The Evolution of Home Economics - Anecdotes of an Alumnus

Fortune favored me in permitting me to be an ear witness to the reminiscences of this alumnus, to-wit, George P . Frazier of the class of \u2784, now a banker at Anamosa, Iowa

Episodes Concerning Evolution of Home Economics

Everything has an infancy. It is one of the inevitable laws of a well ordered universe. I wonder sometimes if those of us who evolve so easily, or so otherwisely, thru the courses in cookery, . chemistry, dietetics, or design, ever wonder concerning the babyhood of Home Economics; out of what she grew; when she first stood alone on her two wobbling legs; her fir.st uncertain steps

The Evolution of Home Economics at Iowa State IV. Activities: Social and Otherwise

I might write volumes on the social life of the home economics students in the past, indeed I probably shall, so let us not tarry on the outskirts of this delightful territory. Let us start our exploration immediately and unearth the startling and the interesting, for there are both

The Evolution of Home Economics at Iowa State VI. Disconnected Ramblings

Does anyone object to ramblin~, mentally I mean? I do hope none of you do as I feel a premonition beyond a doubt that this is one of my rambling afternoons. And, after all, it is quite refreshing and so restful not to think connectedly for once. And it is no evidence of poor mentality, believe me. Now there was Omar Khayyam-you -aren\u27t interested in Omar? Well then, there was the Old Main Air Line. Surely you don\u27t mean to say you\u27ve never heard of the Air Line!\u27 Well, well, and it such an institution too

Episodes Concerning Evolution of Home Economics II: The Ladies Battalion

Have you ever heard how the girls in the Ladies Course went to the World\u27s Fair? Ah, that is an episode. It happened way back in \u2793. There was Miss, well, perhaps names are of minor importance anyhow, they were all there, many you do not know, a few whose names would surprise you. Can you imagine any of your revered faculty parading with broom sticks and wearing brass buttons and jumping over tables- and at the World\u27s Fair

The Evolution of Home Economics at Iowa State V. The Dinky

Time was (in the \u2780\u27s) when the mere idea of a car line between Ames and the college would have provoked a grin, wide and skeptical. In fact, it would have been considered a joke. I have now to tell you how two brave pioneers in the cam;e of progress set forth to break down these walls of opposition and planted the idea, which eventually brought \u27forth fruit in the shape of the dinky

The Iowa Homemaker vol.4, no.8

Table of Contents Put the Home Into Homemaking by Ruth M. Lindquist, page 3 The Thanksgiving Table by Elizabeth Peterson, page 4 Sunshine for Babies by Edna Armstrong, page 5 Conference of Extension Specialists by Viola Jammer, page 5 Something Old for Which to Be Thankful by Marian Bigelow, page 6 A Course for Homemakers by Pearl Harris, page 6 Only 39 More Days Until Christmas by Rhea Ferne Schultz, page 7 The Evolution of Home Economics by Ruth Elaine WIlson, page 8 College Girls Earn Their Way in the Rockies by Marvel Secor, page 8 News From the State Association by Margaret M. Baker, page 9 Campus News, page 10 Who’s There and Where, page 11 Editorial, page 12 The Eternal Question, page 13 Homemaker as Citizen, page 14 The Possibilities of Batik, page 1

The Iowa Homemaker vol.3, no.4-5

Table of Contents We “Do Over” Our Rooms by Irma Camp and Alice Dodge, page 1 The Mysteries of Amateur Make Up by Frederica Shattuck, page 2 Fall Time Is Pickling Time by Katherine Howells, page 4 Episodes Concerning Evolution of Home Economics by Ruth Elaine Wilson, page 5 Tea – Suggestive of the Rainbow by Esther Ellen Rayburn, page 6 Vary the Vegetable by Blanche Ingersoll, page 7 Constipation and Its Dangers by Anne Mundt, page 8 Graduate Credit Conference for Vocational Home Economics at Iowa State by Eleanor Murray, page 9 Fish That Is Appetizing by Maxine Smith, page 9 Economy, Or a Wrong Idea by Harriett Wallace, page 1