The Home Economics Story
"Four years in the lives of four home economics students at Iowa State University." (1951)
This is 25 minutes, but if you are interested in the fabulous professional possibilities available after four years of undergraduate homemaker study, you'll be glad you watched.
Actually it's a great production and an interesting period piece. (If you think 70's home decor was awful, have a look at those 50's drapes, revealed in color.)
The girls are pretty. The film puts your mind at ease about living in a woman's dorm... (He wrote with a straight face as if there were nothing odd about this observation.)
55 years is a little late to show this to the (still vanished anyway) Phooka, I guess, but anyway...
If the film breaks, or the music skips click here,
then please return to your seat.
posted by Jackson @ 7:22 PM
6 Comments:
Comments appear funny today. You put a grey bar on the top of yer blog?
I didn't think I had much to say...
I never liked those Iowa State folks anyway
Mrs Trudge, I lived in Des Moines for twenty something years and made it the 40 miles to Ames ONCE ! haha. And was not impressed at all because the beer supply seemed to be low among the students i was visiting. (the beer just didn't...flow there, as in Iowa City).
one odd note: my cousin, who has a book published and writes as a food critic, went to Iowa State. Had Jane Smiley as a prof. Go figure, but she's the most succesful writer I know and she went to the 'wrong' school for that!
I guess she took "applied" writing.
That was like a 50's version of Catharine Beecher literature. Educate the women in sphere of the home.
Frae'
hey , I didn't know about that Beecher, Frae! What a family. Sounds like a great woman. (They're not teaching otherwise are they?)
She was somewhat of the Martha Stewart of the 1800's,
Frae'
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