Subsequently, Atlantic Conferences were held in Moncton 
     
     in November 1969, May 1971, March 1973 and others are 
     
     planned for the future. Each conference has been a learning 
     
     experience for Island Federation leaders, who in turn have tried 
     
     through workshops, newsletters and personal contact to pass new 
     
     ideas and concepts to the local associations which are the ones 
     
     dealing directly with children and young students. 
     
    
   
   
    
     P.E.l. FEDERATION HOSTS NATIONAL 
     
    
   
   
    
     Memorable and exciting happenings took place in P.E.l. 
     
     during the 1964 Centennial and for Home and School that year 
     
     marked a real milestone. The Canadian Home and School and 
     
     Parent-Teacher Federation met in Charlottetown for its annual 
     
     meeting — and it was an indication of the growth and maturing of 
     
     the Island organization that it was able to play host to delegates 
     
     from across Canada. A public meeting held in Confederation 
     
     Centre explored the role and function of a National Office of 
     
     Education, a need which the National Federation had been 
     
    
   
   
    
     expressing to the federal government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     it was at that 1964 annual meeting in Charlottetown that 
     
     the Federation did the initial planning for 1967 Centennial 
     
     projects, One decision made was that the Canadian Federation, as 
     
     one of its 1967 Centennial Projects, would promote the idea of 
     
     establishing a World University dedicated to “the arts of peace". 
     
     The thinking of the delegates to the 1964 meeting, representing 
     
     some quarter-million parents, was that the man~made EXPO 
     
     islands, Montreal, might be used for the site of such a World 
     
     University. Mrs. Jeannette Gleeson was chosen as P.E.l.'s 
     
     representative on a World University Committee. With the 
     
     energetic and wholehearted effort which she put into all Home 
     
     and School undertakings, Mrs. Gleeson met with legislators and 
     
     educators to give information and win support for the World 
     
     University concept. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In June 1973, the P.E.I. Federation again hosted the 
     
     annual meeting of the Canadian Home and School and Parent— 
     
     Teacher Federation, this time at Dalvay-bythe—Sea. A Home and 
     
     School provincial rally held at St. Ann’s Parish Hall in Hope River 
     
     gave opportunity for local association members to meet Home 
     
     and School leaders from all across Canada. 
     
    
   
   
    
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