Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

Page 29 text:

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

Page 28 text:

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

Page 30 text:

Realm of reference. Do or die for the Dewey Decimal. Jackie Dowling, Do ris Kelleher, Nancy Mclntyre, Jean Murphy and Monica Harrington. Shirley Smith looks for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Irene Charnicki, Dodie Neville and Barbara Houle r those ten-ton refer- ence books. {26 }