Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1969, p. 25

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and Home Economics. The buildings were an outright gift, to be used for educational purâ€" poses. The provincial government undertook to maintain the buildings and grounds. and to provide the faculty which would be necessary to carry out the purposes of the institution. Dr. W. H. Muldrew was the first dean of Macdonald Institute. When he died October 7. 1904, Miss Mary Urie Watson became "Lady Principal" and Professor S. B. McCrcady took over the Department of Nature Study. An important member of the faculty from 1903 to 1909 was Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless. She lectured to the students on ethics. a topic which gave her ample scope to tell of domestic science developments in the many schools she had visited. To undertake her teaching duties. Mrs. Hoodless commuted from Hamilton to Guelph, a distance of sixty miles. She gave her students an appreciation of the importance of the family and the need [or intelligent. inspired and informal homemakers. It is said that she always appeared before her classes beautifully dressed with her lecture well prepared. Thousands of members of the Ontario Women‘s Institutes have had the privilege of using the facilities of Macdonald Hall. Crccl- man Hall. the Administration Building. now MilIs Hall, and other parts of the beautiful campus when they have attended Women's In- stitute holidays, Provincial Board Directors meetings, anniversaries or Officers‘ Confer- ences. Some Women's institute members have graduated from Macdonald Institute. many have had daughters or granddaughters who are graduates. Many of our Country Home Econ- omists including the Director of the Home Economics Branch, Miss Helen McKercher re- ceived their Home Economics training at the University of Guelph. Women's Institute memâ€" bers have warm memories of this Institution. They are reminded of their close associations with Macdonald Institute when they tour that building and see there. prominently displayed. a portrait of Adelaide Hoodless. Editor’s Note â€" In memory of Adelaide Headless. her son Bernard B. Handlers (arm/)- lished the Adelaide Headless Trust Fund the proceeds of which from 1953 on. are (u be applied in perpetuity for the promotion uud encouragement of education 11! Mncdonuld Institute. From the eslate of the late Muriel 1. Box!» wick, funds were made available for the provi- sion of proficiency scholarships to be awarded to students on the completion of semen-fer 2 0f the RH. SC. program. Miss Bariwit'k way a granddaughter of Adelaide Hoodlum. WINTER 1969 Y ; Winners of the Adelaide Hoodlcss Memorial Scholar- ships [Sl50 each) with Mrs. W. C. Wincgurd, wife of W. C. Winegord, president at the University at Guelph. tell to righl: Miss D. M. Woolcorl, Bright; Miss A. Mi Johnson, Klncordinc. +4Â¥ TI I]: _| AN ITOR'S BOY Oh I'm in love “tilt the jtlnitnr's hwy, And the izlnitor's hny loves me: He's going In hunt for a desert isle In our geography. A desert isle with spily trees Somewhere near Slit-upshi-nd May: A right nia- phu'e. just lit for two \Vherc we can live alwny. 0h Hit in love with the jttnitur's hwy, I'lu's bus) us he run he; And down in the cellar he's making it I'll“ Out of an old sctlcc. He‘ll tarry l‘l‘ll.‘ nihl knnw llL' will. For his hair is exceedingly red: And the only thing that occurs to me ls‘ to dutifully shiver in hcd. The (luv “1: sail. i shall leave this hriL-i note. For my parents I hati- to annoy: "l haw.- fluwn away in :In isle in a hay \Vith the innimr's red-haired hwy." Nathalia Crane i t 'k 25

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