[Magdalen] First day of school.

[Jay Weigel]

Home Ec, at least at the University of Tennessee (and several other
schools), is now called "Human Ecology". When I first heard that term back
in the 90s I had to ask my dad what it meant.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/7/2015 10:14:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> The  other high school, which was closed in 1967, was a "lab
> school" for the  UW-Madison Dept. of Education. I guess they decided after
> that that it was  more expedient to send their student teachers elsewhere
> to
> practice  teach.>>>>>>
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> On the subject of closings at UW-Madison, I was stunned to learn
> that the lovely Home EC house on campus which was quite near the
> original Wisconsin General Hospital/UW Medical School, is gone.
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> It's been replaced by a high rise building from another department.
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> My Cousin Connie, herself a Home EC graduate of UW-Stout back
> in the 1960's. tells me that there really is no such thing as "Home  EC"
> any more.  There are no Home EC majors and the subject as such
> is not taught anymore in high schools.
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> It's ?apparently secondary to women's desire not to be identified
> with homemaking.  Maybe, though, there's a little of tossing the
> baby with the bathwater?
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> David Strang.
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