Atlanta Daily World

Bennett Plans Homemaking Meet

GREENSBORO, N. C.

The rapidly rising rate of divorce and other problems of national concern which are influencing the disintegration of the American family in such increasing numbers will receive the attention of the 21st annual Home-making Institute at Bennett College, April 20-25.

The decision to discuss the American family and the problems evolving from the disruptions of war, which are causing effect, as it seeks to readjust itself in this post-war era, grew out of the recent meeting of the Institute Steering Committee. Composed of members of the college staff, local laymen, ministers, teachers and social workers, the committee agreed that the American family of today poses a problem of acute seriousness to the nation.

Miss Nannie Burroughs, founder of the National Training School for Girls in Washington and Secretary of the Woman's Convention of the Baptist Church, will open the institute, Sunday, April 20, with an address on "The Negro Family in Retrospect".

Other participants during the week's activities will be Mrs. Grace Towns Hamilton, executive secretary of the Atlanta Urban League; Miss Frances Fuller, instructor in crafts at the Newark Y. W. C. A. and graduate of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy; Dr. Dudley Porter Miller, lecturer in applied physiology at Yale University and ex-director, Commission on Alcoholism State of Connecticut; and Mrs. Gladys Groves, well known author and lecturer on family relations and for many years Director of the Family Counsel Institute at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N. C.