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Show with several other counselors in directing the activities of a large group of girls. She also takes small groups of young people on long canoe trips in Canada. Mrs. OswaM B. Lord is the new national chairman of the advisory committee on Woman's Participation Participa-tion in the 1940 New York World's Fair, succeeding Mrs. Vincent Vin-cent Astor, who will serve as an honorary vice-chairman this year. Mrs. Lord is a native of Minneapolis Minne-apolis and after graduation from school took an intensive course in practical social service, then went to New York. Here she put in five years as a case worker for the old Charities Organization Organiza-tion Society. She was president of the New York Chapter of the Junior League. Miss Mary Simison is the first woman to be appointed an instructor in-structor at Dartmouth college, Hanover, N. H., but she will teach in the athletic, not the academic department. One of the first sports she will teach is figure skating, and it is said that Dartmouth will be the first college to include this variety var-iety of recreation in its extracurricular extra-curricular activities. Mrs. Maude Staples, of Charleston, Charles-ton, West Virginia, is said to be the only woman road contractor. She has been directing this work for seven years, but doesn't advise other women to take It up. Miss Dorothy Clark has the unusual un-usual honor of being appointed Chief of Police of Warren, N. H. She has four children and says she isn't afraid of any man. Miss A. Iy. Rutherford is the "boss" of Clayton county. Georgia, Geor-gia, having been made head of the Board of Commissioners for Roads and Revenue. MDRN WPMfN Dr.m.l:Maffetti President of the National . f Federation of Business Xjjj,; V! And Professional Wo- '' men's Clubs, Inc. ; Miss Pearl Mans, instructor of I Botany at Washburn College, To-peka, To-peka, Kansas, goes vacationing on a motorcycle and takes along her pets, two ducks who traveled two thousand miles one summer. She has had an air-conditioned crate made for the pets which she fastens fas-tens or behind. The crate is lined with grass and is so comfortable that the ducks continued their daily practice of laying eggs. Miss toaus has been director of tripcraft work at Camp Kamaji, in the Minnesota lake region where she shares responsibility |
