were invited to attend and share the sessions with the Provincial Board. 
     
     The seminar was held at Motel Charlottetown, February 17 to 19, 1966, 
     
     with forty-five delegates in attendance, plus four observers from New 
     
     Brunswick Women’s Institutes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Outstanding and stimulating addresses were given on Decision 
     
     Making by Mrs. Douglas MacFarlane, Guidance Counsellor at Athena 
     
     High School and on Leadership Dilemma by Dr. Jean H. MacKay of 
     
     U.P.E.I. In 1967 a similar workshop heard Sister Thomas More discuss 
     
     Rural Development and the Voluntary Organization. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1968 the annual fall workshops took on a new form. Two one-day 
     
     workshops were held at Charlottetown and Summerside on the theme; 
     
     The Changing Role of the Voluntary Woman’s Organization in the 
     
     Community. Dr. Mark Waldron of MacDonald College, and Mrs. Ellen 
     
     MacLean. Eureka, Nova Scotia, led the workshop in a study of com- 
     
     munity needs and the role Women’s Institute played in meeting those 
     
     needs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A seminar, similar in format, was held February 26 and 27, 1969 
     
     with Dr. Mark Waldron and Prof. Galen Driver leading sessions on 
     
     Program Planning, which is basically decision-making. Thus, this 
     
     seminar was a follow—up to that of 1968. 
     
    
   
   
    
     So that the District Convention Areas could strengthen the purposes 
     
     and projects of the Women’s Institutes on Prince Edward Island, it was 
     
     decided in 1971 that every District Area Convention would have con- 
     
     veners corresponding to those at the provincial and branch level. To 
     
     initiate the two-way communication system needed to facilitate such a 
     
     change, all the newly-elected or re-elected officers and conveners met 
     
     for one full day, April 21, 1971 in Charlottetown. It is interesting to note 
     
     that, at a later workshop in October of the same year, a session on Group 
     
     Dynamics was presented for Board Members. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The work of the Provincial Board was increasing by leaps and 
     
     bounds. It was called upon to be the catalyst for many new projects 
     
     within the province, and regularly requested to be the “sounding board” 
     
     for changes in legislation being proposed by the Provincial Government. 
     
     In such a complex organization it became evident that new members of 
     
     the Board of Directors would need special seminars to inform them of 
     
     their new duties and to brief them on continuing programs and projects 
     
     within their organization. As with the seminar of 1971, the Leadership 
     
     Institute under Dave Garland provided resource people and materials 
     
     for the 1972 session. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Years of exposure to intensive leadership training began to bear 
     
     fruit. As new women became members of the Board, it became evident 
     
     that they themselves had acquired the skills that made it possible for 
     
     them to be the resource people for the Officers’ Training Workshops. 
     
     This was positive proof that planning and working to fulfill the needs of 
     
     an organization can be accomplished effectively when skills are pooled. 
     
    
   
   
    
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