[Magdalen] First day of school.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Home EC has other names in more recent history and is promoted as co-ed 
info... as recently as 8 years ago at our high school/jr high - cooking and 
sewing were both part of the curriculum

I don't have any current info however
:Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 9:26 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] First day of school.

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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:
>
> 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.>>>>>>
>
>
> 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.
>
> It's been replaced by a high rise building from another department.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> David Strang.
>
>