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Speakers Scheduled For Institute of Rural Affairs
To Be Held In August
Mrs. Raymond Sayre, of Ackworth, Ohio, president of the As* sociation Country Women of the World, has been named one of the headliner speakers ofr the 17th Instate of ?,ual Affairs at V. P. I. in August, Extension Service Director L. B. Dietrick announces.
Her adress on “The Responsibility of Farm Families in World Affairs” is scheduld for the evening sessions, August 3.
The Institute will begin Wednesday, August 2 and last through Friday, August 4. General theme of theevent, Director Dietrick said, will be “The Virginia Farm Family at Mid-Century,” and the three sections to be held each morning will b*t geared to that theme.
Some of thhe speakers for the two sections on youth, and economics, also have been named.
At the economics section on August 3, O. V. Wells, head of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics Washington, D. C., will discuess “What Lies Ahead Economically for Virginia Farmers." The same morning in the youth section, speakers will be Lonnie Safley of the Tennessee Extension Service, and Kent Loving, of Fluvanna, Virginia’s 1949 delegat to Denmark under the International Farm Youth Exchange project.
At the economics section on August 4, the speaker will be R. I. Nowell, vice-president of the Equitable Insurance Association, who will discuss “Credit for Farm and Home Improvements.” The youth section speaker will be Dr. J. P. Schmidt, rural sociologist of Ohio State University. A panel discussion on “Youth Speaks on Opportunity in Rural Communities,” also will be featured.
Speakers for a third section on Civic and Social Responsibilities of Virginia farm families, have not yet been named, but Misa Maude E. Wallace, assistant Extension Director, said the first morning’s program will consider the basic values of family life, and the second morning’s program
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