrill, R.N., Acting Head Nurse,

3d Main
Grace Anderson, R.N., Head Nurse, 2d Annex
Ellen Norstrude, R.N., Head Nurse, 3d Annex
Mrs. Betty Casella, R.N., Head Nurse, 1st

Annex
Mary Davis, R.N., Acting Supervisor, De-
livery Room
Juanita Gardner, R.N., Head Nurse, 2d Main
Mrs. Dorothea Scheuch, R.N., Nursery Super-
visor
Mrs. Mary George, R.N., Nursery Supervisor
Fannie Carden, R.N., Central Supply Room

Supervisor
Mrs. Beulah Mumford, R.N., Admission Clerk
Louise Welch, R.N., Admission Clerk
Mrs. Thelma Chavez, R.N., Rust Hall Hostess
Mrs. Lillian Keane, Rust Hall Hostess
Mrs. Blanche Whemple, Hospital Hostess
Mrs. Letitia Bartlett, Hospital Hostess
Louise Hagel, Dietetic Instructor
Samuel Elmore, Laundry Superintendent

Florida —

Brewster Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla.
Founded: 1901
Capacity: 118 beds
Student Nurses: 38
Florence M. Jones, R.N., Superintendent
Mrs. Janet Fisher, R.N., Superintendent of

Nurses
Eleanor Meserve, R.N., Instructor Nursing

Arts
Mrs. Larci Davis, R.N., Instructor Sciences
Carolyn Borcherding, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Matilda Walker, R.N., Surgical Supervisor
Ethel Harris, R.N., Night Supervisor
Inez Harris Rivers, R.N., Obstetric Supervisor
Susie Thompson Davis, R.N., Floor Supervisor
Gertrude Lewis, R.N., Floor Supervisor
Leila Williams, R.N., Floor Supervisor
Wilhelmina Mable, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Mamye Stevenson, R.N., Floor Nurse
Mrs. Georgiana Gifford, R.N., Instructor
Mrs. Harriet Yoser, Dietitian
Mrs. Margaret Moody, Office Manager
Mrs. Rita Harrison, Bookkeeper
Mrs. Grace Carlough, Assistant Bookkeeper
Katherine Garthous, Assistant Bookkeeper
Margaret Mahoney, Telephone Operator
Bessie Cromartie, Housekeeper
Mrs. Nettie Ogle, Housemother (Nurses'

Home)
William Roberts, X-Ray Technician
Cecil Harden, Engineer
Leon Taylor, Assistant Engineer

Massachusetts —

Medical Mission Dispensary, 36 Hull St.,
Boston, Mass.
Founded: 1894
Dispensary Patients: 13,813
District Visits: 1,906
Carolyn K. Winters, R.N., Superintendent
Mrs. Mildred Scott, R.N., Head Nurse
Mary Hanrahan, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Elizabeth MacDonald, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Mrs. Phoebe Raymond, Dietitian
Dr. Aaron Koblentz, Resident
Dr. Leonard Kramer, Resident
Dr. Frank Ames, Visiting Dentist
Dr. Harold Ripley, Visiting Eye, Ear, Nose,
and Throat Specialist

Dr. Norman Boyer, Visiting Cardiologist
Mrs. Dorothy Bishop, Supervisor, Social

Service
Anne Manning, Social Service
Livia Cenerizio, Admitting Clerk

New Mexico —

Methodist Sanatorium, Central Ave., Albu-
querque, N. M.
Founded: 1912
Capacity: 65 beds
*Mrs. Minnie G. Gorrell, Superintendent
Mrs. Ellen Bankston, Night Supervisor
Hattie Lou Womble, R.N., Head Nurse
Helen Gillespie, Nurse
Regina Chini, Bookkeeper
fMary J. Pittard, Housekeeper

Texas —

Freeman Clinic and Newark Conference Hos-
pital, 1109 E. 5th St., E. Paso, Texas
tEmma J. Brandeberry, Superintendent
tMillie J. Rickford, R.N., Director of Nurses
*Bessie L. Estep, R.N., Floor Nurse
tBlanche Thornton, R.N., Floor Nurse
Hulda Sturm, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Mrs. A. E. Lambert, R.N., Clinic Nurse
Mrs. Bessie Austin, R.N., Night Nurse
Cucu Castillo, Admitting Clerk
Dr. Mildred L. Murray, Eye, Ear, Nose, and

Throat Specialist
Dr. Jesson L. Stowe, Obstetrics <

Dr. Charles Rennick, Pediatrics

Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement, 1119 E.
Fifth St., El Paso, Texas
tEmma J. Brandeberry, Superintendent
tKate Frazier, Home Economics
tHester Easley, Girls' Work
•Margaret McLaughlin, Kindergarten
Mrs. Lily Howard, Kindergarten

Santo Domingo —

Hospital Internacional, Ciudad, Trujillo,
Dominican Republic. (Under the Board
for Christian Work in Santo Domingo, an
Interdenominational Board of Presby-
terian, Methodist, and United Brethren
Churches.)
Rev. Barney Morgan, General Superintendent
Mrs. Caroline McAfee Morgan
Eunice A. Baber, R.N., Superintendent of

Nurses
Dr. Arturo Damiron
Dr. R. R. Cohen

Dr. Manuel Pimental, Laboratory Technician
Dr. Manon, X-Ray Technician

MEDICAL WORK— Conference

California —

Methodist Hospital of Southern California,
2826 S. Hope St., Los Angeles 7, Calif.
Founded: 1903

Capacity: Adult, 198; Infants, 50
Aim: To care for the sick and injured
of the community
Mary K. West, Superintendent
Edward Curtis Jackson, Auditor
Harold R. Callahan, Business Office Manager
Elvera Anderson, Head Dietitian
Florence Martin, Pharmacist
Elsie H. Schulz, Record Librarian
Ruth G. Whitney, Head X-ray Technician
Helen Hughes, Physiotherapy Technician
Nellie S. Will, Housekeeper
Mary Gebhart, Laundry Forelady

'Deaconess.

tErrolled Home Missionary.

120 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Edward R. Dudley, Chief Engineer Illinois — ■

^l^J^^t- P'reAto^ °f Nurf in8 . NT Holden Hospital. Carbondale. 111.
Ethel E. Kirchofer, Asst. Director of Nursing »» ,.■ -a -a u n xt o • . j .

Marearet I ockridee Instructor for Nurse-? Mattie B. Pangborn, R.N.. Superintendent

Aides Lockridse, instructor tor JNurses Jennie Johnson. R.N.. Floor Nurse

A/f.-u-aj ir^i,„ro„ »„.;„(„„, t„,.i -.,,..„, f , Naomi Hampton, R.N., Night Supervisor

Mildred fc-ckgren, Assistant Instructor for >«• „ ir„n,=- r>„Ji «- r> ivr r»„„l , « D ~

Nurses' Aides Esther Parker, R.N., Operating Room

Mildred H. Newton, Afternoon Supervisor uSUMrV1S°o ji /->*c **

Mary E. Palmo, Night Supervisor ^^^^^T^^p?^^^1!^"

Kathleen N. Smylie Surgery Supervisor Geraldine Wilkens, Receptionist

Stella P. McCanna, Obstetrical Supervisor Indiana

Evelyn Gibson, Floor Supervisor XT „ TT . , .

Agnes Patt, Floor Supervisor North Hammond Clinic, Hammond, Ind.

Irene Rodgers, Floor Supervisor Founded: 1928

Mrs. Louise Freuhling, Superintendent

HOME MISSIONARIES

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Adams, Ruth E Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Aldrich, Helen Frances DePauw School 4952 Sunset Blvd.. Los Angeles, Calif.

Allen, Eunice Helen Kelly Manley Center 2828 S. W. Front St., Portland, Ore.

Averitt, Ann Open Door Community House 2700 Second Ave., Columbus, Ga.

Bate. Grace Blodgett Community House 950 Peace St., Hazleton, Pa.

Bebermeyer, Ella Leave of Absence Enterprise, Kan.

Beckwith, Josephine Mt. Zion Church 1212 Oxford St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Brandeberry, Emma Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement. . . .1119 E. 5th St., El Paso, Texas

Bope, Mary L Wesley House 129 Wharf Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Brandes, Grace Peek Home Polo, 111.

Breckerbaumer, Lulu Leave of Absence Lewis, Iowa

Bromley, Elizabeth Alvan Drew School Pine Ridge, Ky .

Bryan, Lulu Browning Home and Mather

Academy Camden, S. C.

Butler, Mrs. Clara B Esther Hall 2580 C St., San Diego, Calif.

Callaway, Eva L. B. Davis Neighborhood House 1200 N. 13th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Campbell, Lucille Allen High School 331 College St., Asheville, N. C.

Carruth, Iva Maye Harwood School 1114 N. 7th St., Albuquerque, N. M.

Claus, Esther Epworth School Elm and Marshall PI., Webster Groves

19, Mo.

Cobb, Rosie Sager- Brown Home and Godman

School Baldwin, La.

Collins, Mrs. A. B Ritter Hall Athens, Tenn.

Cone, Mary Carol Engle Settlement 315 Belleview Ave., Fairmont, W. Va.

Cooling, Elizabeth The National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Cushman, Louise (Leave of Absence) Neosho, Mo.

Daves, Fae Marcy Center 1539 S. Springfield Ave., Chicago, 111.

Decker, Ethel Helen Kelly Manley Center 2828 S. W. Front St., Portland, Ore.

Devine, Etta Navajo Mission School Farmington, N. M.

Dunker, Barbara Navajo Mission School Farmington, N. M.

Easley, Hester (Leave of Absence for Study)

Edgerton, Mabel Pfeiffer Junior College Misenheimer, N. C.

Edick, Helen M (Leave of Absence)

Edwards, Esther Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Engel, Bertha Marcy Center 1539 S. Springfield Ave., Chicago, 111.

Farrington, Alice McCrum Community House 26 Nutt Ave., Uniontown, Pa.

Feldman, Dora Allen High School Asheville, N. C.

Fleming, Isabel Gum Moon Residence Hall 940 Washington St., San Francisco 8,

Calif.

Frazier, Kate Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement .... 1 1 19 E. 5th St., El Paso, Texas

Foust, Lee Ola Wolff Settlement 2801 17th St., Tampa, Fla.

Geyer, Phoebe Esther Hall 2021 Mt. Vernon St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Gipson, Frieda The National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Gore, Fannie Belle Clark College Atlanta, Ga.

Guigou, Emily West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Hanton, Marjorie North Barre Community Center 101 Smith St., Barre, Vt.

Harms, Frances Swartzell Home 6200 Second St., N. W., Washington,

D. C.

Harpst, Ethel Ethel Harpst Home 740 Fletcher St., Cedartown, Ga.

Hays, Gladys Navajo Mission School Farmington, N. M.

Holliday , Helen Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Holliday, Lucile Friendship Home 549 W. 7th St., Cincinnati 3, Ohio

Huff, Bernice Director of Kindergartens Box 1068, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Huffman, Mabel Navajo Mission School Farmington, N. M.

Huitema, Sylvia Wood Junior College Mathiston, Miss.

Hurd, Georgia Boylan-Haven School Jacksonville, Fla.

Jacobson, Eda Marcy Center 1539 S. Springfield Ave., Chicago, III.

Jakes, Clara (Leave of Absence) Lafayette, Ind.

Jenkins, Erma South Side Settlement 636 Reeb Ave., Columbus, Ohio

Jones, Edna Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Jones, Florence Student Counselor Ruston, La.

Jones, Isabelle Allen High School 331 College St., Asheville, N. C.

Jones, Nellie (Leave of Absence)

Keith, Ethel (Leave of Absence)

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NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Kellogg, Helen (Leave of Absence for Study) Gowanda, N. Y.

King, Zoe Langleyville Settlement Langleyville, 111.

Knapp, Isabelle Robincroft Rest Home 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Larcom, Lena Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood

House 1200 N. 12th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Leckliter, Mary Robincroft Rest Home 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Leese, Viola Peek Home Polo, 111.

Lehman, A. Jennette Boylan-Haven School Jacksonville, Fla.

Little, Dorothy (Leave of Absence for Study) 1119 E. 5th St., El Paso, Texas

Lowry, Carmen Eliza Dee Hall 1203 East Ave., Austin, Texas

Lukens, Edna Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

McConnell, Martha (Leave of Absence for Study)

MacNicholl, Mary Boylan-Haven School Jessie & Franklin Sts., Jacksonville 6,

Fla.

Madciff, Emma Pfeiffer Junior College Misenheimer, N. C.

Madden, Mrs. Effie V Friendship Home 549 W. Seventh St., Cincinnati 3, Ohio

Mantooth, Jewel Rural Work 320 W. Oklahoma, Anadarko, Okla.

Marsh, Dorothy Blodgett Community House 950 Peace St., Hazleton, Pa.

Masters, Ervilla Wood Junior College Mathiston, Miss.

Meredith, Helen Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Merselis, Lois West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Metzger, Mabel Robincroft Rest Home 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Miller, Doris Conference Rural Work 311 Vernon St., LaGrange, Ga.

Moar, Caryl Browning Home and Mather

Academy Camden, S. C.

Moddelmog, Rebecca Engle Settlement 137 Maple Ave., Fairmont, W. Va.

Murray, Louise Frances DePauw School 4952 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Noell, Julia Pine Ridge, Ky.

Norton, Dorothy Italian Settlement 615 Mary St., Utica, N. Y.

Pabis, Helen Southside Mission 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Parsons, Hettie Mae Methodist Church Marysvale, Utah

Peacock, Frances (Leave of Absence) Camden, S. C.

Pittard, Mary J Methodist Sanatorium Central Ave., Albuquerque, N. M.

Poole, Edna Leisenring, No. 3, Community

Center R. F. D., Dunbar, Pa.

Powell, Phoebe Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Pryor, Ethel Ritter Hall Athens, Tenn.

Purviance, Monica (Leave of Absence)

Reuter, Grace Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Reynolds, Mary Lou East Oklahoma Conference Rural Box 292, Hartshorne, Okla.

Rickford, Millie Freeman Clinic and Newark Con-
ference Maternity Hospital 1119 E. Fifth St., El Paso, Texas

Sheppard, Cecilia The National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Sheffer, Lillie Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood

House 1200 N. 13th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Snyder, Christine Kentucky Coal Fields Hardy, Ky.

Sochor, Bozena Oliver No. 1 Chapel 26 Nutt Ave., Uniontown, Pa.

Spencer, Maude Pfeiffer Junior College Misenheimer, N. C.

Stallworth, Vivian Conference Rural Work Box 508, Ozona, Texas

Stewart, Mrs. Willa J Friendship Home 549 W. Seventh St., Cincinnati 3, Ohio

Straley, Faye Frances DePauw School 4952 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Strickland, Helen Student Counselor Lafayette, La.

Stryker, Veda Pfeiffer Junior College Misenheimer, N. C.

Thornton, Blanche Freeman Clinic and Newark Con-
ference Maternity Hospital 1119 E. Fifth St., El Paso, Texas

Titus, Julia Allen High School 331 College St., Asheville, N. C.

Ullery, Bessie Navajo Mission School Farmington, N. M.

Vanek, Emma Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood

House 1200 N. 13th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Vanek, Ethel Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood

House 1200 N. 13th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Vann, Florence McCarty Settlement Cedartown, Ga.

Van Scyoc, Bessie K McCrum Community House 26 Nutt Ave., Uniontown, Pa.

Weatherstone, Mrs. Margaret. . Erie School Olive Hill, Ky.

Webster, May L Italian Settlement 615 Mary St., Utica, N. Y.

White, Eureath :The National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Wiggins, Mabel Gum Moon Residence Hall 940 Washington St., San Francisco,

Calif.

Wirz, Frieda Mothers' Jewels Home York, Neb.

Wright, Ruth (Leave of Absence)

Zeliff, Verr George O. Robinson School Box 1068, San Juan, Puerto Rico

122

Woman's Division of Christian Service

BUREAU OF DEACONESS WORK — Conference

Deaconess Homes and Stations

California —

San Francisco Deaconess Work
Founded: 1901

Colorado —

Spanish Mission, W. Colfax Ave. and Ninth St.,
Denver, Colo.
•Martha Bebermeyer, 1630 Ogden St., Denver,
Colo.

District of Columbia —

Washington Deaconess Home, 2907 13th St.,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
Founded: 1889
Parish Workers:
•Dixie F. Carl, Superintendent
'Lola M. McKinney
"Lily Schwab

Maine —

Defense Work, Portland, Me.
•Harriet L. Perry

Maryland —

Baltimore Deaconess Home, 605 Cathedral St.,
Baltimore 1, Md.
Founded: 1892
Parish Workers:
•Jennie M. Eddington, Superintendent
•Marguerite E. Brightman
•Mary C. Hedman
•Ruth E. Kitzmiller
'Madeline E. Lary
•Helen M. Leach
•Gladys K. Pautz
•Helen D. Long
•Virginia M. Robb
•Ethel R. Wolf
Pauline Stone

Michigan —

Detroit Deaconess Work
Founded: 1889
Parish Workers:
•Julia D. Beach
•Flora B. Bennett
•Mildred H. Cline
•Florence Daniels
•Florence K. Eslinger
'Marybelle Stewart
•Mabel J. VVhited
•Leona M. Winegarden
•Beulah E. Woodcock
•Lois E. Zimmerman

Missouri —

The Methodist Church, Oronogo, Mo.
Founded: 1921
•Glenice M. Courter, Pastor

New Jersey —

Deaconess Work, Newark Conference

•Marie Baker, 349 Parker St., Newark 4, N. J.
•Ethel M. Bechtold, 2811 Hudson Blvd., Jersey

City, N. J.
•Rebecca A. Robertson, Centenary Church,
762 Mt. Prospect Ave., Newark, N. J.

New York —

Brooklyn Deaconess Work
Founded: 1890
•Martha E. Burnton
•Alice M. Hedell
•Nellie Mae Keneval
•Alice I. Leonard
•Minnie F. Peppiatt
•Lois Tice s
•Ethel Young

•Deaconess.

Ohio—

Cleveland Deaconess Home, 3000 Bridge Ave.,
Cleveland 13, Ohio
Founded: 1890
Parish Workers:
•Frances Ballou
•Neoma Harris
•Ruth Lancaster
•Orpha Moffet
•Edith E. Porter
•Edna Rhodes
•Helen L. Rink
•Emma Smith
•Ethel S. Weisz

Guernsey Valley Parish
Founded: 1910
•Julia A. Lakey, 902 N. Eighth St., Cambridge,
Ohio

Holloway Deaconess Home, 303 Howard St.
Bridgeport, Ohio
Founded: 1900
•Mary J. Lockhart, Superintendent
•Grace Arnold
•Eunice I. Britt
•Ruth E. Holt
•Edna M. Stephan
•Nellie O. Stevens
June Bond

McKelvey Deaconess Home, 72 S. Washington
St., Columbus, Ohio
•Grace E. Yoakam, Superintendent
Parish Worker:
•Homie R. Clark

Scioto Valley Marsh Project, Route No. 1 ,
Alger, Ohio

Founded: 1939
•Beatrice E. Greene

Pennsylvania —

Irene Maitland Deaconess Home, 107 Phillips
St., New Castle, Pa.
•Ida Schnackel, Superintendent
•Alma E. Wolverton

Community Work

Founded: 1906
•Laura M. Galliers, 804 Sixth St., Altoona, Pa.

Kulpmont Mission, 860 Chestnut St., Kulp-
mont. Pa.

Founded: 1921
•Rena E. Reiser

Philadelphia Deaconess Home, 114 S. 38th
St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Harriet Stevens, Matron
•Neva Carden
•Ruth Dowling
'Sarah May Garrett
•Frances M. Kieffer
•Blanche McVeigh *
•Margaret E. Wilson

Pittsburgh Deaconess Home, 2000 Fifth Ave.,
Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
Founded: 1891
Parish Workers:
•Florence R. Jury, Superintendent
•Eleanor L. Dolby
•Dorothy M. Russell
•Lena L. Sisco
•Emma Lou Tucker
Ruth Riggle

West Virginia —

Holloway Deaconess Home, 303 Howard St.,
Bridgeport, Ohio
Founded: 1900

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DEACONESSES IN ACTIVE SERVICE

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Adams, Carrie E Italian Mission 814 Regent St., Madison, Wis.

Adams, Kate Grant Hall 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Agans, Ethel M Social Service 278 Kaighn Ave., Camden. N. J.

Alford, Annie Wesley House 200 Cherokee St., St. Joseph 48, Mo.

Allen, Frances South Georgia Conference Rural Work . Box 338, Mclntyre, Ga.

Almon, Martha D Rural Work Box 186, Crossville, Tenn.

Anderson, Clara E Epworth Methodist Church 217 Fairmount Ave., Jamestown, N.Y.

Anderson, Grace Pilot Mound Methodist Church Pilot Mound, Iowa

Anderson, Mary E First Methodist Church Birmingham, Mich.

Anderson, Verdie Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Angell, Frances L Bradley Children's Home 214 Hulton Rd., Oakmont, Pa.

Ard, Ethel M Robincroft Rest Home 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Armstrong, Catherine Westwood Methodist Church Cincinnati, Ohio

Armstrong, Florence J Wakefield-Grace Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N.Y.

Arnold, Charlotte First Methodist Church 124 E. Court St., Ithaca, N. Y.

Arnold, Esther E Park Avenue Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Arnold, Grace Martin's Ferry Church 303 Howard St., Bridgeport, Ohio

Arold, Lydia Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N. Y.

Avery, Mildred McCarty Settlement v . . Cedartown, Ga.

Baker, Athalia City Missions Paine College, Augusta, Ga.

Baker, Ella B First Methodist Church 625 Hamilton St., Palo Alto, Calif.

Baker, Marie Newark District 349 Parker St., Newark 4, N. J.

Ballou, Frances C First Methodist Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Bame, Fannie Bethlehem House Conklin Ave., Augusta, Ga.

Bane, Monta The Methodist Hospital Peoria, 111.

Banman, Anna K Good Samaritan Hospital Lexington, Ky.

Barbee, lone H Children's Home 5050 Madison Rd., Cincinnati 27, Ohio

Barber, Cleo Kingdom House 1 102 Morrison St., St. Louis, Mo.

Barnett, Ola Lee Sue Bennett College : . . London, Ky.

Barnwell, Mary Lou Exec. Secy, Bureau of Urban Work . . . 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Bartholomew, Ruth Paine College Augusta, Ga.

Bartruff, Pauline Calvary Methodist Church 126 N. Fifth St., Terre Haute, Ind.

Bastow, Alice Deaconess Hospital Great Falls, Mont.

Baxter, Edna M Hartford Seminary 55 Elizabeth St., Hartford, Conn.

Beach, Julia D Christ Methodist Church 5044 Berkshire, Detroit, Mich.

Bebermeyer, Martha Spanish Church 1630 Ogden St., Denver, Colo.

Bechtold, Ethel Lafayette and Simpson-Grace

Churches 281 1 Hudson Blvd., Jersey City, N. J.

Beck, Minnie A Bethesda Hospital Oak and Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio

Beck, Myrtle First Church 4903 Martin St., Lincoln. Neb.

Bell, Muriel Cajan Work Mt. Vernon, Ala.

Bengal, Catherine Bethany Young Women's Home 824 W. Armitage St., Chicago, 111.

Belknap, Rachel Centenary-Wilbur Church 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

Bennett, Mrs. Alice R Deaconess Hospital Billings, Mont.

Bennett, Flora B Bethany Church 13231 E. McNichols, Detroit 5, Mich.

Berglund, Josephine Bethlehem House 1403 College St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Berkley, Ruby Bethlehem House 301 S. Caldwell St., Charlotte 2. N. C.

Berry, Alda M Deaconess Settlement 2103 Atlantic St., Seattle 44, Wash.

Best, Mabel M Deaconess Settlement 2103 Atlantic St., Seattle 44, Wash.

Bettenhausen, Katherine Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N.Y.

Bilang, Rose Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Bilger, Ida Bethlehem House Conklin Ave., Augusta, Ga.

Binau, Hannah K Social Service Work 921 Pleasant St., Des Moines 14, Iowa

Binggeli, Frieda Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Bjornberg, Esther E Chicago Training School Garrett Bldgs., Evanston, 111.

Blaschko, Mary L Trinity Methodist Church 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City 1, Mo.

Blessing, Carmen Co-operative Home 1111 McKee St., Houston, Texas

Bloomer, Evelyn P Sabbatical Year, New York Univ 273 W. 11th St., New York 14, N. Y.

Blount, Beatrice Council of Churches 108 Mason St., Cincinnati, Ohio

Bogardus, LaDonna Conference Board of Education 31 N. Summit St., Akron 8, Ohio

Boggs, Esther Vashti School Thomasville, Ga.

Bond, Mary Lou Wesley House 342 Richardson St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Bowden, Ella K Trinity Institutional Church 2000 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va.

Bower, Gladice Sabbatical Year, Syracuse University . . 106 Walnut PI., Syracuse 10, N. Y.

Bowman, M. Rebecca Emerson Hospital Concord, Mass.

Bowman, Sarah A The Methodist Church R. R. No. 3, Waverly, Ohio

Boynton, Willa Bluefield District Box 142, Switchback, W. Va.

Brackebush, Tillie Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Brewer, Clara L Secretary, District Superintendent

and Church Union 420 Plum St., Cincinnati 2, Ohio

Brightman, Marguerite Fayette, Bennett Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Britt, Eunice I Conference Work — Holloway

Deaconess Home 303 Howard St., Bridgeport, Ohio

Broecker, Sarah Deaconess Rest Home Oak St. and Reading Rd, Cincinnati, O.

Brooks, Margaret M Methodist Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Brown, A. Louise Board of Education 125 E. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Brown, Darla Deaconess Home Settlement 307 West St., Wilmington, Del.

Brown, Elizabeth M Methodist Hospital 3525 Cuming St ., Omaha, Neb.

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NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Brubaker, Mrs. Elizabeth A . . . .Dean of Women, Tennessee

Wesleyan Junior College Ritter Hall, Athens, Tenn.

Brubaker, Jennie F Nehama and Brownsville Churches. . . Nehama, Neb.

Bucke, Martha R West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Buff ham, Mary E Deaconess Home 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Bunn, Bessie Wesley House 314 Chandler St., Montgomery, Ala.

Burch, Eva N Children's Home 2120 Highland Ave., Everett, Wash.

Burnton, Martha E King's Highway Church 20-29 Schenectady Ave., Brooklyn 3,

N. Y.

Burns, Emma Kingdom House 1 102 Morrison Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Buss, Alma Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Butler, Grace Kingdom House 1102 Morrison St., St. Louis, Mo.

Button, E. Marie Northwestern University 714 Foster Ave., Evanston, 111.

Cameron, Mary Rural Work Mt. Airy, N. C.

Campbell, Lila M Mexican Settlement ■ . . . . 2502 N. Akard St., Dallas, Texas

Carden, Neva Deaconess Home 114 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Carl, Dixie F Deaconess Home 2907 13th St., N. W. Washington, D. C.

Carryer, Ruth William Johnson Bethlehem Center. ..508 N. Farish St., Jackson, Miss.

Carter, Mrs. Edith M Sabbatical Year, Northwestern

University 2532 Asbury Ave., Evanston, 111.

Carter, Helen V Minnie Nay Settlement 43 Marshall St., Benwood, W. Va.

Carty, Bessie Trinity Church 18 Dale St., Worcester, Mass.

Chandler, Anna B Bethany Home for Young Women . . . .824 W. Armitage, Chicago, 111.

Chandler, Edith First Methodist Church 401 S. Chatham St., Austin, Minn.

Chandler, Mrs. Eula M New York Deaconess Association 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Chandler, Mamie Eastern Carolina State Teachers

College Greenville, N. C.

Cheever, Mrs. Mildred B West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Chesser, Sally E Prospect Methodist Church Summer and Center Sts., Bristol, Conn.

Church, Sarah D Leisenring Community Center R. F. D., Dunbar, Pa.

Clark, Homie R Third Avenue and Livingston

Methodist Churches 72 S. Washington St., Columbus, Ohio

Clark, Mabel Homer Toberman Settlement 115 N. Grand Ave., San Pedro, Calif.

Cline, Mildred H Martha Holmes Church 1432 Putnam, Detroit, Mich.

Coburn, May Rosa Valdez Settlement 1802 N. Albany St., Tampa, Fla.

Coger, Naomi Southside Settlement 72 S. Washington St., Columbus, Ohio

Cole, Cora A Deaconess Home 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15

Ore.

Colson, Catherine Alvan Drew School Pine Ridge, Ky.

Congleton, Jennie Wesley House 2131 N. Commerce St., Fort Worth,

Conner, Iva Manley Center 2828 S. W. Front St., Portland, Ore.

Coon, Edna Methodist Children's Home Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Corneliussen, Anna Esther Hall 475 25th Ave., Ogden, Utah

Coulter, Osta A Wayside Mission 811 E. Tuscarawas, Canton, Ohio

Courter, Glenice M The Methodist Church Oronogo, Mo.

Covington, Elizabeth MacDonell Wesley House Box 270, Houma, La.

Cowles, Bertha National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City 1, Mo.

Cox, Bertha Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Cramer, Hannah Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Crenshaw, Eva Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Crim, Dorothy L Ensley Community House 1404 Avenue H., Ensley, Ala

Cunningham, Ethel Neighborhood House 517 S. 4th St., Danville, Ky.

Cunningham, Mattie Mexican Center 170 S. Fredericksburg St., San Marcos.

Texas

Cupp, Roma A Bethlehem House 749 Walker Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Curl, Edith M Vincent-Bethel-Trinity Churches 181 Norton Ave., Long Beach, Calif.

Dangers, Mary S Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Daniel, Mary E Mary Elizabeth Inn 1040 Bush St., San Francisco 9, Calif.

Daniels, Florence Scott Memorial Church 569 Elizabeth St., Detroit, Mich.

Davidson, Maryellen Deaconess Hospital Bozeman, Mont.

Davies, Margaret S Deaconess Hospital Billings, Mont.

Davis, Myrta Bluefield District Roderfield, W. Va.

Day, Lillian Epworth Church 1330 A St., S. E., Washington, D. C.

Decker, Ruth E National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City 1, Mo.

DeMoss, Lillian Patterson Memorial Church 3429 Piedmont Ave., Baltimore, Md.

DePonceau, Anna M Willis Avenue Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Devore, Doris E Sabbatical Year, Northwestern

University 2031 Sherman, Evanston, 111.

Diaz, Dolores Wesley House 1 106 Varela St., Key West, Fla.

Diefenbaugh, Lela M Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Dixon, Carrie N Mt. Lebanon Church 346 Midway Rd., Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

Dodd, Dorothy Institutional Church 702 Admiral Blvd., Kansas City 6, Mo.

Dolby, Eleanor L North Avenue Church 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Dorsey. Emily Girls' Home 529 8th St., Dallas, Texas

Douglass, Beulah Deaconess Hospital Spokane, Wash.

Dower, Zillah Fliedner Hall 144 Broadway, Pawtucket, R. I.

Dowling, Ruth Green Street Church 114 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Draher, Minnie L Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Drais, Lenora M St. James Church Kingston, N. Y.

Duhigg, Ada B Highland Boy Community House .... Bingham Canyon, Utah

Duncan, Irene Bible Teacher 401 N. Randolph St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Duncan, Willia Wesley Institute 5621 N. Fifth St., Memphis, Tenn.

Durham, Mary Ora Bethlehem House 749 Walker Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Department of Work in United States 125

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Dutcher, Louise E National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City 1, Mo.

Dutrow, Clara I Bethany Hospital Kansas City, Kan.

Duxbury, Elizabeth Methodist Children's Home Williamsville, N. Y.

Eaton. Bess Wesley House 1310 Huger St., Columbia, S. C.

Ebel, Lydia Baldwin- Wallace College Berea, Ohio

Ebel, Pauline Wesley Chapel Deaconess Home, Oak St. and Reading

Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio

Eble, Pearl L Deaconess Home Community Center. .825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Eckerman, Marietta Esther Home 537 Melrose Ave., Chicago, 111.

Eddington, Jennie M Deaconess Home 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore, 1 Md.

Eddy, Pearl M Wesleyan College 310 S. 9th St., Salina. Kan.

Edwards, Lora B Omaha City Mission 2201 Cass St., Omaha, Neb.

Edwards, Pearle Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Eliason, Clara Memorial Hospital Winchester, Va.

Ellingwood, Agnes C Methodist Circuit Mesick, Mich.

Ellis, Lillian B Scotts Run Settlement R. R. No. 7, Box 380, Morgantown.

W. Va.

Ellis, Sallie Moore Community House 932 Davis St., Biloxi, Miss.

Ellison, Berta Bethlehem House 388 Brush St., Spartanburg, S. C.

Elmer, Hulda Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Erickson, Constance Lavinia Wallace Young Mission Nome. Alaska

Eslinger. Florence K Jefferson Avenue Church 629 Coplin St., Deiroit 15, Mich.

Estep, Bessie L Newark Conference Maternity Hos-
pital and Freeman Clinic 1109 E. 5th St., El Paso, Texas

Esterline, Kathryn E Boylan-Haven School Jacksonville, Fla.

Eubanks, Moselle Wesley House 129 Wharf Ave., Nashville 10, Tenn.

Ezell. Catherine Rural Work Dekalb, Miss. .

Fail, Maude Wesley House 1520 Eighth Ave., Meridian, Miss.

Falls, Vera Mining Region Hemphill, W. Va.

Faust, Lorna M Deaconess and Women's Home 1856 N. Sawyer Ave., Chicago, 111.

Fawcett, Edna M First Methodist Church Fort Dodge, Iowa

Fendenheim, Mary M West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Ferguson, Catherine \rgentine-Mexican Mission 1044 S. 26th St., Kansas City, Kan.

Ferguson, Ruth E Mexican Border Work 521 4th St., Calexico, Calif.

Fetzer, Sophia Minnie Nay Settlement 43 Marshall St., Benwood, W. Va.

Flaherty, Ruth Deaconess Settlement 278 Kaighn Ave., Camden, N. J.

Flood. Jennie Cajan Work Mt. Vernon, Ala.

Floyd, Mary F Yashti School Thomasville, Ga.

Fogle, Ruth A Chicago Evangelistic Institute 1754 Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111.

Forbes, Edith Trinity Institutional Church 2000 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va.

Forbing, Ruby Deaconess Settlement 2103 Atlantic St., .Seattle 44, Wash.

Fox, Emily Rebecca Williams Community House . . 1089 Pine St., S. E.. Warren, Ohio

Frakes, Marie H Deaconess Home Settlement 24 Kosciuszko St.. Buffalo, N. Y.

France, Lillian G Deaconess Home Community Center .825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Freeman, Mrs. Mary E Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Frields, Mrs. Eva C Chaddock Boys' School Quincy, 111.

Fuessler, Ruth First Methodist Church 225 W. Fulton St.. Butler, Pa.

Fullmer, L. Mae Sabbatical Year, American I'niv 2942 Ordway St., N. W., Washington,

D. C.

Fulmer, F. Fern York Street Church The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. Ohio

Funk, Alice M Englewood Church 6400 S. Stewart Ave.. Chicago, 111.

Gaither, Mrs. Florence E Conference Work 919 N. Carrollton Ave., Baltimore 17,

Md.

Galliers, Laura M Community Work 804 Sixth St., Altoona, Pa.

Garrett, Sarah May Fifth Street Community Center 114 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Garrison, Ula M Ellenberger Memorial Center 265 Cumberland St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Gatewood, Grace First Methodist Church 511 Dudley, Shreveport, La.

Gerken, Agnes Memorial Hospital Apt. 32, 345 S. Park, Casper, Wyo.

Giancola, Anna G Washington Park Church 117 Pawtucket Ave., Edgewood Sta-
tion, Cranston, R. I.

Gilbert, Ola Mining Region Bradshaw, W. Va.

Gill, Leona A Alma Mathews House 273 W. 11th St.. New York 14, N. Y.

Glasson, Elizabeth Madisonville Church 6103 Navarre PI., Madisonville, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio

Glendinning, Mary E Holding Institute Laredo, Texas

Gleason, Dorothy First Methodist Church Box 272, Modesto, Calif.

Glenk, Charlotte Deaconess Hospital Spokane, Wash.

Glenn, Cora Lee Malvina Community House Malvina, Miss.

Godwin, Angie Gobin Memorial Church 901 S. Indiana St., Greencastle, Ind.

Goetz, Adena L Immanuel and Sacred Heart

Churches 311 W. Wayne St., South Bend, Ind.

Goodale, Bertha A Grace Methodist Church 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Goodier, Lura J First Church 905 Oak St., Duncan, Okla.

Gordon, Mary E Chicago Home Missionary and

Church Extension Society 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Gorrell, Mrs. Minnie G Methodist Sanatorium Albuquerque, N. M.

Grant, A. Vivian Matthewson Street Church 136 Prairie Ave., Providence, R. I.

Graves, Ethel M St. Paul's Methodist Church 430 E. 13th St., Wichita, Kan.

Graves, Fannie L Deaconess Home Settlement 24 Kosciuszko St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Green, Lottie Wesley House 626 Upper St., Danville, Va.

Greene, Beatrice E . . . Scioto Valley Marsh Project R. R. No. 1 , Alger, Ohio

Greer, Mae I Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Gripman, Merle Home Missions Council of North

America 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

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Giizzard, Gertrude Open Door Community House 211 27th St., Columbus, Ga.

Grunert, Ruth E Methodist Children's Home Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Guenther, Catherine Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Hambright, Grace First Methodist Church 105 S. Milton St., St. Paul, Minn.

Hammer, Ruth The Christ Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Hanson, Opal Deaconess Children's Home 2120 Highland Ave., Everett, Wash.

Hanson, Martha M Argentine Mission 1044 S. 26th St., Kansas City, Kan.

Harding, Dorothy E Bennett Chapel 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

Harding, Orianna F Deaconess Hospital 25 Deaconess Rd., Boston, Mass.

Harrell, Mabel Wolff Settlement 2801 17th St., Tampa, Fla.

Harris, Grace Mason Deaconess Babyfold 108 E. Willow St., Normal, 111.

Harris, Neoma Euclid Avenue Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland- 13, Ohio

Harrison, Jeannetta Sue Bennett College London, Ky.

Harrison, Mary J Michigan Avenue Church 703 S. 6th St., Leavenworth, Kan.

Hartman, Elizabeth Embury Church Freeport, 111.

Harwood, Mary E Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Hatz, Dora E Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Haug, Anna Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N. Y.

•Haven, Nettie R Deaconess Home 825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Hay ward, Ella M Silver Lake Center 136 Prairie Ave., Providence, R. I.

Heard, Hyda Sunny Acres Lewisville, N. C.

Heath, Thelma Wolff Settlement 2801 17th St., Tampa, Fla.

Hebrew, Mary Ethel Harpst Home 740 Fletcher St., Cedartown, Ga.

Heck, Margaretha Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N. Y.

Hedell, Alice Jackson Heights Community Church . .40-38 82d St., Jackson Heights, N. Y

Hedman, Mary C North Avenue Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Heflin, Ruth Bethlehem Center 501 Orleans Ave., Richmond, Va.

Hempel, Lena Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27 ,

N. Y.

Hendricks, Lillie J MacDonell Wesley House Box 270, Houma, La.

Hennen, Belle R Holston Orphanage Greeneville, Tenn.

Henry, Willena Wesley House 1505 Polk St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Herrick, Sue V Mexican Community Center 515 S. Kansas St., El Paso, Texas

Hewes, Mildred Wilson Memorial Church 928 James St., Kalamazoo 21, Mich.

Hill, Beulah Methodist Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Hill, Juanita Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Hill, Mary E Conference Rural Work Box 112, Mulberry, Fla.

Hill, Rose The Christ Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Hilleary, Arthelia Rural Work Crossville, Tenn.

Hiner, Lulu Children's Home 191 E. Center St., Berea, Ohio

Hirse, Belle Methodist Old People's Home 1415 Foster Ave., Chicago 40, III.

Hoag, Ida Mae Montana Deaconess School Helena, Mont.

Hobbs, Gladys L City Missionary Society 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Hodkins, Margaret Dumas Wesley House Box 31, Crichton, Ala.

Hoffman, Sara Gene Division Street Church 43 E. Division St., Fond du Lac, Wis.

Hoge, Ora Marie Church of All Nations 824 E. 6th St., Los Angeles 21, Calif.

Holt, Ruth E Lansing Parish 303 Howard St., Bridgeport, Ohio

Hook, Dorothy A Center Methodist Church 7 Washington St., Maiden, Mass.

Hoole, Mary A Frances Mahon Hospital Glasgow, Mont.

Hooper, Ella K MacDonell Wesley House Box 270, Houma, La.

Hooper, Ora Holding Institute Box 264, Laredo, Texas

Hope, B. Marion Deaconess Home and Community

Center 825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Hopkinson, Mabel Riverside Settlement 869 40th St., Des Moines, Iowa

Hoppock, Mearle R DuPont Defense Project Hanford, Wash.

Houston, Mary E Calvary Methodist Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. V.

Howard, Frances Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Howard, Janett E First Methodist Church Stukey Apt. No. 39, Great Falls, Mont.

Hubley, Virginia E Christ Methodist Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Huck, Mary Lou Mining Region Amherstdale, W. Va.

Humphreys, Maurine L Grant Hall 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Hutcherson, Elizabeth Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Ice, Alta Christ Methodist Church Charleston, W. Va.

Jackson, Mary E Missionary Education Movement 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Jacobs, Ruth A Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Jennings, Elizabeth St. Paul Area Office 1987 Summitt Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

Jericho, Mame General Hospital 2220 Terrace Hghts, Los Angeles, Calif.

Jones, Florence C Louisiana Tech Box 34, Tech Station, Ruston, La.

Johns, Bernice L Epworth Church 142 N. Virginia, Bartlesville, Okla.

Johnson, Clara The Christ Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Johnson, Helen L Secretary, Youth Work, Woman's

Division of Christian Service 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Johnson, Rosamond Wesley House 342 Richardson St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Johnson, Serena Memorial Deaconess Home and

Asbury Hospital 915 E. 14th St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Jones, Marie Union Methodist Church 3628 Grandel Square, St. Louis, Mo.

Jordan, Edith M Trinity Church Springfield, Mass.

Judd, Dorothy A West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Jury, Florence R Deaconess Home 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Kasse, Linda Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N. Y.

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Kee, Sarah Centenary Methodist Church New Bern, N. C.

Keeler, Dale National Training School 5123 E. 15th St., Kansas City 1, Mo.

Kieffer, Frances Faith Church and Center 1 14 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Keiser, Rena E Kulpmont Mission 860 Chestnut St., Kulpmont, Pa.

Kelley, Pearlye Maye Wesley House 1505 Polk St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Keneval, Nellie M Hanson Place Central Church 318 Clermont Ave., Brooklyn 5, N. Y.

Kiehlbauch, Annette City Missionary Work First Methodist Ch., Tacoma, Wash.

Kinch, Alberta Deaconess Hospital Spokane, Wash.

Kinison, M. Blanche Tacoma Community House 1311 S. M St., Tacoma 3, Wash.

Kistler, Mary J Deaconess Home 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Kitzmiller, Ruth Curtis Bay Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Kraut, Helene Marie Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Kreutziger, Susie Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Kruger, Leota E Deaconess Home Settlement 278 Kaighn Ave., Camden, N. J.

Kuntz, Sophie Moore Community House 932 Davis St., Biloxi, Miss.

Lakey, Julia A Guernsey Valley Parish 802 N. 8th St., Cambridge, Ohio

Lamb, Edith Deaconess Hospital Wenatchee, Wash.

Lancaster, Ruth E People's Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Laney, Harriet E City Deaconess 1040 Bush St., San Francisco 9, Calif.

Lannom, Ruby Sabbatical Year Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

Lary, Madeline E Govans Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Law, Louise First Methodist Church Greenville, Miss.

Lawton, Rae Social Work ' 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Leach, Helen M Highland Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Leeper, Alpharetta State College for Women 705 W. Jefferson, Tallahassee, Fla.

Lehn, Ethel M First Methodist Church 511 Second St., Waukegan, 111.

Lehnert, Mrs. Carrie Scarlett Oaks Home Oak and Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio

Leighty, Edith Rural Work Bassett, Va.

Leipersberger, Catherine Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Lemons, Leone Vashti School 1 homasville, Ga.

Leonard, Alice I The Methodist Hospital Seventh Ave. and Sixth St., Brooklyn,

N. Y.

Leveridge, Ura Holding Institute Laredo, Texas

Lewton, Effie M Home for the Aged 929 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Lienhard, Rose Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Littlejohn, Mary Beth Indian Mission Box 4, Atoka, Okla.

Litzel, Louisa P Methodist Church R. R. No. 2, Conneaut, Ohio

Lockhart, Mary J Holloway Deaconess Home 303 Howard St., Bridgeport, Ohio

Long, Helen D South Baltimore Station 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1 , Md.

Lonsdale, Mrs. Emmeline Deaconess Home 24 Kosciuszko St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Lovin, Julia Bethlehem Center 929 E. Leuda St., Fort Worth, Texas

Lummis, Gladys Chicago Training School Garrett Bldgs., Evanston, 111.

Lyman, Leah Belle Oak Park Church N. Saginaw and Newell Sts., Flint 5,

Mich.

McCallister, Grace West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

McCIellan, Lalah West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

McCormick, Lucile Methodist Old People's Home 1415 Foster Ave., Chicago 40, 111.

McCoy, Eula Wesley House 67 South Blvd., Orangeburg, S. C.

McCracken, Sarah Scarritt Rural Training Project Scarritt College, Nashville 4, Tenn.

McCurry, Alice M Neighborhood Center 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

McDonald, Margaret Community House Sneedsville, Tenn.

McFerrin, Alta Hospital and Welfare Work 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

McFerrin, Verna Methodist Deaconess Orphanage 611 Evanston Ave., Lake Bluff, 111.

Mcintosh, Estelle Scott County Rural Project Box 181, Waldron, Ark.

McKee, Beatrice West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

McKeeman, Pearle Wall Street Mission 1308 Nebraska St., Sioux City, Iowa

McKinney, Lola M Union Methodist Church 1907 13th St., N.W., Washington, D. C.

McLarty, Alice Bethlehem House 801 N. 46th St., Birmingham 6, Ala.

McLaughlin, Elizabeth Virginia Council of Churches 525 Riverside Ave., Covington, Va.

McLaughlin, Margaret Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement. ... 1 109 E. 5th St., El Paso, Texas

McNabb, Reva I Frances DePauw School 4952 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

McVeigh, Blanche Faith Church and Center 1 14 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Main, Ruth R Hospital and Welfare Work 22 W. Erie'St., Chicago. 111.

Mandlebaum, Helen Wesley House 805 E. Washington St., Louisville, Ky.

Marshall, Margaret City Mission Work 116 Pearl St., Little Rock, Ark.

Martin, Inez Wesley House 229 Henry St., Portsmouth, Va.

Matkin, Iva Lou Co-operative Home 1111 McKee St., Houston, Texas

Maurer, Katherine R U. S. Immigration Station, 801

Silver Ave 1441 Jones St., San Francisco 9, Calif.

Mendez, Felicidad Mexican Rural Social Settlement Pharr, Texas

Miller, Carrie Rose City Park Church 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

Miller, Mrs. Delia M Children's Farm Home 224 Park Bldg., Portland, Ore.

Miller, Elsie L Board of Education 810 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn.

Miller, Mary Wilson Inn 3208 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va.

Mills, Mertie Grace Methodist Church 636 E. 10th St., Oklahoma City, Okla.

Millsap, Kathryn A Wesley Hospital 315 N. Hillside, Wichita, Kan.

Minkler, Marjorie Memphis Conference Rural Springville, Tenn. •

Mitchell, Nellie Mining Region Amherstdale, W. Va.

Moffet, Lena E Methodist Church Box 211, Philip, S. Dak.

Moffet, Orpha Broadway Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Moore, Glenn Disbursing Officer, Woman's

Division of Christian Service 150 Fifth Ave., New York 1 1, N. Y.

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Moorman, Wortley Virginia Conference Orphanage Richmond, Va.

Moreno, Faustina Mexican Community Center 515 S. Kansas St., El Paso, Texas

Morgan, Elma Wesley House 1815 Rothwell St., Houston, Texas

Morgan, Olive M Bradley Children's Home 214 Hulton Rd., Oakmont, Pa.

Morlock, Lillian Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Murdock, Alice Board of Missions and Church

Extension 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Murrell, Ruth Seward General Hospital Seward, Alaska

Musick, Bessie W Esther Hall 221 W. Ninth St., Cincinnati, Ohio

Musselman, Martha Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Myers, Ivy G First Church 14 E. Dayton St., Madison, Wis.

Nearhood, Alice Helping Hand Mission 1308 Nebraska St., Sioux City, Iowa

Nestor, Anna K South Side Settlement 72 S. Washington St., Columbus, Ohio

Newberry, Edna Deaconess Hospital Wenatchee, Wash.

Nichols, E. Louise Ethel Harpst Home 740 Fletcher St.. Cedartown, Ga.

Nichols, Mary City Mission Work 504 Northern Blvd., Wilmington, N. C.

Nicklas, Vera C Spring Grove and York St. Churches. . 1308 Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio

Noble, Mrs. Grace S Centenary-Tabernacle Church 278 Kaighn Ave., Camden, N. J.

Nuendel, Paula Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27,

N. Y.

Nuttall, Shiela Rural Work Oberlin, La.

Oakland, Ruby Deaconess Home 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Oltmanns, Anna Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs, Colo.

Othiem, Mrs. Anna Esther Hall 347 S. Fourth East St., Salt Lake

' City 2, Utah

Packer, Grace Alice Council of Churches, Weekday

Religious Education 542 S. Belmont, Wichita, Kan.

Palmer, Orva Deaconess Children's Home 2131 Highland Ave., Everett, Wash.

Palmore, Constance Wesley House 202 Castle St., Murfreesboro. Tenn.

Parker, Gertrude Maye First Methodist Church 414 E. Jackson, Pittsburg, Kansas

Parsons, Almeda The Church of St. Paul and

St. Andrew 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Patterson, Lulu M Wichita Esther Hall 1002 S. Broadway, Wichita, Kan.

Pautz, Gladys K Wilkins Avenue Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Pease, Bessie G City Missionary Work First Church, Tacoma, Wash.

Pederson, Lora Lee Nashville School of Social Work 412 21st Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn.

Peppiatt, Minnie F Fourth Avenue Church 345 50th St., Apt. ID, Brooklyn 20,

N. Y.

Perricelli, Mary Deaconess Community Center 825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Perry, Harriet Louise Maine Council of Churches 281 Spring St., Portland, Me.

Pflueger, Martha Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Phillips, Helen B Central Methodist Church 227 Bellevue, Trenton, N. J.

Piper, Helen C Montana Deaconess School Helena, Mont.

Pollom, Ethel F Goodwill Industries 2501 S. Jay St., Tacoma, Wash.

Pope, Ruth I Office, Bureau of Deaconess Work. ... 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Porter, Caroline A Homer Toberman Settlement 115 N. Grand Ave., San Pedro, Calif.

Porter, Edith E Lakewood Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Porter, Edith Frances Pastor Vanceboro, Me.

Porter, Willie May Rural Work 3939 27th St., Port Arthur, Texas

Powell, Garnett C Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Powers, Lela I Community House 523 Lyon St., N. E., Grand Rapids 3,

Mich.

Prescott, Martha E Louisville Rural Work Box 283, Central City, Ky.

Price, Doris A Pacific Home 1055 N. Kingsley Dr., Los Angeles,

Calif.

Price, Laura C Santa Monica Church 1244 W. 83d St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Pryor, Elisabeth Holding Institute Laredo, Texas

Pylman, Myrtle E Montana Deaconess School Helena, Mont.

Ragle, Josie Woodcrest Church 440 N. Grand, Los Angeles, Calif.

Randall, Alice R Rankin Community Center 3000 Crossman, Dallas 8, Texas

Randall, Lily L Hyde Park Community Church 1214 Halpin Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Rankin, Sylvia M Esther Hall 921 Pleasant St., Des Moines 14, Iowa

Rapp, Nellie E. M Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Rayson, Beulah M Methodist Church 625 Third Ave., W., Kalispell, Mont.

Reager, Maurine E Metropolitan-Duane Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Reeves, Helen Wesley House 1112 S. Walker, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Reich, Bertha Deaconess Hospital Wenatchee, Wash.

Reichmann, Dorothea Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Reid, Dorothea Centenary Church 401 McCallie, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Reid, Julia Wesley House 150 Colima St., San Antonio, Texas

Reynolds, Birdie Wesley House 1106 Varela St., Key West, Fla.

Rhodes, Edna M Church of the Saviour 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Riddle, Mary R Conference Rural Work Box 508, Ozona, Texas

Riel, Bertha A Methodist Church R. R. No. 3, Waverly, Ohio

Ringer, Lucile Rural Work Monticello, Ky.

Rink, Helen L Detroit Avenue Church 11311 Shaker Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

Ristine, Ethel Westwood Community Church 1429 Kelton Ave., Los Angeles, Cailf.

Ritchie, A. Lucile The Christ Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Rilter, Mary E Deaconess Settlement 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Ritz, Dorothy A Fordham Church 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Robb, Ruth Montana Deaconess School Helena, Mont .

Robb, Virginia M District Work 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1, Md.

Robbins, Laura Peek Children's Home Polo, 111.

Robertson, Rebecca A Centenary Church 762 Mt. Prospect Ave., Newark 4, N. J.

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Robinson, Martha Wesley House 1106 Varela St., Key West, Fla.

Rodenfels, Cornelia A Children's Home 5050 Madison Rd., Cincinnati 27, Ohio

Roesler, Emma Zoar Children's Home Allison Park, Pa.

Rogers, Annie M Wesley House 805 E. Washington St., Louisville, Ky.

Rogers. Bertha M Ellensberger Memorial 265 Cumberland St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Roos, Lillian Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Rubins, Geneva Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Russell, Dorothy M Conference Field Work 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Russell, Rubye Institutional Church 702 Admiral Blvd., Kansas Citv 6, Mo.

Rust, Lena M Wesley House 2131 N. Commerce St., Fort Worth 6,

Texas

Ryan, Mary J Good Samaritan Hospital Phoenix, Ariz.

Saathoff, Gertrude G West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Sanders, Oscie Educational. Worker, Joint Division

of Education and Cultivation 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Sawtelle, Bertie Chollas View Defense Project 4445 Mississippi, San Diego 3, Calif.

Scalf, Eleanor M Methodist Church 45 Barber St., Torrington, Conn.

Schaal. Gertrude Ingleside Methodist Church 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Schacht, Helen Methodist Hospital 342 W. 31st St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Schaich, Caroline Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Schimmelpfenig, Mathilda Bethesda Deaconess Home Oak and Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio

Schmitt, Marion G Deaconess Hospital Billings, Mont.

Schnackel, Ida M Deaconess Home 107 Phillips St., New Castle, Pa.

Schneider, Ida Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Schoolcraft, Berniece Morristown Charge 528 S. Penn St., Wheeling, W. Va.

Schrader, Wille M Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Schreiner, Meredith Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Schwab, Lily R Petworth Methodist Church 2907 13th St., N. W., Washington,

D. C.

Sebern, Florence Goodwill Industries 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Senrick, Lucy C First Methodist Church 351 B., W. 6th St., Long Beach, Calif.

Shaplan, Flora Methodist Hospital 121 Crescent Ave., Peoria, 111.

Shoemaker, Mary E Methodist Church 101 1 Second Ave., Renton, Wash.

Sherman, Amy G High Street Church Auburn, Me.

Shough, Ary M West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave.. Cleveland 13, Ohio

Sisco, Lena L Calvary Methodist Church 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Smith, Alice M Deaconess Hospital Spokane, Wash.

Smith, Emma M East Glenville Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Smith, Eugenia Wesley House 1815 Rothwell, Houston, Texas

Smith, Greta Deaconess Home 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Smith, Martha O First Methodist Church Wellington, Kan.

Smith, Mary F Pavillion Reclamation Project Deaconess Home, Pavillion, Wyo.

Smith, Pearl H Montana Deaconess School Helena, Montana

Smith, Una Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood

House 1200 N. 13th St., East St. Louis. 111.

Solomon, Hannah A Deaconess Home 136 Prairie Ave., Providence, R. I.

Sorber, Flora A Deaconess Home and Agard Rest

Home 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Southard, Julia Sabbatical Year, New York School

of Social Work 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Spessard, Helen V First Methodist Church 475 25th Ave., Ogden, Utah

Spicker, Lillian Bethesda Deaconess Home Oak and Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio

Spilker, Louise Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Sprengle, Lucile Methodist Church Deer Park, Wash.

Sproule, Martha . . .Alton Memorial Hospital Alton, 111.

Stafford, Margarett V Grant Hall and Grannex 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Stahley, Mollie F Ohio Council of Churches 714 N. Bever St., Wooster, Ohio

Starkebaum, Ida Young Woman's Bethany Home 824 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, 111

Stauffer, Miriam First Methodist Church 220 Third St., Elyria, Ohio

Steele, Hilda Susannah Wesley Home 4651 N. Paulina St., Chicago, III.

Steffer, Pearl A Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Steiner, Grace G Executive Secretary, Bureau of

Deaconess Work 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

Stelljes, Meta Bethany Hospital 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27

N. Y.

Stephan, Edna M North Street Church 324 N. York St., Wheeling, W. Va.

Stevens, Florence S Deaconess Home 136 Prairie Ave., Providence, R.I.

Stevens, Nellie O Hughes Memorial Mission 303 Howard St., Bridgeport, Ohio

Stewart, Martha Conference Rural Work 617 S. Main St., Camden, Ark.

Stewart, Mary Belle Ford Memorial Church Dearborn, Mich.

Stinogel, Edna M Austin Methodist Church 502 N. Central Ave., Chicago, 111.

Stouffer, Thelma M Broadway Temple 1 1 75 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y

Stout, Josephine E White Cross Hospital Indianapolis, Ind.

Stowe, Elsie F Great Hill Church 203 Pearl St., Seymour, Conn.

Streb, Louise Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Strong, Agnes Methodist Church W. Center and Second Ave., Rochester,

Minn.
Strong, Dorothy Brookland Methodist Church 1221 Newton St., N. E., Washington,

Stroup, Nettie Wesley House 1112 S. Walker St., Oklahoma Citv

Okla.

Stroven, Katherine Forest Glen Community House 308 W. Goguac, Battle Creek, Mich.

Stukenberg, Cora M Methodist Old People's Home 1415 Foster Ave., Chicago 40, 111.

Swartslander, Wilma G Central Methodist Church Third Ave. and Howard St., Spokane,

Wash.
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Sweet, Mildred E Wesley Foundation 602 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

Tague, Virginia West Virginia Coal Fields Roderfield, W. Va.

Tarr, Ada M David and Margaret Home La Verne, Calif.

Taylor, Mrs. Ethel G Grant Hall 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Taylor, Frances A Migrant Work Box 902, Eloy, Ariz.

Teel, Susie Mexican Rural Social Settlement Pharr, Texas

Thatcher, Grace Methodist Co-operating Council 642 Monroe Bldg., Norfolk, Va.

Thompson, Elizabeth Rural Work Box 25, Childersburg, Ala.

Thrall, Edith L Methodist Old People's Home 1415 Foster Ave., Chicago 40, 111.

Tibbetts, Iva E Girls' Home Division Deaconess

Home 825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Tibbetts, Pearl W First Methodist Church 308 W. Fairmont Ave., Fairmont,

W. Va.

Tice, Lois Bushwick Avenue Church 920 Madison Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Timm, Lola B Deaconess Home Settlement 24 Kosciuszko St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Tinsley, Lois Mexican Rural Work Alpine, Texas

Tompos, Julia Washington Heights Church Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Trumbull, Georgiana Deaconess Home 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Trumbull, Jennie C Tacoma Community House 1311 S. M St., Tacoma 3, Wash.

Tucker, Emma Lou First Church, Homestead 2000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Tucker, Fay First Methodist Church Hamilton, Ohio

Tyler, Arline Conference Rural 110 O'Neal Ave., Florence, Ala.

Tyler, Virginia Ensley Community House 1404 Avenue H., Ensley, Ala.

Tyree, Aubrey Spring Garden Church 1838 Wallace St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Ungerricht, Helen Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Unruh, Vivian M Browning School Camden, S. C.

Varn, Mattie Wesley House 2131 N. Commerce St., Fort Worth,

Texas

Vogel, Emma St. Mark's Community Church 1 130 N. Rampart St., New Orleans, La.

Vose, Agnes E St. John's Italian Church 1040 Bush St., San Francisco 9, Calif.

Waddell, Evelyn Wesley House Picher, Okla.

Wade, Alta Children's Farm Home Corvallis, Ore.

Waelchli, Anna M Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Waitt, M. Ruth Central Methodist Church 22 W. Erie St., Chicago, 111.

Walker, Sadie L First Church 700 Gray St., Des Moines, Iowa

Wallace, Avis Browning Academy Camden, S. C.

Ware, Fay A Sabbatical Year 107 N. Palm Way, Lake Worth, Fla.

Warrington, Martha Friendly Center Mission 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

Watkins, Lillian B Grant Hall 917 N. 11th St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Wattersonk, Catherine E Deaconess Home 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N.Y.

Watts, Mrs. Bithiah R Co-operative Home 412 Fanin St., Shreveport, La.

Watts, Donna E Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Watts, Sue Emily Allen School Asheville, N. C.

Weeks, Louise Wesley House 342 Richardson St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Weisz, Ethel S Epworth- Euclid Church 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Whipple, Bernice West Side Community House 3000 Bridge Ave., Cleveland 13, Ohio

Whitaker, Isabel F Methodist Publishing House 28 Sanders St., Weymouth, Mass.

White Bertha May Federated Community Church •. .Flagstaff, Ariz.

Whited, Mabel J Wesley Church 2804 Sixth St., Detroit, Mich.

Whiteside, Florence Eva Comer Home 1 730 8th Ave., N., Birmingham, Ala.

Whitsitt, Louise City Missionary Society 307 West St., Wilmington, Del.

Wierenga, Angeline M Montana Deaconess School Helena, Mont.

Wilbur, Anna M South Methodist Church Manchester, Conn.

Wilder, Agnes Kennedy Deaconess Hospital Havre, Mont.

Williams, Mildred Tacoma Community House 1311 S. M. St., Tacoma 3, Wash.

Willings, Ollie Rural Work Robstown, Texas

Williamson, Mary E Chaddock Boys' School 24th and Madison, Quincy, 111.

Wilson, Caroline P Jefferson Park Church 1175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N.Y

Wilson, Margaret E Elmwood Church 114 S. 38th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Winegarden, Leona M St. Mark's Church 10325 E. Jefferson, Detroit. Mich.

Wolf, Ethel R Union Square Church 605 Cathedral St., Baltimore 1. Md.

Wolf! Hilda L Bethlehem Church Woodburn and Fairfax, Cincinnati, O.

Wolf! Rose M Deaconess Hospital Spokane, Wash.

Wolverton. Alma E Deaconess Home 107 Phillips St., New Castle, Pa.

Womack, Mollie Mexican Community Center 515 S. Kansas St., El Paso, Texas

Woodcock, Beulah E Boulevard Temple 7325 12th St., Detroit, Mich.

Woodcock, Esther L Centenary-Wilbur Church 2545 N. E. Flanders St., Portland 15,

Ore.

Woolverton, Dorothy Washington Square Church 1 175 Madison Ave., New York 28, N. Y.

Wright, Nelle Trinity Church 1630 Ogden St., Denver, Colo.

Yates, F. Elizabeth Good Samaritan Hospital Phoenix, Ariz.

Yeager, Blanche A First Methodist Church Alhambra, Calif.

Yoakam, Grace E Deaconess Home 72 S. Washington St., Columbus, Ohio

Yoder, Nola D Glenburn Van Hook Mission 209 B St., Linton, Ind.

Yoder, Tennie Sabbatical Year, University of

Montana 1853 S. 11th St., W., Missoula, Mont.

Young, Ethel South Third Street 213 Union Ave., Brooklyn 11, N. Y.

Young, E. Mae Board of Education 810 Broadway, Nashville 2, Tenn.

Young, Esther Methodist Church Unadilla, Neb.

Young, Margaret Scarritt College Nashville 4, Tenn.

Zimmerman, Lois E Boulevard Temple 7325 12th St., Detroit, Mich.

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NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Brown, Minnie 2150 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach 6, Calif.

Brown, Willia M 404 E. 4th St., Laurel, Miss.

Bucke, Esther J 413 N. Second St., Wormleysburg, Pa.

Crothers, Arabella G 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Darling, Mary E Utica. N. Y.

Detwiler, Mollie 9 Commonwealth Rd., Cochituate, Mass.

Glandon, Ethel V Agard Rest Home, Lake Bluff, 111.

Kramer, Elizabeth Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kuppinger, Mrs. Christine 1516 W. Adams St., Chicago, 111.

Murray, Helen Grace Tionesta, Pa.

Neuling, Haydee Agard Rest Home, Lake Bluff, 111.

Newman, Grace 1 35 Speedwell, Morristown, N. J.

Taylor, Sarah P Deaconess Home, Pavillion, Wyo.

Wilkinson, Jane 1509 Northfield, Greensboro, N. C.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE— HOME DUTIES

Arnold, Katherine 1333 E. Beach St., Biloxi, Miss.

Backus, Ida H , Markesan, Wis.

Davey, Gertrude M 1549 Northampton St., Easton, Pa.

Frey, Catherine E R. F. D., Lyons, N. Y.

Fricke, Ruth K Box 216, Papillion, Neb.

Gleiser, Nellie V Palouse, Wash.

Garwood, Florence Box 453, Blackwell, Okla.

Kagey, Lula 1409 W. 50th St., Norfolk, Va.

Little, Agnes M Blackwell, Okla.

Mitchell, Susie Arlington, Texas

Morse, Olga Montesano, Wash.

Nettleton, Grace D Lodi, Ohio

Neuendorf, Marie 1047 E. 5th St., St. Paul, Minn.

Reil, Anita 103 Rehmann, San Antonio, Texas

Schaeffer, Electa 19614 Mitchell Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Schmickle, Frieda Central City, Iowa

Sells, Clara Mae Long Beach, Miss.

Stow, Ruth J Horseheads, N. Y.

Schwab, Nellie M R. R. No. 1, Manhattan, Kan.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE— WORKING OUTSIDE

Alexander, Roberta 3906 E. Central Ave., Wichita, Kan.

Berry, Evelyn U.S.O. Overseas Service

Brengman, Addie E Ill Williams Park, Apt. 4, Rockford, 111.

Brooks, Private Zane WAC— CWS— Hq. Det., Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark.

Bulifant, Hazel Buxton Hospital, Newport News, Va.

Carpenter, Caroline Care of E. O. Chapman, North Haven, Conn.

Chappel, Winifred L 22 W. Erie St., Chicago 10, 111.

Cowman, Goldie 3205 Victor PI., Wichita, Kan.

DeLong, Edythe Bible College, Huntington Park, Calif.

Dewey, Edith E Martha Washington Hotel, New York, N. Y.

Dove, Winifred L 616 Pennsylvania Ave., Bremerton, Wash.

Fuessley, Elizabeth Glenwood School for Boys, Glenwood, 111.

Fuller, Millicent I 1250 Sherman St., Denver, Colo.

Guilkey, Ethel Lane Care of Billings Hospital. Billings, Mont.

Halford, Ruth Olive Pilgrim Church, 28 Saunders St., Weymouth, Mass.

Henne, Carlotta 3105 Franklin St., Cleveland, Ohio

Hyde, Martina Centro Asturiano Hospital, Tampa, Fla.

Keller, Lydia H Martin, S. Dak.

Keniston, Mary E 1 14 E. Main St., S. Paris, Me.

Kling, Ida 2507 41st St.. S. W., Seattle, Wash.

Langdon, Lillian 1610 Luma Ave., Chicago, 111.

McCullough, Jane University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.

Nesbit, Elsie 425 Johnson Ave., Macon, Ga.

Newcomer, Mrs. Irma Rockford, 111.

Newell, Marie U.S.O. , Edgemont, S. Dak.

Owen, Reva A 3303 E. 10th St., Denver 6, Colo.

Owen, Ruby Box 553, Pacoima, Calif.

Rounds, Marion 2201 N. Alder, Tacoma, Wash.

Russell, Lavinia G 35 Lorna Rd., Mattopan, Mass.

Turner, Lura A 2219 Highland, Chicago 45, 111.

Vause, Grace A 2607 Denver Ave., Kansas City 1 , Mo.

Walden, Cecil B 1614 S. State St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Wilson, Edith 1106 Crisp Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

132 Woman's Division of Christian Service

DEACONESSES HAVING THE RETIRED RELATIONSHIP

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Adams, Grace G 1837 Greenleaf Ave., Chicago, 111.

Adron, Dora Agard Rest Home, Lake Bluff, 111.

Allen, Bessie Hendersonville, N. C.

Allen, Pattie Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Asher, Mrs. T. W. (Emeritus Superintendent) Mason Deaconess Home and Babyfold, Normal, 111.

Arbuckle, Jessie E R. F. D. No. 6, Mercer, Pa.

Ariss, E. Augusta (Emeritus Superintendent) Deaconess Hospital, Great Falls, Mont.

Baker, Effie A - 74J^ Bloomingdale Ave., Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Baker, Blanche L. (Relinquished pension) Fredericsburg, Texas

Bangs, Eva V 504 Byers St., Joplin, Mo.

Barber, Bertha 617 North Brand Blvd., Glendale 3, Calif.

Barber, Clara M Care of Vilas Home, Plattsburg, N. Y.

Barker, Alice M Home for the Aged, Concord, Mass.

Bauch, Lena M 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Bauman, Katie 2818 Winslow Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Baur, Johanna M 2818 Winslow Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Beadles, Bertha A 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Beardsley, Jennie 607 S. 7th St., Springfield, 111.

Beck, Roxana 1055 N. Kingsley Dr., Los Angeles 27, Calif.

Beecher, Bertha (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Benedict, Addie E 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Bennett, Ada Lee (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Bennett, Clara M 2324 Burlington Ave., N., St. Petersburg, Fla.

Beyer, Caroline E 4690 Tompkins Ave., Oakland, Calif.

Blackburn, Katherine A 3026 Sandwich St., Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Blackman, Susette M 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Blackwell, Florence 636 Arlington, Kansas City, Kan.

Boardman, Elizabeth 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Bond, Mrs. Carrie 8023^ E. Amelia Ave., Tampa, Fla.

Boultenhouse, Caroline 10 School St., Dorchester, Mass.

Bradley, Mary 1 2 Garden Ave., Toronto, Canada

Bradley, Rosa M 28 N. Paddock St., Pontiac, Mich.

Burgess, Anna Milltown, Ind .

Calvert, Corrine Griggsville, 111.

Cameron, Mary V 5343 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Carpenter, Mary E Kingswood School, Inc., Tate Springs, Tenn.

Cast, Carrie 2818 Winslow Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Chapin, Myrtle A 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Cheney, Cedora E 54 Raymond Ave., Petaluma, Calif.

Clifton, Lula 1 215 N. Twelfth Ave., Phoenix, Ariz.

Cloud, Ellen 200 S. Townsend Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Collins, Martha J 315 Indian Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Colson, Susan D 9 W. Commonwealth Rd., Cochituate, Mass.

Combs, Alice R. R. No. 14, Box 295, Indianapolis, Ind.

Corbin, Stella (Without Pension) 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Cosden, Frances A Green Haven, Anne Arundel Co., Pasadena, Md.

Crawford, Rena M 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Cummings, Irene 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Curry, Elizabeth 414 E. Jackson, Pittsburg, Kan.

Curtis, Mrs. Alice C 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Davidson, Anna J 3305 Morrison Ave., Houston, Texas

Davis, Elizabeth Areola, N. C.

Davis, Hattie E 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Davis, Ruby Belleville, Kan.

Deacon, Emma M Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada

Deen, Bertha 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

DeGroat, Mary Pike County, Blooming Grove, Pa.

Denton, Frances Monte Ne, Ark.

Diettert, Hattie Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Dorey, Nancy E 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Driver, Grace Whitehaven, Tenn.

Dwinnell, Anna May (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Eckley, Margaret 336 Oak Hill Ave., Attleboro, Mass.

Enders, Emma (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Elliott, Maria 1427 N. Garfield, Pasadena, Calif.

Eyler. Sara E 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Fagan, Connie 627 E. 36th St., Savannah, Ga.

Farrington, Cornelia 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Fieger, Ella M 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Fisk, Josephine S 27 Chester St., West Somerville, Mass.

Finley, Mrs. Lorena 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Ford, Amanda S 3132 Chesley Ave., Hamilton, Baltimore 14, Md.

Ford, Sue 158 N. E. Fourth St., Miami, Fla.

Foster, Priscilla 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Frank, Harriet B 336 Oak Hill Ave., Attleboro, Mass.

Freedeman, Mollie M 512 S. Wooster Ave., Strasburg, Ohio

Frey, Bina K 5 Glade Ave., Philippi, W. Va.

Fries, Margaret 829 Loma Dr.. Hermosa Beach, Calif.

Fry, Viola Rider 951 Washington St., Tyrone, Pa.

Fuller, Blanche M 112 Third Ave., S. E., Forest Grove, Ore.

Gainey, Ellen D 529-539 S. Eighth St., Louisville, Ky.

Garrett, Emmeline 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Department of Work in United States 133

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Gasser Jennie M 2821 Manitou St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Gerber', Ida 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27, N. Y.

Gibson, Helen 605 S. Orleans, Tampa, Fla.

Giddings, Lillian V. . .'.'.'.'.' 115 N. Almansor St.. Alhambra, Calif.

Godbey, Cornelia Paynesville. W. Va.

Gorby Edith ■ Care of W. O. Harrison, Northup, Ohio

Graham, Helen M 163 E. 1 1 1th St., New York. N. Y.

Granger, Mary V Care of H. E. Burbank, Box 77, Wilbraham, Mass.

Grant, Mary C. (Relinquished Pension) 929 N. Eleventh St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Gray, Jane 330 Quincy St., Rapid City, S. D.

Greely, Addie B 716 S. Congress St., Jackson, Miss.

Grieves, Marian "Gladden," Darien, Conn.

Hagen, Sadie A 55 Hale St., Newton Upper Falls, Mass.

Hahn, Emma East Jaffrey, N. H.

Haines, Cora (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Hall, Elizabeth E Marion Station, Rural Delivery, Md.

Hanson, Elisabeth M 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Hart, Kate E , . .- 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Harter, Trella May 319 N. Jefferson St., Rochester, Ind.

Hartline, Elsie A 323 Morning View Ave.. Akron, Ohio

Hartshorn, Mrs. Ella C 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Hasler, Mary 2040 N. National Blvd., Springfield, Mo.

Harvey, Edna 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Hathorn, Nettie B 5343 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati 24, Ohio

Heilmann, Carrie 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27, N. Y.

Heisler, Sarah B 846 S. 18th St., care of Roxby, Apt. 4, Newark 8, N. J.

Heroy, Mrs. Eleanor J 832 DeGraw Ave., Newark, N. J.

Hickman, Ida 419 N. Washington St., Iola, Kan.

Hicks, Octavia 201 Kilby Ave., Suffolk, Va.

Hiles, Harriet E 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Hill, Florence H 439 W. Washington, Suffolk, Va.

Hilmer, Sophie 2818 Winslow Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Hoover, Dora Monte Ne, Ark.

Horsfall, Mrs. Ina J Epworth, Iowa

House, Emma C 512 Reed St., Parkersburg, W. Va.

Howland, Charlotte 409 S. Second St., Evansville, Wis.

Jackson, Ethel 99 Sunnyside Ave., Mill Valley, Calif.

Jackson, Mabel M Agard Rest Home, Lake Bluff, 111.

Jernigan, Anna Enfield, 111.

Johnston, Mary E 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Jones. C. Gertrude 1727 S. Fourth St., Springfield, 111.

Jones, Laura N. 3408 Standard St., Spokane, Wash.

Judd, Emily K 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N.J.

Kennedy, Mabel M 1427 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Kinney, Cora A Box 1 , Norrie, Wis.

Kissell, Hattie R 7809 Greenly Dr., Oakland 3, Calif.

Krause, Carrie Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kulp, Donna L 435 Walnut Ave., S. E., Canton, Ohio

Landers, Sarah E 825 Second St., Fall River, Mass.

Leavitt, Dorothy 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Ledgerwood, Mae 609 Fletcher Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.

Linderud, Emma 728 S. Berendo St., Apt. 302, Los Angeles 5, Calif.

Linfield, Harriet G 721 Third Ave., S., Bozeman, Mont.

Lingenfelter, Ada 916 N. Prospect St., Rockford, 111.

Lockwood, Minnie C 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Logan, Anna L Care of Mrs. S. Tatum, Kenwood PI., Wheeling, W. Va.

Long, Lena E 1408 E. 1st St., Long Beach 3. Calif.

Lowder, Sarah Rutherford College, N. C .

McCosh, Nina B 1720 East Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colo.

McCreight, Bertha (Without Pension) 781 Sciele Ave., San Jose, Calif.

McCrory, Geneva 518 E. View Dr., Los Angeles, Calif.

Malotte, Harriet Care of Mrs. W. F. Jones, Petersburg, Ind.

Manley, Estella R. R. No. 1, Anthony, N. M.

Mann, Frances Box 282, Handley, Texas

Mecum, Anna V 218 Grand Ave., Monrovia, Calif.

Merwin, Grace E 238 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Moore, Eleanor S 1313^ N. Jackson St., Danville, 111.

Morse, Lula R 3768 Perry St., Denver, Colo.

Morton, Susie 152 N. Pearl St., Pomona. Calif.

Musson, Clara R R. D. No. 3, Lewiston, Mo.

Naylor, Verta M 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Neese, Martha 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Neiderheiser, Anna 2607 Denver Ave., Kansas City 1 , Mo.

Northdurft, Minnie C. (Without Pension) Jackson, Mo.

Olausen, Petra 728 S. Berendo, Apt. 302, Los Angeles 5, Calif.

Ott, Bertha Bethseda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Peeples, Adeline 759 Monroe St., Memphis, Tenn.

Pike, Minnie Escobedo 291, Anahuac, D.£F., Mexica

Pillmore, Grace 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Pratt, Jessie A 2536 Eastlake Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Price, Annie Box 304, Hamilton, Texas

Ragland, Margaret 8705 Wadsworth Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Resseguie, Gertrude 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Reynolds, Mrs. Carrie 1054 E. 35th St., Brooklyn 10, N. Y.

134 Woman's Division of Christian Service

NAME APPOINTMENT ADDRESS

Ridlcr, Emma 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Rigg, Eva 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Robertson, Alice M 205 North Ave., 57, Los Angeles, Calif.

Robertson, Meda F. (Gamble Fund) 205 North Ave., 57, Los Angeles, Calif.

Russell, Harriet 86 Wentworth St., Bridgeport, Conn.

Santee, Rosa 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Schaible, Mary Falls City, Neb.

Severtson, Tennie 211 N. Walnut St., McPherson, Kan.

Sheffer, Sadie J 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Sherman, Melda (Relinquished Pension) Wickliffe, Ohio

Shoenberger, Olive 709 Tyler St., Topeka, Kan.

Simpson, AlVerta 1921 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb.

Simpson, Mrs. Rosa 1418 Solo St., Houston, Texas

Slear, Emma 5343 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati 24, Ohio

Smith, Bertha L 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Smith, Demis 1 15 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Smith, Edith A 1 15 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Smith, Edith L 63 N. Spring St., Concord, N. H.

Smith, Mae Schaller, Iowa

Smith, Vina Agard Rest Home, Lake Bluff, 111 .

Souders, Vievie M 1753 S. Wichita St., Wichita, Kan.

Spicer, Edith M. (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Stevens, I. Belle (Without Pension) Delavan, Wis .

Stevens, Ida 215 B North 12th Ave., Phoenix, Ariz.

Stevens, M. Dora (Without Pension) 107 Church St., White Plains, N. Y.

Strickler, Mae 412 N. Ninth St., Monmouth, 111.

Strothmann, Louise 2818 Winslow Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Swartz, Cartes K 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Swift, Ella L 1347 20th Ave., Seattle, Wash.

Taggart, Mary Anna 2532^ W. 18th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Taylor, Elizabeth Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Taylor, Flora E Sac City, Iowa

Teachman, Corabelle M 50 High St., care of L. P. Kenney, Whitinsville, Mass.

Thatcher, Alice P. (Gamble Fund) The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Tipsword, May Methodist Old People's Home, Lawrenceville, 111.

Tirsell, Ida 915 E. 14th St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Trawick, Annie Opelika, Ala.

Trimble, May W 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Van Ness, Lucile Box 2, Mechanicsburg, Ohio

Wade, Elva L 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Wahlroos, Wilhelmina 215 Kennedy Ave., Louisville, Ky.

Walther, Emily E 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Webster, Olive G Methodist Home, Chelsea, Mich.

Weigle, Rebecca A 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena 3, Calif.

Westerfield, Minnie 508 S. Elizabeth St., Lima, Ohio

Weybrew, Kathleen 380 N. 5th St., San Jose 11, Calif.

Whipple, Daisy Locust Villa, Lititz, Pa.

Whitehead, Mary E 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Wilber, S. Erminie 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Williams, Fannie Belle 403 Oak St., Valparaiso, Ind.

Williams, Marilla B 9150 Denker Ave., Los Angeles 44, Calif.

Willmarth, Minnie 1415 Foster Ave., Chicago 40, 111.

Wilson, Mary A Hazel Green, Wis.

Winchester, Claribel (Without Pension) 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Winkler, Lottie 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27, N. Y.

Wirtz, Wilhemina (Relinquished Pension) Fort Dodge, Iowa

Witte, Ada M 145 W. McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio

Wolfe, Emma 237 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn 27, N. Y.

