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These are the things that Mrs. Anne Livingston will teach you people attending .
the Recreation Training Institute: Activity programs == houhitnies no
Organizational procedures -= Practical suggestions -- Music for fum == Mixers --
Parties for special events. :

The word recreation, or "re-creation" is heard today on every hand.

Yet widely different meanings are abbcitvacbea to it, and it is applied to eens
verted: of activities. During war time this Recreation Training Institute is
most timely, The tremendous demmnds made by the war on recreational personnel
wens resulted in the entrance into the field of many youmg, untrained workers
and many new volunteers of all ages.

To help equip these individuals for the Kiiicaatet ly of leadership we
have secured Mrs. Anne Livingston and Mre 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 bimmiraetels

The National Recreation Association has a very simple but far-reaching
purpose:

"That every child in America shall have a chance to pley; that every-
bedy in America, young or old, shall have an opportunity to find the best and
most satisfying use of leisure time.” Bgtr tn # /

Dr. John H. Finley has pointed out that the word recreation is broad
enough to include "play" in its every expression and also many activities that
are usuaily not thought of as play ~- music, the drama, 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 Training Institute in Robinson Gymnas ium

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,