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Show BPW OPENS CONCLAVE AT OREM TODAY State Convention Attracts Army Of Women Workers Two Members of S. H. BPW Club Attain National Chairmanships received as secretary and later as president of the Sugar House chapter. chap-ter. Beatrice McHurg has had a wide and varied experience in the field of Public Health Nursing. She has served in many important defense committees, and civilian survival groups. She has been a memver of the President's committee com-mittee on traffic safety, Civil Defense De-fense Chairman of Utah State Nurses Association and holds a reserve commission in the U. S. Public Health Service. She is now national Chairman of the Committee Com-mittee on Nursing for National Security Sec-urity of the American Nursing Association. I - ; 0 ItsAr I t w hi n :; I -' - i:,r,','. v'tV " i-- -f- " : ., I J si i v , r i Av-r, ! i, i (V- ! Picture shows newly elected officers of the Sugar House Chapter Chap-ter of the BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Reading from left to right: Mrs. J. M. Redd, vice president, Miss Helen Bryant, recording secretary, Mrs. Ted Miller, president, Miss Anne Kidd, secretary and Mrs. W. E. Peeler, treasurer. Ada Burt Ada Burt and Beatrice McHurg in a recent interview by our correspondent, cor-respondent, Gail Seaman, declared that they owed much of their success in their respective national nat-ional organizations to their membership mem-bership and training in the Sugar House Chapter of BPW. Ada Burt, a past president of the Utah State Association of Business Bus-iness and Professional Women, and a former Civilian Defense Chairman for Utah and now National Nat-ional Security Chairman for the Business and Professional Women's Wo-men's Association, was very warm Beatrice Mc Hug in her praise of this Chapter and the fine associations she has made. She felt that the encouragement she received enabled her to accept many important appointments in connection with our State Defense and Civilian Survival Committees. During World War II, Ada Burt joined the USPH Service and was assigned to duty in Alaska. Beatrice McHurg, at present Director of the Public Health Nurs -ing Section of the Utah State Health Dept., was equally generous in her thanks for the training in public speaking and leadership she The following members of the Sugar House BPW were named as delegates and alternates to the BPW State Convention now in progress pro-gress at Orem, Utah: Miss Elizebeth Mitchell, Mrs. H. A. Elton, Mrs. Violet Hite, Mrs. A. R. Topham, Mrs. J. C. Nation, Miss Mary Louise Gilmer, Mrs. W. E, Anderson, Miss Anne Kidd, Mrs. G. S. Nash, Mrs. J. M. Redd. Mrs. Irene Miller. Mrs. W. E. Peeler, Mrs. Elliot F. Seaman, Mrs. Ethel Robinson, Mrs. L. R. Osborne and Mrs. Evelyn Elmer. Ada Burt, past state president, is now at the BPW State Convention Con-vention at Minot, North Dakota where she is a representative of the national organization and a guest speaker at the concluding conclud-ing banquet on Saturday night.' She will also act as installing officer for the Dakota State officers off-icers elected for 1959-60. |