Woodside, Grace Care of Hospital, Litchfield, Minn.

Worrell, Irene R. R. No. 7, Morgantown, W. Va.

Wright, Mattie 1427 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Department of Work in Foreign Fields

Annual Report of Executive Secretaries

MRS. OTIS MOORE

MISS SALLIE LOU MacKINNON

MRS. VELMA MAYNOR

MISS ELIZABETH LEE

Fields-

BURMA, INDIA, MALAYA, AND SUMATRA
CHINA, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AFRICA
JAPAN, KOREA, AND THE PHILIPPINES
LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, AND NORTH AFRICA

135

136 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Burma, India, Malaya, and Sumatra

Burma

#~kUR small group of missionaries who had transferred to India suffered a
" severe loss on January 19 in the death of Roxana Mellinger, who had made
Kingswood School, Kalaw, one of the loveliest of all hill places. Lela Kintner,
who had been her co-worker, stayed by through her last days and then came
home on furlough. Miss Kintner has accepted a position as matron in Thoburn
Terrace, Alhambra, California, a home for retired missionaries. Ruth Field,
who, after years of service in Bengal Conference had taken work in the English
School in Rangoon, has been transferred back into Bengal, and has been pastor's
assistant in Thoburn Church (English-speaking), Calcutta. Alice Mae Dome
has also accepted permanent transfer to India and is in Kolar. Grace Stockwell
has come home for her final furlough before retirement. The others of those
who transferred to India in 1942: The Misses Cavett, Ebersole, Oldfather, and
Reid, continue in their appointments, but the furloughs of Miss Ebersole and
Miss Reid are due within the year. Hazel Winslow, who was on furlough
when the war began, is now pursuing special studies preparatory to the earliest
• possible return, and another furloughed missionary may join her later. But
our Burma staff needs recruits.

The co-operative planning that has been done by the missionaries of the
four chief denominations having work in Burma is of the utmost significance.
Baptists, Anglicans, British, and American Methodists have all participated
through the Burma Christian Council transplanted bodily to India. A recent
communication from H. J. Harwood, its secretary, reports the following:

"Two meetings concerning the work in Burma have been held since the be-
ginning of this year. The first was a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Burma Christian Council held in Nagpur in February. Nine Burma mis-
sionaries of the four main denominations concerned were present. Of these Miss
Stella Ebersole, R. F. Spear, and H. J. Harwood were of The Methodist Church.
Two days were given to most careful consideration of the revival of missionary
enterprise in Burma when re-entry is possible. It was recognized that we shall
inevitably find great confusion in the land, the terrible disruption of normal
living, the wastage of properties and utter dislocation of the communities we
knew. Plans which were considered all pointed toward far more union effort
of Christian agencies than ever before. First steps would consist of relief
measures, aids to the resettlement of people and restoration of family life, quick
establishment of economic self-sufficing life in rural communities, development
of Christian village schools as centers on which to rally Christian living, medical
and public-health services, union effort in providing a few central Christian
schools of higher grade, the Christian college, and a joint agency for the pro-
duction and distribution of Christian literature.

"The second Burma meeting was at Lahore early in July, a gathering of
the continuation committee selected in the February meeting. It was a smaller
body with one representative from each of the four church bodies, and H. J.
Harwood was the representative of our church. Much that was done was an
extension of the outlook of the Nagpur meeting. The most active piece of
work directly aimed at Burma in these days has to do with the program of Chris-
tian literature, a joint enterprise of the several bodies, in which the Rev. George
Appleton, an able Anglican minister, is carrying forward the splendid literary
service to which the Rev. B. M. Jones gave such talented direction for so many
years. Maung Tun Nyein, a son of Rev. U On Kin, who is a leading minister
of our church, is assisting in this work. Tun Nyein was sent by his parents
in 1940 to a tuberculosis sanitarium in South India. What seemed such a sad
disappointment then has turned to a providential end now, for Maung Tun
Nyein is the only Burmese member of our church now available in India."

The Woman's Division has been setting aside its annual appropriation of
$300 for literature, and will therefore be prepared to take its part in the new plans.

Department of Work in Foreign Fields 137

India

Political Situation

Outwardly, the political situation in India has changed little within the year.
The Congress leaders are still in jail; the violence of a year ago has been quelled;
the "war effort" increases; Indian governments have taken over in some of the
provinces; Wavell has replaced Linlithgow as Viceroy. The deadlock persists,
with all its suspicion and suppressed hatreds, and every day of the deadlock
makes reconciliation more difficult. There is, however, a small group of Indian
Liberals, some of them Christians, who have been making determined efforts in
the direction of reconciliation and a new approach to the whole political problem.
That the organized church is doing what it can to forward this movement is
evident from the fact that the National Christian Council gave a special number
of their Review (the June-July number), to the publication, for the widest pos-
sible distribution, of communications addressed to the National Christian Council
by the British Council of Churches and the India Committee of the Conference of
Missionary Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. The first is a resolution
passed unanimously by the British Council of Churches on May 14, 1943, and
sent to India with a covering letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, its
president. Because of its clear recognition of the Church's mission of recon-
ciliation, I am quoting it in full:

"We, the members of the British Council of Churches, greet our fellow
Christians in India. We rejoice with you in the common fellowship in Christ
Jesus which unites us to one another and to all Christians throughout the world.

"We are deeply distressed by the long-continued political deadlock and the
deterioration of relations between our peoples. Among us, as with you, this
creates a sense of frustration. We realize that, behind and beneath the political
difficulties, there is a soreness and alienation deeply rooted in history, whose
ultimate causes are moral and spiritual. We admit the share in these, for
which, in spite of the devoted service of many, the British people as a whole
must accept responsibility. But, nonetheless, we are convinced that the British
government and people are sincere in the offer made a year ago that a constitu-
tion carrying with it complete self-government shall be devised by Indians them-
selves, and that, even if India should wish to separate herself from the British
Commonwealth of Nations, no obstacles would be put in her path, much as we
would regret such an end to the long association of our peoples. We assure
you that we and our countrymen regard ourselves as wholly committed by this
offer.

"Concerned as we are to see the political deadlock ended, we have a still
deeper concern. In face of deep-seated alienation and mistrust, Christians have
a message and a mission. The will of God is for reconciliation; and you and
we are charged with this ministry. We shall ourselves do all that we can to
increase understanding in Great Britain of Indian needs and aspirations. We
beg that you in India will try, as we shall, to overcome the mistrust which
separates our peoples. Alongside one another in Christian fellowship let us
face these testing times undaunted, strong not in any strength of our own but
in that power which Christ our Lord himself bestows.

"(Signed) William Cantuar, President;

A. C. Craig, General Secretary."

The letter from the India Committee of the Conference of Missionary So-
cieties, dated May 31, 1943, was circulated to the members of our board. It is
a review of relations between India and Britain from 1937 to the present, from
the point of view of "the missionary-minded Christian public," leading to the
conclusion that "both Indian Christians and British Christians are called at this
time to a work of reconciliation." In that work may American Christians too
have a part!

138 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Effects of War

The effects o}^ the war have, of course, been felt this year more keenly than
ever. The Christian community has furnished more than its proportionate share
of recruits for the army; to an Indian family a man in the army means just
as much as it means to an American family. More, perhaps, since it is still
normal in Indian society for a young man to be a father before he is out of his
teens. India, too, has seen a rush into war work; not so complete as ours
probably, but widespread enough to cause some serious problems in missionary
planning. If a girl can get fabulous wages in a factory, why should she enter
nurse training, or keep on teaching, especially when her family is in dire need?
It is a sign of real loyalty that even more have not left the service of the church.

The absence of cars has meant readjustments in school programs where
busses had been used. One school reports setting up of several little branches
in remote portions of the city; others have simply had to let the pupils from
farther away find their own conveyance or stay out. Evangelistic missionaries
take trains or busses to certain centers in the district, and from these places
go on foot or by ox cart to the surrounding villages. One is about as fast as
the other; both are exhausting. The busses are always crowded and practically
always late; trains are not much better, since the military always has priority.
To the constant pressure of more work than can be done is thus added an extra
time loss; and to the perennial disease hazard is added the increased danger from
what the close-packed crowds carry. But missionaries in general seem to be
just taking these things in their stride.

Shortage of labor and of materials has limited building operations to the
absolutely necessary repairs and to makeshifts, except for a few places where
buildings had been planned and materials were on hand. Paper shortage is
serious. The Indian Witness is reduced to two double sheets; schools are using
slates or the backs of used pages or are making their own paper in old-fashioned
Indian style; all envelopes received are opened and used for writing paper.

Much more serious is the high cost, of practically all the common necessities.
Cloth, rice, wheat, and even the cheaper grains are from three to five times
their prewar price. For a population already living at the lowest subsistence
level, this means not mere hardship; it means suffering, disease, even death.
Every missionary discusses this subject; one quotation will suffice:

"Prices are so high now that we are finding great difficulty in making ends
meet. Personally, I have not been able to add one pice to my savings account
for over two years. Instead of that I have had to go into debt a few times,
and that is with only buying the bare necessities of life. I am not spending one
pice more than I need to these days. Fortunately I am not having to buy
clothes just now. I am sure other missionaries, too, must be feeling the pinch
badly. The prices of many commodities are more than four times as much as
in normal times. Tooth paste that we used to get at nine annas (18 cents) a
tube is now more than two rupees (65 cents). Saries that we could get for
Rs. 1/8 — are now costing Rs. 4/ — or Rs. 5/ — each. Wheat is four pounds to
the rupee and millet (Juar), a grain grown in this section of the country which
the poor people use for bread, is selling for six pounds to the rupee. When we
are finding it difficult to make ends meet you can easily imagine that many of
our poor Indian people are on the edge of starvation. Scarcely a day passes
now but that someone is at my door asking for help, saying that they went to
bed hungry the night before, have no more food in the house, or maybe just
enough for one more meal and nothing with which to buy more. It is heart-
breaking. We give out all the worn garments that are still usable until we do
not have enough rags for kitchen and housekeeping use."

In an effort to do something toward meeting the situation, the Woman's
Division Executive Committee voted in June to double the special grant that
had been made in 1942, thus giving to each district and institution two annas
(four cents) for every rupee (33 cents) of its appropriation. This simply means
that with the costs up 300% we were making an additional grant of 12%%;

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139

The laboratory at the Medical Col-
lege for Women, Vellore, India.
Miracles of healing are wrought
for both body and spirit at this
hospital

Stanley Girls' High School, Hyderabad, India, is representative of the best we are doing in
high-school education in India. Graduates of the school are wielding untold influence among

the people of this great country

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expressions of gratitude came from all quarters, but the situation was still ex-
tremely difficult.

In July, schools opened. Many reduced sharply the number of boarders
received in order to be able to feed the others adequately. A few were able
to increase the extent of gardens and of fields under cultivation and so provide
for everyone. Field committees meeting in July and August surveyed the situa-
tion and wrote or cabled home. On the basis of actual figures officially pre-
sented, the Foreign Department Administrative Committee on October 5, 1943,
took emergency action as follows:

"That in view of official requests from India for additional funds to meet
greatly increased cost of living, a special grant up to $2,000 monthly be author-
ized for hostels and Indian workers, for one year from December 1, 1943, this
to be in addition to the grant of two annas to the rupee of work budget already
voted. The required amount will be paid, as far as possible, from gain on ex-
change. The best method of administering it is to be determined by the secretary
for India, in consultation with the treasurer and the field."

With the policy of paying our appropriations at three rupees to the dollar,
which has been our established rate for a number of years, and with current
exchange at 3.29 rupees to the dollar, we shall for the present be able to pay
these grants from exchange gain. But if the rate of exchange should lower
and prices remain high, we should have to make other arrangements. It is
clear that the new grant must continue at least through the year, and that
suitable committees on the field must be counted upon to make equitable dis-
tribution of it, according to the varying conditions in our widespread area.

At the same time it became evident that an increase in the salary of mis-
sionaries in India was necessary. In 1932 this salary was reduced from $800
to $680; the Woman's Division had raised it to $730. The September Executive
took the following action:

"That beginning September 1, 1943, the remainder of the cut on salaries
in India made in 1932 be restored so that the India field salary shall be $800
per year. Adjustments will be made within the appropriations of the Foreign
Department."

This is not a temporary grant added to the regular salary; it is an increase in
the basic salary.

The war has given added weight to certain grave facts regarding our mis-
sionary personnel. Briefly, the facts are these: In December, 1939, the total
India staff was 175; today it is 162, of whom 130 are on the field, 32 at home.
Of those in America, ten will not return (retirement, health, etc.). This means
a present available staff of 152, a loss of 23 in three years. Of those on the
field, ten are ready this year for their final furlough before retirement; sixteen
others are well into their last term. Three years from now, therefore, if all
those due to return could get back, there would be available of our present
staff, field and furlough, a total of 129. This would be a dropping off of 46 in
six years, or 26% in one missionary term. Since the years 1910-20 were those
during which the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was sending missionaries
in large numbers, and most of those who went during that period will reach
retirement during the next decade, we may look for a continual decline, unless
more replacements are sent than in the last decade. Sixteen new missionaries
have been sent to India since 1932; of these two have married, one has come
home ill.

Since we entered the war, not one of our missionaries on furlough has been
able to get back to India. At this writing (November 1), two nurses have their
passports and are awaiting sailing; two others are hoping for passports; three
more have had passports refused. The rest are working or studying or speak-
ing, hoping earnestly that before another year is done they may be allowed
to return.

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In India, 7 have taken furlough on the field; 6 have taken extended vacations
in order to postpone their furloughs until after the war; 25 have served an extra
year or more, and must now have furlough either in India or at home. Adding
these delayed furloughs to those regularly due in 1944 makes a total of 51. If
all these women should take their furlough in 1944, we should have only 79
left on the field. Obviously there must be extensive adjustments, and there
will be. But the fact remains that our missionary staff is inadequate, even in
normal times, and that this year we are asking women to carry loads that are
practically certain to lead to either a letdown or a breakdown, unless they can
shift the load.

And to some extent they are shifting it. For many years it has been our
policy to turn over positions of leadership to Indian women "as rapidly as pos-
sible," and the present situation has greatly hastened the process. The ap-
propriations for 1944-45 include $6,050 for newly added subsidies to districts and
institutions which have nationals in charge. (Subtracted, it should be said, from
the missionary budget!) Let us make note of these fine women, conference
by conference.

• Bengal has put Premi Lee and Hemlota Biswas into district work formerly
clone by missionaries, and another young woman will probably be ready for
school responsibility next year. Bombay has the Drs. George in charge of the
Puntamba dispensary and district medical work. Central Provinces was one
of the first conferences to put nationals in charge of work; this year Johnson
Girls' High School, which used to have four missionaries on the staff, has one,
and she with responsibility for the Training College too, and Anu Gadre, long
headmistress, has become principal. Gujarat has Virginiaben Solanki as prin-
cipal of Webb Memorial High School, and another B.A. in the offing. In Lucknow
Conference two new nationals have been pushed into positions of responsibility.
In North India, Ananda Morrow and Dora Walters have taken over new burdens
in Pithoragarh and Bareilly schools. In Northwest India, Celeste Chand is ap-
pointed to Ghaziabad, and Dolly Matthews to Roorkee School. South India has
two nationals from Burma supplying places which are to be taken later on by
their own young women. And these are all new people, in addition to the twenty
who were already listed as taking places formerly filled by missionaries.

The normal growth of the church in any land involves the starting of work,
turning it over to the people of the place, and going on to start work some-
where else, either in some new geographical area or in some new area of living.
We are now in the process of turning over to Indian women some of the well-
established locations; what we need to do now is not to diminish our missionary
staff, but to strengthen it in order to help the Indian Church occupy new territory
and really cultivate those areas which have been barely touched. All of which
is a very large part of that "postwar planning" of which we hear so much.

This matter of the place of the missionary in the new India was one of the
main topics for discussion in the Conference of India Missionaries held in Chicago,
April 15-17, under the auspices of the Foreign Division and the Foreign De-
partment, with representatives of the Board of Education and the Interboard
Committee assisting. In bringing together secretaries of the division and the
department, and missionaries of the board representing every annual conference
in India, this meeting set a new pattern. It published neither findings nor a
formal report, but it did reach forward in its thinking, and it established in the
minds of all present a new sense of solidarity and a new realization of the mag-
nitude of the task. One day was spent on "The Church in the New India," one
on various aspects of the educational program, and one on specific matters
brought forward by those in attendance.

It is significant that though Dr. Vaughan, of the New York office, was the
only doctor present, and there were only three nurses, one of them a candidate,
a fairly large block of time was given to the discussion of the medical program.
For while healing has been part of our work through all the years, it becomes
more and more evident that a gospel that is for all of life must do more for
the prevention of those terrible ills that keep India only half alive. While the
need throughout the country is staggering, we can be encouraged by the fact
that here and there new attempts are being made to meet individual situations.

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One such has begun this year, a health center, at Yellari in the Deccan, South
India Conference. The manner of making this start may be commended for
several reasons: (1) The place, chosen after long and prayerful consideration,
is a village in which there are 500 Christians. They have built their own church
and have a new pastor, formerly a teacher in the theological school at Tumkur.
(2) The beginning was modest. A rented house was secured, as near as possible
to the church, in the heart of the Christian community. The total initial outlay
was $1,000, and the annual appropriation is $1,200, shared equally by the two
divisions. (3) Those in charge are Dr. Deena Sonna, from one of our own South
India schools, a graduate of Vellore, with special training in public health and
a period of service in the Kolar Hospital, and Eva Logue, R.N., a first-term
missionary with up-to-the-minute training in public health, who had her first
two years in India in the Kolar Hospital.

Partly, no doubt, under the influence of war necessity, standards of nurse
training ax*e rising. Vellore Medical College this year offered for the first time
a graduate course for nurses, experimental and brief, but definitely a step
forward. In Delhi, the health department of the government of India opened
a training school for nurse supervisors, the first institution of its kind in the
country, and called as its head a Christian missionary nurse (Miss Margaret
Craig, a Presbyterian of Miraj). This movement upwards means, of course,
that the training schools in our hospitals will have to meet new requirements
as to staff, type of nursing experience available, previous education of students,
etc. The Christian Medical Association of India has this year for the first time set
standards for the training of hospital technicians, among which are a minimum
of 2,000 inpatients a year, or a daily average of at least 100 inpatients; the num-
ber of examinations should be at least 15,000 a year with a good variety of
specimens. Since Creighton-Freeman Hospital, in Brindaban, does not at present
meet this requirement, arrangements are being made to move Miss Corpron and
her class to Bareilly for part of the year, a fine bit of co-operation.

Early this year a building program for Clara Swain Hospital, Bareilly, was
presented by the Field Committee of North India and approved by both Divisions
to be undertaken as soon as possible after the war, the necessary funds to be
provided by the two Divisions on a 50-50 basis. The specifications are as follows:

Operating and delivery unit $12,000

X-ray machine and hospital equipment 12,000

Training-school unit 6,000

Equipment for nurses' unit 6,000

Chapel (to seat 100) 5,000

Total $41,000

The new building for Suvarta Memorial Hospital, Dhulia, was dedicated De-
cember 17, 1942, and $1,100 from the 1941 Week of Prayer offering has been
made available for equipment.

More important than any other development in the medical field, or than all
of them combined, is the move forward in connection with the missionary Medical
College for Women, Vellore. On January 28 the American Section of the Board
of Governors voted as follows:

"Whereas, Action was taken in Vellore, India, on June 26, 1942, by repre-
sentatives of the Council of the Missionary Medical College for Women and of
the Christian Medical Association of India, looking toward the development
of a Christian medical training center at Vellore where both men and women
will receive training, and of which institution the Missionary Medical College
for Women will be an integral part; and

"Whereas, The Christian Medical Association of India is prepared to as-
sume responsibility for the hospital building for men, hostels for men students,
athletic facilities, residences for additional staff, funds for scholarships, and
additional endowment for maintenance; be it

"Resolved (1) That the American Section of the Governing Board of the
Missionary Medical College for Women, Vellore, approve in principle the plan

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of co-operation, with the understanding that further details regarding the plan
will be worked out in India and reported as soon as possible for consideration
and action; and

"(2) That the American Section of the Governing Board shall continue to
control all funds secured in America specifically for the medical education of
women, while at the same time permitting the college to make a maximum
contribution to the co-operative plan."

In March, the Christian Medical Association of India, with the approval of
the National Christian Council, adopted a specific program looking toward the
establishment of a co-ordinate college for men at Vellore, and set up a college
council for it, parallel to the council of the woman's college. Since it was
agreed that the first necessity for the success of the projected men's college was
to see that the existing college in Vellore reached the university requirements,
and since the first of these was the addition of five new members to the staff,
the Christian Medical Association has approached boards in America and Great
Britain to secure these professors and their support. Our Foreign Division
is doing its share at this point, and thus becomes a part of the new scheme
at its beginning. A subcommittee of the India Committee of the Foreign Mis-
sions Conference is organizing an effort to obtain the co-operation of all American
societies and boards having medical work in India, and when a sufficient num-
ber have given assurance of support, a permanent committee will be formed.
Meanwhile, the enlargement of the Medical College for Women must go on, for
its success in reaching the goal of full government recognition is the basis of
the entire undertaking.

For lack of space, other interesting developments in India can only be
mentioned, with the hope that later reports may enlarge upon them. Co-education
has made further progress. Bidar Middle School is now co-educational through-
out; Gulbarga High School, with keen interest in agriculture and handicrafts,
has added its second year and will add the final year in 1944; Puntamba has
begun a co-educational high school. In all these, the two Divisions co-operate.

Edna Abbott's little village boarding school has been visited by an official
committee of Lucknow Conference and approved as a successful experiment.
Julia Morrow is conducting a similar school among the Lambardi people in Shora-
pur, South India Conference. Such schools take the place of village day schools
for regions where the Christian community is scattered.

Bastar State (Jagdalpur) and Sironcha have had their fiftieth anniversaries,
with a backward look that gives great hope for the future. Mildred Simonds,
of Tandur, is closing a record-making life of service, having worked for thirty-
seven years in one district; she, too, testifies to the tremendous changes that
Christ has wrought.

The presence in America of Miss Ruth Ure, of the National Christian Council,
will give many here an opportunity to learn firsthand of the progress of the
literacy campaign, and of the need for Christian literature. We note with sad-
ness that Anna Agnes Abbott, who has been at the heart of the Christian liter-
ature program in Marathi for many years, has been ill for most of the year —
a broken hip and then a major operation — and must come home if possible.
Ruth Robinson, editor of Naya Dihati (The New Villager), has been granted
extension of term for a year. Kezia Munson, of the "Treasure Chest," has al-
ready overstayed her time.

India's Woman's Society of Christian Service has had a good year. Monthly
programs, printed in the Indian Witness, have been followed by the more ad-
vanced societies, and others have had programs especially devised for them.
Every conference organization has contributed to the Bhabua Mission, the Warne
Babyfold, and the work of Mr. and Mrs. Christian, Indian missionaries in
Africa, and several have also undertaken projects of their own, approved by the
all-India Executive Committee. Mrs. Chitambar, the executive secretary, has
traveled widely as evangelist and organizer.

On March 29, 1944, it will be seventy-five years since eight Methodist
women initiated an effort to carry the gospel to their sisters in the Zenanas of
India. Let us thank God for what the years have brought!

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Malaysia

During the year news has begun to trickle out of Malaya. In the early
summer, the State Department released a list of persons interned by Japan,
and within a few weeks the family of Eva Sadler reported a letter from hei*,
sent from an internment camp on Singapore Island, saying that she and Minnie
Rank were well, and "having a long rest." In mid-October, letters were received
by Bishop Lee and Mrs. Gerald Summers, written in November, 1942, giving
some personal items about other missionaries and mentioning some nationals.
To quote briefly: "It is very fortunate for our Methodism that a nucleus stayed.
Their influence among us has been most valuable. They have earned a high
repute by their addresses, classes, examples. The conferences met in September,
first separate with Hosengong and Paul Hang, chairmen; then in joint session;
press gave no appointments. Not one of our pastors or families were hurt.
Five churches here (not Wesley) badly damaged — all repaired but Geylang.
The church is alive; everywhere working with apostolic spirit, faith, and sac-
rifice. Lydia Urech is with Swiss Colony. Bishop Wilson (Church of England),
who is not interned, has been a staunch friend, is working toward church union.
Write us in care of International Red Cross. Many have had letters. Do not
worry about us — all are in good spirits as situation permits — separation from
loved ones is hard but not one regrets his decision. The church at home can
be proud of its representatives here." The total picture, of course, is still al-
most a blank; there is no information about general conditions on the peninsula.
But we are deeply thankful for word that these friends are safe.

Planning for Malaysia after the war has definitely begun. The East Asia
Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference has organized a subcommittee
on Southeast Asia which has entered upon studies involving the Netherlands
Indies, Thailand, Burma, and Malaya. Here interchurch relationships are being
discussed, and an attempt is being made to understand the backgrounds against
which the work of the churches must be carried forward. For Malaya and
Sumatra, our own secretaries, with the assistance of missionaries most familiar
with the field, are undertaking a thorough survey of the position of our church
before the war, and, with this as a basis, are beginning to plan the program
for the years ahead. It is significant that the entire church will be giving
special attention to this part of the world in 1944-45, under the direction of the
Missionary Education Movement.

Of the Malaysia missionaries active in December, 1941, two are interned —
Eva Sadler and Minnie Rank. Four have made temporary transfers within the
board: Geraldine Johnson is entering her second year as directora of the girls'
section of the Foreign Division's school in Callao, Peru; Lois Rea went in August
to the Sea Wall School, Panama; Gazelle Traeger (retired) is teaching in the
Harwood School, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Norma Craven is teaching
in Vashti School, Thomasville, Georgia. Two are teaching in public schools —
Lila Corbett in Scottville, Michigan, and Mildred Kerr in Brocton, New York.
Four are studying: Bonita Bloxson in Garrett-Northwestern; Ruth Harvey at
the University of Minnesota; June Redinger at Scarritt College; Mechteld
Dirksen at New York University. Four are devoting practically full time to
speaking and writing: Thirza Bunce, Carrie Kenyon, Mabel Marsh, Delia Olson.
Eva Nelson continues her work as supervisor of weekday schools of religion in
the Massachusetts Council of Religious Education. Emma Olson is pastor's as-
sistant in St. Paul Church, Chicago. Freda Chadwick is in New York, helping
in the preparation of a Malay dictionary for the Navy.

It should be a matter of the greatest concern to all of us that before another
year elapses our staff for Malaysia should be strengthened by putting into
training a small number of college graduates of the very highest character
and ability.

China, Central and South Africa
China

OVERWORKED, undernourished, perplexed, the Chinese Christians and the
" missionaries have worked, or if interned, have waited, through this sixth
year of war in China with persistent courage and with prophetic outlook. It
has been in many ways the most critical year in the history of the church in
China. The loss to the work through the death of Miss Grace Manly in West
China on May 8 is irreplaceable. On February 25 all missionaries in occupied
China, with the possible exception of one or two who were ill, were placed in
internment camps. In East China they were interned in Shanghai and in North
China at Weihsien, Shantung. The Chinese Christians have expressed in every
possible way the depth and breadth of the fellowship which has increasingly
marked the relationship of the Chinese and their missionary co-workers in these
days of trial. The last letters of the missionaries before they were interned
were filled with gratitude that they had been allowed to serve through this
critical period and with confidence that the Chinese Christians would carry
on whatever the limitations and restrictions. Little information has come from
occupied China since the internment of the missionaries, but that little has
been encouraging as to the inner life of the church.

In the report for China last year it was stated that living costs were twenty
to thirty times what they were in 1937. Today they are from eighty to a hun-
dred times what they were in 1937. Throughout China the inflation of Chinese
currency has made the questions of how to live, how to keep the existing work
going, how to take advantage of new opportunities almost insoluble. In May
cables were sent from China stating that five dollars a day was necessary for
the barest living expense of each missionary and that the amount would in-
crease rapidly. The cable recommended that missionaries be transferred to
India where living was not so high or returned to America, leaving only a skeleton
missionary staff in China. In face of the great needs of the Chinese people
and of the greatest opportunities our church had ever known in China and in
confidence that The Methodist Church in the United States would supply the
necessary funds, the Woman's Division of Christian Service and the Division
of Foreign Missions authorized the secretaries to send the following cable:
"Cabling additional funds, make missionary salaries five dollars daily beginning
June 1." In addition each division agreed to send $3,500 monthly for the relief
of the Chinese workers in The Methodist Church and the Methodist Committee
on Overseas Relief agreed to send $8,000, making a total of $15,000 each month
to be allocated by a committee on the field. Letters from the field have expressed
great appreciation for these provisions. Fees in schools have been raised and
often paid in rice rather than in money. The Chinese Church is giving many
times what it had given formerly, but the solution to the problem has not been
found. In October another cable came saying that living expenses for the
missionaries had reached eight dollars a day. By making every possible ad-
justment within the appropriations, by using all money from salaries ap-
propriated for missionaries detained in America and not receiving salary, by
making relief of the Chinese workers and missionaries in China the object of cash
supplies for China, and by channeling into relief funds any undesignated
transient gifts for China, the Division expects to maintain its missionaries
in Free China. At the time this report is written it is evident that at least
$65,000 beyond the amounts appropriated will be required for the maintenance
of the approximately sixty missionaries of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service in China.

It is easy for the sense of emergency and crisis to submerge the sense of
steady, ongoing work in Free China. Miss Pearl Fosnot, who is treasurer for
the Woman's Division of Christian Service in China and official correspondent,
as well as a professor in West China Union University, has written a composite
report of the work in the West China Conference which shows in spite of all

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difficulties in the way progress is being made along established and experimental
lines. The report is included in full though its inclusion makes impossible within
the limits allowed for the annual report a description of the work being done
amid similar difficulties and with similar creative devotion in the other un-
occupied conferences of Foochow, Hinghwa, Yenping, and the southern part of
Kiangsi.

West China Conference

There is so much interconnection between evangelistic, educational, and
medical mission work that such lines of division are but arbitrary; however
this report will be given under these general headings.

Social-Evangelistic

Evangelistic work in the West China Conference has suffered an irreparable
loss in the death of Grace Manly who perhaps knew more about the life and
work of the churches as a whole than any other one person, and had more to
do with their administration and nurture. Grace, on bicycle or on foot, was a
familiar figure throughout the Chengtu and Tzechung districts. People marveled
at the way she knew intimately inquirers, church members, and their families in
city and in rural communities.

Celia Cowan, of Tzechung, is caring for such part of Grace's work as can
be administered without travel. Alice Weed, of the General Division, has been
appointed to the Tzechung district. Irma Highbaugh and Nina Stallings are
each responsible for a portion of the work on the Chengtu district, the former
centering about the rural service of Kienyang, the latter about the experimental
church center at Lung Ch'uan Ni in which Nanking Seminary co-operates.

Because of the necessity of putting all possible funds into living expenses
of Bible women, itinerating has been cut to a minimum. Louise Avett on the
Suining district is concentrating on Suining city evangelistic work, and Orvia
Proctor on the Chungking district is making her headquarters at Jungchwan and
doing her chief work in that center. Miss Avett has the assistance of a Bible
woman, Miss Dwan, who has had two years of training in the West China Union
Theological College. Excellent community and church work is being carried
on by these well-qualified workers. Miss Proctor is emphasizing training for
church members and lay leadership. She conducted a successful daily vacation
Bible school this summer, a notable feature of which was a popular department
for high-school youth.

Excellent city evangelistic work is carried on by Lena Nelson and Mary
Shearer in Tzechung, assisted by a splendid Bible woman. Home visitation and
community prayer meetings are carried on as well as work at the church center.
The conference's best religious education program for children is that at Tzechung,
under the direction of Rachel Pen, a Szechwanese, trained some years ago at
Laura Haywood Normal School and having further training in Shanghai and
America.

Chungking City has been fortunate in having a trained youth worker,
Amber Van. In co-operation with a youthful, enthusiastic pastor, recently
graduated from the Theological College, plans for city-wide youth work are
being carried on. Two youth institutes were held this summer, one near
Chungking and one near Chengtu. Chengtu also had a few days' winter in-
stitute for the training of recent youth church members in further knowledge
of the church and for the development of Christian fellowship.

Loma Housley, our newest missionary, is the Chengtu city evangelistic
worker. She and the pastor are delighted to begin the fall's work with the
assistance of an experienced children's worker and a college graduate for young
people's work, both new appointments. Mabel Nowlin, in Chungking, is giving
part of her time to city church work, along with an important program of work
for the National Christian Council and The Methodist Church along the lines of
religious education and literature production. Dorothy Jones helps in church
work and provides a home for missionaries and a few of the many office workers
that throng the city of Chungking.

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An annual district conference, as well as short training institutes on every
district are felt to be vital needs in the spread of the Christian message and
the growth of the church, but with living high as it is and travel almost out
of question the holding of conferences has been seriously curtailed. A church-
school conference was conducted in the spring at Kienyang and several local
training classes have been held.

Educational

The past year has seen a remarkable growth in education that is centered
around child welfare. The Woman's Division of Christian Service assists with
few kindergartens, as such, but evangelistic, educational, and public-health work
unite in emphasizing the child and his care, in stressing child study, and in
reaching homes for Christ through the child. The government is itself pro-
moting child welfare and is, in some cases, giving assistance to mission and
other social organizations engaged in such work. We have the beginnings of a
Mothercraft School at Kienyang under the direction of Miss Liu Yu Dsen, a
school that is the successor to the former Fidelia DeWitt Woman's School
in Tzechung, co-operating with the North China Changli New Light School, of
which Miss Liu is the principal. Lack of space in Kienyang is hampering some
of Miss Liu's plans, but it seems to most people of the conference advisable to
carry on in a limited way until the time of acquiring more land and building
model cottages is more propitious.

The Methodist Church, along with other missions, is following the policy
of closing primary schools, as the government provides more adequately for
primary education. Such appropriation funds as we have are about sufficient
to assist in the carrying on of one good primary school on each district. If the
government continues to permit missions to have primary schools after the
war, most of our people would favor an attempt to have one good primary school
in connection with, or close by, each of our high schools. This would give one
to each of the four districts of the West China Conference. Colleges and uni-
versities continue to look to Christian high schools as their best, most de-
sirable "feeders" and Christian high schools feel the same way about primary
schools carried on by the Christian church.

There appears to be a big field for Christian education in specialized types
of school of primary grade, such as the agricultural and homemaking school
for which a beginning has been made at the Tien Gu Chiao rural church.

The Woman's Division of Christian Service has four high schools in Szechwan.
The oldest ones are Su Deh, formerly in Chungking, now in evacuated quarters
at Pishan where there is a Methodist church and primary school property, and
the Chengtu Girls' High School (usually called "Hwa Mei") that has been carry-
ing on work some ten miles from Chengtu for four and a half years. In Suining
the Stevens Memorial School for girls has the assistance of Rulison from
Kiangsi Province, both in staff and finance. Tzechung has been able to add
senior high school both because of local support and because of the use of the
building formerly used by the woman's school.

The principals of these schools are all women who have been Christians
from childhood and have been trained in Christian schools. It is no easy matter
in these days for principals to carry on their work. It is difficult to secure
well-qualified, Christian teachers, especially in the case of schools refugeeing
in the country. With many avenues of service open to young people fewer go
into teaching. Financial burdens carried by all heads of educational institu-
tions and their assistants are heavy. It is practically impossible to make
budgets. Estimates made today are quite useless in a few months, if not in a
few weeks.

Missionaries appointed to the several high schools are: Chengtu — Maud
Parsons, Grace Armstrong; Chungking (Pishan) — Luella Koether, Janet Surdam;
Suining — Clara French, Laura Schleman; Tzechung — Helen Desjardins, Celia
Cowan. All find themselves extremely busy helping with extracurricular ac-
tivities, trying to carry on a program of religious education in connection with
their school work, and in training students to participate in local church work.
Pishan has been unfortunate this past year in being deprived of the presence

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of Miss Surdam, ill in the hospital, and in having Miss Koether also ill for part
of the time. Miss Surdam has made no small contribution, however, from her
bed through writing music and making plans that Miss Koether and others have
carried out. Another Woman's Division of Christian Service missionary doing
high-school work is May Bel Thompson, loaned to the William Nast Academy.

Work done by Bishop Chen, Dr. Daniel Li, and other church leaders in
holding special meetings for students of high schools and universities is bear-
ing fruit in decisions for Christ and dedication to his service. Another series
of meetings is planned for the last of September and October in several of our
student centers, with Bishop Chen preaching and holding conferences with in-
dividuals.

It is gratifying to learn that the Woman's Division of Christian Service
has given approval to the carrying on of the Laura Haygood School in Szechwan
until it is able to return to East China. The principal, Miss Kiang Kwe Yuin,
has been untiring in getting quarters ready in the Chungking Institutional
Church plant and in assembling her staff to begin work this autumn. The
alumnae have given liberally toward the maintenance of the school. It is thought
that it will be possible not only to carry on high-school work, but also to do
some of the teacher training for which it has long been well and appreciatively
known. Laura Haygood is fortunate in having the help of Susie Mayes.

In the field of higher education in the West China Conference the Woman's
Division of Christian Service participates in the Union Theological College,
the West China Union University and the Woman's College, Cheeloo University,
Ginling College, and Yenching University. This year it has missionaries in but
three of these institutions — Charlotte Trotter in the Theological College, Ovidia
Hansing and Pearl Fosnot in the West China Union University, and Nina
Stallings in Yenching. While Miss Trotter is on furlough Dr. Hansing is to
give part time to the Theological College. The church eagerly awaits the gradu-
ation of women it has sent to the Theological College and could use many more
from the universities than have been available.

Large classes were received by the universities last year due to various
types of pressure; however, this fall a return is being made to more highly
selective entrance requirements. Stringent financial conditions are leading
to a decrease in staff and to even closer co-operation in class work among the
several institutions on the West China campus. The West China Union Uni-
versity Medical College is having the co-operation of the Peking Union Medical
College from this fall and the latter's Nursing School has been moved to the
new University Hospital. This marks the beginning of an opportunity for
nurses in Szechwan to obtain a college degree together with graduation in
nursing.

Medical

One of the ways in which the Woman's Division of Christian Service is
contributing to medical work in Szechwan is through the help it has given and
is giving to women who are students of medicine and dentistry in the university.
Other ways are through its participation in the Tzechung Hosptal, where Mrs.
Pearl Willis Jones serves as nurse and trainer of nurses and where Lena Nelson
is assistant superintendent of the hospital, through the School of Midwifery
under Dr. Marian Manly and through its conference public-health service under
Alma Eriksen. Public-health nurses are located in six widely separated centers.
They render invaluable community service. They and Miss Eriksen frequently
assist evangelistic workers in institutes and training classes.

Cora Simpson has spent many years as secretary for the Nurses' Associa-
tion of China. She now has her headquarters at Golosham, near Chungking,
where many of the government offices are found and where hospital work is
carried on. Nurses for hospitals and for public-health work are far too few.
Training schools are making special efforts to interest high-school girls in
nursing as a profession. The importance of this endeavor is shown by the fact
that the China Christian Educational Association has made it one of its most
urgent projects.

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149

Present-day spiritual leaders

are prepared at the Bible

Training School

Well-baby Clinic, Tien-
tsin, China. These moth-
ers are given information
at the clinic so that they
may keep their babies
well

The church built by the na-
tives at Wembo Nyama, Bel-
gian Congo

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Movements of Missionaries

To China: Mrs. Pearl Willis Jones, R.N., sailed from America in the fall
of 1942 and arrived in Chungking in November, 1942. She was appointed by
Bishop Chen to the Rock River (or Chadwick Memorial) Hospital in Tzechung,
Szechwan. Miss Mollie Townsend, R.N., sailed in April, 1943, and reached China
in September, 1943, having gone by New Zealand, Australia, and India. She
has gone to Yutu, Southern Kiangsi, where Miss Gertrude Cone and Miss Mar-
garet Seeck have been working alone. Miss Sylvia Aldrich and Miss Elizabeth
Carlyle, R.N., sailed August, 1943. They are still en route to China. Both
will go to Hinghwa Conference.

From China: Miss Pauline Westcott and Miss Edna Jones left China in
June and arrived in San Francisco on September 14. Word has come that Dr.
Marian Manly has started on her journey to the United States for furlough.

For nearly a year it has been hoped that another exchange of Japanese
and American citizens would be made and that our missionaries would be re-
patriated. On October 1 a Japanese ship sailed with American citizens from
the Far East. The "Gripsholm" sailed from New York early in September
and the exchange was made in Mormagao, Portuguese East India, on October
15. The "Gripsholm" is expected in America early in December. On it are the
following twenty-nine missionaries of the Woman's Division of Christian Serv-
ice according to the official list from the State Department:

Marie Adams Emma Knox

Alice Alsup Clara Nutting

Mary Blackford Alice Powell

Julia Bonafield (retired) Margaret Prentice

Ethel Bost Louise Robinson

Eloise Bradshaw Ruth Stahl

Rosa May Butler Lillie Stephens

Ida Frantz Ellen Studley

Alice Green Leona Thomasson

Mary Ellen Hawk Nina Troy

Anne Herbert Marguerite Twinem

Elizabeth Hobart Lucy Jim Webb

Bessie Hollows Mary Culler White

Myra Jaquet Emma Wilson
Louise Killingsworth

Remaining in occupied China are Miss Clara Pearl Dyer, Miss Mary Wattous, and
Miss Maude Wheeler.

In Free China there are now fifty-nine missionaries and two en route to
China. There are fifty-eight China missionaries in the United States. Five
new missionaries are under appointment to China, four of whom are studying
language in Berkeley, California, at the California College in China. One of
these, Miss Elma Ashby, R.N., is expecting to sail soon. Five missionaries
have retired during the past year. Of those now in America nine are studying
in preparation for return to China and five are itinerating. Most of the others
have studied during their furlough and have now accepted temporary positions;
six of these are at work in the Home Department and three are at Tule Lake,
California, a Japanese relocation center.

Central and South Africa

There is throughout the world, and particularly in the United States, an
increasing interest in the continent of Africa due in large part to the prominence
of North Africa as a battlefield. However, soldiers from America are in many
parts of Africa and are writing of the country and its people. To some small
degree at least some American people are beginning to realize that the solutions
to problems of Africa will be important in the making of a lasting world peace.

Happily the Church Conference on African Affairs held in Westerville, Ohio,
in June, 1942, has proved to be a focal point for continuing study. Reports of

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the studies being made in each of the four conferences in which the Woman's
Division of Christian Service is at work are beginning to come, though none is
complete. These studies are being made by Africans and missionaries to-
gether and show clearly the benefits of concurrent thinking by the field groups
and the groups here in America.

One of the most profitable studies following the Westerville Conference
was begun early in the year with a conference in Cincinnati under the auspices
of the Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign Fields when mission
work in the Belgian Congo was studied with particular reference to religious
education. Secretaries of the Board of Education and of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension and a number of missionaries from the Congo met for
two days under the leadership of Dr. Wade Barclay, Executive Secretary for the
Joint Committee on Religious Education. The recommendations of this con-
ference are now being studied in the Congo.

Interest in the program of Christian Literature for Africa has been stimu-
lated by the visit to America of Miss Margaret Wrong. Miss Wrong quotes a
European chaplain who wrote: "You would be amazed at the sale of literature
among African soldiers. I simply cannot keep pace with the demand. When
work is over, a walk around the camp shows scores of Africans reading, singing,
and some studying, the place littered with books. It is the best extramural
university I have seen in Africa." The soldiers send the literature back into the
villages and a new interest is being aroused in learning to read.

When in the United States, Miss Wrong was able to obtain a number of
manuscripts for the series of tiny books known as the African Home Library.
Some of our Methodist missionaries on furlough also were able to translate a
few of these into the vernacular of the tribes with whom they are working.
Fortunately some of the money set aside for Africa for literature from the
1941 Week of Prayer is available to meet the growing need for literature.

On the field the great event in Methodist Church history was the holding
of the African Provisional Central Conference which met in Elisabethville,
Belgian Congo, June 20, 1943. This was the first Central Conference meeting
to be held in Africa since the unification of the churches; in fact, the first to
be held in sixteen years. The conference includes Angola Provisional Annual
Conference, Southern Congo Provisional Annual Conference, Central Congo Pro-
visional Annual Conference, Liberia, Rhodesia, Southeast Africa Provisional
Annual Conference. The official report has not arrived, but from letters it is
learned that about fifty delegates were present, twenty of whom were African.
The conference was significant in the opportunity given the delegates to become
acquainted and to face together their tasks and opportunities which differ in
the various colonies, but which are similar in many respects. One outgrowth
of the conference is that two African women teachers, trained at Fairfield Girls'
School, Old Umtali in Rhodesia, one of the oldest institutions of our church in
Africa, are to teach in the school at Wembo Nyama, Central Congo, the youngest
of the Africa conferences.

In each of our conferences the work goes forward toward ever-increasing
opportunity. In Rhodesia the nurse-training school at Nyadiri, which has been
recognized recently by the government, was strengthened by a special financial
gift. In Portuguese East Africa the assembly shelter for the Girls' School is
being built. The building program begun several years ago in the Congo
has been delayed by shortages of material and by the need for a supervisor,
but a few buildings have been completed.

In all Africa fields the shortage of workers is appalling. In Angola, while
Miss Nelson was having a short furlough in South Africa, Miss Miller and
Miss Cross were the only missionaries of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service in the country. Miss Glidden has been waiting for more than a year to
sail for Angola, but has not received the necessary permission from Lisbon.
Miss Quinton and Miss Gugin returned from Rhodesia to the United States in
March. Miss Jessie Pfaf sailed for Rhodesia in August. Miss Edith Martin
and Miss Elizabeth Dalbey, who has transferred from Korea to the Belgian
Congo, sailed by way of Lisbon and arrived in the Congo in July. Every letter
coming from Bishop Springer brings a plea for re-enforcements. Nurses are

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needed in each of the four conferences, home-economics teachers are particularly
needed in Rhodesia. In Southeast Africa the strain because of shortage of work-
ers is perhaps the greatest, for teachers and nurses and evangelistic workers
are sorely needed. If the appropriations in Portuguese East Africa and in
Angola were more nearly adequate, Christian Portuguese teachers might be
secured who would lessen the strain on the small missionary staff and greatly
strengthen the work. In Angola three missionaries are on the field, two in the
United States; in Centr-al Congo ten are on the field and five in the United
States; in Rhodesia nine are on the field, one is en route to the field, and five
are in America. All five of the missionaries appointed to Southeast Africa are
on the field.

The joyful news from Africa as revealed in reports and letters is the
growing response to the gospel message and the increasing sense of responsi-
bility on the part of the African Christians. There is need to strengthen every
center we now have and to enlarge the areas of service by opening new sta-
tions and new rural evangelistic centers in every field. The present moment
in the development of the Christian movement in Africa is one of opportunity
and unusual significance. The missionary budget for all four conferences in
Africa for 1944-45 is $52,135 and the work budget is $24,276. Our missionary
staff and our appropriations must be multiplied if Methodism is to meet the
responsibility that is hers.

The battle of science goes on in China, and these young women prepare for this new

role in China's life

Japan, Korea, and the Philippines

Behind the Curtain Life Still Goes On

T IFE still goes on behind the iron curtain between us and these war-ridden
*-J countries. People still live in homes. Little children run about and play,
pause, and cry with hunger. Christians gather in churches and pray to the
Father, believing in his love and his power to meet their needs. We know
about the suffering in China and India, and the awful struggle there to get
food to sustain life. Some of us know that this struggle was already becoming
intense in Korea, when we left there in 1940. People are just as hungry in
Korea today as in other occupied lands. Let us never forget that. But we know
that beautiful Christian living is going on in these countries, and that Christ is
walking with our friends behind the iron curtain.

The Church

Just how the church and Christian institutions are faring in these lands
we cannot know definitely. However, we want briefly to review the forms of
Christian service which had been initiated. We believe this service is going
on even though it may have been adapted to the exigencies of the present
situation. We are confident that church union in Japan is being perfected and
strengthened. Japanese and Korean Christians know how to yield obedience
to the powers that be, and at the same time keep their faith in God firm. He
understands and meets their needs in this difficult situation. We can be grateful
that the government realizes something of the power of the Christian church,
and we hope the lives of Christian people will reveal the Source of that power.

In order that the United Church of Christ in Japan may have all the en-
couragement that can be given, mission boards are planning a united approach
when we can return. The Postwar Planning Committee for Japan under the
East Asia Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference has spent days _ in
careful consideration of this very important matter and the following resolution
has been taken:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that the postwar relation-
ships of the Christian Movement in North America to the Christian Movement
in Japan should be conducted co-operatively rather than through individual
boards and missions; and

"That we recommend that the Subcommittee on Japan report our approval
of this principle to the boards with work in Japan and arrange for a further
consultation of secretaries of such boards as are favorably inclined toward this
principle and are interested in an endeavor to work out a co-operative pro-
cedure for North America, with the understanding that representatives of the
other boards will be welcome to attend and participate in the discussion."

In June, the Executive Committee of the Woman's Division took the fol-
lowing action concerning the above resolution:

"Inasmuch as the Methodist Board is already following this principle as
a policy, it was voted to reaffirm this policy as it relates to Japan."

For Korea, as for Japan, interdenominational planning is going on, in a
Korea Postwar Planning Committee under the East Asia Committee. The
rootage of the church is deep and strong in Korea, and we expect to find the
Christian movement there, vigorous and ready for advance as soon as freedom
of action is made possible.

The people of the Philippines have had their baptism of fire and we trust
that they have found in their Christian faith and in the church the strength
for living that they have so much needed. If they have, there may be expected
there too, an era of lively growth and new forms of service.

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Colleges and Training Schools

We may remind ourselves of the institutions to which we have had, and still
have, responsibilities both material and spiritual. In Japan, girls are still
finding Christian answers to life's problems in our three colleges — Tokyo Wom-
an's College, Kwassui, and Hiroshima. Two other schools of college grade give
training for Christian workers. These are Aoyama Gakuin (Woman's Depart-
ment), and Seiwa Joshi Gakuin (formerly Lambuth).

Ewha College, in Korea, had reached several goals by 1940. The enrollment
of 437 was the highest in her history. Government permission had been granted
to make the kindergarten training school into a department of the college with
a three-year course. The home-economics department had opened a one-year
short course for homemakers. The debt on the buildings had been canceled and
the endowment fund had reached the amount of $125,000. In 1941, the Wom-
an's Division approved the Zaidan Hojin (Holding Corporation) which gives as
much security as is possible to the college. Under the leadership of her great
president and capable faculty we may be confident that Ewha has carried on to
realize many other goals during the past three years. We must also realize
that there have been difficulties and that obligations have likely been incurred
and funds borrowed to keep the college going. For all this we must hold in
reserve the annual appropriation of $14,148.

Inasmuch as the government cares for general education in the Philippines,
it is not necessary for Christian missions to enter that field. We have two
training schools for Christian workers. Harris Memorial trains deaconesses
and kindergarten teachers. We look forward to enlarged usefulness for this
institution as it sends more and more graduates out into Christian service. In
Lingayen, Townsend Memorial gives a short intensified course for Bible women
who serve in local churches and depend upon local support. The missionary teach-
ers are probably still active in Harris since it is in Manila. Townsend Memorial,
we hope, is going on under the leadership of its capable Filipino president.

High Schools and Primary Schools

Perhaps even more important than the work of the colleges is the character
training that goes on day by day among the girls who throng our Christian
high schools of Japan and Korea. In Japan, three are attached to the colleges—
Kwassui, Hiroshima, and Aoyama. The other four are at Hakodate, Hirosaki,
Fukuoka, and Yokohama.

Closely related to Ewha College are the five Methodist High Schools for
Girls in Korea. They are Ewha and Pai Wha in Seoul, Holston in Songdo, Chung-
Em in Pyeng Yang, and Lucy Cunninggim in Wonsan. In 1940, some 3,500
girls were in these schools. We may be sure this number has greatly increased.
Many of the graduates go to Ewha College and all the students are brought
under the strong Christian influence which characterizes the lives of the teach-
ers in these high schools. Included in our educational program in Korea there
is also a theological seminary (co-educational), a vocational high school, and
two other special schools. Eight primary schools have government registra-
tion, five others are unregistered. Kindergartens are greatly appreciated by
the Korean people, and many of them are supported locally.

For this great educational program the Woman's Division carries ap-
propriations as follows: Japan, $56,000; Korea, $64,000; Philippine Islands, $5,000.

Dormitories

The Methodist Mission in the Philippines, taking no responsibility for general
education, is left free to use its funds and energies in hostel service to the
student life of the country. A very fruitful service has been carried on in the
ten dormitories under Methodist auspices. This form of work may well become
a pattern of the service we should plan to render in Japan and Korea as the
governments take increasing responsibility for the education of youth.

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Social Evangelistic Centers

These centers in Japan and Korea render a wide variety of services, such
as clubs for every age — kindergartens, clinics, baby welfare, hostels, and in-
struction in homemaking, English, and music. The groups served are as varied.
They include mothers, young wives, young business people, students, girls, boys,
little children, and babies. There are twelve such centers for Japanese in ten
different cities. For Koreans there are five centers in five cities. For this vast
service to womanhood, youth, and childhood, Methodist women in America give
through the Woman's Division, $14,500 for Japan and $9,555 for Korea. This
form of service will be much needed in the days ahead.

Evangelism

Large emphasis has always been placed on rural evangelism in all three
of these countries. In many different ways, missionaries and native Christians
have endeavored to carry the good news to their people. The establishment of
churches has been accompanied by preaching missions, institutes, home visiting,
newspaper evangelism. For this work the Woman's Division has made ap-
propriations to Japan, $2,600; to Korea, $13,000; to Philippines, $6,000.

We hope that this form of workman be carried forward in the future with
a comprehensive service for all of life in the rural districts. We should like to
see a nurse, a deaconess, and a kindergartner go out to live and serve in a
village. Or there might be a nurse, a home economist, and a Bible woman.
They would establish a home and live as good neighbors, serving the people
in any way that opened to them. Some of their interests would be Christian
homes, happy childhood, good health, economic improvement, and above all
they would strive to make Christianity a Way of Life for the village. We would
hope that they might have the co-operation of a young minister and his wife,
a doctor and his wife. This kind of service should also be open to young mis-
sionaries, both men and women.

Hospitals and Public Health

The ministry of healing is a very necessary part of Christian service in
Korea. Besides co-operation in the Union Hospitals, Severance in Seoul, and
Pyeng Yang Christian Hospital, Methodists have a hospital in Songdo and
another in Wonsan. All of these have large clinics and carry on a program
of public health. Each of the four hospitals has a nurse-training school.

In the Philippines, Mary Johnston Hospital serves women and children
and conducts a splendid nurse-training school. All these institutions will be
needed as training centers for the future. They should also be equipped to
pioneer in preventive medicine and public health. They should lead in a pro-
gram of medical care for people throughout the areas in which they serve.
The Woman's Division appropriates for these medical services in Korea, $7,735,
and for Mary Johnston in the Philippines, $4,000.

Literature and Literacy

In both Japan and Korea, Christian literature societies have given splendid
services during the years and many a volume has been made available through
these agencies. The church and mission in the Philippines have also given
considerable emphasis to literature. But, in all these countries we shall need
an enlarged and more varied program of literature in the future. Coupled
with the literature program in Korea there should be a drive to make Korea
literate. A literacy chart has been prepared for the Korean language and
plans are being made to have it printed. Booklets of easy reading material
widely ranging in subject matter should be prepared now. The manuscripts
of these should be ready for printing when we return, so that the campaign
for literacy can be launched as soon as the Korea Church is ready to undertake
it. For literature and literacy we shall need a much larger emphasis and
greatly increased appropriations.

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This Christian family has grace before eating, Ilocos District, Philippines

Japanese women

preparing posters

in a political campaign-

"Don't sell, don't

soil your vote"

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157

The Missionaries

No arrangements have yet been made for the repatriation of the fourteen
women missionaries in the Philippines. Patricia McHugh is interned. Her
mother has been so informed by the Department of Interior of the U. S. Gov-
ernment. We believe the others to be free and at their work under some re-
strictions. We can correspond with Patricia as an internee, and we can send
twenty-five-word letters to the others through the International Red Cross.
We have written to all of them but have received no replies as yet. The latest
news is a cable received October 25, 1943, via the International Red Cross.
It reads:

"ALL WELL INFORM FAMILIES CABLE ERNEST TUCK.
ENQUIRER PHILIPPINE RESIDENT."

The last sentence, though not clear, may mean that Dr. Tuck and the others are
not internees but are classed as residents.

Olive Hodges, Evelyn Wolfe, and Mildred Paine are among the repatriates
expected in New York early in December on board the "Gripsholm." We wel-
come their return and wish we might have for this report the information
which they will bring. One woman remains in Japan. All other missionaries
from these three fields have already been withdrawn. The various forms of
service they are giving attest to the richness of their lives and the ability which
is theirs. These are noted below:

Off the Roll

Japan

Deceased

Retired 6

Resigned and married 3

Withdrawn 1

Contract expired 3

Temporarily off Salary

Government Service — American-Japanese 4

Official 1

Teaching — College 4

High School 3

Grammar School 1

Nursing — Hospital

Public Health

Private Duty

Army

New York Church Committee 1

Local Church Work 1

International House, Chicago 1

Office Manager, Board of Missions 1

Psychiatric Social Service 1

Rural Social Service 1

Home Demonstration Agent

Woman's Army Corps

Y.W.C.A

Seaboard Railroad

Private Social Secretary

At Home

Korea Philippines

1
9
1
2

Allocated to Home Department (On Home Department salary
with one exception)

Teaching
Social Service

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Woman's Division of Christian Service

On Salary of Foreign Department

Japan

Permanent Transfers — Argentina

Belgian Congo

Temporary Transfers — Argentina

Cuba 1

India 1

Philippines 2

Service to Japanese and Koreans (in co-operation
with the Home Division) :

In U. S. A 8

In Hawaii

Studying

Promotion

On Furlough — Regular .'

Before retirement

On Temporary Special Retirement

(This status to be discontinued upon employment

or return to the field.)
On the Field

Korea Philippines
1

1
1
1
2
4

Totals

1
55

1
15

to one

Protestant

Population

Catholics

331

69,254,000

100,000

154

22,899,000

116,000

13,277,000

73,000

The Unfinished 1'ask
If any should be tempted to think that the work of missions is done in
these lands, if any should say leave it to the native church to Christianize their
own people, if any should feel that we as American Christians have no more
responsibility, the unfinished task is the answer. Perhaps the statistics below
will be of interest. They were compiled by Dr. M. S. Bates. The date is 1938:

Communicants and Population
Population

Protestants

Japan 209,000

Korea 149,000

Philippines 194,000

National Workers

Ordained Others

Japan 1,759 1,793

Korea 1,050 2,496

Philippines 472 1,248

New Missionaries
As we consider the institutions and forms of service which have constituted
our program in these lands in the past, we feel that they all are good and will
go on into the future in adapted forms and under native leadership. But out
of every one of them there emerges enlarged opportunities for a greater, more
comprehensive service to those parts of the population as yet unchristianized.
This means a new cycle in missions. It means turning over the institutions
to native leadership and undertaking new forms of service. It means going
out to people in the villages and countryside who have not yet realized the
love of the Father, nor experienced the abundant life that he has for all his chil-
dren. It means personal service of the kind that the first missionaries gave.
All this means new missionaries, of creative ability, deep consecration, hardy
physique, and in just as great numbers as can be found. We shall need doctors
and nurses, social-service workers, ministers, kindergartners, religious educa-
tion experts, economists and agriculturalists, and people interested in literacy
and the production of literature. So we throw down the challenge to Chris-
tian youth to give careful consideration to the great opportunities of service in
Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, as we approach the New Age in Christian
Missions.

Missionaries

Protestant Catholic

829 770

462 146

295 20

Latin America, Europe, and North Africa

THE 1942 report from these fields gave a detailed account of work in each
station, listing every project with its annual appropriation. Since these de-
tails are essentially the same for 1943, this year's report will deal in general
outline with (1) co-operative enterprises, (2) significant events, and (3) urgent
needs for increased appropriations.

Working Together in Latin America

Methodists have always shared largely in the work of the Committee on
Co-operation in Latin America in which twenty-five hoards and agencies unite
for common planning and action. In 1943 the Woman's Division of Christian
Service contributed $2,200 to this co-operative enterprise. This committee
plays an increasingly important role in the building of a new Latin America.
In his annual report the executive secretary of the committee says: "The
church at home must be made to see that Latin America is at present the
greatest mission field in the world and that the opportunities for strengthen-
ing the evangelical forces may never come again. The Latin-American mission
field is different from other fields in several respects. For example, it has
not felt the ravages of war and thus missionary work can be expanded without
waiting for the postwar period of reconstruction. The Latin-American coun-
tries are our nearest neighbors and, our destiny being inevitably bound up with
theirs, a great moral responsibility rests upon the people of the United States.
The time is ripe for the churches to challenge the people of this country with
a big program for Christian service and the development of the evangelical
church in Latin America in a day of unprecedented opportunity."

A unique contribution of the Protestant movement is going to be the cam-
paign for literacy in this part of the world where at least 70% of the people
are illiterate. The Committee on Co-operation in Latin America facilitated
Dr. Frank Laubach's visit to nine of the Latin-American countries from Oc-
tober, 1942 to May, 1943. Both governments and people are enthusiastic
about the "Laubach method." In Guayaquil, Ecuador, the municipality voted
30,000 sucres for the campaign and now employs a full-time secretary. The
press, educational authorities, and labor unions are collaborating in this mighty
effort to bring the light of knowledge to the downtrodden masses. The second
phase of the campaign begins in November, 1943, when, under the auspices
of the Committee on Co-operation in Latin America and the Committee on World
Literacy and Christian Literature of the Foreign Missions Conference, Dr.
Laubach returns to Latin America to carry forward the work begun. With
him go a small group of "disciples" to learn his method and come to an un-
derstanding of the problems involved in literacy work.

Linked closely with this phase of the Protestant movement is the remark-
able development of the production of Christian literature in Spanish, for the
use of all denominations.

Following the Conference on Christian Literature in Mexico in 1941,
regional committees of literature were set up. Working on the comprehensive
plan of the Committee on Christian Literature of the Committee on Co-operation
in Latin America, as well as independently in the several fields, the work has
gone forward rapidly. In all cases money is being raised on the field to sup-
plement the subsidies granted by the committee, which is trying to provide
$15,000 a year for five years. The achievement of the Regional Literature
Committee in Buenos Aires illustrates what is being done. In April, 1942, the
report covering eighteen months showed the publication of fifteen books at a
cost of $14,400 Arg., of which only $3,000 Arg. were supplied by subvention.
Since April, fourteen more books have been produced. Three of these were a
part of this committee's contribution to the publication of a series of fifteen
books for children and parents and teachers of children. Many pamphlets «on
Christianizing the home are to be printed. Ten more book manuscripts are now
in the press. Through the printed page the living Christ is being made known
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the work will be a Conference on Christian Literature to be held in Brazil,
from which will emerge another comprehensive program for literature in
Portuguese.

For years the women of Methodism have carried a share in the publication
of La Nueva Democracia, the outstanding Protestant magazine in Spanish. Of
high intellectual caliber, this paper preaches the gospel of Christ in its par-
ticular bearing on social and political philosophy. All over Latin America
its articles are reprinted in local newspapers so that its influence reaches far
beyond its subscription list. Some of the most prominent writers in Latin
America contribute to its pages. Increasingly this magazine bears witness to
the basic principles of Christianity.

We gladly shared in a new step forward when the Committee on Co-opera-
tion in Latin America appointed a commission to study the Indians of the Andean
Highlands in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. These five men, including an agri-
culturalist, an economist, an anthropologist, a doctor, and the secretary of the
Committee on Co-operation in Latin America, have returned with a report
of their careful investigations and shortly will present a plan which may point the
way to a new and essential aspect of the missionary endeavor. Seven millions of
Indians in the Andean Highlands are in greater need of the gospel than any
other group in South America. They present a field practically untouched by
Christianity. Living in a pitiable state, their religion a curious mixture of
paganism and Roman Catholicism, the victims of police, priests, and landowners,
these descendants of the Incas await the touch of the gospel of the Christ.
It is hoped that service to these needy people may, as a result of the studies
made by the commission, take the form of an interdenominational project based
not on traditional types of missionary work but on a communal approach suit-
able to Indian life. For this missionaries must be carefully chosen and es-
pecially trained. If such work can be done it will help to build a new life
in Latin America.

Sponsored by the Committee on Co-operation in Latin America, National
Christian Councils in several of the republics are pushing forward in evan-
gelical work. The newest of these is in Cuba where the Council held its second
meeting in June, 1943. Fifty-six representatives planned advances in evan-
gelism, literature, social work, youth movements, women's work, and rural
projects.

The Roman Catholic campaign for the withdrawal of Protestant mission-
aries from Latin America continues to be a threat to religious freedom in the
Americas. This studied effort to crush our work has increased the sense of
unity among the Protestant boards working in these republics as well as among
the evangelical Christians all over Latin America. The latter well know that
the blotting out of the Protestant witness would take place in their republics,
as it has in Spain in recent years, if the Catholic Church and the Fascist leaders
had their way.

Peru seems at present to be the chief battleground for religious freedom
in the Americas. Here the Catholic Church has never had more power since
the days of the Inquisition. Yet the people go hungry and the prisons are
filled with political prisoners. Evangelical students are jailed for carrying
posters of the Four Freedoms in an open-air meeting. Persecution is reported
in many places. Members of two Protestant churches came together for a
holiday in the country. After playing games they began to sing hymns. A
group of Catholics brought the police and two Protestants were arrested. It
happened that an army captain, who was a graduate of the Methodist School
in Callao, saw what took place. He reported the incident to liberal senators and
deputies of Congress. Later two different groups of these progressive of-
ficials petitioned the government to have the persecution of evangelicals stopped
and to give orders to the Peruvian consuls to grant passports to Protestant
missionaries. Our schools in Peru are harassed by the government over the
requirement that for one hour a week the official religion shall be taught in
every institution. While the alternate course, now under preparation by the
Protestant schools, awaits government sanction, the missionaries are doing
their best to hold high in the thinking of the students the evangelical interpre-
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all give thanks that the Bible may be freely taught in addition to the official
course, so that every day the pupils are being influenced by the words of the
Living Christ.

During the year the International Missionary Council has published the
sixth and seventh in its "Economic and Social Bases of the Evangelical Church"
series. Dr. J. Merle Davis, Director of the Department of Social and Eco-
nomic Research of the International Missionary Council, visited the East Coast
of South America in 1942 and has written two most valuable studies entitled:

(1) How the Church Grows in Brazil

(2) The Evangelical Church in the River Plate Republics.

These books are "must" reading for all who are interested in Latin America
and they will, as they are studied by missionaries and board secretaries, have
wide influence in making new policies for this work.

Significant Events

The dedication of the new building of the Union Theological Seminary in
Buenos Aires in July and the attendant advancement of the work bears a sig-
nificant relationship to the entire Christian movement of Spanish-speaking
South America. One of the plaques in the foyer tells briefly this history of the
development of theological education in these countries:

1884 — Beginning of theological training in Colonia Waldense, Uruguay.

1889 — Transfer of this work to Argentina.

1917 — The Disciples of Christ officially entered into the co-operative en-
terprise.

1922 — Founding of the Training School for Christian Workers (women) in
Buenos Aires.

1935— Organization of theological training under the name Facultad Evan-
gelica de Teologia.

1942— Merger of the Training School and the Facultad.

The modern, well-equipped building of dignified Tudor architecture graces
the site at Camacua 282, where the former Training College for Christian Work-
ers once stood. Thus has been fulfilled the dream of Carrie Jay Carnahan that
the young men and women of this part of South America should be brought
together under one roof and in one seminary administration where they should
receive the best possible training as ministers and lay workers. The beautiful
ceremony dedicating this building as Miss Carnahan's memorial lifted up again
the work of this woman of God who was a leader in the Christian movement of
South America for twenty-six years. In addition to chapel and library, the
building houses classrooms, offices, and living quarters for its student body and
missionary faculty members. Today the enrollment is triple that of three years
ago and the new building is almost filled. The school is unique in its scholastic
standards and in its interdenominational and international character. Here
Waldensians, Disciples, and Methodists unite in the support and administration
of the seminary; there are students from six republics, from seven denomina-
tions. As general cultural standards are lifted in these countries, the appeal
of the Protestant church as a field of service is making itself felt among the
youthful leaders in the local churches. The call to the Christian ministry
is now taking its place alongside of the call to be a teacher, doctor, or politician.
One student expressed his reason for entering the seminary: "I am studying
here because I desire to be more useful and to collaborate with God in his work;
because the church needs my help, time, and effort; because there are children
who need education, young people who need guidance, mothers who need a friend,
and men who need religion."

The 1942 report set forth the urgency of a new building for Colegio Amer-
icano in Porto Alegre, Brazil, but it could not have prophesied the unexpected
gift of $85,000 from the estate of the late Mr. Henry Pfeiffer, which is making
the building possible this year. Upon the receipt of this gift Miss Mary Sue
Brown made preparations to fly to Brazil to supervise building- operations. With
the military commandeering all seats in planes her flight seemed impossible
until the Foreign Minister of Brazil intervened in her behalf and by a personal
message to Pan-American Airways in Miami secured her passage. This indi-

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cated the government's friendly attitude toward Protestant missionaries. Upon
her arrival, Miss Brown registered with the National Institute of Industrialists,
which gives her the right to employ workmen. Then she completed the build-
ing plans and began to buy materials. Her chief difficulty was the securing of
a builder who would not demand the usual 10 to 15% commission and who would
work with her as supervisor. After a long hunt, a contracting engineer, husband
of a graduate of the school, became interested in the project and agreed to take
the technical direction with Miss Brown for only 3%% of the total cost. The
work goes on in spite of constant financial worry over the rising cost of ma-
terials and the increased wages of workmen. Miss Brown buys all materials,
thus avoiding the tax on sales and consignment, employs workmen, pays all bills,
keeps all accounts and controls the entire project from her little office near the
school. This missionary-builder has recently been honored by an invitation
from the Secretary of Education for the State of Rio Grande do Sul to serve on
a committee to make plans for primary and secondary school buildings for this
great state.

It seems almost a miracle that during the war such building projects are
possible. This year still another building has been completed, the new club
building in connection with Centro Social in Monterrey, Mexico. This increases
the efficiency of this social center which ministers to hundreds of boys and girls.

In Mexico City the newly organized Deaconess. School opened in July. As
in any reorganization, work moves slowly at first, but the spirit of the school is
excellent and good ground is being laid for future progress. The girls, who are
training to be deaconesses, are taking some of their courses at the Union Theo-
logical Seminary. Practical training is being carried on in connection with
Aztecas and Balderas churches, and one girl is spending the long vacation as an
assistant in the rural center in Cortazar. Several young women are seeking
admission to the school for next year. Two girls, who have been following
the deaconess course prescribed by the General Conference of The Methodist
Church in Mexico under private tutelage in Frontier Conference, receive their
certificates at a ceremony in the Monterrey church in August and were ad-
mitted to the conference as "deaconesses on trial." They have been appointed
to the staffs of the social centers in Chihuahua and Durango. After two years
of this apprentice work they will be consecrated.

We watch with interest the development of the Industrial school in Mexico
City which, under the leadership of a Mexican woman principal, goes steadily
forward. In January, 1943, under government permit, the school opened the
first year of secondary with seventeen girls. Numbers increased in the primary
so that 115 girls now fill the hostel connected with the school. Miss Ethel
Thomas makes for these students a Christian home. The atmosphere of the
school is strengthened by the fact that all the teachers are Protestants, a cir-
cumstance rarely possible in Latin America. If the hostel and school continue
to grow, as they certainly must when more years are added to the secondary,
a new wing will be needed on the dormitory. With no Protestant normal school
left open in Mexico, the need of teacher training is very great. In a small
way it is now being met by the admission to this hostel of young Protestant
women who are studying in the government normal school.

Rural work is on the increase in Mexico and Cuba. With the co-operation
of our missionaries, the Union Theological Seminary in Mexico City is con-
ducting rural institutes in experimental parishes. Such an institute for women
was held this year in San Vincente Chicoalpam, a typical village. From all
corners girls came eagerly to avail themselves of courses in Bible, religious
education, homemaking, agriculture, and health. In Baguanos, Cuba, the
Jamaican Negro group is rapidly assuming the "form of a church, greatly de-
sired by the people themselves. They now take care of the expenses of the
visiting pastor. Candidates for church membership are increasing. The Baguanos
church recently took in ten new members. The youth in this rural station are
full of initiative and are winning others to Christ.

An example of the community service which is frequently a by-product
of the evangelical schools comes from Crandon Institute, Montevideo. The home-
economics department, under the leadership of Miss Lena May Hoerner, has
become a valuable factor in the life of Uruguay, especially because of its em-

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163

In Montevideo, the beautiful
capital of progressive Uru-
guay, stands an imposing
school building known as
our Crandon Institute. Nearly
six hundred students go in
and out, seeking the kind of
an education a Christian
school offers

First- and second-grade children at the American School, Porto Alegre,

South Brazil

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phasis on nutrition. Because of the scarcity of fuel, most of it is imported,
Miss Hoerner and her assistants have "invented" some kind of a fireless cooker.
It has attracted public attention and Miss Hoerner was asked to supervise a
campaign for the city of Montevideo. She agreed to do this on condition that
she could emphasize good nutrition as a part of the program. A "refresher
course" for Crandon graduates, with training in how to set up a demonstration
and details of how to make the cookers, was combined with a review of nutrition.
Fourteen people were trained for the city of Montevideo, and seven former
pupils from a provincial city took the work. People are instructed in a nutritious
menu for the entire day, prepared in a fireless cooker, and printed material is
distributed containing instruction on the proper preparation of dishes common
to the country. One day the provincial governors of Uruguay, holding their
annual meeting in Montevideo, came to Crandon to see how the cookers worked.
Two of these men became immediately interested and financed such projects
in their own provinces. Other opportunities for unique service are constantly
coming to Miss Hoerner and her able assistants. They were asked by one of
the municipal officials to teach simple cooking and nutrition to the mothers
who come to the city milk stations. A program was worked out covering eight
demonstrations, each one preparing food for five people for one day at a cost
of not more than 25 centesimos per person, but complete in every detail in
calories, proteins, minerals, and vitamins. In the demonstrations emphasis is
put upon the proper preparation of the right kind of food in the health of chil-
dren. Since there are nineteen milk stations in Montevideo, Crandon has under-
taken a big "extracurricular" task in providing this public service, but it feels
that it is an opportunity to bear the Christian witness in a practical way.
A Crandon graduate, who now heads a school for crippled children, sends her
teachers to Crandon for courses in nutrition and has recently engaged a Crandon
graduate in home economics to plan a dining room for the school which can
be used as a teaching project for the children.

Mention should be made this year of the enthusiastic co-operation in the
missionary enterprise of various groups of Methodist women in the Latin-Amer-
ican republics. From every conference comes word of increased activity, of
the assumption of greater responsibility in the affairs of the church, of a grow-
ing interest in the needs of the world. Typical is this story from Uruguay.
From Mrs. Sofia de Gomez, Treasurer of the Federation of Methodist Women,
came this letter, accompanying two checks to be sent to the Jidato School in
India and to Chinese relief: "The three hundred members of our federation
have made a real effort of love and sacrifice, worshiping God by showing their
good services toward their fellow men. I want to mention especially the won-
derful work done for us by the girls of Crandon Institute on behalf of the
Chinese children. A lightning campaign of twenty minutes, pinning a Chinese
flag on every child or adult who would give some cents to help these little Chinese
sufferers, enabled the girls to give, with love and pleasure, $121.21 in Uruguayan
currency. I shall show you details of our distribution of the total we collected
for missionary work:

Bolivian natives $438 00

Scholarship in Union Theological Seminary, Buenos Aires. . 225 25
Students' Endowment Fund, Union Theological Seminary,

Buenos Aires 20 00

Extension Fund, Canelones, Uruguay 270 00

Missionary Fund, Uruguay 120 00

Prisoners of War, Y.M.C.A 20 00

Missionary Work in Bolivia 50 00

American Friends Service, European Refugees 250 00

Bishop Herbert Welch, Refugees in China 428 84

Missionary Work in Jidato School, India 66 98

$1,889 07
"As you will notice from the total, $1,889.07, we kept only $390 for Uruguay.
Thank God for the missionary spirit of our women, and may God bless the
woman's work all around the world which is helping to extend the Kingdom
of God."

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Needs for Increased Appropriations

From all over Latin America urgent appeals have come for increased ap-
propriations to carry on the existing work, as higher costs of living and normal
development of the work make present budgets wholly inadequate. Also, certain
advances should be made beyond present projects in order to meet the oppor-
tunities of the hour and press on in face of growing Catholic opposition. The
Protestant schools have never been so full, the call of youth for Christ never
so eager. In all cases the askings are modest and should, therefore, be within
reach. The granting of these increases spells the difference between the ongoing
of the work or its inevitable curtailment.

Argentina. — The aim of the work, expressed in two schools, is leadership
training. Thirty-eight students, men and women, have brought the enrollment
of the Union Theological Seminary beyond the number anticipated for several
years to come. More young people are on the waiting list. In many cases,
whether the seminary accepts these students or not depends upon whether they
can get scholarships. To this end the seminary asks an increase in appropria-
tions of $2,500 to cover scholarships for girls. (A similar amount for boys
will be granted by the Division of Foreign Missions.)

The only "feeder" school we have in Argentina to prepare young people
to enter the seminary is Colegio Norte Americano in Rosario. For years it
has eked out an existence on an inadequate budget. It asks for an increase of
$545. The East South America Conference has never had any of the traditional
"Bible women." It has always employed at its own expense the young women
graduates from the seminary. Now it has a need for such workers far beyond
its capacity to pay for them. It is asking for $2,000 toward the support of
trained women workers.

Not an extra dollar is available to meet these needs

Brazil. — Our work has developed along two lines — schools and literature.
Schools are crowded, although in some instances tuition fees have increased
beyond those of government schools. Reasons for increased appropriations are:

1. The exceedingly high cost of living.

2. Government control of teachers' salaries, which were raised in 1942
15-20%. If our schools cannot meet the minimum standard, many teach-
ers may be lost.

3. A new educational law making it necessary for our secondary schools
to add two years to the course. If they had not done this, they would
have been dropped to the category of second-rate schools and would have
lost pupils and prestige. The high standing of our work is indicated by the
fact that five out of our six schools were immediately able to secure
the new licenses for junior-high and senior-high courses. The sixth
school will receive it next year upon completion of a new building.

Increased askings for the six schools total $2,658.

Two magazines, Vos Missionaria and Bem-ti-vi, are well known. The former
is a woman's magazine which has a subscription list of over 20,000 and goes into
eighteen countries. An increase of $500 is asked to help meet the high cost
of paper and production and to spread the influence of these evangelizing agencies.

People's Central Institute, in Rio, is the most famous social settlement in
Brazil. Its program is closely co-ordinated with that of the Methodist church
on the same compound. In its primary school, clubs, librai-y, kindergarten,
clinic, and church it ministers to over 2,000 people a week. The churches of
the Federal District contribute generously. Friends of the institute outside
the church raise money. In spite of all these efforts, there will be a deficit
of over $800 in 1943. Increased askings are for $500 from each Division. The
Division of Foreign Missions is able to make this increase.

Statistics show that the Protestant church in Brazil is growing faster than
any other church in the world. The immediate future calls for advance in social
and rural work, and for teacher training to meet the needs of the thousands

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of untouched places in the interior. The church calls for an extensive evan-
gelistic and literacy prog-ram.

Xiil an extra dollar is available for Brazil

Cuba. — Here the emphasis is on educational work with rural projects
rapidly developing. One principal voices the general need of increased ap-
propriations for school maintenance:

"One thousand three hundred dollars is asked as an increase for Colegio Irene
Toland, to meet the burden thrust upon us by the government demanding a
20% increase in the salaries of all teachers and students. We cannot face this
raise in salaries without help. We have fine loyal teachers, almost all of whom
have degrees from the University of Havana. They do not now and will not,
even with the 20% increase, receive salaries equal to those paid in government
schools. Several of the finest Protestant women on the island, who would like
to teach in our schools, must take government positions in order to help support
their families. We pay only ten months' salary, while the government pays for
twelve months. School maintenance in general also demands increased ap-
propriations. Black beans (a staple food) which used to cost 4 cents a pound
now cost 14 cents. Oranges that once sold six for 5 cents now cost 5 cents
apiece."

The total increased askings for the schools in Cuba is $4,650.
The rural missionaries have made a modest request for $800 to meet the
cost of living in their three country stations.

No extra money is available for Cuba

Mexico. — This country's entry into the war has made the cost of living soar.
This is felt particularly in the school hostels of which both missionaries and
Mexican women have charge. Deaconesses are not receiving sufficient salaries
to meet their daily needs. Rural workers, whose budgets are pitiably small,
must spend more on their normal activities. Travel costs have increased and
workers are barred from visiting needy places because of lack of funds. The
total increased askings for both conferences is $6,067.

