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Attractive and practical double offices are occupied by the home economics subject matter specialists in child development and parent education, clothing and textiles, foods and nutrition, health education, home furnishings, and home management. These specialists also prepare local leader outlines, and publications covering a wide variety of timely home economics subjects. They also assist in carrying out training programs for more than 46,000 local volunteer leaders each year. In the family economics research laboratory, long time family account records are received and From the office of the State Leader of Home the data are tabulated and summarized for analysis Advisers, Miss Lulu S. Black directs an off-campus of family spending and saving habits. educational program which i s available to all of the people in Illinois. The State Leader also supervises The demonstration work center can be separated the employment and training of about 130 staff mem- from the conference rooms by folding doors and i s bers—county home advisers and their assistants. used by the subject matter specialists as a preparaThese staff members direct the home economics tion and experimental area. extension program in the counties and serve as The central clerical office of the Home Economliaison between the people of the state and the Uniics Extension Service is the reception and two-way versity of Illinois. communication center. Through this office flows Training materials for developing the home the correspondence of the staff members, the traineconomics extension program are prepared in the ing outlines, publications and the many special r e offices of the subject matter specialists, assistant ports needed to further a program built to serve the people in Illinois counties. state leaders and 4-H Club specialists.

When you arrive on the fifth floor of Bevier Hall, you will find the headquarters of Home Economics Extension—an off-campus educational program in home economics. The fifth floor facilities include the office of the state leader of home advisers, 14 double offices for the state staff, demonstration work center and conference room, and a large clerical office. There is also a family economics research laboratory and two storage rooms for supplies, publications, visual aids, and equipment.