Kathy Baranovsky to produce “The Very Best Recipes” cook book from tested recipes submitted by the individual members.

A new section has eight pages known as “the Metric Kitchen” which introduces recipes with metric symbols that acquaint its readers with the fast approaching way of thinking metric.

The cover, designed by Linda Marchbank has black print on a yellow plastic coated cardboard with a black ring binder.

The Very Best Recipes cook book had 10,000 copies printed at Dillon Printing Co. and went on sale early in 1978 at a price of $3.00 per copy under the chairmanship of Joyce MacKenzie.

Louise Marchbank Chairperson

Kathie Anderson

Mary Palmer

Mary MacLean, President of P.E.I.W.I.

50TH ANNIVERSARY

15 - Episode Women’s Institute Pageant plays to packed house

A 15-episode pageant played to a packed house at Prince of Wales College Wednesday night, as members of the Prince Edward Island Women’s Institute depicted past and present at their 50th Annual Con- vention.

Under the distinguished patronage of Lt. Gov. and Mrs. F. Walter Hyndman, Premier and Mrs. Walter Shaw, and City Councillor Dorothy Corrigan, the pageant was written and narrated by Mrs. Helen Herring. Piano accompaniment for the musical numbers was supplied by Mrs. Helen MacRae.

First Episode

The first episode told how Mrs. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless had founded the first Women’s Institute in Canada at Stoney Creek, Ontario, in 1897, then how the Movement spread, first to all provinces of Canada, then to Europe, Australia, Africa and the Far East. At this point, the Women’s Institute chorus sang “A Song of Peace”.

The audience was enthusiastic toward the presentation of the origins of Women’s Institutes on Prince Edward Island. The first group formed was at York in 1911, and present members of the York Women’s Institute dressed in period costumes, depicting their beginnings, brought down the house on several occasions with excerpts from the original minutes. “It is moved and seconded that a resolution be passed against the running of automobiles on Prince Edward Island”, stimulated ap- plause. The first government sponsored Institute was at Marshfield, and members of the present group also acted out scenes from early meetings.

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