Slides were shown and questions answered concerning the children. Home Economics convener 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Woodside demonstrated setting a table for a formal dinner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the months that followed: A teacher wanted a new globe, one was bought. New globes were 
     
    
   
   
    
     needed as geography gradually changed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Four volumes of the children’s encyclopedia were bought and placed in the school, 
     
    

    
     and a wool blanket was bought for a fire victim. It was discussed that Knutsford have two signs 
     
     made to mark their district. Lilly Adams was appointed to look into the matter. A letter was read 
     
     from the Rural Beautification contest. A letter concerning unsightly garbage and car bodies on 
     
    
   
   
    
     the side of the road was read. It was decided that the matter be left to the trustees of the school. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Woodside reported the National Women’s Institute president, Florence Matheson, would 
     
     visit Alberton to help to celebrate the Women’s Institute in P.E.IJ. 50th Anniversary. Members 
     
     were encouraged to go and meet her. In December the secretary sent a card to Mr. and Mrs. John 
     
     Harris on their 69th wedding anniversary. And a letter from Mrs. Rose MacDonald was received 
     
    
   
   
    
     stating that a crib quilt was completed and would be displayed at the convention in June. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Contributions to the school in 1964 and 1967 were a hand basin, soap, towels, mouse seed, Fuller 
     
     disinfectant for toilet, a bell, black board and brushes. It was moved and seconded that the 
     
     teacher be allowed to buy a hectograph and the Institute would reimburse 
     
    

    
     herThe hectograph, gelatin duplicator or jellygraph, is a printing process that involves transfer of 
     
     an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal 
     
     frame.[1] 
     
    
   
   
    
     While the original use of the technology has diminished, it has recently been revived for use in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the art world. The hectograph has been modernized and made practical for anyone to use.[2] 
     
    
   
   
    
     In June 1964, the school children were taken to Vanier Park in Bloomfield. They were treated to 
     
    
   
   
    
     hot dogs, Kool-Aid and three pounds of cookies. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was moved and seconded that members donate cream, chicken or money to assist the booth on 
     
    
   
   
    
     Centennial Day. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the fall, six pounds of lard and 10 pounds of sugar were bought to make doughnuts for the fall 
     
    
   
   
    
     fair, proceeds to aid the community. The crib quilt was completed for the hospital and the 
     
    
   
   
    
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