Volume 18 Article 2 Number 5 The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.5 1938 Personalities Behind the Titles Ethel Overholt Iowa State College Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Overholt, Ethel (1938) "Personalities Behind the Titles," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 18 : No. 5 , Article 2. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol18/iss5/2 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]. Intimate glimpses of Home Economics faculty women reveal Personalities Behind the Titles sity of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, by Ethel Overholt Art Student's League of New York and ~ the- New-York School of Fine and Ap­ member of Alpha Gamma Delta, Phi plied Art, is a member of Delta Phi Kappa Phi, Mortar Board, Delta Phi Delta and is listed in Women's Who's Delta and Omicron Nu. Who. Favorite hobbies of Miss Hansen, who A collection of pressed glass, on dis­ was born in Denmark, are collecting play in the foyer of Home Economics antique furniture, writing poetry, and Hall this fall, represents the favorite painting for which she has received hobby of Mrs. Ness. Superintendent of recognition. Her paintings have been the Iowa State Fair art salon for 12 exhibited at the Joslyn Memorial in years, she has brought the prize winners Omaha, in Chicago, and at the Iowa from the fair to the Memorial Union State Fair Art Salon where she has re­ exhibit each fall. ceived two awards. She also received the popularity prize for a watercolor, W,AD and professor in the Foods and "Road to Town," from the Iowa Federa­ Nutrition Department since 1927 is tion of Women's Clubs. Miss Hansen Miss P . Mabel Nelson. Miss Nelson's has traveled and studied abroad several hobbies are her garden and genealogy. times. She is listed in Women's Who's For the past 3 years she has been a de­ Miss Belle Lowe Who, American College Presidents and votee of perennial flowers for she finds Professors, and Leading Women of they take less care. Her latest enthusi­ "KNOW Iowa State First" might be America.. asm for genealogy is based on the recent the motto of Home Economics discovery of the missing link in her his­ students who wish to become tory, which thus completes the gene­ better acquainted with the accomplish­ alogy of the maternal side of the family ments and interests of the professors Miss Anna Henderson back to 1662 when her first ancestor crossed the Atlantic. in their division. Limited space makes November 13, 1938 it impossible to include all the impor­ Miss Nelson was granted a B. S. de­ tant facts about each professor or even gree by the University of California, to include all those who should be men­ With the death of Miss Anna Hender­ 1915; M. S., 1916; and Ph. D. by Yale tioned in an article of this kind. son the Home Economics Division lost University in 1923. She is a member an inspiring friend and an enthusiastic of Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Nu, Sig­ FIRST and foremost in the division is instructor. More than 3,000 college ma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu, Miss Genevieve Fisher who has been women felt her influence as they met Sigma Delta Epsilon, Phi Upsilon Omi­ Dean of Home Economics since 1927. her in and outside of the classroom. cron and Iota Sigma Pi. Miss Fisher, whose major hobby is Miss Henderson, as assistant professor Her name is listed in American Men travel, received her B. S. degree at in the Applied Art Department, taught of Science. A Californian who has Columbia University in 1914 and A. M. courses in interior house design for 22 adopted Iowa as a native state, she degree in 1927 from the same institution. years. Outside of school she devoted claims to help replace the migration of She was special agent for the Home much time to St. John's by the Campus Iowans to the west coast. Economics Federation Board for Voca­ Episcopal Church. She gave generously tional Education at Washington, D. C., of her artistic talents, assisting in decor­ MISS BELLE LOWE, professor of from 1919 to 1922 and taught at the ating, furnishing and purchasing suit­ Foods and Nutrition since 1936, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1922- able works of art, and acting as chair­ was granted a B. S. degree by the Uni­ 27. man for the furnishing and decorating versity of Chicago in 1918, an M. S. Dean Fisher is a member of Phi of the rectory of her church. The D.A.R. (Continued on page 18) Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, Omicron and