There are no extra dollars for Mexico

Peru. — The day is here when we must extend our endeavor beyond our
great Lima High School to definite evangelistic and social work. National
workers are available and have the desire to begin work, especially to help
the Indian women and children of the Andes. All we give to Peru is the salaines
of missionaries in the school plus $525 for religious education. An increase
of $500 would make it possible to fill some other needs.
Nothing is available for tliis purpose

Uruguay. — Crandon Institute is well established. But the work in Uruguay
is unbalanced. There is urgent need for increased work among women and
children. Deaconesses are trained and available. Our total evangelistic ap-
propriation for this little country, which is more favorable to Protestantism
than any' other of the republics, is the paltry sum of $60. An increase of $300
for evangelistic work is asked.

Not a dollar is available

Poland

After months of anxiety as to the whereabouts of Ruth Lawrence, who had
remained alone in Warsaw in the summer of 1942, in June a letter in her own
handwriting came saying that since January, 1943, she had been interned in a
German concentration camp in Vittel, near Nancy, France. Since then letters
come frequently, always saying that she is well and busy studying languages
and helping in the Red Cross office. Her last letter, dated May 16 and received
in October, said: "From time to time I'have news from the mission (in Poland).
A Bible school is running for six months. The student body consists of three

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ministerial candidates, a deaconess, five laymen, a preacher's wife, and another
laywoman. Well-qualified theologians and professors are helping our pastors
conduct the school. Mr. Najdur is giving his full time now. Although the
school is small, it is most important at this time. The other work is going on
very much as when Mr. Warfield was here except for new work in the section
where Brother Gamble lived. Our workers, pastors, and deaconesses are well
and working hard. I hope you will permit me to go back (to Warsaw) as soon
as circumstances permit. I want to return for a few months anyway before
going to the States."

Knowing as we do of the usual persecution of the church in Nazi-controlled
countries, this picture of the ongoing work in Poland is as surprising as it is
gratifying. It proves once again that, even in the midst of persecution, staunch
Christians maintain the witness which points the only way to righteousness and
peace. The appropriations for Poland are being held here because they will be
needed to pay for this work.

According to the rules governing prisoners of war, letters and packages
may be sent to Miss Lawrence at this address: 560 Grand Hotel, Internierten
—Lager VITTEL (Frankreich).

Bulgaria

So little communication is possible with those in war zones that it has
been a happy surprise to receive rather frequent word from Bulgaria. We know,
too, that our letters reach that country.

In September, 1942, the Nazi-controlled Bulgarian government took over
our Girls' School in Lovetch and made of it a School of Modern Languages.
Papers were drawn up by representatives of the board and government, giving
a careful inventory of the property and agreeing to return it to the mission at
the end of the war. A copy of this official document reached this country and
is in the files of the board.

Determined as they have always been to stay at their posts, Mellony Turner
and Esther Carhart petitioned the government to be permitted to remain in
the school as teachers of English. They were allowed to do so, and their letters
indicate that they have had a happy and useful year of service. Miss Turner
was asked to act as dean of the school. The citizens of Lovetch, in whose hearts
these missionaries seem to have a large place, have been grateful for their
determination to stay, and have treated them as friends. Although Bulgaria
and the United States are at war, the students of the school celebrated the
American Thanksgiving Day in honor of their teachers. It is likely that reli-
gion may not now be taught but by friendly contacts with the students in
classrooms and missionary home, these missionaries are exemplifying the Chris-
tian life and bearing their witness to Christ in the midst of an harassed people.

No money can be sent to Bulgaria. Appropriations for missionary salaries
and work budgets are being held in this country against that day when they
may be paid. Upon receiving this assurance our workers sent a letter ex-
pressing their gratitude that such was the case and affirming their expectation
that the school would be needed more than ever as a Christianizing and stabil-
izing influence after the war is over.

North Africa

Attention has been focused on North Africa this past year and the church
has become "North Africa conscious." Many who did not know that The
Methodist Church was carrying on work in that country are now aware of it.
Many of the members of our armed forces have been entertained in the homes
of our missionaries; the wounded and dying have been visited in the hospitals,
for our workers have turned much of their attention to these boys and girls
from home during the past twelve months.

Our work, which had gone on almost uninterrupted prior to November 7,
1942, has passed through some radical changes since then. Up to the arrival
of United States and British troops in North Africa, our missionaries had con-

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tinued all the work carried on before the war. They were handicapped by the
absence of three missionaries detained in this country by the war, but those
on the field carried on in spite of food shortage, war difficulties, and insufficient
staffs.

But the coming of United States and British troops changed all this. Some
of our buildings were requisitioned. Many of the children in our homes had
to be sent back to the interior. We are happy to say that the Gamble Memorial
Home, whose buildings were requisitioned, was re-established the middle of
August when the army returned the buildings to us. In the meantime, Miss
Emily Loveless, long the superintendent of this home, died in Constantine.

It is impossible to say at this time what effect the presence of vast numbers
of the armed forces will have upon the country or upon the people. Effective
missionary work in the future in Algeria must evaluate these war influences and
build its program to meet them. Now that the church is "North Africa con-
scious" it will, perhaps, be more alert than before to the needs and opportunities
in Algeria. It is the one mission field in which we are doing work almost ex-
clusively among Moslems.

The opportunities in Algeria are almost limitless, but if the work is to be
effective, it will call for concentration in certain areas. The present missionary
staff, with only nine Woman's Division of Christian Service missionaries (six
on the field and three detained in this country) is wholly inadequate even to
care for the program carried on at the present time. No adequate rural program
has yet been attempted in Algeria. The two rural stations, one at II Maten
in Kabylia, the other at Sidi Mabrouk in Constantine, have done fine work, but
as yet have only touched the fringes of a comprehensive rural program.

Among people who are mostly illiterate (especially is this true of the women)
our mission program of the future must give attention to the literacy problem.
Hand in hand with this must go work in the production of Christian literature.
At present there is no missionary available for this type of work.

The large urban centers have as yet had little part in our program. Fine
work is being carried on in Constantine by the Hannah Goodall Memorial Social
Service Center. But nothing is being done along this line in Algiers, Oran, or
any other large city.

These are only a few of the trends of modern missions that must concern
us in North Africa. We have sent our best in military equipment to the country,
both in men and supplies. The Methodist Church is called to send her best in
spiritual resources to meet the great needs of this vast Moslem area.

Missionaries for All These Fields

The missionary line is breaking in several of these countries. In Brazil,
two resigned in 1943, three will soon retire. In Mexico three will retire by the
end of 1945. Cuba has lost three this past year and the health of two more
is uncertain. In North Africa one has died; two more will retire at the end
of the war. The health and return to the field of others is uncertain. In Peru
two have resigned this year. In all, a study for replacements and advance
needs by 1946 calls for twenty-one new missionaries, with an additional ap-
propriation covering salaries, travel, and outfits of $20,700.

Only larger giving through increased conference pledges can make the
dollars available to fill these needs.

Missionaries

in the

Department of Work in Foreign Fields

INDIA, BURMA, MALAYA, AND SUMATRA

BURMA CONFERENCE

AH Burma missionaries transferred to India.
INDIA
All-India Institutions:
Lucknow —

Isabella Thoburn College

(Mrs. Chandrama Prem Nath Dass)
Lulu Boles
Kathleen Clancy
Marjorie A. Dimmitt
Ava Hunt
Margaret Landrum
Ruth C. Manchester
Roxanna Oldroyd
Florence Salzer
*Margaret Wallace
Laura V. Williams

Jubbulpore — ■

Leonard Theological College

Religious Education
Stella Ebersole (Burma)

Ajmer

Madar Union Sanatorium
*Rita B. Tower, M.D.
Maude V. Nelson, R.N.
'Caroline C. Nelson

BENGAL CONFERENCE

Asansol —

District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools
Rachel C. Carr

Calcutta —

Girls' High School

Irma D. Collins
Thoburn Church

Ruth Field
Bengali Evangelistic Work and Day Schools

Katherine M. Kinzly

Hindustani Evangelistic Work and Day
Schools
Doris Welles

Pakaur —

Santali Evangelistic Work, Boarding School,
Day Schools
Ruth Eveland
(Premi Lee)
•Mildred L. Pierce

Bengali Boarding School

(Mrs. Elsie R. Beeken)
Bengali Evangelistic Work
*Hilda Swan

Bombay —

Hostel Manager, Gujarati Day Schools and
Evangelistic Work
Mildred G. Drescher
Marathi Day Schools and Evangelistic Work

Clara Kleiner
*Aldine Lantis

Dhulla—

Suvarta Hospital

Edith Lacy. M.D.
Orphanage and Evangelistic Work

(Local Supply)

Nagpur —

District Evangelistic Work and Mecosa
Bagh Hostel
Ada M. Nelson

Mecosa Bagh Normal, Middle and Primary
Schools
Mildred V. Wright

Nander —

Udgir School and Evangelistic Work
Emma Stewart

Poona —

Taylor High School and Anglo-Indian Home

S. Marie Corner
Marathi Literature

Anna Agnes Abbott

Puntamba —

Girls' Hostel and District Evangelistic
Work
•Edna Holder
Bernice Elliott
May E. Sutherland

Bowen-Bruere Dispensary
(Local Supply)

Telegaon —

Ordelia Hillman School and Hostel
Leola M. Greene

*On furlough.

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170

Woman's Division of Christian Service

CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCE
Baihar—

Middle and Primary School
Katherine Keyhoe
*Marian Warner

Jagdalpur

District Evangelistic and Educational Work
Helen E. Fehr

Girls' Hostel and Medical Work
*Mrs. Alma H. Holland

Alderman Co-Educational Middle School
(Shoroju Bose)

Jubbulpore —

City Evangelistic Work and Day Schools
Margaret D. Crouse

Johnson Girls' High School
(Ann Gadre)
"Gertrude Becker
Fait he Richardson

Training Institute for Women, Hawa Bagh
*Lucile Colony

Union Boys' High School
E. Lahuna Clinton

Khandwa —

City and District Evangelistic Work and
Day Schools
Ida M. Klingeberger

Girls' Normal and Primary School
(Zillah Soule)

Girls' Middle School
Ethel Ruggles
Lydia S. Pool

Boys' Middle School
Ethel Ruggles

Boys' Hostel
(Beno Banerji)

Narsinghpur —

City and District Evangelistic Work
(C. K. Hulasi-Rae)

Sironcha —

City and District Evangelistic Work and
Day Schools
(Ruth E. Taylor)

F. C. Davis School
*Lola M. Green
Louise Campbell

Clason Memorial Hospital
(Jaya Luke)

GUJARAT CONFERENCE
Baroda —

Village Educational and Evangelistic Work
Pearl Precise

*On furlough.

Webb Memorial Girls' School
"Dora L. Nelson
Elma M. Chilson
Elsie M. Ross

Butler Memorial Hospital
*Loal E. Huffman, M.D.
Myrtle Precise, R.N.

Godhra —

Village Educational and Evangelistic Work

"Florence K. Palmer
Normal and Practicing School

*Laura Heist

Nadiad —

Village Educational and Evangelistic Work
(Muriel Bailey)
Mary Ellen Moore
Laura F. Austin

Thoburn Hospital
Hannah Gallagher

HYDERABAD CONFERENCE
Bidar—

Girls' Boarding School
(Ada Luke)
Minnie Huibregtse

Hyderabad —

Stanley' Girls' High School
(Edith D'Lima)
"Josephine Kriz

District Evangelistic Work
"Nellie M. Low

Daulatabad —

Evangelistic and Educational Work
"Mildred Simonds

Tandur—

District Evangelistic Work
Maxine Coleman

Vikarabad —

Co-Educational Middle and Training School
(Chanda Christdas)
Gladys Webb

Evangelistic Work and Village Schools

(Lillian Woodbridge)
District Medical Work

Stella M. Dodd, M.D.

Zahirabad —

Conference Vocational School and Lklll
District
Anna Harrod

INDUS RIVER CONFERENCE
Hissar —

Nur Niwas School

(Aileen Hakim)
District Work

Martha Coy
"Lilly Swords

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171

Lahore —

Lucie Harrison Girls' School
Constance R. Blackstock
(S. A. Aya Ram)

Evangelistic Work and Day Schools
*Lydia D. Christensen
Grace Pepper Smith
*Anna P. Buyers, R.N.

LUCKNOW CONFERENCE
Arrah —

Sawtelle Memorial School

Maren Tirsgaard
District Educational and Evangelistic Work

Mary A. Richmond

BalHa—

Village Educational and Evangelistic Work
*Mabel Sheldon

Cawnpore —

Girls' High School
Jessie A. Bragg
Maurine Cavett (Burma)

Hudson Memorial Girls' School
'Nettie A. Bacon
Edna Hutchens

Evangelistic Work
*Edna A. Abbott
Adis A. Robbins

Gonda —

Chambers Memorial School
'Jennie M. Smith

Lucknow —

Lal Bagh High School
Grace C. Davis
Mabel C. Lawrence
Mildred Shepherd
'Emma J. Collins

Editor Naya Dihati

Ruth E. Robinson
Central Treasurer

Ethel L. Whiting

NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE
Almora —

Adams' Girls' High School
Mildred L. Albertson
Ruth Cox

Normal Training School
*Lucy Beach
Gladys Doyle

BareUIy—

Girls' School
'Grace Honnell
Mathilde Moses
(Dora Walters)

Warne Baby Fold
Edna G. Bacon

'On furlough.

Clara Swain Hospital

Wilma Conger Perrill, M.D.
Theresa Lorenz, R.N.
Mary Gordon, R.N.
Janette Crawford

Northern India Public Health Committee
Cora I. Kipp, M.D.
Meriel McCall, R.N.

District Evangelistic Work
G. Evelyn Hadden

Bijnor —

Lois Lee Parker School

(Persis Stephens)
District Evangelistic Work

Ruth Hoath

Budaun —

District Evangelistic Work
Phoebe Emery

Sigler Girls' School
M. Louise Perrill

Chandag Heights —

Leper Asylum
(Kate Ogilvie)

Dwarahat —

Evangelistic Work
Blanche McCartney

Moradabad —

Middle and Normal School

Anna Blackstock
Parker Branch School (Boys)
'Allie M. Bass
'Mary Boyde
Mrs. G. V. Summers (Malaya)

District Evangelistic Work
Ethel M. Calkins

Nalni Tal—

Wellesley Girls' School
Ada Marie Kennard
'Vera E. Parks
'Opal Holland

Pauri—

Mary Ensign Gill School
Nora B. Waugh
Ruth Warrington

District Evangelistic Work
Eleanor B. Stallard

Pithoragarh —

Girls' School

Nellie M. West
Dispensary and Evangelistic Work

Charlotte V. Westrup, R.N.

Shahjahanpur —

Bidwell Memorial Girls' School

(Yasmin Peters)
District Evangelistic Work
'Olive Dunn

172

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Sttapur —

Girls' School

Edna I. Bradley
Boys' School
*Grace M. Bates

NORTHWEST INDIA CONFERENCE
Agra—

Holman Institute
Emma E. Warner

AHgarh —

Louise Soule Girls' School
Jennie L. Ball

District Evangelistic Work
Ida A. Farmer

Brindaban —

Creighton-Freeman Memorial Hospital
Mary A. Burchard, M.D.
Eunice Porter, R.N.
*Elda M. Barry, R.N.
Ruth Corpron

Bulandshahr —

District Evangelistic Work
"Annie S. Winslow
Pearl Palmer

Delhi—

Butler Memorial School
Ella L. Perry

District Evangelistic Work
*Faith Clark
Helen Buss
*Grace L. Stockwell (Burma)

Ghaziabad —

Boys' School and Evangelistic Work
(Celeste Chand)

Evangelistic and Village Educational Work
Winnie Gabrielson

Meerut —

Girls' High School
Catherine L. Justin
Jeanette Oldfather (Burma)

District Evangelistic Work
Letah M. Doyle

Muttra —

Blackstone Missionary Institute and Girls'
School

Garnet Everley
'Barbara Beecher

District Evangelistic Work
Carolyn E. Schaefer

Roorkee-M uzaff arnagar

Girls' School

(Dolly Matthews)
Margaret Hermiston

District Evangelistic Work
"Gertrude E. Richards
*Estella M. Forsyth

*On furlough.

SOUTH INDIA! CONFERENCE
Bangalore —

Baldwin Girls' High School

(May Weston)
Editor Treasure Chest

Kezia Munson

Belgaum —

Sherman School
"Judith Ericson
Elizabeth M. Beale

Vanita Vidyalaya and Marathi School
"Frances Johnson

Dhupdhal —

School and Village Work
"Cora E. Fales
Elizabeth M. Beale

Gulbarga —

Shanti Sadan and Co-Educational School
Retta Wilson

Kolar—

Ellen T. Cowen Memorial Hospital and
School of Nursing
Esther Shoemaker, M.D.
Dora C Saunby, R.N.
Ruby Hobson, R.N.
Florence Masters
Alice Mae Dome

Girls' High School
"Alta I. Griffin
Emma J. Barber

Madras —

Nursery School Training
Joy Comstock

Ralchur —

Middle School

Emma K. Rexroth
Teacher Training School

Ollie Leavitt

District Evangelistic Work
(Millicent Graham)

Yadgiri—

Evangelistic Work and Village Schools
"Marguerite Bugby
Julia E. Morrow

Village Medical Work
Eva Logue, R.N.

MALAYA CONFERENCE
Ipoh —

Anglo-Chinese Girls' School
Thirza Bunce

Kuala Lumpur —

Methodist Girls' School
Mabel Marsh
Mildred Kerr

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173

Holt Hall

JMinnie Rank

Kuan tan—

Methodist Girls' School
ttC. Lois Rea

Malacca —

Methodist Girls' School

Bonita Bloxsom
Shellabear
IEva Sadler

Penang —

Anglo-Chinese Girls' School

Lila Corbett
Winchell Home
JLydia Urech

Singapore —

Methodist Girls' School
Ruth M. Harvey

Fairfield Girls' School

tGeraldine Johnson
Nind Home

Mechteld Dirksen
Malaya Methodist Theological School
Emma Olson
*Eva I. Nelson
Carrie Kenyon

Sitiawan —

Norma B. Craven

Talping—

Lady Treacher Girls' School
Delia Olson

SUMATRA CONFERENCE
Medan —

Girls' School and Evangelistic Work
"June Redinger

Rantau Prapet —

Evangelistic and School Work
§Freda Chadwick

*On regular furlough.

■[Transferred to Peru, South America.

{Remained in Malaya-
tfTransferred to Panama.

-all others withdrew.
^Withdrew.

MISSIONARIES IN CHINA

(By Conferences and Institutions)

CHINA
CENTRAL CHINA CONFERENCE
Chinkiang —

Olivet Memorial Girls' High School
porarily closed)
tMary G. Kesler
fEtha M. Nagler

Evangelistic and Day School Work
tEtha M. Nagler
fClara Bell Smith

Nanking —

Methodist Girls' High School
tKatherine B. Boeye

Bible Teachers' Training School
tjoy L. Smith
*Pearle McCain

Ginling College
■[Harriet Whitmer

Evangelistic and Day School Work
Marie Brethorst (working in U. S.)
*Jessie L. Wolcott

Wuhu—

Evangelistic and Day School Work
tEdith R. Youtsey

Wuhu General Hospital
jFrances Culley, R.N.

Shanghai —

Field Treasurer

* Bessie Hollows

(tern- Language Study

"Lillie Stephens

EAST CHINA CONFERENCE
Shanghai —

McTyeire School

*Mary Blackford
*Alice Alsup
*Rosa May Butler
tjean Craig
*Louise Killingsworth
Muriel Smith (Contract)
'Louise Robinson

Laura Haygood Normal School

*Annie Eloise Bradshaw
tMary B. Winn
'Ethel Bost
*Nina Troy
Susie Mayes (West China)

Moore Memorial Church

*Mary Ellen Hawk
*Lucy Jim Webb

Margaret Williamson Hospital

♦Anne Herbert, R.N.
tEula Eno, M.D.

*On furlough.

tOn extended furlough or leave of absence.

174

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Huchow —

Huchow Institutional Church

Louise Avett (West China)
Laura Mitchell (Yenping)

Virginia School

fSue Stanford (Home Department)

Huchow General Hospital
fElizabeth Mcintosh, R.N.

Soochow—

Soochow General Hospital
tSarah Glenn, R.N.
Hester West, R.N. (Philippines)

Davidson School

Lillian Knobles (Brazil)

Konghong Institutional Church
tMathilde Killingsworth

Wusih—

Evangelistic

tMargaret M. Rue

Changchow —

Evangelistic

*Alice Green

Stephenson Memorial Hospital
tMary Hood, R.N.
JLorena Foster, R.N.

Sungkiang —

Susan B. Wilson School
*Pearle McCain

FOOCHOW CONFERENCE

Foochow —

Tai Maiu Girls' School
Florence Plumb
Ruth Gish

Bible Institute
Rose Alice Mace

Willis Pierce Memorial Hospital
tMargaret Tucker, M.D.
"Frieda Staubli. R.N.
Alice Wilcox, R.N.

Futsing—

Margaret Stewart High School
fjane D. Jones
Martha McCutchen

Primary Day Schools
Martha McCutchen

Evangelistic Work
Edith F. Abel

Lucie F. Harrison Hospital
Li Bi Cu, M.D.
Uniola Adams, R.N.
tRuth Hemenway, M.D.

Woolston Memorial Dispensary
Li Bi Cu, M.D.

Kutien—

Girls' High School
Martha Graf
Marion Holmes
tMyrtle Smith

Mi nt sing —

Girls' Junior High and Primary School
Mary M. Mann
tjane Ellen Nevitt (Home Department)

Woman's Training and Day School

*Edna Jones
Evangelistic Work

*Edna Jones

Special Appointments:

General Secretary Religious Education

Roxy Lefforge (Philippines)
Nurses' Association of China

Cora Simpson, R.N. (West China)

HINGHWA CONFERENCE
Hlnghwa (Putien) —

Hamilton Girls' High School
Henrietta Rossiter
"Florence Smith
fSylvia Aldrich

City Primary Schools

E. Blanche Apple
City and District Bible Women

Ellen Suffern
*Pauline Westcott

Sienyu —

Frances Nast Gamble Memorial School

Edna F. Merritt
Isabella Hart Boarding School

Edna F. Merritt
Evangelistic Work

*F. Pearl Mason
Sienyu Union Hospital
•Emma M. Palm, R.N.
Elizabeth Carlyle, R.N.

KIANGSI CONFERENCE
Kiukiang —

Rulison Girls' High School

"Helen Ferris

*Leona Thomasson
Clara French (West China)
Laura Schleman (West China)

*Rose Waldron

Knowles Training School
*Edith Fredericks
*Jenny Lind
fEllen Smith
May Bel Thompson (West China)

Danforth Memorial Hospital
Evangelistic and Day School Work

*Mabel Woodruff

*Annie M. Pittman

Nanchang —

*Ruth Daniels
t Elsie M. Danskin

*On furlough.

fOn extended furlough or leave of absence.

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175

Yutu—

Baldwin Girls' School
Gertrude Cone
Margaret Seeck

Public Health

Mollie Townsend, R.N.

NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE
Changli—

Alderman School
fPansy P. Griffin
*Marguerite Twinem

District Day Schools and Treasurer New
Light School
Clara P. Dyer

Peiping —

Mary Porter Gamewell School

Henrietta Rossiter (Hinghwa)
*Marie Adams

Mary Watrous
tEmeline Crane

City and District Religious Work
Maude Wheeler
'Elizabeth Hobart
Mary Watrous

Sleeper Davis Hospital
*Alice Powell, R.N.
Elizabeth Carlyle (Hinghwa)

Yenching College
'Ruth Stahl
"Emma Knox

Cheeloo University School
tjulia E. Morgan, M.D.
fLois E. Witham

Cheeloo University Hospital
tFrances Wilson, R.N.
*E. Florence Evans, R.N. (Philippines)
'Ruth Danner, R.N.
tGeneva Miller, R.N. (Kiangsi)

Cheeloo University Home Economics
*Mary Katharine Russell

Tientsin —

Keen School
*Ida F. Frantz
tMary Bedell
*Myra A. Jaquet
tMyra Snow
*Minta Stahl
*Emma Wilson

Isabella Fisher Hospital
*Margaret M. Prentice, R.N.

Special Appointments:

Principal North China Union Bible Teachers
Training School, Peiping
*EUen M. Studley

Tientsin:

Secretary Conference Religious Work for
Women and Children
tOrtha M. Lane

Secretary Conference Public Health Work

tLora I. Battin, R.N.
Conference Public Health Physician

'Clara A. Nutting, M.D.

WEST CHINA CONFERENCE

Chengtu —

West China Union University Woman's Col-
lege

Pearl Fosnot
Ovidia Hansing

Yenching

Nina Stallings (East China)
Girls' Middle School

Maud Parsons
Conference Public Health Work

"Alma Eriksen, R.N.
School of Midwifery
"Marian Manly, M.D.
Loma Housley

West China Union Theological College
'Charlotte Trotter

Kienyang —

Methodist Rural Center for Women
*Irma Highbaugh

Chungking —

Youth Work, Chungking City

Amber Van
Sudeh Girls' Middle School

Luella Koether

Janet Surdam

District Missionary

Orvia Proctor
Conference Evangelistic Work

Orvia Proctor
Treasurer, Chungking Hospital

'Dorothy Jones
Institutional Church

'Dorothy Jones
Laura Haygood School
Susie Mayes (East China)

Ting Chia Ao— William Nast Academy
May Bel Thompson (Kiangsi)

Tzechung —

Caldwell Girls' School
Helen Desjardins

City Evangelistic Work
'Mary Shearer
Celia Cowan

District Day Schools and District Evan-
gelistic Work
'Lena Nelson

Fidelia DeWitt School
'Lena Nelson

Chadwick Hospital

Mrs. Pearl Willis Jones, R.N.

'On furlough.

tOn extended furlough or leave of absence.

176

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Suining —

Stevens Memorial High School

Laura Schleman (Kiangsi)
Clara French (Kiangsi)

District Schools and District Evangelistic
Work

Louise Avett (East China)

Special Appointment :

National Christian Council
•Mabel Nowlin

YENPING CONFERENCE
Yenplng (Nanping) —

Emma Fuller Memorial School
tMary L. Eide

Frances Nast Gamble Memorial School

*Gusta Robinett
Evangelistic Work

Trudy Schaefli

Ruth A. Gress

Laura Mitchell (East China)

Hwa Nan College
'Elizabeth Richey
Elsie I. Reiki
Ethel Wallace
Marion Cole
Eugenia Savage
Evelyn Troutman

Language Study

Berkeley. California
Elma Ashby
Mary Lois Dickson
Virginia Echols
Margaret Swift

MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA

ANGOLA CONFERENCE

Quessua —

Boarding School
tViolet Crandal
Cilicia L. Cross
Zella M. Glidden (Congo)
Alpha J. Miller
*Marie Nelson

RHODESIA CONFERENCE

Mutambara —

Nellie Dingley School
Marguerite Deyo
Marjorie Fuller, R.N.
Jessie Pfaff
Lulu L. Tubbs
Ila Scovill
{Evelyn DeVries

Old Umtall—

Fairfield Girls' School

Irene P. Gugin
Frances Quinton

Nyadlrl—

Girls' Boarding School
tSarah N. King
Edith H. Parks
Beulah H. Reitz
Alice E. Whitney, R.N.

Umtall—

Hostel

tOna M. Parmenter, R.N.
Grace Clark

SOUTHEAST AFRICA CONFERENCE
Glkuki—

Hartzell Girls' School

Mabel P. Michel
Ruth E. Northcott

Nurses' Training School
Victoria Lang, R.N.
Clara J. Bartling

Evangelistic Work
Ruth F. Thomas

CENTRAL CONGO CONFERENCE
Wembo Nyama —

Medical Work

Flora Foreman, R.N.
Educational Work

Lorena Kelly
Annimae White

Tunda—

Medical Work

Mary E. Moore, R.N.
Educational Work

Annie Laura Winfrey

Girls' Home

•Catherine Parham

Mlnga —

Medical Work

Ruth O'Toole, R.N.
Educational Work

Myrtle Zicafoose

Edith Martin

Elizabeth Dalbey

Lodja —

Public Health Work
Kathryn Eye, R.N.

On Furlough:

fNorene Robken
Dorothy Rees
{Arza Maude Smith

Enroute to Field:

Zella Glidden
Doris Cary

*On furlough
{Under appointment.

fOn extended furlough or leave of absence

Department of Work in Foreign Fields

177

MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN, KOREA, AND THE PHILIPPINES

JAPAN

Fukuoka —

Fukuoka Jo Gakko (Girls' School)
Evangelistic Work
Carolyn Teague

Hakodate —

Educational and Evangelistic Work (Iai Jo
Gakko)
Dora Wagner
Gertrude Byler

Hamamatsu —

Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work
Ethel Hempstead

Hirosakl —

Hirosaki Jo Gakko

Lois Curtice
Evangelistic Work

Erma Taylor

Hiroshima —

Frazer Institute (English Night School for
Young Men)

Myra Anderson
Hiroshima Girls' School

Katharine Johnson

Lois Cooper

Kagosbima —

Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work
Alice Finlay

Keijo (Korea)

Evangelistic Work
Bertha Starkey

Kobe—

Palmore Women's English Institute
Charlie Holland
Mary McMillan
Alberta Tarr
Mildred Hudgins

Kumamoto —

Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work

Kushlkino —

Social-Rural Evangelistic Work
Azalia E. Peet

Nagasaki —

Social Evangelistic Work

Marion Simons
Kwassui Jo Gakko

Helen Couch

Olive Curry

Eva Deane Kemp

Helen Moore (temporarily transferred to the
Philippines)

Caroline Peckham

Vera Fehr

Olta—

Social Evangelistic Work
Sallie Carroll

Gertrude Feely (temporarily transferred to th
Philippines)

Osaka —

Osaka English School
Mary Searcy

Lambuth Training School
Anne Peavy
Catherine Stevens
Mabel Whitehead
Ruth Field

Sapporo —

Evangelistic Work
•Elizabeth Kilburn

Tokyo—

Social Evangelistic Work
Mildred A. Paine

Aoyama Jo Gakuin (Girls' School)

Barbara Bailey (temporarily transferred to

Cuba)
Opal Holland (temporarily transferred to

India)
Alice Cheney

Woman's Christian College
Myrtle Pider

Yokohama —

Seibi Gakuen (Girls' School)
Olive Hodges
Evelyn Wolfe

Evangelistic Work
Winifred Draper

Yoshifuji—

Rural-Social Evangelistic Work
Mozelle Tumlin

t KOREA
Chemulpo —

City and District Day Schools

Public Health and Welfare Work
B. Alfrida Kostrup, R.N.

Evangelistic Work
Chulwon —

District Evangelistic Work
Euline Smith

Chulwon Social Center
Susie Peach Foster

Chunan —

District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools
Mrs. Anna B. Chaffin

•Still in Japan. Other missionaries have withdrawn.

fDue to conditions on the field all missionaries have withdrawn.

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Woman's Division of Christian Service

Haiju—

Evangelistic Work

Pearl Lund, R.N.
City Day Schools

Pearl Lund, R.N.

Hongsung —

Evangelistic and Educational Work

Kongju —

City Schools

Jeannette Oldfather (temporarily transferred
to Burma — now working in India)

Evangelistic Work and District Day Schools
Mrs. Anna B. Chaffin

Pyengyang—

Chung Eui Higher Common School

Ada McQuie

Esther Laura Hulbert (temporarily transferred
to Cuba)

City and District Schools

Helen Boyles (temporarily transferred to Ar-
gentina)

Union Christian Hospital
Ethel Butts, R.N.

Seoul—

Ewha College

Alice Appenzeller
Catherine Baker
Marion Conrow
Ada Hall
Jeannette Hulbert
Hariett Morris
Blanche Loucks
Grace Wood
Mary Young

Ewha High School
Marie Church

City and District Schools
Ada Hall

District Evangelistic Work
Marjorie Beaird

Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital

Elizabeth Roberts, R.N. (temporarily trans-
ferred to the Philippines)

Public Health Work
Elma Rosenberger

Methodist Theological Seminary
Mabel Cherry

Caroline Institute (Girls' High School)
Rubie Lee
Ruth Diggs (temporarily transferred to Cuba)

Social Evangelistic Work
Margaret Billingsley

Patricia McHugh (temporarily transferred to
the Philippines)

City Evangelistic Work
Laura Edwards

Severance Hospital
Blanche Hauser, R.N.

Songdo —

Holston Institute

Nellie Dyer (temporarily transferred to the

Philippines)
Alice McMakin

Mary Helm Girls' School

Ida Hankins
Social Evangelistic Center

Nannie Black
Kindergarten Supervision

Clara Howard
District Evangelistic Work

Bessie O. Oliver

Bertha Smith

Ivey Hospital

Rosa Lowder, R.N.

Maude Nelson, R.N. (temporarily transferred
to India)

Rural Public Health
Helen Rosser, R.N.

Suwon —

Evangelistic and Educational Work
Mrs. Anna B. Chaffin

Wonju —

Evangelistic and Social Service Work
Esther Laird

Wonsan —

Lucy Cuninggim Girls' School

Carrie Una Jackson
Wonsan Christian Hospital

Elston Rowland, R.N. (temporarily trans-
ferred to the Philippines)

Grace E. Alt, R.N.

Social Evangelistic Center

Sadie Maude Moore
District Evangelistic Work

Kate Cooper

Yengbyen —

Evangelism and Educational Work
Ethel Miller

Yechun —

Evangelistic and Educational Work

PHILIPPINES
Bayombong —

Nueva Viscaya District

Wilhelmina Erbst ,

Lingayen —

Mary Brown Townsend Training School
Nellie Dyer (Korea)
*Hazel Davis

Pangasinan District
Nellie Dyer (Korea)
"Hazel Davis

Pampanga — South Tarlac and Bataan — Zam-
bales Districts
Bernice Cornelison

'In America.

Woman's Division of Christian Service

179

Adviser, Philippine Committee of Christian
Education and Editor Sunday School
Curriculum Materials
Bernice Cornelison
Manila —

Harris Memorial Training School
'Mary Evans
Leila Dingle
Roxy Lefforge (China)
Gertrude Feely (Japan)
*Marion Walker

Bulacan District

Gertrude Feely (Japan)
Hugh Wilson Hall

Mildred Blakely

Helen Moore (Japan)

Treasurer, Woman's
Service
Mildred Blakely

Division Christian

*In America

Mary J. Johnston Hospital and School of
Nursing
Elston Rowland, R.N. (Korea)
Hester West, R.N. (China)
Mary Deam

San Fernando —

Ilocos Sur District

Elizabeth Roberts, R.N. (Korea)
'Armenia Thompson

Nueva Ecija — North Tarlac
Patricia McHugh (Korea)

Tuguegarao —

Field Clinics and District Nursing
Anna Carson, R.N.

CAGAYAN ISABELA DISTRICT

'Ruth Atkins

MISSIONARIES IN LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, AND
NORTH AFRICA

(By Conferences and Institutions)

BULGARIA

Lovetch —

American Girls' School
Mellony F. Turner
Esther Carhart (short term)
tMrs. Florence G. Reeves

POLAND
Warsaw —

Social Evangelistic Work

Ruth Lawrence (now interned in France by

Germans)
tSallie Lewis Browne

NORTH AFRICA
Algiers —

Van Kirk Home (Les Aiglons)

Ruth S. Wolfe
Hostel

tL. Frances Van Dyne

Martha Whiteley

French Evangelistic Work
Mary Anderson

II Maten—

Evangelistic Work
tMartha Robinson
tGlora Wysner

Constantine —

Hannah Goodall Center
Nora Webb
E. Gwendoline Narbeth

Sidl Mabrouk—

Evangelistic Work
Eva A. Ostrom

NORTH BRAZIL

Belo Horizonte —

Colegio Isabella Hendrix
Verda Farrar
Mary Helen Clark
Ruth McKinney
Clyde Varn
Monta McFadin

Riojde Janeiro —

Colegio Bennett
Eva L. Hyde
Sarah Dawsey
Anita Harris (short term)
Nancy Holt
Lillian Knobles
'Maud Mathis
Gladys Oberlin

People's Central Institute
Allie Cobb
'Lydia Ferguson
Elizabeth Peterson

CENTRAL BRAZIL
Piracicaba —

Colegio Piracicabano
Rosalie Brown

Rlbeirao Preto

Instituto Metodista
Mary Jane Baxter
Sarah Bennett
Mary McSwain

Sao Paulo —

Visitor for Central Church

Rachel Jarrett
Agent for Voz Missionaria

Leila Epps

'On furlough. fOn leave without salary.

180

Woman's Division of Christian Service

SOUTH BRAZIL

Porto Alegre

Colegio Americano
Kjlth Anderson
Mary Sue Brown

Santa Maria —

Colegio Centenario
Louise Best
Alice Denison

Zula Terry

Gertrude Kennedy
*Alberta Simmons

Marian L. Derby
Lena May Hoerner

EAST SOUTH AMERICA

Buenos Aires —

Union Theological Seminary

Lena Knapp
Boca Mission

Muriel Grace David (after summer, 1944)

Montevideo —

Instituto Crandon
Jennie Reid
Bernice Brand
Angeline Craft

Rosarlo —

Colegio Americano

Katherine M. Donahue
Olive I. Givin
Helen Boyles

On Extended Leave:

Rhoda C. Edmeston

PERU MISSION
Callao—

Callao High School
Geraldine Johnson

Lima —

Lima High School
Gertrude Hanks
Frances Vandegrift
Treva B. Overholt
Semeramis C. Kutz

Frances Fulton
Emma A. Widger
Bonnie Korns
Martha Vanderberg

Mattie Lou Neal

Carrie Kenyon
tEthel Williamson

CUBA MISSION
Clenfuegos —

Colegio Eliza Bowman

Mary Woodward Esther Hulbert

Barbara Bailey
*Marie Crone

Havana —

Colegio Buenavista
lone Clay
Ruth Diggs

Evangelistic Work
Agnes Malloy

Herradura —

Social Work
fDreta Sharpe

Jovellanos —

Rural Work
Leora Shanks

Matanzas —

Centro Cristiano
*Mary Lou White
Elizabeth Earnest

Colegio Irene Toland
Clara Chalmers
Juanita Kelly
Augusta Nelson

Omaja, Orient o —
Rural Work
Frances Gaby
Sara Fernandez

Plnar del Rio—

Rural Work

Lucile Lewis
Baguanos —
Rural Work

Lorraine Buck

Eulalia Cook

MEXICO
FRONTIER CONFERENCE
Chihuahua —

Centro Cristiano
Emma Eldridge
M. Irene Nixon
Lucile Vail

Sanatorio Palmore
*Edna Potthoff
Pearl Hall
Lula Rawls

Saltlllo—

Centro Social Roberts
Ola Eugene Callahan

Monterrey —

Centro Social
*Ruth E. Byerly
Anna Belle Dyck
Lillie Fox
Helen Hodgson

Student Hostel
Dora Schmidt
General Teran —
Rural Work
Anne Deavours
Pitiquito, Sonora

Social Evangelistic
Virginia Booth

CENTRAL CONFERENCE

Mexico City —

Deaconess Training School

Mary Pearson
Industrial School Hostel

Ethel Thomas
Union Theological Seminary

Gertrude Arbogast

Dora Ingrum

On Furlough

Ruth V. Warner
Puebla—

School Hostel
May B. Seal
Evangelistic Work
♦Addie C. Dyer
Elsie M. Shepherd

Guanajuato —

School Hostel

(No appointment)
Cortazar —

Evangelistic Work

Mamie Baird

*On furlough. fOn leave without salary.

Retired Workers 181

RETIRED MISSIONARIES— FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

RETIRED MISSIONARIES OF THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

(As of January 1, 1944)

Alexander, V. Elizabeth 5644 Kerr St., Vancouver, B. C, Can.

Allen, Dr. Belle J East Birch Hill Rd., Darjeeling, India

Allen, Mabel Early, Iowa

Anderson, Luella Box 74, Le Roy, Ohio

Ashbaugh, Adella Vashti School, Thomasville, Ga.

Ashwill, Agnes 507 N. Hidalgo, Alhambra, Calif.

Atkinson, Anna P 321 Queen Anne Ave., Seattle, Wash.

*Baker, Catherine 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

Barstow, Clara Grace 3972 Sutro Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Bartlett, Carrie 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

Betow, Dr. Emma J 236 Church St., Clyde, Ohio

Betz, Blanche A 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

Bjorklund, Sigrid C 355 Lynn St., Maiden, Mass.

Blackmore, Sophia 102 Victoria St , Ashfield, Sydney, Australia

Bobenhouse, Laura G 832 Fourth St., Des Moines, Iowa

Bonafield, Julia (in occupied China)

Bording, Maren 405 W. Adams Blvd., Holton Apt. Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

Bridenbaugh, Jennie 207 Artaban Apts., Long Beach, Calif.

Brooks, Jessie » 600 N. Olive St., Anaheim, Calif.

Brownlee, Charlotte Munfordville, Ky.

Carpenter, Mary F 105 E. Main St., New Concord, Ohio

Chase, Laura 23 Fairfield Ave., Holyoke, Mass.

Collier, Clara 1055 N. Kingsley Dr., Los Angeles, Calif.

Cutler, Dr. Mary M Grand Rapids, Mich.

Daniel, Nell M .' Traer, Iowa

Davis, Dora Route No. 1, Box 78, Oakdale, Calif.

Davis, Joan J 1 15 N. Almansor, Alhambra, Calif.

Decker, Marguerite M 5705 N. Albina Ave., Portland, Ore.

Dickerson, Augusta 1839 W. Venango St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Dillingham, Grace L 221 N. Brookdale Ave., Fullerton, Calif.

Dove, Agnes, C. W 33 Mansefield Ave., Cambusland, Scotland

Easton, Celesta Indianapolis Ave. and Gage Canal, Riverside, Calif.

Eddy, Mabel Fulton, Mich.

Ernsberger, Mrs. Margaret C 5101 39th Ave., Long Island City, N. Y.

Ferris, Dr. Phoebe A 329 N. Orlando Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Files, Estelle M R. F. D. 2, Brockport, N. Y.

Fisher, Fannie Fern Mountainburg, Ark.

Fox, Eulalia 556 South St., Glendale, Calif.

Oilman, Gertrude 714 Locust St., Pasadena, Calif.

Godfrey, Louise 2545 N. E. Flanders, Portland, Ore.

Goodall, Annie Mapleton, Iowa

Grandstrand, Pauline Lindstrom, Minn.

Guse, Mrs. Anna E 308 E. 5th St., Muscatine, Iowa

Griffiths. Mary B 619 Cedar St., San Diego, Calif.

Hagen, Olive I Lake Linden, Mich.

Hall, Dr. Rosetta S Liberty, N. Y.

Hartford, Mabel C 795 Central Ave., Dover, N. H.

Haynes, Irene 52 Sawyer St., Hornell, N. Y.

Hess, Margaret 405 W. Adams Blvd., Holton Apt. Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

Hewitt, Helen 256 McClure Ave., Elgin, 111.

Hewett, Lizzie 2111 Cedar St., Berkeley, Calif.

Hoge, Elizabeth 5343 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio

Hoffman, Carlotta E 185 Wallace St., Freeport, N. Y.

Holbrook, Ella M 231 Cypress Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif.

Holman, Charlotte T 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Holman, Sarah C 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Holmes, Ada Brooklands Rest Home, Coonoor, Nilgiries, S. India

Holmes, Lillian 4528 2d Ave., N., St. Petersburg, Fla.

Jackson, C. Ethel Eveland Seminary, 7 Mt. Sophia, Singapore, S. S.

Jewell, Mrs. Charlotte M 714 Locust St., Pasadena, Calif.

Kennard, Olive 956 E. Cypress Ave., Redlands, Calif.

Ketring, Dr. Mary 520 14th St., Bradenton, Fla.

Kidwell, Lola M Care of Mrs. Mary C. Taylor, 704 C Ave., National City, Calif.

Lantz, Dr. Viola 578 S. 11th St., San Jose, Calif.

Lauck, Ada J 622 Boyd St., Watertown, N. Y.

Lawson, Annie E 818 Radcliffe Ave., Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Lee, Mabel Clearwater, Minn.

Le Huray, Eleanor No. 7, Hill View Terrace, Summit, N.J.

Liers, Josephine Clayton. Iowa

Lilly, May B Route 1, 327 Raymond, Wash.

Lindblad, Anna C Kungsgatan 22, Linkaping, Sweden

Loper, Ida Grace 1 15 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

Madden, Pearl R. R. No. 1, Aldergrove, B. C, Can.

Marker, Jessie B Shippingport, Beaver County, Pa.

Manning, Ella 77 Wellesley St., Toronto, Can.

Marriott, Jessie A .440 Lafayette Ave., Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio

Martin, Dr. Emma .- Otterbein. Ind.

*It is understood in any case of Temporary Special Retirement that upon return to the field or upon the
securing of a position with salary equivalent to that of a missionary salary the retirement relation is to cease

182 Woman's Division of Christian Service

♦Miller, Ethel 90 Church St.. Montrose, Pa.

Miller, Lula A 167 Loomis St., Little Falls. N. Y.

Miller, Viola L Amelia, Ohio

Montgomery, Urdell 221 Fourth St., Redlands, Calif.

Morgan, Mabel 1211 22d St., Bradenton, Fla.

Morgan, Margaret 1211 22d St., Bradenton. Fla.

Moyer, Jennie 115 N. Almansor St., Alhambra, Calif.

McDade, Myra L 40 W. Green St., Westminister. Md.

McKnight, Isabel 443 North Ave., 56, Los Angeles. Calif.

Naylor, Nell Box 52, Winslow, Ark.

Nelson, Lavinia 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

Nichols, Florence 57 Prescott St., Reading, Mass.

Nicholls, Elizabeth Coleredge House, Coleredge Rd., Clevedon, Somerset, Eng.

Nicolaisen, Martha C. W 440 Lafayette Ave., Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio

Olson. Mary E Afton, Minn.

Organ, Clara M Deaconess Home, Concord, Mass.

Overman. L. Belle 9838 Marcus, Tujunga, Calif.

Parrish, Dr. Rebecca 1834 N. Alabama St.. Indianapolis, Ind.

Patterson, Gail 324 Grandview Ave., Morgantown, W. Va.

Peters, Jessie 1 128 S. Serrano Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Pugh, Ada "Sandhurst," Charlton Park, Keynsham, Bristol, Eng.

Robbins. Henrietta P Care of Mr. G. B. Sammis, R. F. D. No. 2, Freehold, N. J.

Rosier, Dr. Esther Gimson 1212 V St., Vancouver, Wash.

Ruese, Mrs. Artele B Box 185, Bridger, Mont.

Sayles, Florence 1023 W. 37th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Scharpff, Hanna 1539 S. Springfield Ave., Chicago, 111.

Shannon. Dr. Mary E 314 Greenwood Ave., Topeka, Kan.

Sharp, Mrs. Alice M 414 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Sinkey, Fern Box 454, Granville, Ohio

Smith, Emily Cottage St. Pierre, El Biar, Algeria, N. Africa

Smith, Mrs. Frances Craig 312 E. Chatres St.. Anaheim, Calif.

Snavely, Gertrude 5033 Locust St.. W., Philadelphia, Pa.

Spaulding, Winifred 275 Robincroft Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

Sprowles, Alberta 4833 Griscom St.. Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.

Strow, Elizabeth M 127 Ward Place, South Orange, N. J.

Stryker. Dr. Minnie Whittier Hotel, 140 N. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Sullivan, Lucy W The Deodars, Almora, U. P., India

Sutton, Marianne 508 Lincoln Ave., E., Alexandria, Minn.

Swearer, Lillian M 1119 E. Elk St., Glendale, Calif.

Swift, Edith T 573 Irvington Ave., Elizabeth, N. J.

Tallon, Mrs. Bertha K 22 Bowers St., Newtonville, Mass.

Taylor, Erma 21 Hamilton Blvd., Kenmore, Buffalo, N. Y.

Temple, Laura El Rosario, Atzcapolzalco, Mex.

Thomas, Mary 440 Lafayette Ave., Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio

Todd, Althea M 440 Lafayette Ave., Clifton, Cincinnati. Ohio

Traeger, Gazelle Harwood Girls' School, Albuquerque, N. M.

Trissel. Maude V 1071 W. 30th St.. Los Angeles, Calif.

Weaver, Georgiana 102 Academy Green, Syracuse, N. Y.

Welch, A. Dora Cottage St. Pierre, El Biar. Algeria, N. Africa

Wells, Annie M >. 1499 N. Garfield Ave.. Pasadena, Calif.

Wells, Phoebe C 2334 Steiner St.. San Francisco, Calif.

White, Anna Laura 3984^ Oregon St., San Diego, Calif.

Whittaker, M. Lotte 2757 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Wilson, Mrs. Mary Eva 443 North Ave., 56, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Calif.

Wilson, Frances O Clifton Springs, N. Y.

Woodruff. Frances E Round Lake. N. Y.

Wythe, K. Grace 5571 Taft Ave., Oakland. Calif.

FORMER METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, WOMAN'S MISSIONARY COUNCIL

Emeritus Missionaries

Anderson, Ida 952 State St., Jackson, Miss China

Andrew, Eunice 5467 Maple St.. St. Louis, Mo Brazil

Buie, Hallie 321 Beech St., Texarkana, Ark Korea

Cook, Margaret Newman, Ga Japan

Genn, Layona Conyers, Ga Brazil

Hackney, Kate 22 J^ Bearden, Asheville, N. C China

Leveritt, Ella D Senoia, Ga China

Markey, M. Belle Covina, Calif Mexico

Moling, Frances B 534 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City, Mo Cuba

Park, Edith 2406 El Paso St., San Antonio, Tex Mexico

Pyle, Martha 718 Linwood, Kansas City, Mo China

Roberts, Lelia 705 E. 9th St., Bonham, Tex Mexico

Rogers, Maggie Lott, Texas China

Steger, Clara < Mountain Grove, Mo China

Tarrant, Mary M 2051 Park St.. St. Louis, Mo China

Toland, Rebecca Beeville, Tex Cuba

Wasson, Julia M Ethel, Miss China

Waters. Alice Murray, Ky China

White, Mary Culler Conyers, Ga China

Williams, Anna Bell Charleston, S. C Japan

Retired Workers 183

Retired Missionaries

Bomar, Mildred Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn China

Brown, Mrs. F. K Home for Aged, Gaithersburg, Md Brazil

Churchill, Annie Burnet, Tex Cuba

Claiborne. Elizabeth ISO Fifth Ave.. New York. N. Y China

Cloud, Ellen B 200 S. Townsend Ave., Los Angeles, Calif Mexico

Drake, Nell Port Gibson, Miss China

*Edwards, Laura 3019 Homan Ave., Waco, Tex Korea

Hixson, May 917 15th St., Augusta, Ga China

Hughes, Elizabeth Daleville, Miss China

*Jackson, Carrie U R. F. D. No. 2, Arlington, Ky Korea

James, Myrtle Sweatman, Miss Mexico

Jetton, Mabel 4418 Garrison St., N. W., Washington, D. C Brazil

Johnston, Helen Sebastian, Fla Brazil

Lamb. Elizabeth Box 582, Fayetteville. N. C Brazil

*Lowder, Rosa May 10 Staley Apts., Bristol, Tenn Korea

McCaughan. Ethel Durango, Mexico Mexico

Nichols, Lillian Still Hildreth Osteophathic Sanatorium, Macon, Mo Korea

Park, Clara Swainsboro, Ga China

Perkinson, Eliza 903 Douglas Ave., Nashville, Tenn Brazil

Putnam, Lela Lockhart, Tex Brazil

Shannon, Ida 1614 W. 10th St., Little Rock, Ark Japan

Tucker. Bertha Crawfordville, Ga Korea, Cuba

Tydings, Ellie B 315 Greenwood Dr.. West Palm Beach. Fla Mexico

Wagner, Ellasue Staley Apts., 10 Franklin St., Bristol, Tenn Korea

Williams, Anna Bell Care of J. B. Hunter, Relocation Center, McGehee, Ark Japan

Wright, Laura 4106 Belleview, Baltimore, Md Mexico

RETIRED MISSIONARY, METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH

Williams, Mary E 312 Barkdale St., Glenwood, S. C Japan

RETIRED MISSIONARIES AND OTHER WORKERS-
HOME DEPARTMENT

Alexander, May Care of Boylan-Haven School, Jacksonville, Fla.

Barber, Frances 160 Florence St., Melrose 76, Mass.

Barrow, S. C 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Bell, Louisa A 1081 Elizabeth St., Pasadena. Calif.

Brand, Catherine Palace Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio

Bryant, Francina 212 N. Paramore St., Orlando, Fla.

Comfort, Mae 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Fink, Harriet Nottingham Primary, Boaz, Ala.

Fisher, Mrs. Emma W 3719 Edenhurst Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Fowler, Bertha 3134 S. Logan Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.

Freeman, Mrs. J. H 84 W. Winter St., Delaware, Ohio

Gilbert, Mrs. Levi 4548 Erie Ave., Madisonville, Cincinnati, Ohio

Gowell, Mrs. Anna B 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Griffith, Rev. A. E 223 W. Garfield St., Clarinda, Iowa

Hendricks, Mrs. F. A 1335 N. LaSalle St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Hicks, Eva R. F. D., Box 141, Mercer Island, Wash.

Johnson, Louella 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Lomison, Mrs. Carolyn 245 E. Washington St., Pasadena, Calif.

Mathias, Jennie 1609 N. Mariposa Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Miller, Cozy 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Orvis, Edith E 129 E. 6th St., Berwick, Pa.

Schlapbach, Rev. and Mrs. J. H 315 W. Oklahoma Ave., Blackwell, Okla.

Smith, Olive L Paradise, Calif.

Stevens, Mrs. Cora D Canaan, Conn.

Winchell, Mary 1716 Liberty St., Santa Clara, Calif.

Winold, Mrs. S. A 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Woodruff, Mrs. May L 74 Cookman Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J.

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities

A Review of the Work of the Quadrennium
and the Look Ahead

HP HE following report attempts to summarize the history and work of the De-'
■*■ partment of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities in relation
to the -purpose as stated in the Discipline of The Methodist Church (1940 — Par. 996.)

Historical Background

The scope of the work included in the Department of Christian Social Re-
lations and Local Church Activities has grown out of a need recognized for
many years by women in all sections of the church. An attempt has been made,
in setting up the machinery of the department, to conserve those methods and
interests from all groups of women, that will tend to undergird most effectively
the entire work in the Woman's Society of Christian Service.

The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the former Methodist Episcopal
Church had a Standing Committee on Christian Citizenship whose able chairman
was Miss Ada Townsend, of Evanston, Illinois. The following quotation from
her 1940 annual report is a fitting statement of the purpose and breadth of
interest covered by this committee:

". . . . In 1928 our trustees issued a ringing 'Call to Patriotism' which
reads in part as follows: 'Active participation in all matters which relate to
government and public welfare, through the use of the ballot, is the patriotic
duty of every woman of voting age. Our objective as home missionary women is
the winning of America to Christ. This objective can be reached only by puri-
fying the political, social, and economic conditions of our country.' "

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the former Methodist Epis-
copal Church also had a Standing Committee on World Citizenship. Mrs. George
H. Tomlinson, of Evanston, Illinois, had been chairman of this committee for
many years. While this committee on World Citizenship specialized in the
field of International Relations and World Peace, at the same time it promoted
a broad program of citizenship along other lines. The committees of the Home
and Foreign Missionary Societies worked co-operatively in the areas in which
their programs were similar, such as Alcohol Education, International Relations,
Race Relations, Legislation, and Better Movies.

The Wesleyan Service Guild through its Department of Christian Citizen-
ship and Personal Service combined a general program of education for Citizen-
ship and Social Action, tending to make the work of this department a primary
interest of business and professional women.

Possibly the first record of a Ladies' Aid Society in any Methodist church
of America is found at the Old John Street Church in New York, N. Y. Ladies'
Aid activities were included to some degree in the Woman's Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in the missionary work of the
women of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Discipline provided for a Ladies'
Aid Society in the Methodist Episcopal Church until the Uniting Conference
of 1939 provided a plan for uniting all woman's work.

From 1910 to 1930 the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, had a Department of Social Service, which was active in
the field of industrial problems and peace, and after 1920 in race relations.
In 1930 the Bureau of Christian Social Relations was established in the Council
with five major areas of activity. These areas were Christian Citizenship
and Law Observance, International Relations and World Peace, Economic Re-
lations, Rural Community, and Interracial Co-operation. In the words of Mrs.

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Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities 185

W. A. Newell, the bureau superintendent, the scope of the work of the bureau
may best be described: "It has been world-wide in its concern and church-
wide in its appeal to women."

The Woman's Convention of the Methodist Protestant Church had a sec-
retary of Temperance and Christian Citizenship. In the twenty-one branches
of the constituent organizations, similar secretaries of Temperance and Chris-
tian Citizenship were elected. The emphases included Christian Citizenship as
it applied to voting and community betterment, temperance and narcotics, world
peace and justice in the economic system.

From the concern of these thousands of Methodist women, representing all
organizations of the three uniting branches of Methodism, have come certain
basic ideals and working goals that are the heritage of the new Depai'tment of
Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities.

The Organization of the Department

(a) Membership

The Woman's Division of Christian Service is made up of the three depart-
ments of work, closely related and interdependent. One third of the membership
of the Woman's Division is assigned to each department. This group of twenty-
four women formed the official nucleus out of which the initial organization
of each department grew.

Because the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities differed in purpose and function from the administrative departments,
it seemed necessary to plan a different type of department organization that
could "supervise and promote the work of the Division along lines of community
service and social relations" and plan to meet other needs in line with the pur-
pose outlined in the Discipline. The following plan evolved and has been the
basis of work during the quadrennium:

In order to enlarge the scope of the educational program of the department
and to increase the effectiveness of its leadership, additional women with special
qualifications and responsibilities were invited to become members of the de-
partment. This group became regular members of the Resource Committees and
Department but had no official relation to the Woman's Division. Associate mem-
bers, specialists in their various fields, both men and women, were added to
the Resource Committees as consultants with the responsibility of full participa-
tion in the planning and evaluation of the department's program, but without
a vote in the official action of the department.

The purpose of the Resource Committee is indicated by the name itself —
a committee to study needs and recommend plans and resources in their special
areas that may be used by women in local societies.

(b) The Budget and Its Relation to the Department Program

The Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities
was set up at the beginning of the quadrennium without any previous experience
on which to base its budget. Some of the uniting groups had comparatively
small items in the budget for the promotion of special phases of the work that
had become a part of this new department, but there was no basis from which
to estimate a new budget. The original budget for 1941, therefore, included
only the basic necessities for beginning a very important, expanding program
for the Woman's Society of Christian Service. The major budget items were
for an educational program of leadership training through summer schools and
seminars, for the expenses of the annual and semiannual meetings of the de-
partment and committees, and for salaries and office expenses for the executive
secretary and two office secretaries. Because of the necessity for decreasing
the budget of the Woman's Division the department budget has been decreased
during the quadrennium from $15,000 in 1941 to $13,930 in 1943-44. The de-
partment budget is approximately one half of 1% of the total budget of the
Woman's Division.

186 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Methods and Results of Field Cultivation in Conference, District,
and Local Organization

(a) Program Emphases of the Department

At the initial meeting of the department in November, 1940, in Philadelphia,
areas of special need were discussed in relation to a program of action, and
the recommendations from the seven Resource Committees became a part of the
original Handbook for the department, and provided a backlog for forward-
looking social-action emphases during the succeeding years of the quadrennium.

From the very beginning the department has recognized the need for
consistency between the church's "preaching" and "practices." With this ideal
in the foreground, the department program has sought "to make real and effective
the teachings of Jesus as applied to individual, class, racial, and national rela-
tionships," and "to enlist the participation of church women in such questions as
have .... an important bearing on public welfare." An attempt has been
made to make the local church a community-minded church, with an intelligent
plan of co-operation in the enlistment and training of church women for volun-
teer service in the church and community. Among the most outstanding con-
tributions of the quadrennium was the stimulation that came from the de-
partment conference on the Status of Minority Groups in a Christian Democracy.
The study and action growing out of this conference will reverberate for years
to come.

A special approved study course on The Christian Family was added to the
list of approved studies for 1941-42, and was used widely by Methodist women.
This was followed in 1941 by a similar recommendation out of which grew. the
Peace Packet, "Planning for Peace," an approved study for 1942-43. More than
10,000 Packets had been sold by June, 1943. As a result of the conference on the
Status of Minority Groups in a Christian Democracy, held in November, 1942,
the department recommended that emphasis be given to the study of "The Church
and America's Peoples" with the findings of the conference as one of the major
texts. The report of the conference was published in the pamphlet, "Unity — A
Challenge to American Democracy," and has already been distributed widely
for use with the approved study, "The Church and America's Peoples," and also
for use as an informal study.

(b) Channels for the Promotion of the Work of the Department

There are three major channels of promotion that have been used extensively
by the department during the quadrennium, namely, (1) Literature and church
periodicals, especially The Methodist Woman and World Outlook; (2) the use of
jurisdiction, conference, and district secretaries of Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities as channels from the department to the local
society; (3) the third channel of promotion is by means of individual field work,
done by the chairman of the department, the executive secretary, and other
members of the department, and by the jurisdiction secretaries and also field
workers of the Joint Division.

Leadership Training as it Relates to Jurisdiction, Conference, District,
and Local Organization

(a) Seminars on a National. Scope

For the past two summers the department has sponsored a seminar on
Christian Social Relations at Garrett Institute, Evanston, Illinois, with Miss
Louise Young, of Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee, as director. In 1942
there were forty women in attendance and in 1943 there were thirty-five women.
The consensus of the groups in attendance each year indicated an appreciation
for this type of educational program and the necessity for its continuance.

(b) Jurisdiction and Conference Schools

The Jurisdiction School of Missions and Christian Service has been one of
the strongest unifying influences in the jurisdictions for the total program of

Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities 187

The people of the world must insist on the building of the new world order
by their governments and support their governments as they build. Letters
from all the homes of American Methodists will go out to tell Senators and
Representatives of this church's desire for such a world order and its resolve

to help build it

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the Woman's Society. The jurisdiction school provided a medium for guiding
conference leaders in planning and promoting a study program as a basis for
social action. Such a study program, directed in the conferences by the Study
Committee (secretary of Missionary Education, secretary of Christian Social
Relations and Local Church Activities, and chairman of Spiritual Life) holds
the key to uniting the thinking and planning of the members of the Woman's
Society. A comparative study of the schools in 1941 and the schools in 1943
will indicate the fact that the united approach, made through Seminars on Educa-
tion and Action in 1943, gave new meaning to the study program in those five
jurisdictions where schools were held.

The Look Ahead

"There are moments in history when Tomorrow is Today. When the mam-
moth glacier of social trend taking movement down the valley of history, can be
diverted by men into pathways toward tomorrow." (Harold Rugg: Now Is the
Moment.)

The Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities
must look ahead even as it takes stock of the past. This is a "moment in history
when Tomorrow is Today" — when our job is to build a public mind that not only
interprets human relations in terms of Jesus' teachings but a public mind that is
willing to practice these principles as individuals and as nations, even to the point
of sacrifice now and after the guns cease firing.

A practical plan for increased action immediately must be initiated by the
department now looking toward a new world order. Such a plan must recognize
certain immediate and long-range challenges and needs, and adapt the program
of action accordingly. The following needs are evident on every hand:

1. Planning for demobilization on the home front after the war means building
a public mind that will bring pressure to bear on Congress and get action! Ade-
quate plans must be made now for mobilizing peacetime production for full
employment. The National Resources Planning Board, before it was ordered
by the Senate to liquidate itself (and let the senators take over!) made a new
"Bill of Rights," or listed "Nine Freedoms," that Christian leaders may well
consider basic needs for all people everywhere and work for their realization.

(1) The right to work usefully and creatively through productive years.

(2) The right to fair pay, adequate to command the necessities and ameni-
ties of life in exchange for work, ideas, thrift, and other socially valuable service.

(3) The right to adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care.

(4) The right to security, with freedom from fear of old age, want, de-
pendency, sickness, unemployment, and accident.

(5) The right to live in a system of free enterprise, free from compulsory
labor, irresponsible private power, arbitrary public authority, and unregulated
monopolies.

(6) The right to come and go, to speak or be silent, free from the spying
of secret political police.

(7) The right to equality before the law, with equal access to justice in fact.

(8) The right to education for work, for citizenship, and for personal growth
and happiness.

(9) The right to rest, recreation, and adventure; the opportunity to enjoy
life and take part in an advancing civilization.

2. // there is to be an enduring peace we must build a public mind that will
create suclt international authorities and agencies as are needed for reconstructing a
devastated world, guaranteeing economic security and political freedom, and develop-
ing an international program of social welfare. Such agencies will deal with post-
war relief and rehabilitation, with international economy, education, and citizen-
ship, and probably with such front-page world issues as Child and Youth Welfare,
Health and Narcotics, the protection and development of socially handi-
capped peoples, and human migrations. Christian leaders must be alert to their
responsibility in every local church and community as well as through the great
chain of missionary institutions and agencies at home and abroad.

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3. As Christian citizens ivc must find techniques for building a good world.
The government "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed."
Winning this consent for building a good world for all people is a major job
of the church. Consent is given only when the governed understand conditions
and issues. We must work not only for the unhampered voting privilege jor all
people in the nation, but for an educational program that adequately interprets
the need for Christian action. Someone has suggested that an "Office of Edu-
cation for Peace" might replace the "Office of Education for War" and mobilize
the teachers of the land in a great program that will build a public mind for peace.

4. The Christian church must quickly and more consistently utilize its forces
for action in building group unity at home. During the past two years there
have been increasing tensions in all sections of the country with racial tensions
probably most evident. Riots and various types of disturbances have been pub-
licized. Many forces are at work to clear the atmosphere and build a stable
co-operative community, but methods and programs for practical action have-
not advanced very far. Various state and local committees throughout the coun-
try have been appointed, but "most of the committees lacked both a program
and the effective force of official status." (Chas. S. Johnson, September, 1943,
issue of Trends in Race Relations.)

The church should be the agency to set the pace in interpreting the revolu-
tion in the United States in terms of a Christian world order of changed atti-
tudes and practical action — where the traditional practice of segregation of and
discrimination against minorities either racial, religious, or cultural groups, will be
superseded by equality of opportunity in all phases of life, and unhampered freedom
of movement and communication of all peoples without fear of physical, mental, or
spiritual intimidation.

5. Another type of tension with serious international implications may have
to do with the interpretation of peoples in those nations of the world around which
traditional prejudice and distrust, have been built. Such prejudices are usually
based on false premises and will continue to be stumbling blocks to a Christian
world order, until a sane, informed understanding has developed. Possibly
Russia provides the most outstanding example of a people whose economic phi-
losophy has differed from ours and against whom America has directed one of
her major prejudices and fears. The Christian church is the one agency of the
world that can bridge all differences and discover and interpret the basic and
essential likenesses of peoples. The Christian bases of the new world will
rest on adequate interpreters! John Bennett says: "Christians should know that
it is premature to form a judgment of any social system until they liave listened to
(he people at the bottom of it!"

6. The chm'ch has pioneered through the years in projecting a social welfare
program for socially and economically handicapped groups and individuals. There
is increasing evidence that the "seeds" planted have borne fruit and the govern-
ment and other public agencies are prepared to do a much more thorough job
along many lines. The church must not withdraw from this great field of
service but it must be ready to shift its emphasis in many cases to that of
co-operation in the leavening process. The church must understand the need for
and function of public-welfare agencies in every local community, and co-operate
with them rather than duplicate their efforts. Possibly among the major prob-
lems evident in community life and of concern to church leaders at this point
may be listed the following: (1) Shifting individuals and family groups to
new communities with inadequate housing, health, and recreation facilities. (2)
The increasing employment of women in industry and the obvious effect on home
and family stability. (3) The great upward trend in child labor. (4) The
tremendous rise in juvenile delinquency throughout the country. (5) The cal-
loused attitude in most communities toward the increasing consumption of
alcohol and other narcotics, and the effect on youth and general family life.
(6) The increasing number of war marriages. (7) The congested conditions and
lack of adequate wholesome recreational facilities in communities adjacent to
and a part of camp and industrial communities.

// the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities is
going to function more adequately in its approach to the above great areas of need.

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it is evident that an enlarged program is necessary. The following specific sugges-
tions may point toward practical ways of expanding the program:

(1) In order to promote effectively the general work of the depart-
ment and give special attention to the specific areas suggested above the profes-
sional staff of the department must be increased. This will permit a more intensive
type of field work along special lines of need, both on a conference-wide scale
and in certain local situations. It will also make possible certain specialized
leadership in formulating techniques and programs for local church use.

(2) Special literature needs must be met more adequately in terms of long-
range practical educational programs. Better ways of assuring the more ef-
fective use of timely informal studies must be determined and provision made
for same.

(3) Provision may well be made for a series of workshops or seminars
for church women throughout the country, dealing with such timely topics as
are indicated by the areas of need listed above, and located regionally in accessible
places, where a cross section of the church constituency may attend without ref-
erence to jurisdiction. Such workshops may be conducted in co-operation with
other agencies of the church, or possibly on an interdenominatinal scale in co-
operation with the United Council of Church Women, or as special activities
of the department for widespread leadership training.

(4) Increased emphasis must also be given to these special needs in jui'is-
diction and conference schools, using more time for formulating practical tech-
niques of action.

. (5) A continuation of the plan for a seminar on a national scale, con-
ducted at some centrally located place and giving major attention to some such
areas of need as those suggested above, should bring together special leaders
from all sections of the church. Recognizing the increasing importance and
growing needs for such seminars, the department should secure certain special-
ists in fields of major need for 1944 to serve as resource leaders.

7. The channels of specific social action for the general church constituency
are dependent largely upon the Woman's Society. A parallel department or
bureau or Committee on Social Education and Action in the general section of
the Joint Division could, in co-operation with the Department of Christian Social
Relations and Local Church Activities, make a greater impact on community
problems, promote a broader program for interpreting the peoples of the world,
and undergird more effectively the principles of Christian citizenship in a world
community. Such possibilities need careful exploration with clear-cut recom-
mendations channeled to the proper authority.

Report of Editors
The Methodist Woman

WITHIN the past two weeks we have been asked to speak on the program
of Methodist women for the postwar world. Needless to say, this has not
been an easy task when we consider the present undefined status of such a pro-
gram. It has, however, put a tremendous burden on our hearts as we think about
The .\fcthodist Woman and our literature publications as they relate to our
entire promotional program within the Woman's Division of Christian Service.
The burden on our hearts is how we can "break through" to the women in the
local church and help them to see the tremendous implications of the postwar
period immediately before us.

Leon Henderson spoke the other night at New York University. He said
that those who are inclined to look into the crystal ball for a solution to their
problems might find it possible to believe that the war would be over by Christ-
mas and the postwar world would then immediately confront us. Those, how-
ever, closer to government feel that the war with Germany will not be oyer
until June, 1944, and that it will take another year to complete the campaign
in the Pacific. Then he spoke of the dozen or more major questions which
need to be settled, else peace itself would almost bring calamity. These were:

1. Contact terminations.

2. Disposition surplus raw materials.

3. Disposition government-owned plants.

4. Future of credit and financing private enterprises.

5. Foreign rehabilitation.

6. Price -rationing controls.

7. Demobilization men and women on service fronts and in war-production
factories.

8. Taxes.

9. Policing the world.

10. Relationship between government and business.

11. Place of government spending.

There is a tremendous interest out in the church to know whether or not the
Woman's Division of Christian Service is facing its world realistically. Are we
facing our postwar problems, they ask?

Again and again, we shall refer in speech and in the paper to a recent
statement made by Lena Madesin Phillips, president of The International Fed-
eration of Business and Professional Women, before the institute planned by
Christ Methodist Church, New York, N. Y. At the conclusion of the speech,
we find these words:

"Last week I was in Washington and had occasion to visit the new build-
ing housing a part of our War Department. I was told that 40,000 men and
women worked there. Forty thousand men and women in one spot, in one city,
in one country, dedicating their thought, energy, and time to the destruction
of other men and women, to the destruction of properties accumulated, his-
torical monuments built, art treasures cherished through the centuries. That
is but one point, duplicated, except in its colossal concentration, in countless
places throughout the world. War is an effort to which all is sacrificed.
Neither life nor property nor precedent nor plan is permitted to stand in the
way of achievement.

"If we could assume such an attitude toward peace we would find it. When
will we be willing to say, 'The world must have peace, justice, security, and I
pledge all that I am and have including my prejudices, my pocketbook, and my
national pride for these things'?

"I understand the frustration which assails one who accepts these tenets
yet does not know how to make them effective. I can only say preach and
fight and vote and pray.

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"Recently I heard Marian Anderson singing a Negro spiritual, 'Let Us
Break Bread Together on Our Knees.' It is an invitation to be heeded. Let us
humble ourselves before a loving but just God and catch the vision of his one
world with one people.

"Ours is a vain, foolish, and selfish world. We send our sons to destruction
and incite ourselves to hate. Yet with all our foolishness it is a woi-ld stagger-
ing toward a better day, in darkness but groping toward the light."

Plans for The Methodist Woman

With these statements as background, you will well understand the search-
ing that has gone on within our own hearts to make future issues of the paper
reflect our postwar thinking and planning. We are now meeting with the
executive secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments in individual
conferences to find out emphases which should be made in The Methodist Woman
in their particular area, mindful of the postwar emphasis. These conferences
center around the following ideas:

1. Postwar Problems. Relationship of various bureaus and fields to prob-
lems of postwar and the articles which should be prepared to reflect these needs.

2. Projects of the Woman's Division of Christian Service which hitherto
have not had space in The Methodist Woman so that within a reasonable length
of time, the entire program of the Woman's Division of Christian Service will
have been described.

3. Suggested articles to tie in with the monthly program materials.

4. Suggested articles to tie in with the mission-study emphases as in the
recent October issue dealing with Christian Literature and the November issue
dealing with the Church and America's Peoples.

Bettie S. Brittingham,
Helen Cox Exman,

Editors.

World Outlook

World Outlook has grown steadily during the past year, not only in the
subscriptions but also in the manner in which it has been used. Both the
Woman's Society of Christian Service and the church as a whole have used the
paper for missionary education in public meetings and in the church school.
The first purpose of World Outlook has always been to publicize the work of the
church in the mission field at home and abroad. The interesting fact is the
news itself is so important that it cannot help but become a part of the study
of missions. Letters have come to the office telling of articles being used for
programs in the Woman's Society, for meditations in vespers which are giving
special emphasis to missions while the illustrations are used not only for mis-
sionary programs but also for all studies which have to do with the world
affairs of the Christian church. These uses of the magazine might be used
to show how the paper is meeting the needs of the church, but it has a far
more profound meaning than that; it means that the people of the church are
developing a world vision to demand that the paper be put to such uses.

Not only is the paper being used for the mission program of the church.
It is also being used to hold the mission fields themselves at home and abroad
closer together. Since the spring of the year World Outlook has been going in
an air-mail edition to Free China. Although the paper was cut off for a time
in Africa and North Africa it is now getting through. South America receives
it and contributes to it regularly. Indian missionaries write that they are
sending pictures so that the church at home will know the changes in the Indian
church. The paper is bringing to these stations not only the news of the rest
of the church, but even more important, it is bringing the atmosphere of think-
ing in which the church at home lives today. And through stories from these
stations it helps create that atmosphere. Such a unifying force cannot be
overemphasized. Such a force cannot be released in any more effective way than
through the missionary magazine.

Dorothy McConnell, Editor.

Reports of Editors

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Week of Prayer

and Self-Denial

Materials

Worship and Program
Booklets

EtlGHBOkll

ElizabelWkTedith Lee

I W 1 1-

Leaflets on Home
and Foreign Fields

Urjseen C

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Prayer Books

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Literature

Each succeeding year of this quadrermium, 1943 being no exception, the
demand for literature has exceeded that of the preceding year. During the past
twelve months there were ever-increasing orders by mail, and tables of litera-
ture at all conferences and institutes invariably were surrounded by interested
purchasers who gladly paid whatever the price.

Requests from departments and committees for the production of literature
were reviewed by the Committee on Literature and Publications before decisions
were made for their granting. All literature for 1943 was carefully planned
as to content and writers far enough in advance of publication dates to make pos-
sible adequate preparation of materials. Over one hundred different pieces of
literature were produced in 1943. Twenty leaflets on projects of the home and
foreign fields constituted the first free field literature that has been printed
during this quadrennium.

The program material for 1944, which was ready for sale by September 1,
1943, carried the theme, "The Lord's Song in a Strange Land." For the first
time this literature, consisting of worship services and program suggestions,
was printed in Spanish for use by members of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service of the Mexican conferences. These programs for 1943 were sent forth
with a prayer by the editors that Methodist women might feel "that out of the
singing of the song, the deeds and tempers of the nations will be transformed,
and peace — Thy peace — will come again to our world."

The Week of Prayer literature included two booklets, a leaflet, a poster, and
a gift envelope. Meriting special appreciation, because of its worth and because
of the spirit in which responsibility for its writing was assumed, was the Week
of Prayer and Self-Denial service for an all-day retreat, the work of three
Episcopal women. This beautiful service, prepared by Miss Vida D. Scudder,
Miss Florence Converse, and Mrs. John Hurd, for Methodist women indicates
at least one way whereby the ecumenical spirit may find helpful expression —
unity in the spirit of worship without organic union.

At the September meeting of the Committee of Literature and Publications
a survey of all the literature of the Woman's Division of Christian Service that
has been published this quadrennium was made and its strength and weaknesses
were studied. It was gratifying to note that at least every large field of en-
deavor of the woman's work has now been presented in the literature of the
Woman's Division and that many interests of the Woman's Division have
been presented also in the literature of the Joint Division.

An attractive pamphlet giving a general survey of the work of the Wom-
an's Division of Christian Service is being planned for General Conference.

A Handbook of the Woman's Society for individual use of members is now
being compiled. It is hoped that this small booklet, which will be of convenient
size for insertion in a woman's pocketbook, will be ready for distribution early
in 1944. While the publication of the Handbook is being made in response
to a request by the Northeastern Jurisdiction, the Committee on Literature and
Publications anticipates a Division-wide demand for it, as it will contain con-
densed information on practically all lines of work of the Woman's Division.

A set of twelve programs, extremely simple in content, and brief, has been
planned for use by societies desiring such materials. These programs will be
so simple that in no instance will they be considered as substitutes for the
present programs now available. They will be planned for use by small societies
that now find the regular programs impracticable.

The Committee on Literature and Publications recommends for the theme
of the programs for 1945 the following Scripture selection from Revelation 3:8:
"I have set before thee an open door."

Bettie S. Brittingham,
Dorothy McConnell,
Helen Cox Exman,
Juanita Brown,
^ Editors.

Report of the Publication Manager

'T'HE year 1943 has brought many problems to the publishing and distribu-
■*■ tion of periodicals and literature.

Production

We mentioned last year that the government had asked us to conserve. This
year we have War Production Board regulations. Our publications come under
three headings:

1. Magazines and periodicals. Based on 1942. L 244.

2. Books. Anything of thirty-two pages is a book. Based on 1942. L 245.

3. Commercial printing. Booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, blanks, under thirty-
two pages. Based on 1941. L 241.

The Woman's Division is the publisher of The Methodist Woman and must
reduce on the pounds of paper used in 1942. To conform with the War Pro-
duction Board requirements of paper poundage and to care for the increasing
number of subscriptions, we have reduced the basic poundage 25% rather than
the required 10%.

Our printers are considered the publishers of our second and third class.
They could favor us on the total of pounds. However, having been asked to
conform with the plans which the Methodist Publishing House pursue, we are
glad to comply. We have reduced pages in some pamphlets, paper weight in
others. Now the government has partly solved the problem of weight and
quality by lowering the basic weight and color of papers at the mills, some to
40-, 50-, 60-pound. By ordering paper well in advance we have not been de-
layed in getting what we needed. We have had very little difficulty considering
all the limitations. We find the paper coming from the mills quite inferior some-
times. In the same roll the paper may differ in weight and color. We should
have from three to six months in which to order our paper. If we do not, we
may have to use several different kinds for one printing. The increasing demand
has necessitated printing larger quantities of everything.

Although there has been an increase in second-class postage, it does not
yet apply to religious publications.

Promotion

Periodicals

Subscriptions to The Methodist Woman and World Outlook have been pro-
moted in the usual way by close contact with the secretaries in the local societies.
Promotion sent out for The Methodist Woman always includes World Outlook.
This is done through circular letters to local and conference secretaries, and dis-
play at various meetings and institutes.

We have used 200,000 stencils for addresses in a year's time which should
mean that we had a subscription list of that number, but that is far from true.
A government statement says that in 1942 51% of the population of the United
States changed residence. We are quite sure it is continuing to do so. Of
course, we are using every possible plan to salvage these moving subscribers.

The subscription list of The Methodist Woman varies each month. In 1942
the lowest was 142,000; the highest 163,000. In 1943 the lowest was 153,000;
the highest 172,000.

Literature

Our literature is promoted through the very fine official group, the Secre-
taries of Literature and Publications, jurisdiction, conference, district, and local.
The use has far exceeded that of 1942.

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Distribution

The increased time for both mail and express because of the many gov-
ernment limitations on hauling and trucking is a constant problem.

In addition to the staff on our payroll at the various distributing offices,
we have a volunteer, for-love-of-the-work staff in districts, conferences, and
summer schools. Sales at institutes were very much increased. The largest
was at Lakeside, Ohio, $742.16; from summer institutes of jurisdictions: North-
eastern, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, $285.45; Central, Gulf side, Mississippi,
$270.50; Southeastern, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, $214.19; South Central,
Mt. Sequoyah, Arkansas, $211.00; North Central, Walworth, Wisconsin, $126.33.

