Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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Household and Industrial Arts SECRETARIAL SCIENCE The t ollego of Household ami Industrial Arts at Montana Srare Collect is a field of applied knowledge heme its curricula need always to include generous provisions for basic courses in art and sciences. It is the ultimate purpose of the Home Kconomics course to improve the home not only in its various physical phases but also in its aesthetic, economic, educational and social aspect. The home, which is out most conservative social institution, is undergoing many and far reaching changes which eliminate much that was essential in the past but at the same time introduces a host of new and unsolved problems. The home is intended to serve tin various needs of the family group and must therefore Ik sensitive in its adjustment to changing conditions yet consciously conserving its heritage of emotional and spiritual values. It is the aim of tin Home Kconomics Department to equip their graduates with a measure of functional knowledge and also to develop within them ideals, appreciations and an inquiring and open minded attitude which will enable each to work out a solution to her life problems and yield her a satisfying personal philosophy. The Department of Secretarial Science not only prepares men and women for business fields, but also allows elective studies in education sufficient to meet the requirements for teaching of commercial subjects in school. Where the engineer, tin chemist, and the farm specialist work in the realm of production. efficiency measured in terms of physical results, it is the province of the accountant, the statistician, and the business executive to translate this work into terms of financial efficiency in the business enterprise by an analysis of production cost and the forecasting of market values. Good secretaries are always in demand, therefore the course offers training for the business secretary in the keeping of business records, and in the work of the office in the carrying out of the routine of communication between the executive and his contacts both within and outside of the business organization. Cooks Artists

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 THE COLLEGE OF HOUSEHOLD AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS The College of Household and Industrial Arts is indeed proud of its Alumnae as they have gone out to real service and positions of trust and filling their places with honor to their Alina Mater. Rapid indeed has been the evolution of women's progress. The old order •S changed and because the woman student today is living in an age that has emerged, quickened and tempered out of a great war she is more likely than her Sister Alumna of a few years ago, to choose the career that is best suited to her taste and talent. From Applied Art. Home economics and Sec-tetarial Departments, women are graduated each year, to go into various occupations to prove their strength and understanding in the beauty and manifold dut ies of life. In the Hook of Proverbs is found: ••Through wisdom is an house huilded and by understanding it is established. And by knowledge shall the V chambers lie filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A woman's happiness conies not from satisfying X Herrick nig a passing whim but in her everyday contacts with the high and low the lame and the halt, particularly net own family to whom she mav give of her resources. This is life abundant and a precious heritage.

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AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Director Tayi.ok The ’ooperative Extension Service of the Mon-t;m;i Stare College and the Uni ted States Depart-ment of Agriculture was organized as the last of three principal divisions of the College, to conduct extension work defined in the Smith-Lever Act of May s. lliu. as follows: “Sec. 2. That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist o! the giving of instruction an«l practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economies to persons not attending or resident in said college in the several communities, and imparting To such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise; and this work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the state agricultural college or colleges receiving the benefits of the Act.” Extension agents are the local representatives of the State College and the United States I epartment of Agriculture, and the local people wherever extension work is carried on cooperatively. These extension workers are public teachers paid with money largely raised from all of the people by taxation, and ore charged with giving instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics. Extension work deals not only with agricultural production, hut also with economic problems, including marketing and cooperative associations, and with the interests of the farm, home and rural community. The extension service, including the extension agent, is as much interested in the marketing, distribution. and utilization of farm products as ii is in production, and it may properly give information and help in all of these lines. The Extension Service in each state is under the administrative management of the director, who is the joint representative of the College and the department of Agriculture. Under the Director are State Supervisors, the Extension Specialists and County Extension Agents. The Extension Director is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with county boards of commissioners with reference to financial support for the maintenance of extension work in the county and the plans for the use of the cooperative funds in the The 1 Federal farm census credits Montana with Ki.000 farms. of this number better than 34.ort0 or more than To per cent of the total farms in the state, are located within counties that are now served by county extension agents. During a | eriod of fourteen years extension work in Montana lias developed from three extension agents to a total of forty, including both men and women agents located in thirty-two counties.