Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1966, p. 6

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your world; that no woman is an island, living only for herself. Dr. McCready stressed the importance of young people and older people agemenl. Dr. McCready said that a lot family disruption is caused by the misuse N money. Even well-to-do families sometim. go on the rocks for this reason and soc: ‘ ' workers are now coming to home economiw to find how to help people with this problem Dr. McCready outlined other special lines study in home economicsâ€"child study, null tion. housing and others, after which the m had a tour of Macdonald Institute to» something of how home economics is tau-g there. Mrs. Una Abrahamson. Publicist Edit. General Foods Ltd. speaking on “Let‘s My the Most of You." reminded the girls it they are living in a time when life has DL“. been more exciting or more demand” Customs are more permissive than they h. ever been before and We have to make sponsible decisions. And to make the m of herself a girl will require curiosity. h. work and courage. On the subject of careers for girls. l\t Abrahamson said: “Your choice of a C‘Ell may interfere with the traditional role women. More women will choose cureer 1 can be followed even after they are man and it may be well for you to keep it mind that according to statistiCs you will I‘ forty years to live after your last child »_. to school." Homemaking today involves more enteri ing than ever before. the speaker said. on meeting together in conferences if we are to arrive at balanced judgments: and she re ferred to young people on radio tearing up the school curricula, clamoring for "reality" in education. “But you can‘t begin where you are." she said. “You have to build on the past." On the interdependence of the genera- tions, Dr. McCready said that at the Vaniers’ conference on the family it was generally be- lieved that the great function of the family was the nurture of children. Everyone knows that many children are “disturbed” because they were born into an environment that did not give them love and security. But a psychologist in the group felt that the family was as much needed by young parents as the parents were needed by the children. Sketching the history of home economics education. Dr. McC‘ready said that in the be‘ ginning some people were shocked at the prospect of the home which was a strictly private affair. being exposed to examination and study. Now. she said. home economists want to know not only about food and nutriâ€" tion and clothing and housing; they also want to know about the arts and sciences so that they can take them to the family where they can be applied in everyday living. So now home economics has a place in universities. On the need of education in home man- .3. s Members of the international fashion show. Left to right: pines.- Huong of Vietnam; Aurora and Manuel and Ammoh Alimod, Malaysia. Ofelia and Dimma Avila, both of the Philip Garcia. Philippines,- Lillian Woo, Chino; Sharituh Ali ’5 HOME AND couu‘m’

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