Our literature has been out earlier and ready for use. Quantities are in-
teresting. Program material: Adult program 1943, 60,000; worship services
1943, 115,000; Wesleyan Service Guild Handbook, 24,000; Youth Program 1942-43,
6,000; Children's Bulletin, 105,000; officers' leaflets, 275,000; department pam-
phlets and handbooks, 40,000; organization leaflets, 230,000. Standing Com-
mittees leaflets, 308,000. Week of Prayer literature: Posters, 27,000; envelopes,
350,000; programs, 145,000; leaflets, 40,000. Blanks, 100,650. Goals poster,
30,000. Field leaflets (nineteen titles), 570,000. Student Work cards, 200,000.
Study books, 39,455.

An Appreciation

"At our district meeting the more than five hundred women .... were
so enthusiastic about the literature this year .... very frequently speaking
of the increasing helpfulness of the literature of our Woman's Division of

Christian Service "

Mrs. George W. Keen, Publication Manager.

THE REU9ARD

FAITH AND SERU1CE

LENTEN OFFERING

W«u'i Diriiioo of CimtiM
Service

fmtvg a uppiirj to tbfl p*«»f>n fund
tot tnjasionvr and octccaens trw«*

Lenten Offering Messages,
Worship Services,
and Envelopes

Appropriations
Woman's Division of Christian Service

FOR THE YEAR
June 1, 1944— May 31, 1945

Cash income for appropriations June 1, 1942— May 31, 1943 . . $3 ,438,186

♦Additional amount as per action of December, 1942 41 ,914

Total to be appropriated $3 ,480 , 100

To the Department of Foreign Work $1 ,664,521

To the Department of Home Work 1 ,534 ,438

To the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local

Church Activities 13 ,930

To the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation 123 , 598

To General Appropriations 138 ,229

General Contingent 5 ,384

Total to be appropriated $3 ,480 , 100

To be added for Home Work from the former Southern Meth-
odist Church, for City Missions, money having been given
as a part of the pledge, but not added to the basis of appro-
priation in Southern Church 1 ,150

Total amount to be credited on appropriations for

1944-45 $3,481,250

The Finance and Estimates Committee presents these appropriations to the Woman's
Division for their approval and reference to the Committee on Appropriations of the
Board of Missions and Church Extension, with the request that necessary adjustments
within the total appropriations be made by the Finance and Estimates Committee of the
Woman's Division, according to changing conditions on the mission fields or in the admin-
istrative procedure, following the General Conference and the reorganization of the Board
of Missions and Church Extension.

Respectfully submitted,

Finance and Estimates Committee:

Mrs. W. Raymond Brown, Chairman,
Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF WORK IN FOREIGN FIELDS
A. Fields-
Appropriations in column A are to be paid as indicated.
Appropriations in column B are to be used:

(1) For the purposes indicated as circumstances allow;

(2) For meeting the Foreign Department's share of the 8.6 per cent deficit;

(3) For emergency needs;

(4) For restricted funds to be expended after the war.

J. Missionaries II. Work Budget Total

A B Total A B Total I and II

Africa $30,260 $21,875 $52,135 $24,276 $24,276 $76,411

Burma 4,300 4,245 8,545 $6,925 6,925 15,470

China 117,720 87,510 205,230 108,637 87,730 196,367 401,597

India 115,175 45,100 160,275 280,156 280,156 440,431

*At the annual meeting of 1942 the committee on appropriations approved an additional amount from
the Southern Methodist Church, Woman's work, of $55,885. In changing the appropriations year to conform
to other Divisions of the Board, there has been an income on this amount for one quarter only, thus we have
added the amount of $41,914 as a part of the appropriations for 1944-45.

197

198 Woman's Division of Christian Service

/. Missionaries II. Work Budget Total

A B Total A B Total I and II

Japan 29,712 19,911 49,623 381 80,261 80,642 130,265

Korea 25,800 26,011 51,811 2,873 73,740 76,613 128,424

Malaya 6,300 13,100 19,400 9,635 9,635 29,035

Philippines... 7,200 7,657 14,857 615 16,275 16,890 31,747

Sumatra 2,800 2,800 3,825 3,825 6,625

Total, Asia. . . $306,207 $206,334 $512,541 $392,662 $278,391 $671,053 $1,183,594

Europe and
North Africa —

Algeria

Bulgaria

Poland

$6,300

900

1,400

$3,859

$10,159

900

1,400

$14,761

$4,370
2,845

$14,761
4,370
2,845

$24,920
5,270
4,245

Total, Europe
and N. Africa

Latin America —

Argentina. . . .

Brazil

Cuba

Mexico

Peru

Uruguay

$8,600

$4,315
28,460
19,470
24,460
7.496
5,260

$3,859

$1,200
3,245

760

200

$12,459

$5,515
31,705
19,570
25.220
7,496
5,460

$14,761

$7,100
16,452
14,480
39,580
525
2,315

$7,215
$725

$21,976

$7,100
16,452
14,480
40,305
525
2,315

$34,435

$12,615

48,157

34,050

65,525

8,021

7,775

Total, Latin
America

$89,561

$5,405

$94,966

$80,452

$725

$81,177

$176,143

Total, Fields . $434,628 $237,473 $672,101 $512,151 $286,331 $798,482 $1,470,583

B. Indirect Support of Missionaries:

(Scarritt College, Educational Grants, Medical Care, Retirement

Provision, etc.) .... $140,553

C. Co-operative Budget

Foreign Missions Conference $17 ,030

Union Colleges 36 , 083

Miscellaneous 4 , 701

Total 57,824

D. Non-Recurring Items, 1944-45:

(A total of $44,088 has been assigned to fields and is listed in the de-
tailed appropriations.)
Other Items (Africa, China, India, Latin America) 72 , 827

E. Department Administration:

Salaries:

Executive Secretaries $12 ,000

Office Secretaries 6 , 840

Office and Travel 9 ,000

Meetings of Department and Co-operation Commit-
tees 1,560

Miscellaneous 280

29.680

F. Contingent 49,798

Grand Total, Foreign Department $1 ,821 ,265

Less 8.6 per cent 156,744

$1,664,521

Appropriations 199

DEPARTMENT OF WORK IN HOME FIELDS

A. Fields — Salaries and Current Expense:

National Conference Total

Bureau of Educational Institutions $346 , 799 $1 , 740 $348 , 539

Bureau of Urban Work 186,310 96,051 282,361

Bureau of Rural Work 113,810 17,534 131,344

Bureau of Social Work 129,684 69.925 199,609

Bureau of Medical Work 81 ,534 32,050 113,584

Bureau of Deaconess Work 89 , 800 22 . 180 111 , 980

$947,937 $239,480 $1,187,417
Buildings and Equipment 170 ,000

Total, Fields $1,357,417

B. Co-operative Work:

Migrant Work $3 ,300

Religious Directors, Indian Schools 450

Fees, Council of Home Missions of North America 1 ,220

Mountain Work Conference 25

Latin American Conference 50

Santo Domingo Committee 50

Interdenominational Council of Spanish-Speaking Work __ ' | 100

Interracial Commission 830

Federal Council of Churches 100

6,125

C. Miscellaneous:

Deaconess Endowment Fund $15,000

New Pension Fund 4 ,000

Group Insurance 7 ,200

Retired Missionaries 32 ,000

Sabbatical Year . . . ' 2 ,400

Missionary and Deaconess Travel 5,500

Medical Service 1 ,000

Insurance 10 ,080

Taxes 9 ,000

Library Service 500

— — 86,680

D. Student Grant 5,385

E. Administration of Department:

Executive Secretaries' salaries $15 ,000

Office Secretaries' salaries 8 , 910

Executive Secretaries' office and travel 7,270

Committees and other travel 1 ,460

32,640

F. Contingent Fund 47 ,341

Grand Total, Home Department $1 ,535,588

DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND
LOCAL CHURCH ACTIVITIES

Administration $8 , 340

Cultivation 5,590

Total $13,930

200 Woman's Division of Christian Service

WOMAN'S SECTION, JOINT 1DIVISION OF EDUCATION AND CULTIVATION

Administration $47 , 578

Education and Cultivation 36 ,250

Field Work 11 ,000

Education and Cultivation with General Section 23,870

Miscellaneous items 4 ,900

Total $123,598

GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

Expense, Officers $2 , 750

Treasurer's Office 34 ,240

Committees, Board, Division, and Standing 19,560

Pensions, Home Office Plan 7,754

Rent 15,600

Receptionist 1 , 500

Editor's Office 9 ,980

Publication Manager's Office 5 ,400

Literature Headquarters and Depositories 18 ,265

Appropriations to Joint Budgets 23 , 180

Total $138,229

General Contingent $5 , 384

Report of the Treasurer

of the

Woman's Division of
Christian Service

By Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton

REPORT No.

1—

For

the Year January 1, 1942-December 31, 1942

REPORT No.

2—

For the Period January 1, 1943-May 31, 1943

REPORT No. 1

For the Year January 1, 1942-December 31, 1942

Treasurer's Report 201

LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY
Certified Public Accountants

90 Broad Street, New York 4

June 8, 1943.
Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton, Treasurer

Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension of The Methodist Church,
150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Dear Madam: "We have examined the balance sheet of the

WOMAN'S DIVISION of CHRISTIAN SERVICE

of the

BOARD of MISSIONS and CHURCH EXTENSION of

THE METHODIST CHURCH

as of December 31, 1942, and the related statements of surplus and income and expendi-
tures of the General Fund for the year then ended. In connection therewith we reviewed
the system of internal control and the Accounting procedures of the Woman's Division;
examined or tested accounting records and other supporting evidence by methods and
to the extent we deemed appropriate, and obtained explanations from officers and em-
ployees of the organization, but we did not make a detailed audit of transactions.

The accompanying balance sheet includes such endowments and restricted funds and
assets and liabilities as had been transferred to the Woman's Division by December 31,
1942, by various uniting organizations under the program of unification initiated as of
January 1, 1941. We have been informed that because of the complex nature of the
endowment and other funds of the combining organizations it may not be possible for some
time to consummate the transfer of the remainder of such assets and related fund lia-
bilities. Until the transfer of such amounts has been effectuated, it is not possible for the
balance sheet of the Woman's Division fully to present the financial position of the Division.

The balances of cash in banks as of December 31, 1942, and January 31, 1943, were
confirmed to us by the depositaries and reconciled with the related balances shown by the
records of the Division.

Investments of the several funds in bonds, stocks, and notes receivable shown by the
records as of December 31, 1942, were accounted for either by inspection or by corre-
spondence received from the custodian. These investments are shown in the appended
balance sheet at amounts which represent either cost or approximate market amount
at date of receipt by the Division.

We made tests of the recorded income by reference to duplicate copies of prenumbered
receipts, reports of conference treasurers, correspondence, and other documentary evi-
dence, but we did not confirm recorded contributions. We did not ascertain that pro-
visions, if any, affecting legacies and gifts recorded as income of the General Fund were
observed. Except as to disbursements made by representatives of home institutions and
foreign missions, commented upon in the following paragraph, we inspected vouchers
approved by duly constituted persons, invoices, and other substantiating evidence in
support of disbursements made against 1942 appropriations.

A material portion of the expenditures for the account of the Department of Work
in the United States and its dependencies and the Department of Foreign Work repre-
sents payments made from the Treasurer's office in New York for designated purposes
which are sent to representatives of institutions in the United States and its dependencies
and to field treasurers in foreign missions for disbursement for such designated purposes.
The evidence supporting such disbursements necessarily, to a large extent, is at such
home institutions and foreign missions and we did not substantiate such disbursements.
Reports are periodically submitted by the representatives of the home institutions and by
mission treasurers showing the details of their expenditures, and we were informed that such
reports are reviewed by your staff.

In our opinion, based upon our examination and upon explanations furnished us
regarding the financial aspects of unification, the accompanying balance sheet, together
with the notations thereon (insofar as is possible in the light of the circumstances recited
in Note 1), presents fairly the position of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of
the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church at December
31, 1942, and the accompanying statements of surplus and income and expenditures
present fairly the recorded results of operations of the General Fund for the year then
ended.

(Signed) LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY.

WOMAN'S DIVISION OF
OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHURCH

BALANCE SHEET-

ASSETS

Permanent and Restricted Fund Assets:

Endowment fund assets:

Cash in bank $ 2,651.16

Perpetual membership fund assets:

Investments in bonds and stock $ 14,427.88

Cash in bank 524.83

14,952.71

12,103.97

Annuity fund assets:

Investment in bonds. .- 9 , 797 . 05

Cash in bank 2,306.92

Other funds assets:

-Investments in bonds and stock 320 ,600 .25

Accrued interest on bonds acquired 2 ,018 .47

Notes receivable 1 ,000 .00

Amount receivable from general fund, collected

in January, 1943 (per contra) 595 , 158 . 64

Cash:

In savings account $3 ,433 . 53

In checking accounts 91 ,619 .75

95,053.28

1,013,830.64
1,043,538.48

General Fund Assets:

Cash in banks 1,227,177.60

Advances on 1943 appropriations 49 ,427.61

Receivable from foreign field treasurers (exchange

gain) 11,610.28

Land, buildings, and equipment, at nominal amount 1 . 00

— — 1,288,216.49

$2,331,754.97

Total assets exclusive of $595,158.64 represent-
ing amount receivable from general fund .... $1 , 736 , 596 . 33

NOTE 1 — The above balance sheet does not include the remainder of endowment and restricted funds, assets
and liabilities to be transferred to the Woman's Division of Christian Service by the following
uniting organizations: Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woman's Work;
Woman's Home Missionary Society, and Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, in accordance with
the plan of unification of The Methodist Church. The amounts of such assets and liabilities to
be transferred and the date and time of such transfers are still under consideration and have not
definitely been determined.

The Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church has transferred all of its assets and
liabilities and such amounts are included in the above balance sheet.

202

CHRISTIAN SERVICE

EXTENSION OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

DECEMBER 31, 1942

FUNDS, LIABILITIES, AND RESERVES

Permanent and Restricted Funds:

Endowment fund. $ 2 , 651 . 16*

Perpetual membership fund:

Membership outstanding $ 12,660.00

Unexpended interest 524 . 83

Undesignated reserve for memberships 1 , 767 . 88

Annuity fund:

Annuity agreements outstanding 8 , 600 . 00

Matured annuity, foreign department, undesig-
nated 2,000.00

Unexpended annuity interest 106.92

Undesignated reserve for annuities 1 ,397.05

Other funds:

Trust funds 5,799.69

Pension funds 44 ,747 .94*

Other expendable funds (Note 2) 923 ,329 .30*

973,876.93
Salaries payable to missionaries in enemy oc-
cupied countries 39 , 953 . 71

14,952.71

12,103.97

1,013,830.64
1,043,538.48

General Fund:

Amount payable to Other funds, paid in January,

1943 (per contra) . . $595,158.64

Accounts payable on 1942 appropriations, paid in

January, 1943 81 ,643.32

Designated expendable funds (Note 2) 128 , 852 . 86*

Reserve for unexpended appropriations, 1941, $94,-

307.07; 1942, $17,144.82 (Note 2) 111,451.89*

Income received for 1943 appropriations 56,048.73

Revolving fund 250 ,000 .00

Surplus, per statement annexed 65,061 .05

1,288,216.49

$2,331,754.97

Total liabilities and surplus exclusive of $595,-
158.64 representing amount payable to re-
stricted fund $1,736,596.33

NOTE 2 — As of December 31, 1942, the Woman's Division of Christian Service adopted the policy of trans-
ferring from current appropriations (General Fund) to other expendable funds (Restricted Funds)
the amounts of unexpended 1942 appropriations which due to prevailing war conditions cannot
be disbursed currently. As funds are made available transfers of cash are made from the general
fund to restricted funds in support of such unexpended appropriations transferred. There is
also included in other expendable funds (Restricted Funds), in addition to legacies, gifts, etc.,
credited directly thereto, transfers of amounts made from the General Fund representing alloca-
tions by the division's executive committee of contributions for the Week of Prayer, and other
miscellaneous receipts.

♦Details annexed.

203

Permanent and Restricted Funds

STATEMENT OF ENDOWMENT FUNDS
December 31, 1942

(Principal to be kept invested and intact)

Hattie J. Hastings Fund — income for benefit of Wesley Society of Christian

Church of Worcester, Mass $ 300 .00

Edward Martin Legacy — income for benefit of education of India boy or girl 451 . 16

Liela Eason Todd Memorial Fund — income for benefit of Woman's Society

of Christian Service of the Beaver, Pa., Methodist Church 900 .00

Norwood, N. Y., Methodist Church Fund — income for benefit of Woman's

Society of Christian Service 1 ,000 .00

Total $2 ,651 . 16

STATEMENT OF OTHER FUNDS
December 31, 1942

Pension Funds (to be used to pay pensions of retired workers):

Pension plan (adopted March 18, 1942) for missionaries and deaconesses

commissioned on or after July, 1940 $ 9 , 390 . 00

Retirement Fund for deaconesses (transferred from 1941 Week of Prayer
and from 1942 miscellaneous Home Department appropriations and
receipts from sundry gifts) 35 ,357 . 94

Total Pension Funds $44,747.94

Other Expendable Funds (consisting of unexpended balances held for pur-
poses either designated or to be designated pending use thereof) :
Home department

Transferred from designated expendable funds (General Fund) and
from unexpended 1942 appropriations for use as follows:

Leisenring Building Fund $10 ,817 .40

David and Margaret Emergency Fund 4 , 500 . 00

Iowa Hall Emergency Fund 11 ,766.46

Susannah Wesley Home Emergency Fund 1 ,400 .00

Jesse Lee Home for supplies and equipment 14 , 597 . 38

Miscellaneous 613 . 58

Total $43,694.82

Foreign department

Gifts, etc., from individuals and churches, expendable for work in:

China $ 61.98

Japan medical 42 .00

Korea:

Student Fund $1 ,061 .00

Ruby Kendrick Memorial 102 .00

Medical and evangelistic 51 . 44

1,214.44

Undesignated .".... 300 .00

Total $1,618.42

Received from Woman's Foreign Missionary Society des-
ignated as expendable for use of Foreign Department
as follows:
From gift of Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer:

For building and equipment at Colegio Americano in

Porto Alegre, Brazil $85,000 .00

For chapel at Colegio Americano, Argentina 9,919.47

Continued $94,919.47

204

Treasurer's Report 205

Other Expendable Funds, Continued:
Foreign department

From New York branch of Society, for Building Fund,

Bishop Springer Institute, Belgian Congo $ 2 , 500 . 00

From Baltimore Branch of Society for Hamilton Girls'

School, Hinghwa, China 3 ,000 .00

From life income gifts (matured annuities) :

Africa $ 7 , 509 . 86

China 5,936.86

India 7,616.15

Undesignated 22 ,762 . 68

43,825.55

From unrestricted legacies:

China 4,693.30

India 4,000.00

Undesignated 11 ,391 .75

20,085.05

From fire insurance reserve held for properties in Burma

and Malaya 35,000.00

From balances of funds received from Conference
Treasurers for the period October 1, 1940, to Janu-
ary 31, 1941, allocated by foreign department for
work in and designated as:

China 1941 Reserve 30 ,000 .00

Europe 1941 Reserve. 5 ,000 .00

Japan 1941 Reserve 381 .00

Korea 1941 Reserve 29,154.67

64,535.67

From balances of collections from field treasurers prior

to December 31, 1940, for use in or for:

Angola, Portuguese East Africa, and Rhodesia 731 .32

North Africa 2 ,587.50

Argentina 197 . 67

Building purposes to be decided in future by Foreign

Department 6 ,074 .09

9,590.58

From Board of Trustees of Hwa Nan College for use

thereof in China 10 ,000 .00

From Northwestern Branch of Society for nonrecurring

projects in Rhodesia 2 ,200 .00

From Estate of Charles H. Goodrich for training leaders

to work in China 1,708.43

Total $287,364.75

Unexpended balances of 1942 work budgets, travel allowances, non-
recurring, and other items and contingent allowance, transferred
from current appropriations, as indicated, for the year 1942 and
held for subsequent use of the foreign department:

Angola $ 2,211.55

Central Congo 10,853.30

Rhodesia 548.88

Southeast Africa 1,135.00

Algeria 3,715.25

China 96,278.56

Burma 3,365.02

India 30 ,000 .00

Japan 78,967.85

Korea 88,388.30

Malaya 11 ,978.85

Philippines 15,189.10

Sumatra 2 ,852 .21

Bulgaria 4,119.62

Poland 1 ,270 .00

Brazil 3,500.00

Medical care of missionaries 510 . 00

Co-operative budget (for union Colleges, etc.) 7,363.03

Contingent allowance 10,485.96

Total . . $372 ,782 .48

Continued ■ =

206 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Other Expendable Funds, Continued:

Joint Division of Education and Cultivation:
Transferred from unexpended 1942 appropriations for
use as designated:
Status of Women Committee $ 600 .00

Week of Prayer Funds:

Transferred from general designated funds expendable
for use as follows:
1941—
Foreign department:

Literature funds $33 ,258 .00

Medical funds 19,200 .00

$52,458.00

Home department:

Brewster Hospital fund 39,600.00

$ 92,058.00

1942—
Land, buildings, and equipment:

For home institutions 50 ,000 .00

For foreign institutions 50 ,000 .00

Undesignated:

For home work 12 ,500 .00

For foreign work 12 ,500 .00

125,000.00

Total $217,058.00

Unexpended income from investments $63 .33

Profit on sales of securities 197 . 50

Total Other Expendable Funds $923 ,329 .30

General Fund

STATEMENT OF SURPLUS
For the Year Ended December 31, 1942

Balance, December 31, 1941 (deficit) $ 8,586.44*

Add

Surplus (1940 cash balances) contributed in 1942 by
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, as of January 1,

1941 $64,535.67

Adjustments relating to operations of prior year 1 , 623 . 59

66,159.26

57,572.82
Excess of income over expenditures foi the year ended Decem-
ber 31, 1942, per statement annexed 7 ,488 . 23

Suiplus balance, December 31, 1942 $65,061 .05

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS
For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Income :

Pledges $2,531,916.04

Conference work 229 ,366 .45

Memberships 54 ,088 .25

Memorials 4,395.00

Scholarships 28,314.32

Interest received from uniting organizations 36 , 428 . 65

Emergency Fund 195,464.12

Specials and miscellaneous gifts 10 , 174 . 95

Missionary and deaconess pension contributions 50 ,738.62

Missionary and deaconess relief contributions 2 , 189 . 16

Building funds:

Pfeiffer Junior College $124 , 340 . 32

George O. Robinson and Kinder-
gartens 108,384.74

Ethel Harpst Home 26,107.27

Newark Maternity Hospital 10 , 985 . 00

David and Margaret Home 2 ,864 .98

272,682.31

Total income $3,415,757.87

Expenditures on appropriations, details per statements
annexed:

Department of Work in the United States and its De-
pendencies 1 ,471 ,931 .46

Department of Foreign Work (Note 2) 1 , 669 , 992 . 20

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local

Church Activities 13 , 211 . 37

Joint Division Education and Cultivation 121,495.72

General appropriations 131 ,638 .89

Total expenditures on appropriations (Note 3) 3,408,269.64

Excess of income over expenditures on appro-
priations for the year ended December 31,
1942 $ 7,488.23

NOTE 2 — After reflecting gain of $27,172.26 on foreign exchange, transferred as of December 31, 1942, to
designated expendable funds.

NOTE 3 — Total expenditures on appropriations include $423,286.19, representing principally unexpended
appropriations to foreign fields, transferred to other expendable funds and salaries payable (Re-
stricted Funds) which due to prevailing war conditions cannot be disbursed currently.

♦Indicates red figure.

207

208 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF DESIGNATED EXPENDABLE FUNDS

(Not on Appropriations)
December 31, 1942

Unexpended

Balance

Dec. SI, 19 %2

Cultivation fund $ 5,078.13

Scholarship fund:

Scarritt College 1 ,407.74

Hendrix Hall fund 922 .83

Thayer emergency fund 212 .00

Week of prayer 1 ,270 . 85

Gifts and bequests:

Home $ 4,306.89

Foreign 724 .85

Union Theological Seminary, Buenos Aires (Ella M. Carna-
han gift) 5 , 000 .00

Cash supplies:

Home 10,260.58

Foreign 22,255.68

Conference 1 ,986.34

Transient funds:

Home 42 . 18

Foreign 13,048.15

General 92 .32

10,031.74

34,502.60

13,182.65

Institutional income:

Urban 317.45

Rural 571.08

Social and medical 9,325.11

Educational 15,302.86

25,516.50

Evacuation travel fund 6 , 157 . 97

World Christian Mission Convocation 1 ,150 .00

Unexpended appropriations (foreign exchange) :

India 16,769.43

Mexico 10 ,402 . 83

Miscellaneous unexpended funds:

Home 1,864.02

General 383.57

27,172.26

2,247.59

Total designated expendable funds, December 31,

1942 $128,852.86

STATEMENT OF RESERVE FOR UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS
December 31, 1942

The reserve for unexpended appropriations consists of balances of amounts as of
December 31, 1942, allocated from appropriations for the years 1941 and 1942, and held
in this category pending further disposition thereof. Details comprising the foregoing
follow:

Year 1941:

Department of Work in the United States and its Depend-
encies:

For missionary and deaconess pension fund $ 3 , 700 . 00

For deaconess retirement fund 10 , 800 . 00

For permanent missionary fund 1 , 347 . 60

Continued $15,847.60

Treasurer's Report 209

Statement of Reserve for Unexpended Appropriations, Continued:
Department of Foreign Work:

For missionary pension fund $100 .00

For foreign fields:

Africa 1,930.00

China 13,251.74

Latin America 19,650.00

Korea 20,845.33

Japan 22,682.40

$ 78,459.47

Total reserve for 1941 appropriations 94,307.07

Year 1942:

Department of Foreign Work:
For foreign fields:

Africa 4 . 65

China 291.37

Malaya 7,875.00

Mexico 375.00

Poland 1 ,875.00

10,421.02

Indirect support of missionaries 63 . 75

Contingent 6,660.05

Total reserve for 1942 appropriations 17 , 144 . 82

Total reserve for unexpended appropriations as

of December 31, 1942 $111,451.89

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN WORK
For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $12 ,000 .00

Salaries, office secretaries 6,622 .00

Office and travel expenses 6 , 828 . 18

Miscellaneous 1 ,094.35

$26,544.53

Foreign fields:
AFRICA—

Algeria $22 ,939 .87

Angola 8,947.24

Portuguese East Africa 8 , 902 . 50

Rhodesia 21 ,831 .26

Congo Beige 32 ,601 .00

ASIA—

Burma 14,974.50

China:

Central China $30 ,034 .33

East China 69,682.00

Foochow 42,287.74

Hwa Nan College. ... 16 , 232 . 50

Hinghwa 20,743.00

Kalgan 4,000.00

Kiangsi 44,807.59

North China 63,110.47

West China 46,736.80

Yenping 10,521.50

China General 7 , 712 . 00

Continued 355,867.93

95,221.87

210 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Statement of Expenditures on Appropriations Department of Foreign Work, Continued:

India:

Bengal $ 22,674.67

Bombay 30,704.55

Central Provinces ... 36 , 363 . 07

Gujarat 30,902.28

Hyderabad 24,661.66

Indus River 21 ,726.29

Isabella Thoburn Col-
lege 17,409.37

Lucknow 34,109.62

North India 76,571.84

Northwest India 55 , 080 . 80

South India 41,608.16

India General 7 , 781 . 68

399,593.99

Less, Gain on for-
eign exchange. . . 16 , 769 . 43

$382,824.56

Japan 111,083.43

Korea 116,169.55

Malaya 29 , 770 . 80

Philippine Islands 25,059.38

Sumatra 6 ,030 .90

$1,041,781.05

EUROPE—

Bulgaria 5,270.00

Poland 4,245.00

9,515.00

LATIN AMERICA—

Argentina 23,955.00

Brazil 83,404.24

Cuba 54,919.71

Mexico 64,550 17

Less, Gain on for-
eign exchange 10 ,402 83

54,147.34

Peru 7,211.35

Uruguay 8 , 543 .25

232,180.89

1,378,698.81
Add, Gain on foreign exchange
transferred to designated expend-
able funds 27 , 172 . 26

Total expenditures foreign fields $1 ,405,871 .07

Indirect support of missionaries:

Scarritt College 27,300.00

Educational grants 14,245.60

Library service 725.00

Pamphlets 123 . 63

Medical care 11 , 652 . 62

Retirement provision 75 , 529 . 00

Passport renewals 75 . 00

Transportation bureau 5,381 .00

Continued — — ■ 135,031.85

Treasurer's Report 211

Statement of Expenditures on Appropriations Department of Foreign Work, Continued:
Co-operative budget :

Foreign missions conference $40 ,058.00

Union colleges 750 . 00

Miscellaneous 6 , 856 . 75

$ 47,664.75

Contingent 54,880.00

Total expenditures on appropriations, Depart-
ment of Foreign Work for the year ended
December 31, 1942 $1,669,992.20

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
WORK IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $ 15,000 .00

Salaries, office secretaries 7 ,914 . 54

Office and travel expenses 7 , 115 . 13

Committees of department 434 .01

$ 30,463.68

Home fields:

Bureau of educational institutions 341 ,748.21

Bureau of urban work 135 , 741 . 53

Bureau of social and medical work:

Social 114,518.77

Medical 75,332.62

Bureau of rural work 99 , 172 .45

Bureau of deaconess work 78 ,399 .00

844,912.58

Conference work 229,966.45

Buildings and equipment 275,000 .00

Co-operative work : . 6 , 375 . 00

Miscellaneous :

Retirement and relief (missionaries and deaconesses) ... 39 , 778 . 98
Missionaries' and deaconesses' travel and expenses. . . . 4,379.08

Medical service 499 . 97

Insurance on buildings and taxes on property (in addi-
tion to amounts charged direct to respective home

fields) 12 ,012 . 51

Library service 500 .00

Emergency 1 ,498 .44

58,668.98

Student grant fund 6,585.17

Contingent 19,959.60

Total expenditures on appropriations, Depart-
ment of Work in the United States and its De-
pendencies for the year ended December 31,
1942 $1,471,931.46

212 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Committees:

Standing committees $ 2 ,872 .92

Executive and special committees 14,730.48

$ 17,603.40

Treasurer's office:

Salaries, treasurer and assistant treasurers 7 , 800 . 00

Salaries, office secretaries and bookeepers 16,536.81

Office expenses and travel 3,748.33

Auditor 2 ,850 .00

30,935.14

Genera] administrative:

Pensions 7,310.04

Rent 15,586.68

Receptionist 1 ,420 .08

— ■ 24,316.80

President, vice-president, and recording secretary:

Office and travel 2 ,659.00

Editor's office:

Salaries 7 ,200 .00

Office expenses and travel 1 ,700 .00

8,900.00

Publication manager's office:

Salaries v 4,800.00

Office expenses and travel 600 . 00

5,400.00

Distribution of literature office:

Salaries 14,353.00

Office expenses 2,429.23

16,782.23

Woman's Appropriation to Joint Budgets:

Legal service 752 . 66

Salary, office manager 1 ,423 . 60

Personnel 12 ,222 .60

Transportation 5,288.09

Medical 540 .00

Recording secretary of Board 1 ,025.11

Joint stockroom 718.20

— — 21,970.26

Miscellaneous 3,072.06

Total expenditures on appropriations, General
Appropriations for the year ended December
31, 1942 $131,638.89

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND LOCAL CHURCH ACTIVITIES

For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Administration :

Salaries.. $6,240.00

Office travel and expenses 1 , 958 . 58

$ 8,198.58

Cultivation 5,012.79

Total expenditures on appropriations, Depart-
ment of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities for the year ended December
31, 1942 $13,211 .37

Treasurer's Report 213

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
JOINT DIVISION EDUCATION AND CULTIVATION

For the Year Ended December 31, 1942
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $18 ,300 .00

Salaries, office secretaries 10 , 766 . 54

Office expense and travel 11 ,287 . 10

Education and cultivation:

Literature and publications 29 , 000 . 00

Field work ■ 11,966.12

Schools of missions and summer conferences 5 , 000 . 00

Meetings, assembly, committees 15,653.18

Information service 500 .00

Costume bureau 750 . 00

Visual education 1 ,000 .00

Service department 4 , 000 . 00

Interboard work 7,169.92

Library 1 , 500 . 00

Sundry 102 .94

$ 40,353.64

76,642.16
Miscellaneous 4,499.92

Total expenditures on appropriations, Joint Di-
vision Education and Cultivation, for the year
ended December 31, 1942 $121,495.72

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE
For Year 1942

(Reclassified for Statistical Purposes from Financial Statements annexed.)

Executive Office:

Salary of executive secretaries, associate secretaries,
stenographers, office expense and travel, Foreign and

Home Department $53 ,697.08

Chairman — Foreign Department 1 ,000 .00

Chairman — Home Department 782.77

Administrative Committee — Foreign and Home 1,409.47

Miscellaneous 118 . 89

Treasurer's Office:

Salary of Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers 7,800.00

Salary of Bookkeepers and office secretaries 16,536.81

Office expense and travel (including bonding) 3 , 748 . 33

Auditor 2,850.00

Receptionist — sixth floor — salary and office expense 1 ,580 .26

Receptionist— fifth floor 720 .00

Transportation Bureau 5 ,288 .09

Medical 540.00

Rent 15,586.68

Pensions 7,310.04

Stockroom and Shipping 718 .20

Recording Secretary 1 .025 . 11

Salary of office manager 1 > 423 . 60

Literature department salary 1 ,650 .00

Legal service 752 . 66

Total Administrative Expense $124,537.99

In relation to the total cash receipts as shown on the conference report for year 1942 of

$4,166,799.44 the expenditures for Administrative Expense amounted to 2.9 per cent.

214 Woman's Division of Christian Service

CULTIVATION, WOMAN'S DIVISION AND WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT

JOINT DIVISION

For Year 1942

(Reclassified for Statistical Purposes from Financial Statements annexed.)

Administration :

Salary — Executive secretaries $ 18,300 .00

Office secretaries 10 ,046 . 54

Office expense and travel 11 ,287 . 10

Education and Cultivation:

Literature and Publication. . '. $ 29 ,000 .00

Field work 11,966.12

Schools of Missions and Summer Conferences 5 , 000 . 00

Meetings, Assembly Committees 15,653.18

Interdenominational work 2 , 000 . 00

Information service 500 .00

Costume Bureau 750 .00

Visual Education 1 ,000 .00

Service Department 4 ,000 .00

Interboara Work 7 , 169 . 92

Library 1,500.00

Miscellaneous 2 , 602 . 86

81,142.08

Other Joint Items:

Missionary Personnel 12 ,222 . 60

Committees 17 , 603 .40

President 1 , 500 .00

Vice-president 750 . 00

Recording secretary 409 .00

Editor's Office 8,900.00

Publications 5 ,400 .00

Distribution Literature 15 , 132 .23

Miscellaneous 2 , 911 . 88

Christian Social Relations 13 ,211 .37

Total $198,816.20

In relation to the total cash receipts as shown on the conference report for year 1942,
of $4,166,799.44 the expenditures for Cultivation Expense amounted to 4.7 per cent.

REPORT No. 2

For the Period January 1, 1943-May 31, 1943

Treasurer's Report 215

LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY
Certified Public Accountants

90 Broad Street, New York 4

July 7, 1943
Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton, Treasurer

Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension of The Methodist Church,
150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Dear Madam: We have examined the balance sheet of the

WOMAN'S DIVISION of CHRISTIAN SERVICE

of the

BOARD OF MISSIONS and CHURCH EXTENSION of
THE METHODIST CHURCH

as of May 31, 1943, and the related statements of deficit and income and expenditures of
the General Fund for the five months then ended. In connection therewith we reviewed
the system of internal control and the accounting procedures of the Woman's Division;
examined or tested accounting records and other supporting evidence by methods and
to the extent we deemed appropriate, and obtained explanations from officers and employees
of the organization, but we did not make a detailed audit of transactions.

The accompanying balance sheet includes such endowments and restricted funds
and assets and liabilities as had been transferred to the Woman's Division by May 31,
1943, by various uniting organizations under the program of unification initiated as of
January 1, 1941. We have been informed that because of the complex nature of the
endowment and other funds of the combining organizations it may not be possible for
some time to consummate the transfer of the remainder of such assets and related fund
liabilities. Until the transfer of such amounts has been effectuated, it is not possible for
the balance sheet of the Woman's Division fully to present the financial position of the
Division.

The balances of cash in banks as of May 31, 1943, were confirmed to us by the deposi-
taries and reconciled with the related balances shown by the records of the Division.

Investments of the several funds in bonds, stocks, and notes receivable shown by the
records as of May 31, 1943, were accounted for either by inspection or by correspondence
received from the custodians. These investments are shown in the appended balance
sheet at amounts which represent either cost or approximate market amount at date of
receipt by the Division.

A material portion of the expenditures for the account of the Department of Work
in the United States and its dependencies and the Department of Foreign Work repre-
sents payments made from the Treasurer's office in New York for designated purposes
which are sent to representatives of institutions in the United States and its dependencies
and to field treasurers in foreign missions for disbursement for such designated purposes.
The evidence supporting such disbursements necessarily, to a large extent, is at such home
institutions and foreign missions and we did not substantiate such disbursements. Reports
are periodically submitted by the representatives of the home institutions and by mission
treasurers showing the details of their expenditures and we were informed that such
reports are reviewed by your staff.

In our opinion, based upon our examination and upon explanations furnished us
regarding the financial aspects of unification, the accompanying balance sheet, together
with the notations thereon (insofar as is possible in the light of the circumstances recited
in Note 1), presents fairly the position of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of
the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church at May 31, 1943,
and the accompanying statements of deficit and income and expenditures present fairly
the recorded results of operations of the General Fund for the five months then ended.

Very truly yours,
(Signed) LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY.

WOMAN'S DIVISION OF
OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHURCH

BALANCE SHEET-

ASSETS

Permanent and Restricted Fund Assets:

Endowment fund assets:

Cash in bank $ 2,751.16

Perpetual membership fund assets:

Investments in bonds and stock

Cash in bank

Annuity fund assets:

Investments in bonds

Cash in bank

Other funds assets:

Investments in bonds and stock

Accrued interest on bonds acquired

Notes receivable

Cash:

In savings account $ 3 ,444 . 81

In checking accounts 568 , 654 . 58

$ 14,427.88
255.76

14,683.64
27,482.49

19,709.55

7,772.94

370,329.75

176.34

1,000.00

572,099.39

943,605.48

988,522.77

General Fund Assets:

Cash in banks 259 ,918 . 61

Deposit with Board of Missions and Church Exten-
sion of The Methodist Church 4 ,000 .00

Advances on 1943-1944 appropriations 58,708.13

Land, buildings and equipment, at nominal amount 1 .00

322,627.74

$1,311,150.51

The Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church has transferred all of its assets and
liabilities and such amounts are included in the above balance sheet.

216

CHRISTIAN SERVICE

EXTENSION OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

MAY 31, 1943

FUNDS, LIABILITIES, AND RESERVES

Permanent and Restricted Funds:

Endowment fund $ 2 , 751 . 16*

Perpetual membership fund:

Memberships outstanding $12 , 660 . 00

Unexpended interest 255 . 76

Undesignated reserve for memberships 1 , 767 . 88

Annuity fund:

Annuity agreements outstanding 24 , 100 . 00

Matured annuity, foreign department, undes-
ignated 2 ,000 .00

Overexpended annuity interest 14 . 56**

Undesignated reserve for annuities 1 ,397 .05

Other funds:

Trust funds 5,827.97

Pension funds 63 ,129 .67*

Other expendable funds (Note 2) 816 , 186 . 20*

885,143.84
Salaries payable to missionaries in enemy-
occupied countries 58 ,461 . 64

General Fund:

Accounts payable:

On appropriations $ 5,070 .24

Other 1,249.53

6,319.773

Designated expendable funds (Note 2) 83 ,792 .01*

Reserve for unexpended appropriations (Note 2) :

1941 80,819.80

1942 17,140.17

1943 (for the five months ended

May 31, 1943) 240,592.05

33g 552 02*

Revolving fund 250 ,*000 .00

Deficit, per statement annexed 356 ,036 . 06**

14,683.64

27,482.49

943,605.48
988,522.77

322,627.74
$1,311,150.51

NOTE 2 — As of December 31, 1942, the Woman's Division of Christian Service adopted the poHcy of trans-
ferring from current appropriations (General Fund) to other expendable funds (Restricted Funds)
the amounts of unexpended 1942 appropriations which due to prevailing war conditions cannot
be disbursed currently. As funds are made available transfers of cash are made from the general
fund to restricted funds in support of such unexpended appropriations transferred. There is
also included in other expendable funds (Restricted Funds), in addition to legacies, gifts, etc.,
credited directly thereto, transfers of amounts made from the General Fund representing alloca-
tions by the division's executive committee of contributions for the Week of Prayer, and other
miscellaneous receipts.

♦Details annexed.
**Indicates red figure.

217

Permanent and Restricted Funds

STATEMENT OF ENDOWMENT FUNDS
May 31, 1943

(Principal to be kept invested and intact.)

Hattie J. Hastings Fund — income for benefit of Wesley Society of Christian

Church of Worcester, Mass $ 300 . 00

Edward Martin Legacy — income for benefit of education of India boy or girl .451 . 16

Liela Eason Todd Memorial Fund — income for benefit of Woman's Society

of Christian Service of the Beaver, Pa., Methodist Church 1 ,000 .00

Norwood, N. Y., Methodist Church Fund — income for benefit of Woman's

Society of Christian Service 1 ,000 .00

Total $ 2 ,751 . 16

STATEMENT OF OTHER FUNDS
May 31, 1943

Unexpended
Balance
Pension Funds (to be used to pay pensions of retired workers): May 31, 191^3

Pension plan (adopted March 18, 1942) for missionaries and deaconesses

commissioned on or after July, 1940 $11 , 683 . 73

Retirement Fund for deaconesses (transferred from 1941 Week of Prayer
and from miscellaneous Home Department appropriations and receipts
from sundry gifts) 51 , 445 . 94

Total Pension Funds $63,129.67

Other Expendable Funds (consisting of unexpended balances held for pur-
poses either designated or to be designated pending use thereof):
Home department

Transferred from designated expendable funds (General Fund) and
from unexpended appropriations for use as follows:

Leisenring Building Fund $10 , 592 .40

David and Margaret Emergency Fund 4 , 500 .00

Iowa Hall Emergency Fund 11,766.46

Susannah Wesley Home Emergency Fund 1 ,400 .00

Jesse Lee Home for supplies and equipment 14 ,597 .38

Missionary Sick Benefit Fund 1 ,000 .00

Booklet for Home department activities 500 .00

Bequests from individuals:
Designated for:

Bancroft-Taylor Rest Home $1 ,081 .00

Wood Junior College 905.73

Undesignated 160 .08

2,146.81

Unallocated income from investments 853 . 11

Profit on sales of securities 123 . 75

Total Home Department $47 ,479 .91

Foreign department
Balances of expendable funds to be used only for specific designated
purposes as follows:
For building and equipment at Colegio Americano in Porto Allegre,

Brazil $65,000 .00

For chapel at Colegio Americano, Argentina 9 , 919 .47

For Building Fund, Bishop Springer Institute, Belgian Congo 2 ,500 .00

For Hamilton Girls' School, Hinghwa, China 2 ,000 .00

From life income gifts (matured annuities) :

Africa $7,215.06

China 5,936.86

India 7,200.00

Continued 20,351.92

218

Treasurer's Report 219

Other Expendable Funds, Continued:
Foreign department:

From unrestricted legacies:

China $ 4,693.30

India 4,000.00

$ 8,693.30

From fire insurance reserve held for properties in

Burma and Malaya 35,000 .00

For use in or for:

Angola, Portuguese East Africa, and Rhodesia 426.12

Argentina 197 . 67

Japan 921 . 14

Korea 543 .75

Philippines . 871 .25

West China Union Theological Seminary — Woman's

dormitory 2 ,000 .00

Building purposes to be decided in future by Foreign

department 6 ,074 .09

11,034.02

For nonrecurring projects in Rhodesia 1 , 500 . 00

For training leaders to work in China 1 ,708 .43

Total $157,707.14

Unexpended balances of work budgets, travel allowances, nonrecurring,
and other items, transferred from current appropriations and from
reserve for unexpended appropriations, as indicated; held for sub-
sequent use of the foreign department:

Angola $ 2,211.55

Central Congo 10 , 853 . 30

Rhodesia 548 . 88

Southeast Africa 1 ,135.00

Algeria 50 .00

China 113 , 916 . 68

Burma 3,365.02

India 30,350.00

Japan 78 , 586 .46

Korea 116,867.97

Malaya 11 , 978 . 85

Philippines 14 , 574 . 10

Sumatra 2 ,852 .21

Bulgaria 4,119.62

Europe 5,000.00

Poland 1,270.00

Brazil 3,500.00

Medical care of missionaries 510 .00

Cooperative budget (for union colleges, etc.) 12,059.26

Total $413 , 748 . 90

Gifts, etc., from individuals and churches, expendable for work in:

China $36 . 98

Japan medical 42.00

Korea:

Student Fund $1 ,086.00

Ruby Kendrick Memorial 102 . 00

Medical and evangelistic 69 .44

1,257.44

Undesignated 160 . 07

Total $ 1,496.49

Unallocated income from investments $ 1 ,462 . 96

Profit on sales of securities 73 . 75

Total Foreign Department $574,489.24

Continued

220 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Other Expendable Funds, Continued:

Joint Division of Education and Cultivation:
Unexpended balance for use as designated:
Status of Women Committee $ 209 .05

Week of Prayer Funds:
Expendable for use as follows:
1941—
Foreign department:

Literature funds $30 ,658.00

Medical funds 18,900.00

$49,558.00

Home department:

Brewster Hospital fund 42 , 100 .00

— $91,658.00

1942—
Land, buildings and equipment:

For home institutions 43 , 500 . 00

For foreign institutions 33 , 850 .00

Undesignated:

For home work 12 , 500 .00

For foreign work 12 , 500 .00

102,350.00

Total Week of Prayer Funds $194 ,008 .00

Total Other Expendable Funds ". $816 , 186 . 20

Total Other Funds $879,315.87

220

General Fund

STATEMENT OF DEFICIT
For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943

Surplus balance, December 31, 1942 $ 65,061 .05

Less Net adjustments relating to operations of prior years 1,654.78

63,406.27
Excess of expenditures over income for the five months ended May 31, 1943,

per statement annexed (Note 4) 419 , 442 . 33

Deficit balance, May 31, 1943 (Note 4) $ 356,036.06*

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES
For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Income:

Pledges and other contributions $748 , 197 . 18

Conference work 76 , 537 . 13

Memberships 11 , 891 . 55

Memorials 1 ,587.00

Scholarships 6,570.36

Interest 15.00

Enrolled missionary fund 1 ,035 . 77

Specials and miscellaneous gifts 5 , 194 . 55

Missionary and deaconess pension contributions 18,640.23

Deaconesses' emergency and relief contributions 1 ,445.00

Building funds:

Pfeiffer Junior College $51 , 282 . 60

George O. Robinson and Kindergartens 21,318.14

Ethel Harpst Home 428.31

73,029.05

944,142.82
Amounts transferred from permanent and
restricted funds:
Lapsed life income gifts (matured annui-
ties) 23,178.83

Undesignated legacies 11 ,391 . 75

Sundry gifts 325.00

34,895.58

Total income (Note 4) $ 979,038.40

Expenditures on appropriations, details per statements an-
nexed:

Department of Work in the United States and its De-
pendencies 618 , 301 . 87

Department of Foreign Work (Note 2) 687 , 172 . 30

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local

Church Activities 4 ,291 . 90

Joint Division Education and Cultivation 39,244.20

General appropriations 49 ,470 . 46

Total expenditures on appropriations (Note 3) . . . 1 , 398 , 480 . 73

Excess of expenditures on appropriations over in-
come for the five months ended May 31, 1943
(Note 4) $ 419 ,442 . 33*

NOTE 2 — After reflecting gain of $12,987.89 on foreign exchange.

NOTE 3 — Total expenditures on appropriations include $260,642.81 representing principally unexpended
appropriations to foreign fields, credited to the reserve for unexpended appropriations, 1943 (Gen-
eral Fund) and salaries payable (Restricted Funds).

NOTE 4 — The above statement includes only income for four months and expenditures for five months
ended May 31, 1943, also some expenditures advanced on 1943-44 Foreign Appropriations.

♦Indicates red figure.

221

222 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF DESIGNATED EXPENDABLE FUNDS

(Not on Appropriations)
May 31, 1943

Unexpended

Balance

May 31, 19 hS

Cultivation fund $ 6 , 518 . 55

Scholarship fund:

Scarritt College 1 ,407 . 74

Thayer emergency fund 87 . 62

Week of Prayer 4 . 645 . 13

Gifts and bequests:

Home $ 715.63

Foreign 724 . 85

1,440.48

Cash supplies:

Home 1 , 518 . 91

Foreign 22,237.31

23,756.22

Transient funds:

Home 36.18

Foreign 7,044.26

General 301 .74*

6,778.70

Chiang Kai-shek fund 1 , 162 . 58

Iowa National Hall Emergency fund 1 , 534 . 86

Jesse Lee Home fund 2 , 071 . 07

Evacuation travel fund 4 ,057 . 97

Unexpended appropriations (foreign exchange) :

India 16,769.43

Mexico 10,402.83

— 27,172.26

Miscellaneous unexpended funds:

Home 2 ,911 .66

General 247.17

— 3.158.83

. Total designated expendable funds, May 31, 1943 . . . $83 ,792 .01

STATEMENT OF RESERVE FOR UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS

May 31, 1943

The reserve for unexpended appropriations consists of balances of amounts as of May
31, 1943, allocated from current appropriations and held in this category pending further
disposition thereof. Details comprising the foregoing follow:
Year 1941:
Department of Work in the United States and its De-
pendencies:

For missionary and deaconess pension fund $ 3 , 700 . 00

For retirement fund for deaconesses 10 , 800 .00

For permanent missionary fund 1 , 347 . 60

$15,847.60

Department of Foreign Work:

For missionary pension fund 100 . 00

For foreign fields:

Africa 1,930.00

China 3,289.47

Latin America 16,125.00

Korea 20 , 845 . 33

Japan 22,682.40

64,972.20

Balance of reserve for 1941 appropriations $80,819.80

♦Indicates red figure.

Continued

Treasurer's Report 223

Statement of Reserve for Unexpended Appropriations, Continued:
Year 1942:

Department of Foreign Work:
For foreign fields:

China $ 291.37

Malaya 7,875 .00

Mexico 375.00

Poland 1,875.00

10,416.37

Indirect support of missionaries 63 . 75

Contingent 6,660.05

Balance of reserve for 1942 appropriations $ 17 , 140 . 17

Year 1943 (five months to May 31, 1943):

Department of Work in the United States and its De-
pendencies:

For retirement pension fund for deaconesses 10 , 500 .00

For deaconess emergency and relief fund 2 ,450 .00

For furlough and sabbatical leave fund 1 ,000 .00

For student grant fund 4 ,000 .00

For MacDonnell School Scholarship reserve 6,000 .00

For Jesse Lee Home 9 ,000 .00

For George O. Robinson School 4,000 .00

Department of Foreign Work:
For foreign fields:

Africa 7,622.35

Bulgaria 1 ,820 .85

Burma 5,166.29

China *. 80 ,900 . 14

China emergency travel 2 , 100 . 00

India 580 .38

Japan 33,442.05

Korea 37,648.35

Malaya 8,725.69

Mexico ' 26.75

Philippine Islands 6,781 .25

Poland 1,310.40

Sumatra 2 , 690 . 81

188,815.31

Indirect support of missionaries 1 , 881 . 29

Contingent 12,945.45

$ 36,950.00

203,642.05

Balance of reserve for 1943 appropriations $240,592.05

Total reserve for unexpended appropriations as of

May 31, 1943 $338,552.02

224 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN WORK
For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $ 5,000 .00

Salaries, office secretaries 2 , 775 . 00

Office and travel expenses 2 , 509 . 93

Committees of department 1 ,370 . 70

Miscellaneous 116 . 65

$11,772.28

Foreign fields:
AFRICA—

Algeria $ 9,000.40

Angola 2,620.21

Portuguese East Africa 3 ,105.25

Rhodesia 9,250.84

Congo Beige 12,672.33

New Missionaries in Africa 961 . 03

37,610.06

ASIA—

Burma 6,630.89

China

Central China $11,758.11

East China 27,858.86

Foochow 16,168.86

Hwa Nan College 7 , 767 . 15

Hinghwa 8,820.59

Kalgan 1,666.65

Kiangsi 18,196.70

North China 22,961.19

West China 19.013.40

Yenping 4,364.01

China General 3 ,208 . 50

— ■ 141,784.02

India

Bengal 9,252.25

Bombay 12,427.84

Central Provinces 15, 048. 88

Gujarat 13,155.57

Hyderabad 10,022.06

Indus River 8,629.47

Isabella Thoburn
College 7,012.44

Lucknow 12,400.55

North India 34,779.03

Northwest India 22, 329. 98

South India 17,628.67

India General 2 ,124.20

164,810.94
Less Gain on foreign

exchange 1,703.96

— — ■ 163,106.98

Japan 43,766.05

Korea 44,389.41

Malaya 14,293.41

Philippine Islands 10 ,206.98

Sumatra 3 ,338 . 55

427,516.29

EUROPE—

Bulgaria 2,195.85

Poland 1,768.75

Continued 3,964.60

Treasurer's Report 225

Statement of Expenditures on Appropriations Department of Foreign Work, Continued:
LATIN AMERICA—

Argentina $ 4,777.04

Brazil 20,027.99

Cuba 13,645.25

Mexico $26,271.64

Less Gain on foreign

exchange 11,283.93

— 14,987.71

Peru 3,118.84

Uruguay 3 ,063 .43

59,620.26
Add Gain on foreign exchange trans-
ferred to designated expendable funds 12 , 987 . 89

Total expenditures foreign fields $541 ,699.10

Indirect support of missionaries:

Scarritt College 11 ,375.00

Educational grants 7 ,089 . 55

Library service 301 . 81

Pamphlets 101 .43

Medical care 5,108.30

Retirement provisions 33 , 733 . 80

Passport renewals 25 * 00

Transportation bureau 2 ,242 . 10

59,976.99

Cooperative budget:

Foreign missions conference 5 , 870 . 03

Union colleges 9,254.08

Miscellaneous 2 , 824 . 15

17,948.26

Contingent 17,140 .72

Nonrecurring:

Africa 6,000.00

Brazil 3,000.00

China 17,345.00

India 8,443.38

General 3 ,846.57

38,634.95

Total expenditures on appropriations $687 , 172 . 30

226 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPRPORIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
WORK IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $ 6 ,250 .00

Salaries, office secretaries 3 ,282 . 50

Office and travel expenses 3 ,231 . 31

Committees of department 295 . 19

$ 13,059.00

Home fields:

Bureau of educational institutions 155 ,224 . 66

Bureau of urban work. 73 ,438 .44

Bureau of social and medical work:

Social 52,909.46

Medical 31,513.90

Bureau of rural work 42 ,269.30

Bureau of deaconess work 36 , 755 . 00

392,110.76

Conference work 76 , 537 . 13

Buildings and equipment 73 ,029 .05

Cooperative work 1 ,317 . 50

Miscellaneous :

Retirement and relief (missionaries and deaconesses). ... 29,166.24

Missionaries' and deaconesses' travel and expenses 935.30

Medical service 67 . 64

Insurance on buildings and taxes on property (in addition

to amounts charged direct to respective home fields) ... 4 , 535 . 90

Library service 197 . 65

Emergency 4,683.09

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Student grant fund 2 ^393 . 75

Contingent 20 ,268 . 86

Total expenditures on appropriations $618 ,301 . 87

Treasurer's Report 227

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Committees:

Standing committees $1 , 507 . 55

Executive and special committees 2 , 550 . 86

— $ 4,058.41

Treasurer's office:

Salaries, treasurer and assistant treasurers 3,250.00

Salaries, office secretaries and bookkeepers 6 ,900 .00

Office expenses and travel 2 , 732 . 11

General administrative :

Pensions 3,016.03

Rent 6,494.45

12,882.11

9,510.48

President, vice-president, and recording secretary, office and

travel 1 ,145.85

Editor's office:

Salaries 3 ,000 .00

Office expenses and travel 906 . 13

Publication manager's office:

Salaries 2 ,000 .00

Office expenses and travel 250 .00

Distribution of literature office :

Salaries 6,351.35

Office expenses 1 ,068 . 75

3,906.13

2,250.00

7,420.10

Woman's Appropriation to Joint Budgets:

Salary, office manager , 253 . 90

Personnel 4,098.17

Transportation 1 , 543 . 15

Medical 225.00

Recording secretary of Board 557 . 12

Joint stockroom 545 . 18

— 7,222.52

General conference expenses 1 ,000 .00

Miscellaneous 74 . 86

Total expenditures on appropriations $49 ,470 .46

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND LOCAL CHURCH ACTIVITIES

For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Administration :

Salaries $2,600.00

Office travel and expenses 830 . 85

$ 3,430.85

Cultivation 861 .05

Total expenditures on appropriations $ 4 ,291 . 90

228 Woman's Division of Christian Service

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON APPROPRIATIONS,
JOINT DIVISION EDUCATION AND CULTIVATION

For the Five Months Ended May 31, 1943
Administration :

Salaries, executive secretaries $7,625.00

Salaries, office secretaries 4 , 750 . 00

Office expense and travel 3 , 913 . 89

$16,288.89

Education and cultivation:

Literature and publications 8 ,891 .08

Field work 4,224.90

Schools of missions and summer conferences 439 . 70

Meetings, assembly, committees 1 ,049 .20

Information service 208 . 35

Costume bureau 312 . 50

Visual education 14 .00

Service department 2 , 524 . 95

Interboard work 3 ,333 .30

Library 634.10

Sundry 281 .59

21,913.67

Miscellaneous 1 ,041 . 64

Total expenditures on appropriations $39,244.20

The income from conferences and other sources for the year 1942 will be found in the
April issue of The Methodist Woman.

Financial Report of the Publication Manager

MRS. GEO. W. KEEN

The reason for a five-months' report will be found in the journal of the Fourth Annual
Meeting, page 23, under "Publication Manager."

LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY

Certified Public Accountants
Carew Tower, Cincinnati

Mrs. George W. Keen, Publication Manager,
The Methodist Woman,

420 Plum Street,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

We have examined the statement of cash receipts and disbursements for the period
from January 1 to May 31, 1943, of The Methodist Woman. All recorded receipts were
deposited in bank and all disbursements were properly supported by paid checks. We
also examined invoices and other supporting data with respect to the principal classes of
receipts and disbursements sufficient in scope to satisfy ourselves as to the substantial
accuracy of such classifications. We did not, however, make a detailed audit of all of the
transactions for the period.

In our opinion, the accompanying statements present fairly the cash receipts and
disbursements of The Methodist Woman, for the period from January 1 to May 31, 1943.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery.

January 17, 1944.

THE METHODIST WOMAN

STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS

From January 1, 1943, to May 31, 1943

Balance, January 1, 1943:

Demand deposits $6,575.15

Cash on hand and postage stamps 232 . 95

$6,808.10

Receipts:

Subscriptions:

The Methodist Woman, single $21,237.59

The Methodist Woman, combination received from World

Outlook 12,338.73

The Methodist Woman, combination received at Cincinnati

office 11,815 39

World Outlook, combination $23,630.80

Less, payments made to World Outlook 24,065.62

*434.82

World Outlook, single 2,657.13

Less, payments made to World Outlook 2,730.03

*72.90

Assembly Bulletin 133 . 75

Waste paper sold 7 . 43

45,025.17

$51,833.27

Disbursements:

Cost of publications:

Printing, binding, and electros $19,489. 72

Postage and mailing 5 , 139.37

Circulation department expenses:

Postage $453.09

Expiration cards 951 . 75

Office expense 443 . 60

Mail list:

Stencils 1 .008.91

Ink 66.00

Paper 329 . 70

229

230 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Parts 12.41

Service and supplies 36 . 45

Postage and express 6.77

3,308.68

$27,937.77

Salaries 5,141.56

Rent 648.90

Telephone, telegraph, stationery, and postage 104.27

Travel expense 201 . 76

Bank service charges 1 78 . 43

Auditing 75 . 00

Magazine and book purchases ' 19.00

Advertising 1 . 40

Balance, May 31, 1943:

Demand deposits $16,983.77

Cash on hand and postage stamps 541 .41

34,308.09
$17,525.18

$17,525.18

Accounts payable, balance May 31, 1943 $5, 130.48

PUBLICATION MANAGER'S NOTES

The subscription list of The Methodist Woman varies each month. In 1942
the lowest was 142,000; the highest 163,000. In 1943 the lowest was 153,000;
the highest 172,000.

*The disbursements exceed the receipts due to the fact that subscriptions received after December 20
were sent in in January.

LYBRAND, ROSS BROS. & MONTGOMERY

Certified Public Accountants

Carew Tower, Cincinnati

Mrs. George W. Keen, Publication Manager,
Literature Headquarters of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service,

420 Plum Street,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

We have examined the statement of cash receipts and disbursements for the period
from January 1 to May 31, 1943, of the Literature Headquarters of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service. All recorded receipts were deposited in bank and all disbursements
were properly supported by paid checks. We also examined invoices and other supporting
data with respect to the principal classes of receipts and disbursements sufficient in scope
to satisfy ourselves as to the substantial accuracy of such classifications. We did not,
however, make a detailed audit of all of the transactions for the period.

In our opinion, the accompanying statements present fairly the cash receipts and
disbursements of the Literature Headquarters of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service for the period from January 1 to May 31, 1943.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery.

January 17, 1944.

Financial Report of the Publication Manager 231

LITERATURE HEADQUARTERS

of the

WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE

CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
from January 1 to May 31, 1943

Balance, January 1, 1943:

Demand deposits $2 . 262 . 10

Cash on hand and postage stamps 295 . 40

$2,557.50

Receipts:

Literature, textbooks, and miscellaneous sales 48 , 047 . 25

Appropriations received from the National Treasurer for:
Free literature and postage:

1943 $6,807.78

1942 . 1,830.74

Salaries 1 ,965 .30

Proceeds from San Francisco office for prior year 1,000.00

Proceeds from New York office 1 , 900 . 00

Refund 16.72

13,520.54

$64,125.29

Disbursements:

Cost of sales, as annexed $42 ,454.94

Mailing charges, postage and express 9 , 254 . 72

Salaries and wages 3 , 909 . 93

Expenses, as annexed :

Office 630.24

Other 337.28

56,587.11

Balance, May 31, 1943 $7,538.18

Demand deposits $6,830.72

Cash on hand and postage stamps 707 . 46

$7,538.18

Balances, May 31, 1943:

New York Distributing office $712.15

San Francisco Distributing office $1 ,366.26

Accounts payable, balance May 31, 1943 $8,598.10

STATEMENT OF EXPENSES
from January 1 to May 31, 1943

Cost of Sales:

Printing, electros, and art work $29,435.95

Study books 3,064.55

Other books, leaflets, and envelopes 8,374.76

Gift boxes, wrappings, and pins 1 ,579.68

1,454.94

Expenses:
Office:

Telephone and telegraph $152 . 25

Stationery and office supplies 194.95

Service department — mailing cards and supplies 99.00

Postage 75.92

Furniture and equipment 63 . 50

Service expenses 40 . 5 7

Mimeographing 4 . 05

Other:

Bank service charges $169.09

Taxes 88.59

Auditing 75.00

Other 4.60

$630.24

$337.28

Reports of Secretaries of the Joint Division

(Woman's Section)

Organization and Promotion

By MRS. V. F. DEVINNY, Secretary

tMlOM the standpoint of organizational growth, the reports from the conferences
A received for the year 1943 show 809 new societies and 64,742 new members.
Neither annual nor quarterly reports are ever complete nor wholly accurate.
Notwithstanding, statistics serve to acquaint us with the approximate organi-
zational strength of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. Likewise, the
increases reported, even though they may not be net increases in every confer-
ence, provide the assurance of a normal growth and a healthy infusion of new
blood so necessary to a thriving organism. The total number of organizations
reported by 103 conferences was 26,600, and the total membership, 1,162,947.
That 50 per cent did have net increases in organizations and approximately 38
per cent in membership, in these times, is cause for deep gratitude.

Looking back over the year, we can take heart that the shifting of population
across this country has not caused a serious decline in our membership. There
is evidence throughout the organization of a growing interest in the total
program of work. Many societies that have continued to function under the
pattern of preunification days are gradually gearing into the new plans by in-
cluding some mission study and by giving to missions. There seems to be a
determined effort on the part of new groups that have organized since the charter
meetings to set up their societies on the lines specified by the Constitution and
By-laws.

Doubtless large numbers of women within our membership haven't yet be-
come convinced of the need of the missionary enterprise or they would give more
liberally. As more missionary information is channeled to local societies from
the jurisdiction secretaries of foreign and home work through the conference
secretaries of missionary education and service, we believe new interest will be
stimulated. Concrete facts stimulate interest and interest stimulates the desire
to help.

The wide disparity between the giving to the Woman's Division for missions
and the amount raised by the societies for local church and community work
should be studied to ascertain whether a considerable amount of this so-called
local church giving does not include projects entirely outside the realm of what
was intended originally to be classified as local church and community work.

Field Work

Our four full-time field workers have visited forty-eight conferences since
the last Annual Meeting. Their itineraries have been fraught with much difficulty
in travel and their schedules of appointments, in some cases, far too heavy despite
our admonitions to the conferences to provide for adequate rest between en-
gagements. Our workers are versatile persons and devoted to their work. The
value of their services in building and strengthening the organization cannot be
measured. Letters and messages of approbation from conferences which we
receive are sufficient proof that their services are appreciated. We shall miss
Miss Wheaton from our official family, and wish her God's blessing as she enters
into her new relationship.

How to plan for field work during 1944, with travel restrictions what they
are, is problematical. We have written all the conferences to ascertain whether
they desire the services of a worker, and their replies will doubtless determine
whether we shall need a full-time person to replace Miss Wheaton.

Missionary Itineraries

The present plan of assigning missionaries for itineraries within the six
jurisdictions has met with some complications. While we know that the mis-
sionaries are making addresses in the majority of the conferences, reports to

232

Joint Division — Woman's Section 233

jurisdiction secretaries and to this office have been very incomplete. The con-
ferences in three jurisdictions, namely, Northeastern, North Central, and West-
ern, have co-operated wholeheartedly in accepting and using the missionaries
assigned to them. This assignment plan in the other jurisdictions breaks down
at the point of the failure of conferences to accept missionaries for planned
itineraries. The lack of reporting by the conferences on the missionaries who
have served does not give the jurisdiction or our office a complete account of
what has been done. However, the records show that sixty-two conferences
have been visited by 153 missionaries for periods varying from one engagement
to three months.

Co-operation With the General Section of the Joint Division

Co-operation continues with the General Section in the production of World
Outlook and pamphlet literature and leaflets, as well as other activities such as
the Crusade for a New World Order, district institutes, and similar meetings.
All planning is designed to undergird the total missionary work of the church.
The trend toward closer co-operation between conference Boards of Missions and
the conference Woman's Societies of Christian Service is indicative of a better
understanding of the common task of missionary promotion.

Future Outlook

We feel moved to put upon your hearts the problems of future leadership
in the Woman's Division. Formerly, in sections of the church young women's
and girls' missionary societies flourished. These provided a nucleus for future
leadership in the adult organization. Methodist girls no longer have the inten-
sive preparation for or close fellowship with the adult societies which will assure
the devotion necessary to hold large numbers of them for future Woman's Society
work. Fostering Girls' Interest Groups is one means of strengthening the tie
between the Woman's Society and Methodist girls, but individual cultivation is
also invaluable. The future of the Woman's Division is dependent upon the
young women and girls we train today for places of leadership tomorrow.

Looking toward the next quadrennium, it is to be expected that changes will
occur in plans and in personnel. However, because of the newness of the organi-
zational plan, particularly in certain areas, it would seem that the wisest
strategy would be to make as little change as possible in the functioning processes
of the organization for one quadrennium is not sufficient to test the value of our
plan of organization. Obviously, some methods can be improved upon, others
may well be discontinued. Looking toward improvement in the next quadren-
nium, it might be helpful to ask the conferences for their reactions and sugges-
tions on what would make the organization more effective.

Pioneering is always an adventurous experience. In any field, it is charac-
terized by risks, mistakes, and failures. But no matter in what realm it is un-
dertaken, it is worth the venture, as we can testify who have been privileged
to serve the organization through its pioneering period. As we face the years
ahead we realize that above all else the spiritual vitality of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service is its most certain source of strength and power. We
cannot forecast the future, but we can accept the challenge which Christ himself
gave his followers, "Nothing is impossible unto you" (Matthew 17:20), and in
his strength undertake the impossible and make it the possible.

Conferences leading in new Conferences leading in new

organizations (not net) members (not net)

Northeastern Jurisdiction West Virginia Newark

Southeastern Jurisdiction Holston Virginia

Central Jurisdiction South Carolina East Tennessee

North Central Jurisdiction Ohio Northern Minnesota

South Central Jurisdiction Southwest Missouri West Oklahoma

Western Jurisdiction California Southern California-Arizona

Total new organizations reported — 809. Total new members reported — 64.742.

Conferences reporting no charge without an organization: Erie, Upper South Carolina, Michigan, North
Dakota, Northwest Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska.

234

Woman's Division of Christian Service

SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORTS

of the
Conference Corresponding Secretaries, Woman's Society of Christian Service

1943

Mrs. V. F. DeVinny, Secretary of Organization and Promotion

Number
Societies

Member-
ship

New
Societies

New
Members

Observ.
Week of
Prayer

Local Societies

Conference

Using
7 Keys
Poster

Achiev-
ing all
7 Keys

Northeastern Jursidiction —

466

245
418
286
255
150
227
191
133
92
300
210
237
205
370
306
384
289
615
289

24,919
13,395
11,312
16,639
13,015

4.440
16.130
11.592

6,517

3,220
14,761

8,453
13.458

8,820
16,767
16,775
23,110
13,236
22,775
16,270

21
3

29
2
3
7

1,022
526
264
629
401
856

2,580

123
56

58
24
7
78
19

Central New York

7
18

63
49
10

New England Southern

2
4
6
3

166

23
10

277
438
549
212
523
683
905
712
928
50

207

130
51
48

1
8
4
6
3
39
4

22
82
32
96

West Virginia

Wyoming

Total

Southeastern Jurisdiction —

Alabama

Florida

Holston

5,668

287
319
442
280
233
294
255
398
507
533
232
254
351
253
304
844
674

275,604

8,011
15,210
14,720

8,686

7,865
11,026

6,714
13,286
17,650
19,948

6,581

7,365
11,842

8,775
10,491
33,957
19,376

171

11,721

767

1,397

720

533

619

1,029

350

1,368

1.096

1,247

508

555

979

152

734

2,565

1,566

638

249
201
281
143
148
196
215
236
375
506
142
117
174
207
219
380
250

688

200

108
300
112
54
294

223

17
64
100

316
418
112
254

64
117

39
400
219

Upper South Carolina

27
99

Western North Carolina

Total

6,460

84
75
51

190
59
65

116
65
90

109
34

240
31
61
45
85

30
162

221,503

1.400

664

837

3,524

1,172

1,000

4,211

1,421

1,099

1,594

424

3,240

650

670

1,000

1,662

249

4
4

16,185

183

372

4,039
6

3,007
68

693

Central Jurisdiction —

51
180
46

Florida (4th Quar. Rept)

16
2

291

188
20
81

200

116
52
30
95

Savannah (4th Quar. Rept.) . .

85
6

147

57
15
28
46

....

Southwest (2d Quar. Rept.) . . .

Upper Mississippi (2d Quar.

Rept.)

Washington

3,177

Total

1,592

27,745

127

1,620

361

703

141

Joint Division — Woman's Section

Summary of Annual Reports — Continued

235

Number
Societies

Member-
ship

New
Societies

New
Members

Observ.
Week of
Prayer

Local Societies

Conference

Using
7 Keys
Poster

Achiev-
ing all
all Keys

North Central Jurisdiction —

175
504
614
449
443
443
169
132
437
633
201
274
199
1,079
355
258
211
201
221

8,100
21,556
24,426
19,563
30,927
22,144

7,317

3,499
14.482
37,209
10.284
21,329
13,903
63,173
27,544

7,933
15,191

9,232
12,072

7
12
8
4
4
9
2

4
19

1,226

826

1,027

741

796

149

456

1.543

2,001

499

712

1,409

1,599

386

696

412

1,139

107
96

120
73
20
28
42

162
35
29
66

369
97
62
30
42
46

138

132

132
77
23
35
92

197
64

157
65

80
66
64
50
62

North Dakota .

North- East Ohio

Northwest Iowa

Ohio

32
171

Total

6,998

401
228
180

47
361
198
247
247
475

95
266
196
221
221

66
321
219
308
292

389 , 884

25,181
8,160
7,280

643

20,854
7,878
8,574
8,209

25,023
3,506
8,800
9,252
6,980
8,259
700

12,796
9,229

10,781

10,806

133

8
3
1

2
4
7
4
3
2
4

11
1
3
5
3

15
8
8
8

15,732

1,282
537
674

682

697

959

566

920

484

700

1,127

934

814

476

856

1,311

1,554

1,454

175
206
100

6
152
111
191
119
129

56
119
125
210
105

1,503

196

228

579

South Central Jurisdiction —

Indian Mission (4th Quar.

106

74
73
31

258
20
56
77

221
44

Little Rock

33
9

Nebraska

82
11

St. Louis

22
1

171
205

113
67
53

Texas

54
15

Total

Western Jurisdiction —

4,589

270

168

115

148

233

268

192,911

14,536

9,343

3,653

3,620

7,464

11,420

23,410

416

1,438

100

6
2
6
4

2
4
4

14,633
857

2,196

76
38
25
25
40

1,701

585
16

41
20
31
36

Idaho

Montana

Oregon

127

313

513

668

2,295

10
6
10
19

Southern California-Arizona. . .

3
13

177

Wyoming State

Total

Grand Totals

1 , 293
26,600

75,300
1,162,947

809

4,851
64,742

310

8,998

613

8,356

186

2,407

Number of Conferences having net increases in organizations and in members:

Northeastern Jurisdiction, in organizations — 13; in membership — 9
Southeastern — 6; " " — 6

Central " " " — 7; " " — 6

North Central " " " —12;" " —10

South Central " " — 8; " " — 4

Western " " — 6; " " — 3

Conference leading in net increases in organization. . . .Central Pennsylvania

Conference leading in new members Northwest Indiana

52 Conferences (or 50%) had net increases in organizations.

38 Conferences (or approximately one-third) had net increases in membership.

236

Woman's Division of Christian Service

At nearly fifty schools and institutes last summer Methodist women enrolled

in classes and worked hard at their courses so they would be better equipped

as leaders in the Woman's Society of Christian Service

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The major purpose of Children's Work is to prepare the hearts and
minds of growing boys and girls to think and act as Christian mem-
bers of a world-wide society

Joint Division — Woman's Section 237

Missionary Education

By MRS. HELEN B. BOURNE, Secretary

DURING the past year marked progress has been made in Missionary Educa-
tion. That progress, though more evident this year than formerly, is without
doubt the result of cumulative processes for which every previous development
is partly responsible. The constant cultivation from the office through corre-
spondence and guidance in the use of literature of every kind, and the participa-
tion in many types of meetings and in the various schools and institutes, and the
very efficient service of an educational worker, have been some of the means used
to achieve the objectives of missionary education. Much of the detailed office
work has been carried on by our efficient secretary, whose services are indis-
pensable.

Cultivation Processes

Since the Woman's Division has produced a large variety of literature, many
leaflets of which are free, it has been possible for our office to meet more adequately
the responsibility of supplying information to societies and of cultivating more defi-
nitely for the support of the total work of the Division. Specific information on
special missionary projects has been provided for those supporting them and for
those who wish to support them. It is generally true that the more intelligent
one becomes about all the work, the more liberally it is supported. The gifts for
special missionary projects may become a means of more general interest and
of increased giving, even though representing a specialized interest.

The conference secretaries have done excellent cultivation by the use of
letters which give to societies the information received from our office and by
the use of newsletters or bulletins sent out by the jurisdiction secretaries of
missionary education and service co-operating with the secretaries of home and
foreign work of the jurisdictions. Jurisdiction and conference secretaries have
shown great ingenuity in the methods used to impart information. Many have
been keenly conscious of the value of missionary information as one of their
major responsibilities as secretaries of missionary education and service. Copies
of materials which they have sent societies oftentimes have been sent our office
to be checked for accuracy, and in order to help us keep in close touch with
conference plans and efforts.

Recognition of the fact that regular quarterly reports provide a most helpful
method of cultivation has caused all conferences in five jurisdictions, with three
exceptions, to co-operate completely every quarter. An increasing number of
conferences in the Central Jurisdiction are co-operating. We are fairly sure that
the Central Jurisdiction will soon be in line with others. Summaries of these
reports appear at the close of this report. Of more value than some of these
figures — though they are highly important as indices — are some facts written
in letters and reports.

There is a gradual improvement in content and presentation of monthly pro-
grams, and consequently greater interest is shown in monthly meetings. There
is more frequent and better use made of our periodicals and of other literature
for enriching the regular programs and for planning additional or extended meet-
ings; there is more discriminating choice made of visual aids and there is wiser
adaptation for their use. There is wider and more helpful co-operation in church
schools, especially in fourth-Sunday programs, in assisting the children's and
youth divisions with materials, in the teaching of youth courses (and in making
preparation for teaching them) when asked, and in helping to send girls to summer
camps. There is increasing fellowship between rural and town and city churches
by means of visitation, lending of books for study classes and reading circles,
sharing in various ways in the presentation of dramas, plays, and fiestas, after
these have been used effectively in local church or community; there is constant
thoughtfulness in sending Testaments, The Upper Room, World Outlook, and other
religious as well as secular literature to men and women in the service, and in
placing our magazines in public libraries.

238 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Meetings

The meetings attended include eleven annual conference Woman's Society
meetings, three in the South Central Jurisdiction, two in the Southeastern, and
one in the Northeastern, and five in the North Central. At these meetings, edu-
cational conferences or seminars were directed, and addresses on the total enter-
prise of the Woman's Division were made. Talks and discussions with Wesleyan
Service Guilds and with executive committees were included in some of the con-
ferences, which afforded opportunities for learning a great deal about conference
work and for evaluating Woman's Division policies as they are related to con-
ference Woman's Societies and other auxiliary units. The rich fellowship with
large numbers of loyal women was a real blessing.

A meeting with jurisdiction secretaries of missionary education and service
and with our educational worker, in June in Chicago, was of value to all who
were present. The work of missionary education and service was reviewed and
evaluated, and plans were made by which it is being greatly strengthened and
adjusted more effectively to wartime emergencies. The chief value of this meet-
ing was that the group thinking and talking and praying together resulted in an
understanding of the purpose of the Woman's Society as it may function in a
unified plan of missionary education. The group discussed and agreed upon
ways in which a plan of education and action may be projected through the
jurisdiction schools into the conferences, districts, and societies in local churches.
The signal success of the jurisdiction schools was attributable largely to the
purposes formed and the plans made by these jurisdiction secretaries of missionary
education and service at this meeting, together with the work already begun with
jurisdiction committees and followed up immediately after this meeting. A new
appreciation of the significance of the jurisdiction Woman's Society as a unifying
element in woman's work was evident, and this appreciation continues to be felt
in the jurisdiction schools. Such a group meeting should be held again before
jurisdiction school programs are perfected for 1944.

Schools, Institutes, and Educational Seminars

The interest in all educational work of Woman's Societies is growing and a
new appreciation of the approved study courses and of the best methods for
their use is quite significant and heartening. It should be well understood that
every phase of desirable experience today is sought and realized by means of
research, probing, group thinking and discussion, developing tolerant attitudes
and arriving at decisions for action, all of which is simply and meaningful exercise
called study. The efforts in this direction are of far-reaching importance to the
work of the Woman's Society and the reports are extremely gratifying.

There were nearly fifty schools and institutes held last summer in which
Methodist women actively participated. Five of the schools were Jurisdiction
Schools of Missions and Christian Service in which our department co-operated
with the Board of Education and with jurisdiction committees. One of these
was a new school held in the North Central Jurisdiction. The highest quality
of work was done with jurisdiction, conference, and district leaders, and with
many society leaders from local churches. Co-operative courses were sponsored
in sixteen pastors' and conference training schools. In five of the conference
Woman's Society schools and institutes there was co-operation with the Board
of Education.

At all the jurisdiction schools the three new approved study courses for
1943-44 were presented as well as a course for leaders of youth. The Workshop
proved to be an extremely helpful course. Here different groups experimented
with methods of work in the local church, district, conference, and jurisdiction,
attempting to discover better ways of doing a better job. Also there were semi-
nars on various lines of work of the society. An unusually fruitful seminar was
one on education and action which demonstrated in content and method the unity
of the study and action program of the Woman's Society. The results amply
justified the venture: educational seminars, guided by a conference committee on
study and action co-operating with district officers, were held in hundreds of dis-
tricts, subdistricts, or zones throughout the church last fall. Unified plans were
explained and ways in which they can be carried out by means of approved study
courses and informal studies were demonstrated. Most of these seminars were
directed by conference and district officers who had attended their jurisdiction

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239

school and there had received guidance for this work. The reports of educational
seminars were enthusiastic in commendation of the attendance and the work
done. The fruitful results of the schools and educational seminars continue to
be seen and felt in local churches.