the K.K. Club also claimed her as Nu, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Mortar Board a member. and Sigma Delta Epsilon and is listed Miss Henderson finished the Minne­ in American Women's Who's Who. apolis School of Design and Normal in Listed in the order of their depart­ 1915. She then attended the New York ments are: School of Fine and Applied Art study­ ing interior decoration, before coming MISS JOANNE M. HANSEN, head to Iowa State. Later, on a year's leave and professor of Applied Art, is of absence, she studied at Columbia known for her part in designing Home University, and since then Miss Hender­ Economics Hall. She drew up the first son made her home at 307 Ash Avenue, plans, used by the architects, and per­ Ames. sonally designed the fountains and many other details of the building. She has attended the New York School of Fine MRS. ZENOBIA NESS, instructor of and Applied Art, the Art Student's Applied Art, is best known for the League of New York and Pratt Insti­ Homemakers' Half-Hour, a program tute. Miss Hansen was granted a B. A. which she has conducted every morning degree from Iowa State Teachers Col­ for the past 10 years over radio station lege, 1917, and an M. A. degree from WOI. Columbia University, 1924. She is a Mrs. Ness, who attended the Univer- Miss Joanne Hansen December, 1938 of art, color and flavor in developing Personalities new dishes suitable for the commercial (Continued from page 2) tearoom or restaurant. Miss Gleiser Coeds Like..; offered as an oddity the fact that in al­ degree in 1934. Miss Lowe is a member most every organization of which she is of Omicron Nu, Iota Sigma Pi, Delta a member, she has served on the budget • Our New Styles Sigma Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. She or finance committee. was a member of the staff of the Bureau Miss Gleiser, who attended Willamette platform soles of Home Economics in Washington, D. University, obtained a B. S. degree from C., in 1923-24. Author of a book and high-cut insteps the University of Washington, 1924; an M. S. from Teachers College, Columbia peeping toes University in 1927, and is a member of Phi Upsilon Omicron. draped toes READING for enjoyment serves as the · best diversion from work for Miss Enid Sater, acting head of Household -·- Equipment in the absense of Dr. Louise • Our New Colors Feet. She prefers light reading, fiction, burgundy historical novels and biographies. Miss Sater was granted a B. A. degree blue by Des Moines University in 1923 and an M. S. degree by Iowa State College in green 1932. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Delta Epsilon. DESIGNING clothes for the individ- -·- ual is of most interest to Miss • Our New Leathers Rosalie Rathbone, professor and head of Textiles and Clothing since she first Suede Mrs. Zenobia Ness came to Iowa State in 1931. Her only Alligator regret in teaching is that it leaves too many articles in experimental cookery, little opportunity for designing and she Calf her favorite recreation is swimming and must confine her enthusiasm to helping Pigskin water sports. She is listed in Women's students and personal friends with their Who's Who. dress problems. Miss Rathbone was granted both B. S. and M. A. degrees by Teacher College, M ISS PEARL P. SWANSON, pro­ -·- fessor of Foods and Nutrition Columbia University. She received her since 1936, received a B. S. degree from practical experience by designing fab­ Carleton College in 1916, an M. S. de­ rics for New York manufacturers and DE gree from the University of Minnesota taking charge of the dressmaking BOOT. SHOP in 1924 and a Ph. D. from Yale Univer­ studio of a New York store. She is a sity in 1930. She is a member of Phi member of Omicron Nu. 726 WALNUT DES MOINES Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Omicron Nu, MISS IVA BRANDT, professor in the Sigma Delta Upsilon and Iota Sigma Pi. Textiles Department, frequently Carrying on research sponsored by the addresses various retail business groups Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in her department and directing masters' PURITY problems in foods and nutrition are her chief duties. Golf is her favorite form of recreation and current styles of home BAKERY furnishings her hobby. for that PROFESSOR PAULENA NICKELL, head of the Home Management De­ partment since 1936, is interested in FRUIT CAKE home furnishings. Her new home in Ames was completed two years ago. Miss Nickell says she must have been "born wanting to build a house." She was granted a B.