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OPPORTUNITIES F O R SOCIAL WORKERS

O N Thursday afternoon of the Convention week, Miss Neva L.
Boyd spoke to the delegates and guests about the splendid
opportunities for college women in the field of social service work.
I t was a great benefit to have a person outside the fraternity come
to us when we were gathered from all parts of the country. She
was so broad in her views and told us in such an interesting manner
of her various experiences in training women for welfare workers,
that we hope we shall always be able to have a speaker at future
Conventions.

She said that all social welfare work training should be divided
under the following heads: Settlement work, which includes the
domestic science teacher, the assistant to head worker, the club and
class organizer or leader, boys' club worker, general executives, and
case workers; the probation officer, who follows up the local court
cases; the Juvenile Protective Association, under whose care come
the children's court cases and the investigating of the immoral condi-
tions of the locality; the family and church visitor and teacher, who
can do much in Americanizing our foreign population ; the factory
inspector, who must know the child labor laws, as well as all the
other factory laws and labor conditions; and last, but by no means
least, the recreation leader, who supervises playgrounds, physical
culture, games, and trades.

Miss Boyd also told of the great need for volunteers in social wel-
fare, and that everyone should have some instruction in the particular
line of work in which one is interested, because all welfare work is
being systematized and becoming more general and important.

Miss Boyd is the staff instructor and Supervisor of Field Work in
recreation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. She
has charge of the story telling classes and children's dramatics, as
well as of instruction in handwork of making mechanical playthings
and raffia. She loves children and it is no wonder that she has
gained great success as a teacher of child study and of the psychology
of play. With her charming personality, she easily persuades her
listeners that they should enter into one of these phases of social
work. There are so many calls for trained workers in these various
fields that they cannot be supplied. Women with college experiences,
surely have a great advantage over others in this field, and i f any of
the readers wish to learn more about this work, Miss Boyd is always
ready to give information and advice.