Public Health Services: The brief specifically asked for more time 
     
     in teacher training programs on the subject of the health of school 
     
     children and the teaching of health to school children and re» 
     
     quested that more up-to-date textbooks on health be brought 
     
     into use in Island schools. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Libraries: Having previously urged that all new school buildings 
     
     include library space the Federation now requested that a trained 
     
     librarian be appointed as Director of School Library Services for 
     
     the province. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vocational Guidance: The introduction of trained guidance 
     
     counsellors into the high schools of the province was requested. 
     
     In naming guidance as one of the top priorities, the brief pointed 
     
     out that wider choices of vocations were being provided but that 
     
     "an unwarranted number of students are floundering in in— 
     
     decision.” The already serious employment problem in regard to 
     
     an entry into the labor market from the schools was expected to 
     
     worsen within the decade unless counselling services were made 
     
     available to students. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ADULT EDUCATION - 1962 
     
    
   
   
    
     The expressed interest of government in a proposal for a 
     
     minimum adult education program led to the presentation of an 
     
     official Brief on Adult Education on October 25, 1962. In the 
     
     preparation of that brief, an Adult Education Committee(Home 
     
     and School) had met several times with Mr. Hartwell Daley who 
     
     at that time was Adult Education Director for the province. 
     
     The minutes record that ”the Premier, Hon. Walter R. Shaw, 
     
     as well as the other members of the Cabinet, was much impressed 
     
    
   
   
    
     by the presentation which, the committee was informed, fitted 
     
     well with the government’s views.” A twelve-point program was 
     
     outlined, and it is significant that during the time Home and 
     
     School was preparing the brief, several steps were already taken: 
     
     a director was appointed; adult education was tied in with an 
     
     existing resources development program; and courses in handi- 
     
     crafts, community development and small business management 
     
     were inaugurated. 
     
    
   
   
    
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