File consists of the transcript of an address by D. McCormack Smyth, Dean of Atkinson College, York University, titled, "The Continuing Intellectual Education of Individuals and the Strength of the Nation," delivered to the Annual Education Conference of the Ontario Federation of Labour, 14 February.
File consists of: a summary of a report on education for counselors sent to the Dean of Atkinson College, McCormack Smyth, 11 April 1966; and two addresses delivered by John J. Deutsch, Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, and F. Kenneth Hare, Master of Birkbeck College, to Atkinson College, 5 May 1967.
File consists of the minutes of a meeting held by a group of adult educators, including Delmar McCormack Smyth of Atkinson College, and Harry Campbell, 9 November.
File consists of records related to the "Second Career" seminar at York University for women interested in re-entering the workplace. Records include: notes on conversation with Mrs. Russell Baldwin of the Weston University Women's Club; correspondence with Delmar McCormack Smyth, Dean of Atkinson College, and Marion Royce of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), regarding the creation of the "Second Career" seminar, November 1967; the course proposal for the Second Career seminar, proposed by Sylvia Woodsworth Campbell; a document describing the course proposal in greater detail, including its methodology; a copy of the speech for the "commencement" lecture, 15 May 1968; two-page report on the demographics of the course participants; a report on the Second Career Guidance Seminar for Mature Women, 14 February - 15 March 1968; a memorandum from the Administration of Continuing Education Programmes in York University, 6 August 1968; meeting notes; a brief to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, presented by the participants of the Second Career seminar, 5 December 1968; and notes from a meeting held with the participants of the seminar after the completion of the course, 12 June 1969. File also includes clippings and a brochure for the Centennial College special program for women "A Challenge to Change," 28 January to 8 April 1969.