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The Women Pencil Pushers To Hold State Convention In This City From May 12 To 14 Many Interesting Papers To Be Presented And Lectures To Be Given

The Women Pencil Pushers To Hold State Convention In This City From May 12 To 14 Many Interesting Papers To Be Presented And Lectures To Be Given image
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Day
8
Month
May
Year
1903
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Public Domain
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The Michigan Women's Press Association meets in this city May 12 to 14, when the following program will be carried out: TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12. Cook House parlors, 2 o'clock.

Roll call of members. Brief responses. (Members unable to attend are requested to send written greeting.)

Minutes. Appointment of committees. Reports of officers and standing committees. Miscellaneous business.

EVENING.

Lecture room, Physical Laboratory, 8 o'clock.

Music

Prayer--Rev. E. S. Ninde.

Addresses of Welcome--Hon. Junius Beal, in behalf of Ann Arbor Press; Hon. Arthur J. Brown, in behalf of the city.

Response--Mrs. Mabel L. Ayres, Detroit Free Press, President State Sunshine Society.

Readings--Miss Anne Virginia Culbertson, author and dialect poet.

President's annual address--Miss Mabel Bates, Grand Traverse Herald.

Lecture--"The Singing and Speaking Are Light," Prof. Karl E. Guthe, Ph.D., University of Michigan.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13.

Sarah Caswell Angell Hall, 9 a.m.

Greeting--Mrs. Myra Beach Jordan, dean woman's department, University of Michigan.

"The Trials of the Copy Editor," Mrs. Eva Bell Giles, editor Interchange, Battle Creek.

"Copy, and What to Do with It," Miss Anna Johnson (Hope Darling), Hastings.

Discussion--Led by Mrs. Rose Wood-Allen Chapman, department editor The American Mother, Boyne City.

Symposium--"The Humorous Side of Life in a Newspaper Office." Leaders, Mrs. Pruella Janet Sherman, Detroit News-Tribune; Mrs. Josephine Crocker, Eaton Rapids Review. Personal experiences of other members.

AFTERNOON

Sarah Caswell Angell Hall, 2 p.m. Music.

"The Newspaper," Mr. Harry Breintenbach, University of Michigan.

"What Kind of Newspaper Should Go into the Home? Who is Responsible, the Editor or the People?" Miss Jennie Buell, secretary Michigan State Grange, Ann Arbor.

Address--"The Privileges and  Opportunities of a Newspaper Woman," Dr. Mary Wood-Alen, editor The American Mother, Ann Arbor.

General discussion.

Symposium--"Suggestions from Experience in a Newspaper Office." Miss Marna Ruth Osband, The Ypsilantian, Ypsilanti. Mrs. J. M. Ross, Marshall Chronicle. Mrs. Kate E. Ward, Hillsdale Standard.

EVENING.

Eight o'clock.

Among Ourselves--Each to contribute something, as the spirit moves, in the way of story, talk or reading, for the pleasure of all.

THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14.

Nine o'clock.

Election of officers and miscellaneous business.

AFTERNOON.

Two o'clock.

Visit to the various departments of the University.