There are frequent informal studies along all interests of our woman's work,
such as delinquency, peace, the family devotional themes, and studies of World
Outlook and of the Annual Reports of the Division and of conference societies.
There is increasing participation in interdenominational classes, institutes, and
schools, in addition to co-operation in our own district missionary institutes of
the General Section. Following many of the studies, offerings have been received
for some phase of work of the Woman's Division which is related to the study.
This is as clear an indication of practical spiritual values as the more frequent
and expected service that grows out of study.

Of great value to missionary education is the work of Miss Oscie Sanders,
who has taught classes in training schools and district institutes, directed edu-
cational seminars, taken part in programs in many districts and conferences and
societies in local churches, and has been a leader of approved co-operative courses
in eight schools during the past summer. She was in fifteen conferences last
year rendering some one or more of such services. Such work is continuously
effective in cumulative results. In addition, on the invitation of the Missionary
Education Movement, she prepared the Discussion Suggestions for the approved
study course, "Christian Ventures in Learning and Living." She has been in-
valuable in bringing to the office from the field constructive suggestions and
helpful criticisms which serve as guidance for proper evaluation of Woman's
Division policies and for adaptation of materials or modification or change of
plans and methods. This service and her previous experience and training greatly
strengthen the department of missionai-y education.

Co-operative Relationships

Membership on the Interboard Committee on Missionary Education acquaints
us with the unified or co-operative plans of missionary education for Methodists
on all age levels, and enables us to serve more effectively in many areas of adult
education. The relation of the department to the Missionary Education Move-
ment and to other interdenominational groups engaged in similar work gives
opportunity for participation in discussions of timely missionary emphases and
for knowing the current themes as soon as they are agreed upon. Such co-oper-
ative relationships keep us in close touch with missionary education movements,
authors, and with books and other material covering a wide range of interest.

This department has a direct channel to the local church in interpreting and
stimulating the total work of the Board of Missions and Church Extension.
We rejoice in such a rich opportunity for fellowship and service.

Statistics for the six jurisdictions follow on page 240.

I-ntrodurttmi Card

This card is being given to young people leaving
their home churches and should be presented to

Pastors, Woman's *nrtrtit &rrretarirs, and

OCljurrb; ©roups on and near campuses, near camps,
or in defense industry areas, and to

Chaplains and 8>etv\te film's CClirtBtian fftanuta

THIS CARD should be retained permanently by the holder and may be
presented in any part of the world. The persons issuing this card
are deeply concerned for the welfare of this Individual. May the one
holding this card receive the cordiality of Christian friends.

The Introduction Cards project for servicemen, sponsored

by the Student Department, has reached a total distribution

of over 300,000 copies

The program for interest
groups of girls. Youth in
a World of Opportunity,
is being widely used
this year

240

Woman's Division of Christian Service

SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORTS ON MISSIONARY EDUCATION, 1943

Jurisdictions

Number
Study

Classes

Number
in all
Classes

Number
Classes
Granted
S. J. R.

Number

Joint

Classes

Number
in Schools

and
Seminars

Number
Reading
Circles

Number
Librar-
ies

233
2,595
1,954
5,982
7,808
1,239

3,183

43,980

36,897

101,855

144,388

25,871

252
594
276
263
1,097
211

2,194
11,885

5,128

8,409
12,725

4,136

214
1,037

969
1,139
1,079

424

120

881

1,184

381

Northeastern

South Central

282
660

Southeastern

Western

913

271

Total

19,811

356,174

2,265

2,693

44,478

4,862

2,546

REPORT OF JURISDICTION SCHOOLS

Number Enrolled
in Classes

Central, Gulfside, Waveland, Miss 247

North Central, Camp Aurora, Walworth, Wis 75

Northeastern, Ocean Grove, N. J 229

South Central, Mount Sequoyah, Fayetteville, Ark 291

Southeastern, Lake Junaluska, N. C 240

Total Schools, 5 1,082

Number Board of
Education Credits

132
68

175

183

190

748

PASTORS' AND CHRISTIAN WORKERS' SCHOOLS

Number Enrolled
in Missions Course

Alabama, Montgomery, Ala 46

Arkansas, Conway, Ark 40

Baltimore, Westminster, Md 51

Central Texas, Georgetown, Tex 21

Georgia, Macon, Ga 58

Holston, Bristol, Va 35

Louisiana, Lafayette, La 22

Memphis, Jackson, Tenn 35

Mississippi, Jackson, Miss 65

North Alabama, Boaz, Ala 82

North Carolina, Greensboro, N. C 54

North Mississippi, Mathiston, Miss 24

North Dallas, Dallas, Tex 60

South Carolina (Central Jurisdiction), Camden, S. C 17

Virginia, Lynchburg, Va 68

West Virginia, Buckhannon, W. Va 54

Total Schools, 16 732

Number Board of
Education Credits

21
5

543

CONFERENCE WOMAN'S SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE SCHOOLS

Central Pennsylvania, Newton-Hamilton, Pa

Genesee, Silver Lake, N. Y

Illinois, Lewistown, 111

Kansas National Training School, Kansas City, Kan.

Montana Institutes (3)

North Indiana, North Webster, Ind

Northwest Indiana, Battle Ground, Ind

Northwest Iowa, Lake Okoboji, Spirit Lake, Iowa. . .

Ohio, Lancaster, Ohio

Ohio, Sabina, Ohio

Ohio and Northeast Ohio, Lakeside, Ohio

Rock River, Des Plaines, 111

Wisconsin, Byron Camp, near Fond du Lac, Wis ....

Total Schools, 15

Grand Total Schools, 36

Number in

Number

Board of

Attendance

Education Credits

186

103

186

400

325

603

141

1,200

535

355

600

792

127

5,499
7,313

220
1,511

Joint Division — Woman's Section 241

Wesleyan Service Guild

By MARION LELA NORMS, Secretary

THE opportunity for Guild service was increased markedly in 1943 by changed
conditions all over the country. Many employed women left their homes to
take war jobs or to replace men and women called into service. Frequently when
the first thrill of the new job gave place to regular, monotonous, or exacting
routine, a feeling of loneliness came over them. This was particularly true of
the girls and young women who came from small towns and friendly communities.

Could the Guild do anything about the crowded conditions in their cities?
Could employed women already too busy add further to their work load? Ques-
tions such as these awakened new interest, widened horizons, and stiffened backs
to enlarge their services during this emergency.

The outstanding work for women in the Detroit defense area under the
leadership of Miss Lena York and the conference and district Guild secretaries,
Mrs. Marjory Poole and Miss Inez Rowell, has been briefly reported in The Meth-
odist Woman and World Outlook. (Further details are available in mimeographed
form in the Guild office.) Plans thus developed have given unlimited suggestions
to Guilds anxious to study and serve in their own areas. Early in 1944, Miss
Eleanor Neff will complete her first assignment as the Guild worker in defense
areas. The results of her experience in a very different situation, Richmond,
Virginia, will also be available in the Guild office.

While each Guild must study its own peculiar conditions to discover what
needs to be done, there are many basic problems that have been faced by these
two specialists whose solutions furnish a wonderful starting point for all units.

As never before, the Guild faces an opportunity for interesting employed
women in the total church program through the Guild. With members of families
and close friends far away enduring hardships and unknown dangers, there is
deeper spiritual yearning among those here at home. Worship services should
recognize this and give spiritual food, comfort, and strength for each day.

Letters from servicemen and women in foreign countries and on the islands
of the seas, telling of meeting missionaries and native Christians, of receiving
food, encouragement, and sometimes life itself from mission stations, have stim-
ulated Guilds to learn more about the work of the church abroad and to ask for
missionary speakers.

The increasing opportunities for reaching employed women mean more
work all up and down the line — local units, district, conference, and jurisdiction
secretaries, division secretary. There is increased correspondence, increased need
for field work.

The Standing Committee therefore asked the Woman's Division for an addi-
tional worker to serve both in the office and in the field, and was gratified that
the Woman's Division acceded to this request and elected Miss Margaret Dodd.
Miss Dodd is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, the daughter of
a minister in the New York East Conference, and is unusually well qualified for
this office.

The Standing Committee was delighted with the response in attendance at
the jurisdiction and conference summer schools. In each of the former and in
some of the latter a week-end Guild conference was held in connection with the
school, permitting those employed women who were unable to be away from
their work for any length of time to gain some information about the work
of the Woman's Society and the Guild and to feel the spirit of fellowship among
Methodist women.

The Guild has assumed responsibility for a definite part of the Woman's
Division budget for 1944:

Guild projects (which are part of the work of the Woman's Division) .... $57,000
A share in other Woman's Division projects 78,000

Total (for details see 1944 Guild Handbook, page 54) $135,000

(Continued on page 256)

242 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Student Work

By MRS. LENORE E. PORTER, Secretary

FOR no other age group in the church as for the one in the student field has
the war made such complete and drastic changes and at the same time offered
such rare opportunities to develop interest in missions and religion.

The concern of the student department this quadrennium has been to draw
together the remnants of the former Sister-College promotion, the home mission
study, missionary education through volunteer student and personnel secretaries,
and to unite the very general mission program of the Board of Education into
one dynamic program on the world mission that would be student centered,
specific, and emanate from the students themselves.

At student conferences, your secretary was privileged to promote missions
through the display of pictures on the work on colleges abroad and home missions
centers, world-literacy charts, social action pamphlets, and the help of mission-
aries. As the war continued, students and servicemen began to inquire as to
where and how the church is at work in war-torn and neighboring countries, and
what it is doing in America for problems which are basic to our world situation.
Of additional help are the conference, district, campus, and other local women
secretaries who are being trained to undergird this interest and the whole student
program. Today we find the Methodist Student Movement has nationally, by
state, and in local groups, adopted "Fellow-College relationships" and "Fellow-
American projects" as the center of its new, strong program emphases on missions.
There were times when developments seemed slow; then, when the military
groups took over many campuses, even the religious program under the church
was in peril. With student directors serving as chaplains, and because of
speeded-up programs, there is need for increased co-operation and assistance
from the Woman's Society of Christian Service and materials of visual types
from the Board of Missions. Four jurisdictions called together the conference
secretaries in special session to study their work and the emergency situation.
The Camp Program. The Introduction Cards for servicemen inaugurated by
the Woman's Division has reached a distribution of over 300,000. Giving out
these and the Channeling Cards are also constant incentives to the local church
to keep in touch with its youth and to find new ways of meeting their needs.
Reports on this work are excellent.

Fellow-College and Fellow- American Relations Begin. The "Christian Colleges
Around the World" map prepared by your secretary is fast becoming popular
in student circles and locates the colleges. "The New World and Campuses
Abroad" pamphlet describes the colleges for the selection of fellow relationships.
In the meantime, mimeographed materials and also those prepared by the Asso-
ciated Boards of China Colleges were sent out. A picture flier sheet, "Adopt a
Fellow College," is anticipated. "The Job for US Today" pamphlet in prepara-
tion will help in selecting a Fellow-American project. Both mimeographed and
social action material from various sources is being circulated to the campuses
or suggested for their use in Race Relations Week. "Students and Reconstruc-
tion," a guide on all materials for students, is now available.

Correlation Program and Methodist Student Fellowship Fund Launched. ''Christian
World-mindedness," telling of the fund and of the correlated program possible
between Woman's Society secretaries, campus committees, and pastor directors,
whereby student giving may be directed through the church, has been released.
Thus the "united approach to the campus" between the Board of Education and
the Board of Missions, undergirded by the Woman's Society secretaries and
campus pastors is being realized. The many requests coming in from newly
appointed student chairmen on missions to your student department as to how to
begin their campus programs indicate the plan is under way.

Surely as we face reconstruction, the missionary challenge of these young
people uprooted by the war is the greatest opportunity of the church, particu-
larly in the Board of Missions.

Joint Division — Woman's Section 243

Youth Work

By HELEN L. JOHNSON, Secretary

THE Interboard Committee on Missionary Education authorized a unified plan
for the missionary education of Methodist youth in the spring of 1941. Thus
a major task during the three years has been the emphasis on organization. We
have stressed organization not as complete in itself, but rather as the way pro-
vided for all co-operating agencies to work together. The Joint Committee on
the Missionary Education of Youth provides this opportunity for working to-
gether, as it is composed of equal representation from the local church Board
of Education, the church Board of Missions and Church Extension, and the local
Woman's Society of Christian Service. It is here that we have some difficulty,
for many pastors have failed to convene the Joint Committee. The place of the
Woman's Society within the plan is implicit, and we would urge that the executive
committee of the Woman's Society in each local church encourage the pastor
in setting up the Joint Committee.

We are delighted with the contribution which many of our leaders are making
as they have the opportunity to serve as adult advisers to the Commission on
World Friendship. We cannot overemphasize the need for most careful thought
in the election of secretaries who are working in the youth field, for they must
be qualified to work co-operatively with Board of Education directors. It is not
too much to expect the one who serves in such a challenging capacity to be un-
derstanding of the needs and interests of youth, possessing a personality which
appeals to youth, familiar with present policies in missionary work, well versed
about world trends, and up-to-date especially about the world-wide work of the
church.

The majority of annual conference youth organizations are now making
regular contributions to the Methodist Youth Fund. The figures each quarter
indicate a slight but consistent increase. We must continue the promotion of the
Youth Fund that former giving may be reached and new projects assumed.

The special emphasis for the secretaries of young women's and girls' work
in the Jurisdiction Schools of Missions and Christian Service has already proved
to be a most satisfying investment. The returns are registered in a tangible
way through reports which show that some of the plans and decisions made at
the schools have been carried out successfully. We recognize also abundant
returns in the secretaries themselves who have a sense of direction, purpose,
and dedication because of the days spent together in the fellowship of study and
service.

We note with pleasure the progress which has been made in the inclusion
of missionary units in the basic curriculum and in integrating the missionary
emphasis into the program of the Youth Fellowship. The wide circulation of
leaflets and the growing use of missionary units give evidence of increasing
interest among youth and leaders of youth in the missionary enterprise. We are
gratified with the response to the programs for the interest groups of girls. The
programs for this year, Youth in a World of Opportunity, are being widely used.

The third annual meeting of the National Conference of the Methodist Youth
Fellowship, meeting at Jacksonville, Illinois, August 31 to September 4, devel-
oped some outstanding recommendations in the area of World Friendship. We
quote only one: "Whereas, intelligent understanding of all the peoples of the
world is an important factor in building a Christian world order, we recommend
that .... the conference groups revitalize the mission study and interest
groups by giving them a significant place in the total youth program." Through-
out the conference we were impressed with the earnest and intelligent interest
on the part of the young people in the missionary enterprise and the Christian
outreach of the church.

We come to the close of this year feeling that we can sincerely report
progress. The gains which have been made are due in large part to the fine and
loyal service of the secretaries of young women's and girls' work to whom we
express in this way our sincere gratitude.

The youth of today are the church of tomorrow. Ours is both the responsi-
bility and opportunity of so working together that we are laying foundations
and creating attitudes which will make a world like today's impossible tomorrow.

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Children's Work

By RUBY VAN HOOSER, Secretary

The Primary Task, 1940-43

THE major purpose of those whose work is concerned with the missionary
education of children is to prepare the hearts and minds of growing boys and
girls to think and act as Christian members of a world-wide society. Our primary
concern, therefore, has been to reach as many children of The Methodist Church
as possible with a well-planned program of missionary education. In doing this,
secretaries of children's work have worked with other leaders in the church
school, and reports during one quarter of this current year from ninety-two
conferences show that 168,000 boys and girls had taken part in the study of
Latin-American units during that particular time. This study of Latin America
is characteristic of studies that have been carried on during each year of the
quadrennium.

Sharing in the Total Program of the Church for Children

As missionary education is only a part of the larger program of religious
education, secretaries of children's work, together with other members of the
Council of Children's Workers, have been interested in the entire religious
program of the church for its boys and girls. Not all of the secretaries of
children's work have thus taken part in planning and carrying out these larger
plans of the church for children, but they are doing so in increasing number.

The Plan for the Missionary Education of Children, 1941-43

The plan for the missionary education of children in the church went into
effect in October, 1941, and has back of it at present only slightly more than two
years' experience. As the plan was reviewed by the Subcommittee on the Mis-
sionary Education of Children, it was felt that, with one exception, only minor
changes should be suggested for the coming quadrennium, as its provisions on
the whole were satisfactory. The point at which the greatest need for change
was registered was in regard to the matter of the offerings of children in addi-
tional sessions. Suggestions by the subcommittee designed to help this situation
are being referred to the Interboard Committee for consideration in the next
quadrennium.

Problems Confronting Children Today

Due to the impact of the situation brought about by the war, the problems
confronting the world of children have become increasingly grave during the
last two years. Characteristic of the strains and dislocations of today is the
marked increase in juvenile delinquency. The great majority of children are
adjusting successfully to wartime stresses and strains, but the situation with all
children is calling for the most constructive thinking and action on the part of
those concerned with the nation's child life.

Work With Community Agencies

The church has been profoundly challenged to make its most thoughtful
and effective contribution in meeting the problems of boys and girls in all com-
munities. The Council of Children's Workers, including children's secretaries,
in many churches are joining with other children's agencies to determine needs,
and carry out definite programs for meeting those that are thus discovered.
These attempts on the part of children's workers in the church have included:
(1) A new stress upon the importance of family life; (2) an attempt to make the
church as well as the school a center for the after-school activities of boys and
girls; (3) the enlistment and training of Christian leaders of children to carry
out the enlarged program of the church for children.

Contribution of the Woman's Society of Christian Service

In the whole program of study and cultivation of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service, information is being gained as to the basic problems of chil-
dren today, the causes of such problems, and the actions that should be taken

(Continued on page 257)

Reports of Standing Committees

Education and Cultivation

By MRS. ALBERT T. MORGAN, Chairman
(See page 64 for recommendations and action)

TDENTIFIED closely, as this Standing Committee on Education and Cultivation
■■■ is, with the Christian world interests of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service, we present its report in behalf of the great cause at our hearts; with
rejoicing, also, in the privilege and opportunity of being "a part of something
larger than ourselves."

We never cease paying tribute to The Methodist Woman and World Outlook
in their vision, their pointing the way constantly to that "something larger,"
their undergirding value in the presentation of our division's "cause," work, and
its advancement, and their unexcelled supplementing of programs and studies.

The Committee on Education and Cultivation met at the fourth annual
meeting of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, held in Buck Hill Falls,
Pennsylvania, in December, 1943. In the absence of Mrs. Morgan, Chairman,
Mrs. E. R. Bartlett presided.

In conference with officers, executive secretaries, editors, and the publica-
tion manager, "more effective means and methods for promoting the total program
of education and cultivation" were considered and the recommendations made
were presented to the Woman's Division of Christian Service by the Secretary of
the Committee, Mrs. Wiltz Ledbetter. These were adopted by the Division and
involved the following eight points: (1) Channeling further recommendations
in the interpreting of Section 5, Article 2, of By-laws for Jurisdiction Societies;
(2) (a) New Advisory Committee; and (b) Responsibility with relationship to
conference educational field worker; (3) Policies relative to preparation of sup-
plementary materials to be used with approved study courses; (4) Study Themes,
1944-45; (5) (a) A new committee studying the future policy of Bible study for
the Woman's Division; and (b) Bible study recommendation from the Department
of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities referred to that Com-
mittee; (6) Space sought, at intervals in Pastors' Journal; (7) Appreciation, for
recorded co-operation, to district superintendents and pastors; and (8) Methodist
Theological Seminaries and the work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Finance and Estimates

MRS. W. R. BROWN, Chairman
(Sec page 4S for report and page 197 for appropriations)

Library Service

By MRS. C. N. TIMMONS, Chairman

INURING the year of 1943 Library Service has had a most enjoyable year. War
-Lf conditions all over the world have necessarily limited the number of books
that could be sent overseas. However, some books have been sent to India, to
Elizabeth Peterson in Brazil, to Emma Eldridge in Mexico, and to lone Clay in
Cuba. One hundred copies of the "Holy Earth" were sent to missionaries through
Mrs. Otis Moore.

The most thrilling experience was sending books selected by Miss MacKinnon
to all the institutions in Angola, Rhodesia, Southeast Africa, and the Belgian
Congo. This is the first time that African stations have received books through

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Library Service. The following quotations will thrill you as they have your
committee:

"How can we thank you for the books which are so varied, so helpful, and so
interesting? Altogether I have received fourteen, and last week the invoices
came in and, lo, every book has come through. How splendid! So far I have
not been able to read all of them and am passing them around but keeping close
watch over them so that none 'get away.' I have loaned two to soldiers, several
to missionaries, and some to government officials. It makes us feel near home
to receive these books. In some ways the world seems small, as when you turn
on the radio, but when waiting for letters or furloughs it seems pretty big and
inaccessible.

"Grace Clark — African Girls' Hostel, Umtali, South Rhodesia, Africa."

"Just a hasty note to thank you, or whoever represents Library Service, for
the good books we have been receiving. Old St. Nicholas could not have pleased
us more. What I am trying to say is just plain thank you. And I am sure if
you were to live a thousand years you could not have sent us anything we would
have appreciated more.

"Ruth O'Toole — M. E. C. M., Lusambo, Congo Beige Afrique."

Subscriptions for various technical magazines amounting to about $175 are
being continued. Where these publications cannot be sent they are being filed in
the New York offices so that files will be complete after the war is over.

Business in the Home Department shows an improvement over last year.
About 300 books were sent to 107 institutions as listed below:

Bureau of Educational Work 25

Bureau of Urban Work 34

Bureau of Town and Country Work 23

Bureau of Social Work 20

Bureau of Medical Work 5

Once again the Library Service Committee is indebted to the librarian of
Scarritt College for the up-to-date list of books sent to each institution. Included
in the list were also books selected by the executive secretaries of the Home
Department. The book list covered the fields of Bible and religion, of devotional
books, of religious education, of books for workers with children, of books on
social work, and general miscellaneous subjects.

The books for which there were the largest numbers of requests are as follows :

The Robe, by Douglas.

Prayer Poems — An Anthology, by 0. V. and Helen Armstrong.

The Soong Sisters, by Kahn.

A Testament of Devotions, by Kelly.

Your Child's Religion, by Moody.

There Are Sermons in Stories, by Stidger.

A Treasury of Great Poems, by TJntermeyer.

Abundant Living, by Jones; Christian Symbolism, by Stafford.

Make Your Agency More Effective, by Swift.

Psychology of Adolescence, by Garrison.

Medical magazines are on an annual subscription list for our hospitals and
a few others where they are especially requested.

Many letters of heartfelt appreciation have delighted your committee. One
missionary writes that the list is invaluable, while another writes that in her
location she is often very lonely and good books mean so much. Others write
that books sent them are used in their chapel services, in special services with
their young people, and in daily Vacation Bible Schools. Such books as Prayer,
by Buttrick, are used by some staffs for devotional study. Another said that never
could she tell how much inspiration and courage had come to her as well as fresh
information and new interest.

Reports of Standing Committees

Co-operation With Other Agencies

By MRS. HOMER TATUM, Chairman

247

UNION COLLEGES

Special Committees of Associated Boards for
Colleges in China and Representatives on
Boards of Trustees

Cheeloo (Shantung Christian University)
Woman's College
Mrs. M. M. Avann (1945)
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1944)
Mrs. H. E. Woolever (1945)
Mrs. Eric North (Alternate, 1944)
Mrs. E. L. Phillips (Co-opted)
Mrs. Frank C. Hughson (Co-opted)

Ginling College

Mrs. Leon Roy Peel (1946)
Mrs. Francis J. McConnell (1944)
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1945)
Mrs. Harry E. James (Co-opted)

Hwa Nan College

Mrs. J. D. Bragg Mrs. S. \V. Rosenberger

Mrs. A. E. Beebe Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf Miss Elizabeth Lee
Mrs. J. W. Masland Miss B. S. Brittingham

Mrs. H. E. Woolever Miss Faye Robinson
Mrs. Thomas Nicholson Dr. Frank T. Cartwright
Mrs. Leon Roy Peel Mrs. R. E. Diffendorfer

Miss Elizabeth Congdon Dr. L. O. Hartman
Miss Edna Ambrose Mrs. Anna E. Kresge

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie Miss Henrietta Gibson
Mrs. J. W. Mills Mr. J. C. Haley

Miss S. L. MacKinnon

Soochow University

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

West China Union University
Mrs. Frank E. Baker
Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (Co-opted)

Yenching University
Mrs. J. K. Cecil

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon (1944)
Mrs. J. M. Avann (1946)

Woman's Union Christian Medical College,
Shanghai
Mrs. J. W. Perry Miss Mabel K. Howell

Mrs. A. E. Beebe Miss S. L. MacKinnon

COLLEGES IN INDIA
Isabella Thoburn College

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie Mrs. Fred A. Victor
Mrs. H. E. Woolever (Alternate)

Miss Florence Hooper Mrs. E. L. Phillips
Mrs. Otis Moore (Advisory)

Dr. George Briggs Miss Lulie Hooper

Dr. T. S. Donohugh

Woman's Christian College of Madras

Mrs. Otis Moore Miss Bettie Brittingham

Miss Esther Hay (Alternate)

St. Christopher's Training College, Madras
Miss Esther Hay Miss Bettie Brittingham

Miss Dorothy McConnell (Alternate)

Missionary Medical College for Women, Vellore
Mrs. Otis Moore Miss Clemintina Butler

Miss Esther Hay

COLLEGES IN JAPAN AND KOREA
Woman's Christian College of Japan, Tokyo

Mrs. J. W. Masland
Mrs. Velma Maynor

Miss Margaret Forsyth
Mrs. Fred A. Victor
(Alternate)
Ewha College

Mrs. J. W. Perry Mrs. Henry Pheifler

Mrs. F. J. McConnell Miss S. L. MacKinnon
Mrs. J. M. Avann Mrs. S. W. Rosenberger

Mrs. J. W. Masland Miss Henrietta Gibson

Ex-Officio:

Bishop J. C. Baker Dr. C. W. Iglehart
Mrs. A. E. Beebe Mrs. Velma Maynor

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE FOR WOMEN AND
CHILDREN IN MISSION LANDS

Miss Clementina Butler

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE FOR AFRICA,
AMERICAN SECTION

Mrs. T. S. Donohugh Miss S. L. MacKinnon

Mrs. Charles H. Hardie
Mrs. Velma H. Maynor

Miss B. S. Brittingham

Mrs. J. W. Perry

Mrs. Harvey W. Harner

Ex-Officio —

Miss Elizabeth Lee
Miss S. L. MacKinnon

COMMITTEES OF THE FOREIGN MISSIONS
CONFERENCE

(Elected by F. M. C.)

Committee of Reference and Council:

Miss Elizabeth Lee Miss S. L. MacKinnon

Africa:

Miss S. L. MacKinnon
East Asia:

Miss S. L. MacKinnon
Europe:

Miss Elizabeth Lee
India:

Mrs. Otis Moore
Latin America:

Miss Elizabeth Lee
Philippine Islands:

Mrs. Velma H. Maynor
Associated Missions Medical Office:

Mrs. J. W. Masland Mrs. Otis Moore

Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work:

Mrs. Otis Moore
Promotion of Interest:

Miss B. S. Brittingham Mrs. V. F. DeVinny
Rural Missions Co-operating Committee:

Mrs. Otis Moore Miss Elizabeth Lee

Woman's Work:

Miss B. S. Brittingham

Mrs. Helen B. Bourne

Mrs. A. E.'Beebe
Committee on Special Program and Funds:

Mrs. A. E. Beebe
Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature:

Miss Dorothy McConnell Mrs. Velma H. Maynor
Committee on Work Among Moslems:

Mrs. Otis Moore
Treasurers' Group:

Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton
Joint Executive Committee on Life and Work and Faith
and Order {American Section):

Miss Sallie Lou MacKinnon

Mrs. Velma H. Maynor (Alternate)
North American Administrative Committee of World
Sunday School Association:

Mrs. A. E. Beebe Miss Elizabeth Lee

HOSPITALS
Willis Pierce Memorial Hospital, China

Miss S. L. MacKinnon Mrs. E. Wesley Shaw
Mrs. Dorr Diefendorf Mrs. Frank Home
(Alternate)

Two Trustees for Gulfside

Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds, Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Paul Arrington, Jackson, Miss.

Members Home Missions Council, 1944
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny, Promotion and Publicity
Mrs. J. W. Downs, Town and Country
Miss Mary Lou Barnwell, Cities and New Americans
Mrs. W. H. C. Goode, Alaska
Mrs. M. L. Robinson, West Indies
Miss Miriam V. Ristine, Intermountain Area
Miss Muriel Day, Indian

Miss Thelma Stevens, Christian Approach to Jew-
Miss Helen Johnson, Young People's Work
Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Migrant Work
Mrs. Foss Zartman, Government Projects and
Share-cropper Work

Board for Christian Work in Santo Domingo
Mrs. Robert Stewart Mrs. Fred B. Newell

Delegates to Annual Home Mission Council,
January 10-12, 1944, New York
Mrs. Fred C. Reynolds Miss Muriel Day
Mrs. J. D. Bragg Miss Mary Lou Barnwell

Mrs. W. H. C. Goode Mrs. J. W. Downs
Ex-officio: Miss Bettie Brittingham
Alternates:

Miss Miriam V. Ristine
Mrs. V. F. DeVinny

Committee on Nominations

Mrs. J. Howard Ake Mrs. W. H. C. Goode
Mrs. Fred A. Lamb

248 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Literature and Publications

By MRS. J. N. RODEHEAVER, Chairman
(See page 27 for recommendations and action)

TPHE story of the use of the printed Bible in Madagascar, as given by Dr. Eric
■*■ M. North, is one of the most thrilling of all generations. When a pagan queen
forbade Christian worship and drove missionaries from the country, parts of the
Bible, translated into the native tongue, were carefully hidden and secretly passed
from one believer to another. At the beginning of the twenty-five-year period
of persecution there were about two hundred Christians. When it ended there
were thousands of Christians. It has been consistently true that wherever printed
portions of the Scriptures were available to persecuted followers, Christianity
thrived in spite of the persecutions, but where there was no printed word it died.

The committee met twice the past year.

At the May meeting plans for printing the 1944 program in Spanish were
announced. The finished product is here. The cover retains the title in English
at the request of the Spanish-speaking women.

Action was taken that requests for emergency literature shall be referred to
the Editorial Board in consultation with the chairman of the Committee on Lit-
erature and Publications.

At the May meeting a dinner meeting was held with literature secretaries
of conferences adjacent to New York and publications representatives from other
boards and denominations as guests. The dinner speaker was Mrs. Jean Lyon
McConnell, assistant director of China News Service, who told of her trip across
the United States with Madam Chiang Kai-shek. A display of literature of all
groups represented was of great interest.

The October meeting was held in a room, three walls of which were com-
pletely covered with samples of all literature produced by the Woman's Division.
It was an impressive sight, so well arranged that at a glance one could see all
that had been produced for any subject. A special committee studied the display
and reported omissions and gaps needing special attention.

The following items will be of special interest:

1. It was voted that the poster for 1944 carry the caption, "Singing and
Serving," and that it be printed as the center spread of the December Methodist
Woman.

2. The publication manager reported that the plan of having The Methodist
Publishing Houses handle the literature of the Woman's Division is working
splendidly, so it seemed wise to the committee to defer action opening branch
offices for the sale of literature at this time.

3. The importance of the display and sale of literature at all district, confer-
ence, and jurisdiction meetings was stressed.

4. In considering special literature for General Conference, it was decided
to issue the May number of The Methodist Woman as a special General Conference
number, with an added cover of four pages done with an additional color.

5. The committee voted that an installation service which could be used any
time be produced and that one be provided for districts, conferences, and juris-
dictions.

6. A special committee studied various requests for more simple material
and brought recommendations which were adopted.

7. The committee is deeply concerned over increasingly numerous requests
for bulletins to be produced by conference and jurisdictional organizations and
by individual secretaries. Such a course weakens the strength of our united effort.

Each jurisdiction president is asked to study all publications issued in her
jurisdiction by any group and send findings and samples of such material to
the office of the assistant editor of The Methodist Woman, 420 Plum Street, Cin-
cinnati 2, Ohio.

8. The editor of The Methodist Woman suggested that two pages be given in
each issue to late news from the field, thus caring for an unmet need.

During the year 1943 sixty-four requests for literature have been granted.

Reports of Standing Committees 249

Missionary Personnel

By MRS. LEON ROY PEEL, Chairman
(Sec page 60 for recommendations and action)

WHEN the new Board of Missions and Church Extension was organized and
work was really begun, there were four major objectives toward which the
secretaries of missionary personnel turned their attention. They were:

1. To organize the department of missionary personnel so that it was a working unit in re-
lation to the various divisions and departments and to other hoards of our church that have to do
with Methodist youth.

2. To work with the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel in the setting of the standards
for those who were to be deaconesses and missionaries of our Board.

3. To prepare new blanks suitable for getting the necessary information regarding the applicants.

4. To recruit and prepare candidates for the work of the Board. It was recognized that to
be of real value, this recruiting and preparation should be done with a long look to the future
as well as for immediate needs.

As we look back over this first quadrennium of the new church, we discover
that thirty-eight deaconesses have been accepted; thirty-six have been commis-
sioned; thirty-three home missionaries of the Woman's Division have been ac-
cepted; twenty-five have been commissioned; twenty-seven foreign missionaries
of the Woman's Division have been accepted; nine have been commissioned.

In this picture we find that placement has been made of employed workers.
Mrs. Hager has placed from November, 1940, to November, 1943 — 320 workers,
a tremendous task. There is a great difficulty now in securing workers for our
various institutions; all of us are familiar with the attractive offers in defense
areas and the competition of Government salaries. As we look into the future,
we feel that young people when the war is over will volunteer in larger numbers
for religious work. There will be a great challenge for rebuilding and for re-
construction. However, there is an uncertainty or a hesitancy on the part of
young people to "sign up for life." The Woman's Division should give thought
along this line.

The office of our missionary personnel has been organized so that the files
of candidates from the uniting churches, both for home and foreign fields, are
accessible. A system has been developed for keeping records of candidates who
are available and those who should be approached because of certain special
abilities.

As we look back over the past, we recall the plan of regional committees;
six have thus far been organized — Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles,
Nashville, and Portland — primarily because the candidates have come from these
geographic locations.

The organization of the conference personnel committee of the Woman's
Division has not been too successful because of the many organizational com-
plications in the different areas of the church. The next quadrennium may chart
a more perfect way for the Woman's Division to carry on this important piece
of work.

Recent action to make the standards of deaconesses and those of home and
foreign missionaries the same leads to greater unity. This is a great step in
advance and will strengthen the entire church.

Mrs. Hager has taken over the editing of the mimeographed material which
is to be free for the conference secretaries and for the candidates who want to
know how to get study grants. Another matter of detail which has been cared
for is the preparation of blanks for the use of those making application to our
Board and also another blank has been prepared for employed workers, and they
are now available.

Our secretaries have visited colleges and seminaries, attended youth con-
ferences, both denominational and interdenominational, and have worked dili-
gently to secure the right candidates for the Board. This department is an
important channel through which young people can find service within the
church and tomorrow's church will be no stronger than these candidates will help
to make it.

250 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Interdenominational work has also been an integral part of the plan of the
secretaries. Methodism through them has been represented in the Student Vol-
unteer Movement, on the Personnel Committee of the Foreign Missions Con-
ference, as well as on the Home Missions Council.

It is true that in this early stage of unity there have been interruptions of
educational opportunities because of international situations. However, there
is a deeper sense in the mission of Christianity than has been evidenced in many
years. Young people are seeking the best place for their lives. These are the
days when the total Board of Missions should use every opportunity to study the
future and make plans to carry out the objectives of the church in tomorrow's
world. During this first quadrennium, Mrs. Hager, Dr. Williams, and Miss
Ransom have worked together as a unit. "Unity" is the important watchword in
the world just ahead of us.

This report would be unfinished without an expression of gratitude for the
loyalty of the women of the entire Woman's Division, as well as of the women
of the Missionary Personnel Committee. However, in our Division, we would
have been unable to accomplish anything had it not been for the close co-operation
on the part of Mrs. Hager and Miss Ransom. As they take up their new duties —
Mrs. Hager in a parsonage home in Chicago, and Miss Ransom as an executive
secretary in a sister church — we express to them our deepest appreciation for
their untiring efforts, for their far vision, and for their personal consecration.
To them we say: "God bless. you. You are with us in spirit. This is one world —
it is our Father's world."

Permanent Funds and Investments

By MRS. J. W. MASLAND, Chairman

DURING the seventeen months' period — January 1, 1942, to May 31, 1943 —
covered by the report of the treasurer in this fourth Annual Report, the
Woman's Division of Christian Service received in its Permanent and Restricted
Funds the following additions: Annuities, $21,700, making total Annuity Fund,
$27,482.49; Endowment Funds, $2,000, making total Endowment Funds, $2,751.16;
Trust Funds, $87.16, making total Trust Funds, $5,827.97; Pension Funds,
$63,129.67, with this same figure as total Pension Funds. The Division holds also
the Perpetual Membership Fund of $14,683.64. An amount of $816,186.20 as of
May 31, 1943, had been set aside in other Restricted Funds and $58,461.64 for
salaries payable to missionaries in enemy-occupied countries. The Division held
totally in Permanent and Restricted Funds as of May 31, 1943, $943,605.48, of
which $404,467.18 had been invested in bonds and stocks. This is an increase of
$916,335.33 in the Permanent and Restricted Funds from January 1, 1942, to May
31, 1943, and shows the committee had invested $383,916.25 during that period.

Since the May 31, 1943, report, the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, on the recommendation of the Administrative Committee of the
Woman's Missionary Council, has transferred over $1,500,000 to the Woman's
Division. With other additions to the various funds, received since June 1, 1943,
the totals for December 31, 1943, are as follows:

Annuities $122,048.84

Endowments 1,345,518.49

Perpetual Memberships 15,049.03

Pensions 100,700.80

Other Funds 1,025,345.88

Trust 7,649.33

Total $2,616,312.37

Of this amount, $866,030.93 has been invested in bonds and stocks. The
committee is taking steps immediately to invest these large additional funds.

Reports of Standing Committees 251

Spiritual Life

By MRS. W. M. ALEXANDER, Chairman
(Sec page ffi for recommendations and action)

AS WE review some of the accomplishments of the past year, and also of the
quadrennium, we realize that we are making definite progress in the realm
of Spiritual Cultivation throughout the Woman's Society.

In the local church the Spiritual Life Committee has had a definite part in
helping many women in the deepening of their spiritual lives through the observ-
ance of the Quiet Time. Many groups of earnest women are meeting regularly
for definite prayer and Bible study. They are going out to comfort those in
sorrow and to share their Christian faith with those in need of such spiritual
ministry. Under the direction of the pastor and co-operating with the local
Church Commission on Evangelism these women in many communities have had
and will continue to have a part in the church's home visitation program, calling
on the unchurched and strangers in the community and seeking to interest them
in the church's program of worship and instruction.

During the past year two definite trends have been noticed. First, the desire
on the part of the committee to make its resources available to the various
groups included in the Woman's Division. In May, a special letter was sent to
the graduates of our home mission schools. Definite plans are under way for
the organization of a Fellowship of Intercession among the retired deaconesses
and retired home and foreign missionaries. The committee would like to suggest
a similar service for our foreign missionaries on furlough, that together we may
all be conscious of a closer bond of fellowship as we work and pray for the coming
of the Kingdom. The other trend that is noticeable is the fact that increasingly
the work and resources of the committee are being recognized by other organi-
zations and agencies of the church and that we are being invited to actively co-
operate in the spiritual movements of the church.

I mention our co-operation with the following: The General Commission on
Evangelism, The Week of Dedication, The Crusade for a New World Order, The
Stewardship Department of the Board of Lay Activities, The Inter-Board Com-
mittee on Stewardship, The United Stewardship Council. These all offer oppor-
tunities for definite service for which we are grateful.

The entire committee, including the division members and the jurisdiction
chairmen met at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, December 4-5, and much attention
was given to the study of our present objectives and how these might be improved
to serve the larger group.

We feel that the new legislation which changes the status of the chairman
of Spiritual Life to secretary, thus making her a regular officer in the local
society, district, conference, and jurisdiction, will strengthen and magnify the
work of this committee.

The outlook for the future is most encouraging as the entire church, through
its various boards and commissions, is calling for a renewed dedication of life to
the church and to its major task of helping to secure for our world a righteous
and just peace. The Spiritual Life Committee in every local church has an un-
paralleled opportunity in helping to create a spirit of good will and sympathetic
understanding in our homes, our churches, our communities, our nation, and
across our world. In order to do this there must come a renewed dedication of
our lives to the church and its program of world evangelism. Not until we rec-
ognize and accept our obligation as faithful stewards who have a definite re-
sponsibility in the use of our time, our talents, and our possessions will we be
able to realize the objectives of our spiritual life program and accomplish the
task for which multitudes of Christians around the world are praying and work-
ing. In closing this report, may we remind ourselves once again, "Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

252 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Schools and Colleges for the Training of Christian Workers

By MRS. J. W. PERRY, Chairman

DR. FRED KELLY, in charge of the higher education division of the United
States Office of Education, said recently: "Technologies must win the war,
but humanities and social sciences must hold the peace." In the realization of
this goal there must be people prepared to handle technologies in the interest of
human welfare. The Christian interpretation of human relationships and the
application of Christian principles to the solution of world problems are funda-
mental to building a new and better world order.

The church faces unprecedented opportunities and responsibilities at this
time for developing a constituency concerned for the building of a Christian
civilization around the world. The selection and training of leaders for the task
will require radical changes in the plans and policies of educational programs.
What kind of new missionaries should be recruited? What kind of training
should they have? Where can the best preparation be found? These are ques-
tions that need careful consideration. Insofar as the problems can be discerned
and the initiative and ability of the church is able they are being dealt with.

The Committee on Schools and Colleges has been making a study of a number
of educational centers for the purpose of ascertaining information concerning
the particular advantages to be found in these respective centers. It has found
a keen awareness on the part of many that their programs must be changed
in order to prepare the types of leaders for the future. New courses are being
introduced, others are being strengthened and enlarged and continued study is
being made in order to make necessary adjustments.

Since the function of the Personnel Committee and that of the Committee
on Schools and Colleges are concerned with the selection and training of workers
and there is an overlapping of duties, the Committee on Schools and Colleges is
in accord with the plans for the future which provides for combining the two.

The studies that have been made and the information compiled will be placed
at the disposal of the Personnel Committee in the hope that it may be helpful
in giving guidance to those who are seeking the highest and best preparation
for their lifework.

Status of Women

By MRS FRANKLIN F. LEWIS, Chairman
(See page 23 jor recommendations and action)

1AST year the report of the Committee on the Status of Women was built around
J the thought of the changes which have come to women these days and
which have made such tremendous demands upon them. This year the con-
cern of our group is even greater because we realize Christian women must
assume a larger responsibility in molding and training women to meet the new
day. Exceptional women have been called, accepted, and proved their abilities
for leadership in various and unusual fields. But we are thinking now in terms
of the average woman of whom God made so many. Recognizing that women
have been granted many rights, we are beginning to realize that the emphasis
must now be placed on assuming the responsibilities that these privileges place
upon us. For every gain that has been made a price has been paid. The greater
the advances that are being planned for women today, the greater will be the
price we must pay.

The Committee on the Status of Women is trying in various ways to assist
women to face present conditions honestly and seriously, and to find themselves
in right relations to other women, to men, and to their work, and to remember
always that woman has a God-given role to fulfill. We believe that in maintain-
ing a home as a background for gracious living women reach their highest at-
tainment.

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We deplore the present trends that are tending to break up our homes.
We further deplore the carelessness in manners and speech, even to the point
of lawlessness, that is becoming the habit of some women. This has lowered the
standard of woman's place in the world. And in lowering the standard women
are losing the respect of men and of each other.

The committee in reviewing last year's recommendations submit the fol-
lowing report:

1. Advances have been made in the number of societies studying the Hand-
book. Various methods have been used to present the subject in order to increase
interest. Under the direction of a jurisdiction chairman, a number of conference
chairmen have done splendid work by informing the women of various approaches
to this study and suggesting ways of procuring informative literature.

2. In March the committee made plans for increasing the number of women
delegates to the General and Jurisdiction Conferences. A letter to this effect
was drafted to be sent to each conference chairman and conference president.
They were asked to consult with the conference executive committee and together
agree on a woman or women who could make a definite contribution to the church
by this election. No method of procedure was suggested, but the letter was ac-
cepted understanding^ and without question some women have been elected by
conferences who have not before had a woman delegate. The number of women
delegates to General Conference is slightly larger than four years ago. The
number of women elected to jurisdiction conferences is considerably larger.

3. The report on the number of women who are definitely assisting uprooted
peoples to become properly adjusted to their new surroundings is encouraging.
Even small churches have rendered valiant service and church women constitute
the largest group of those working in civic organizations that have as their
object comforting, healing, and assisting those in need.

4. To create an enlightened public opinion we have, as opportunity has been
given us, tried to present fair and just attitudes on the problems of race prejudice
and injustices in industry.

5. In regard to the services of women as chaplains, we have been advised
by the War Department Army Service that "upon completion of their basic train-
ing the auxiliaries and their officers have been very much dispersed throughout
the army and in numbers too small to warrant the assignment of chaplains of
their own."

A free leaflet, "Today's Women," written by Miss Margaret Forsyth, was
published for the committee in an edition of 50,000 and was distributed to local
societies through conference chairmen.

This year we felt that our work had reached that stage in its development
where a report blank had become a necessity. District, conference, and juris-
diction chairmen had a part in preparing this blank which is now in the hands
of the local Status of Women chairmen.

To Fill Vacancies

MRS. J. W. MILLS, Chairman

(See page 59 for the report of this committee as made to and accepted by the
Woman's Division of Christian Service.)

254 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Supply Work

By MRS. HARRY EARL WOOLEVER, Chairman

(See page 46)

GRENFELL once said after he had pulled a drowning boy out of the sea, "It's
fun to save life!" Supply Work is that. It is an expression of the "joy of
the Lord" which overflows in loving service and which does not count on appor-
tionment or pledge. Sending boxes of linens and furnishings to our homes,
schools, hospitals; stocking pantry shelves with canned fruits and vegetables;
sending clothes and toys to school children; giving cash for supplies so that
meager equipment may be improved, medicines may be provided, and, yes, folk
kept from starving as relief goes abroad — all this the Woman's Societies of
Christian Service have had the privilege of doing in Supply Work. In addition,
many preachers serving where poverty abounds and whose salaries have been
inadequate for their family needs have been aided by the boxes of clothing sent
as "ministerial supplies."

The statistical report by conferences follows and the conference officers are
urged to compare this report with last year's to see if there has been an increase
in Supply Work. In this time of shortage of goods of rationing and high prices,
our institutions at home and abroad are depending more than ever on supplies.
Indeed, the secretary of the Bureau of Medical Work has said, "Supply Work is
invaluable to this bureau, because with the present budgets and the greatly
increased cost of everything connected with hospitals, it would be impossible
to meet daily needs unless we had this supplementary help." Other executive
secretaries have echoed her statement.

What are a few of the specific things made possible by Supply Work? This
last Christmas, as the year before, Methodist women were asked to send gifts to
the Japanese-American children in the relocation camps. To date, $1,998.92 has
been received for this purpose in addition to numerous boxes of gifts sent direct
to the camps. Letters of gratitude have come from pastors and workers in the
camps because through these gifts somewhat of the Christmas joy was brought
to hundreds of lonely children.

Through cash for supplies, an air-mail edition of World Outlook has been sent
to mission stations in Free China. Such statements as this have come from the
missionaries: "We have been thrilled this week with an air-mail edition of the
World Outlook. Having been without home papers or magazines for three years,
we are most grateful — and it will be shared."

In one of our children's homes, laundry equipment was old and worn-out
and entirely inadequate. Workers were spending valuable time and energy in
doing what machines should do. Supply Work by providing new equipment is
conserving the strength of workers for more constructive tasks.

A missionary in Cawnpore, India, asked for $30 to buy 100 hymnbooks. She
had been given a little portable organ by a friend and she wished to go to dif-
ferent sections of the city for "sings." She wrote: "Many of the women and
children can't get out to church for the lack of money to pay the present high
rate for tongas and they would welcome an evening of hymn singing. If this
gift can be managed I don't know of anything that would bring joy to a greater
number of people." Through Supply Work the gift was "managed."

Through cash for relief, it is no exaggeration to say that hundreds of lives
have been saved in China.

These are but brief glimpses of what the women of the local societies have
been enabled to do through the "over and above" gift for Supply Work. During
the year further glimpses have been given through The Methodist Woman and
through the Supply-O-Gram, a news sheet which was sent to every society.

Jurisdiction, conference, district, and local Supply Work secretaries have
worked loyally to make the results tabulated on the next pages possible.

Reports of Standing Committees

255

SUPPLY WORK BY CONFERENCES

Conferences

For Home

Mission
Institutions

For Foreign

Mission
Institutions

For

Ministerial

Aid

Total
(Value and
Cash)

Northeastern Jurisdiction — ■

$4,765.96
2,505.32
1,189.78
3,036.64
2,077.49

211.49
1,484.73

977.26
95.92
3,680.04
1,223.24
1,623.08
3,893.68

421.26
1,013.42
10,254.29
5,052.02
2,173.80
4,549.14
7,271.59

$1,286.05
481.48
549.25
909.25
644.71
150.21
45.00
43.00

$6,052.01

$15.72
75.00

3,002.52

1,814.03

3,945.89

210.43

24.00

1.08

62.54

1.50

2,932.63

385.70

1,520.81

1,082.80

97.42

347.00
657.48
408.40
320.48
87.75
208.20
703.00
924.91
222.35
1,094.76
392.04

4,027.04

1,880.72

186.13
1.68

2,217.61

4,215.84

509.01

1,221.62

1,617.54

64.16

5.06

118.93

50.60

12,574.83

6,041.09

2,401.15

5,762.83

7,714.23

Total

$57,500.15

$789.04
3,881.21
2,057.75
1,606.06
1,232.13
3,457.91
1,492.35
2,308.69

663.88
4,098.16

891.97
1,063.56
3,098.83
1,483.73
1,038.52
1,760.58
2,332.02

$9,475.32

' $96.97

3,060.02

531.39

73.76

710.01

223.99

$2,434.31

$98.60
54.00
96.25
159.18

1,160.48
366.74
118.30

1,330.17
46.50
359.77
290.87
189.88
312.49

2,304.13
698.84
248.81
473.83

$69,409.78

Southeastern Jurisdiction —

$984.61

6,995.23

2,685.39

1,839.00

3,102.62

4,048.64

1,610.65

688.84
723.88

2,037.95
503.21
621.68

1,360.08

34.25

278.62

2,735.49

2,564.66

4,327.70

1,434.26

6,495.88

1,686.05

1,875.12

4,771.40

3,822.11

2,015.98

4,744.88

5,370.51

Total

$33,256.39

$60.00
56.34
36.87

445 . 95

$16,244.80

$20.00
19.00

$8,308.84

$57,810.03

Central Jursldcition —

$80.00

75 . 34

36.87

43.00

488.95

173.29

505 . 98

80.76

33 . 00

30.00

4.00

206.29

535.98

$10.00

94.76

184.10

71.85

353.24

18.00

7.00

68.00

166.55

3.50

255.00

2.50

59.50
2.50

243.60

74.35

353.24

18.00

7.00

2.50
10.00

70.50

176.55

3.50

24.50
25.00

279.50

27.50

Total

$2,488.93

$939.48
4,841.84
6,236.93
4,099.77
4,788.44
2,925.57
1,379.46

$273.00

$139.39
1,130.80
688.87
1,174.90
537.63
427.40
164.50

$10.00

$2,771.93

North Central Jurisdiction —

$1,078.87

Detroit

$75.73
12.70

6,048.37

6,938.50

5,274.67

194.84

337.31

95.14

5.520.91

3,690.28

1,639.10

256

Woman's Division of Christian Service

Supply Work by Conferences — Continued

Conferences

North Central Jurisdiction— Cont.

North Dakota

North Indiana

North- East Ohio

Northern Minnesota

Northwest Indiana

Northwest Iowa

Ohio

Rock River

Southern Illinois

Upper Iowa

West Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Total.

South Central Jurisdiction —

Central Kansas

Central Texas

East Oklahoma

Kansas

Little Rock

Louisiana

Missouri

Nebraska

New Mexico

North Arkansas

North Texas

Northwest Texas

St. Louis

Southwest Missouri

Southwest Texas

Texas

West Oklahoma

Total .

Western Jurisdiction —

California

Colorado

Idaho

Montana

Oregon

Pacific Northwest

Southern California- Arizona .

Utah Mission

Wyoming State

Total .

Grand Totals $232,366.40

For Home

Mission
Institutions

$334.50
4,471.86

10,162.21
2,516.56
2,089.61
2,239.53

12,117.07
4,136.61
2,940.83
1,691.34
803 . 24
1,512.95

$70,227.80

$1,685.32
3,091.14
979.43
2,324.15
1,524.56
4,675.52
1,256.40
3,063.69
1,303.02
1,025.30
2,693.65
3,776.16
3,739.05
4,913.65
3,814.30
3,474.36
3,010.90

$46,350.60

$2,107.60

1,925.73

329.65

814.12

2 , 283 . 60

1,492.14

13,417.69

58.75

113.25

$22,542.53

For Foreign

Mission
Institutions

$114.85
467.20
916.74
279.19
210.35
135.74
891.41
166.75
417.87
142.00
28.40
388.45

,422.44

$955 . 36
384.49
283.41
436.85
489.25

1,714.90
124.40
586.66
463.50
914.77
893 . 46

1,051.57
296.89
458.70
977.22

1,728.46

1,035.66

$12,795.55

$858.41
471.97
13.50
211.95
360.95
613.38
1,321.33

10.85

$3,862.34
$51,073.45

For

Ministerial

Aid

$164.89

310.92

15.00

75.95

3.00

47.37

220.58

260.89

222.34

$2,036.66

$43.00
747.12
515.06
3.50
764.58
25.00

40.43
236.37
778.82
180.87

82.98

462.60
106.31

$3,986.64
$84.69

75.00

i^so'

$172.19
$16,948.64

Total

(Value and

Cash)

$449.35
5,103.95

11,389.87
2,810.75
2,375.91
2,378.27

13.055.85
4,523.94
3,619.59
1,833.34
831.64
2,123.74

$80,686.90

$2,683.68
4,222.75
1,777.90
2,764.50
2,778.39
6,415.42
1,380.80
3,650.35
1,806.95
2,176.44
4,365.93
5,008.60
4,118.92
5,372.35
4,791.52
5,665.42
4,152.87

$63,132.79

$3,050.70

2,397.70

418.15

1,026.07

2,644.55

2,118.02

14,739.02

58.75

124.10

$26,577.06
$300,388.49

Wesleyan Service Guild

{Continued from page 2^1)

The Guild feels the following responsibility in increasing Guild membership
today:

1. Organizing the active employed women of the church into a unit of the
Guild, taking none away from the present membership of the local Woman's
Society.

2. Interesting and securing as Guild members the employed women of the
church constituency who have no contacts with the Woman's Society.

3. Bringing into the Guild fellowship:

a. Young employed women just starting their careers.

b. Mature unchurched employed women in the community.

This is our largest and most necessary work today.

Reports of Standing Committees 257

The World Federation of Methodist Women

By MRS. J. W. MILLS, Vice-President, Chairman
(See page 60 for recommendations and plans for 1944)

THE Standing Committee on the World Federation of Methodist Women met
December 5, at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Most of the members were
present, and a number of interested guests.

Mrs. Franklin Reed, Vice-President of the World Federation, was present
and presented plans for the quadrennial meeting of the World Federation which
will be held in Kansas City at the time of the General Conference. War condi-
tions will limit the attendance of delegates from many foreign units, and will
affect the type of program, but a business and inspirational meeting will be held
according to Disciplinary provisions. Officers will be elected at that time.

Plans for the year were discussed. These were thoughtful and creative.
Some were rejected, and some adopted. Recommendations were formulated for
presentation to the Woman's Division for use in all of Methodism.

Time was given to the consideration of the joint recommendation of the
Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the Com-
mittee on Spiritual Life, and the World Federation of Methodist Women. This
brought sincere satisfaction, as it showed the unity of purpose of the various
lines of work of the Woman's Division. (See Items 2, 3, and 4 of the report of the
committee.) Miss Van Hooser presented a recommendation regarding the needs
of children in war devastated lands (Item 3 report) and spoke to this recom-
mendation, which was most appropriate in this connection.

The report from India was gratifying. This had been compiled by Mrs.
Chitambar, and copies sent to the members of the standing committee by Mrs.
Nicholson.

An inspiring report came from Uruguay, with a list of what their funds
had been directed to, and said their aim was to "do better every year"!

The committee sincerely appreciates the space and interesting reports which
The Methodist Woman and World Outlook give to the work of the many units
around the world.

Small leaflets will appear soon, one giving quotations from letters from men
in the service who have seen Methodist missions at first hand. Missionary
mothers glow with pride over the appreciation expressed about the results of
work which they have been trying to advance for many years. Another is
planned on our offering, or membership obligation, for the support of the World
Federation. This is stated as "The smallest coin of the realm." This gift toward
the advancement of the work of missions is sacredly laid aside by the women
of some of the smallest countries. We realize that sacrificial giving has been
a strong link in the development of the work around the world.

A gift of $25 was sent to the Woman's Division by the youth member of
this committee, Mrs. Andersen, the former Frances Gold, now a war wife teach-
ing school, which prevented her attendance at the Board meeting.

Children's Work

(Continued from page 244)

to bring about better results. The Department of Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, of which the secretary of children's work is now a
member as it functions in the local church, is leading out in a program of study
and action, especially in the area of Christian family life, that should have marked
results.

Increased Need for Development of Good Will

From home and school and community come statements that reveal a growing
concern for the mounting attitudes of prejudice, intolerance, and hatred on the
part of children, and a call to the Christian church to help children develop good
will toward others now as a preparation to live in a democratic postwar world.
Only the church and the Christian home can cause the creation and steady devel-
opment of attitudes of universal friendliness and good will that are so necessary
in the war-torn world of the present time.

Extracts from the Constitution of the Board of
Missions and Church Extension

Relating to the Woman's Division

(See Discipline, pages 290-295)

11 916. Art. 3. — Board of Managers. The management and disposition of the affairs
of the Board, the making and administration of appropriations, and all other activities,
shall be vested in a Board of Managers.

^ 917. The Board of Managers shall be composed as follows: 1. All effective
bishops of The Methodist Church resident in the United States of America; 2. Members
elected quadrennially by the Jurisdiction Conferences; one minister and three lay
members, two of whom shall be women, from each Jurisdiction for each 450,000 mem-
bers, or major fraction thereof, in the Jurisdiction, and in addition one young man and
one young woman under twenty-five years of age, from each Jurisdiction; provided,
that no Jurisdiction, in addition to its effective bishops, shall have fewer than two
ministers and six lay members, four of whom shall be women, and in addition two youth
members, one man and one woman, under twenty-five years of age. In nominating
and electing such members the Jurisdiction Conference shall have as a basis for choice
the following: (a) One minister and one layman designated by each Annual Confer-
ence of the Jurisdiction, on nomination of its Board of Missions and Church Extension;
(b) twice the necessary number of lay members who shall be designated by the
Woman's Jurisdiction Society from the three members nominated by each Conference
Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Jurisdiction; (c) and one young man and
one young woman from those nominated by the Youth Organization of each Annual
Conference in the Jurisdiction. Vacancies in the Board of Managers shall be filled
by the bishops of the Jurisdiction in which the vacancies occur ad interim, having regard
to the various classifications of members.

The Board, on nomination of the Division of Foreign Missions and the Division
of Home Missions and Church Extension, is authorized to elect quadrennially not to
exceed twelve lay men, two from each Jurisdiction, for each Division, who shall serve
as advisory members of the Board.

The Board, on nomination of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, is author-
ized to elect quadrennially not to exceed twenty-four women, four from each Jurisdic-
tion, for the Division, who shall serve as advisory members of the Board.

^1" 919. The Board of Managers shall elect quadrennially a president, who shall be
the presiding officer, a vice-president for each of the administrative Divisions, each
one to be nominated by the respective Divisions, and a vice-president for the Joint
Division of Education and Cultivation, a recording secretary, and such other officers
as it may need. Their duties shall be those usually performed by such officers. The
Board may also elect annually such committees as may be necessary to carry on its
business.

If 920. The Board shall elect quadrennially, upon nomination of the respective
Divisions, a General Executive Committee of forty-nine members; twelve members
from the Division of Foreign Missions, three of whom shall be women; twelve members
from the Division of Home Missions and Church Extension, three of whom shall be
women; twelve women from the Woman's Division of Christian Service; twelve mem-
bers, six men and six women, from the Division of Education and Cultivation. A
majority of the members of the General Executive Committee shall constitute a
quorum. The president of the Board shall be a member of and the chairman of the
Executive Committee. This General Executive Committee shall exercise the powers
of the Board ad interim.

258

Constitution and By-laws 259

2. For the more efficient performance of its duties the General Executive Commit-
tee shall constitute from its own body four subcommittees on (1) Foreign Missions;
(2) Home Missions and Church Extension ; (3) Woman's Division of Christian Service ;
(4) Education and Cultivation. These subcommittees, with such additional members
as each Division may determine, and with the respective Executive Secretaries of the
Divisions as ex-officio members, when approved by the Board or its General Executive
Committee, shall be designated as Executive Committees of the respective Divisions.
These subcommittees shall have such powers as the Executive Committee shall delegate
to them.

ff921. Art. 4. The duties of the Board shall be:

1. To have the general oversight of the Missionary and Church Extension program
of The Methodist Church, with special reference to its development and expansion.

2. To determine the broad lines of policy and program and, through the respective
Divisions, to carry out the program.

3. To safeguard for each Division the fullest measure of autonomy consistent with
presenting a united front and a mutually-supported program.

4. To foster, as between the respective Divisions, united fellowship, planning, and
action.

5. Upon recommendation of the Divisions, to determine fields to be occupied and
the nature of the work to be undertaken; to secure, appropriate, and expend money
for the support of all work under its care ; to build and maintain churches, hospitals,
homes, schools, parsonages, and other institutions of Christian Service; and to enlist,
train, and support the workers.

6. To elect, on nomination of the Divisions, and commission the Executive Officers
of the respective Divisions.

7. To receive and properly administer all properties and trust funds coming into
the possession of the Board as a Board for missionary or other purposes, except as
hereinafter provided.

8. To assist in the organization of and in the maintenance of co-operative relations
with the boards, committees, and other agencies of the General Conference; also with
■the Jurisdiction, Central, and Annual Conference Boards, committees, and agencies;
likewise with interdenominational and other missionary agencies in the home and for-
eign fields.

9. To make a report of its activities during the quadrennium to the General Con-
ference and the Jurisdiction Conferences.

t[923. Art 5. — Divisions. The Board shall conduct its activities through three
Administrative Divisions and a Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, namely:
(1) Division of Foreign Missions; (2) Division of Home Missions and Church Exten-
sion; (3) Woman's Division of Christian Service; (4) Joint Division of Education and
Cultivation.

TT 924. Art. 6. — Executive Secretaries. The Board shall elect quadrennially one or
more executive secretaries for each of the three Administrative Divisions and two
(one man and one woman) for the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, with
such assistance as the needs of the work may require. Said secretaries shall be nomi-
nated by their respective Divisions, and shall be elected by the Board.

These secretaries shall have co-ordinate power. They shall be subject to the
direction of the Board and of their respective Divisions. Upon the recommendation
of the Divisions their salaries shall be fixed and paid as the Board may determine.
They shall be employed exclusively in the work of the Board, promoting its activities
as the Board may approve. These executive secretaries shall be members ex officio
of the Board.

H925. Art. 7. — Treasurers. The Board shall elect quadrennially a treasurer for
the Division of Foreign Missions, a treasurer for the Division of Home Missions and
Church Extension, and a treasurer for the Woman's Division of Christian Service,
upon nomination by the respective Divisions. On recommendation of the treasurers,
the Board shall designate from time to time one of the Division treasurers to receive
and handle general funds of the Board not belonging to any one Division and to act
as the legal financial representative of the Board in matters affecting the Board as a
whole.

260 Woman's Division of Christian Service

Constitution of the Woman's Division of Christian Service

(See Discipline, pages 321-324)

Article I

Organization

Sec. 1. Within the Board there shall be a Woman's Division of Christian Service,
hereinafter called the Division, which shall be one of the co-ordinate administrative
Divisions of the Board.

Sec. 2. The Division shall be incorporated as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. The Division shall be composed of all the women members of the Board,
one bishop from each Jurisdiction and one third of the youth members of the Board.
This Division may nominate for election by the Board quadrennially not to exceed
twenty-four women, four from each Jurisdiction, who shall serve as advisory members
of the Division and of the Board. The Division shall hold a regular Annual Meeting
and such other meetings as shall be called by the Division or the Executive Committee.

Sec. 4. The Woman's Division shall include in its scope the interests and activities
formerly promoted and administered by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the
Woman's Home Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Service Guild, the Ladies' Aid
Societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; the types of work and interests included
in the Board of Missions, Section of Woman's Work, the Woman's Missionary Council
and former boards and societies (the Woman's Missionary Society, the Woman's Board
of Foreign Missions, and the Woman's Board of Home Missions) of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South; such activities of the Woman's Convention of the Methodist
Protestant Church as logically fall within the organization and all deaconess work
of the uniting churches within the United States. All other organizations of women
of similar purpose operating in the charges of the uniting churches may come under
the scope of this Division.

Article II

Authority

The Division shall have authority to make by-laws in harmony with the charter
and constitution of the Board and of its Divisions; to regulate its own proceedings in
harmony with its by-laws; to nominate its necessary officers; to recommend the re-
moval of any officer for cause and to nominate persons to fill vacancies among the
officers; to recommend fields of labor; to accept, train, and maintain workers; to
buy and sell property; to secure and administer funds for the support of all work
under its charge; to solicit and accept contributions subject to annuity under the
Board's regulations; to prepare and recommend to the Board appropriations for its
work; to organize Jurisdiction, Conference, District, and Local Church Societies for
adults, young people, and children as auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Christian
Service, and to recommend constitutions and by-laws for the same.

Article III

Purpose

The purpose of the Woman's Division shall be to develop and maintain Christian
work among women and children at home and abroad; to cultivate Christian family
life; to enlist and organize the efforts of Christian women, young people, and children
in behalf of native and foreign groups, needy childhood, and community welfare; to
assist in the promotion of a missionary spirit throughout the church ; to select, train,
and maintain Christian workers; to co-operate with the local church in its responsi-
bilities, and to seek fellowship with Christian women of this and other lands in estab-
lishing a Christian social order around the world.

Article IV

Officers

The Division shall nominate a vice-president of the Board who shall be president
of the Division. It shall also nominate for election by the Board its executive and other

Constitution and By-laws 261

secretaries, its treasurer or treasurers, editor, publication manager, and other officers.
Vacancies shall be filled on nomination of the Division. Such other secretaries and
officers as the Division may need it shall provide. The Division shall determine the
powers and duties of its officiary and the remuneration of any employed officers and
workers.

Departments

(See Discipline, pages 324-327)

Article I
Organization

(1) The Division shall be organized into three Departments:

(a) Department of Work in Foreign Fields.

(b) Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

(2) There shall be such bureaus, committees, and other organizational units in
each Department as shall best promote its interest. The function of these, other than
hereinafter determined, shall be defined by the Division.

(3) The Division shall elect a chairman for each of the Departments, who shall
be vice-presidents of the Division.

(4) There shall be a secretary or secretaries in each Department. The number and
duties of the secretaries shall be determined and defined by the Division.

Article II

The Department of Work in Foreign Fields shall be an administrative Department
and shall promote the work of missions outside the United States of America, Alaska,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. (1) There shall be a Standing
Committee, composed of the executive secretary or secretaries of the Department of
Work in Foreign Fields and the Jurisdiction representatives of the Department of
Work in Foreign Fields. (2) There shall be an Inter-Division Committee on Foreign
Work with equal representation from the Department of Work in Foreign Fields, and
the Division of Foreign Missions, which shall consider policies, programs, and esti-
mates which come from the Field Committees to the respective Divisions. (See Par.
944.) They shall report their recommendations regarding correlation and co-ordination
to the Divisions or the Board.

Article III

The Department of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Dominican Republic shall be an administrative Department and shall
supervise and promote the Home Missionary Work of the Division. (1) This Depart-
ment shall have a Standing Committee, composed of the executive secretary and
secretaries of the Department and the Jurisdiction representatives of the Department
of Work in the United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Do-
minican Republic, on work in Home Fields. (2) This committee, in conjunction with
a Standing Committee in the Division of Home Missions and Church Extension, shall
constitute an Inter-Division Committee on Home Work which shall co-ordinate and
correlate the programs and policies in the home fields. (See Par. 986.) (3) In the
Department of Work in Home Fields there shall be a Bureau of Deaconess Work.

Article IV

The Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities shall
supervise and promote the work of the Division along the lines of community service
and social relations.

It shall seek to make real and effective the teachings of Jesus as applied to indi-
vidual, class, racial, and national relationships. It shall endeavor to enlist the partici-
pation of church women in such questions as have a moral or religious significance or
an important bearing on public welfare.

262 Woman's Division of Christian Service

It shall seek to inspire in the women of the local church a greater devotion to its
spiritual interests; to co-operate with its educational agencies, and to develop Christian
fellowship and concern for the financial responsibilities of the church.

Article V

1. The Division shall be empowered to create such bureaus and committees as
the work may demand. There shall be an Executive Committee, a Committee on Mis-
sionary Personnel, a Committee on Trust Funds and Investments, a Committee on
Finance and Estimates. There shall also be a Standing Committee on the World
Federation of Methodist Women.

2. The cultivation and promotion of the work of the Woman's Division and its
auxiliary organizations shall be under the direction of the Division, the plans and
policies for the same shall be carried out by the woman secretary or secretaries of
the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation.

3. The Woman's Division, working through the Inter-Board Committee on Mis-
sionary Education, is authorized to co-operate in the missionary education for young
women, girls, and children in accordance with plans to be determined by the Board of
Missions and Church Extension and the Board of Education.

Article VI

The funds for the maintenance of the work of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service shall be derived from annual pledges or dues, special memberships, devises,
bequests, annuities, special offerings, gifts, and moneys raised by special projects or
collected in meetings held in the interest of the work of the Division; provided, that
the funds thus raised shall be appropriated to the work established by the several
uniting organizations comprising the Woman's Division, or work hereafter to be
entered upon by the Woman's Division. All funds, except those designated for local
purposes, shall be forwarded through the Conference treasurers of the Woman's So-
cieties of Christian Service to the treasurer of the Woman's Division of the Board.
All undesignated funds shall be allocated by the Division upon recommendation of
its Committee on Finance and Estimates on a definite percentage basis to the work
of the several departments of the Division.

The Assembly

(See Discipline, page 327)

There shall be a delegated body termed the Assembly which shall meet at such
time and place as the Division may determine. The purpose of the Assembly shall
be to promote and deepen interest in the work of the Woman's Division. The Division
shall determine the composition, functions, and power of the Assembly.

The Bureau of Deaconess Work

(See Discipline, pages 327-330)

1. The office of deaconess is hereby authorized in The Methodist Church.

(a) All deaconess work in foreign fields shall be under the supervision of the
Central Conferences or Provisional Central Conferences concerned. All deaconess
work in Europe shall be under the supervision of the Central Conferences or Pro-
visional Central Conferences in Europe.

(b) All deaconess work in the United States and its dependencies shall be under
the supervision of the Bureau of Deaconess Work of the Woman's Division of Chris-
tian Service.

2. All properties, trust funds, permanent funds, other special funds, and endow-
ments now held and administered by or for the several forms of administration of
deaconess work under the three uniting churches shall be carefully safeguarded and
administered by the several forms of administration in the interest of those persons
and causes for which said funds were established.

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3. The Bureau of Deaconess Work shall be composed of a bishop, chosen by the
Council of Bishops, the secretaries of the Department of Home Missions of the
Woman's Division, and secretaries of the Deaconess Bureau, and two persons chosen
by each Jurisdiction Deaconess Association, one of whom shall be a deaconess member
of that Association, and the other an officer of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society of
Christian Service.

4. Candidates. A candidate shall meet the following requirements: She shall be
a woman having the necessary qualifications, who has been led by the Holy Spirit
to devote herself to full-time service of the church. She shall be a member of The
Methodist Church in good standing, between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-five,
and shall have shown fitness for such service by some form of active Christian work.
She shall be recommended by the Quarterly Conference of the charge of which she
is a member. She shall have completed the required course in a standard high school,
and at least two years of accredited college work or its scholastic equivalent, and shall
have had two years of specialized preparation in an accredited training school, college,
or other educational institution approved by the bureau.

5. A sabbatical year, a part of which shall be spent in special study, may be granted
with full or part salary upon recommendation of the secretary of the Bureau of
Deaconess Work and the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association. Annuity credit is granted
for each sabbatical year.

6. Awaiting Appointment. A deaconess, on recommendation of the Conference
Deaconess Board and with the approval of the Bureau of Deaconess Work, may be
so listed for the following reasons: (a) Pending transfer between Conferences or Juris-
dictions; (b) For attendance at school or special training previous to eligibility for
sabbatical leave; (c) Other reasons which may be approved by the Bureau of Deaconess
Work; (d) Annuity credit is granted for the time during which a deaconess is listed
as awaiting appointment.

7. (a) A deaconess shall be retired at the age of sixty-five, unless by a two-thirds
vote of the Association her term of service is lengthened, and shall receive a pension
proportioned to her years of service. The Pension Plan for deaconesses shall go into
effect at the time of the organization of the Board and of the respective Divisions.

(b) The Woman's Division of Christian Service, through the Bureau of Deaconess
Work, shall seek to increase the Deaconess Pension Funds by contributions, bequests,
and otherwise.

8. Temporary Relief. A deaconess who is compelled to cease her work temporarily
because of illness shall be suitably provided for in such manner as shall be determined
by the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

9. A deaconess uniform shall be prescribed, but the wearing of it shall be optional.

Jurisdiction Deaconess Association

(See Discipline, page 330)

1. All deaconesses working in Annual Conferences, Provisional Annual Conferences,
or missions of the Jurisdiction shall be members of the Association. The Association
shall elect its own officers.

2. One bishop, elected by the bishops of the Jurisdiction, one minister from each
Conference, elected by the Conference, and the president of each Conference Woman's
Society of Christian Service of the Jurisdiction shall be members of the Association.

3. The Jurisdiction Deaconess Association shall recommend to the Burean of Dea-
coness Work the transfer of deaconesses to and from its Jurisdiction. It shall also
recommend deaconesses who are eligible for retirement or relief. It shall recommend
the renewal of certificates or licenses of deaconesses annually to the Bureau of Dea-
coness Work and shall make a report to this bureau. It shall recommend to the
Committee on Missionary Personnel of the Woman's Division all applicants for
deaconess work.

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Annual Conference Deaconess Boards

(See Discipline, pages 330-331)

1. Annual Conference Deaconess Boards shall be set up in all Conferences where
five or more deaconesses are working; Annual Conference Deaconess Boards may be
set up in all Conferences where fewer than five deaconesses are working. All licensed
deaconesses of the Conference shall be members of the Conference Deaconess Board.
Superintendents of Districts in which there is deaconess work, or effective elders as
alternates, two representatives of the Conference Society of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service, and at least one nondeaconess representative from each deaconess
institution within the bounds of the Conference shall also be members of the Confer-
ence Board. It shall approve annually the standing of all deaconesses within the Con-
ference and report the same to the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association.

The Conference Deaconess Board shall have supervision of all deaconess work
within the bounds of the Conference, subject to the approval of the Bureau of Dea-
coness Work.

Annual Conference Deaconess Boards may employ workers who are not deaconesses
as the needs may demand.

2. The Conference Deaconess Board shall have authority to license deaconesses
who have been recommended by the Bureau of Deaconess Work, approve annually
their standing as deaconesses, arrange for their consecration at the Annual Conference
by the presiding bishop, and transfer deaconesses from one Annual Conference to an-
other within the Jurisdiction. This provision shall not apply where the deaconess is
otherwise appointed or consecrated. Officers and committees shall be elected as the
needs of the work require. The Conference Deaconess Board shall meet annually.

3. The appointment of deaconesses to their respective fields of labor shall be made
by the bishop presiding at the Annual Conference upon recommendation of the Con-
ference Deaconess Board of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association.

4. The minutes of the Conference Deaconess Board shall be reported to the Annual
Conference for publication in the Conference Journal, to the Jurisdiction Deaconess
Association, and to the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

5. All deaconesses shall receive financial compensation on either an allowance or
a salary basis, the minimum of which shall be fixed by the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

Constitution
of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian Service

(Amendments Not Effective This Quadrennium)

(See Discipline, pages 332-333)

Article I

Name

There shall be in each Jurisdiction a Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian
Service auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Mis-
sions and Church Extension.

Article II
Function or Authority

Each Jurisdiction Woman's Society shall have authority to promote its work in
accordance with the program and policy of the Woman's Division of the Board ^ of
Missions and Church Extension. It shall also recommend to the Woman's Division
of Christian Service such plans and policies as will make the work within the Juris-
diction more effective.

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Article III

Membership

The Jurisdiction Woman's Society shall be composed of its officers and from three
to six delegates from each Conference Society within the Jurisdiction, three of whom
shall be Conference officers; all the women members of the Jurisdiction Board of
Missions and Church Extension and any members of the Woman's Division of Chris-
tian Service living within the Jurisdiction, a representative of the Jurisdiction Deaconess
Association, and two bishops chosen by the bishops of the Jurisdiction. The secretaries
of the Jurisdiction Board of Missions and Church Extension and one secretary from
the Jurisdiction Board of Education may be members of the Jurisdiction Woman's
Society.

Article IV

Officers

Each Jurisdiction Woman's Society shall elect a president and one or more vice-
presidents, a recording secretary, a treasurer, a secretary of Foreign Work, a secretary
of Home Work, a secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities,
a secretary of Organization and Promotion, a secretary of Missionary Education and
Service, a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, a secretary of Student Work, a
secretary of Youth Work, a secretary of Children's Work, a secretary of Literature and
Publications, a secretary of Supply Work, and a secretary of Spiritual Life. These officers
shall be elected at its first meeting of the Woman's Society following the meeting of
the Jurisdiction Conference. Other officers, superintendents, and secretaries may be
elected and such committees appointed as the work may demand in accordance with
the plans of the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

Article V

Election

Officers shall be elected at the first meeting of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society
following the meeting of the Jurisdiction Conference, for a term of four years, with
the privilege of re-election for one additional term in the same office. This term of
office applies to all officers except the treasurer, who may be re-elected to the same
office for more than one additional term.

Article VI

Annual Meetings

Each Jurisdiction Woman's Society shall meet annually at such time and place
as it may determine. A majority shall constitute a quorum.

The Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service

(See Discipline, page 333)

In each Annual Conference there shall be organized a Conference Woman's Society
of Christian Service auxiliary to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society and the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

The District Woman's Society of Christian Service

(See Discipline, page 333)

There may be a District Woman's Society of Christian Service auxiliary to the
Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service.

The Woman's Society in the Local Church

(See Discipline, page 334)

There shall be a Woman's Society of Christian Service in every local church, aux-
iliary to the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service.

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Joint Division of Education and Cultivation

(See Discipline, page 334)

If 1007. Art 1. The Joint Division of Education and Cultivation shall be com-
posed of six bishops, one from each Jurisdiction; six men and two women from the
Division of Foreign Missions, elected by that Division; six men and two women
from the Division of Home Missions and Church Extension, elected by that Division;
eight women from the Woman's Division of Christian Service, elected by that Division.
In all these selections there must be due regard to equitable representation from the
Jurisdictions. This Division shall undergird with education and cultivation the total
program of the Board.

If 1008. Art. 2. The Division shall edit, publish, sell, and circulate books, litera-
ture, and periodicals for the work of the Board and shall be responsible for editing
and preparing the same. It shall co-operate with the Board of Education and all
agencies of The Methodist Church and with interdenominational agencies in the prep-
aration and distribution of missionary literature.

If 1009. Art. 3. The Division shall promote Missionary Councils, Conventions,
Institutes, an Annual Week of Prayer, and other meetings throughout the church
for the purpose of developing a missionary spirit, spreading missionary information,
and acquainting the church with the plans and policies of the Board. The Division
shall seek the co-operation of Jurisdiction and Annual Conferences, district superin-
tendents, pastors, missionary societies, and other agencies of the church.

If 1010. _ Art. 4. _ The Division shall have charge of all plans for cultivating mis-
sionary giving, placing missionary specials, and for promoting the missionary program
of the church; provided, however, that all such plans shall be subject to and in har-
mony with the general financial system of The Methodist Church as adopted by the
General Conference.

If 1011. Art. 5. The Division shall co-operate with the Inter-Board Committee
on Missionary Education.

If 1012. Art. 6. The Division shall also co-operate with Theological Seminaries
and Departments of Missions in the conduct of Missionary Institutes in such institu-
tions, and shall develop other plans for affording information and inspiration to students.

