The Iowa Homemaker Vol.39, No.3
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Volume 38 | Number 3 Article 1 1958 The oI wa Homemaker vol.39, no.3 Diane Rasmussen Iowa State College Jill Gaylord Iowa State College Jane Gibson Iowa State College Elizabeth McDonald Iowa State College Gail Devens Iowa State College Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Rasmussen, Diane; Gaylord, Jill; Gibson, Jane; McDonald, Elizabeth; and Devens, Gail (1958) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.39, no.3," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 38 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol38/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Iowa em a OCTOBER, 1958 "How do you rate as a roomie?" 0 0 0 page 11 the fluid look 1s the new sweater story $8 and $10 Long, lean and loose-fitting is the sweater silhouette for fall. Knit by Exmoor in wonderful, washable tycora that dries like a breeze, never pills, shrinks or stretches. Start a new sweat er wardrobe in our deep-toned au tumn shades. 1. Slipon with bulky stand away collar and tie. Star sap phire, Viking red, fir green, buttemut or white. 34 to 40. $10 2. C 10 11 a r e d cardigan, rib sleeves. Star sapphire, Viking red, fir gr-een, butternut or navy. 34 to 40. $8 3. Ribbed slipover. 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What's Going On .. ... .......... .. 12 This quotation from "The Cypresses BelieYe in God" by Jose-Maria Giron alla immediately reminded me of my Austrian "sister," Nora. Last summer I had the opportunity of living with Photography: Cover, pages 6, 7, ll , Dorothy Oakland; page 5, Chuck Klopf; a family in Vienna, Austria, and I pages 6, 7, Steve Wells. noticed right away that Nora had this AT/: Pages R, 10, Andy Brown. rare ability to pay attention. It was a joy to go anywhere with her because she saw and delighted in so much that Published monthly during the school year by home economics students at Iowa State College, I didn't even notice. New red shoes Ames, Iowa. $1.50 per year. Entered as second class matter at the City Post Office, Ames, made her happy each time she wore Iowa, under the act of March 3, 1879. Apply for advertising rates. them. Every walk was punctuated with exclamations of "Look!" or "Listen!" Each experience was a dis covery. STAFF But you don't have to go to Vienna Martha Elder, Publisher to make this kind of discovery. The Joanne Will, EditoT walk to class doesn't have to be merely Jeanne Burkett, Business Manager th e shortest distance between two points. Phone duty isn' t drudgery if Jackie Andre, Issue EditoT. Diane Rasmussen, Janice Furman, Jane Gibson, you are listening and watching. Once Associate Editon. Elisa Steidel, R esem·ch Direr/aT. Doroth y Oakland, ATt th e discovering begins, you will won EditoT. Judy Needham, Assistant Art EditoT. Penne McFatrid~ e. Public Rela der how you ever missed so much be tions. Andy Brown, La)'out Editor. Gail Devens , Jill Gaylord, MartLa Keeney, fore. Glenda Legore, Donna Read, Pat Rig ler, Susan Sweet, Sta!Jnwiters. Karna Al Gironalla has some helps in this re drich, Treasurer. Mary Jo Drilling, Assistant Treastner. Frances Cross, Cin·u/a port of a friend who was learning to tion Manager. Margaret Evens, Assistaut CiTcnlatiou JV/anager. Kay Porter, pay attention. "A great discovery, this Advertising Manager. n;:llle Green, N atioual Adverlisiug Manager. Dorothy paying attention. New colors, new Elson, Des Moines Advertising Manager. Pat Asmus, R egina Meeham, Molly shapes, new sounds offered themselves l'fiffner, Bev Shackson, .. ·lrlvertisiug Salesmen. to him a multiple display. The house fronts created lights and shadows, the Publication Board chairs took on human forms, the trees managed to interpret every sentiment Jeanne Burkett, Bernice Burns, Martha Elder, Kay Goeppinger, Dean Helen Le [rom joy to desperation, along the Baron, K. R. Marvin, Marion Moore, Joanne Will. rim of a plate there were a thouasnd reAections, a thousand (aces in the concavity of a spoon, shoes did not squeak without reason, time seemed The Cover: to some to stop an the spine of a book; men suddenly looked old, na Two Home Economics freshmen, .Joy Wolf (left) and Marcia ture suddenly broke into a dance." Munger, stop studying to comment on how much they enjoy room These are beginning suggestions. ing together. Could you say the same? Turn to page 11, and find Now you go from there.