Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1958, p. 12

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various class-rooms to talk to them about nutrition, textiles, household equipment, floor coverings and other home economics‘interests. Listening with a group in a nutrition lab, we heard the instructor, Miss Pearson tell the girls that the food eaten in youth may have a great effect in later years in relation to health in child bearing, to diseases of middle- Iife such as arthritis and to the preservation of mental health in old age. Miss Baskerville, Dean of Women at the College outlined both the practical one-year course given at Macdonald Institute and the four-year professional course. She stressed the point that for the professional course particularly it is necessary to have a good high school background in science and mathematics. Answering questions about the cost of the caurses, Miss Baskerville estimated that tuition, books. board, clothes and spendâ€" ing money â€" all the costs of the course would come to about $880 a year which is less than the cost in any other Canadian University. Jobs for home economists, Miss Baskerville said, are plentiful and varied. After her third year the student chooses her specialty for the final year and may be ready for teaching. after taking a course at the College of Educa- tion, for institutional work such as hospital dietetics, for extension work, research, work- ing for a commercial firm in promoting some products which would likely involve some speaking, writing, radio and television work, and of Course for the nonâ€"professional job of homemaking. In the Horticultural Department, Miss Carol Czaja dealt with freezing food and Miss Louise Heringa gave a session of her popular demonstrations of flower arrangement. Careers for Club Girls Miss Helen McKercher, Director Home Economies Service, spoke on “Careers for Club Girls in Today’s World," Miss Mc- Kercher said: 12 “In the last few years our country hi. undergone many changes. Woman’s 1‘:in If“. changed because she now UndE‘I‘takC‘H :1;an ties outside the home. Girls go to school g“, eight to ten years, followed by the jg}, earning a living so they hate little this)“, to learn housekeeping from their molt]er Since good housekeeping is necessary, the welfare of the family and since it is. thing that has to be learned, home“ club work and courses in home Eleomu-q have an important place in a girl’s edU, HM" Now that housekeeping is becoming m..,_ ,M' more a matter of managing time, eneii; .md money rather than of producing good- ‘5- 19 home, Miss McKercher said, there is a or mm. lung of losing certain intangibles -â€" love, pom we understanding and services which are . m: fested in the homemaker's physical pro . imp” “One of the basic objectives in BCilli.= m," Miss McKercher declared “is to lieh a”. viduals to become more effective menu. fl'f homes and families and that is one i we basic objectives of all our homemakiiw uh projects. Your experience in the fan- is the first, the closest and the longest : {jg of all human experience. ‘Worthwhilr, was membership’ has been stressed for you m how to achieve this has not been 5- >11 understood. We have to have an awzi of the treasures to be gained from m, affectionate relationships within the :' i_\': It isn’t enough to know most of the to let} ‘answers’. You need to have the em ma] conviction necessary to translate knrrm ice into actual ways of living â€" working it'- ing, feeling and enjoying . . Resp 101‘ others as human beings is basic. Who ind of personal ties are we fostering i or families and clubs generally? What :- we like as a member of a family? Do vs: we and receive the affection, respect and 1' ur- agement necessary for the developm t of everyone?" Having had a worthy home memlr hip and some experience of home econoru in One of the sir iii dis- cussion group: deal- ing with qwslioni on club \vC‘lk. HOME AND COUNTRY

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