These are the things that Mrs. Anne Livingston will teach you people attending

the Recreation Training Institute: Activity programs -° Techniques --

Organizational procedures -- Practical suggestions «= Music for fun <= Mixers s°

Parties for special events.
The word recreation, or “reecreation" is heard today on every hand.
Yet widely different monings are attributed to it, and it is applied to a great
' warlety of activities. During war time this Recreation Training Institute is
most timelye ‘The tremendous demands made by the war on reoreational personnel
have resulted in the entrance into the field of many young, untrained workers
and many new volunteers of all ages. :
| To help equip these individuals for the responsibility of leadership we

have secured Mrs. Anne Livingston and Ir. Pat Rooney, from the National Recreation
Association of New York, to bring us inspiration, a new vision, and to stimulate
us in doing a better job than we could do without their help. Their leadership
is resourceful. :

The National Recreation Assooiation has a very simple but farereaching
purposes |

"That every child in Amerioa shall have a chance to plays; that every-
body in aries, young or old, shall have an opportunity to find the best and
most satisfying use of leisure timo." | |

Dr. John H. Finley has pointed out that the word recreation is broad
enough to inolude "piny" in its every expression and also many activities that
are usually not thought of as play -= music, the nin, the crafts, every free
activity and especially creative activity for the enrichment of life.

To you who are listening in tonight, should you be interested in
attending this Wartime Recreation Traihing Institute in Robinson Gymnasium
on the campus of the University of Kansas at Lawrence, I suggest that you write
the office of the Department of Physical Education, or phone K.U. 83, and Mrs.