Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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 Department of Home Economics AUBURN is the oldest co-educational institution in the South, women having been admitted by the Trustees in 1892. Four graduate and one hundred nine undergraduate women students are registered in 1923-1924. Fifty per cent are registered in the Department of Home Econom-ics, and with the exception of one in the Department of Architecture and two in the ScIkx)! of Pharmacy, the remainder are registered in the general course and in the School of Education. The Department of Home Economics was established in 1922, and it now includes courses in Food, Clothing, Household Administration. Home Economics, Education and Home Economics Extension Training. The Extension Service owns the Practical Home which is used by the students in this department as a laboratory for the study of home management and for carrv-ingout research work such as: The use of electrical appliances in home-making process, including refrigeration, heating and lighting the home; the use and care of other equipment such as plumbing and lighting fixtures; dishwashing and laundering of clothes with modern equipment. Students in this department may be prepared for the following professions: Home Making, Home Economics Research, Teaching Home Economics, Home Demonstration Work, Hospital Dietitian Work, Tea Room and Cafeteria Management, Hotel Housekeeping. Home demonstration agents arc employed in thirty-eight counties. At present there is a great demand on this College for graduate Home Demonstration Agents. AGNES ELLEN HARRIS is a graduate student of Columbia University. It was there that she received the B. S. degree. She is a member of National Home Economics Association, Chairman Home Economics Section of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, Council of the Southern Region of Research Committee, Chairman of Living Costs Committee of Alabama League of Women Voters, Chairman Department Rural Social Problems, and Alabama State Conference Social Work. Agnes Eli.ex Harris Dean of Women I’agc 37

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School of education IN June of 1915 the establishment of the Department of Education at Auburn was authorized by the Board of Trustees. Their action was timely, for it was during the same year that the Legislature enacted the Constitutional Amendment, ratified by the people in 191G, which for the first time gave the counties of the State the right to tax themselves for school support. The revenue from these taxes resulted in such improvement in the schools of the State that Auburn’s new Department of Education found front the very beginning a greater demand for teachers it trained, than could be met. During the seven years beginning with 1915 the number of pupils enrolled in the public High Schools of Alabama was more than doubled. Today it is increasing at the rate of twenty per cent per year. The field for teachers is a wide one, and grows daily more attractive in financial as well as social recognition. Auburn trains teachers of vocational agriculture, teachers of the various high school subjects, high school principals and school superintendents. The College considers its specified field to l c the preparation of educational leaders for the rural communities,where seventy-five per cent of the population df the State live. In the fall of 1925 Dean Benner added extension courses in education to tin-resident courses already offered. Two hundred teachers in Chambers, Lee and Russell counties enrolled in these courses and received credit towards an Auburn degree. Wherever in Alabama a school position calls for unusually straight seeing, straight thinking and straight acting, Auburn spirit and Auburn training in education arc the best kind of equipment which the candidate can offer. That this is generally recognized is evidenced by the large per cent of these positions which are filled by Auburn graduates. THOMAS E. BENNER, A. B., A. M., Ed. I)., Ed. M., is a graduate of Harvard University. Dean Benner has held many important offices. He was Superintendent of Massachusetts Schools; Statistician and Editor, Alabama State Department of Education; Editor, Alabama School Progress; Editor, Alabama School Journal. When the United States entered the World War he was among the first to join the Air Service of the United States Army. Page 26

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a.Alabama Extension Service THE extension service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is a joint enterprise between the United States Department of Agriculture and the College. Under the terms of the Smith-Lever Act, passed by Congress in 1914, all of the work must Ik administered by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Funds for the work are derived mainly from three sources: First, the Federal Government; second, the State of Alabama, and third, Appropriations by County Boards of Revenue, Education and other sources. 'Pile purposes of this work are to give instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to | er-sons not attending college. The extension service organization of the College has four main divisions as follows: First: The Administrative Force, dealing with general administrative matters, including the securing and the budgeting of funds, the auditing of expenditures, and other general administrative matters. Second: The Supervisory Force, including four district agencies for men’s work and four district agents for the women’s work. Third: A force of highly trained technical men who keep thoroughly in- formed on all of the latest developments in their respective lines, and who work in co-operation with the County Agents. Fourth: Men agents are now at work in fifty-six of the sixty-seven counties. Women are employed in thirty-six counties. It is contemplated that, ultimately, the Extension Service will have a highly trained and thoroughly competent man and woman in every county in the State. LUTHER NOBLE DUNCAN graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1900, with the B. S. degree. Later in 1907 he received the M. S. degree. After this he took special graduate work at University of Tennessee and the University of Illinois. From 1900 to 1905 he taught and directed school farms in District Agricultural Schools in Alabama; 1905 to 1909 lie taught agriculture and research work in agronomy; 1909 to 1920 Superintendent Junior and Home Economics Extension Service. From 1920 to the present date he has held the office of Director Alabama Extension Service, Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Vat 8