If 1013. Art. 7. The woman secretaries and woman editors of this Division shall
carry out the plans and policies of the Woman's Division of Christian Service in
promoting organizations for the various age groups in local churches, Districts, Con-
ferences, and Jurisdictions; in providing missionary education for woman's, young
women's, girls', and children's societies; in creating, editing, and publishing such peri-
odicals, books, and leaflets as the work of the societies may necessitate. This Division
shall co-operate in all plans necessary for the efficiency of the Woman's Christian
Service Societies in the Jurisdictions, Conferences, Districts, and churches.

If 1014. The Division shall nominate for election by the Board its executive and other
secretaries, and such other officers as the Division may determine. Vacancies shall
be filled by the Board on nomination of the Division. The Division shall determine
the powers and duties of its officers and staff and shall recommend the remuneration
of its employed officers and workers.

If 1015. There shall be an annual meeting of the Division, and it may meet at such
other times as the chairman may designate.

If 1016. The funds for the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation shall be
appropriated by the Board and charged proportionately to the three administrative
Divisions.

Co-operation With Other Boards and Agencies

(See Discipline, pages 337-340)
A. Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign Fields

If 1019. For the purpose of more effectively promoting religious education outside
the United States there shall be a Joint Committee on Religious Education in Foreign

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Fields, composed of the executive secretary of the Division of the Local Church of
the Board of Education and seven other persons appointed by the Division ; an exec-
utive secretary of the Division of Foreign Missions of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension and three other persons appointed by the Division, and an execu-
tive secretary of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension and three other persons appointed by the Division.

1f 1020. There may be an executive secretary of the Joint Committee who shall
be secretary of the Board of Missions and Church Extension for Religious Education
in countries outside the United States. The secretary shall be elected by the Board
of Missions and Church Extension upon nomination of the Joint Committee.

1 1021. The Joint Committee shall meet annually, and at such other times as the
committee shall itself determine, and shall report its actions to the Boards of Educa-
tion and of Missions and Church Extension at their annual meetings.

If 1022. The committee shall have a budget for its work provided by the two
Boards. The major responsibility for the budget rests upon the Board of Missions and
Church Extension, supplemented by support from the Board of Education, in which
the World Comradeship Fund shall have a part.

B. Inter-Board Committee on Missionary Education

If 1023. For the purpose of promoting effective co-operation between the Board
of Missions and Church Extension and the Board of Education in missionary edu-
cation there shall be an Inter-Board Committee between the two Boards, composed
of the executive secretary of the Division of the Local Church, the executive secre-
tary of the Division of Church School Publications, the Educational Institutions of the
Board of Education, and five other persons to be appointed by that Board, and an
equal number from the Board of Missions and Church Extension which shall include
the following: The secretaries of the Division of Education and Cultivation; two
secretaries from the Division of Foreign Missions, two from the Division of Home
Missions and Church Extension, and two from the Woman's Division of Christian
Service, to be nominated by the several Divisions. The committee shall provide for
age-group subcommittees and such other subcommittees as may be needed. This
committee and its subcommittees shall be advisory and creative in character and not
promotional and administrative.

If 1024. The duties of this committee shall be : (a) To develop a unified program
of missionary education for all age groups in the local church and in the colleges,
universities, and theological seminaries; (b) to co-operate with the Curriculum Com-
mittee of the Board of Education in providing missionary information for church-
school literature and in the preparation of curriculum material on missions; (c) to
co-operate in the publication of books for missionary education in the church; (d) to
develop co-operative plans for the missionary education of children, young people,
and adults; and (e) to report annually to the Board of Missions and Church Exten-
sion and to the Board of Education. The promotion of plans and materials created
by this committee shall be a responsibility of the Board of Education and of the
Board of Missions and Church Extension.

TT 1025. There shall be an executive secretary of the committee, who shall be
elected by the Board of Education, on nomination of the Inter-Board Committee
on Missionary Education, and shall be confirmed by the Board of Missions and
Church Extension. He shall be the secretary for Missionary Education of the
Board of Education, with staff relationship to the Division of the local church. He
shall likewise be the secretary for Missionary Education of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension, having staff relationship to the Joint Division of Education
and Cultivation. The Inter-Board Committee shall have a budget provided for its
work by the two Boards upon such ratio as they may decide. In missionary education
the secretary and his departmental workers shall be the representatives equally of
the Board of Missions and Church Extension and of the Board of Education.

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By-laws of the Woman's Division of Christian Service

of the Board of Missions and Church Extension

of The Methodist Church

Article I
Meetings of the Division

Section 1. The Annual Meeting of the Division shall be held on a date to be
designated by the Division or by the Executive Committee of the Division and in
connection with the Annual Meeting of the Board of Missions and Church Extension.

The program of the Annual Meeting shall be prepared by the president, the vice-
president, and the recording secretary in consultation with the chairmen of the three
Departments and the chairman of the Section of Education and Cultivation.

Section 2. Special meetings of the Division may be called by the Executive Com-
mittee of the Division or by the president in consultation with the Administrative
Committee of the Executive Committee on ten days' notice.

Section 8. The following order of business is suggested for the Annual Meeting:

1. Devotional service

2. Calling of the roll

3. Appointment or election of special committees

4. Election of Annual Meeting committees for the Board.

5. Report of the president

6. Report of the vice-president

7. Report of the treasurer

8. Report of the chairmen and executive secretaries of Departments

9. Report of the chairman and secretaries of the Section of Education and
Cultivation

10. Report of standing committees:

Executive Committee

Committee on Spiritual Life

Committee on Literature and Publications

Committee on Finance and Estimates

Committee on Permanent Funds and Investments

Committee on Missionary Personnel

Committee on Library Service

Committee on Status of Women

Committee on Supply Work

Committee on Constitution and By-laws

Committee on Nominations

Committee on the World Federation of Methodist Women

11. Report of special committees

12. Unfinished business

13. New business

14. Approval of minutes

15. Adjournment

Section 4. The Quadrennial Organizational Meeting, using the order of business
suggested in Section 3, shall include the nomination of officers, advisory members of
the Board, Executive Committee members, and other committee members of the Board,
to be elected by the Board; the election of other officers of the Division; the organi-
zation of the Departments; the organization of the Section of Education and Cultiva-
tion; and the election and organization of standing committees.

Section 5. The majority of the members of the Division or of any group of the
Division shall constitute a quorum for the group concerned.

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Article II
Officers and Their Duties

Section 1. There shall be a president of the Division who will be nominated by
the Division to the Board as one of the vice-presidents of the Board. The president of
the Division shall be the president of the Assembly.

She shall preside at all meetings of the Division, of its Executive Committee and
of the Administrative Committee of the Executive Committee, and be an ex-offlcio
member of all committees of the Divisjfn. She shall be a member of the Executive
Committee of the Board and of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation.

She shall sign with the recording secretary all documents relating to the transfer
of real estate and all other legal papers not otherwise provided for and make affidavit
or acknowledgment that may be required or necessary thereto. With the responsible
officer, she shall sign all official documents, including notes.

She shall provide for the presentation of recommendations by the Division to the
Board and shall authorize the transmission of actions of the Division to the persons
or groups concerned, unless otherwise ordered. She shall represent the Division in
organizations or related meetings to which representation is not otherwise provided.

Section 2. There shall be a vice-president of the Division who shall be elected
by the Division at the Quadrennial Meeting. She shall actively aid in advancing the
work of the Division. In the absence of the president, she shall preside at the meetings
of the Division or of its Executive Committee.

Should the office of president become vacant, the vice-president shall assume the
duties of the office for the remainder of the year, or until the successor to the president
shall have been elected. She shall be vice-president of the Assembly and chairman
of the Standing Committee on the World Federation of Methodist Women.

Section S. There shall be a recording secretary of the Division, elected by the
Division at its Quadrennial Meeting. She shall give notice of all meetings of the
Division and of its Executive Committee, keep a permanent record of all proceedings,
send to each member of the Division a copy of the minutes of the Executive Com-
mittee, present all recommendations , of the Executive Committee to the Division,
notify .committees of their appointment, prepare and issue the Annual Report of the
Division in conjunction with a Committee on Annual Report and be responsible for
sending notices and reports of meetings to the church press, and shall sign documents
with other responsible officer or officers as authorized.

Section 4- There shall be a treasurer of the Division, nominated by the Division
and elected by the Board at the Quadrennial Meeting. She shall hold the funds of
the Division subject to authenticated drafts, and shall perform such other duties as
usually pertain to the office of the treasurer. She shall also be charged with the re-
sponsibility of receiving and holding all permanent funds, endowments, special funds,
and securities of the Division according to the regulations of the Division and the Board,
and shall properly disburse the returns therefrom. She shall be a member of the
Committee on Trust Funds and Investments. In consultation with the committee she
shall invest the funds entrusted to her care. She shall keep the funds for each depart-
ment separate. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 5. (1) There shall be an assistant treasurer for the funds of the Foreign
Department, nominated by the Division and elected annually by the Board. She shall
disburse the funds for this Department with the supervision of the treasurer, accord-
ing to the appropriations of the Woman's Division.

(2) There shall be an assistant treasurer for the funds of the Home Department,
nominated by the Division and elected annually by the Board. She shall disburse the
funds for this Department, with the supervision of the treasurer according to the ap-
propriations of the Woman's Division.

Section 6. There shall be a disbursing officer of the Division, nominated by the
Division and elected annually by the Board. She shall countersign all checks orig-
inating in the three Departments; she shall be vested with the responsibility of noting
that all withdrawals are supported by proper documentary evidence and approvals
thereon.

Section 7. There shall be one or more executive secretaries of the Department
of Work in Foreign Fields, nominated by the Division and elected by the Board at

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the Quadrennial Meeting. They shall administer the work of the Department. The
following division of fields is suggested:

(1) China, Central and South Africa

(2) Korea, Japan, and the Philippines

(3) India, Burma, and Malaya

(4) Latin America, Europe, and North Africa

The executive secretaries of the Department of Work in Foreign Fields shall
supervise and administer the work in the spe^d areas assigned to them in accordance
with the plans and policies of the Woman's Dmsion of Christian Service and the Board
of Missions and Church Extension. They shall be the official correspondents of the
Woman's Division with the missionary agencies, committees, and workers on these
fields. They shall study the needs of their respective fields and, through conferences
with missionaries and nationals, they shall seek to secure a first-hand knowledge of
the work. They shall represent to the Department the needs and opportunities in
their fields. They shall receive askings from the field committees and shall present
them annually to the Standing Committee on Finance and Estimates of the Division.
They shall co-operate with the bishops in charge of the fields, with the other secre-
taries of the department, and with the Division of Foreign Missions, and shall seek
to work out a unified policy of missionary administration on the fields.

The executive secretaries of the Department of Work in Foreign Fields shall
make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 8. There shall be one or more executive secretaries of the Department
of Work in the United States and Its Dependencies, nominated by the Division and
elected by the Board at the Quadrennial Meeting. They shall administer the work
of the department. The following bureaus are suggested:

1. Bureau of Educational Institutions

2. Bureau of Social Welfare and Medical Work

3. Bureau of Urban Work

4. Bureau of Town and Country Work

5. Bureau of Deaconess Work

(1) The secretary of the Bureau of Educational Institutions shall have general
supervision of and shall promote all the educational work of the Department of Work
in Home Fields except that which naturally falls in the Bureau of Social Welfare
and Medical Work. The responsibility of the bureau shall include work in schools,
colleges, Methodist dormitories on college campuses, chairs in church and state insti-
tutions, joint educational work with the Division of Home Missions, and with the
Board of Education; the work of student counselors appointed by the department,
and such other educational work as may be assigned to the bureau by the Division.
The secretary shall promote conferences and institutes for the workers in educational
institutions. She shall co-operate with the secretaries of the Division of Home Mis-
sions and Church Extension and with the Board of Education, in the conduct of
the work of the bureau.

(2) The secretary of the Bureau of Social Welfare and Medical Work shall have
general supervision of and shall promote all the specialized welfare institutions, hos-
pitals, and medical service of the Department of Work in Home Fields. The work
shall include co-operative homes, homes for the aged, deaconess and missionary rest
homes, child welfare institutions, special schools for the underprivileged and delinquent.
It shall include also the work of hospitals and medical centers, and such other social
welfare and medical work as may be developed or assigned to the bureau by the
Division. The secretary shall promote conferences and institutes for the workers in
these institutions for the study of the most approved methods of social and medical
welfare. She shall co-operate with the secretaries of the Division of Home Missions
and Church Extension and other agencies carrying on similar lines of work.

(3) The secretary of the Bureau of Urban Work shall have general supervision
of and shall promote the lines of work of the Department of Work in Home Fields
in towns and in cities of over 10,000 population. The responsibility of the bureau shall
include the work of Division, Jurisdiction, Conference, and local evangelistic and
welfare institutions, settlements, and other work which is supported wholly or in part
by the Woman's Division, exclusive of work assigned to other bureaus. She shall seek
to enlarge the scope of the work and shall conduct surveys and research studies of
urban conditions and needs. She shall promote conferences and institutes for the
workers and local board members. She shall co-operate with the secretaries of the

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Division of Home Missions and Church Extension and of other agencies carrying on
similar lines of work.

(4) The secretary of the Bureau of Town and Country Work shall have general
supervision of and shall promote the lines of work of the Department of Work in
Home Fields, in rural and industrial communities under 10,000 population which are
maintained in whole or in part by the Woman's Division, including rural settlements
and centers, and all other rural work to which rural workers of the department are
assigned. She shall seek to enlarge the scope of the work and shall conduct surveys
and research studies of rural conditions and needs. She shall promote conferences and
institutes for the rural workers and local board members in these projects. She shall
co-operate with the secretary of Town and Country Work of the Division of Home
Missions and Church Extension, with the Extension Department of the Board of
Education carrying on similar work, and with other agencies at work in this area of need.

The executive secretaries of Work in Home Fields shall make quarterly and annual
reports to the Division.

Section 9. There shall be an executive secretary for the Department of Christian
Social Relations and Local Church Activities, nominated by the Division and elected
by the Board at the Quadrennial Meeting. She shall seek to promote the work of
the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities through
Jurisdiction, Conference, and local societies. She shall have a consultative and advisory
relationship to the Department in its local church activities. She shall work through
the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation in making available materials for
study within the scope of the program of Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities. She shall co-operate with other organizations of the church; and, upon
the approval of the Division, with social agencies working toward similar ends.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of work done in Jurisdictions
and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 10. There shall be an executive secretary of the Section of Education and
Cultivation who shall be recommended by the Woman's Division to the Joint Division
for election by the Board at the Quadrennial Meeting as the executive secretary of
the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation. She shall
be responsible for the work of organization and promotion in the Woman's Division.
She shall co-operate with the three Departments of the Division in the promotion of
their work. She shall co-operate with the secretary of Missionary Education in edu-
cational work and with the secretaries of the Wesleyan Service Guild, Student Work,
Youth Work, and Children's Work in organization and promotion. She shall serve
on the Committee on Literature and Publications, and shall co-operate with the editor
or editors responsible for the creation of program and cultivation materials. The exec-
utive secretary shall be responsible for the cultivation of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service and for the creation of plans and methods for the extension of the
organization throughout the church in the United States. She shall recommend to
the Division such field workers as the needs of the work demand.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of work done in Jurisdictions
and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 11. There shall be a secretary of Missionary Education of the Section of
Education and Cultivation who shall be recommended by the Woman's Division to
the Joint Division for election by the Board at the Quadrennial Meeting as secretary
of Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division. She shall
co-operate with the three Departments of the Division and with secretaries of the
Joint Division in the promotion of plans for missionary education for the church
through Jurisdiction, Conference, District, and local church boards and councils, by
means of itineraries of missionaries, study courses, leadership education, schools of
missions, institutes, missionary councils, and conventions. She shall co-operate with
other denominational and interdenominational agencies engaged in missionary educa-
tion. She shall co-operate with the secretaries of the Section of Education and Cul-
tivation in plans for missionary education, including all study courses within the
Woman's Division of Christian Service. She shall provide missionary information for
the constituency and develop interest in the support of the missionary enterprise of
the Woman's Division. She shall serve on the Committee on Literature and Publica-
tions and shall co-operate with the editor or editors responsible for the creation of
program and cultivation materials.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of work done in Jurisdictions
and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

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Section 12. There shall be the following associate secretaries in the Section of
Education and Cultivation: a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, a secretary of
Student Work, a secretary of Youth Work, and a secretary of Children's Work. They
shall be recommended by the Woman's Division to the Joint Division through the
Woman's Section of the Joint Division for election by the Board at the Quadrennial
Meeting.

Section 13. There shall be a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild. She shall
promote the organization of the Wesleyan Service Guild, through the Standing Com-
mittee of the Guild and through Jurisdiction, Conference and District committees, and
Guild secretaries. As a member of the Committee on Literature and Publications of
the Woman's Division, she shall co-operate in such adaptations of materials as seem
desirable. She shall represent the Woman's Division in organizations and movements
touching the interests of employed women. She shall keep before the Division the
needs and interests of gainfully employed women in their relationship to the ongoing
program of the Christian church. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to the
Division.

Section 14- There shall be a secretary of Student Work. She shall promote the
plans and program for the student work of the Woman's Division through the Woman's
Section of the Joint Division. She shall work co-operatively with the secretary of
Student Work in the General Section of the Joint Division. She shall represent the
work of these Divisions in the Methodist Student Movement.

She shall represent the Woman's Division in committees correlating student work
and in such other committees, conferences, and meetings as concern student work in rela-
tion to the Board of Missions and Church Extension. She shall work with the staff
of the Department of Student Work of the Board of Education, in planning approaches
to the campus and in arranging campus itineraries for missionaries and other speakers.
She shall be a member ex officio of the Committee on Missionary Personnel of the
Woman's Division and of the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel of the Board.
She shall co-operate with these committees in finding candidates. She shall be a
member of the Subcommittee on Missionary Education in Schools, Colleges, and Theo-
logical Seminaries of the Inter-Board Committee on Missionary Education.

She shall also work with the Jurisdiction and Conference secretaries of Student
Work, and shall perform such other duties as the Woman's Division may define.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of student work done in
Jurisdictions and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 15. There shall be a secretary of Youth Work. She shall be responsible
for the preparation of plans and programs for the missionary groups of the age level
of the Youth Division, which are auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Christian
Service. She shall promote the accepted plan of missionary education of young women
and girls through Jurisdiction and Conference secretaries of Youth Work. She shall
perform such other duties as the Division may define. She shall represent the Woman's
Division in a Subcommittee on Youth Work of the Inter-Board Committee on Mis-
sionary Education and in other youth meetings where youth interests are concerned.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of work done in Jurisdictions
and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 16. There shall be a secretary of Children's Work. She shall be responsible
for carrying out the plans for missionary education of children of preschool, primary,
and junior age groups, as authorized by the Board of Missions and Church Extension.
She shall promote missionary education of children through Jurisdiction and Conference
secretaries of Children's Work according to the accepted plan. She shall perform such
other duties as may be defined. She shall represent the Children's Work of the Board
of Missions and Church Extension in the Subcommittee on Children's Work of the
Inter-Board Committee on Missionary Education, and in other committees concerned
with the missionary education of children.

She shall receive through proper channels the reports of work done in Jurisdictions
and Conferences and make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 17. There shall be an editor of The Methodist Woman, nominated by the
Division and elected annually by the Board. She shall be an editorial secretary of the
Woman's Division. She shall have the entire responsibility for editing The Methodist
Woman. She shall work in co-operation with the Standing Committee on Literature
and Publications. She shall take her proportionate share of responsibility in the

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production of literature for the Division. She shall make quarterly and annual reports
to the Division.

Section 18. There shall be a woman editor of World Outlook, recommended by
the Woman's Division to the Joint Division for election annually by the Board. She
shall be an editorial secretary of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation and
shall be responsible for editing the woman's share of World Outlook and the woman's
share of all other joint publications. She shall work in co-operation with the Standing
Committee on Literature and Publications. She shall take her proportionate share of
responsibility in the production of literature for the Woman's Division. She |Jiall make
quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

*Section 19. There shall be an editor of Literature for the Woman's Division,
nominated by the Division and elected annually by the Board. She shall be an edi-
torial secretary of the Woman's Division.

The editor of Literature, in co-operation with the Standing Committee on Litera-
ture and Publications, shall be responsible for creating and editing all programs, cul-
tivation materials, and such other literature as may be required to meet the needs
of the Division and of the Jurisdiction, Conference, and District societies, and of so-
cieties in the local church. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

*Section 20. There shall be a production manager, nominated by the Division
and elected annually by the Board. She shall be responsible for the printing of The
Methodist Woman and the literature of the Woman's Division and for getting copy
in correct form to the printers on schedule after due consultation with the responsible
editor. She shall work in co-operation with the Standing Committee on Literature
and Publications. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

* Section 21. There shall be a circulation manager, nominated by the Division
and elected annually by the Board. She shall be responsible for the sale and distri-
bution of all literature authorized by the Woman's Division and by the Woman's Sec-
tion of the Joint Division, for the promotion of the work. She shall keep in touch
with the Jurisdiction and Conference secretaries of Literature and Publications, direct
them in the evaluation and use of all literature, including the program materials of the
Woman's Division, and secure from them reports concerning the suitability of the
material to meet Conference needs. She shall co-operate with the Standing Committee
on Literature and.Publications. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to the
Division.

Section 22. There shall be an Editorial Board, composed of the editors, the pro-
duction manager, and the circulation manager. Immediately following the Annual
Meeting of the Woman's Division, this board shall meet and organize, electing its own
chairman and secretary, and upon request of the responsible editor shall arrange among
its members for any allocation of the work necessary. Details of publications shall be
cleared through this board. It shall make quarterly and annual reports to the Division.

Section 28. There shall be a meeting at regular intervals of the woman's staff
for the purpose of correlating the entire work of the Woman's Division and keeping each
member informed concerning the total work of the Woman's Division. The woman's
staff shall elect its own chairman.

Article III

Publications

Section 1. The Woman's Division of Christian Service shall assume its propor-
tionate share in editing and promoting the church-wide missionary magazine World
Outlook and such other literature as may be needed for joint circulation.

Section 2. There shall be a magazine entitled The Methodist Woman which shall
be edited and published by the Woman's Division of Christian Service. This magazine
shall represent and promote the policies, program, and work of the Woman's Division.

Article IV

Elections

Section 1. The president, the vice-president, the recording secretary, and the
chairman of the three Departments, who shall be vice-presidents of the Division, shall

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be nominated and elected by ballot at the Quadrennial Meeting. If the nominating
ballot is a two-thirds ballot, it shall become the elective ballot.

These officers shall be eligible for re-election to the same office for one additional
term.

Section 2. At the Quadrennial Meeting each member of the Division shall register
a first and second choice for membership in a Department. The president, vice-presi-
dent, recording secretary, and chairmen of the three Departments shall constitute a
committee to arrange these choices into the membership of the Departments.

Section 8. At the opening session of the Quadrennial Meeting there shall be
elected by the Division, from its membership, a Special Committee on Nominations.

This committee shall be composed of twelve women, two from each Jurisdiction,
and one bishop, appointed by the bishops of the Division.

This committee shall present to the Division the nominations for election by the
Board of a treasurer or treasurers and assistant treasurers, a disbursing officer, the
executive and other secretaries, the editors, the production manager, and the circulation
manager, twelve members of the Division to serve on the Executive Committee of the
Board, and twenty-four advisory members of the Board, six of whom shall be the
presidents of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Section 4- At the Quadrennial Meeting, the Standing Committee on Nominations
of the Division, composed of the vice-president and two members appointed by each
Department and by the Womans' Section of the Joint Division shall present for nomi-
nation and election by the Division, the chairmen and members of the Standing Com-
mittees of the Division; and from the membership of the Woman's Section of the
Joint Division, a chairman of the Section of Education and Cultivation in the Woman's
Division.

At the Quadrennial Meeting of the Division and thereafter at each Annual Meet-
ing the Standing Committee on Nominations of the Division shall recommend to the
Division for nomination to the Board representatives of the Division on the following
committees of the Board:

1. Committee on By-laws

2. Committee on Finance

3. Committee on Pensions

4. Inter-Board Committee on Missionary Education

5. Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel •

At each Annual Meeting of the Division, except the Quadrennial Meeting, the
Standing Committee on Nominations shall recommend to the Division for presentation
to the Joint Division for election by the Board, nominations for the woman editor of
World Outlook and the associate secretaries in the Woman's Section of the Joint Divi-
sion, viz.: a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, a secretary of Student Work, a
secretary of Youth Work, and a secretary of Children's Work.

At each Annual Meeting of the Division, except the Quadrennial Meeting, the
Standing Committee on Nominations of the Division shall recommend to the Woman's
Division nominations for election by the Board of assistant treasurers, the editors, the
production manager, and the circulation manager.

Section 5. At each Annual Meeting of the Division, the president, the vice-presi-
dent, and the recording secretary shall appoint the members of the Division to serve
on the following committees of the Board during the period of the meeting:

1. Committee on Appropriations for All Purposes

2. Committee on General Reference

3. Committee on Treasurers' Reports

4. Two members for the Committee on Resolutions and Memoirs
Section 6. Those officers, chairmen of committees, or members of committees

elected at the Quadrennial Meeting, unless it is stated otherwise in the by-laws of the
Division, shall hold office for the quadrennium or until their successors are elected.
If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, it may be filled at any
regular meeting of the Division.

Section 7. Those officers, chairmen of committees or members of committees,
elected annually, shall hold office for one year or until their successors are elected.
If a vacancy should occur by death, .resignation, or otherwise, it may be filled at any
regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the Division.

Section 8. All officers and chairmen of committees shall be elected from the
membership of the Division.

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Article V

Finances

Section 1. The work of the Woman's Division shall be supported by the monies
derived from annual pledges or dues, special memberships, devises, bequests, annuities,
special offerings, gifts, and monies raised for special projects or collected in meetings
held in the interest of the work of the Division.

Section 2. All funds from whatsoever source raised under the auspices of the
Woman's Society of Christian Service, as auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Chris-
tian Service belong to the organization and shall be disbursed in accordance with its
constitution and by-laws.

Unless otherwise ordered by the Division, all monies raised by all organizations
of the Division, except those for use in a local society for Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities, and the cultivation funds for Jurisdiction, Conference,
District, and societies in the local church, shall be sent to the Conference treasurer and
forwarded quarterly or monthly by her to the treasurer of the Division.

Section 3. Funds held by any of the Conference or District treasurers shall be
deposited in a banking institution in the name of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service, as auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

Section 4- The fiscal and appropriation year of the Woman's Division shall be
June 1 to May 31. The fiscal year of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian
Service shall be January 1 to December 31.

Section 5. The Division shall present its appropriations for approval by the
Board at the Annual Meeting. These appropriations shall not exceed the income for
such purposes of the preceding fiscal year of the Division.

Section 6. Appropriations for the Joint Division shall be made by the Woman's
Division and transmitted to the Joint Division through the executive secretary of the
Woman's Section of the Joint Division.

Appropriations made to the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation shall be
adequate to cover the part of the total task that definitely belongs to the Woman's
Division and to include an equitable proportion of the expense of all Joint literature
and other Joint cultivation enterprises.

Section 7. The Division shall appropriate annually a Contingent Fund of not
less than two per cent nor more than four per cent of the total appropriations made
by the Division, to be allocated proportionately to the three Departments, to the
Woman's Section of the Joint Division, and for General Administration.

Section 8. Undirected income for appropriations shall be divided in the office of
the treasurer of the Woman's Division on the basis to be agreed upon by the Division.

Section 9. All annuities shall be invested during the life of the annuitant.

Section 10. Undesignated gifts, bequests, and lapsed annuities given to the Division
shall be divided equally between the Departments of Home and Foreign Work. These
funds shall be held by the treasurer of the Division with the restricted funds as Home
and Foreign Work credits to be voted out by the Department concerned.

Designated gifts, bequests, and lapsed annuities for any Department of the Divi-
sion, above the amount included in the basis of appropriation for the year 1941, shall
become a part of the credits of the Department designated and held with restricted
funds subject to withdrawal upon vote of the Department concerned.

Section 11. The title to all real estate for use by institutions entirely supported
by a Conference or receiving support from a Conference or its societies in local
churches shall be vested either in the Woman's Division of Christian Service, or in
the Conference Society of Christian Service, provided it is incorporated.

NOTE. — This applies to future Conference incorporations. Existing Conference
corporations, holding institutions or properties which receive support from the former
merging organizations, either locally or nationally, shall come into this relationship by
voluntary action on a recommendation of the Conference Society and approval of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service.

The title to all property, real and personal, specifically designated by the donor
for the work of the Woman's Division of Christian Service within a Conference, may
be held by, and be vested in, the Conference, provided it is incorporated; otherwise
it must be held by the Woman's Division of Christian Service for the benefit of the
Conference. All property which is not specifically designated by the donor for work

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within a Conference but which is transferred or paid to the Conference through gift,
bequest, or devise, shall be transferred or paid by the Conference treasurer to the
treasurer of the Woman's Division of Christian Service and credit on receipts given
to the Conference for the principal of the gift.

Section 12. The Division shall authorize the creation of a Revolving Fund of
$250,000 as a minimum. Of this amount, $100,000 shall be held on deposit; the balance
shall be kept in savings accounts or invested by the Committee on Permanent Funds
and Investments in readily liquidated securities, for use as needed and as directed by
the Division.

The procedure for use of the Revolving Fund shall be as follows: The treasurer
shall be authorized to use the Revolving Fund for current operations as emergencies
may arise. The amount so used shall be replaced in the Revolving Fund from the first
available income receipts. The Revolving Fund shall be balanced and the total
amount of same shall be on hand at the end of each fiscal year. The income from
the investments of the Revolving Fund shall be used in the basis of appropriations.
The treasurer shall make reports on the Revolving Fund quarterly and annually to the
Division. In the event of the liquidation of the Revolving Fund, these monies shall
be directed to the retirement and relief funds held for the payment of obligations to
missionaries and deaconesses of the uniting boards and societies in proportion to
amounts contributed by the uniting boards and societies.

Section 13. There shall be Life Memberships, Honorary Life Memberships, and
Honorary Life Patrons for the purpose of developing interest and increasing the
finances of the Division.

Life Memberships for adults shall be $25; Honorary Life Memberships shall be
$100; Honorary Life Patrons. S300. Honorary Youth Memberships shall be $15; Hon-
orary Junior Memberships, $10; Honorary Baby Memberships, $5.

Recognition of these special memberships shall be given by suitable pins or cer-
tificates.

Section 14- Memorial Memberships of $50 shall be one of the methods of de-
veloping interest and increasing finances for the Division, the total from these Memorial
Memberships to be used for missionary and deaconess retirement.

Section 15. The Woman's Division of Christian Service shall observe an annual
Week of Prayer and Self-Denial. The offering received during this period shall be
divided equally between the Home and Foreign Departments, and shall be used for
special missionary projects outside the appropriations, as designated by the Woman's
Division.

NOTE. — Thank offerings, Christmas offerings, and Lenten offerings may be used
as methods for raising the total budget (missionary funds and local funds) of the
Woman's Society of Christian Service in each local church.

Section 16. For use in the promotion of the work of the Division there may be
cultivation funds in the Division and its auxiliary societies, including the Wesleyan
Service Guild, in the Jurisdiction, Conference, District, and the local church.

One fourth of one cent per adult member of a Conference Society shall be
sent by the Conference to the Division for the Division Cultivation Fund. This fund
shall be used to defray the expenses of Board members to the Jurisdiction meetings of
the Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Section 17. There shall be a contributory pension plan in the Woman's Division
of Christian Service. This plan shall be compulsory for all missionaries and deaconesses
of the Woman's Division who were commissioned on or after July 25, 1940, or whose
salary began on or after April, 1940.

The pension plans which prevailed in the three constituencies shall apply to
missionaries and deaconesses who were commissioned prior to July 25, 1940.

NOTE. — For provisions of Pension Plans, see leaflet on same.

Section 18. Cash raised for Supply Work shall be sent through the regular chan-
nels— that is, from the treasurer of the society in the local church to the District or
Conference treasurer and then to the treasurer of the Division. When cash is des-
ignated for certain work, the treasurer of the Division shall forward the same direct
to the project designated; if designated only for a Department, the money shall be
disbursed according to the recommendations of the Department concerned. All such
funds shall be over and above the pledge of any society in the local church, District,
or Conference.

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Section 19. All monies raised by all units of the Wesleyan Service Guild except
those for use in the local unit for Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activi-
ties and cultivation funds shall be sent through the treasurer of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service in the local church to the District or Conference treasurer of the
Woman's Society of Christian Service and then to the treasurer of the Division as
Wesleyan Service Guild funds.

Section 20. Fifty per cent of the receipts of the Methodist Youth Fund shall be
contributed to the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

The treasurer of the Methodist Youth Fund shall make regular remittances to the
treasurer of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. The fifty per cent adminis-
tered by the Woman's Division shall be clearly marked "Methodist Youth Fund" by
each person handling the funds.

The contributions from the Methodist Youth Fund shall be over and above the
pledges of the adult societies and shall be credited under Conference income for ap-
propriations.

Section 21. Forty per cent of the offerings of children received in additional ses-
sions shall be contributed to the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

The leader of the additional sessions shall receive the off erings _ and shall make
regular remittances to the treasurer of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in
the local church. The forty per cent administered by the Woman's Division shall be
clearly designated as children's offerings by each person handling the funds.

The offerings received from children in additional sessions shall be over and above
the pledges of the adult societies and shall be credited under Conference income for
appropriations.

Article VI
*Section of Education and Cultivation

Section 1. There shall be a Section of Education and Cultivation composed of the
members of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Division of Christian Service
who are members of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, the executive
secretary, the secretary of Missionary Education, and the associate secretaries of the
Woman's Section of the Joint Division, the editors, the production manager, and the
circulation manager. The president of the Woman's Division of Christian Service,
the treasurer of the Division, the chairman of the Spiritual Life Committee, and the
executive secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities shall be
members ex officio.

Section 2. The Woman's Section shall meet quarterly in connection with the
meetings of the Woman's Division. The agenda for the quarterly meetings shall be
prepared by the chairman and recording secretary in consultation with the executive
secretary.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Woman's Section to supervise and be re-
sponsible to the Woman's Division for the work assigned to it by the Division. It
shall counsel and aid the secretaries in their duties, and shall take all necessary measures
to carry into effect the actions of the Woman's Division.

It shall study the education, cultivation, and organization policies of the Woman's
Division and shall formulate and present plans to the Division for the co-ordination
and promotion of these policies through the Woman's Section of the Joint Division.

Section 4. The Woman's Section shall consider the annual budget of the Woman's
Section of the Joint Division submitted by the executive secretary and make recom-
mendations to the Committee on Finance and Estimates of the Woman's Division.

Section 5. The Woman's Section may provide such committees as it finds necessary.

Section 6. The Woman's Section shall receive reports from the secretaries and
its committees, and shall present an annual report to the Woman's Division.

Section 7. The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Section and shall
perform the duties usually required of this officer. She shall be a member ex officio
of all committees of the Section. In the absence of the chairman, the Section shall
choose a chairman pro tern.

Section S. There shall be a recording secretary of the Section who shall record
and file all minutes of the Woman's Section of Education and Cultivation.

*Article VI is not to become effective during this quadrennium.

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Article VII

Committees

Section 1. There shall be the following standing committees of the Division ac-
cording to the constitution: Executive Committee, Committee on Missionary Per-
sonnel, Committee on Permanent Funds and Investments, Committee on Finance and
Estimates, and a Committee on the World Federation of Methodist Women.

There shall be also standing committees on Spiritual Life, Literature and Publi-
cations, Library Service, Status of Women, Supply Work, Constitution and By-laws,
and Nominations. These committees shall be elected quadrennially.

Section 2. The Woman's Division shall provide such special committees as may
be necessary for the conduct of the work.

Section 8. Staff members shall serve as non-voting members of the committees
which are concerned directly with their departments of work.

Section 4- The Executive Committee of the Division shall be composed of the
women members serving on the Executive Committee of the Board, representing the
four Divisions. The membership of the committee shall include the recording secre-
tary, the vice-president, the chairmen of the three Departments, the chairman of the
Section of Education and Cultivation, and the chairmen of the Standing Committees
of the Division. Other persons may be added as the needs of the Division may require.
The executive and other secretaries, treasurers, editors, production manager, and
the circulation manager shall be members without vote.

The Executive Committee, which is the Division ad interim, shall meet quarterly
to review the work of the Division and to attend to any other necessary business.
One of these meetings shall be held in connection with the Annual Meeting of the
Division, which shall meet at the time of the Annual Meeting of the Board. The
other meetings shall be held in March, June, and September, during the days preceding
the meetings of the Executive Committee of the Board. The president, with the
approval of three other members of the Executive Committee, may call a special ses-
sion of the committee to meet an emergency. The Executive Committee shall make a
report of its action to the Woman's Division of Christian Service. A majority shall
constitute a quorum.

The Division shall elect from the membership of its Executive Committee an
administrative committee, composed of the president of the Division, the chairmen
of the three Departments, the executive secretaries, and one other member from each
of the Departments. This committee shall meet at the call of the president and
transact such business as necessitates the action of the Division in the intervals be-
tween the quarterly meetings of the Executive Committee of the Division. The
executive secretaries shall be members without vote.

Section 5. There shall be a Standing Committee on Spiritual Life, composed of
the chairman and one representative of the Woman's Division from each Jurisdiction,
and such members from the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation as the com-
mittee may determine. This committee shall endeavor to quicken the spiritual life
of all Methodist women, to deepen their prayer life, and to increase their sense of
responsibility for personal service and giving. The committee shall keep in touch with
the spiritual movements of the times, and by prayerful research develop a clearer
appreciation of the meaning of Christian living; it shall seek to devise definite means
to permeate the local church with a spiritual power which will lead to deeper conse-
cration and to more active service; to promote Christian stewardship, devotional Bible
study, and the use of other devotional materials. The committee shall give special
attention to recommendation of books and pamphlets on the devotional life, including
stewardship.

It shall assist the editors in the preparation of such spiritual life materials as may
be published by the Woman's Division of Christian Service. The resources of this
committee shall be available to the leaders of all age groups within the Division and to
institutions supported by the Division.

There shall be an Advisory Committee, composed of the Division chairman of
Spiritual Life and the six Jurisdiction secretaries of Spiritual Life. This committee
shall study the plans of the Standing Committee on Spiritual Life of the Division and
shall bring to the attention of the Division the particular spiritual needs of the dif-
ferent Jurisdictions, with suggestions as to how these needs may best be met.

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Section 6. There shall be *a Standing Committee on Literature and Publications,
composed of the editors, production manager, circulation manager, the secretaries of
the Woman's Section of Education and Cultivation, the executive secretary of Chris-
tian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, and seven especially qualified women,
at least two of whom shall be members of the Executive Committee. The duties of
this committee shall be to survey the needs of the Woman's Division of Christian
Service for printed materials and help to formulate the policies and plans for their pub-
lication. The chairman of the Spiritual Life Committee and the chairmen of the three
Departments of the Woman's Division, or other representatives from the Departments,
and the chairman of the Woman's Section of Education and Cultivation shall be
advisory members of the committee.

Section 7. There shall be a Standing Committee on Finance and Estimates,
composed of twelve members of the Woman's Division and the secretaries, treasurers,
editors, and publication manager of the Woman's Division, and the secretaries and
editors of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division. It shall be the duty of this
committee to study and recommend the financial policies of the Division, to keep
informed with regard to its investments, and to recommend plans for increasing the
income. It shall receive the estimates for various lines of work as presented by the
secretaries and treasurers, and make recommendations for appropriations to the Woman's
Division.

There shall be elected from the membership of the Committee on Finance and
Estimates a Committee on Treasury to consist of three members. This committee
shall act as an advisory committee of the treasurer's office. It shall study the audits
and the functions of the office, and present recommendations concerning the same to
the Committee on Finance and Estimates.

Section S. There shall be a Standing Committee on Permanent Funds and In-
vestments consisting of five members, one of whom shall be the treasurer. Four mem-
bers shall be nominated by the Finance and Estimates Committee and elected by the
Woman's Division. In addition, the committee shall co-opt from three# to five persons
who, by training, experience, and ability, are qualified for service in investment and
trust fund matters. Such co-opted members shall be approved annually by the Woman's
Division or its Executive Committee.

This committee shall make recommendations to the treasurer for the investment
of the money entrusted to her care. In an emergency the treasurer may act in con-
sultation with three members of the committee designated _ by the committee.

It shall be the duty of this committee to meet and review quarterly the invest-
ments of the Division. Other meetings may be held at the call of the treasurer or of
three members of the committee. This committee shall report quarterly to the
Executive Committee and annually to the Woman's Division.

Section 9. There shall be a Standing Committee on the World_ Federation of
Methodist Women, composed of the vice-president of the Woman's Division, who shall
serve as chairman; the vice-presidents who are chairmen of_ the Departments of the
Division; three secretaries of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, one
of whom shall be the associate secretary of Children's Work; the women editors; the
chairman of the Committee on the Status of Women ; and one member of the Woman's
Division representing each Jurisdiction, and any general officers of the Federation
resident in this country. The Jurisdiction representatives on the Standing Committee
are by virtue of their membership on this Standing Committee members of the Inter-
national Council of the World Federation of Methodist Women.

This committee shall be responsible for making the contribution of the Woman's
Division as significant as possible to the units composing the Federation and to the
Federation. It shall keep in touch with the officers of the World Federation and
with the other units affiliated through the Federation; it shall keep the other units
informed as to the work of the Woman's Division, and keep the Division in touch
with the work of Methodist women of other lands. Under general direction of the
Federation it shall collect and compile historical data of its own constituency as val-
uable contributions to the expansion of the enterprise on the part of Methodist women.
The committee shall propose to the Committee on Literature and Publications such
literature as it may need. It shall recommend annually to the Standing Committee
on Finance and Estimates such amount as it deems its equitable and necessary share
for the work of the Federation. All plans and projects of the committee shall be
subject to the approval of the Division, to which the committee shall make annual
report.

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Section 10. There shall be a Standing Committee "on Missionary Personnel of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service. The committee shall be composed of nine
members, three of whom shall be representatives from the Joint Committee on Mis-
sionary Personnel of the Board of Missions and Church Extension, six shall be ap-
pointed with due consideration to Jurisdiction representation and to skill in personnel
work, administrative secretaries in charge of fields, and the secretary of Student Work
of the Woman's Division of Christian Service. The executive secretary and associates
of the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel shall be members ex officio.

The duties of the committee shall be to aid in the cultivation of the conference
chairmen on Missionary Personnel, by keeping them supplied with literature approved
by the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel regarding missionary service, and
by informing them of the types of workers needed on the field and the standards for
candidates laid down by the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel; to recom-
mend to the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel of the Board of Missions and
Church Extension ways and means by which personnel work may be made more
effective; to handle all applications for study grants and scholarships for foreign stu-
dents presented to the committee by the executive secretaries of the Foreign Depart-
ment; to formulate and seek to maintain standards for such students; to maintain
friendly relations with foreign students while in the United States; to keep complete
files of the papers and records of such students.

Those members of the Division committee who are members of each of the Home
and Foreign Departments shall constitute the committees of the Departments on
Missionary Personnel. These committees shall give special consideration to the per-
sonnel needs of the Departments.

Section 11. There shall be a Standing Committee on Library Service, composed
of seven members, a chairman appointed by the Woman's Division of Christian Service,
and one representative from each Jurisdiction. It shall be the duty of this committee
to study the need for books and periodicals in institutions and stations of the Division
abroad and at home, and to devise means and methods for supplying this need.

Section 12. There shall be a Standing Committee on Status of Women. It shall
be the duty of this committee to study the status of women in the local church, the
community, state, and nation, and in other lands, including the bases of woman's place
and the questions that affect her place in society and in the church. The committee
shall make recommendations to the Division for the promotion of such activities as
may enable her to serve her church and society more efficiently.

Section IS. There shall be a Standing Committee on Supply Work, composed of
the chairman and executive secretaries of the Department of Work in Home Fields,
the chairman and executive secretaries of the Department of Work in Foreign Fields,
or other representatives from these Departments, the treasurers of the Woman's Divi-
sion, a representative of the Department of Transportation and Purchasing of the
Board, and two or more other members from the Division. This committee shall
recommend to the Division all plans and policies for Supply Work.

Section 14. There shall be a Standing Committee on Constitution and By-laws.
Proposed amendments shall be cleared through the Woman's Division or its Executive
Committee and referred to the Committee on Constitution and By-laws not later than
forty days before the Annual Meeting of the Division. This committee shall send all
amendments referred to it by the Executive Committee to the members of the Division
at least thirty days before the Annual Meeting of the Division.

Section 15. The Standing Committee on Nominations shall be composed of the
vice-president and two members appointed from each of the Departments of the
Division, and from the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Education and Cul-
tivation. At the Quadrennial Meeting for organization, this committee shall make
recommendations for nominations for the chairmen and members of the Standing
Committees of the Division.

Annually, they shall nominate representatives of the Division to serve on the
Standing Committees of the Board; annually, except at the Quadrennial Meeting for
organization, they shall nominate those officers or secretaries and associates who are
to be elected annually by the Division or Board.

They shall make recommendations for nominations for vacancies which may occur
ad interim unless otherwise provided.

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Article VIII

Amendments

Amendments to these by-laws may be made by majority vote at any Annual Meet-
ing of the Division, provided a thirty-days' notice is given in writing to all members
of the Division by the Executive Committee or by the Standing Committee on By-laws
of the Division.

Article IX

Suspension

These by-laws may be suspended at any Annual Meeting of the Division at which
a quorum is present, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, or in
the interim between Annual Meetings by the Executive Committee at which a quorum
is present, by a three-fourths vote of the members present and voting.

By-laws of the Foreign and Home Departments
of the Woman's Division

Article I

Membership

The Departments shall be composed of the chairmen elected by the Division, the
members of the Woman's Division of Christian Service designated to the Departments
at the Quadrennial Meeting, and the executive secretaries of the respective Depart-
ments. The president of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, the treasurer
of the Division, the assistant treasurer, and a secretary of the Joint Committee on
Personnel are members ex officio.

Article II

Meetings

Section 1. The annual meeting of a Department shall be held in connection with the
Annual Meeting of the Woman's Division.

Section 2. In case of special need, other meetings may be called by the chairman
and the executive secretaries of the Department upon ten-days' notice.

Section 3. The agenda for the annual meeting of the Department shall be prepared
by its chairman and recording secretary, in consultation with its executive secretaries.

Article III

Duties

Section 1. Each Department shall supervise and be responsible to the Woman's
Division for the work assigned to it by the Division. It shall counsel and aid the
executive secretaries in their executive duties, and shall take all necessary measures
to carry into effect the action of the Woman's Division.

Section 2. Each Department shall receive reports from the executive secretaries and
from its committees and shall recommend policies for the Department to the Woman's
Division.

Section 8. The Department shall make recommendation to the Woman's Division in
case of vacancy among the executive secretaries.

Section 4- Each Department shall present an annual report to the Woman's Divi-
sion.

Article IV

Officers

Section 1. The vice-president of the Woman's Division, who is chairman of the De-
partment, shall preside at all meetings of the Department and of its Executive
Committee, and shall perform the duties usually required of this officer. She shall
be a member ex officio of all Department committees. In the absence of the chairman,
the Department shall choose a chairman -pro tern.

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Section 2. There shall be a recording secretary of the Department who shall record
and file all minutes of the Department and of the Executive Committee.

Article V

Committees

Section 1. The Executive Committee of the Department shall be composed of
those members of the Executive Committee of the Division who are members of the
Department and the executive secretaries. The Executive Committee shall hold
quarterly meetings at the time of the meetings of the Executive Committee of the Divi-
sion. It shall act ad interim for the Department.

Section 2. The Administrative Committee of the Department shall be composed
of the chairman, the recording secretary, the executive secretaries, and four other
members appointed by the Department. This committee shall meet at stated intervals
or at the call of the chairman in consultation with the executive secretaries, and shall
transact such business as necessitates action of the Department in the intervals be-
tween the quarterly meetings of the Executive Committee of the Department.

Section 3. There shall be a Committee on Finance and Estimates, composed of
those members of the Department who are members of the Committee on Finance and
Estimates of the Division. It shall consider the field appropriations submitted by the
executive secretaries and make recommendations to the Committee on Finance and
Estimates of the Division. It shall also make recommendations as to appropriations
for co-operative committees and projects and for the administration of the Depart-
ment. It shall do such other work as the need may require.

Section 4- There shall be Foreign and Home Field committees whose duties shall
be to advise with the executive secretaries on all matters pertaining to their fields.
They shall study and be familiar with all facts, problems, and conditions relating to
their particular fields. These committees shall be elected by their respective Depart-
ments.

Section 5. (1) There shall be a Standing Committee of the Department of Work in
Foreign Fields, composed of the chairman and the executive secretaries of the De-
partment and the secretaries of Foreign Work in the Jurisdictions.

(2) There shall be a Standing Committee of the Department of Work in Home
Fields, composed of the chairman and the executive secretaries of the Department
and the secretaries of Home Work in the Jurisdictions.

(3) The secretary of Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint
Division of Education and Cultivation shall be a member ex officio of these com-
mittees.

(4) These committees shall meet biennially at the time of the meeting of the
Assembly of the Woman's Division. The chairman of the Department shall be the
chairman of the Standing Committee of the Department.

(5) Each Standing Committee shall study the work of its respective Department,
keep informed on world and national movements affecting missions, and share in the
promotion of the entire missionary enterprise.

By-laws of the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities of the Woman's Division

Article I
Membership

The Department shall be composed of the chairman, elected by the Woman's
Division of Christian Service, the members of the Division designated to the Depart-
ment, the executive secretary of the Department, with the six Jurisdiction secretaries
of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the chairman of the Stand-
ing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild, the chairman of the Committee on
Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities of the Wesleyan Service Guild,
and associate members of the resource committees of the Department serving as co-'
opted members.

The president and the vice-presidents of the Division, other than the chairman

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of this Department, the secretaries of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division, and
the editor responsible for departmental literature shall be members ex officio.

Article II

Meetings

Section 1. The annual meeting of the Department shall be held in connection with
the Annual Meeting of the Woman's Division.

Section 2. In case of special need, other meetings of the Department may be called
by the chairman of the Department in consultation with the executive secretary upon
ten-days' notice.

Section 8. The agenda for the annual meetings of the Department shall be pre-
pared by the chairman of the Department and the executive secretary.

Article III
Duties

Section 1. The Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Ac-
tivities shall supervise and promote the work of the Division along the lines of com-
munity service and social relations. It shall seek to make real and effective the teach-
ings of Jesus as applied to individual, class, racial, and national relationships. It shall
endeavor to enlist the participation of church women in such questions as have a moral
or religious significance or an important bearing on public welfare. It shall seek to
inspire in the women of the local church a greater devotion to and concern for the
total life and work of the local church. It shall seek to co-operate with the other
educational agencies of the local church, to develop Christian fellowship, and to deepen
concern for the financial responsibilities of the church.

Section 2. The Department shall receive reports from the executive secretary
and recommend policies for the Department to the Woman's Division.

Section 3. The Department shall make recommendations to the Woman's Division
for such workers in the Department as may be essential for the supervision and pro-
motion of the work of this Department.

Section 4. The Department shall make recommendations to the Woman's Division
when a vacancy occurs in the office of the executive secretary, or among the chairmen
or co-chairmen of the committees of the Department elected by the Division.

Section 5. The Department shall make an annual report to the Woman's Division.

Article IV
Officers

Section 1. The vice-president of the Woman's Division, who is chairman of the
Department, shall preside at all meetings of the Department, of its Executive Com-
mittee, and of the Standing Committee, and shall perform the other duties usually
required of this officer. She shall be a member ex officio of all committees of the
Department. In the absence of the chairman, the group shall choose a chairman pro tern.

Section 2. There shall be a recording secretary of the Department who shall
record and file all minutes of the Department and of the Standing Committee.,

Article V
Committees

Section 1. There shall be a Standing Committee on Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities, composed of the executive secretary and the chairman
of the Department, the chairmen and co-chairmen of the resource committees, the six
Jurisdiction secretaries of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the
chairman of the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild, and the chairman
of the Committee on Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities of the
Wesleyan Service Guild.

The president, vice-presidents of the Division other than the chairman of this
Department, the secretaries of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division, and the
editor responsible for departmental literature shall be members ex officio.

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Section 2. The duties of the committee shall be to promote plans for the cultiva-
tion of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities; to assist in the de-
velopment of lines of research, study, and activities of the committees of the Depart-
ment; to recommend additional committees as need arises; to recognize the freedom
of Jurisdiction or Conference to choose annually from the Department program their
lines of work; to aid in harmonizing and organizing the results of the work for presen-
tation to the Woman's Division of Christian Service. The committee should be con-
cerned also with the response of the local society to the spiritual, educational, social,
and financial needs of the local church; it shall emphasize the basic religious attitudes
and objectives which underlie the work and which are indispensable to the realization
of Christian social relations.

Section 3. The Standing Committee of the Department shall meet annually, with
special meetings called by the Department chairman and the executive secretary when
necessary.

Section 4- The members of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Division
who are members of the Department, with the executive secretary shall constitute
an Executive Committee of the Department. The Executive Committee shall meet
at the time of the Executive Committee meetings of the Division. If need arises,
special meetings may be called by the chairman and the executive secretary of the
Department. Additional members of the Standing Committee specially related to the
situation under consideration may be called in for regular or special Executive Com-
mittee meetings at the discretion of the chairman and the executive secretary.

Section 5. There shall be a Committee on Finance and Estimates, composed of
those members of the Department who are members of the Committee on Finance
and Estimates of the Woman's Division.

In co-operation with the executive secretary the committee shall study the finan-
cial needs of the Department and make recommendations to the Committee on
Finance and Estimates of the Division. It shall do such other work as the need may
require.

Section 6. There shall be seven committees of the Department to serve as
resource committees for guidance to the Division in its policies for Christian social
action. These shall be listed under the following areas:

(1) Local Church and Community Co-operation

(2) International Relations and World Peace

(3) Economic Relations

(4) Interracial and Intercultural Relations

(5) Christian Citizenship

(6) Alcohol and Other Narcotics

(7) The Christian Family

The results of the studies of these committees shall be made available to the
constituency by the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Committee on Local Church and Community Co-
operation to study the relationship and response of the local society to the spiritual,
educational, social, and financial needs of the local church; to assist in developing
wider avenues of Christian fellowship and service in co-operation with the pastor and
other agencies of the church, thereby undergirding the total program of the local church.
It shall compile information concerning local church and community projects and
methods of accomplishment and make such information available to the local society.

It shall co-ordinate suggestive plans for making all groups interested in Christian
social relations function effectively in the local community and it shall encourage the
active participation of local groups in general church activities and community service
with proper evaluation of methods and motives.

It shall make suggestions relating to the recruiting and training of volunteer
workers for church and community social welfare agencies.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Committee on International Relations and World
Peace to study the Christian responsibility for world order and universal brotherhood.
This study shall include the attitude and action of the individual Christian as well
as the obligation of the Christian fellowship to participate in solving the problems of

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world co-operation and reconstruction. The committee shall bring to the society an
emphasis on the existing Christian world community which crosses denominational and
national lines in the promotion of fellowship and understanding.

It shall seek to co-ordinate its activities with those of the General Conference
Commission on World Peace and with the World Federation of Methodist Women.
It shall be the duty of the committee to explore and recommend when possible co-
operation with national and international agencies which promote pacific relations
between the nations.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Committee on Economic Relations to gather and
study facts regarding economic and industrial conditions at home and abroad and
to study the effect of these conditions, including poverty and excessive wealth, on
human personality, on the quality of family life, and on living standards. Based on
the findings of investigation, the committee shall suggest measures which Christian
people may employ to better conditions.

(4) It shall be the duty of the Committee on Interracial and Intercultural Rela-
tions to study all groups in the community and nation, in order to discover ways and
means for developing Christian attitudes and relationships. It shall conduct studies
and provide situations in which experiences in interracial co-operation that contribute
to the building of a friendly, co-operative community may occur.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Committee on Christian Citizenship to study ways
to cultivate throughout the constituency an understanding of the fullest meaning of
citizenship; to emphasize the responsibility of the ballot, and to promote legislation
for social welfare, both national and international. It shall seek to create sentiment
for the best in motion pictures, radio, and popular literature and through legislation
and law enforcement support such control as will eliminate degrading features. It
shall study needs in the fields of public education, public health, and community wel-
fare and lend moral support to governmental and voluntary welfare agencies. It shall
direct the study of delinquency and crime and of measures for prevention and reform.

(6) It shall be the duty of the Committee on Alcohol and Other Narcotics to
promote by an intensive educational program voluntary total abstinence from all
intoxicants and narcotics, to create public sentiment against the use of liquor, to
promote enforcement of the laws controlling the traffic in alcoholic liquors and in
narcotic drugs and to promote and extend laws suppressing the liquor traffic. It
shall co-operate with the Board of Temperance and with the Board of Education of
The Methodist Church, and with the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

(7) It shall be the duty of the Committee on the Christian Family to relate the
family to the church and to promote an educational program which will build a stable
Christian home.

It shall study the present conditions of family life in order to discover ways of
developing permanent marriage relationships; of decreasing the rate of juvenile de-
linquency ; of promoting adequate Christian education in the home ; of aiding in
the adjustment of youth in the war and postwar period; and of eliminating problems
which cause broken and disrupted homes.

The committee should work in co-operation with the Board of Education to in-
tegrate the forces that are building and strengthening the ideals and attitudes which
are the bases of a Christian home.

Section 7. The chairmen and co-chairmen of these resource committees shall be
elected by the Woman's Division at its Quadrennial Meeting.

Section 8. The membership of each of these resource committees, exclusive of
the chairman, shall not exceed five women who shall be chosen upon the basis of their
interest and experience in each particular field. Members shall be selected from the
Woman's Division and the Jurisdictions at large, consideration being given also to
representation from the Wesleyan Service Guild. Associate members who are special-
ists in the fields of work may be added as consultants. The president of the Division
and the chairman and executive secretary of the Department shall be members ex
officio.

Section 9. The resource committees shall meet annually. This meeting shall be
held in connection with the Assembly, or with a meeting of the Woman's Division or
of the Department, upon call of the committee chairmen, in consultation with the
executive secretary and the chairman of the Department.

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By-laws of the Bureau of Deaconess Work
of the Woman's Division

Article I

Meetings

This Bureau shall meet annually and may meet semiannually on call of the sec-
retary of the Bureau in consultation with an Advisory Committee.

Article II
Duties

Section 1. The Bureau shall receive an annual report from the executive secretary
of the Bureau.

Section 2. It shall receive reports from the Jurisdiction Deaconess Associations
and Annual Conference Deaconess Boards and shall act on recommendations for
licenses and for the renewal of certificates or licenses of deaconesses.

Section 3. It shall act on the recommendations for transfers of deaconesses to and
from the Jurisdictions and provide benefit for deaconesses eligible to help while tem-
porarily absent from the field because of illness.

Section 4- It shall provide opportunities for educational research. It shall be
responsible for the improvement of deaconess work along the lines of research, culti-
vation, and service.

Article III
Officers

Section 1. The Bureau shall be convened by the bishop appointed by the Council
of Bishops, who shall serve as chairman of the Bureau.

Section 2. A vice-chairman shall be elected by the Bureau, who shall act in the
absence of the chairman.

Section S. There shall be a recording secretary.

Section 4- The executive secretary of the Bureau shall perform all duties assigned
to her by the Home Department of the Woman's Division of Christian Service and
the Bureau of Deaconess Work.

She shall keep the records of the Bureau and the personnel list and application
records of the deaconesses of the Division.

She shall act to complete the transfers of deaconesses in the field, the licensing
and the renewing of licenses and certificates of deaconesses and the providing of benefit
to the deaconesses eligible for help while absent from the field because of illness.

She shall make recommendations to the Home Department concerning the following
matters :

Those eligible for leave of absence under the privilege of sabbatical year; those
requesting leave of absence for other reasons ; those entitled to retirement with pension ;
those eligible to temporary disability benefit; the amounts necessary for such leaves
of absence for study, pension, or temporary disability benefit.

The executive secretary shall recommend to Annual Conference Deaconess Boards
for licensing those young women approved for that purpose by the Woman's Division
of Christian Service.

Article IV

Advisory Committee

There shall be a committee of three, appointed by the Department of Home Work
of the Woman's Division, who shall serve in an advisory relation to the executive
secretary of the Bureau.

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Constitution of the Assembly

Article I

Name

Article II

Pubpose

The Assembly shall provide a medium through which the Jurisdiction and other
regional groups of the Woman's Division may manifest their essential unity, and more
effectively promote their work through co-operation. It shall stimulate research and
corporate thinking on world situations bearing on the missionary enterprise; it shall
strive to make available to the women of the church the spiritual and informational
resources which will enlist and equip them for better service through church channels.
By research and study commissions it shall secure data regarding the needs, the oppor-
tunities of service and achievements of Christian women around the world and seek
to co-operate with them in movements for world betterment.

Article III

Composition

The Assembly shall be composed of the officers and members of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service, six officers of each Jurisdiction Woman's Society, the
president and one other officer of each Conference Woman's Society, one Wesleyan
Service Guild representative from each Conference and one delegate from each District.

Article IV

Meetings

The Assembly shall hold a national meeting every two years, alternating with the
meeting of the General Missionary Council. At this meeting it shall review the work
of the Woman's Division at home and abroad; it may set up commissions for research;
it shall receive reports from these commissions; it may adopt memorials and resolu-
tions; and recommend to the Division methods, plans, and policies for advancement
of the work. It shall give consideration to reports of co-operative and Ecumenical
Movement.

Article V

Expenses for Assembly

Adequate appropriation for the Assembly meeting shall be made by the Woman's
Division.

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By-laws of the Assembly

Article I

Name

The national meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of The Meth-
odist Church shall be called the Assembly.

Article II

Purpose

The purpose shall be to provide a means whereby groups of Methodist women
from all areas of the church may achieve essential unity in worship and in the sharing
of information, plans, and methods of work.

Article III

Membership

Section 1. Voting Members. The officers and members of the Woman's Division
of Christian Service, six officers of each Jurisdiction Woman's Society, the president and
one other officer of each Conference Woman's Society, one Wesleyan Service Guild
representative from each Conference, and one delegate from each District shall constitute
the voting membership.

Section 2. Distinguished guests, missionaries, officers, and secretaries of the other
Divisions of the Board of Missions and Church Extension, representatives of other
Methodist boards and of interdenominational or co-operating agencies may be seated
and granted the privileges of the floor without vote.

Article IV

Meetings

The Assembly shall meet biennially at such time and place as the Division may
designate.

Article V

Officers

The president, vice-president, recording secretary, and treasurer of the Division
shall serve the Assembly as its general officers.

Article VI
Duties of Officers

The officers of the Assembly shall bear such responsibilities and perform such
duties as usually appertain to such officers. The recording secretary shall be a member
of the program committee and shall see that printed copies are sent to speakers and
officers of the Division and Jurisdictions two weeks before the meeting. She shall
keep a record of all proceedings of the Assembly and shall have such record included
in the Annual Report of the Division as the Division may determine. Assistant secre-
taries may be elected by the Assembly to serve during the session.

The treasurer shall receive and disburse funds for expenses of the Assembly in
accord with appropriations and the direction of the Division.

Article VII

Committees

There shall be the following committees and such others as the Assembly may
require.

Section 1. Committees appointed by the Division.

(a) Committee on Arrangements to provide a suitable place for the Assembly
meeting and to be responsible through subcommittees for credentials, transpor-
tation, and local arrangements.

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(b) Program Committee to prepare an informing and inspiring program which
shall include reports of the work of the Departments of the Division, of its
Standing Committees, of its Research Commissions, and the activities of the
Jurisdiction.

(c) Budget Committee, composed of the chairmen of the Committees on Arrange-
ments and on Program, and three members of the Standing Committee on
Finance and Estimates of the Division.

(d) Committee on Publicity, consisting of the women editors and appointed re-
porters. This committee shall provide preliminary announcements to the
church and secular press, report the proceedings of the Assembly, and be re-
sponsible for an Assembly bulletin.

(e) Committee of Reference, to which may be referred memorials, resolutions, re-
ports, or any controversial matters before final action by the Assembly.

Article VIII

Commissions

Research and Study Commissions in harmony with the purpose of the Assembly
as set forth in the constitution shall be appointed to serve for two years, full reports
to be made to the Assembly.

Article IX
Amendments

Proposed amendments to these by-laws shall be sent to the recording secretary
of the Woman's Division at least forty days before an Annual Meeting of the Woman's
Division.

By-laws of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association

Article I

Officers

Section 1. The officers of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association shall be a president,
a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer. They shall be nominated by a nomi-
nating committee and elected by ballot at a regular session and shall serve for four
years.

Section 2. President. The president shall preside at all meetings of the Associa-
tion and of the Executive Committee, and shall execute all duties pertaining to the
office.

Section 3. Vice-President. The vice-president shall preside over the meetings in
the absence of the president, and shall perform such other duties as are assigned to her.

Section If. Secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the
Association and of the Executive Committee, file a permanent record of the same,
conduct the correspondence of the Association, notify committees of their appoint-
ments, prepare reports to the Deaconess Bureau, and send out notices and reports of
meetings. The secretary shall obtain a complete record of all deaconesses, active and
retired, in the Jurisdiction and keep the same on file and up-to-date.

Section 5. Treasurer. The treasurer shall collect all dues and furnish to the Asso-
ciation a report of all receipts and disbursements. She shall disburse funds subject to
an order from the president and the secretary.

Section 6. Deaconess Bureau Membership. The Jurisdiction Deaconess Association
shall elect two persons to membership on the Deaconess Bureau, one of whom shall
be a deaconess member of the Association and the other an officer of the Jurisdiction
Woman's Society of Christian Service, the election to be held at the first regular
meeting of the Association following the General Conference. These members shall
serve for four years.

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Article II

Meetings

Section 1. The Quadrennial Meeting shall consist of as many sessions as are nec-
essary to meet the .needs of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association, the number to be
determined by the Program Committee in conference with the president.

Section 2. Notification of any meeting shall be given at least thirty days prior to
the date of the meeting, and the majority of the members shall constitute a quorum.

Article III
Finance

Section 1. The membership dues of the Association shall be one dollar a year.

Section 2. The Association shall provide for the payment of postage and other nec-
essary incidental expenses of the Executive Committee.

Article IV

Standing Committees

Section 1. There shall be the following Standing Committees and such others as
ma}' be found necessary:

Section 2. Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall consist of the
officers of the Association, the members of the Deaconess Bureau elected by the Juris-
diction Deaconess Association, the bishop (who is a member of the Association), one
ministerial member to be elected by the ministerial members of the Association and
one woman member to be elected by the group of Conference presidents from among
the presidents of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service. The com-
mittee shall meet annually and semiannually, one of the meetings to be held at the
time of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association meeting. The president, in conference
with any three members, may call a special meeting when necessary. A majority of
the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum. The committee shall fill all
vacancies in elective positions until the next regular meeting of the Association, and
perform all duties in accordance with Paragraph 1001, Sec. 3, of the Discipline.

Section 3. The Program Committee. The Program Committee shall arrange the
programs for the Association meetings.

Section 4- Promotion and Publicity Committee. The Committee on Promotion
and Publicity shall promote interest in the deaconess work throughout all the Annual
Conferences, Districts, and pastoral charges of the Jurisdiction.

Section 5. By-laws Committee. The Committee on By-laws shall make a careful
study of the minutes of the Deaconess Association and all new legislation of the Gen-
eral Conference and of the Deaconess Bureau which affect the deaconess. The com-
mittee shall recommend such changes as needed to be made in the by-laws, all pro-
posed amendments having been submitted to the Association.

Article V

Amendments

These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting of
the Association, provided the proposed amendments shall be sent to the committee
forty days before a regular meeting, and provided a copy of the proposed amendments
have been sent to each member of the Deaconess Association not later than ten days
before the meeting.

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By-laws of the
Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian Service

Article I
Officers

Section 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the Jurisdiction Woman's
Society and of the Executive Committee. She shall actively promote all phases of
the work. She shall be a member ex officio of all committees. She shall sign orders
for the disbursement of Jurisdiction funds. She shall be one of the advisory members
of the Woman's Division of Christian Service and of the Board of Missions and Church
Extension. She shall be a member of such co-operative boards and committees as the
Discipline provides.

Section 2. The vice-president shall assist actively in promoting the interests of
the work and, in the absence of the president, shall assume the duties of that office.

Section 3. The recording secretary shall keep a permanent record of all meetings
of the society and of the Executive Committee. She shall send minutes of Executive
Committee meetings to each officer. She shall send to the members notices of all
regular and special meetings of the Jurisdiction Society and of the Executive Com-
mittee. She shall present the recommendations of the Executive Committee to the
society and notify all committees of their appointments. She shall perform such other
duties as may be assigned to this office.

Section 4- The treasurer shall receive the funds which Conferences have desig-
nated for Jurisdiction cultivation and expenses and such other funds given for that
purpose, including offerings taken at Jurisdiction meetings. She shall disburse these
funds upon the written order of the president and the Organization and Promotion
Secretary of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society. She shall send itemized statements
of all funds to these officers and make an annual report to the Jurisdiction Woman's
Society. Her books shall be audited annually.

Section 5. There shall be a secretary of Home Work and a secretary of Foreign
Work. These secretaries shall be the Jurisdiction representatives on the corresponding
standing committees of the Departments of Home and Foreign Work of the Woman's
Division.

They shall study the work and interpret the reports of the respective Home and
Foreign Departments of the Division, keep informed on world and national movements
affecting missions, and within the Jurisdiction shall share in the promotion of the
entire missionary enterprise.

They shall be responsible as resource persons for assisting the secretary of Mis-
sionary Education and Service of the Jurisdiction in bringing to the entire Jurisdiction
information concerning the work of the Departments of Work in Home and Foreign
Fields.

They shall keep the Departments of Work in Home and Foreign Fields of the
Woman's Division informed as to ways in which the Departments can assist in
making the interest in their work more vital to the women of the Jurisdiction.

They shall be responsible for maintaining such contacts with the missionaries and
with work sponsored by the Conferences within the Jurisdiction as the Departments
of Work in Home and Foreign Fields may deem advisable in order to increase the
interest of the Conferences in the work they are sponsoring.

They shall report annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

Section 6. The secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities
shall promote the work of the Department within the Jurisdiction. She shall be
chairman of the Standing Committee on Christian Social Relations and Local Church
Activities within the Jurisdiction and plan with the committee the special lines of
work to be emphasized within the Jurisdiction, such plans to be in accord with the
recommendations of the Division. She shall co-operate with the secretaries of Mis-
sionary Education and Service and of Spiritual Life in the Study and Action plans of
the Jurisdiction. She shall receive quarterly and annual reports from the Conference
secretaries of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities and transmit
them to the executive secretary of the Department of the Woman's Division. She
shall report annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society. She shall be a member of

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the Standing Committee of the Department of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities within the Division.

Section 7. The secretary of Organization and Promotion shall conduct the cor-
respondence with Conference corresponding secretaries, supplying them with plans and
methods for the cultivation of Woman's Societies of Christian Service and for the
extension of the organization throughout the Jurisdiction. She shall assist the secre-
taries of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation in planning itineraries of
field workers and other speakers. She shall be responsible for giving information
concerning the organization and its work. She shall, with the president, sign orders
for the disbursement of Jurisdiction funds. She shall receive quarterly and annual
reports of the Conference corresponding secretaries and transmit them to the executive
secretary of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Education and Cultivation.
She shall report annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

Section S. The secretary of Missionary Education and Service, in co-operation
with the secretary of Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint
Division of Education and Cultivation and with the secretaries of Missionary Education
and Service in the Conferences, shall direct all study plans and promote all study
courses approved by the Woman's Division of Christian Service. She shall provide
missionary information, develop interest in the support of all missionary work, and
make recommendations concerning the special projects submitted to the Jurisdiction
by the secretaries of Home and Foreign Work of the Jurisdiction. She shall assist the
secretary of Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Edu-
cation and Cultivation in planning such missionary itineraries, conferences, schools, and
other meetings as will help develop missionary intelligence and a trained leadership in the
Jurisdiction. She shall be chairman of the Jurisdiction Committee on Summer Schools
and Conferences, and through this committee she shall work in close co-operation with
the secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities and with the
secretary of Spiritual Life in the promotion of study plans. She shall keep in touch
with denominational and interdenominational agencies engaged in missionary educa-
tion. She shall receive quarterly and annual reports of the secretaries of Missionary
Education and Service in the Conferences and transmit them to the secretary of Mis-
sionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of Education and
Cultivation. She shall report annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

Section 9. The secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall serve as chairman
of the Jurisdiction Guild Committee. She shall promote the work of the Wesleyan
Service Guild within the Jurisdiction, shall assist in the organization of new units,
shall receive semiannual reports from the Conference Guild secretaries, and shall report
semiannually to the Jurisdiction Guild Committee and the standing committee of
the Wesleyan Service Guild, and annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society of
Christian Service. She shall familiarize herself with the work of the Wesleyan Service
Guild and with the other work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She
shall attend, as far as possible, Conference and Jurisdiction meetings of the Guild, and
at the meetings of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the Jurisdiction,
represent the Guild and present its interests.

Section 10. There shall be a secretary of Student Work. She shall promote the
work according to the plans and program approved by the Woman's Division. She
shall report quarterly and annually to the Division Secretary of Student Work and
annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

She shall co-operate wherever possible with the regional program of the Methodist
Student Movement, with the regional counselor and regional chairmen on the World
Christian Community and on Christian Social Action.

Section 11. The secretary of Youth Work shall promote the work according to
the plans and program approved by the Woman's Division. She shall receive quarterly
and annual reports of secretaries of Youth Work in the Conferences and transmit them
to the Division secretary of Youth Work. She shall report annually to the Jurisdiction
Woman's Society.

Section 12. The secretary of Children's Work shall promote the work according
to the plans and program approved by the Woman's Division. She shall receive quar-
terly and annual reports of secretaries of Children's Work in the Conferences and
transmit them to the Division secretary of Children's Work. She shall report annually
to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

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Section 13. The secretary of Literature and Publications shall be responsible for
the dissemination of missionary news through the church and secular press. She shall
make a careful study of all literature of the Woman's Division, including the program
materials, and report concerning its suitability to meet the needs of Woman's Societies.
She shall promote the circulation of The Methodist Woman and World Outlook in
co-operation with the other responsible agencies of the church. She shall receive
quarterly and annual reports of secretaries of Literature and Publications in the Con-
ferences and transmit them to the Editorial Board of the Woman's Division. She shall
report annually to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society.

Section 14- The secretary of Supply Work shall be responsible for promoting
interest in the sending of needed supplies to the ministers of The Methodist Church
as recommended by their district superintendents and cleared through the Committee
on Supply Work of the Woman's Division. She shall promote interest in the sending
of needed supplies to institutions and agencies in the home and foreign fields under the
supervision of the Woman's Division. She shall send the plans and policies approved
by the Woman's Division Committee on Supply Work to the Conference secretaries
of Supply Work. She shall receive the quarterly and annual reports of the secretaries
of Supplies in the Conferences and transmit them to the chairman of the Standing
Committee on Supply Work.

Section 15. There shall be a secretary of Spiritual Life. She shall serve as chair-
man of the Standing Committee on Spiritual Life, and working through this committee
she shall promote the plans and program approved by the Standing Committee on
Spiritual Life of the Woman's Division. She shall be a member of the Standing
Committee on Summer Schools and Conferences.

Article II

Standing Committees

Section 1. The Jurisdiction Woman's Society may provide such standing committees
as the work may require.

Section 2. There shall be an Executive Committee, composed of the officers of the
Jurisdiction Society, two members of the Woman's Division resident in the Jurisdiction,
the chairmen of Standing Committees of the Jurisdiction, and such additional persons
as the Jurisdiction Woman's Society may provide.

Section 3. There shall be a Standing Committee on Spiritual Life, composed of
the secretary of Spiritual Life and the Jurisdiction representative on the Standing
Committee on Spiritual Life of the Woman's Division. This committee shall promote
the plans and programs approved by the Standing Committee on Spiritual Life of
the Woman's Division. It shall study the spiritual needs of the Jurisdiction and
make recommendations to the Standing Committee on Spiritual Life of the Division.
The members of this committee shall serve as resource persons in the Jurisdiction.
The secretary shall be responsible for securing from Conference secretaries of Spiritual
Life reports regarding the work in the Conferences. The secretary shall make an
annual report to the Jurisdiction Society and report quarterly and annually to the
chairman of the Standing Committee of the Division on Spiritual Life.

Section 4- There shall be a Standing Committee on Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities, composed of the Jurisdiction secretary, five or more
Conference secretaries of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, and
a representative of the Wesleyan Service Guild to be elected by the Jurisdiction Society.
Such members may or may not be members of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society
prior to their election to this committee. The representatives of the Division's resource
committees living within the Jurisdiction shall serve as members ex officio of the
Jurisdiction Standing Committee. This committee shall meet annually and make
recommendations concerning the work of the Department within the Jurisdiction in
accord with the lines of work outlined by the Division.

Section 5. There shall be a Standing Committee on Jurisdiction Summer Schools
and Conferences, composed of the secretaries of Missionary Education and Service,
of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, of Spiritual Life, of Youth
Work, of Children's Work, and the president. With the approval of the Executive
Committee, this committee may co-opt annually such other persons as may be needed.

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This committee shall co-operate with the secretary of Missionary Education of
the Woman's Section of the Joint Division according to the approved policies of the
Woman's Division relating to such schools and conferences.

The committee shall meet at least once annually to determine the general plans
for the Jurisdiction school and to make recommendations concerning the same to the
Executive Committee of the Jurisdiction.

Plans and recommendations developed in the school shall be sent by the committee
to the Conferences in the Jurisdiction for the use of the Conference Committee on
Study and Action.

The chairman of the Jurisdiction Committee on Summer Schools and Conferences
shall see that a complete report of the work of the Jurisdiction school is sent to the
secretary of Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division of
Education and Cultivation.

Section 6. There shall be a Standing Committee on Status of Women, composed
of the chairman and two other members who shall promote the plans and program
approved by the Standing Committee of the Woman's Division. This committee shall
study the status of women in the local church, community, state, nation, and in other
lands, and shall make recommendations to the Standing Committee of the Division.
The chairman shall report annually to the Jurisdiction Society and to the chairman
of the Standing Committee on Status of Women of the Division.

Section 7. There shall be a Standing Committee on Finance, composed of the
president and the treasurer of the Jurisdiction Society and such other members as
the Jurisdiction Society may determine. This committee shall plan the budget for
Jurisdiction expenses and estimate the amount needed from each Conference Society
for this purpose. This amount shall be submitted to each Conference Society for
approval.

Section 8. There shall be a committee to nominate the members of standing com-
mittees of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society. This committee shall be composed of
the vice-president of the society and six other members. It shall be the duty of this
committee to nominate the members of the standing committees, and to make nomi-
nations to fill vacancies which occur ad interim in standing committees and offices.
Such ad interim nominations for completion of a term of office shall be presented to
the Jurisdiction Society or the Executive Committee for election, to serve until the
next regular election.

Section 9. There may be a Research Committee, whose duty it shall be to search
for specially qualified women in the Jurisdiction who may serve as officers and as chair-
men of standing committees. It shall study the qualifications and suitability of such
women for special places of service and submit a report of its findings when called
for to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society, or to the Nominating Committee.

Article III

Elections

Section 1. Each Jurisdiction Woman's Society shall choose its own method of
election. The report of the Research Committee shall be made available to the
society before an election.

Article IV

Amendments

Section 1. Proposed amendments to these by-laws shall be sent to the recording
secretary of tUe Woman's Division at least forty days before an Annual Meeting of
the Woman's Division.

Article V

By-laws

Section 1. Each Jurisdiction Woman's Society may make such by-laws as the
needs of the Jurisdiction require, provided they are in harmony with the constitution
and by-laws of the Woman's Division.

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Constitution of the
Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service

Article I
Name

In each Annual Conference there shall be organized a Conference Woman's Society
of Christian Service, auxiliary to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society and to the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

Article II
Purpose

The purpose of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service shall be to
plan and direct the work of the society within the Conference in accordance with the
constitution and by-laws of the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

Article III
Membership and Officers

The Conference Society shall be composed of auxiliary delegates from societies
in the local church, the number to be determined by each Conference, according to
its requirements; such District officers as the Conference Society ma3r determine, from
each District; all chairmen of Conference standing committees; any officers or mem-
bers of the Woman's Division or of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society residing within
the bounds of the Conference, and the following Conference officers: a president, a
vice-president, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, a secretary
of the Wesleyan Service Guild, a secretary of Student Work, a secretaiy of Youth
Work, a secretary of Children's Work, a secretary or vice-president of Missionary
Education and Service, a secretary or vice-president of Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, a secretary of Literature and Publications, a secretary of
Supply Work, a secretary of Spiritual Life, and such other secretaries of lines of work
as may be required.

Article IV
Annual Meeting

There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Conference Society when reports shall
be received from the Conference officers and from the Districts. Officers shall be
elected, the necessary business transacted, and pledges made for the year. There
shall be a program of inspiration and information in harmony with the plans and
projects of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society and the Woman's Division of Christian
Service.

Article V

Elections

Section 1. At the last meeting of the quadrennium. the Conference Woman's
Society of Christian Service, according to instructions in the Discipline, shall elect the
women for Conference representatives to the Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian
Service.

Section 2. Three women shall be nominated for membership on the Board of
Missions and Church Extension. Two alternates shall be nominated to provide for
any vacancies among the regular nominees.

