Seven state and interstate conferences of Council Sections of the National Council of Jewish Women will meet in March, April and May. The Conferences will discuss in addition to state and local problems, the plans adopted at the national convention.
The New Jersey State Conference holds its annual session this year at Long Branch. Mrs. William Newcorn of Plainfield, is president of the Conference.
Mrs. A. H. Arons of Brooklyn, in announcing that the New York State Conference will meet at Schenectady on April 3rd to 5th, inclusive, stated that the keynote of the program will be “The Jewish Youth.”
The Texas Stale Conference will be held in Austin, on April 3rd, over which Mrs. Maurice Goldman of Houston, the Conference president, will preside. Mrs. Hugo Moltasch of Stamford, president of the Connecticut State Conference, will preside at the annual meeting in Hartford on April 27th.
The states of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, and the District of Columbia will be represented at the Mid Atlantic Conference which will convene in Baltimore on May 11th and 12th Preparations for its program are being made by several committees under the direction of the Conference President, Mrs. Minna T. Livingstone of Richmond, Virginia.
The Northeastern Regional Conference, comprising Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has set May 11th as the date for its 1927 meeting. Mrs. Edward Freedman of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, president of the Conference, announced that the conference will be held in Portland, Maine.
The biennial meeting of the Western Interstate Conference, which includes California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, will be held at Spokane, Wash., on May 31st, June 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Mrs. Leo Friedenrich of Spokane is president of the conference.
Mrs. Sidney J. Freiberg of Cincinnati, Ohio, national chairman of the Department of Extension and Field Service of the National Council of Jewish Women, announced the inauguration of the field service, for which provision had been made by the Eleventh Triennial Convention and the Board of Managers. The field service will be limited at the outset to two field workers, who began their activities on March 15th.
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