Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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fdewniceiacamefzamelaf each week practice-teaching in a near-by junior high and high schools. This year the School of Home Economics offered several new courses in cooking, sewing, and home decorating. These courses were specially designed for girls in other schools at Simmons. During their regular meetings every month, Home Ec Club members raised money through a Towle silver display, sandwich sales, and catering. For three days in October, Ruth Thompson, Virginia Johnson, and M. Catherine Starr, advisor, attended the Province I workshop meeting at the University of Vermont. All club members got to- gether at the Garland School December 6 for the Massachusetts Home Economics College Club meeting. On February 18, members celebrated the twenty- first birthday of Home Management House by a tea to raise money for new equipment. A joint meeting with Scribunal in Nlarch fea- tured a speaker on fashion. Nlembers attended the Spring Conference of the Massachusetts Home Economics College Club Department at Bradford Junior College. The annual Home Ec Club May Banquet concluded club activities for the year. Home Economics Pins and patterns promote the new look Cole counts calories A Arwel' '

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L, Si id a i wg 22 Elda Robb. Director Home lic on the range a fad Jfame gccal Whats cookin'? In the School of Home Eco- nomics, thatis a challenge that leads to conquest in such helds as textiles, food research, nutrition, teaching, and dietetics. During her first two years, the student takes courses in home ec and science which form a basis for her professional work. The study of foods and nutrition leads to posi- tions in dietetics, institutional management, public health nutrition, and research. The textile field is open to those students who wish to go into labs or manufacturing plants. This program also includes facilities Hur the student whose interest lies in dress design and related creative work. The course in home management requires the student to spend eight weeks at Pilgrim House on campus, where she gains wide practical experience in the science and art of homemaking. A course in child development affords an opportunity to ob- serve child behavior at the nursery school. Girls who wish to teach home economics take courses in education combined with a program which gives a broad general knowledge of the field. During her senior year, the student spends one day Horne lic officers: Winifred lIcCalmonl, Peg Adams, Ginny Johnson, pres.: Doris Dean. uv L., Q-N- 7., P

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Room 318 is the mental gymnasium where most seniors in the School of Library Science put to practical use such courses as Introduction to Li- brarianship, Reference, Book Selection, Catalogu- ing, and Library Organization and Administration. Each student has her own desk at which she handles practical library exercises with the assurance of a professional librarian. The program of the school enables the student to deal with general problems in library science, and at the same time allows her to concentrate on specihc studies in her chosen held. After a basic general education for the first three years, the student spends her senior and graduate years in a concentrated program of technical train- ing. Two weeks of field work in libraries of recog- nized standing is required before graduation. The many fields open to the library school gradu- ate are included in four general categories-service in public, college, and university librariesg chil- drenis library workg technical processesg and special library service. Nloreover, graduates are filling positions in business firms, newspaper and maga- zine ofhces, insurance and advertising establish- 020 in 330 adam rqafzan in fauna ' , lfze 'fx 1 Kenneth R. Shalfer, Director 020 officers: Barbara Parker, Peg Wlarc, Frances Foulkes, pres-5 .lane Rollins, Marion Jenkins. 'is Q-L Z 3