Section 3. At the annual meeting preceding the Assembly, delegates shall be
elected in accordance with stated membership.

Article VI

Amendments

Proposed amendments to this constitution shall be sent to the recording secretary
of the Woman's Division at least forty days before the Annual Meeting of the Division.

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By-laws of the
Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service

Article I

Officers

Section 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the Conference Woman's
Society of Christian Service and of the Executive Committee. She shall actively
advance all the interests of the work. She shall sign all orders on the treasury. She
shall be a member ex officio of all committees. She shall be a member of the Juris-
diction Board of Missions and Church Extension and of the Conference Board and
of such other co-operative boards and committees as the Discipline may provide.

. Section 2. The vice-president shall perform the duties of the president in her
absence and actively assist in promoting the interests of the society. She shall per-
form such other duties as the Conference Society may require.

Section 3. The recording secretary shall give notice of all meetings of the Con-
ference Society and of the Executive Committee. She shall keep a permanent record
of all proceedings and send a copy of the minutes of the Executive Committee to
each officer. She shall present all recommendations of the Executive Committee to
the Conference Society and notify all committees of their appointment. She shall
prepare and issue the annual report of the Conference Society.

Section 4- The corresponding secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the
society. She shall supply the societies with information concerning the work. In
co-operation with the District secretaries, she shall seek to organize societies in every
church in the Conference. She shall sign all orders on the treasury. Immediately after
the election of Conference Society officers, she shall send a list of the officers to the
secretary of Organization and Promotion of the Jurisdiction and to the executive
secretary of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division. She shall report annually to
the Conference Society and quarterly and annually to the secretary of Organization
and Promotion of the Jurisdiction Society and to the executive secretary of the
Woman's Section of the Joint Division.

Section 5. The treasurer shall receive the missionary funds of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service in the local church quarterly or monthly from the
treasurer of the local society, or from District treasurers, as the Conference Society
may direct. She shall remit such funds without division to the treasurer of the
Woman's Division of Christian Service. She shall make an annual report to the
Conference Society. She shall disburse funds upon the written order of the Conference
president and corresponding secretary, and shall send an itemized statement of all
finances to these officers. Her books shall be submitted annually to an auditor. She
shall be bonded in such sum and upon such conditions as the Woman's Division may
determine.

Section 6. The secretary or vice-president of Missionary Education and Service
shall be responsible for missionary education in the Conference and for the promotion
of study courses in the societies. She shall provide missionary information, recom-
mend missionary projects, and develop interest in their support. She shall recom-
mend to the Conference Society the study courses approved by the Woman's Division
of Christian Service. She shall assist in planning and promoting missionary conferences
and schools of missions, and educational conferences and seminars sponsored by the
Woman's Division. She shall serve as chairman of the Committee on Study and
Action and through this committee co-operate with the secretaries of Spiritual Life
and of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities for the co-ordination
of the study and action plans for the Conference. She shall co-operate also with the
Conference Board of Missions and Church Extension in its program of missionary
education and with interdenominational agencies engaged in missionary education. She
shall report annually to the Conference Society and quarterly and annually to the
Jurisdiction secretary of Missionary Education and Service, and to the secretary of
Missionary Education of the Woman's Section of the Joint Division. Where ad-
visable, this work may be promoted by two secretaries, one in charge of missionary
education and one in charge of special missionary projects.

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Section 7. The secretary or vice-president of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities shall develop and direct the work of the Conference through District
and local society officers of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities.
She shall guide the women in the studies and action growing out of the findings of
the resource committees of the Department in the Division. She shall co-operate
with the secretaries of Spiritual Life and of Missionary Education and Service in the
study and action plans of the Conference. She shall serve as chairman of the Con-
ference Standing Committee on Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activi-
ties. She shall co-operate with other organizations of the church and with other agen-
cies working toward similar ends. She shall report annually to the Conference Society
and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities and to the executive secretary of the Department.

Section S. The secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall serve as chairman
of the Conference Guild Committee. She shall promote the work of the Wesleyan
Service Guild within the Conference, shall assist in the organization of new units, shall
receive semi-annual reports from the District Guild secretaries, and shall report semi-
annually to the Conference, Jurisdiction, and Division Standing Committees of the
Wesleyan Service Guild. She shall familiarize herself with the work of the Wesleyan
Service Guild and with the entire program of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.
She shall attend, as far as possible, District and Conference meetings of the Guild,
represent the Guild, and present its interests at the meetings of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service in the Conference.

Section 9. The secretary of Student Work shall promote the plans and program
approved by the Woman's Division. She shall report annually to the Conference
Woman's Society and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of Student
Work and to the secretary of Student Work of the Woman's Section of the Joint
Division.

She shall work also in co-operation with the State (or similar region) Student
Council of the Methodist Student Movement, with the state director and student
chairmen of the World Christian Community and Christian Social Action Committees,
and wherever possible with the Inter-Conference Commission on Student Work.

Section 10. The secretary of Youth Work shall promote the work according to
the plans and program approved by the Woman's Division. She shall report annually
to the Conference Society and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of
Youth Work and to the Division secretary.

Section 11. The secretary of Children's Work shall promote the work according
to the plans and program approved by the Woman's Division. She shall report annu-
ally to the Conference Society and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary
of Children's Work and to the Division secretary.

Section 12. The secretary of Literature and Publications shall be responsible for
the distribution of literature throughout the Conference and for the dissemination
of missionary news through the church and secular press. She shall make a careful
study of all the literature of the Woman's Division, including the program materials,
and report concerning its suitability to meet Conference needs. She shall promote
the circulation of The Methodist Woman throughout the Conference, and in co-oper-
ation with the other responsible agencies of the church she shall promote the circu-
lation of World Outlook throughout the Conference. She shall report annually to the
Conference Society and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of Litera-
ture and Publications.

Section 13. The secretary of Supply Work shall be responsible for promoting
interest in the sending of needed supplies to the ministers of The Methodist Church
recommended by their district superintendents and cleared through the Committee
on Supply Work of the Woman's Division. She shall promote interest in the sending
of needed supplies to institutions in the home and foreign fields under the supervision
of the Woman's Division. She shall report annually to the Conference Society and
quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of Supply Work.

Section 14- The secretary of Spiritual Life shall endeavor to quicken the spiritual
life of Methodist women. Working through the Standing Committee, she shall seek
to permeate the church with spiritual power which should lead to deeper consecration
and more effective Christian service. She shall be a member of the Standing Com-
mittee on Study and Action. She shall report annually to the Conference Society
and quarterly and annually to the Jurisdiction secretary of Spiritual Life.

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Article II
Elections

Section 1. Only women residing within the bounds of the Conference shall be
elected as Conference officers. Conference officers shall be elected by ballot at an
annual meeting of the society. The elections shall take place annually, biennially, or
quadrennially, as the Conference may determine.

Section 2. At the last annual meeting of the quadrennium, the Conference Society
shall elect from three to six delegates to the Jurisdiction Society, three of whom shall
be officers of the Conference Society.

Article III
Executive Committee

Section 1. The Executive Committee of the Conference Society shall be composed
of the officers and such other persons as the Conference Society may determine. A
majority shall constitute a quorum.

Section 2. The Executive Committee shall constitute from its membership an
administrative committee of seven who shall transact necessary business in the interim
between meetings of the Executive Committee.

Article IV
Funds

Section 1. The Conference Society shall make an annual pledge to the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

Section 2. All undirected missionary gifts shall be divided in the office of the
treasurer of the Woman's Division on the basis agreed upon by the Division. There
shall be no division of missionary funds by the Conference treasurer.

Section 3. Gifts for special missionary projects, clearly specified, shall be sent to
the Conference treasurer, who shall transmit them to the treasurer of the Woman's
Division.

Section 4. Funds contributed for Special Memberships and Memorials are a part
of regular pledges or apportionments and may not be directed by the Conference Society.

Section 5. Each Conference Society shall set up a fund for Conference cultivation
and expenses and for such Jurisdiction cultivation and expenses as are not provided
for by the Woman's Division.

Section 6. The Week of Prayer and Self-denial Offering shall be applied to the
objects designated each year by the Woman's Division.

Article V
Standing Committees

Section 1. The Conference Society shall provide such standing committees as the
needs may require.

Section 2. There shall be a Standing Committee on Spiritual Life whose endeavor
shall be to quicken the spiritual life of all Methodist women by helping them to deepen
their prayer life and to increase their sense of responsibility for personal service and
giving. The committee shall keep in touch with the spiritual movements of the times
and by prayerful research develop a clearer appreciation of the meaning of Christian
living; it shall promote Christian stewardship, informal studies, and the use of the
Bible and other devotional materials. The committee shall devise definite means for
permeating the local church with a spiritual power that should lead to deeper con-
secration and to more active service.

Section 3. There shall be a Standing Committee on Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, which may include District secretaries of Christian Social
Relations and Local Church Activities or other specially trained leaders in the field
of social action, including the Wesleyan Service Guild members. This committee shall
make recommendations to the Conference Society concerning the work of Christian
Social Relations and Local Church Activities in accord with the lines of work outlined
by the Division and Jurisdiction.

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Section 4- There shall be a Standing Committee on Study and Action, composed
of the secretaries of Missionary Education and Service, of Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities, and of Spiritual Life. This committee may co-opt such
other members as may be needed.

It shall be the duty of this committee to consider all plans and recommendations
referred to the Conference by the Jurisdiction Committee on Summer Schools and
Conferences; to make recommendations concerning the use of approved study courses,
joint study courses, and co-operative courses. It may recommend also special informal
studies in line with major needs. This committee shall develop a correlated program
of education and action for the year and make recommendations concerning the same
to the Conference Society.

Section 5. There shall be a Standing Committee on Finance. This committee
shall be composed of the treasurer of the Conference, as chairman, and the treasurers
of the District Society, where there are such officers, and a limited number of other
women appointed at the annual meeting of the Conference Society.

This committee shall meet at least semiannually, and on call of the chairman.

It shall study the strength of the society in the local churches and the pledges
made ; become informed of conference income and disbursements, local financial pos-
sibilities and problems; and assist by counsel in the forming of the Conference pledge
and budget.

Section 6. There shall be a Standing Committee on Status of Women. It shall
be the duty of this committee to study the status of women in the local church, the
community, the state, the nation, and in other lands. This study shall include the
bases of woman's place and the questions that affect her place in society and in the
church. The committee shall make recommendations to the Conference Society for
the promotion of such lines of activities as will improve her status and enable her to
serve effectively.

Section 7. There shall be a Standing Committee on Missionary Personnel, com-
posed of the Conference chairman of Missionary Personnel, the Conference president,
the Conference corresponding secretary, the secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild,
the secretary of Student Work, and the women members of the Joint Committee on
Missionary Personnel of the Board of Missions and Church Extension and of the Com-
mittee on Missionary Personnel of the Woman's Division residing within the Con-
ference. Others with experience in personnel work may be co-opted.

This committee shall work in co-operation with the Committee on Missionary
Personnel of the Woman's Division. It shall search for consecrated young women of
training and experience who may be available for Christian service : it shall interpret
the standards for candidates and the types of service needed; it shall explain to pros-
pective candidates the procedure in making application to the Board; it shall rec-
ommend to the personnel secretary of the Joint Committee on Missionary Personnel
of the Board the names of such persons who in the judgment of the committee shall
be considered as prospective candidates; it shall co-operate in making plans for visita-
tion within the Conference in the interest of personnel work. The committe shall send
an annual report of its activities to the chairman of the Committee on Missionary
Personnel of the Woman's Division.

Article VI

By-laws

The Conference Society may make such by-laws as the needs of the Conference
require, provided they are in harmony with the constitution and by-laws of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

Constitution of the
District Woman's Society of Christian Service

Article I

Name

There may be a District Woman's Society of Christian Service, auxiliary to the
Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service.

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Article II

Purpose

The purpose of the District Society shall be to unite all the societies within the
District in an earnest effort for the promotion of the work of the Conference Woman's
Society of Christian Service.

Article III

Membership

All members of Woman's Societies of Christian Service in the local churches of a
District shall be considered members of the District Society.

Article IV

District Officers

The officers of the District Society shall be a president, a corresponding secretary,
a recording secretary, and such other officers as will best develop and promote the
interests of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the District. Such District
officers as the Conference Society may determine shall be members of the Conference
Executive Committee.

Article V

Meetings

There shall be an annual meeting of the District Society, when reports shall be
received from the societies in the District, officers elected, necessary business transacted,
pledges made by the societies, and a program of inspiration and information given
along the lines of work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Article VI

Amendments

Proposed amendments to this constitution shall be sent to the recording secre-
tary of the Woman's Division at least forty da3*s before the Annual Meeting of the
Division.

By-laws of the
District Woman's Society of Christian Service

Article I
Officers

Section 1. The president shall preside at the meetings of the District Society and
actively advance all interests of the work. She shall perform such other duties as are
usual to a presiding officer.

Section 2. The recording secretary shall keep the minutes of all the meetings of the
District in permanent form. She shall perform such other duties as are required.

Section 3. The corresponding secretary shall conduct correspondence with the so-
cieties of the District and keep in close touch with the Conference corresponding sec-
retary. She shall furnish all needed information to the societies, use every means
to promote the entire work, and organize and cultivate new societies. She shall make
reports to the District Society and to the Conference Society, as required. She shall
present the work at District conferences and institutes as called for by the district
superintendent. She shall send quarterly and annual reports to the Conference cor-
responding secretary and copies of these to the Conference president. She may be a
member of the Conference Executive Committee.

Section /f. The District Society may elect such other officers as the work demands
and appoint such standing committees as the need requires, all in harmony with the
Conference Society and with the Woman's Division.

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Constitution of the

Woman's Society of Christian Service

in the Local Church

Article I

Name

There shall be a Woman's Society of Christian Service in the local church, auxiliary
to the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Article II

Purpose

The purpose of the Woman's Society of Christian Service shall be to unite all the
women of the church in Christian living and service; to help develop and support
Christian work among women and children around the world; to develop the spiritual
life; to study the needs of the world; to take part in such service activities as will
strengthen the local church, improve civic, community, and world conditions. To
this end this organization shall seek to enlist women, young people, and children in
this Christian fellowship, and to secure funds for the activities in the local church
and support of the work undertaken at home and abroad for the establishment of a
world Christian community.

Article III

Membership

A woman may become a member of this society by giving prayer, service, and an
annual contribution of money to the total budget through membership offerings or
dues, pledges, or gifts. She shall contribute to, educate for, and promote the total
program of the women of Methodism.

Article IV
Funds

Section 1. All funds from whatsoever source raised under the auspices of this
society belong to this organization and shall be disbursed only in accord with its
constitution and by its order.

Section 2. The total budget of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the
local church shall be the amounts pledged for the entire work of the Woman's Division,
cultivation funds, and funds for community service and local church activities.

The funds to be sent to the treasurer of the Woman's Division shall be remitted
through the regular channels of finance: from the treasurer of the society in the local
church to the District or Conference treasurer, on to the treasurer of the Woman's
Division. There shall be no division of funds sent to the treasurer of the Woman's
Division by the treasurer in the society in the local church.

The funds for community service and local church activities shall be administered
by the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the local church.

Section 3. Provision shall be made for gifts to special missionary projects within
the appropriations. Gifts for special missionary projects shall be sent by the treasurer
of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the local church to the District or
Conference treasurer. The total amount of such gifts shall be reported and trans-
mitted quarterly by the Conference treasurer to the treasurer of the Woman's Division.

Section 4- Thank offerings, Christmas offerings, and Lenten offerings may be used
as methods of raising the total budget of the Woman's Society of Christian Service
in the local church.

Section 5. Each Woman's Society of Christian Service shall make an annual
pledge to the total budget adopted by the Conference Woman's Society of Christian
Service.

Section 6. Each Woman's Society of Christian Service shall include in its budget
a definite amount for a cultivation fund.

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Article V
Officers and Elections

The officers of this society shall be a president, one or more vice-presidents, a
recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, a vice-president or a secretary
of Missionary Education and Service, a vice-president or a secretary of Christian Social
Relations and Local Church Activities, a secretary of Student Work, a secretary of
Youth Work, a secretary of Children's Work, a secretary of Literature and Publica-
tions, a secretary of Supply Work, and such other officers in charge of lines of work
as may be required.

These officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the society.

Article VI

Meetings

,The society shall hold one or more meetings during a month for the transaction
of its business and for the study of the work.

Article VII

Amendments

Proposed amendments to this constitution shall be sent to the recording secretary
of the Woman's Division at least forty days before the Annual Meeting of the Division.

By-laws of the

Woman's Society of Christian Service

in the Local Church

Article I
Meetings

Section 1. There shall be one or more regular meetings of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service during a month. There shall be an annual meeting for the re-
ceiving of annual reports and the election and installation of officers. It shall be held
prior to the close of the fiscal year. Adequate time shall be given in the meeting for
education in and successful promotion of the vast interests committed to Methodist
women. The first regular meeting of the year shall be devoted to consecration and
the consideration of the plans, programs, and financial pledges for the year. Where
expedient, the society may organize circles, representing the entire program of the
society. Circles, if organized, shall meet once a month as the whole society for an
inclusive presentation of the plans and program of the society. Membership in circles
shall be revolving, subject to entire change of personnel at the time of the annual
meeting.

Section 2. The order of business shall include worship; reports of general officers,
of officers in charge of the various lines of work, and of chairmen of standing commit-
tees; and a program presenting the total work of the society as provided by the edu-
cation and cultivation agencies, of the Division.

Section 3. A special meeting of the society may be called by the president with
the approval of the Executive Committee. At such special meetings no business shall
be transacted except that for which the meeting is called.

Section 4. The president may call a special meeting of the Executive Committee
to consider business of importance.

Article II

Nominations and Elections

Section 1. The society may elect, prior to the annual meeting, from three to
seven members who shall serve as a nominating committee to present nominations
of all officers and chairmen of standing committees for the ensuing year.

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Section 2. Nomination* and elections may be by acclamation or by ballot. The
consent of nominees shall be secured before presenting names.

Section 3. A majority vote is sufficient for election. Those elected shall assume
their duties at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Section 4- No officer shall hold the same office for more than four consecutive
years with the possible exception of the treasurer.

Article III
Duties of Officers

Section 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the society and of the
Executive Committee. She shall actively advance all phases of the work of the society.
She shall promote close co-operation between the society and the Board of Missions
and Church Extension in the local church and shall be responsible for the election by
the society of two representatives to membership on that Board. She shall officially
represent the society at all meetings except where delegates are elected by the society.
She shall be a member ex officio of all committees except the Nominating Committee
and shall sign all orders on the treasury. She shall be a member of The Methodist
Church, thus qualifying for membership on the Official Board and of the Quarterly
Conference.

Section 2. The vice-president shall assist in promoting the interests of the society
and in the absence of the president shall assume the duties of that office. She shall
be the chairman of the Program Committee.

Section 3. The recording secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the
society and of the Executive Committee and shall sign, with the president, all official
papers. She shall report the recommendations of the Executive Committee to the
society, and in co-operation with the Publicity Committee see that all meetings are
properly announced. She shall be custodian of all official papers and records.

Section 4- The corresponding secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the
society. She shall forward reports and information to District and Conference sec-
retaries quarterly and annually as directed by the society. She shall send a list of
newly elected officers of the society to District and Conference officers immediately
following the election at the annual meeting of the society.

Section 5. The treasurer of the Woman's Society of Christian Service shall send
all funds, except those designated for community service and local church activities,
to the Conference Society treasurer, unless the Conference authorizes District treasurers
to receive such funds. She shall make itemized monthly and annual reports to the
society and provide copies of all reports for the corresponding secretary for inclusion
in her quarterly and annual reports to the District or Conference officers. She shall
accept funds turned over to her by the local unit of the Wesleyan Service Guild and
send them to the District or Conference treasurer, clearly marked as Wesleyan Service
Guild funds. She shall remit monthly or quarterly to the District or Conference treas-
urer. She shall send to the Conference treasurer an annual, itemized statement of all
missionary and local funds passed by the Auditing Committee of the local church.

Section 6. The vice-president or secretary of Missionary Education and Service
shall promote study courses, provide missionary information, keep in touch with con-
nectional agencies and missionaries and deaconesses, make recommendations for special
missionary projects, and seek to develop the interest of the membership in their sup-
port. She shall serve as chairman of the Study and Action Committee, and through
this committee she shall co-operate with the secretaries of Christian Social Relations
and Local Church Activities and of Spiritual Life in forming the study and action plans
of the society. She shall be a member of the Program Committee. She shall make
reports of this work to the society and shall send quarterly and annual reports to the
corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 7. The vice-president or secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local
Church Activities shall direct and promote the work of the society in community
service, guide a study of community conditions, and plan and supervise activities ap-
proved by the society in accord with the program and studies undertaken by this
Department of the Woman's Division. She shall supervise work undertaken by the
society such as was formerly promoted by the Ladies' Aid Society or by societies of

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similar purpose. She shall encourage the membership to co-operate in and support
the total program of the local church to the end that the church may achieve a high
degree of effective Christian influence and power. The society may appoint a com-
mittee or committees to assist the secretary in developing this work. The secretary
shall be a member of the Program Committee and of the Study and Action Committee
of the society. She shall make reports of this work to the society and shall send
quarterly and annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section S. The secretary of Student Work shall promote the plans and program
approved by the Woman's Division of Christian Service. The secretary of Student
Work in the church nearest the campus shall work in the total program of student
religious life. She shall work in co-operation with the pastor-director of Student Work
or with the director of religious life on the campus. She shall place special emphasis
on the work of the local Student Council Commissions (or committees) on the World
Christian Community and Christian Social Action. Wherever possible, she shall work
through membership on the Campus-Church Relations Committee or with similar
advisory groups. She shall make reports of the Student Work to the society and shall
send quarterly and annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 9. The secretary of Youth Work shall co-operate in the total program
of missionary education in the local church in harmony with the plans and programs
of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service and of the Woman's Division.
She shall make reports of the Youth Work to the society and shall send quarterly and
annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 10. The secretary of Children's Work shall co-operate in the total program
of missionary education in the local church in harmony with the plans and programs
of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service and of the Woman's Division.
She shall make reports of the Children's Work to the Society and shall send quarterly
and annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 11. The secretary of Literature and Publications shall be a member of
the Program Committee and shall make a careful study of all literature, including the
program materials of the Woman's Division and shall report to the Conference secre-
tary of Literature and Publications concerning their use by the local society and their
suitability to its needs. She shall also be responsible for the circulation of World
Outlook and The Methodist Woman through the local church. She shall, in co-oper-
ation with some person appointed by the Board of Missions and Church Extension
in the local church, and with the assistance of a joint committee, make a canvass of
the entire membership, securing subscriptions and renewals. A particular responsibility
shall be to present both of these magazines to the members of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service. She shall make reports of this work to the society and shall
send quarterly and annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 12. The secretary of Supply Work shall direct the sending of needed sup-
plies to ministers of The Methodist Church recommended by their district superin-
tendents and to institutions in the home and foreign fields under the supervision of
the Woman's Division. She shall make reports to the society and shall send quarterly
and annual reports to the corresponding District or Conference officers.

Section 13. The secretary of Spiritual Life shall seek to quicken the spiritual
life of all the women of the church and to increase their sense of responsibility for
personal service and giving. She shall serve as chairman of the Spiritual Life Com-
mittee and shall be a member of the Program Committee and the Committee on
Study and Action of the society. She shall make reports of the work to the society
and shall send quarterly and annual reports to the corresponding District or Confer-
ence officers.

Article IV

Standing Committees

Section 1. The society shall set up such standing committees as the needs of the
work from time to time shall require.

Section 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of the general officers, the
vice-president or secretary of Missionary Education and Service, the vice-president
or secretary of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the president

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and the treasurer of Wesleyan Service Guild, the secretary of Student Work, the sec-
retary of Youth Work, the secretary of Children's Work, the secretary of Supply Work,
the secretary of Literature and Publications, the secretary of Spiritual Life, trie chair-
men of standing committees and of circles. The committee shall meet once a month
prior to the business meeting of the society. It shall consider all plans and projects
and submit its recommendations to the society for action. Ad interim vacancies in
officers or in chairmen shall be filled by the Executive Committee.

Section 3. The Spiritual Life Committee shall give particular attention to the
growth of the spiritual life of the members of the society and of the church by seeking
to deepen the prayer life and to increase the sense of responsibility for personal
service and Christian Stewardship. The committee shall be responsible for the pro-
motion of informal studies recommended by the Standing Committee on Spiritual
Life of the Conference Society and of the Woman's Division.

Section 4- The Program Committee shall consist of the vice-president of the
society, the vice-presidents or secretaries of Missionary Education and Service and of
Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, the secretary of Literature and
Publications, and the secretary of Spiritual Life. Additional members may be elected
or appointed by the Executive Committee if the society so desires.

This committee shall plan and supervise the programs for regular monthly and
other meetings of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Section 5. There shall be a Committee on Study and Action, composed of the
secretaries of Missionary Education and Service, of Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, and of Spiritual Life. It shall be the duty of this committee
to consider all plans and recommendations referred to it by the Conference Committee
on Study and Action and to make recommendations concerning the use of approved
study courses, joint study courses, and co-operative courses. It may recommend also
special informal studies in line with major needs. This committee shall develop a
correlated program of education and action for the year and make recommendations
concerning the same to the society or to its Executive Committee.

Section 6. The Finance Committee shall consist of the president, the treasurer
who shall be chairman, and members chosen to represent Missionary Education and
Service and Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities.

It shall be the duty of the Finance Committee to consider the total budget of
the society. This budget shall include the amounts to be sent to the District or Con-
ference treasurer, and the amounts to be expended locally.

The committee shall recommend the total budget to the society for its approval
and adoption.

Section 7. The Membership Committee shall plan frequent surveys of the women
of the community, in an endeavor to secure members for the church and for the society.
The committee shall strive to establish such relationship with new members as will
enlist their eager and active participation in the total program of the church and of
the society. The committee shall make use of opportunities to further the interests
of woman's work in neighboring churches where no organizations have heretofore
existed.

Section S. The Fellowship Committee shall promote the social life of the society
and the church and help create an atmosphere of warmth and friendliness. The com-
mittee shall make plans for social functions or special efforts sponsored by the society
or requested by the official board.

Section 9. The Committee on Status of Women shall study the status of women
in the local church, the community, the state and the nation, and in other lands, in-
cluding the bases of woman's place and the questions that affect her place in society
and in the church. This committee shall make recommendations to the society for
the promotion of such lines of activity as will improve woman's status and enable her
to serve effectively.

Section 10. The Publicity and Printing Committee shall send to the church bul-
letin and newspapers all notices and reports of meetings of the society and shall collect
clippings and letters of interest relating to society meetings, programs, and social
functions. It shall have charge of printing and stationery.

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Constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild

Article I

Name
The name of this organization shall be the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Article II

Purpose

The purpose of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be to interest gainfully employed
women in a total program for others, as well as for themselves, as follows:

(1) Development of spiritual life

(2) Cultivation of missionary interests

(3) Promotion of Christian social relations and local church activities

(4) Provision for social and recreational activities

Article III

Authority

The Wesleyan Service Guild shall be auxiliary to the Woman's Division of Chris-
tian Service of The Methodist Church. General supervision of the work shall be
vested in a standing committee.

Article IV

Composition

The Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be composed of six
members of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, six Jurisdiction secretaries of
the Wesleyan Service Guild, and ten representatives from the membership at large of
the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Article V

Officers

Section 1. There shall be a secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service.

Section 2. The officers of the Standing Committee of the Division shall be a
chairman, one or more vice-chairmen, a recording secretary, and such other officers
as the development of the organization may require. •

Article VI
Jurisdiction
Section 1. There shall be a Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild secretary.
Section 2. There shall be a Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild Committee, com-
posed of the Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild secretary, the Guild secretary from
each Conference within the Jurisdiction, and three representatives of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service within the Jurisdiction.

Article VII
Conference
Section 1. There shall be a Conference Wesleyan Service Guild secretary.
Section 2. There shall be a Conference Wesleyan Service Guild Committee,
composed of the Conference Wesleyan Service Guild secretary, the Guild secretary
from each District in the Conference, and three representatives of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service within the Conference.

Article VIII
District
Section 1. There shall be a District Wesleyan Service Guild secretary.

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, Section 2. There shall be a District, Wesleyan Service Guild Committee, composed
of the District Wesleyan Service Guild secretary, a representative from each local
unit in the District, and three representatives of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service within the District.

By-laws of the Wesleyan Service Guild

Article I

Meetings

The annual meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild
shall be held as soon after the close of the year as is practicable. The Executive Com-
mittee of the Standing Committee shall meet once a year. Other meetings of the
Standing Committee shall be held at the call of the chairmen or of five members of
the Standing Committee at such times as are necessary or desirable to carry on the
work of the Guild.

Article II

Duties of Officers

Section 1. The Division secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall promote
the organization of the Wesleyan Service Guild through the Standing Committee of
the Guild and through Jurisdiction, Conference and District Committees, and Guild
secretaries. As a member of the Committee on Literature and Publications of the
Woman's Division she shall co-operate in such adaptations of materials as seem
desirable. She shall represent the Woman's Division in organizations and movements
touching the interests of employed women. She shall keep before the Division the
needs and interests of gainfully employed women in their relationship to the ongoing
program of the Christian church. She shall make quarterly and annual reports to
the Division.

Section 2. The officers of the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild
shall bear such responsibilities and perform such duties as usually appertain to such
officers. The vice-chairman shall be chairman of the Program Committee.

Article III
Elections

Section 1. The members of the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild
shall be elected quadrennially, as follows:

The six members of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, two from the
Department of Work in Foreign Fields, two from the Department of Work in the
United States and Its Dependencies, and two from the Department of Christian Social
Relations and Local Church Activities, shall be appointed by the Woman's Division
of Christian Service with due consideration of the suggestions from the Standing
Committee of the Guild.

The six Jurisdiction secretaries shall be those duly elected by the Jurisdiction
Guild, or the Jurisdiction Guild Committee, one from each of the six Jurisdictions.

The ten representatives from the membership at large of the Wesleyan Service
Guild shall be elected by the six representatives of the Woman's Division on the
Standing Committee, and the six Jurisdiction Guild secretaries.

Section 2. The Division secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be elected
annually by the Board of Missions and Church Extension. The Standing Committee
of the Guild may recommend the nominee.

Section 3. The officers of the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild
shall be elected quadrennially. They shall be eligible for re-election to the same
office for one additional term.

Article IV
Committees

Section 1. The Standing Committee shall have four subcommittees: the Com-
mittee on Spiritual Life, the Committee on Missionary Cultivation, the Committee on

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Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities, and the Committee on Social
and Recreational Activities. There shall be a chairman of each of these subcommit-
tees. These chairmen, together with the vice-chairman of the Standing Committee,
shall form the Program Committee.

Section 2. The Executive Committee of the Standing Committee shall be com-
posed of the officers, the chairmen of the four subcommittees, and one Woman's Divi-
sion member.

Article V

Funds

Section 1. The fiscal year of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall correspond to the
fiscal year of the Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service, January 1 to
December 31.

Section 2. The funds of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be administered by the
treasurer of the Woman's Division of Christian Service, according to the constitution
and by-laws of the Division.

Section 3. Provision shall be made for direct pledges for the support of special
missionary projects within the appropriations.

Article VI

Amendments

Proposed amendments to these by-laws may be made on the recommendation of
the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild to the Woman's Division forty
days before the Annual Meeting of the Woman's Division.

Article VII
Jurisdiction

Section 1. The Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall be elected
quadrennially at a meeting of the Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild, or by the
Jurisdiction Guild Committee. Her election shall be confirmed by the Jurisdiction
Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Section 2. The Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall serve as chair-
man of the Jurisdiction Guild Committee. She shall promote the work of the Wes-
leyan Service Guild within the Jurisdiction, shall assist in the organization of new
units, shall receive semiannual reports from the Conference Guild secretaries, and
shall report semiannually to the Jurisdiction and Standing Committees of the Wesleyan
Service Guild. She shall familiarize herself with the work of the Wesleyan Service
Guild and with the other work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She shall
attend, as far as possible, Conference and Jurisdiction meetings of the Guild, represent
the Guild, and present its interests at the meetings of the Woman's Society of Chris-
tian Service in the Jurisdiction.

Article VIII

Conference

Section 1. The Conference Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall be elected at
a meeting of the Conference Wesleyan Service Guild, or by the Conference Guild
Committee. Her election shall be confirmed by the Conference Woman's Society of
Christian Service. The term of office shall conform with that prevailing in the Con-
ference Woman's Society of Christian Service.

Section 2. The Conference Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall serve as chair-
man of the Conference Guild Committee. She shall promote the work of the Wes-
leyan Service Guild within the Conference, shall assist in the organization of new
units, shall receive semiannual reports from the District Guild secretaries, and shall
report semiannually to the Conference, Jurisdiction, and Standing Committees of the
Wesleyan Service Guild. She shall familiarize herself with the work of the Wesleyan
Service Guild and with the other work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.
She shall attend, as far as possible, District and Conference meetings of the Guild,
represent the Guild, and present its interests at the meetings of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service in the Conference.

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Article IX

District

Section 1. The District Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall be elected at a
meeting of the District Wesleyan Service Guild, or by the District Guild Committee.
Her election shall be confirmed by the District Woman's Society of Christian Service.
The term of office shall conform with that prevailing in the District Woman's Society
of Christian Service.

Section 2. The District Wesleyan Service Guild secretary shall serve as chairman
of the District Guild Committee. She shall promote the work of the Wesleyan Service
Guild within the District, shall assist in the organization of new units, and shall visit
other units when possible and assist them as needed. She shall receive semiannual
reports from the corresponding secretaries and quarterly reports from the treasurers
of the local units, and shall report semiannually to the District and Conference Com-
mittees of the Wesleyan Service Guild with a summarized report of the local units
within her district. She shall familiarize herself with the work of the Wesleyan Service
Guild and with the other work of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She shall
attend, as far as possible, District meetings of the Guild, represent the Guild, and
present its interests at the meetings of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in
the District.

Constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild Unit
in the Local Church

Article I

Name

The organization in the local church shall be designated as a unit of the Wesleyan
Service Guild of the Woman's Division of Christian Service and shall be subject to the
provisions of the constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Article II

Purpose

The purpose of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall be to interest women gainfully
employed in a total program for others as well as for themselves, as follows:

(1) Development of spiritual life

(2) Cultivation of missionary interests

(3) Promotion of Christian social relations and local church activities

(4) Provision for social and recreational activities

Article III

Membership

The Wesleyan Service Guild welcomes to its membership any woman gainfully
employed who is in sympathy with the total purpose of the Guild and who will co-
operate in carrying out its program of education and activities.

Article IV

Officers

The officers of the local unit shall be a president, one or more vice-presidents, a
recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer. They shall be elected
at the annual meeting of the unit.

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Article V

Committees

A unit in the local church shall have four committees, each of which shall be under
the supervision of a committee chairman:

(1) Committee on Spiritual Life

(2) Committee on Missionary Education and Service

(3) Committee on Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities

(4) Committee on Social and Recreational Activities

Article VI
Executive Committee
The officers and all committee chairmen shall constitute an executive committee.

Article VII
Funds

Section 1. All funds from whatsoever source raised under the auspices of the
Wesleyan Service Guild unit in the local church belong to this organization and shall
be disbursed only in accord with its constitution and by its order.

Section 2. The total budget to be raised annually by the Wesleyan Service Guild
in the local church shall include a pledge for missions, Christian Social Relations and
Local Church Activities, and a cultivation fund. Provision shall be made for direct
pledges for the support of special missionary projects within the appropriations.

Section 3. Funds raised for missions shall be remitted at least quarterly by the
treasurer of the local unit of the Wesleyan Service Guild through the treasurer of
the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the local church to the District or Con-
ference treasurer of the Woman's Society of Christian Service, to be remitted to the
treasurer of the Woman's Division as Wesleyan Service Guild funds.

Section 4- Funds for Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities shall
be raised and expended by the local unit of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

By-laws of the Wesleyan Service Guild Unit
in the Local Church

Article I
Duties of Officers

Section 1. The president shall have general supervision of the work of the unit
and shall preside at the meetings of the unit and its Executive Committee. She shall
be a member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Society of Christian Service,
and when unable to attend this meeting shall appoint an alternate to do so.

Section 2. The vice-president shall, in the absence of the president, assume her
duties. She shall be chairman of the Program Committee.

Section 3. The recording secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of each
meeting. She shall keep an accurate list of the members of the unit, including their
home and business addresses and telephone numbers.

Section 4- The corresponding secretar}7 shall conduct the correspondence of the
unit. She shall report at the time designated to the District or Conference Guild sec-
retary.

Section 5. The treasurer shall have charge of all the pledges and all the monies
of the unit. She shall collect all funds and keep a book account of all money received
and disbursed. She shall disburse through the treasurer of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service in the local church, in accordance with the instructions on the treas-
urer's blank, the contribution of the unit to the work of the Woman's Division of
Christian Service. For record in the office of the treasurer of the Woman's Division

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of Christian Service, she shall include in each report a record of the funds raised and
disbursed by the unit for Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities. She
shall be a member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Society of Christian
Service, and when unable to attend its meeting, shall send her report.

Article II
Committees

Section 1. The Executive Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild shall plan
the work of the local unit, shall recommend a budget to the unit, and shall promote
the interests of the unit in harmony with the constitution of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Section 2. The Committee on Spiritual Life shall endeavor by every means pos-
sible to promote the spiritual growth of the members and shall provide for the devo-
tional service of the meeting of the unit. The cultivation of Christian stewardship
shall be one of the special functions of this committee.

Section 3. The Committee on Missionary Education and Service shall provide
for the educational program of the unit in harmony with the program of the Woman's
Division of Christian Service as channeled through the Standing Committee of the
Wesleyan Service Guild.

Section 4- The Committee on Christian Social Relations and Local Church Ac-
tivities shall direct the study of social relationships, stimulate participation in local
church activity, and promote the participation of Guild members in civic and welfare
movements looking toward a more Christian social order.

Section 5. The Committee on Social and Recreational Activities shall provide
for the social hour at the meetings and encourage other social and recreational activi-
ties for individuals and groups in order to promote fuller Christian growth. This
committee shall initiate and carry through the supply work of the unit.

Section 6. There shall be a Guild librarian who may be assisted by a committee
on literature. She shall be responsible for securing for each committee of the Guild
the program materials, study books, handbooks, leaflets, and periodicals for carrying
out the Guild program. She shall promote subscriptions to The Methodist Woman,
World Outlook, and other publications, and devise ways to stimulate individual read-
ing of these materials.

Section 7. There shall be a publicity secretary to provide notices for the unit,
the church bulletin, and the press.

Section S. The Membership Committee shall seek and invite to unit meetings
potential members among the gainfully employed women in the church family and
in the community.

Section 9. The chairmen of the four program committees specified in the con-
stitution shall work in harmony with the chairmen of these committees in the District
and Conference organizations of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Section 10. Other committees may be appointed as desired, such as status of
women, ways and means, music, vacation and travel club.

Article III
Meetings

Section 1. There shall be at least nine monthly meetings during the year.

Section 2. At the annual meeting of the local unit, annual reports shall be given
by officers and committee chairmen. Officers shall be elected and committee chairmen
selected for the ensuing year.

Article IV

Amendments

Section 1. Proposed amendments to this constitution and to the by-laws shall be
sent to the Standing Committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild forty days before the
Annual Meeting of the Woman's Division of Christian Service.

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Jurisdiction Officers

Northeastern Jurisdiction

President Mrs. Benjamin W. Meeks 131 W. 2d St., Frederick, Md.

Vice-President Mrs. H. VV. Bland Detwiler 1420 Kaighn Ave., Camden, N. J.

Recording Secretary Mrs. Franklin Reed Westfield Arms, Westfield, N. J.

Treasurer Mrs. LeoH. Paulger. .2836 Chesapeake St., N. W., Washington 8, D.C.

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Mrs. William T. Anderson 34 S. Hunter Ave., Auburn, N. Y.

Home Work Mrs. W. L. Crowding 1208 13th St., Altoona, Pa.

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. H. W. Selby 219 Chestnut St., West Newton 65, Mass.

Organization and Promotion Mrs. W. H. Dievler. .7730 Union Ave., Elkins Pk., Philadelphia 17, Pa.

Missionary Education and Service. .Mrs. H. C. Leonard 645 W. Ellet St., Philadelphia 19, Pa.

Wesleyan Service Guild Miss Ruth B. Weed 27 East Ave., Norwalk, Conn.

Student Work Mrs. Myron S. Collins 1 159 National Rd., Wheeling, W. Va.

Youth Work Mrs. Ira S. Pimm 19 Washington St., Long Branch, N. J.

Children's Work Mrs. Berryman H. McCoy 19 Prospect St., Trenton 8, N. J.

Literature and Publications Miss A. G. Bailey 581 Bovlston St., Boston 16, Mass.

Spiritual Life Mrs. Chrales H. Hardie 883 E. 19th St., Brooklyn 30, N. Y.

Status of Women Mrs. Fred A. Victor 63 Livingstone Ave., Yonkers 5, N. Y.

Supplies Mrs. E. B. Davidson 345 Market St., Berwick, Pa.

World Federation Mrs. Franklin Reed Westfield Arms, Westfield, N. J.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

President Mrs. E. L. Hillman 728 Eastern Ave., Rocky Mount, N. C.

Vice-President Mrs. H. C. Black 720 W. Locust St., Johnson City, Tenn.

Recording Secretary Mrs. J. Roy Jones 2518 Canterbury Rd., Columbia, S. C.

Treasurer Mrs. C. O. Hinton 504 Vine St., Paris, Ky.

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Mrs. H. L. Talbert Clarksdale, Miss.

Home Work Mrs. C. C. Sapp Albany, Ga.

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. M. E. Tilly 1013 Highland View, N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Organization and Promotion Mrs. D. L. St. John 2200 35th Ave., Meridian, Miss.

Missionary Education and Service. .Mrs. D. R. Little Marietta, Ga.

Wesleyan Service Guild Mrs. K. W. Warden 2284 Evelyn St., Memphis 4, Tenn.

Student Work Mrs. John S. VanWinkle 840 Lexington St., Danville, Va.

Youth Work Mrs. W. D. Rhodes 992 Parkland Rd., Memphis. Tenn.

Children's Work Miss Noreen Dunn Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn.

Literature and Publications Mrs. C. W. Turpin 810 Broadway, Nashville 2, Tenn.

Spiritual Life Miss Daisy Davies 1066 Spring St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Status of Women Mrs. L. A. Tynes Tazewell, Va.

Supplies Mrs. Glenn C. James 4744 N. C. 1st Court, Miami, Fla.

World Federation Mrs. A. C. Johnson 236 Poplar St., Elizabethtown, Ky.

Research Mrs. J. J. Stowe Franklin, Tenn.

Central Jurisdiction

President Mrs. J. W. E. Bowen, Jr 1564 Valmont St., New Orleans, La.

Vice-President Mrs. Florence D. Carroll 10 Prospect St., Staunton, Va.

Recording Secretary Miss E. L. Small 217 Coming St., Charleston 18, S. C.

Treasurer Mrs. L. A. Greenwood 2723 Burnett St., Houston, Texas

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Mrs. M. A. R. Camphor 31 Webster PI., Orange, N. J.

Home Work Miss Ethel Clair 213 E. 50th Ave., Chicago, 111.

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. R. B. Scott 2108 W. Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky.

Organization and Promotion Mrs. Florence L. Dyett Box 652, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Missionary Education and Service . . Mrs. E. W. Kelly 4160 Enright Ave., St. Louis 81, Mo.

Wesleyan Service Guild Mrs. L. C. Thomas Wiley College, Marshall, Texas

Student Work Mrs. Naomi J. Williams 209 S St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

Youth Work Mrs. G. W. Carter 4922 Coliseum St., New Orleans, La.

Children's Work Mrs. G. Haven Caldwell 911 E. 12K St., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Literature and Publications Mrs. Theodore Berry 2031 Fairfax Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Spiritual Life Mrs. J. W. Golden 1 106 S. Orleans St., Memphis, Tenn.

Status of Women Mrs. J. S. Scott 2414 St. Charles St., Houston, Texas

Supplies Mrs. Myrtle Willett Coleman. . 1504 6th Ave., N., Birmingham, Ala.

World Federation Mrs. Florence D. Carroll 10 Prospect St., Staunton, Va.

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North Central Jurisdiction

President Mrs. Clarenxe D. Laylin 1972 Indianola Ave., Columbus 1, Ohio

Vice-President Mrs. W. F. Tomlinson 198 E. Fulton St., Edgerton, Wis.

Recording Secretary Mrs. W. H. Helrigel . . . 235 Calkins Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Treasurer Mrs. S. W. Pinkerton 71 Otis Lane, St. Paul 4, Minn.

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Mrs. Charles E. Wegner 1765 Arona Ave., St. Paul 8, Minn.

Home Work Mrs. C. M. Waggoner University School, Cleveland, Ohio

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. Ellis McFarland Box 101, R. F. D., No. 3. Elgin, 111.

Organization and Promotion Mrs. Walter R. Werking 1210 Brown St., Anderson, Ind.

Missionary Education and Service . . Mrs. W. M. Hubbard LeMars, Iowa

Wesleyan Service Guild Miss Sylva Snedaker 940 Argyle Ave., Chicago 40, 111.

Student Work Dr. Alice Brethorst Dakota Wesleyan Univ.. Mitchell, S. Dak.

Youth Work Mrs. Carl Bechberger,

2681 Ashley Rd., Shaker Heights, Cleveland 22, Ohio

Children's Work Mrs. Salmon C. Myers 7045 Chalfonte Ave., Detroit 21, Mich.

Literature and Publications Mrs. F. B. Perry 811 Pearl St., Columbus, Ind.

Spiritual Life Mrs. David Shipley Iowa City, Iowa

Status of Women Mrs. O. D. Cannon 2568 N. Grant Blvd., Milwaukee, Wis.

Supplies Mrs. O. V. Moon 732 44th St., Des Moines, Iowa

World Federation Mrs. Anna E. Kresge 70 W. Boston Blvd., Detroit, Mich.

Research Mrs. Walter R. Fruit 14091 Mark Twain Ave., Detroit, Mich.

South Central Jurisdiction

President Mrs. George S. Sexton, Jr 1 10 Sexton Rd., Shreveport, La.

Vice-President Mrs. W. C. Hanson 5306 Windsor Lane, Kansas City 3, Kan.

Recording Secretary Mrs. E. W. Potter Box 74, Paragould, Ark.

Treasurer Mrs. E. V. Kenney 614 W. Lafayette St., Checotah, Okla.

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Dr. Mary E. Shannon 314 Greenwood Ave., Topeka, Kan.

Home Work Mrs. Frank L. Davis 6123 Westminster PI., St. Louis 12, Mo.

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. W. B. Landrum 401 W. 5th St., Tyler, Texas

Organization and Promotion Mrs. H. King Wade 737 Quapaw St., Hot Springs, Ark.

Missionary Education and Service . . Mrs. Peter Kittel Forrest City, Ark.

Wesleyan Service Guild Mrs. I. J. Ayers 1417 Montana St., El Paso, Texas

Student Work Mrs. Clarence A. Sutton 303 E. Lee, Weatherford, Texas

Youth Work Mrs. L. E. Hoover 1319 38th St., N., Lincoln 3, Neb.

Children's Work Mrs. B. B. Wedemeyer 1304 N. 15th St., Waco, Texas

Literature and Publications Mrs. C. M. Gray 1492 Woodrow St., Wichita, Kan.

Spiritual Life Mrs. O. W. Prince 425 W. 4th St., Holton, Kan.

Status of Women Mrs. W. J. Poundstone 1620 Ames St., Winfield, Kan.

Supplies Mrs. S. M. McCreless 2202 King's Highway, San Antonio 1, Texas

Research Mrs. Charles W. Mead 5122 Davenport St., Omaha 3, Neb.

Western Jurisdiction

President Mrs. Clyde Collison 1420 Spruce St., S. Pasadena, Calif.

Vice-President Mrs. F. M. Phelps 3616 S. E. Oak St., Portland, Ore.

Recording Secretary Mrs. Harry E. Smith 5212 21st Ave.. N. E., Seattle 5, Wash.

Treasurer Mrs. Emory A. Warner. ..2237 S. Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles 7, Calif.

SECRETARIES

Foreign Work Mrs. C. H. Van Meter 4857 N. E. 8th Ave., Portland 11, Ore.

Home Work Mrs. Charles G. Cole 711 E. 32d Ave., Spokane 10, Wash.

Christian Social Relations and

Local Church Activities Mrs. C. F. Van de Water 4130 Chestnut St., Long Beach, Calif.

Organization and Promotion Mrs. J. Edgar Purdy 546 N. 22d St., Salem, Ore.

Missionary Education and Service. .Mrs. Harry T. Morris 2100 S. Josephine St., Denver, Colo.

Wesleyan Service Guild Miss Gertrude Hutchinson 902 N. Electric Ave., Alhambra, Calif.

Student Work Mrs. Harold W. McClary 2626 Hillside Dr., Olympia, Wash.

Youth Work Mrs. James P. Howell 1832 17th Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

Children's Work Mrs. C. F. Peebles 1503 Glenn Ave., Fresno, Calif.

Literature and Publications Mrs. Lowell W. Johnson 522 Edison St., Butte, Mont.

Spiritual Life Mrs. Otto H. Houser 1314 Elizabeth St., Denver, Colo.

Status of Women Mrs. Calvin Stone 427 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto, Calif.

Supplies Mrs. Georgia Richmond Coquille, Ore.

World Federation Mrs. L. F. Beck 218 W. 26th St.. Cheyenne, Wyo.

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Joy Elmer Morgan 4109 17th St., N. W., Washington 11, D. C.

Central New York Mrs. Wallace E. Brown 700 University Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Calvin P. Ginter 2621 6th Ave., Altoona, Pa.

Erie Mrs. Bruce Wright 150 Greeves St., Kane, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Charles H. Thomas 19 Revere PI., Buffalo, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Walter Stansfield 91-A School St., Sanford, Me.

Newark Mrs. Edgar M. Compton 134 Academy St., Belleville 9, N. J.

New England Mrs. Howard M. LeSourd 206 Waverly St., Newton, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. Harold Holehouse IS Broad St., Danielson, Conn.

New Hampshire Mrs. W. S. Lane 61 Saunders St., Lawrence, Mass.

New Jersey Mrs. Henry D. Ebner 3541 Pennsylvania Ave., Pensauken, N. J.

New York Mrs. Philip S. Watters Carmel, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Frederick B. Newell 164 Westchester Ave., Crestwood, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. J. A. Sypher 13 State St., Dolgeville, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. E. Hobson Davis 2205 Grant Ave., Gwynhurst, Wilmington, Del.

Philadelphia Mrs. William E. Shappell 433 Green Lane, Philadelphia 28, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Harold S. Metcalfe 6632 5th Ave., Pittsburgh 6, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Theodore R. Bundy 25 St. Bernard St., Saranac Lake, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. Ward M. Downs 811 Short Ave., Fairmont, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. W. Gray Jones 72 Broad St., Norwich, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. C. H. Cowart Troy, Ala.

Florida Mrs. E. B. White 2344 Gilmore St., Jacksonville 4, Fla.

Holston Mrs. P. L. Cobb Sequatchie, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. R. T. Brown 820 W. Main St., Shelbyville, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. A. C. Johnson 3622 Broadway, Louisville 11, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. Homer Tatum Alamo, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. W. F. Mahaffey Prentiss, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. Frank G. Bell 5333 5th Terrace, S., Birmingham, Ala

North Carolina Mrs. W. C. Chadwick Box 560, New Bern, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. L. M. Awtrey Acworth, Ga

North Mississippi Mrs. W. H. Ratliff Sherard, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. J. Roy Jones 2518 Canterbury Rd., Columbia, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. C. C. Sapp Albany, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. E. W. Turnley Woodmont Blvd., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. L. L. Hardin 245 W. Hampton Ave., Spartanburg, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. N. V. Coleman 2317 W. Grace St., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. Charles C. Weaver 898 Lynwood Ave., Winston-Salem 5, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. Eva B. Parks 502 Rockwell St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. W. L. Turner 309 8th Ave., W., Birmingham, Ala.

Central West Mrs. E. W. Kelly 4160 Enright Ave., St. Louis 8, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. J. W. Jewett 5919 W. Girard Ave., Philadelphia 31, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. N. C. Henry 1325 Randolph Ave., Pulaski, Va.

Florida Mrs. Mary Todd McKenzie 1430 Davis St., Jacksonville 4, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Addye W. Ware 6622 Champlain Ave., Chicago, 111.

Louisiana Mrs. G. W. Carter 4922 Coliseum St., New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Mrs. W. P. C. Morrison 525 W. Pascagoula St., Jackson 13, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. G. Haven Caldwell 911 E. 12K St., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Aline Holmes 1100 I St., Brunswick, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Phyllis M. Gibbes 26 Arlington Ave., Greer, S. C.

South Florida. Mrs. B. C. Bankston 819 8th St., West Palm Beach, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. M. F. Strong 3700 W. 20th St., Little Rock, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. M. M. Drake 1032 2d Ave., S., Nashville 10, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. J. S. Scott 2414 St. Charles St., Houston 10, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. Emma Elzy 505 King St., Corinth, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Fannie Tyler 718 59th Ave., Washington, D. C.

West Texas Mrs. E. V. McMillan 1061 E. Rosedale Blvd., Ft. Worth, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. J. H. Baker 431 W. 7th St., Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. J. O. Walker 2315 Chicago Blvd., Detroit 6, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Leslie Lewis Atwood, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Earl S. Riley 730 E. North St., Greensburg, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. Harry Lauer Mount Union, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Orson E. Munn 267 Eastern Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. Charles E. Wegner 1765 Arona Ave., St. Paul 8, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. G. A. Hample 614 Raymond St., Bismarck, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Julia Parr Naftzger 320 W. Walnut St., Kokomo, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. John Seward 10803 Orville Ave., Cleveland 6, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Arthur T. Henrici.. . . 130 Arthur Ave., S. E., Minneapolis 14, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. F. L. McDaniel 2808 Elkhart St., Gary, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. J. E. Feller Spirit Lake, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. C. C. Long 3434 Darwin PI., Westwood, Cincinnati 11, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. A. O. Aldrich 839 Lake St., Oak Park, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Alice G. Avery 203 W. Central St., Bethalto, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. H. V. Cherrington 237 Ferson Ave., Iowa City, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. Ernest E. Clarke 216 N. Court St., Sparta, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. John G. Law 43 E. Division St., Fond du Lac, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Joe T. Rogers 224 N. Erie St., Wichita 8, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Gid J. Bryan Italy, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Redmond S. Cole 1312 S. Owasso Ave., Tulsa, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Johnson W. Bobb Hugo, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. H. E. Werner 1290 High Ave., Topeka, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. A. R. McKinney 2604 Olive St., Texarkana, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. J. B. Pollard 2107 Polk St., Alexandria, La.

Missouri Mrs. H. G. Dildine 709 W. Third St., Maryville, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Charles W. Mead 5122 Davenport, Omaha 3, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Hal G. Stacey 1509 N. Campbell St., El Paso, Texas

North Arkansas Mrs. R. E. Connell 210 E. Church, Morrilton, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. W. O. Jordan 813 Sunset Blvd., Dallas 8, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. C. A. Bickley 1917 20th St., Lubbock, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Frank L. Wright 707 N. Forest Ave., Webster Groves, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Elodia Sada 308 San Fernando, San Antonio, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. Frank E. Bush 4117 Highland Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. C. A. Barr 2502 Aztec Dr., Austin, Texas

Texas Mrs. C. T. Schaedel 2304 Cottonwood Ave., Bay City, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. Earl Foster 825 N. W. 41st, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. Frank Porter Flegal 584 Rosal, Oakland, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Walter E. Clark 2081 Ivanhoe St., Denver 7, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. T. C. Horton 515 12th Ave., S., Nampa, Idaho

Montana Mrs. Walter B. Spaulding Box 1093, Missoula, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. J. W. Bunch 129 N. 11th St., Corvallis, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. C. K. Mahoney 6501 53d Ave., N. E., Seattle 6, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. F. W. Boerner 6510 Arbutus Ave., Huntington Park, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. Raymond Walker 63 S. 9th St. E., Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. George Knutson 122 E. 1st Ave., Cheyenne, Wyo.

Alaska Mission Mrs. G. Edward Knight Box 131, Seward, Alaska

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. Irene T. Powers Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. E. Lester Keyser 4400 White Ave., Baltimore 6. Md.

Central New York Mrs. George E. Fisher DeWitt, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. H. J. Williams R. D. No. 7, York, Pa.

Erie Mrs. C. R. Osborne 4201 Sassafras St., Erie, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. John O. Mabuce 123 Liberty St., Bath, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Hedley V. Tweedie 96 N. Main St., Rockland, Me.

Newark Mrs. William Kellers. . . 246 Lawrence Ave., Hasbrouck Heights 98, N. J.

New England

New England Southern Mrs. Willis E. Blount 11 Wheaton St., Warren, R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. A. E. Baum 360 Wibird St., Portsmouth, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. A. R. Mandeville 1207 Columbus Ave., Palmyra, N. J.

New York Mrs. John M. Pearson 61 Pinecrest Dr., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Charles H. Hardie 883 E. 19th St., Brooklyn 30, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. O. J. Mowry Minetto, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Edgar Bradley Hurlock, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. P. G. Masters Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. David M. Ensell 1544 McFarland Rd., Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Stephen Kelley Box 207, Barre Rd.. Montpelier, Vt.

West Virginia Mrs. C. C. Hyre 182 Park Blvd., Clarksburg, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. T. Ashton Rich 27 Arthur St., Binghamton, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. S. L. Wood Abbeville, Ala.

Florida Mrs. Glenn C. James 4744 N. E. 1st Court, Miami, Fla.

Holston Mrs. C. E. Lundy Sweetwater, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. J. Ralph Wood Hazard, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. J. C. Rawlings Greenville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. M. H. Fitts Martin, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. C. E. Mullins 722 S. Church St., Brookhaven, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. J. M. Plant 2908 N. 13th Ave., Birmingham, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. W. A. Thorne .Roanoke Rapids, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. Stewart Colley Grantville, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. E. M. Sharp Aberdeen, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. E. S. Dunbar Bennettsville, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. F. M. Mullino Montezuma, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Robert Parsons Ambassador Apt., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. A. F. Spigner 427 Harden St., Columbia 11, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. L. F. Havermale Williamsburg, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. C. N. Clark 146 Franklin St., Mount Airy, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. E. G. Newton 210 Fort St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. I. B. Points 830 E. Grove St., Montgomery, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Arzora Adams 926-A Goode Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. W. C. Thompson 412 N. Clayton St., Wilmington, Del.

East Tennessee Miss M. L. Campbell Box 203, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Hattie McLendon 1227 W. 21st St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. D. M. Jordan 2349 Warren Blvd., Chicago, 111.

Louisiana Mrs. Lottie Daniels 2415 Magnolia St., New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Mrs. E. K. Leonard 209 E. 5th St., Hattiesburg, Miss.

North Carolina Miss I. R. Jones Allen School, Asheville, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Dora Bryant 101 7- A W. 37th St., Savannah, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. J. W. Taylor N. Coit St., Florence, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. G. T. Tyer 606 Constant St., Tampa, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. LA. Points 39 G St., Ardmore, Okla.

Tennessee Mrs. J. W. Golden 1 106 Orleans St., Memphis, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. E. D. Armstrong 2307 Irvin St., Orange, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. E. F. Scarborough Holly Springs, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Florence D. Carroll 10 Prospect St., Staunton, Va.

West Texas Mrs. C. E. Whitiker 1809 Cedar St., Austin, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. C. W. Habicht 366 Nebraska St., S. W., Huron, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Wilbur Ale 4045 Columbus Ave., Detroit 4, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. G. E. Hartenbower 1212 Broadway, Normal, 111.

Indiana Mrs. W. W. Sims 1440 Pearl St., Columbus, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. Levi P. Goodwin 206 N. Locust St., Jefferson, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Louis Grettenberger,

1121 Benjamin Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. Ralph Cushman 1987 Summit Ave., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. W. H. Guymer 220 6th Ave., N. E., Jamestown, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Fremont E. Fribley 811 S. Washington St., Kokomo, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. Robert L. Meeks 1555 Elbur Ave., Lakewood 7, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. George W. Walker 153 Oakwood Rd., Hopkins, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. C. Howard Taylor 1111 W. Main St., Crawfordsville, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. C. E. Burris 1410 S. St. Aubin St., Sioux City 20, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. J. C. Williams Sabina, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Erskine M. Jeffords ." 1018 Lake Ave., Wilmette, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. O. E. Connett Flora, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. H. W. Hall 134 2d St., N. E., Oelwein, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. R. H. Roberts 2215 Hollister Ave., Madison 5, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. A. B. Pfeiffer 1 130 Main St., Racine, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. J. W. Vandaveer 300 W. 17th St., Hutchinson, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Edward Snead Dublin, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. William Hansel 1740 S. Wheeling, Tulsa, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. White Parker Lawton, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. J. L. Hersh 311 Kendall, Topeka, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. B. J. Reaves 1904 Battery St., Little Rock, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. J. J. McKeithen Grayson, La.

Missouri Mrs. Wilbur E. Longstreth Memphis, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. E. J. Loutzenheiser Gothenburg, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. I. L. Morgan 412 Tulane PI., Albuquerque, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. Peter Kittel Forrest City, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. H. W. Barton 800 Harrison Ave., Wichita Falls, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. J. H. Rutherford Stamford, Texas

St. Louis •

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Lydia Colunga Box 258, Dilley, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. H. R. Farmer 610 E. Page, Springfield, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Donald E. Redmond 530 W. Alice St., Kingsville, Texas

Texas Mrs. R. H. Monroe 202 Indiana St., Bay town, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. C. L. Chase 1609 N. W. 17th St., Oklahoma City, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

California Mrs. Edward L. Camp 1 736 Marin Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Guy Fox 1370 S. Race St., Denver 10, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. W. S. McBirney 817 N. 19th St., Boise, Idaho

Montana Mrs. J. A. Slayton Ryegate, Mont .

Oregon Mrs. F. M. Phelps 3616 S. E. Oak St., Portland 15, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. J. M. Finney 1200 Grand Blvd., Spokane, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona. . . .Mrs. E. Clyde Smith 95 S. Sierra Madre Blvd., Pasadena 8, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. J. S. Fruin 2464 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. J. W. Walker 1114 S. Ash St., Casper, Wyo.

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. Doris Caldwell 2518-A Waolani Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii

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CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Nellie F. Clark 1165 Abbey PI., N. E., Washington 2, D. C.

Central New York Mrs. S. G. Houghton 64 Maple Ave., Cortland, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Charles W. Potter 517 Washington Ave., Jersey Shore, Pa.

Erie Mrs. H. R. Shauberger Box 577, Albion, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Sidney P. Hines Henrietta, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Erlon M. Dunlap 31 Court St., Auburn, Me.

Newark Mrs. Lester W. Rice 421 Elmwood Ave., Maplewood, N. J.

New England Mrs. Floyd F. Foster 42 Walnut St., Natick, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. James A. Thompson 121 Cottage St., New Bedford, Mass.

New Hampshire Mrs. Benjamin Heald 1162 Hanover St., Manchester, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. George F. Hoover 57 N. 33d St., Camden 5, N. J.

New York Mrs. Herbert Hahn 1360 Merrian Ave., New York, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Charles E. Anderson 44 Wall St., Norwalk, Conn.

Northern New York Mrs. Paul Roy Potsdam, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Howard F. Kinnamon 318 Goldsborough St., Easton, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Ezra Cox 250 Henley Rd., Pennwynne, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Paul C. Fletcher 420 Delaware Ave., Oakmont, Pa.

Troy Mrs. A. R. Jones 35 N. Pine Ave., Albany 3, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. W. Ray Ross Pennsboro, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. Ernest Bennett 397 Ridge Ave., Kingston, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. A. M. Brown Midland City, Ala.

Florida Mrs. S. D. Summers 127 W. DeSoto St., Lake City, Fla.

Holston Mrs. J. E. Wolfe 603 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. W. A. Schaefer 928 Washington St., Newport, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Karl E. Rothrock 2422 Ransdell, Louisville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. R. C. Mayo Frayaer Rd., Memphis, Tenn.

Mississippi Miss Bettie Ridgeway Ellisville, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. H. O. Troup 317 E. Lafayette, Decatur, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. S. S. Holt Graham, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. R. H. McDougall 1430 N. Highland Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. R. M. Boyd Aberdeen, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. L. D. B. Williams Nichols, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. Clyde J. Newman 1205 Palmyra Rd., Albany, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Robert Ragan 726 Court Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. A. Turner 1829 Senate St., Columbia 5, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. R. G. Pullen Bowling Green, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. John Hoyle, Jr Kannapolis, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. B. F. Wallace 77 Chestnut St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. M. W. Coleman 1504 6th Ave., N., Birmingham 4, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Blanche E. Lee 1024 W. 1 7th St., Des Moines, Iowa

Delaware Mrs. J. E. Dickerson Goldsboro, Md.

East Tennessee Mrs. Fetta Holland 1025 Fuller Ave., Knoxville, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Rubiana DeBose Rutledge 1348 W. 5th St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. W. P. Kellogg 635 S. Central St., Springfield, Ohio

Louisiana Mrs. W. H. Clark 526 Gary St., Shreveport, La.

Mississippi Mrs. T. D. Brown 520 E. Kingston St., Laurel, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. H. C. Gannaway Box 316, Maxton, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. L. L. Odom 407 Blackwell St., Waycross, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Lillian A. Coin Darlington, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. C. R. A. Banks 905 4th Ave., St. Petersburg, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. B. W. Wynn 909 N. H St., Fort Smith, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. Beulah Lewis 633 S. Wicks Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. F. W. Logan 2811 Dallas Ave., Houston 3, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. B. S. Pegues Grenada, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Emma Radford 339 11th St., S. E., Washington. D. C.

West Texas Mrs. L. Paige Williams Waelder, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. Joseph Edge 1 1 20 E. University Blvd., Mitchell, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Kina Collins 757 Westchester, Detroit 30, Mich.

Illinois Miss Amelia Eichenauer 1806 Grove St., Quincy, 111.

Indiana Mrs. John T. Breece 2001 Depauw Ave., New Albany, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. B. O. Gammon 1518 E. 9th St., Des Moines 16, Iowa

Michigan Miss J. Royce Brown 612 W. Kalamazoo Ave., Lansing 15, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. Kenneth G. Bentz 243 Lexington Pkwy., S., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. George A. Johnson Edmore, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. William Conrad 415 20th St., Logansport, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. Nobel L. Saegers 1 153 5th Ave., Lorain, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. M. P. Susag 4033 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis 7, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. B. E. Kirkpatrick 2448 N. Harding, Indianapolis 8, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. W. H. Welch Marathon, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. L. D. Cordell 1615 Western Ave., Toledo 9, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. David E. King 1325 Elm St., Rockford, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. S. E. Dial 1729 Swanswick Ave., Chester, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. H. H. Dill 804 Washington St., Cedar Falls, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. J. W. Harris River Falls, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. Dale Gordon 416 Parkway, Kohler, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. B. F. Schwartz 939 Highland Ave., Salina, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. George Leathervvood Itasca, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. D. L. Bloomheart 528 S. Choctaw Ave., Bartlesville, Okla.

Indian Mission Miss Rachel Rose Lowe Wetumka, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. Minnie B. Walker 824 Tennessee St., Lawrence, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Walter Ryland 1700 Pine St., Pine Bluff, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. Glenn Laskey Ruston, La.

Missouri Mrs. Fred R. McMahon Fairfax, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Leslie Martin 6715 Florence Blvd., Omaha, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. W. C. Holland 400 S. Lea St., Roswell, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. Robert Bearden Walnut Ridge, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. J. D. Hall, Jr 404 Marietta St., Denton, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. W. T. Butler 404 Forest St., Amarillo, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Benjamin F. Frick, Jr 3845 Bowen, St. Louis, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Baltazar Saenz 2137 N. Commerce, Ft. Worth, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. B. E. Dillon Niangua, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. W. W. Lipps 205 W. Power St., Victoria, Texas

Texas Mrs. J. S. Mogford College Station, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. Joe H. Morgan 1133 N. W. 24th, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

California Mrs. Recter W. Johnston 170 S. 15th St., San Jose, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Walter G. Christie 1809 E. 18th Ave., Denver 6, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Brooks Moore Burley, Idaho

Montana Mrs. Fred LaVin 2605 3d Ave., S., Great Falls, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. D. E. Oleman Houlton. Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. Martindale Woods 635 S. Anderson, Tacoma 6, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona. . . .Mrs. Martha Stigman 8962 National Blvd., Los Angeles 34, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. Harold G. Price 1270 E. Crystal Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. Ralph Snyder Torrington, Wyo.

Alaska Mission Miss Bertha McGhee Box 142, Seward, Alaska

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. H. P. Spencer 3743 Sierra Dr., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. J. Luther Neff 95 College Ave., Annapolis, Md.

Central New York Mrs. A. E. LaRue 142 Brookside Terrace, Palmyra, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Ariel R. Turner 425 Mifflin St., Huntingdon, Pa.

Erie Mrs. J. L. Bromley 121 State St., Oil City, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. John W. Mahaley Coudersport, Pa.

Maine Mrs. Willard L. McLean 53 Granite St., Bath, Me.

Newark Mrs. Samuel H. Clark 7 Roosevelt Rd., Maplewood, N. J.

New England Mrs. Albert S. Ritchie 60 Whiting St., Lynn, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. Walter P. Jones 290 Vermont Ave., Providence 5, R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. Corolyn D. Crowell 51 Washington St., Conqord, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. O. C. F. Janke 541 Rutherford Ave., Trenton 8, N. J.

New York Mrs. D. N. Secore 39 S. Washington Ave., Kingston, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Melville S. Bulmer 2644 Main St., Stratford, Conn.

Northern New York Mrs. R. J. Plummer Norwood, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. John Shilling Maple Lane, Dover, Del.

Philadelphia Mrs. Philip R. Schreiber 6926 Rutland St., Philadelphia 24, Pa.

Pittsburgh Miss Nettie M. Fisher 1040 Macon Ave., Pittsburgh 18, Pa.

Troy Mrs. M. G. Cole Sunset View, Round Lake, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. Herbert C. Johnson Widen, W. Va.

Wyoming Miss Grace R. Burr 58 Walnut St., Binghamton, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. H. R. Cogburn 2505 Springhill Ave., Mobile 17, Ala.

Florida Mrs. J. LeRoy Dart 736 Granada Blvd., Jacksonville 7, Fla.

Holston Mrs. Herbert Acuff 632 Cherokee Blvd., Knoxville, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. John S. Van Winkle 840 W. Lexington St., Danville, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Marvin D. Eblen 425 S. Elm St., Henderson, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. K. W. Warden 2284 Evelyn, Memphis 4, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. T. H. Fore 105 Arlington Ave., Natchez, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. R. M. Howell 421 Canal St., Decatur, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. Gurney P. Hood 911 W. Johnson St., Raleigh, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. J. H. Williams 706 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. N. N. Maxey Charleston, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. LeRoy S. Epps Kingstree, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. Slater Wight Cairo, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Fred Estes 1411 Gartland Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. A. M. Doggett 103 Kirksey Dr., Greenwood, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. R. M. White 1619 Park Ave., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. A. L. Thompson 801 Simpson St., Greensboro, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. N. J. Crolley 108 McDonough Blvd., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. W. M. Houston R. R. No. 1, Box 79, Wadley, Ala.

Central West Mrs. N. L. Jenkins 835 S. Grant St., Springfield, Mo .

Delaware Mrs. James F. Stewart 402 E. Church St., Salisbury, Md.

East Tennessee Mrs. Lulu T. Shockley R. R. No. 3, Clinton, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Frankie Collins Box 51, Ocala, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. W. H. Wallace 2642 Park Ave., Cincinnati 6, Ohio

Louisiana Mrs. R. N. Brooks 2903 Milan St., New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Mrs. M. E. Howard Box 192, Brookhaven, Miss.

North Carolina Miss F. M. McCallum Guilford, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Amanda Smith 215 Johnson St., Statesboro, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Mamie E. Fields 5 President PI., Charleston 25, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. Ethel Burney 3501 Machado St., Tampa 5, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. T. J. Griffin 249 Walnut St., Hot Springs, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. M. L. Parish 83 University St., Nashville 10, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. R. A. Carr 2021 Whitty St., Houston 10, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. Ora C. Thompson Box 364, Amory, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Pauline Weeden 1316 Buchanan St., Lynchburg, Va.

West Texas Mrs. M. B. Cooke 2102 Longfellow St., Austin, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. W. F. Kumlien 711 7th Ave., Brookings, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. B. R. Donaldson 22712 Nona Ave., Dearborn, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Arthur Edgecomb R. R. No. 6, Decatur, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Frank Ellis 526 E. Chestnut St., Jeffersonville, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. W. C. Henn Yale, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Warren E. Sargent 2217 Sheffield Dr., Kalamazoo 40, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. C. V. Michener Preston, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. J. H. Pannebaker 905 N. 13th St., Fargo, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. C. C. Ford 324 N. College Ave., Muncie, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. M. H. Preslan 3462 W. 150th St., Cleveland 11, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Earl F. Baumhofer 5032 Queen Ave., S., Minneapolis 10, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. F. L. Helsel 118 N. Maple St., Argos, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. A. W. Gusteson 1804 W. 4th St., Sioux City 17, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. Edward F. Andree 628 N. South St., Wilmington, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. H. G. Ross : 3045 W. Jarvis, Chicago 45, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Ernie Edwards 1409 N. 54th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. Roy D. Young Mount Vernon, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. G. P. Helgeson River Falls, Wis.

Wisconsin. . Mrs. E. P. Hocking 1015 Oakland Ave., Janesville, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. George H. Ott 402 E. 5th St., Kinsley, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. B. B. Wedemeyer 1304 N. 15th St., Waco, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. C. S. Springer 727 E. Seneca, McAlester, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Linn Pauahty R. R. No. 4, Ponca City, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. R. E. Gordon 621 W. Laurel Ave., Independence, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. E. D. Galloway Warren, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. J. H. Thatcher 730 School St., Houma, La.

Missouri Mrs. Thurman Stallings 1216 S. Jefferson, Mexico, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Victor West 514 Main St., Wayne, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. R. E. Stovall Box 784, Las Cruces, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. A. P. Patton 401 E. Washington Ave., Jonesboro, Ark.

North Texas Miss Nelle A. Johnson 1505 W. Gandy, Denison, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. M. B. Hilburn 1220 Avenue M, Lubbock, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. George R. Allison 412 N. Main St., Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Alfredo Nanez 2312 Monterrey St., San Antonio, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. S. O. Brill Lincoln, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Sam J. Blumberg 905 E. College St., Seguin, Texas

Texas Mrs. George O. Davidson Box 289, Texas City, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. C. B. Northcutt 505 B. St., S. W., Ardmore, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. A. L. Schafer 2238 Hyde St., San Francisco, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. F. I. Hollingsworth 624 S. Pennsylvania St., Denver 9, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. R. F. Tyler 1102 1st St., LaGrande, Ore.

Montana Mrs. J. F. McAlear Box 575, Poison, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. F. R. Sanders 5825 S. E. 44th Ave., Portland 6, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. E. Paul Todd 1409 N. 6th, Tacoma 6, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona Mrs. Jerome Seymour 952 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena 6, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. W. B. Kerr 2735 Van Buren Ave., Odgen, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. S. E. Anspaugh Box 844, Riverton, Wyo.

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) . . . .Mrs. Everett E. Tillett 2243 Round Top!Dr., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Conference Treasurers

Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. John E. Thursby 104 Midhurst Rd., Baltimore 12, Md.

Central New York Mrs. A. G. Odell Pleasant St., Clifton Springs, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. D. A. Gorman 109 11th Ave., Juniata, Altoona, Pa.

Erie Mrs. Roy A. Wade 1118 E. Lake Rd., Erie, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Clyde Le Messurier 164 Terrace Park, Rochester, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Phillip I. Milliken 11 Berkley St., Portland, Me.

Newark Mrs. Albert Atherton 470 N. Maple Ave., East Orange, N. J.

New England Miss Anne Brooks 443 School St., Athol, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. Joseph A. Newton 8 Lantern Lane, Barrington, R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. Harold D. Andrews 2 Grand View Ave., Concord, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. Benjamin F. Allgood 728 Wesley Ave., Ocean City, N. J.

New York Miss Evaline L. Korn 23 South St., Middletown, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Elmer G. Windels 3523 Newkirk Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. Roy Gage R. D. No. 2, Ilion, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. William F. Artis 2305 W. 16th St., Wilmington, Del.

Philadelphia Mrs. G. Raymond Conover 5109 Pulaski Ave., Philadelphia 44, Pa.

Pittsburgh Miss Juliet H. Knox 7320 Brighton Rd., Ben Avon, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Troy Miss Catherine D. Cookingham 411 Broadway, Mechanicville, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. C. A. Riley 109 10th Ave., W., Huntington, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. H. C. Perkins 4 Lincoln Ave., Binghamton, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

A labama Mrs. Clyde W. Moore Crichton, Ala.

Florida Mrs. W. A. Pattishall 627 Park Lake Ave., Orlando, Fla.

Holston Mrs. B. R. Stout 1621 Riverside Dr., Knoxville, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. C. O. Hinton 504 Vine St., Paris, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Douglas Graham Pembroke, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. J. V. McLeod 451 E. Baltimore, Jackson, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. L. O. Todd Decatur, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. J. S. Hunt 605 E. 5th St., Tuscumbia, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. F. B. McKinne 201 S. William St., Goldsboro, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. E. W. Brogdon 3727 Peachtree Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. D. H. Hall New Albany, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. E. D. Sprott Florence, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. W. R. Bragg 1206 N. Madison St., Albany, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. C. S. Smith 2030 Galbraith Dr., Nashville 4, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. Claude B. Free 1817 Heyward St., Columbia 36, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. Jacob Hevener Box 506, Staunton, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. WalterIJohnston, Jr 929 Magnolia St., Winston-Salem 7, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. Grant Adams 93 Martin Ave., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. T. A. Cook Box 92, Sylacauga, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Lucile Holman 4327 Page Blvd., St. Louis 13, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. A. G. Waters 1224 W. Dauphin St., Philadelphia 33, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. H. R. Walker 406 2d St., Morristown, Tenn.

• Florida Mrs. Annie Gass 613 N. Pleasant St., Gainesville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. J. W. Patton 2212 Brookside Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.

Louisiana Mrs. I. G. Jackson 1119 Pierre Ave., Shreveport, La.

Mississippi Mrs. Lillian G. Coleman Box 705, Hattiesburg, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. G. M. Phelps 309 S. Graham St., Charlotte, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. T. S. Collins Box 14, West Point, Ga.

South Carolina Miss E. L. Small 217 Coming St., Charleston 24, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. E. J. Rainey 152 Lake Beulah Dr., Lakeland, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. B. F. Scott 309 N. Lindsey , Oklahoma City, Okla.

Tennessee Mrs. R. J. B. Campbelle 3109 Centennial Blvd., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. L. A. Greenwood 2723 Burnett St., Houston 10, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. John Haley 820 13th St., N., Columbus, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Henrietta Douglas 2025 Division St., Baltimore, Md.

West Texas Mrs. A. E. Marshall 2806 Munger Ave., Dallas, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. W. F. Minty 920 Fulton St., Rapid City, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. William Christian 19581 Canterbury Rd., Detroit 21, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Ray S. Bass 151 N. Fairview Ave., Decatur, 111.

Indiana Mrs. John R. Dollens 319 S. Elm St., North Vernon, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. G. A. Robinson Greenfield, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. J. Howard Lee 1023 Floral Dr., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. A. G. Nutting 253 Macalester Ave., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. Ralph L. Miller 1544 4th Ave., S., Fargo, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. L. M. Hile Warren, Ind.

North- East Ohio Miss Marian E. Murphy Box 533, Steubenville, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. A. C. Kaufman 2309 Garfield Ave., S., Minneapolis 5, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. S. L. McCall 43 Webb St., Hammond, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. George H. Robb Estherville, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. H. C. Vaughn 131 Richards Rd., Columbus 2, Ohio

Rock River .Mrs. H. E. Sandstrom 704 Reba PL, Evanston, 111.

Southern Illinois Miss Edna Wolfram .> 1401 N. 44th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. Frank G. Brooks Mount Vernon, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. H. F. Cunningham 2264 16th St., Monroe, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. E. G. Perschbacher 2303 N. 40th St., Milwaukee 10, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Ross Hillard Pratt, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. R. M. Orgain 2213 Parrott Ave., Waco, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Charles'F. Farren 1601 S. Cheyenne, Tulsa, Okla.

Indian Mission Miss Mollis Dunson Okemah, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. G. W. Stafford 416 W. Myrtle Ave., Independence, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. J. P. Carpenter Stephens, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. L. B. Kilpatrick 1809 Marshall St., Shreveport 50, La.

