GFS Project 2000
Diocesan Press Service. October 1, 1962 [III-11]
More than 25,000 girls and young women in 44 states and 30 countries will observe Project 2,000 Week November 1 - 8, sponsored by the Girls' Friendly Society, U.S.A.
Project 2,000,according to its director, Mrs. Stephen K. Mahon, is part of the GFS 85th Anniversary Development Program, being celebrated this year. This special project -- so named because it envisions planning for 2,000 A.D. -- is designed to initiate and supplement a four-point program:
* increase the number of branches by several hundred each year for the next three years at home and overseas;
* double the investment in GFS Summer Cpportunities Project at home and overseas;
* provide Creative Arts Camps for high school girls in eight national centers;
* promote international education and experience for GFS girls and leaders.
The significance of Project 2,000 Week is reiterated in a statement from Mrs. Joseph G. Moore, National Chairman, Evanston, Ill. "When GFS was born, it was a dangerous world for women, emerging from cloistered domesticity into industry, officework and politics."
Prefacing the special week will be a presentation of "Where in the World is the Church?", an original drama by Janet Harbison, associate editor of Presbyterian Life magazine.