Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Home Economics [PAGE 8]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

Sharing space with the Division of Textiles and Clothing on the first and second floors of Bevier Hall are the class rooms and laboratories of the Division of Home Management. These areas provide for greatly expanded teaching and research activities in housing, household equipment, and home furnishings. To allow maximum flexibility, only necessary fixed equipment i s installed in the housing research laboratories. Currently, a kitchen using many of the latest in appliances i s set up and i s being compared with one which incorporates the findings of research previously made at the University of Illinois. The actual step-saving benefits of new items such as the wall refrigerators a r e being studied.

pare convenience of different arrangements of appliances, one dishwasher is installed on the left of the sink, another on the right. For study of large appliances the entire center of the room can be freed for class activity. When small equipment is being studied tables which fold into the wall can be lowered for class use. Home furnishings and housing laboratories a r e located at the south end of the second floor. One room, equipped with drawing tables i s used by advanced classes in home furnishings. Here students design interiors of homes, choosing colors, wall and floor finishes, and furniture. Classes in family housing study house plans for appropriateness for family living. For flexibility in use of the room, folding tables and stacking chairs a r e used in the second laboratory.

New household equipment laboratories make it The third room i s a flexible home furnishings possible to initiate equipment research and to offer laboratory with adjustable partitions that allow stucourses each semester. Students study the prin- dents to "test 11 their ideas of furniture o r room ciples basic to the choice of appliances and use and arrangements. evaluate examples of different types. New models By use of dividers it is possible to demonstrate will be installed frequently so students can keep up with current markets. So that students may com- several room arrangements at one time.