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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Childreii's AhI Soeiety Now Fifty
Years hi: Many Services Offered
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 190
el she became superintendent ing the judge.
and Miss Clare McGowan (now "The adoption pool was put
acting local Director) became into effect in 1954 by the De-
partment. Our Society had long
been accepting and placing pro-
blem and handicapped children
from Toronto, and our success
in this field encouraged the
Toronto Society to work further
with us and later branch out to
other Societies.
(By W. E. Elliott) truly effective child welfare its publicity committee, per-
Two Children's Aid Society service in Ontario we must formed a valuable service in
case -histories: a boy adopted have much closer co-ordination assembling particulars of the
from a broken home when a- of ease work and supporting Society's early history. In this
_z on .i.•rvices to children and £ami- record, prepared for the Soc-
bout 13 and now grown up is t
in business for himself: mar-�.E� tt'ith income maintenance let; and County Council, she
tied, with a family, and is a (public assistance, mothers' al- recalled that county grants in
lowances, disability pensions, the first year amounted to $150.
credit in every way to his com-
'nullity; a little girl, privately etc.) services that at present At that time, homeless children
exist." were sent to the orphanage in
placed inthis county and cared ,,, - el i, Berlin (note Kitchener) but in
for eventually by Children's The Enron •`'ict '- "
Aid Society foster -parents but through the years is described 1918 the county council pur-
not
chased a building on Cameron
not adopted, was helped to a at Queen's Park as "exception --I chaStrsed aGbuilding
for a Cameron
Nursing Assistants' Course of al." 1 shelter.eeUnder various ..matunns
y
fer a couple of years in high ; The Children's Aid Society it was in use until 1940; when
school She is happily married of Huron County is a name that"the children were placed in
now and has a family, and is: always brings pleasant associa foster homes.
a valued nurse in a hospital i tions to my mind, "writes Mr.- In the early days, "Mrs. Tay-
lor recalled, "the County Coun-
cil made various grants but
the remainder of the . money
needed cane from private con-
tributions—from the same per-
sons, most of the time—and
was not sufficient for growing
needs. By 1940 the work had
increased tremendously, which
made it impossible to depend
upon voluntary contributions to
carry it on, and County Council
assumed the financing.
"During the years there was
little publicity given the work
of the Society, and few people
showed any interest, mainly for
that reason.
"The Department ur^ed the
appointment of a trained social
worker, and in 1940 Mrs.
Chaffee became our social wor-
ker and assistant superintend-
ent. When Mr. Edwards
social worker and assistant
superintendent,"
Mrs, Chaffee resigned in
February, 1960, and was suc-
ceeded as Director by Rev. Ro-
bert G. MacMillan. Her 20 years
of service was honored by Chil-
dren's Aid and county officials
and other friends at a large "When we moved to the new
gathering in Knox Church courthouse, probation was an
auditorium in September. Mr.! accomplished fact and we were
MacMillan resigned with effect ,elieved of our investigation,
August31 of this year, and Miss reports which had taken much
McGowan is carrying on as act- time and planning. The Child
ing local director. Welfare Act was amended to
provide that all collections un -
When Mrs. Chaffee made her
final zeport in 11}60 she re- der agreements relative to the
viewed the events of recent ITtlmarried Parents section and
gars. In 1913, slte r .gall"d. the the processing of adoptions,
Huron Society's grading had formerly done by the Depart -
been brought up from "D" to ment, were transferred to lo -
the coveted "B". It had obtained cal Societies."
a social worker. closed its "After Judge Holmes' death
shelter to follow the method of two years ago, Magistrate
foster home care, and was do Glenn Hays became our new
ing a more concentrated piece Juvenile Court Judge." Miss
of work, becoming more social -
McGowan said, in updating the
ly and community conscious. c, ciety's activities, "he has a
"In iPa9." she continued. "a keen insight and understanding
new constitution was drawn up of juveniles, and patiently gives
and the Board enlarged, taking much time and consideration
in members from all over the to our Society problems. His
county. We had three clothing knowledge and wisdom are of
centres throughout the county; infinite value.
a superannuation plan was ar "Our special Christmas plan -
ranged by the county and sal ning has steadily increased with
arils reconsidered, as well as
the need of an additional work- the years. We endeavour to
er, for now we had investiga help Santa see that no child
tions and administration of in our County is missed at
family allowances, as well as Christmas.
reports for the Official Guar- "We take our children on
dian in all divorce cases where shopping .trips for special
there were children. In 1954 the things. We help older boys and
Juvenile and Family Court was girls get jobs for the summer
or enrolment in special courses
whenever she is available. i James S. Band, deputy minis-
These—one a ward case, t':e ter of Public Welfare, on this
1 e
other not—are typical examples
of the rewarding work of The
Children's Aid Society of Huron 1
County through the years. The
organization will reach its 50th
anniversary on December 11: its
first regular meeting was held
in the courthouse in Godrich
on that date in 1911.
