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Biennial National Convention
American Association of University W
Sheraton Park Hotelomen
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June 19-23, 1961
Speaking Monday Evening,, 8 P s ne
June 19 - Sheraton Hall
'For Release:
Tuesday morning
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Keynote Address: IN KEEPING WI"IvIE1 OUR PURPOSE
By DR* PAULINE TOMPKINS
General Director* American Association of University Women
The theme Of our convention is "In Keeping With Our Purposeelf Under the Bylaws
that Purpose is Itthe uniting of the alumnae of different' institutionsfor practical
educational work It
and Article II, Section 2, states that "In keeping with its
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Purposes the Association shall develop a program to enable college women to continue
their own
intellectualgrowth, to further the advancement Of women
to •di
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the special responsibilities to society of those *ho have enjoyed advantages of
higher education.,
00 Anational convention affords a unique occasion or assessing
the state of the Association interms of its declared objectives. It also
provides
an unusual opportunity to con . sider the implications of these objectives. The tenor
of our deliberations here in these five days will reveal the quality of our program,,,
Tonight I would like to center our th•
inking on one aspect of I .
tspurDOse: "To enable
college women to discharge these responsibilities to society of those who have
enjoyed the advantages of higher education."'
This statement is a relative newcomer to our Bylaws, having been adopted as
recently as the Boston Convention in 1957, There is nothing new in its mandate,
however, for this was the catalyst which sparked the establishment of -the Assoc
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tion of Collegiate Alumnae in 1882* And while we may view the emph sis 9 ven at
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