Pioneer News
BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
VOL. 2
MARCH, 1930
No. 3
Carrying On
The Service Continuation Fund
As this issue comes to you, women
all over Metropolitan Boston-and
men also-are uniting to bring to
successful completion an undertaking
They are organizing to raise the Ser-
vice Continuation Fund which has
been planned to cover all financial
li-
tan Student Associations until 1932.
learn that substantial progress has al-
ready been made, both in gifts re-
ceived and in the response of indi-
join
the campaign organization Mr Ge
i t Men's Ade
visory Board of the Y. W. C. A., is
honorary chairman of this organization,
Mrs. Thomas M. Claflin, Chairman
Committee, Service
Mrs. C. Douglas Mercer, the newly
elected President of the Boston Young
Women's Christian Association.
homas M. Clafin is chair-
executive committee.
Continuation Eund
manf
Three essential needs are the basis
A CHOICE GIFT
The Boston Y. W. C. A. is grateful
to President and Mrs. A. Lawrence
Lowell of Cambridge, for the gift of
bible, a product of the Oxford Press.
needed to make possible the necessary
renovation of the Berkeley Street low-
cost residence for girls. Second, a fund
YOU CAN HELP
Pioneer readers are invited to visit
the campaign office on the sixth floor.
If, when the time comes, you can give
first payment on the mortgage on the
Clarendon Street building. Such a pay-
ment will reduce annual interest
charges and lower operating costs.
in keeping with the already beautiful
appointments of the meditation chapel.
will be doing somethin
while. Possibly you can be of the
greatest service by joining the cam-
A HOUSE OF NATIONS
Close to the heart of the oldest and
finest traditions, not only of Boston,
but of all America, there has come to
trutha House of
Finally, funds are needed to supply
friends to eresting your
you may have some original, good
ideas. If you think you have, pass
them along.
the dierence between annual ex-
which results from the Y. W. C. A.
policy of trying to be of service to as
many girls and young women as possi-
very
The lovely old place at 190 Beacon
St., with its spacious rooms overlook-
ing the Charles River, is surely a
You can learn all about the cam-
ingly. To balance the 1929 budget,
$142,180 is needed, while careful esti-
mates show that $126,200 and $125,600
paign at the offhce, where literature is
Those in charge will be glad
ternational friendship. Within
six
weeks the International Institute has
opened its doors to over 1500 people
to see you.
spectively. All told, the Service Con-
tinuation Fund amounts to $453,980.
Help your Y. W. C. A. to carry on!
Receptions, informal dances. lectures.
debates, valentine parties and regular
club programs have been the order of
the day
There is every advantage in plan-
ning such a fund for three years in-
stead of only one year.
FREE LENTEN MUSICALES
Campaigns
great deal of work, so that one
mean
If you are in the Association build-
ing on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30,
in und will be fa
expected that those who give, also, will
welcome the opportunity to give once
instead of three times, especially since
to
nd
as full with mare teasda
lectures already scheduled. Are you
truly interested in forming friendships
n hour of music in
the Tii
visit 19 ands?
this great adventure, enrich your own
life many fold.
Then
Beginning March 4, and on each
making pledge payments over an ex-
tended period.
these musicales will give opportunity
for an hour of quiet meditation.
