Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The kitchen is mecca Those girls in rhe neat white uniforms who whip up tasty dishes in the foods laboratory on the third floor have a very practical purpose in life, and their college education promises to be an asset to them for either marriage or a career. A preparation for homemaking is the basis of all their courses: home management, child develop- ment, foods and nutrition, clothing and design. Then they also have a good foundation in funda- mental courses, such as the social, physical, and biological sciences. The students interested mainly in foods and nutrition may direct their programs toward dietetics, institutional management, public health nutrition, or research. Girls who choose to specialize in textiles, rather than foods, have job opportunities galore in the textile labs of stores and manufacturing plants, teaching, research, and the educational departments of industries. The Home Ec ' ers, who have an artistic flair and enjoy designing clothes, may elect courses in dress design and tailoring with the field of fashion and design as their goal. During her junior year each girl hibernates for a happy eight weeks in Home Management House on campus, and there she gains on-the-job experi- ence in the art of family living. At this time she also joins in as a member of the College Nursery School, and gets a good picture of the problems involved in child guidance. Affiliations with the Merrill- Palmer School in Detroit and the Nursery Training School of Boston enable well-qualified students to spend one semester of the senior year in concentrated study of child development. With their training, these students also obtain profitable employment in business in the fields of sales promotion, advertising, or home service, inter- preting to businessmen what women want and stimulating feminine interest for the merchandise a company has to sell to consumers. Whether the girls marry right after commencement or go to work, the Home Ec recipe will be put to immediate use and kept simmering indefinitely. Elda Robb, Director

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; problem Thing, the original Valz project down to the last specification had been handed in after the spring practice-work. But what had happened to all the free hours the once-a-week double periods allowed? Slide side- ways into the clutter of 351 and see the extra hours which lay behind the harmless Catalogue listing, English 75. The Simmons Review began its third year as a college publication providing an unique laboratory for befogged English seniors. Out of the busy hours of rewrite, galleys, page proofs and, at last, four issues a year, came the wail, Lunch? — who ' s got time for lunch! It had by then even replaced the perennial groans concerning typing and shorthand. But the dream of future days took shape. The School of Publication senior finds herself knowing a whale of a lot she never even considered learning, and lucrative days lie ahead in magazine publishing, advertising, and every other world where a pica rule is a working tool. Raymond F. Bosworth, Director ' ' I dreamt I was a lady edito r in the Review Office . . . Publicity class and prof demonstrate the old AID 1 formula. The G in Graphic and D GV. {23

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for Home Ec ' ers Sue Watanabe, Sylvia Brown and Janet Hopf warn — The way to a man s heart is through his stomach. Cindy Hardy recommends play therapy . . . A stitch in time . . . {25