Under successive superinten-
dents and board members, the
Society has kept pace with and
sometimes led in the gradual
development of improved tech-
niques. In recent ye?rs there
has been a province -wide change
in the work, more emphasis
being placed upon protection
work with a family before a
child becomes neglected. in or-
der if possible to keep the
family together and avoid re-
moval of the child from its nor-
mal enviroment in the tradi-
tional unit. This type of work
demands trained and experien-
ced workers.
It is significant that lo -al dir-
ectors of the Province, meeting
recently at Sundridge, adopted
certain principles including the
following:
"Te believe that service to
children in care should not be
separated from services to fam-
ilies and children in their own
homes.
"We believe that effective
services to families and children
must involve more adequate
financing and staffing than we
have at the present time.
"We recognize that for a
anniversary occcasions. "1 lav
watched the exceptionally good.
work of that Society through at
least a decade and I know it
has been a kindly guardian of
children's interests for 50 years.
A t the present time the effi-
ciency of child care operations
in Huron is reflected statisti-
cally. For there are fewer chil-
dren taken into wardship per
thousand of population than in
three-quarters of the other 55
Societies. The Huron Society
has preferred to concentrate its
efforts on protection services
co that hors ATI c1 .''T'lc,
ever possible, have both the
benefit of remaining at home
and being, at the same time,
secured from parental neglect.
"Te its first half -century the
Society has had exceptionally
good luck in obtaining the best
of staff members and directors.
Many devoted persons have
added their contribution to the
record since the appointment
of the first county agent, Mr.
George M. Elliott, in 1911. The
administration of Mrs. Mary P.
Chaffee as local Director was a,
happy and progressive period
in the life of the Society. So
wholehearted was her interest
that I believe she remembered !
the name and face of every
child
who
came under her
motherly supervision. The pre-
sent officers of the Society are
worthy successors of a notable
tradition.
"The Honorable Louis P. Ce-
cile, Minister of Public Welfare,
joins me in congratulating The
Children's Aid Society of Hu-
ron County on its 50th anni-
versary, and in extending{
every good wish for an equally
successful future."
Some of the work now carried
on by the Children's Aid was
performed earlier by James
Mitchell and R. S. Williams of
Goderich, under supervision of
J. J. Kelso, then provineal t_,7 ,
perintendent. In July, 1911, an
organization meeting was held
and Mr. Mitchell was elected
first president of the branch.
On December 4, Mr. Elliott was
appointed county agent and
served in that capacity until
1928, when he was succeeded
by Harry Edwards who continu-
ed until 1946.
Mrs. Albert Thylor, long a
member of the Board and of
et' schools. ham; Miss Etta Saults, Goder-
"We have had a few invitee ich; Mrs. Albert Taylor, God -
tions to appear on C.K.N.X. and each; Mrs George Johnston,
we do give addresses on Child- I Goderich; Mrs. F. Fingland,
ren's Aid work at meetings of
womens' and mens' organiza-
tions.
"Judge Costello, of aur Coun-
ty Court for many years, was
succeeded by Judge F. Fingland.
He graciously sees all our new
adopting parents when the pro-
bationary period is complete,
This gives them a greater sign-
ificance of the Adoption Order,
which he signs, and is much
appreciated"
Tree' f3oard of Directors (1961)
of the Children's Aid Society
of Huron County is as follows:
President, Hugh Berry, Us -
borne (RR, 1 Woodham); first
vice-president, William McKen-
zie, Exeter; second vice-presid-
end, W. R. Jewitt, Hullett
(R.R. 1, Clinton); honorable se-
cretary, A. M. Robertson, Go-
derich; secretary, J. G. Berry,
Goderich; treasurer, B. G. Han-
ly, Goderich; and directors, Mrd Bred Simpson, Mrs. Barry.
Kenneth Johns, R.R. 1, Wood- I Whetstone.
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Fred Davidson, Wingham; Frank
Sills, Seaforth; John Winter,
Fordwich; James Doig, R.R. 4,
Seaforth; Mrs. Howard Klum e,
Dashwood; Rev. Dr. K. E. Tay-
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Wingham; John Durnin, R.R. 3.
Auburn; municipal representa- .
tive, Glenn Fisher, Exeter.
Associate members, Miss Jean
Falconer, R.N., Go dericit;
Captain Alice Baillie, Salvation
Army, Goderich; W. M. Prest,
Goderich; R. B. Cousins, Brus-
sels; field. staff, Mrs. Ewan
Ross, protection and super -is -
ion; Miss Gertrude Wilkes, un-
married parent and home stud-
ies; Mrs. John Lauder, R N'.,
supervision of babies; Miss Mil-
dred Marwick, supervision of
children; office staff, Mrs. Mil-
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