Following an intermission and collection for an Associated Country 
     
     Women of the World fund, the pageant resumed with the address by Mrs. 
     
     Geerda Van Beekoff, president of the Associated Country Women of the 
     
     World. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Van Beekoff related many of her personal experiences as 
     
     international president. In this capacity she must travel widely, and is 
     
     now spending one week in each province of Canada. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She told the audience something of life in Holland during the Second 
     
     World War, and how much the arrival of Canadian and American troops 
     
     had meant to the citizens of that country. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Public Relations 
     
    
   
   
    
     A brief episode entitled “Public Relations” told the audience about 
     
     the weekly Women’s Institute radio program over CFCY, the Institute 
     
     News, edited by Mrs. Norman MacMillan, and the Federated News, 
     
     edited by an Island Women’s Institute member, Mrs. Harold Laird. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In describing the Tweedsmuir Competitions, Mrs. Herring pointed 
     
     out with pride that Island Women’s Institute members had won two first 
     
     prizes and an honorable mention at the 1961 competitions at Victoria, 
     
     BC. First prize for hand-hooked chair seats went to Mrs. MacQuarrie; 
     
     for a one-act play, to Mrs. Townshend; and the honorable mention was 
     
     awarded to the Hunter River Women’s Institute for village history. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Various Island Women’s Institute projects overseas include the 
     
     adoption of an Island in the West Indies, a son in India, and sending 
     
     sewing machines to Ceylon, the audience were told in the “hands across 
     
     the sea” episode. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Women’s Institute have contributed a great deal to 4-H clubs on the 
     
     Island, and the last episode told about this. Miss Diana Rodd and Miss 
     
     Enid Coles sang the 4-H pledge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pageant Ends 
     
    
   
   
    
     The pageant concluded with three brief speeches by Mrs. Mac— 
     
     Millan, representing “pride in the past”, Mrs. Lincoln Dewar, 
     
     representing “enthusiasm for the present”, and Miss Joyce Lowther, 
     
     representing “faith in the future.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Following the “Mary Stewart Collect”, Mrs. Nancy Cox sang “The 
     
     Lord’s Prayer.” The session closed with “God Save the Queen”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     OUR SIXTIETH YEAR 
     
    
   
   
    
     By LEONE ROSS 
     
    
   
   
    
     1973 was a memorable year for the Women’s Institutes of Prince 
     
     Edward Island. True, it was the Centennial of Confederation for our 
     
     province, but it was also the Diamond Jubilee of the founding of our 
     
     organization. 
     
    
   
   
    
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