-M.E. out how you rate as a roomie. OcTOBER, 1958 3 Amana Washable ~Lill FLANNELS 11 k ~ Uvt~ Plaids, Stripes Matching Colors ~lt_ That Will Wash - 0 For Skirts, J wnpers, Dresses Full 60 in. wide OJVtz_ Complete Stock 0 of Butterick Patterns \JVt tL V1 V1 Vr.-:. J..tt,~ 203 Main Dial CE 2-5101 DOWNTOWN AMES 1. -r I • Black • Grey • Red the smartest flat • .ll ! n u1e class ... $10.95 AAAA to B Sizes 4 to 10 vf/a J fl in ~ FOOTWEAR j 4 THE IowA HoMEMAKER Dean LeBaron • • • Behind the Desk and Behind the Scenes by Diane Rasmussen Home Economics Junior evenings she is at home in the thirty-year-old house which she purchased last year and is remodeling lit "THAT CUTE R ED-HEADED GIRL who always tle by little. A household equipment class made rec sits in the back of the botany class and never ommendations which she one day hopes to use for says a word- that's Helen LeBaron. Poor girl, every the kitchen. one says that professor never gives a decent grade to The ramp with the swinging door in a basement anyone with red hair. No wonder she's afraid of him!" window may not have been the equipment class' Though this rumor frightened Helen as a college recommendation, but Musette finds it practical since freshman at the University of Vermont to the point her mistress is gone so much of the clay. Musette is that she hesitated to speak to this botany instructor "just a common cat" who "needed a fancy name," on the street, there probably wasn't much hesitation as Miss LeBaron describes her pet who keeps her on the part of this same instructor when he later company on these evenings at home. gave her an "A" in the course! Weaving, gardening, entertaining, reading, and She recalls with a sparkle the fun the ten girls in cooking are some of the greatest pleasures Dean Le her corridor had through college. Though they are Baron enjoys at these times. The 36" floor loom with now scattered all over the world, the ten still corres WOI-FM tuned in to a background of classical music pond and visit whenever possible. (there is no time for television) is the scene of about Now sitting on the other side of the desk as Dean one project a year. These usually take the form of of the College of Home Economics, Miss LeBaron table linen, rugs, bathmats, and aprons, most of inspires feelings of ready friendship, genuine interest, which are given to friends. The weaving of a tufted and complete confidence rather than fear. rug is next on the agenda. Although she estimates that one-half of her eve nings are spent at college meetings, most of the other LeBaron (Continued on page 14) SEPTEMBER, 1958 5 Your Faculty's I Dr. Glenn Hawkes, head of Child Development, said that his four Dr. Glenn Hawkes and Greg children: Kristen, 13; Bill, ll; Greg, 5; and Laura, 2; and all their interests keep his spare time pretty well occupied. Bill is an avid rock hound. He and Kristen accompanied their father to New Mexico, where Dr. Hawkes taught in a summer workshop. Here they made excursions into the desert, exploring and collecting rocks. The entire by Jill Gaylord Hawkes family has been busy for a few years planning the new home Home Economics Sophomore which Dr. Hawkes terms "a big family house." Greg, the 5-year-old, is already an accomplished author, having written an article for the HOMEMAKER a year ago on his impression of the college. Here is an informal intro The newly appointed head of Home Economics Education, Miss duction to department heaas Mattie Pattison, was one of the first six girls to graduate in dietetics in the Division of Home Economics. Get to from Washington State College. Miss Pattison said that she and her know each personally. five friends took their dietetics internship with he hope of getting to work in the service.