The 50th Anniversary of New Glasgow Women’s Institute was celebrated with a banquet on March 7, 1974 and several more Life Memberships were presented to those who had over thirty years of service for Home and Country.

New Glasgow W.I. contributed to the Law Scholarship Fund and were very happy that a member’s daughter, Nancy Orr, received this Scholarship in 1977.

OYSTER BED BRIDGE 1963-1979

In 1964, one of the members of the Oyster Bed Bridge Women’s Institute, Florence I. Matheson, was elected to the high office of President of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada and in 1968 she was elected A.C.W.W. Area Vice President for Canada.

The needlepoint on Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Chair —- Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada’s 1967 Gift of provincial chairs to Confederation Centre, Charlottetown + was worked by Ruth Mac- Pherson, a gifted needlewoman of our Women’s Institute.

In 1975 the Oyster Bed Bridge Women’s Institute celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a banquet, when they honoured all former members and conferred a Life Membership on Ruth MacPherson.

In 1979, they won first prize in the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada Tweedsmuir Competition + an originally designed afghan + when the Convention was held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Our members continue to be actively concerned with local, provincial, and international issues.

PARKDALE

Parkdale Women’s Institute continues to maintain its interest, but with a changed emphasis. In 1968 it won the Carol Lane Award for the best community safety program in Canada, and since then sup- plements safety programs within the school.

In 1971 it undertook a Canada Works program through which they completely renovated their hall, extended library facilities in the school, added playground facilities with fulltime supervision on a ten hour per-day basis, and provided a three week total village clean up of playgrounds, vacant lots, street sides and ditches, as well as a tree planting project.

In 1976 they adopted their first family in India. Since then they have added another family. They have a unique Christmas project. In 1977 and 1978 they gave pregnant goats to four families to supplement the destitute family’s income. They receive pictures and regular correspondence from the recipients.

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