Missouri Miss Dorothy Carter 907 Court St., Fulton, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Vere R. Olsson Lexington, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Perry Keith 1104 Ross Ave., Clovis, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. W. T. Bacon Box 155, Booneville, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. T. W. Preston 1015 N. Edgefield Ave., Dallas 8, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. E. E. Trawfek 248 Merchant St., Abilene, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Jeptha Riggs Box',55, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Jovita O. Ramoz Box 4073, Sta. A., San Antonio, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. J. W.f Faubion Pleasant Hill, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. JAW. Bradfield 911 W. 19th St., Austin,' Texas

Texas MrsJ W.> E/Horton, Jr 3655 Piping Rock Lane, Houston>Texas

WestlOklahoma Mrs. F.'J. Hulme 316 S. Walnut, Guthrie, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. F. W. Stiver 263 Claremont'Blvd., San Francisco, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Lottie¥B. Spyker 2254 Dahlia St., Denver 7, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Catherine Potter 36 Rex Arms.'Twin Falls, Idaho

Montana Mrs. R. E:' Bancroft 435 Clark Ave., Billings, Mont .

Oregon Mrs. J. D. Zook 6034 N. E.r7th Ave., Portland 11, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. T. H. Gloyer 2523 Warren Ave. , Seattle 9, W ash.

Southern California- Arizona . . . .Mrs. Wray Andrew 3041 E. 5th St., Long Beach 4, Calif.

Utah'Mission Mrs. R. J. Hollingsworth 503 H St., Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. Charles E. Hofmann 1730 S. Chestnut St., Casper, Wyo.

Alaska Mission Mrs. Harold Horton Seward, Alaska

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. T. L. Taylor 1443 Dominis St., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities

Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. John H. Werner 6807 45th St., Ch vy Chase IS, Md.

Central New York Mrs. Rav L. Tucker 228 Kingsbury Ave., Elmira, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. J. H. Wright 530 Hickorv St., Hollidaysburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. H. D. Webster 392 Main St., Greenville, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. William C. Davies 598 Ashland Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Ethel Goodwin 119 Parker St., Brewer, Me.

Newark Mrs. August Bachman 185 Piermont Ave., Hillsdale, N. J.

New England Mrs. H. W. Jackson 30 Carew St., South Hadley Falls, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. E. N. Sayer 148 Waterman St., Providence, R. I.

New Hampshire Miss Alice Gilman Moultonboro, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. Ross B. Bergstresser 6549 Harvey Ave., Merchantville, N. J.

New York Mrs. L. G. King 79 Pine St., Deposit, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. M. J. Creeger 251 N. Village Ave., Rockville Center, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. B. A. Soper Malone, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. W. Harmon Money Middletown, Del.

Philadelphia Mrs. D. W. Faulk Modena, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. B. F. Crawford 415 Washington Ave.. Carnegie, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Sydney L. Smith 6 Furman PI., Delmar, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. J. A. Brackman 419 Woodlawn Ave., Beckley, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. Charles K. Moore 49 Center St., Forty Fort, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. J. B. Nichols Georgiana, Ala.

Florida Mrs. W. C. White 3885 Eloise St., Jacksonville 5, Fla.

Holston Mrs. C. P. Hardin Maryville, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. Juliet J. Poynter Shelbyville, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. G. W. Hummel Madisonville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. B. F. Graves 346 W. King, Jackson, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. Stanley Wilson 2212 15th St., Meridian, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. L. S. Evins 216 Princeton Ave., Birmingham, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. J. H. Cutchin Whitakers, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. A. A. Hardy Thomaston, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. J. W. Hollandsworth Calhoun City, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. L. A. Hartzog Olar, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. R. D. McNeill, Sr Americus, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Norval Baker Gallatin, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. L. B. George 6 Ethel Ridge Dr., Greenville, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. Hunter Barrow Dinwiddie Court House, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. Edd F. Gardner North Wilkesboro, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. G. C. G. Alexander 240 Magnolia St., Eagan, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. M. L. Washington 2213 9th St., Birmingham, Ala.

Central West Miss Matilda A. Saxton 566 Walker Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Delaware Mrs. J. U. Watson 118 Denton Rd., Federalsburg, Md.

East Tennessee Mrs. Sarah L. Taylor 512 Temperance St., Knoxville, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Geneva M. Williams 1464 W. 6th St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. G. W. Sherard 48 Leroy St., Dayton, Ohio

Louisiana Mrs. N. L. Lacy 507 Willow St., Franklin, La.

Mississippi Mrs. A. C. Trice 601 Owen St., Columbia, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. B. M. Pettiford 1302 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Ophelia Jacob 167 Lee St., Blackshear, Ga.

South Carolina Miss Marie Singleton 16 Council St., Sumter, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. A. E. Webb 947 New York Ave., Lakeland, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. J. F. Moses 1909 Cedar St., Little Rock, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. W. B. Crenshaw 1023 1st Ave., S., Nashville 10, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. C. V. Adair 3620 Bremond St., Houston 4, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. L. J. Marsh Box 6, West Point, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Mary E. Hawkins 912 N. Gilmore St., Baltimore, Md.

West Texas Mrs. Victoria Curry 1111 Linda St., Ft. Worth, Texas

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Activities — Continued

North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. J. R. McAnelly 1124 S. Arch St., Aberdeen, S. Dak.

Detroit ■ Mrs. A. M. Gessell 619 Hollywood Dr., Monroe, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. J. G. Buchan Mahomet, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Floyd L. Harper 60 W. Garfield, Martinsville, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. J. L. Turner Red Oak, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Walter A. Tholen 461 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. R. J. Rice 12th and Minnesota, St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Miss Pearl Miller Velva, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Earle Naftzger Wakarusa, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. A. L. Heer 312 S. Willow St., Kent, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. L. W. Northfield . . . .2543 Jackson St., N. E., Minneapolis 13, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Charles Marshall Darlington, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. A. O. Anderson 615 Leonard St., Sac City, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. C. E. Turley 88 N. 5th St., Newark, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Merle N. English 205 W. South St., Woodstock, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. L. N. Davenport 118 W. Homer St., Harrisburg, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. A. E. Brown 1228 22d St., Cedar Falls, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. A. R. Henry Barron, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. F. V. Bland Ripon, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. George W. Glenn 103 E. 14th St., Hutchinson, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. J. B. Baird China Spring, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Jim Stone 621 S. 6th St., Okemah, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Gina Ware Box 214, Anadarko, Okla.

Kansas

Little Rock Miss Lila Ashby 1919 Gaines St., Little Rock, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. D. C. Metcalf West Monroe, La.

Missouri Mrs. E. L. Schweppe 602 Grundy St., Trenton, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Otto Hackman 4327 Starr St., Lincoln, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Arthur Shaw Lovington, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. W. P. Pearson West Helena, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. C. C. Crittenden Forney, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Sam L. Seay 2606 Ong St., Amarillo, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. C. T. More 5770 DeGiversville Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Segundo Garcia 609 Tays St., El Paso, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. M. A. Pallette 130 E. Ruby St., Independence, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Walter Dreier Ingleside, Texas

Texas Mrs. S. M. Adams 633 N. Fredonia, Nachogdoches, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. Roy Dillon 2028 N. W. 21st St., Oklahoma City, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. M. S. Godfrey 1542 Verdi St., Alameda, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Walter Ott Fort Morgan, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. R. J. Evans R. R. No. 1, Twin Falls, Idaho

Montana Mrs. T. E. Smalley Roundup, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. Alice M. Chappell 6411 N. E. Oregon St., Portland 13, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. A. L. Tefft Box 418, Pomeroy, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. Byron Wilson 132 S. Sycamore Ave., Los Angeles 36, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. L. B. Rose Tremonton, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. Frank Whittaker 615 W. Buffalo St., Rawlins, Wyo.

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. John W. Wasson 801 Prospect St., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

R^itim^r» S Mrs- Samuel Rose 308 A St., N. E., Washington 2, D. C.

oaiumore { Mrs Wallace N. Streeter 516 Van Buren St., Washington 12, D. C.

Central New York Mrs. Paul E. Thayer 428 W. Seneca Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. F. Lamont Henninger 148 Arch St., Sunbury, Pa.

Erie Mrs. L. E. Sauer 989 Forker Blvd., Sharon, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. H. I. Chattin Delevan, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Frank Hall Winterport, Me.

Newark Miss Victoria Ralph 2350 Boulevard, Jersey City 4, N. J.

vT.w p-r.oiar.,1 S Mrs. H. Lewis Hardv 187 Beacon St., Framingham, Mass.

iNew England y Mrs_ Harlon w pACkard 34 Brown St., Waltham, Mass.

ivj0„, tt„„1o„,i c„„tl,„„ ( Mrs. R. H. Crystie 109 High St., Westerly, R. I.

New England Southern ( Mrs e n Griffiths 15 star St., Pawtucket! R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. Howard Hare Suncook, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. R. A. Hand 126 Leslie Ave., Merchantville, N. J.

New York Mrs. C. C. Coile 3 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

New York East Miss Mary Blake . . : 847 E. 19th St., Brooklyn 30, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. Allen Dodge Mexico, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. H. P. Fox 602 N. Division St., Salisbury, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Theodore H. Leonard,

Pennwood Rd. and Montgomery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

P;tfoK,lr„, ( Mrs. J. Marvin Kinzer Beaver Rd., Sewickley, Pa.

nusDurgn j Mrs Qaylord W. Penny 171 Orchard Rd., Pittsburgh 21, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Leon R. Stapley 18 West St., Fort Plain, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. H. S. Myerly 132 Mineral Ave., Keyser, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. Austin L. Prynn Dallas, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. D. M. Pearson East Tallassee, Ala.

m«_M«, S MRS. H. S. Prince 5707 Central Ave., Tampa, Fla.

tuonaa \ Mrs. J. F. Pickard 1357 Clay St., Winter Park, Fla.

Holston Mrs. S. C. Beard Appalachia, Va.

iror,t„^u„ S Mrs. Collis Ringo 225 Kingsway Dr., Lexington 32, Ky.

j^entucKy \ Mrs. C. F. Cooper 2013 Mackay Ave., Covington, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Lander J. Chisholm Earlington, Ky.

iv/T„m i,: f Mrs. N. Kyle Webb 422 Division, Jackson, Tenn.

Mempnis { Mrs b c DurhaMi jr Ripley, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. E. V. Perry Rolling Fork, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. L. L. Jackson 1413 Cleburn Ave., Birmingham, Ala.

North Carolina ; . Mrs. B. F. Boone Fairmont, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. C. G. Boland 125 Rumson Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. Walter Odom Durant, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. W. E. Durant Elliott, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. J. Wallace Daniel Claxton, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Grady L. Wall Springfield, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Miss Ellie Few 2 Victoria St., Greer, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. J. M. Johnston 337 Rosalind Ave., South Roanoke, Roanoke, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. J. W. Payne Cherryville, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Miss Anna Hall 1315 Marcy St., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. R. R. Williams 416 6th Ave., N., Birmingham 4, Ala.

Central West Miss Hattie L. Hooks 906 E. Gift St., Peoria, 111.

Delaware Mrs. A. P. Camphor 31 Webster PI., Orange, N. J.

East Tennessee Mrs. M. B. Pearis 114 Jones St., Bluefield, W. Va.

Florida Mrs. M. Minus Cave 1504 Madison St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. S. P. Jenkins 2026 Boulevard PL, Indianapolis, Ind.

T . . ( Mrs. Josie Kilbert 915 Railroad Ave., Baton Rouge, La.

Louisiana { Mrs_ pANNIE Washburn 635 France St., Baton Rouge, La.

Mississippi Mrs. Hattie Williams 528 E. Jefferson St., Yazoo City, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. S. A. Peeler 803 Julian St., Greensboro, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Wade Brown Box 43, Rocky Ford, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Wilhelmina Gupple Box 549, Bennettsville, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbs 108 Line St., Melbourne, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. Z. R. Fields Brickeys, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. L. A. Rogers Lewisburg, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. P. D. Johnson Box 664, Marshall, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. M. J. Henry Box 946, Clarksdale, Miss.

Washington Miss Mary Martin 2352 6th St.. N. W., Washington, D. C.

West Texas Mrs. C. S. Edmonds 709 Cuney Way, San Antonio, Texas

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ISorth Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. E. E. Whiteside 3lHProspect Ave., Lead.'S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. H. A. Dorman 2969 Montclair, Detroit 14, Mich.

Tn. • ( Mrs. L. D. Hopper 222 W. Main St., Clinton, 111.

llUnois \ Mrs. Earl Ross Paris, 111.

Indiana Mrs. E. C. Newman 1001 High St., Indianapolis 2, Ind.

Iowa Dps Moines I Mrs- roscoe S. Jones 60S E. 6th St., Atlantic, Iowa

lowa-ues Moines | Miss May Bean Blanchard. Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Russell H. Stillwell,

121 Earldom Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

M- „„„,, f Mrs. Byron Roach 518 W. 2d St., Northfield, Minn.

Minnesota j Mrs_ w a Dickinson 1487 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. C. L.Wallace 618 14th St., S., Fargo, N. Dak.

M„rf. r .. ( Mrs. James W. Hartman 312 W. Market St., Bluffton, Ind.

iNortn Indiana { Mrs_ j w Rqse 405 Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. Kline Loomis 614 Whitney Rd., Conneaut, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. James A. Geer Moorhead, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Neal Davis Lowell, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. R. T. Rutledge 824 W. 4th St., Storm Lake, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. W. H. C. Goode Whitby PI., Sidney, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Olin Clarke Jones 523 Downer PL, Aurora, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Adah M. Hagler 205 W. Spruce St., Gillispie, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. S. A. Cohagan 1003 Vine St., Waterloo, Iowa

West Wisconsin I Mrs- e- J- Sachtjen Wisconsin Dells, Wis.

west Wisconsin | Mrs. Fred W. Harris 716 Orton Court, Madison, Wis.

W!c._- oJ f Mrs. Ellis Hoskins 3049 N. Cramer St., Milwaukee 11, Wis.

Wisconsin { Mrs Elmer Miller 6130 N. 13th St., Milwaukee 9, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas I Mrs- r- l- Wells Syracuse, Kan.

central Kansas j Mrs Wayne Campbell Box 856, Garden City, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Joel W. Hooper Lorena, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Arthur Hewett 1615 W. Main St., Durant, Okla.

Indian Mission

( Mrs. Harold L. Soulen 112 E. 3d St., Chanute, Kan.

( Mrs. R. C. Klopfer 1515 Harrison St., Topeka, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. T. S. Lovett Grady, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. G. W. Dameron . . . . . .F-47, 1901 Centenary Blvd., Shreveport 57, La.

Missouri Mrs. H. H. Brummall Salisbury, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Oscar W. Low 1535 6th St., Gering, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Clyde Barton Kermit, Texas

North Arkansas Mrs. Harry King 255 N. 8th St., Batesville, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Paul Powell Box 147, Kamay, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. C. D. Foote Box 745, Floydada, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Carl Burris 202 N. Meramec, Clayton, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Justa Irene Valdez 516 N. Calaveras, San Antonio, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. Allen V. Hays 811 W. Arch St., Nevada, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Eugene Slater 1711 W. Woodlawn Ave., San Antonio, Texas

Texas Mrs. I. E. Lanier Linden, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. A. F. White Box 693, Okeene, Okla.

Kansas .

Western Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

California Mrs. W. A. Root 154 St. James Dr., Piedmont 11, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. E. Guy Cutshall 203 W. Cheyenne Rd., Colorado Springs, Colo.

Tf1,i,- / Mrs. C. O. Smithson 229 11th Ave., N., Buhl, Idaho

udno ( Mrs. William M. Koehler 1225 S. 5th St., Pocatello, Idaho

Montana Mrs. L. C. Goforth 328 McLeod St., Missoula, Mont.

nrp„n_ f Mrs. Charles G. Howard 2243 Potter St., Eugene, Ore.

gon ( Mrs. R. A. Feenstra 129 S. Main St., Roseburg, Ore.

Parifir Nnrthwest I Mrs- h- c- Christopher 705 N. 84th, Seattle 3, Wash.

±-acinc JNortnwest { Mrs_ j^^^ Rees R. F. D., Mount Vernon, Wash.

c;™,thm-T, roiif^„;o a,-;,™., 1 Mrs- William Tribble 1096 W. 4th St., Pomona, Calif.

Southern California- Arizona. . { Mrs c j Hammet 658 Arden Ave., Glendale. Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. Anna M. Othiem 347 S. 4th St., E., Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. F. L. Beck 218 W. 26th St., Cheyenne, Wyo.

Alaska Mission Miss Ruth Murrell Box 142, Seward. Alaska

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. Don W. Smith 2356 Waolani Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Elsie Clark Krug 2227 St. Paul St., Baltimore 18, Md.

Central New York Mrs. Florence Reeves 700 University Ave., Syracuse 10, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Miss Helen McFarland 2101 Bellevue Rd., Harrisburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. Charles Flagg 166 Hotchkiss St., Jamestown, N. Y.

Genesee Miss Hazel Drew Box 212, Bradford, Pa.

Maine Mrs. Olive Crabtree 5 Summer St., Dover-Foxcroft, Me.

Newark Mrs. J. Roy Bergen 17 Evergreen PI., Maplewood, N. J.

New England Mrs. Harry B. Hill 100 Washington St., Maiden 48, Mass.

New England Southern

New Hampshire Mrs. Richard Kellogg 1018 Merrill St., Manchester, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. Richard Johnston 97 W. Trenton Ave., Morrisville, Pa.

New York Miss Caroline Peckham 150 5th Ave., New York 11, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Charles Van Riper . . Care of Wilson, 1433 Zerega Ave., Bronx, N. Y.

Northern New York Miss Emma Rood 1436 Kemble Ave., Utica 3, N. Y.

Peninsula Miss Florence Ellicott 261 1 Baynard Blvd., Wilmington, Del.

Philadelphia Miss Helen Singleton 120 E. State St., Media, Pa.

Pittsburgh Miss Dorothy Naumann,

Methodist Center, Smithfield St. and 7th Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Troy Miss Ruth Disbrow 1 145 Phoenix Ave., Schenectady, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. E. V. Core Rupert, W. Va.

Wyoming '

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. Arthur Heustess 1805 Madison Ave., Montgomery 7, Ala.

Florida Miss Alvazine Young 202 W. Maxwell Dr., Lakeland, Fla.

Holston Mrs. L. A. Tynes Tazewell, Va.

Kentucky Mrs. Elmer Wallace Carrollton, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. W. G. Butler 613 S. 43d St., Louisville 11, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. Ned R. York Friendship, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. J. B. Pearson 1601 17th Ave., Meridian, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. F. K. Gamble 819 Line St., Decatur, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. R. C. Gary 155 Clarke St., Henderson, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. Elmo Moore 1952 Brown's Mill Rd., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. Jasper Weber Mathiston, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. J. H. Kistler Darlington, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. W. F. Sessions McRae, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Harry L. Upperman Baxter, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. E. Merchant 406 W. Croft St., Greenville, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. T. F. Carroll 1705 Park Ave., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. W. F. Redding, Jr 358 Hill St., Asheboro, N. C

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. Cornelia Gadsden 77 Chestnut St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. A. P. Campbell 417 Pelham St., Huntsville, Ala.

Central West Miss Edna Jackson 4526 Cottage Ave., St. Louis 13, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. Euliel B. Hackett 1908 N. Judson St., Philadelphia 21, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. Georgia A. Jackson 2546 Bethel Ave., Knoxville, Tenn.

Florida Miss Edith Boyd 1412 W. 5th St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Letha Mae King 2940 Indiana Ave., Chicago 16, 111.

Louisiana Mrs. Mary McGriff Bell 129 Boulevard St., Lake Charles, La.

Mississippi

North Carolina Miss Maggie B. McLean Box 412, Lumberton, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Lucile Striggers Sylvania, Ga.

South Carolina Miss Margaret Sewell Calhoun St., Greenville, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. Charlotte Kinsler 1108 Virginia Ave., West Palm Beach, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. Alice Preston Box 355, Murfreesboro, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. G. A. Thompson 1004 15th Ave., S., Nashville 4, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. L. C. Thomas Wiley College, Marshall, Texas

Upper Mississippi Miss Ruby Ross Lexington, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Alma Hooks 664 Irving St., N. W., Washington 10. D C.

West Texas Mrs. A. K. Hammons 505 S. Cameron St., Victoria, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. E. W. Stodghill 534 3d St., Brookings, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. F. G. Poole 19783 Appoline St., Detroit 21, Mich.

Illinois Miss Dessie Stacey 403 W. Madison St., Danville, 111.

Indiana Mrs. M. O. Robbins 1928 Woodlawn, Indianapolis 3, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Miss Katherine Worrell Perry, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Lloyd Force 2214 Argentina Dr., S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Minnesota Miss Mildred Thompson 894 St. Clair St., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Dr. Tula Gronewald State Hospital, Jamestown, N. Dak.

North Indiana Miss Elsie J. Pfeiffer 614 E. Center St., Warsaw, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. E. E. Blair, Jr 186 Beechwood Dr., Youngstown 5, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Mary R. McIntyre Monticello, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Miss Clara Jakes R. R. No. 1, Lafayette, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Miss Orpha Kudule 411 Omaha St., Sioux City 17, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. L. Dale Davis 2404 Abingdon Rd., Columbus 8, Ohio

Rock River Miss Marian Thayer 1007 Greenwood Ave., Wilmette, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Virgil Lambert 214 E. Ford St., Harrisburg, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. H. P. Seward 11 S. 3d Ave., Marshalltown, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. R. H. Gray 215 S. 26th St., LaCrosse, Wis.

Wisconsin Miss Enda Remier 215 Parallel St., Beaver Dam, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Miss Gladys Murphy 743 S. Holyoke, Wichita 9, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. H. N. Patterson 208 W. 8th St., Taylor, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Joe Hale 1 148 S. Florence, Tulsa 4, Okla.

Indian Mission

Kansas Miss Dorothy B. Studdard 1604 S. 28th St., Kansas City 3, Kan.

Little Rock Miss Fern Heuston 3101 Marshall St., Little Rock, Ark.

Louisiana Miss Grace Lawson Welsh, La.

Missouri '. Mrs. Glenn A. Baldwin 410 W. 7th St., Maryville, Mo.

Nebraska Miss Leona Williams 5302 Greenwood Ave., Lincoln 4, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Alvina Mottinger 1637 Arizona St., El Paso, Texas

North Arkansas Miss Myrtle Charles Hendrix College, Conway, Ark.

North Texas Miss Elsa Cook 1910 Main St., Dallas 1, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. B. S. McClendon, Jr 3812 W. 7th St., Amarillo, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Juanita C. Ellzey 239 N. Pacific St., Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Southwest Mexican

Southwest Missouri Miss Catherine Whitmore 3336 Montgall Ave., Kansas City 3, Mo.

Southwest Texas Miss Dorothy Bearden 5101 Broadway, San Antonio 2, Texas

Texas Miss Katherine Spradley 752 Durst St., Nacogdoches, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. George Dismukes 1409 Chickasha Ave., Chickasha, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs O. D. Jacoby 5582 Lawton Ave., Oakland 11, Calif.

Colorado Miss Evelyn Stanley 1009 10th St., Greeley, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Harman Ebeltoft 180 E. 18th St., Idaho Falls, Idaho

Montana Mrs. Claude Weaver 1205 Wilder Ave., Helena, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. E. D. Flinn 2216 S. E. 58th Ave., Portland 15, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. David J. Lawson 118 S. 5th, Mt. Vernon, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona Miss Nellie Adele Smith 4123 Budlong Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Utah Mission Miss Hazel Cooper 475 25th St., Ogden, Utah

Wyoming State Miss Ellen Scheidt No. 946, Riverton, Wyo.

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Robert K. Winters 4725 N. Chelsea Lane, Bethesda, Md.

Central New York Mrs. R. L. Nye 1600 E. Colvin St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. J. Resler Shultz 112 Mooreland Ave., Carlisle, Pa.

Erie Mrs. I. E. Abernathy 164 Superior St., Sharon, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. John W. Annas, Jr. 334 Baynes St., Buffalo 13, N. Y.

Maine Miss Hildreth Priest Waterville, Me.

Newark Mrs. Harold E. Cheyney •. . 583 Clinton Ave., Newark, N. J.

New England Mrs. Roger Makepeace 30 Dix St., Winchester, Mass.

New England Southern

New Hampshire Mrs. Clyde Kimball 123^ Prospect St., Nashua, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. John R. Stewart 100 Kings Highway, W., Haddonfield, N. J.

New York Mrs. A. E. Severinghaus 375 W. 250th St., New York, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Elwyn Chaney 3764 Bronx Blvd., New York, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. Laurence Heatherington Black River, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Arthur J. Jackson 253 E. Main St., Newark, Del.

Philadelphia Miss Kathryn J. Bieri. .4923 Parkside Ave., Wynnfield, Philadelphia 31, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Sidney T. Davis 818 Bank St., Bridgeville, Pa.

Troy Miss Marion Hemstreet 392 Morris St., Albany 3, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. Myron S. Collins 1159 National Blvd., Wheeling, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. Earl Tolley 15 Baldwin St., Johnson City, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. J. Gordon Wilson 601 Fairview Ave., Montgomery 6, Ala.

Florida Mrs. David J. Cathcart 1330 LaSalle St., Jacksonville 7, Fla.

Holston Mrs. A. H. Meyers 217 N. Jackson St., Athens, Tenn.

Kentucky Miss Ola Lee Barnett Sue Bennett College, London, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Victor P. Henry Box 25, Columbia, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. Carl McRae Camden, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. R. H. Rollings 617 Main St., Hattiesburg, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. Anne Kinney Cullman, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs, W. P. Moore Greenville, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. A. A. Aiken 773 Cascade PL, S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. Albert Stuckenschneider 1105 N. 7th St., Columbus, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. A. V. Harbin R. R. No. 3, Georgetown, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. J. Daniel Lester R. D. No. 1, Montezuma, Ga.

Tennessee Miss Ethelyn P. Hill Baxter Seminary, Baxter, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. J. Petty 1711 Maplwood Dr., Columbia, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. O. L. Miller 1340 Main St., S., Harrisonburg, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. Walter L. Lanier Thomasville, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Miss Eula V. Arnold Jonesboro, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. F. C. O'Harra Heflin, Ala.

Central West Miss Lois Saxton 310 Franklin St., St. Charles, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. Theodosia Hayward Westover. Md.

East Tennessee Mrs. Maud V. Martin 2816 Berry St., Cleveland, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Grace I. Green 305 Adams St., Ocala, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. S. B. Lester 415 11th St., Jeffersonville, Ind.

Louisiana Mrs. W. G. Alston 5207 Constance St., New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Mrs. E. L. Smith Sycamore St., Bay St. Louis, Miss.

North Carolina Miss Chattie Price 317 N. Heney St., Leaksville, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Nona B. Prothro Sylvania, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Effie Strother N. Coit St., Florence, S. C.

South Florida

Southwest Mrs. Veni Bonds Forest City, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. H. P. Gordon 2332 Herman St., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. June Roe Runnells 114 N. 25th St., Paris, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. Delma Lawrence Holly Springs, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Myrtle Lofton 1214 W. Lanvall St., Baltimore, Md.

West Texas Mrs. R. J. Ervin 1501 Bourbon St., Dallas, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. Corine Aldrich Theta House, Vermillion, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Thomas Pryor 702 S. Washington St., Royal Oak, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Arthur Fogde 1510 Lawrence Ave., Springfield, 111.

Indiana Mrs. S. W. Robinson 808 E. Blackford Ave., Evansville 13, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. Edwin W. Frohardt 5248 10th St., Burlington, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. W. C. Perdew 832 W. Lovell St., Kalamazoo 48, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. Charles C. Wharton 2252 Knapp St., St. Paul 8, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. R. A. Ritterbush 506 9th St., Bismarck, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Edwin R. Garrison 579 N. Wabash St., Wabash, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. W. A. Smith 5220 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Martin Hansen 105 Warwick Ave., S. E., Minneapolis 14, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Clyde Nattkemper 621 Washington Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. Royal Bennett Humboldt, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. Carl Ferguson 9 Church St., Athens, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Edmund D. Soper 1202 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. E. U. Yates. 415 E. Broadway, Centralia, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. A. J. Kindred Waverly, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. Ralph Balliette 630 N. Water St., Platteville, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. H. Reynard 418 Northern Ave., Green Bay, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Harold Froning 211 E. 1st St., Hutchinson, Kan.

Central Texas Miss Ernal Smith Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth 5, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. John Leonard Durant, Okla.

Indian Mission

Kansas Mrs. Oliver Klinger 602 W. Main St., Chanute, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. C. E. Moseley Camden, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. G. W. Pomeroy 522 Avenue B, Bogalusa, La.

Missouri Mrs. Ray Wilson Hardin, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Albert J. Ebers R. D. No. 3, Seward, Neb.

•New Mexico Mrs. Ray McGrew Alpine, Texas

North Arkansas Miss Lucille Adams 300 W. Matthews Ave., Jonesboro, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. G. F. Bryant 1415 Austin, Denton, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Cecil R. Matthews 2301 10th St., Lubbock, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. G. Hubert Bates 1023 Adams St., Jefferson City, Mo.

Southwest Mexican

Southwest Missouri Mrs. E. D. Baker 1 141 N. Robberson Ave., Springfield, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Leslie C. Procter 708 W. 28th St., Austin, Texas

Texas Mrs. R. E. Price Lamarque, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. C. C. Beaird 509 S. Boulevard, Norman, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Miss Mariam Hotle R. R. No. 4, Box 157, Sebastopol, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Rufus C. Baker 2118 14th St., Boulder, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Leonard Clark Emmett, Idaho

Montana Mrs. M. E. Van de Mark 3101 2d Ave., N., Great Falls, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. J. D. McCormick Newberg, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Miss Alice Grimes 1 1 15 S. Lawrence, Tacoma 6, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. Herman N. Beimfohr. . .10853 Wellworth Ave., Los Angeles 24, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. J. B. Kitch Box 12, Kimberly, Nev.

Wyoming State Mrs. B. F. Miller 1115 Grand Ave., Laramie, Wyo.

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CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Paul Bohi 4004 Roland Ave., Baltimore 11, Md.

Central New York Mrs. Cuthbert Rowe 181 Maplehurst St., Syracuse 8, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. L. P. Greenawalt 3899 N. Front St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. Kenneth C. Vollbrecht 702 H E. 25th St., Erie, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. J. J. Wilcox 84 Ontario St., Corning, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. E. B. Tewksbury 24 High St., Auburn, Me.

Newark Mrs. R. B. Saylor 43 Park End PI., East Orange, N. J.

New England Mrs. Wilbur P. Elliott 76 Ocean View Rd., Swampscott, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. Carroll W. Clark Ill Alvin St., Providence 7, R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. Lawrence Robinson Salem, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. A. L. Gongloff 16 E. Broad St., Paulsboro, N. J.

New York Mrs. James Forsyth 161 W. 16th St., New York, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Earl C. Heck 17 Church Ave., Islip, L. I., N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. B. L. Waters 126 W. Park Dr., Watertown, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Otis Jefferson Centerville, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Arthur MacCorkle 126 Beecher Ave., Cheltenham, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Forrest A. Goodrich 400 Eastern Ave., Aspinwall, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Daniel D. Brox 54 Holbrook St., North Adams, Mass.

West Virginia Mrs. Robert F. Knight 236 W. 9th Ave., Huntington, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. W. J. Dubrick 12 Liberty St., Sidney, N. Y.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. H. E. Cleveland Centerville, Ala.

Florida Mrs. Lewis N. Head 109 S. Wild Olive St., Daytona Beach, Fla.

Holston Mrs. Ralph R. Spraker Maryville, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. Walter Horst 2 E. Crittendon Rd., Covington, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. Walter I. Munday 120 Alumni Ave., Hopkinsville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. William Rhodes 992 Parkland Rd., Memphis 11, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. Charles F. Ratcliffe 1719 Divine, Jackson, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. C. R. Addington 1548 E. Lake Blvd., Birmingham 7, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. D. L. Fouts Weldon, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. C. O. Copelan, Jr Box 42, Smyrna, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. N. J. Golding Starkville, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. J. Nat Miley Branchville, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. Ray Zoucks 1522 E. 37th St., Savannah, Ga.

Tennessee Miss Mildred Patterson Gallatin, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. Dwight Patterson Laurens, S. C.

Virginia Miss Virginia Henry 312 Methodist Bldg., Richmond 19, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. Eugene A. Lamb R. R. No. 3, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Miss Grace Arnold 112 Brown Ave., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. Mattie Donegan 204 Winston, Huntsville, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Inez William Ballard 1221 S. "C" St., Wellington, Kan.

Delaware Mrs. J. T. Fletcher 3815 N. Smedley St., Philadelphia 40, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. J. W. Haywood Morristown College. Morristown, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Rubiana Kirkland 1918 Louisiana St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Kathleen Bright 306 LaBelle Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Louisiana Mrs. H. T. Israel 1317 Florida St., Baton Rouge, La.

Mississippi Mrs. A. C. Wheaton 2606 14th St., Meridian, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. R. B. McRae Box 906, Hamlet, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Clifford B. Griffin Florence St., Augusta, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. O. V. Miller 377 Ashley Ave., Charleston, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. E. L. Bartley 562 Second Ave., Daytona Beach, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. C. B. Holland Cotton Plant, Ark.

Tennessee Mrs. H. H. Jones 467 E. College St., Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. M. E. Drew 2618 Berry St., Houston 4, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. Kathryn Johnson Box 389, Aberdeen, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Zula Lovell 614 S. Washington St., Alexandria, Va.

West Texas Miss Ruby McKenzie Box 121, LaGrange, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. Harry N. Carlson 707 Iowa Ave., S. E., Huron, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. A. F. Black 418 E. Taylor St., Flint 5, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Lowell Hazzard 1206 N. Prairie St., Bloomington, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Charles E. Smith 617 N. DeQuincy, Indianapolis 1, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. J. A. Harp • Moulton, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. C. H. Phillips 601 Pine Ave., Alma, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. G. E. Martin 410 11th St., Worthington, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. J. W. Frisbie Casselton, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Don Turner 445 N. Walnut St., Union City, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. E. K. Barss Savannah, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Louis M. Rommel 5038 42d Ave., S., Minneapolis 6, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. W. I. Wilson 103 Campbell St., Valparaiso, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. R. L. Logan Ruthven, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. Frank McCall Mount Victory, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. A. E. Blomberg 6409 S. Sangamon St., Chicago 21, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Harry Wells 1602 15th St., Lawrenceville, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. Emma Auburn Arnold Norway, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. L. P. Smith 118 Bradford St., Platteville, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. Justus Olson 4015 W. Galena St., Milwaukee 8, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Central Kansas Mrs. O. Ray Cook 707 1st Ave., Dodge City, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. A. M. Tibbs Valley Mills, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. A. H. Williams 403 N. 14th St., Muskogee, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Hettie Cook Okemah, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. G. R. Fosmire 3802 Metropolitan Ave., Kansas City 3, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Fred Lengstreth 2615 Bishop St., Little Rock, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. E. A. Sartor 4364 Richmond Ave., Shreveport 55, La.

Missouri

Nebraska Mrs. Richard Carlyon 1803 Lane St., Falls City, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Carol Moe 1217 S. Edith, Albuquerque, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. E. W. Harris 934 Center St., Conway, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Jack Ryan 701 Waddell, McKinney, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Jordan Grooms Vega, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. Ralph J. Dunn Clarkton, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Miss Faustina Moreno 515 S. Kansas, El Paso, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. R. G. Carney R. R. No. 4, Clinton, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. L. U. Spellman 1513 Stillman, Corpus Christi, Texas

Texas Mrs. Milo W. Ford Box 355, Dayton, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. Robert J. Smith 5 F St., N. W., Ardmore, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. H. K. Hamilton Box 437, Lodi, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Ed. B. Deardon 4623 16th Ave., Denver 7, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Dallas McNeil Rupert, Idaho

Montana Mrs. W. W. Jones 1002 3d Ave., Havre, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. Ellsworth M. Tilton 638 Mill St., Dallas, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. Jay Tiffany 709 1 7th St., Bellingham, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona Mrs. Guy Young 1517-A Rock Glen Ave., Glendale 5, Calif.

Utah Mission Miss Ada Duhigg,

Highland Boy Community House, Bingham Canyon, Utah
Wyoming State Mrs. E. F. McCoy Powell, Wyo.

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Orson N. Eaton 4320 Claggett Rd., Hyattsville, Md.

Central New York Mrs. Herbert J. Gordon 584 Maple Ave., Elmira, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Paul C. Webb 338 Iron St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. K. B. Lininger Pleasantville, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Arthur S. Wright 6 N. Center St., Perry, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. J. Finch Park Normal Ave., Presque Isle, Me.

Newark Mrs. J. R. McLaughlin 346 Sylvan Ave., Leonia, N. J.

New England Mrs. William B. Pollock, Jr 722 Pleasant St., Worcester, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. James Daley 67 Grantland Rd., Auburn 10, R. I .

New Hampshire Miss Mabel Duplisse 2 Arlington Ave., Nashua, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. H.J. Smith 33 S. Maryland Ave., Atlantic City, N. J.

New York Mrs. Leonard Jones 465 Lexington Ave., White Plains, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Allen C. Miller 176 Garden St., Roslyn Heights, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. Robert Holmes 202 Main St., Boonville, N. Y.

Peninsula Miss Annie E. Howie 1217 E. ChurchSt., Fruitland, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Thomas Younger 2643 S. 66th St., Philadelphia 42, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. David R. Graham 956 Church St., Indiana, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Paul B. Maves 22 Seminary St., Middlebury, Vt.

West Virginia Mrs. Mona Hull Box 257, Durbin, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. Roy Henwood 408 Wyoming Ave., West Pittston, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. R. L. Hoagland 26 Audubon PL, Mobile 18, Ala.

Florida Mrs. G. E. Graden Greensboro, Fla.

Holston Mrs. Bert Nelms 440 S. Crest Rd., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. C. D. Weight 936 Prospect Ave., Ashland, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. G. P. Robertson 825 Washington St., Louisville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. N. S. Daws Halls, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. J. B. Cain Box 231, Columbia, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. J. L. Ince 1102 Ward Ave., Huntsville, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. B. B. Slaughter 706 Rockingham Rd., Rockingham, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. James Fluker 106 Roanoke Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. Maurice E. Woodson Olive Branch, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. E. P. Walsh 610 Beaty St., Conway, S. C.

South Georgia

Tennessee Mrs. Thurman Smith Pulaski, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. D. Kilgore 515 Whaley St., Columbia 12, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. J. H. Montgomery 2322 Rosewood Ave., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. George Hoyle Shelby, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta

Central Alabama Mrs. Etta Benham 1518 Cooper St., Anniston, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Elberta Johnston 2416 Highland Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. Cleo Henry 1007 Poplar St., Wilmington 30, Del.

East Tennessee Mrs. Annie M. Washington 427 Scott St., Bristol, Va.

Florida

Lexington Mrs. Fannie B. May 1521 Cruft Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.

Louisiana

Mississippi Mrs. H. Y. Beech Gulfport, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. Luberth a Thompson Box 47, Johns, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Mabel Maddox Springroad, LaGrange, Ga.

South Carolina , Mrs. Rosa Cooper 426 S. Main St., Darlington, S. C.

South Florida

Southwest Miss Essie B. Wilson Box 73, Ogden, Ark.

Tennessee Miss Lillian Jones 1 105 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. Margaret R. Callagon 31 16 Avenue L.t Galveston, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. Minerva Byrd Goodman, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Daisy King 1119 W. Lanvale St., Baltimore 17, Md.

West Texas Mrs. M. M. Loud 415 Olive St., San Antonio, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. R. A. Hallett 715 Harlow, Rapid City, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. La Verne Sweeney 230 Grace St., Flint 5, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. L. M. Schweitzer 108 Callendar St., Peoria 5, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Bertha LaMar 4 E. South St., Liberty, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. Verne Lewis Villisca, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. J. M. DeVinney 318 S. Park St., Boyne City, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. C. J. Mumm 1511 Breda St., St. Paul 4, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. Roy Roberts 800 5th Ave., N. W., Mandan, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. M. A. Copeland Frankton, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. B. L. Carmack Dennison, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Miss Catharine McKay Alexandria, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Clyde C. Pearce 2425 S. Michigan St., South Bend, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. A. C. Long 312 S. Carroll St., Rock Rapids, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. C. R. South 1215 Edison St., Dayton 7, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. J. Benton Schaub 1040 Isabella St., Wilmette, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. F. L. Melvin 325 Bowman Ave., Alton, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. C. R.'Garland 1131 14th Ave., Eldora, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. S. J. Lambright 1125 Vilas Ave., Madison 5, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. Albert Meissner Merton, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Leonard Smoot Box 233, Atwood, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Ned Lydick 2428 Colonial Pkwy., Ft. Worth 4, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. William B. Reid 120 S. Wyandotte, Dewey, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Stella Deer R. F. D. No. 1 , Holdenville, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. C. E. Sisney 319 E. Madison St., Iola, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Neill Hart 120 Harding St., Pine Bluff, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. Ed Conger Arcadia, La.

Missouri Mrs. H. H. Brower 215 S. Cole, Mexico, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Harold Gilman Madison, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. Reed Brainard Artesia, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. Johnny McClure Danville, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Hargrove Grounds Box 63, Henrietta, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Uel Crosby Box 846, Seymour, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. J. Wesley Miller Ironton, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Raul Salazar 311 E. 4th, El Paso, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. H. A. Patterson 1706 S. Garrison St., Carthage, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Charles T. Hardt Edinburg, Texas

Texas Mrs. Gordon Alexander 4445 Pershing, Beaumont, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. Roy Foreman 921 Frisco Ave., Clinton, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. George Colliver 95 W. Euclid Ave., Stockton, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. William Austin 1205 Lake, Pueblo, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Carl A. Christiansen 607 7th St., Nampa, Idaho

Montana Mrs. Spencer Lausen 334 Alderson Ave., Billings, Mont .

Oregon Mrs. Harvey deVries Sheridan, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. A. F. Christensen 1114 W. 18th St., Spokane, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. Clyde E. Ruckman 116 Stanford St., Garden Grove, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. Glenn K. Taylor 1364 25th St., Ogden, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. J. M. Browne Box 23, Powell, Wyo.

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. Louis Dashiell 4103 Gallatin St., Hyattsville, Md.

Central New York Mrs. H. B. Dudley 113 Ferris St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. R. S. Tompkins 312 Louisa St,, Williamsport, Pa.

Erie Mrs. Clyde Lowe Little Valley, N. Y.

Genesee Mrs. Arthur D. Mundy 78 Colgate St., Rochester, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Fred Dunn Orchard Rd., Elizabeth Pk., Cape Elizabeth, Me.

Newark Mrs. Jerome Marshall 179 Harrison St., East Orange, N. J.

New England Mrs. Elmer L. MacDowell 48 Wyoming Ave., Maiden, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. G. Albin Dahlquist 123 Spring St., E. Greenwich, R. I.

New Hampshire Mrs. George Ledward 3 Union St., Concord, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. George Whitfield 192 Broad St., Eatontown, N. J.

New York Mrs. R. B. Guice 35 S. Clover St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Harry F. Lewis 27 Maplewood Terrace, Hamden, Conn.

Northern New York Mrs. Parker Scripture 1634 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Benjamin F. Johnson Denton, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Elmer T. Kloos 807 Passmore St., Philadelphia 11, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Charles R. Riker 101 Woodhaven Dr., Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

Troy Miss Clarissa McCall 41 Ferry St., Hudson Falls, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. J. J. Fleshman Blue Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

Wyoming Mrs. George E. Nash 816 N. Irving Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. L. C. Mitchell 615 Pettus St., Selma, Ala.

Florida Mrs. J. C. Watson Punta Gorda, Fla.

Holston Mrs. C. O. Douglas Athens, Tenn.

Kentucky Miss Rebecca Patton Beechmoor Rd., Catlettsburg, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. R. W. Harman 724 13th St., Bowling Green, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. R. E. Rooks Mercer, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. H. E. Hamrick Collinsville, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. T. R. Mitchell 1630 Dartmouth Ave., Bessemer, Ala.

North Carolina Miss Mary Gardner 206 W. Edenton St., Raleigh, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. Rembert Green Sandy Springs, Ga.

North Mississippi Miss Mamie Jones Hernando, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. Welbourne Summers Box 112, Sumter, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. J. B. Dillard Davisboro, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Luther L. Luton Ridley Blvd., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. N. C. Clark Waterloo, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. T. E. Landis 701 Madison St., Lynchburg, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. D. M. Davidson Gibsonville, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Miss Colye Lee Riley Clark College, Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. Mayme Shealey Box 12, Roanoke, Ala.

Central West Mrs. J. O. Morrison 2444 Harrison St., Kansas City, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. D. Lyman Ridout 1212 N. Redfield St., Philadelphia 31, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. Jessie P. Stephens 2104 Walking Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Alverta P. Cook 1020 W. 20th St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Cassia Morris 3157 Charlevoix Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Louisiana Mrs. L. R. Fields 5207 Constance St., New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Miss Geneva Daniels 348 Esterbrook St., Bay St. Louis, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. W. S. McLeod 755 E. Washington St., High Point, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. Dora Bryant 101 7A W. 37th St., Savannah, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Katie Smith Claflin College, Orangeburg, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. J. L. Dixon 1866 N. W. 9th St., Miami, Fla.

Southwest

Tennessee Mrs. J. E. Suggs 3105 Eden St., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. F. D. Mays Palestine, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. R. L. Sweeney 611 Roosevelt St., Indianola, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Elizabeth Hall Spicer 1321 E. Biddle St., Baltimore, Md.

West Texas Mrs. E. L. Mayfield 1055 Oleander St., Ft. Worth, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. V. V. Davis 372 S. Spring St., Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. John Hoffman Elkton, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Frank M. Rice El Paso, 111.

Indiana Mrs. W. J. Gelvin 108 Mulberry St., Batesville, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. E. B. White 136 Hull St., Des Moines 13, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. J. E. Bowker 215 N. Main St., Three Rivers, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. H. J. Swenson Fairfax, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. H. J. Gernhardt, Sr Oakes, N. Dak.

North Indiana Miss Miriam Kutz 311 S. Detroit St., Warsaw, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. L. B. Leighninger 1006 Walnut St., Coshocton, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. B. L. Bummert 2824 14th Ave., S., Minneapolis 7, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Raymond Wise 1509 W. 22d St., Indianapolis 8, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. A. J. Walker Webster City, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. L. J. Long R. F. D. "Longcrest," Middletown, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Charles Palmquist 6504 S. Carpenter St., Chicago 21, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. Earl W. Barrett 247 S. 5th St., Albion, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. Wesley Conger 1710 Olive St., Cedar Falls, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. Archie R. Hirst 220 Kensington Dr., Madison, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. J. H. Martin 2625 Washington Ave., Racine, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Carroll Scott 214 E. 7th St., Abilene, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Hal Cherry 3806 W. 4th St., Ft. Worth 7, Texas

East Oaklahoma Mrs. T. B. McGuire 302 N. Duncan, Stillwater, Okla.

Indian Mission Miss Sara Quetone Star Route, Lawton, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. O. B. Reed 1217 Rowland St., Kansas City, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. V. O. Buck Warren, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. J. J. Davidson, Jr Lafayette, La.

Missouri Miss Emily Stapleton Albany, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Henry Felthoven 2221 Jones, Apt. 22, Omaha 5, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. R. H. Kirk. 1906 E. Central Ave., Albuquerque, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. W. F. Cooley Siloam Springs, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Frank Crawford Box 63, Pecan Gap, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. W. J. Stuckler Plainview, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. A. E. Swedberg 3315 Jamison Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. Ezequiel Alvirez 2417 Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. Albert Bohm Clever, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Charles Cox 605 Robinson St., Kerrville, Texas

Texas Mrs. H. H. Blagraves . . . .' Iola, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. A. R. Smith 413 N. 6th, Tonkawa, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. C. D. Buchanan 4315 Detroit Ave., Oakland, Calif

Colorado Mrs. Preston Childress Lakewood, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. Edgar Moorman Murtaugh, Idaho

Montana Mrs. L. L. Ortmayer Glendive, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. Bruce R. Baxter 1209 S. W. 6th Ave., Portland 5, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. Clare Dobler 2523 Federal Ave., Everett, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona . . . .Mrs. Esther M. Edler 614 S. St. Andrews PI., Los Angeles 5, Calif.

Utah Mission Miss Alice Brown,

Highland Boy Community House, Bingham Canyon, Utah
Wyoming State Mrs. Homer Crisman Lander, Wyo .

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. W. S. Bissonnette 1718 Clark St., Honolulu, Hawaii

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. A. H. Warner Walkersville, Md.

Central New York Mrs. L. B. Chaloux 22 Cayuga St., Homer, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Frank Ake 361 Mulberry St., Williamsport, Pa.

Erie Mrs. E. L. Mudge Slippery Rock, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Roy Hoffelt 24 Wilbury PI., Buffalo, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Mary E. Ferrell -. Caribou, Me.

Newark Mrs. Mildred Knight 39 Green Village Rd., Madison, N. J.

New England Mrs. L. O. Hartmann 93 Nonantum St., Newton, Mass.

New England Southern Miss Hazel F. Mader 31 White St., Taunton, Mass.

New Hampshire

New Jersey Mrs. W. Nickless Clayton, N. J.

New York

New York East Mrs. W. H. Stewart 55 Grand Ave., Rockville Center, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. A. B. Thompson Pulaski, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. E. C. Hallman Laurel, Del.

Philadelphia Miss Kathryn J. Bieri,

4923 Parkside Ave., Wynnefield, Philadelphia 31, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Sidney T. Davis 818 Bank St., Bridgeville, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Philip H. Wertz 43 Ray St., Schenectady, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. C. E. Brandt Moundsville, W. Va.

Wyoming

Southeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE name address

Alabama Mrs. R. R. Ellison 121 College St., Montgomery 6, Ala.

Florida Mrs. Henry G. Barnett 1000 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lakeland, Fla.

Holston Mrs. R. L. Hillman Clinchco, Va.

Kentucky Mrs. W. H. McLean 258 E. Maxwell St., Lexington, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. E. S. Denton Princeton, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. Homer Tatum Alamo, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. R. H. Rollings 617 Main St., Hattiesburg, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. E. O. Shipman 2161 S. 16th Ave., Birmingham, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. A. M. Gates Durham, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. D. R. Little Marietta, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. W. H. Ratliff Sherard, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. J. F. Kinney Bennettsville, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. J. Slater Wight Cairo, Ga.

Tennessee Miss Ethelyn Hill Baxter Seminary, Baxter, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina

Virginia Mrs. T. F. Carroll 1705 Park Ave., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. C. N. Clark 146 Franklin St., Mount Airy, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta. .

Central Alabama Mrs. Bessie D. Lynn 547 S. 6th St., Gadsden, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Myrtle Ray 2531 Morgan St., Parsons, Kan.

Delaware

East Tennessee Mrs. L. W. Neal Cumberland Ave., Morristown, Tenn.

Florida

Lexington Mrs. M. W. Clair, Jr 213 E. 50th St., Chicago, 111.

Louisiana

Mississippi Mrs. D. A. Carter West Enterprise, Miss,

North Carolina Mrs. Juanita Penn 1340 N. Woodland Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Savannah Miss C. Emma Lewis 1219 E. Waldburg St., Savannah, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Corriene Marcus Box 141, Orangeburg, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. C. B. Higgs Clearwater, Fla.

Southwest

Tennessee Mrs. Mary Webb 527 Lischey Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. C. E. Robinson 212 John St., Orange, Texas

Upper Mississippi

Washington Mrs. Rachel Carter Smith 46 Cornhill St., Annapolis, Md.

West Texas Mrs. Hattie Rhodes 228 W. 8th St., San Angelo, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. R. Y. Chapman Brookings, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Paul Albery 327 Sheffield, Flint 3, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Walter F. Day 816 Beecher St., Galesburg, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Russell N. Kibler Farmersburg, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. B. O. Gammon 1518 E. 9th St., Des Moines, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. Russell Fenner 315 Allegan St., Plainwell, Mich.

Minnesota

North Dakota Mrs. R. I. Brown 1025 5th St., N., Fargo, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. W. T. Arnold 928 S. Adams St., Marion, Ind.

North-East Ohio Miss Elizabeth Richie Senecaville, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. Leslie S. Keyes 3509 Humboldt Ave., Minneapolis 8, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Clyde Nattkemper 621 Washington Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. M. L. Jones Spencer, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. Eugene Riel R. F. D. No. 7, Southern Blvd., Dayton 9, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. C. A. Bloomquist 9344 S. Vanderpoel Ave., Chicago 20, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. M. B. VanLeer 209 E. Union Ave., Litchfield, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. F. R. Currie 416 N. Adams St., Mason City, Iowa

West Wisconsin Miss Monona Cheney Barron, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. Adelaide Raby 1231 N. 120th St., Wauwatosa 13, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Miss Ethel Graves 430 E. 13th St., Wichita 4, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Joel W. Hooper Lorena, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. W. H. Robinson Hugo, Okla.

Indian Mission

Kansas Dr. Mary E. Shannon 314 Greenwood Ave., Topeka, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. J. M. Stinson 509 W. Washington Ave., Camden, Ark.

Louisiana

Missouri

Nebraska Mrs. S. A. Longacre Edgar, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. C. S. Walker Albuquerque, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. O. E. Goddard Conway, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. H. C. Cherry 6040 Penrose Ave., Dallas, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. M. B. Hilburn 1220 Avenue M, Lubbock, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. O. H. Duggins 837 Hawkins Ct., Webster Groves, Mo.

Southwest Mexican

Southwest Missouri

Southwest Texas Mrs. L. U. Spellmann 1513 Stillman, Corpus Christi, Texas

Texas Mrs. S. M. Adams 633 N. Fredonia, Nacogdoches, Texas

West Oklahoma

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. L. L. Brown 525 Monte Vista Ave., Oakland, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Rufus C. Baker 2118 14th St., Boulder, Colo.

Idaho

Montana Mrs. M. E. Van de Mark 3101 2d Ave., N., Great Falls, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. J. D. McCormick Newberg, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Miss Bertha Pease College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona Mrs. Ida B. Kibler 646 Radcliffe Ave., Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Utah Mission

Wyoming State Miss Mary Jennings 1627 Rainbow Ave., Laramie, Wyo.

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CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. John C. Millian 4400 Carle View Rd., Baltimore 7, Md.

Central New York Mrs. John McCombe R. D., Cato, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Harold E. Millard 911 Washington Ave., Tyrone, Pa.

Erie Mrs. F. S. McKnight 1116 Liberty St., Franklin, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. William W. Shaver 214 Wall St., Corning, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. W. J. Crossman 126 Gammage Ave., Auburn, Me.

Newark Mrs. Paul Callender 310 Division Ave., Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.

New England Mrs. C. H. Stackpole 109 W. Wyoming Ave., Melrose, Mass.

New England Southern

New Hampshire Mrs. J. Kirkwood Craig 10 View St., Franklin, N. H.

New Jersey

New York Mrs. C. E. Townsend 37 Leroy PI., Newburgh, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. Albert H. Marion 504 Whitney Ave., New Haven, Conn.

Northern New York Mrs. W. J. Warren 43 Proctor Blvd., Utica, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. Milton L. Pope 604 Park Ave., Salisbury, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. Walter C. Wagner 149 Grandview Rd., Ardmore, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. Albert Dawson 415 E. 10th Ave., Tarentum, Pa.

Troy Mrs. L. B. Main 421 Clinton Ave., Albany 5, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. R. G. Stewart 112 Walnut St., Morgantown, W. Va.

Wyoming Miss Gertrude Dickover 18 W. Ross Terrace, Wilkes Barre, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. H. E. Kendrick 640 King St., Selma, Ala.

Florida Mrs. Harold R. Barnes Enterprise, Fla.

Holston Mrs. S. U. Steffner 3404 Navajo Dr., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Kentucky Mrs. J. Ralph Wood Hazard, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. R. H. Short 1885 Douglass Blvd., Louisville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. T. S. McFerrin 41 S. Tucker, Memphis 4, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. E. E. McKeithen Utica, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. T. L. McDonald 2002 Euclid Ave., Jasper, Ala.

North Carolina Miss Elizabeth Lambe Fayetteville, N. C.

North Georgia M rs. Stewart Colley Grantville, Ga.

North Mississippi . . .Mrs. D. W. Whitaker Sardis, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. W. O. Henderson Aynor, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. George Matthews, Jr 2032 Wynnton Rd., Columbus, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Pickens Johnson 1030 Ben Allen Rd., Nashville, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. W. L. Mullikin 181 W. Henry St., Spartanburg, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. L. F. Havermale Williamsburg, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. Clare Purcell 2100 Roswell Ave., Charlotte, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. P. G. Coggins 1 105 Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. Viola Kennedy 630 7th Court, W., Birmingham, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Frances Gant 1525-A Cora Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. Rella S. Fassett 306 North St., Milford, Del.

East Tennessee Mrs. J. F. Lewis 1103 Bland St., Bluefield, Va.

Florida Mrs. Mamie Rogers Simpkins 1231 Wildwood St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Georgia C. Hamlett 8227 Central Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

Louisiana Mrs. Berry Johnson 916 2d St., Baton Rouge, La.

Mississippi Mrs. S. K. Triggs 420 E. 7th St., Hattiesburg, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. Ada L. Belo 76 Waughtown St., Winston-Salem, N. C

Savannah

South Carolina Mrs. Belina Thomas 269 Converse St., Spartanburg, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. S. E. Johnson 318 S. Lee St., Arcadia, Fla.

Southwest

Tennessee Mrs. M. A. McKay 12 Murrell St., Nashville 10, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. Mary Loggin Williams Beaumont, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. G. A. McEwen 439 N. Spring St., Tupelo, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Lillian Tingle 1117 Westwood Ave., Baltimore, Md.

West Texas Mrs. C. P. Young 1170 Navasota St., Austin, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Mrs. E. F. Kurtz Redfield, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Walter Mollan Emmett, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. H.J. Clinebell 1401 W. Edwards St., Springfield, 111.

Indiana Mrs. Louis F. Yokel R. R. No. 5, Evansville, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. U. S. Smith Agency, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. M. D. McKean 936 Sanford St., Muskegon, Mich.

Minnesota Miss Edith Chandler 401 S. Chatham St., Austin, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. Stuart A. Parvin 107 W. Broadway, Williston, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. C. G. Yeomans 210 S. High St., Warsaw, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. Paul Carter 3346 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. G. L. Haggans Litchfield, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. Wayne Nicely Advance, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. Arthur F. Schuldt Emmetsburg, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. C. Lester Spaid 1325 Hurd Ave., Findlay, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. E. W. Pierce 981 1 Leavitt St., Chicago 43, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. J. H. Laudenberg 458 N. 26th St., East St. Louis, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. D. E. Shipley 20 Evans Ave., Iowa City, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. R. M. Atkins 1 Vista Rd., Madison 5, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. Victor Nearhoof 820 4th Ave., Antigo, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. R. O. Nevens 1408 E. 2d St., Winfield, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. W. H. Cole Cisco, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. R. L. Jones Bristow, Okla.

Indian Mission Mrs. Ella Murphy Idabel, Okla.

Kansas Mrs. R. O. Taylor 315 Holbrook, Fort Scott, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Charles A. Evans 805 10th St., Arkadelphia, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. Clarence Shaffer 227 Washington St., Shreveport 52, La.

Missouri Mrs. Ray Tomlin Plattsburg, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. E. F. Nelson 415 N. 10th St., Beatrice, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. I. L. Morgan 412 Tulane PL, Albuquerque, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. D. H. Hindman 521 S. Franklin St., Blytheville, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Fay Thomas 1206 W. Louisiana St., McKinney, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. B. L. Cogdill 2426 28th St., Lubbock, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. C. E. Bair Flat River, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. E. G. Chapa 502 W. Kruttsnite, Edinburg, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. Beulah Cole 303 Bellefontaine, Kansas City, Mo,

Southwest Texas Mrs. S. L. Batchelor 1137 W. Ashby, San Antonio, Texas

Texas Mrs. Roy Johnson 2002 Huldy, Houston, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. George Parkhurst 524 Church St., Alva, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. Carrol Westfall 1 108 N. Broadway, Fresno, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. W. N. Armstrong 411 Edison Ave., Alamosa, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. M. H. Greenlee Nyssa, Ore.

Montana Mrs. Charles Miller Richey, Mont .

Oregon Mrs. John C. Yadon 101 Old Fort Rd., Klamath Falls, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. J. D. Ellis 1022 S. Cedar St., Spokane, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. Elsie A. Myers 1022 Virginia PI., Glendale 4, Calif.

Utah Mission Mrs. H. E. Fuller 77 Virginia Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. Charles A. Nowlen Methodist Parsonage, Laramie, Wyo.

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. Don W. Smith 2356 Waolani Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii

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CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. William C. Ballard 3702 Clifton Ave.. Baltimore 16, Md.

Central New York Mrs. Roy S. Smyres Box 116, Montour Falls, N. Y.

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. George E. Johnson 1311 Vernon St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. J. A. Galbraith 412 W. 5th St., Jamestown, N. Y.

Genesee Mrs. A. E. Matthews Savona, N. Y.

Maine Mrs. Dorothy Pike Livermore Falls, Me.

Newark Mrs. Frederick Earl 101 Rose Terrace, Newark, N. J.

New England Mrs. William L. Stidger 19 Oakwood Terrace, Newton, Mass.

New England Southern Mrs. O. J. Williams 55 Glen Ave., Edgewood 5, R. I.

New Hampshire

New Jersey Mrs. W. Nickless 358 Delsea Dr., Clayton, N. J.

New York Mrs. Fred A. Victor 63 Livingston Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. E. J. Sullivan 6340 Fitchett St., Elmhurst, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. Wava Winn New Hartford, N. Y.

Peninsula Miss Rietta M. Emerson 1102 Jackson St., Wilmington, Del.

Philadelphia Mrs. Fred Miller 43 Derwen Rd., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. H. W. Frye 518 Main St., Irwin, Pa.

Troy Mrs. C. V. Winne 18 W. Harrison St., Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

West Virginia Mrs. J. E. Tonkin Sutton, W. Va.

Wyoming

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. Arthur Heustess 1805 Madison Ave., Montgomery 7, Ala.

Florida Miss Ella May Davis Box 799, St. Augustine, Fla.

Holston Mrs. H. C. Graybeal Radford, Va.

Kentucky Mrs. James Spilman Harrodsburg, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. J. L. Holman 205 E. Kentucky St., Louisville, Ky.

Memphis . Mrs. Carl McRae Camden, Tenn.

Mississippi

North Alabama Mrs. E. V. Jones ..........'. 878 W. 7th St., Birmingham, Ala.

North Carolina

North Georgia

North Mississippi Mrs. W. R. McCormack Corinth, Miss.

South Carolina

South Georgia Mrs. Scott Edwards 501 E. 50th St., Savannah, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Floyd Forsythe Columbia, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. P. Byars Clifton, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. J. H. Montgomery 2322 Rosewood Ave., Richmond 20, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. C. O. Newell Bryson City, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. Joe Dennis 1315 Marcy St., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. Mattie Trammel 1527 Pine Ave., Anniston, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Roosevelt Butler 1 136 Washington Blvd., Kansas City, Kan.

Delaware Mrs. F. T. Johnson 2249 W. Oxford St., Philadelphia 21, Pa.

East Tennessee Mrs. Ineta Jones 1216 Bland St., Bluefield, Va.

Florida Mrs. Allie Ward - 1354 W. 23d St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. R. Lucille Porter 4162 W. Warren Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Louisiana

Mississippi Mrs. C. M. Gorden Mississippi School for Deaf, Jackson, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. O. S. Grandy 811 Fayetteville St., Durham, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. L. L. Odom 407 Blackwell St., Waycross, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. G. C. Brown Johns Island, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. Cecil Taylor 614 4th St., West Palm Beach, Fla.

Southwest

Tennessee Mrs. T. B. Hard'iman . . '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. 901 ' 7th Ave.', S.', Nashville," Tenn.

Texas Mrs. E. L. Blue 311 McClellan, Palestine, Texas

Upper Mississippi

Washington Mrs. Lyda Williams,

Asbury Methodist Church, 11th and K Sts., N. W., Washington, D/C.
West Texas Mrs. W. T.IHandy 1814 Good St., Dallas, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Miss Charlotte Noteboom . . South Dakota University, Vermillion, S. Dak .

Detroit Mrs. Orville McClew 128 .South St., Bad Axe, Mich.

Illinois Mrs. Paul Hardenbrook R. R. No. 4, Danville, 111.

Indiana Mrs. H. William Weir 1804 Ekin Ave., New Albany, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. F. R. Hubbard 670 44th St., Des Moines 12, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. O. K. Marshall Coopersville, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. W. F. Aull 1049 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul 5, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. R. Wolfer Jamestown, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. Earl Pittenger 108 W. Huston St., Garrett, Ind.

North- East Ohio Mrs. George Hollister 179 W. Winter St., Delaware, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. J. C. Handy 3418 Emerson Ave., S., Minneapolis 8, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. G. Roy Stultz 530 Elm St., Clinton, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. R. S. Carlton Spirit Lake, Iowa

Ohio Miss Blanche Wall 138 Brighton Blvd., Zanesville, Ohio.

Rock River Mrs. Oliver R. Apsegren 1114 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. D. P. Moore 508 E. Chestnut St., Olney, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. J. J. Booth 308 11th St., S., Marion, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. C. A. Fuller Menomonie, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. O. D. Cannon 2568 N. Grant Blvd., Milwaukee 10, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Central Kansas Mrs. Wayne Campbell 1013 N. 7th St., Garden City, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. Hal Cherry 3806 W. 4th St., Ft. Worth 7, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. Ernest R. Brown No. 1 Brown PI., Pryor, Okla.

Indian Mission

Kansas Mrs. E. E. Beauchamp Shawnee, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Thomas McLean Malvern, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. G. W. Pomeroy 522 Avenue B, Bogalusa, La.

Missouri Mrs. Raymond Wade Gallatin, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. I. J. Nisley 203 S. Sycamore, North Platte, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. J. F. Hinkle 400 N. Missouri St., Roswell, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. Shelby O. Johnson 1616 W. 17th St., North Little Rock, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. Henry George 4069 Hanover, Dallas, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Nat G. Rollins 2739 Roberts Ave., Abilene, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. J. A. Clay 120 S. Kingshighway, St. Charles, Mo.

Southwest Mexican

Southwest Missouri Mrs. J. Fred King 323 W. 4th St., Sedalia, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. Donald E. Redmond 206 E. Mountain St., Seguin, Texas

Texas Mrs. J. C. Hedrick Oakhurst, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. George Thomas Sayre, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

California Mrs. Homer Rose Sonora, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. Walter Ott Fort Morgan, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. C. S. Maxwell R. R. No. 1, Kimberly, Idaho

Montana Mrs. Russell Stephenson 812 Power St., Helena, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. C. W. Stacey R. R. No. 3, Salem, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. A. T. Flagg Chehalis, Wash.

Southern California- Arizona Mrs. O. B. Staples 3083^ E. California Ave., Glendale 6, Calif.

Utah Mission

Wyoming State Mrs. James Webb forrington, Wyo.

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Northeastern Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Baltimore Mrs. S. R. Neel 120 Grand Ave., Cumberland. Md.

Central New York Mrs. Nathan Edwards Marcellus, N. Y

Central Pennsylvania Mrs. Forrest D. Brown College Pk., Lewisburg, Pa.

Erie Mrs. J. H. B. Johnson 134 Pine St., Brookville, Pa.

Genesee Mrs. Eugene Fleury 357 Main St., East Aurora, N. Y

Maine Mrs. Agnes Morgrage 527 Hammond St., Bangor, Me.

Newark Mrs. Thomas Grayell 15 Spring St., East Orange, N. J.

New England Mrs. George A. Truelson 38 Rogers Ave., Somerville, Mass.

New England Southern Miss Olive D. Sylvester Box 203, East Weymouth, Mass.

New Hampshire Miss Miriam Mackenzie 1447 Candia Rd., Manchester, N. H.

New Jersey Mrs. Lawrence R. Parsons 61 Salem Ave., Burlington, N. J.

New York Mrs. R. O. Beakes Bloomingburgh, N. Y.

New York East Mrs. E. J. Pederson 1624 Marine Pkwy., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Northern New York Mrs. W. J. Bradley Camden, N. Y.

Peninsula Mrs. J. A. Rood Easton, Md.

Philadelphia Mrs. David Ruth 6137 Columbia Ave., Philadelphia 31, Pa.

Pittsburgh Mrs. William R. Newell 22 S. Harrison Ave., Pittsburgh 2, Pa.

Troy Mrs. Wylie Heter 62 Vley Rd., Scotia, N. Y.

West Virginia Miss M. Beryl Stewart Mannington, W. Va.

Wyoming -. Mrs. E. Prosper Gager 1430 College St., Dunmore, Pa.

Southeastern Jurisdiction

conference name address

Alabama Mrs. R. A. Dowling Pinckard, Ala.

Florida Mrs. T. L. Walker 2109 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa, Fla.

Holston Mrs. M. E. Stafford Abingdon, Va.

Kentucky Mrs. John Thoman 2817 Holt St., Ashland, Ky.

Louisville Mrs. W. H. Watts 3040 Wentworth Ave., Louisville, Ky.

Memphis Mrs. L. C. Templeton 3614 Midland, Memphis 11, Tenn.

Mississippi Mrs. L. J. Power Gulfport, Miss.

North Alabama Mrs. J. W. Curl .2044 Avenue Y, Birmingham 8, Ala.

North Carolina Mrs. G. E. Walters Burlington, N. C.

North Georgia Mrs. Mac Moore Conley, Ga.

North Mississippi Mrs. G. B. Blake Houlka, Miss.

South Carolina Mrs. R. H. Cain. . . .-. Little Rock, S. C.

South Georgia Mrs. H. H. Williams Douglas, Ga.

Tennessee Mrs. Seay Brown Gallatin, Tenn.

Upper South Carolina Mrs. J. D. Rogers Easley, S. C.

Virginia Mrs. E. O. Parkinson 1005 Edgehill Rd., Richmond 22, Va.

Western North Carolina Mrs. J. W. Harbison Shelby, N. C.

Central Jurisdiction

conference name address

Atlanta Mrs. Julia Ables 78 Ashby St., N. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Central Alabama Mrs. Lillie Neal 2032 Berkely Ave., Bessemer, Ala.

Central West Mrs. Lula Carrington Butler, Mo.

Delaware Mrs. O. H. Spence 607 Poplar Hill Ave., Salisbury, Md.

East Tennessee Mrs. L. V. Green 2109 Blackford St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Florida Mrs. Capitola E. Williams 717 Madison St., Palatka, Fla.

Lexington Mrs. Clara F. Webster 3435 Virginia Ave., Louisville, Ky.

Louisiana Miss Sophronia Stanley Southern University, Scotlandville, La.

Mississippi Mrs. Hettie McCann 1326 35th Ave., Meridian, Miss.

North Carolina Mrs. R. B. Withers • 519 Bennett St., Greensboro, N. C.

Savannah Mrs. M. M. Young 1014 W. 39th St., Savannah, Ga.

South Carolina Mrs. Maggie Glover S. Main St., Sumter, S. C.

South Florida Mrs. Daisy Swilley 1114 5th Ave., Tampa, Fla.

Southwest Mrs. E. J. Paxton Box 122, Boley, Okla.

Tennessee Miss B. L. Green 450 E. State St., Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Texas Mrs. L. A. Baccus 86 Tudor St., Paris, Texas

Upper Mississippi Mrs. L. V. Crump Tupelo, Miss.

Washington Mrs. Freda McGurder Lothian, Md.

West Texas Mrs. A. W. Crain 905 S, 9th St., Waco, Texas

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North Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Dakota Miss Mabel J. Parmenter 429 Nebraska St., S. W., Huron, S. Dak.

Detroit Mrs. Henry Matthews 3255 Richfield Rd., Flint 7, Mich.

Illinois Miss F. G. Compton 24 Norbloom Ave., Normal, 111.

Indiana Mrs. R. R. Eckert 329 Woodrow Ave., New Albany, Ind.

Iowa-Des Moines Mrs. Roy Collins 122 W. Garfield, Clarinda, Iowa

Michigan Mrs. W. M. Stevenson 2056 Horton St., S. E., Grand Rapids 7, Mich.

Minnesota Mrs. O. J. Finstad 1260 3d Ave., Windom, Minn.

North Dakota Mrs. Earl Armstrong 1421 2d Ave., S., Fargo, N. Dak.

North Indiana Mrs. J. R. Leathers R. R. No. 3, Marion, Ind.

North-East Ohio Mrs. Lloyd Warner R. R. No. 5, Wooster, Ohio

Northern Minnesota Mrs. F. J. Tresise 4307 Regent St., Duluth 4, Minn.

Northwest Indiana Mrs. J. J. Hunt Rensselaer, Ind.

Northwest Iowa Mrs. Edwin F. Saupe Sheldon, Iowa

Ohio Mrs. C. A. Brooks Patterson, Ohio

Rock River Mrs. Frederick C. Payne 191 Montclair Ave., Glen Ellyn, 111.

Southern Illinois Mrs. C. F. Corzine Grayville, 111.

Upper Iowa Mrs. H. D. Temple. 16 5th St., N. W., Oelwein, Iowa

West Wisconsin Mrs. H. W. Mueller River Falls, Wis.

Wisconsin Mrs. O. D. Cannon 2568 N. Grant Blvd., Milwaukee 10, Wis.

South Central Jurisdiction

CONFERENCE NAME ADDRESS

Central Kansas Mrs. Anna L. Zook 1201 State St., Lamed, Kan.

Central Texas Mrs. W. A. Pace Winters, Texas

East Oklahoma Mrs. G. K. Kesselring 3114 E. 3d St., Tulsa, Okla.

Indian Mission

Kansas Mrs. T. B. Kiger Burlington, Kan.

Little Rock Mrs. Watson Jopling 3101 Pine St., Texarkana, Ark.

Louisiana Mrs. C. I. Jones 6215 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans 15, La.

Missouri Mrs. J. M. Jones 2909 Angilique St., St. Joseph, Mo.

Nebraska Mrs. Lester Hess Gordon, Neb.

New Mexico Mrs. E. J. Isaacks Las Cruces, N. M.

North Arkansas Mrs. J. B. Randolph Altus, Ark.

North Texas Mrs. O. T. Mitchell Piano, Texas

Northwest Texas Mrs. Frank Wendt Inonah, Texas

St. Louis Mrs. W. H. Wolfe Farmington, Mo.

Southwest Mexican Mrs. C. C. Cota Box 1, Marfa, Texas

Southwest Missouri Mrs. F. W. Stakebake 2512 Jackson St., Kansas City, Mo.

Southwest Texas Mrs. M. D. Bormann Dallas Ave., McAllen, Texas

Texas Mrs. J. N. Steele 2404 Mason St., Houston, Texas

West Oklahoma Mrs. R. S. Burgin 714 E. Broadway, Ponca City, Okla.

Western Jurisdiction

conference name address

California Mrs. C. F. Godden 1627 Santiago St., San Francisco, Calif.

Colorado Mrs. John L. Spargo 1 1 1 E. Routt Ave., Pueblo, Colo.

Idaho Mrs. D. R. Rankin Ashton, Idaho

Montana Mrs. H. H. Potter Whitefish, Mont.

Oregon Mrs. Georgia Richmond Coquille, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Mrs. Guy Davis 209 N. 23d Ave., Yakima, Wash.

Southern California-Arizona Mrs. Edward Milligan 2123 N. Main St., Santa Ana, Calif.

Utah Mission Miss Helen Spessard 475 25th St., Ogden, Utah

Wyoming State Mrs. L. R. Bundy 1336 S. Cedar St., Casper, Wyo.

HAWAII CONFERENCE

Honolulu (First Church) Mrs. Cecil C. Martin Mid-Pacific Campus, Honolulu, Hawaii

Index

Page

Africa (Central and South) 7, 150, 176

Africa (North) .7, 167, 179

Appropriations 197

By-laws for the Assembly . . 288

By-laws of the Bureau of Deaconess Work ". . 286

By-laws of the Conference Woman's Society 296

By-laws of the District Woman's Society 300

By-laws of the Jurisdiction Deaconess Association 289

By-laws of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society 291

By-laws of the Woman's Division of Christian Service 268

By-laws of the Woman's Society in the Local Church 302

Burma 7, 136, 169

Charter of Woman's Division of Christian Service 4

Children's Work 7, 234

Children's Work (Conference Secretaries) 334

China 7, 145, 173

China, Central, and South Africa 7, 145

Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities 7, 14, 184

Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities (Conference

Secretaries) 324

Conference Officers 314

Constitution and By-laws 258

Constitution and By-laws Standing Committee 10

Constitution and By-laws of the Wesleyan Service Guild 306

Constitution of the Assembly 287

Constitution of the Conference Woman's Society 295

Constitution of the District Woman's Society.1. 299

Constitution of the Jurisdiction Woman's Society 264

Constitution of the Woman's Division of Christian Service 260

Constitution of the Woman's Society in the Local Church 301

Co-operating Agencies 15

Co-operation With Other Agencies Standing Committee 10, 247

Co-operative Committees and Commissions 15

Corresponding Secretaries (Conference) 320

Deaconess Work 7, 98, 122

Deaconesses in Active Service 123

Departments 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 74

Department of Christian Social Relations and Local Church Activities. 6, 7, 14, 184

Department of Work in Foreign Fields 6, 7, 12, 135, 169

Department of Work in United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic (also see separate index,

page 349) 6, 7, 13, 74

Editors 7, 191

Education and Cultivation Standing Committee 10, 245

Educational Institutions 7, 75, 104

Europe 7, 166, 179

Executive Committee 10

Executive Secretaries 7

Finance and Estimates Standing Committee 10, 197

Foreign Missionaries 169

Fourth Annual Meeting 17

346

Index 347

Page

Goals for 1944 3

Headquarters Address 1

Home Missionaries 104, 120

India 7, 137, 169

India, Burma, Malaya, and Sumatra 7, 136, 169

Institutions of the Woman's Division of Christian Service —

Home Department 104

Foreign Department 169

Japan 7, 153, 177

Japan, Korea, and the Philippines 7, 153, 177

Joint Division, Woman's Section 7, 232

Journal of Fourth Annual Meeting 17

Jurisdiction Officers 312

Korea 7, 153, 177

Latin America 7, 159, 179

Latin America, Europe, and North Africa 7, 159

Library Service Standing Committee 10, 245

Literature and Publications Standing Committee 10, 248

Literature and Publications (Conference Secretaries) 336

Malaya 7, 144, 172

Medical Work 7, 95, 118

Members of Woman's Division of Christian Service 8

Memorials 68

Methodist Woman and Literature Publications 7, 191

Missionary Education and Cultivation 7, 237

Missionary Education and Service (Conference Secretaries) 326

Missionary Personnel 7

Missionary Personnel (Conference Secretaries) 338

Missionary Personnel Standing Committee 11, 249

Officers 6

Organization and Promotion 7, 232

Permanent Funds and Investments Standing Committee 11, 250

Philippines 7, 153, 178

President 6

Presidents (Conference) 314

Projects of the Woman's Division of Christian Service 104, 169

Publication Manager 7, 195, 229

Recording Secretary 6

Recording Secretaries (Conference) 318

Retired Deaconesses 132

Retired Missionaries 181

Schools and Colleges for Training Christian Workers Standing Com-
mittee 252
Social Welfare Work' ..............]...[.].....[.[................ 7, 91, 115

Spiritual Life (Conference Secretaries) 340

Spiritual Life Standing Committee 11, 251

Standing Committees 10, 245

Status of Women (Conference Chairmen) 342

Status of Women Standing Committee 11, 252

Student Work 7, 242

348 Index

Page

Student Work (Conference Secretaries) 330

Sumatra 7, 173

Supply Work Standing Committee , . . . 11, 254

Supply Work (Conference Secretaries) 344

To Fill Vacancies Standing Committee 11, 253

Town and Country Work 7, 82, 109

Treasurers 6

Treasurers (Conference) 321

Treasurer's Report 200

Urban Work 7, 86, 111

Vice-Presidents 6

Vice-Presidents (Conference) 316

Wesleyan Service Guild 7, 241

Wesleyan Service Guild (Conference Secretaries) 328

Wesleyan Service Guild Standing Committee 11

World Federation of Methodist Women Standing Committee 11, 257

World Outlook and Other Joint Literature and Publications 7, 192

Youth Work '. 7, 243

Youth Work (Conference Secretaries) 332

Home Department Index

Work Page

Alaska 94, 97, 115, 118

American Indian 75, 77, 82, 106, 109

Cajan Work 82, 109

Children's Homes 91, 115

City Missions 86, 111

Clinics 86, 95, 118

Community Work —

Mining Community 82, 110

Mill Community 82, 109

Agricultural 82, 109

Community Centers and Settlement Houses 86, 94, 109-115, 119

Co-operative Councils 87, 95, 98, 113, 119

Deaconesses 98, 122-134

Deaconess Homes 98, 113, 117, 122

Defense Work (Industrial) 93, 116

Dominican Republic 96, 119

Dormitories at State Universities 105, 108

Educational Institutions 75-81, 104-108

French Work 109

Hospitals 95, 118

Hawaii 91, 115

Immigration Work 93, 115

Institutional Churches 86, 112, 113

Interdenominational Work 13

Italian Work 97, 111, 112, 114, 119

Japanese Work 75, 114, 116

Latin-American Work 75, 104, 106, 108, 113, 119

Leper Work 115

Missionaries 114-121

Negro Work 75, 95, 104-108, 111-114, 116-119

Puerto Rico 76, 107

Residences for Business Girls 94, 115-116

Rest Homes 115-118

Student Counselors 104, 105, 107

Soldiers and Sailors 116

Teachers of Bible 107, 108

349

Notes

350

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