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Build With Youth for a Better World CHOOSING A CAREER Another school year has end ed and once again many gradu ates w ill embark on a new life. Some w ill enter professional fields fo r which they had been prepared in high school. Others w ill enter colleges and universi ties to continue th e ir education. Surveys conducted last year by Time and Newsweek have shown th a t the m a jo rity of high school graduates want a college educa tion. Every young g irl knows th a t marriage no longer means to ta l security fo r the woman. She needs a career which can be pursued on either a fu ll or part- tim e basis to help her fa m ily or to give her personal f u lf ill ment. Statistics show th a t women comprise almost h a lf of the American w orking corps. The percentage of married women is increasing rapidly in this group. The reason is largely due to the fa ct th a t most women who have raised th e ir children, are eager to re tu rn to work either to fin d self-expression in professional employment and/or to help the fa m ily financial situation. H igh school counselors en courage young girls to take into consideration th e ir abilities and interests when choosing careers flexible enough to allow fo r a 15-year break which is usually required to raise children. The young graduates should also give some thought to keeping up w ith th e ir education because modern-day technological ad vances often make professional skills obsolete a fte r a 10-15 year period. Counselors also encourage young girls to choose careers to which they are really a ttra c t ed, fo r then they w ill more read ily keep up w ith th e ir profes sions even while they are at home. This is the m otto of the Exec utive Board of the General Fed eration of Women’s Clubs during its 1966-68 term of office. A ll a t tention is centered on youth and its abilities. Therefore this year’s Conven tion of the General Federation which was held in San Francis co on June 4-8, was especially in teresting, fo r i t showed what had been accomplished to date in th is field. We don’t have a complete re p ort fro m the Convention as yet, but we can deduce much about the work of the Convention fro m its program and resolutions. The work of the Convention was divided into fo u r areas — Community Construction, Edu cation, Fine A rts, and Home Life. Special workshops were dedicated to International and Public A ffa irs . Other projects included Community Improve ment, Operation H ealthy Babies, and CARE. A ir Pollution Con tro l, Crime Control, Non-Prolife ration of Atom ic Weapons, Safe ty fo r Motorcyclists, Venereal Diseases, Misrepresentation in Advertising, and M arketing were treated extensively in dis cussions and resolutions. The theme “ Build W ith Youth fo r a Better W orld” was woven into all discussions and projects. A special h ig h lig h t of the Con vention Week was the In te r national Luncheon, held on Thursday, June 8. Delegates of the International Clubs reported on the work of th e ir groups at this time. The event is of special interest to our women fo r our delegates also reported at the luncheon. Mrs. Stefania Push- kar, U N W L A President, report ed on behalf of the W orld Fed eration of U krainian Women’s Organizations, while the U N W L A was represented by its Public Relations Chairman, Mrs. M ary Dushnyck. The report of the U krainian delegation w ill be given in the next issue. I t is based largely on WFUWO activities in the Free World, and a careful study of the position of the U krainian women in Ukraine. Special pains were taken to present before the Convention the subjugation of Ukraine, and the enforced Russification of the U krainian people. In the course of the Inte rna tional Luncheon our delegates established valuable contacts w ith new representatives and re newed friendships w ith form er acquaintances. True friendship links us w ith the B a ltic dele gates who share the tra g ic fate of our people and who are sim il a rly concerned w ith helping th e ir homeland. The Convention o ffic ia lly con cluded on this day, but i t con tinued outside the U.S. — at the International GFWC Conference in Sydney, A u stra lia (June 26, 1967) and in Manila, Philippines (June 29, 1967). We are happy to report th a t we w ill participate in these meetings as well. The GFWC Conference in Sydney w ill be a t tended by our representative from the U krainian Women’s Association of Australia. This is the f ir s t tim e th a t we w ill par ticipate in such a meeting, and as yet we don’t know the oppor tunities which may be extended to us. B u t the selfsame fa c t th a t we have been invited to attend and the possible establishment of new contacts w ill have made this a valuable accomplishment.
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