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THE CHALLENGE FOR HOME ECONOMICS I N RESEARCH

Pearl P. Swanson Dr. Pearl P. Swanson is assistant director of Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, She received her bachelor's degree from Carleton College, Minnesota, her master's degree from the University of Minnesota and her doctorate from Yale University. She was associate professor of foods and nutrition, Iowa State College from 1930*1936 and was made professor of nutrition in 1936, She has received many honors including the Sterling Scholarship and the Alexander Broune Cox Fellow, Yale University and the Borden Award for studies of basic problems in nutrition and contributions to research in human nutrition. She has held offices in AHEA, American Institute of Nutrition and the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Her research and publications have been concerned with the metabolism of proteins; nutritional status of population groups; dietary requirements of reproduction; inorganic salts in nutrition. The following talk, journal paper number J-3237, for the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, project no, 1028, was given by Pearl P. Swanson, on Friday, April 5, 1957, at the dedication symposium of Bevier Hall and the Child Development Laboratory. Some of our richest experiences in living have had their origin in the cohcsivencss of the family unit. We all know how a family rallies for rejoicing when good fortune comes to one of its members and how it stands by in strong support in times of trouble or misfortune. Today we, representing a group of sister institutions of higher learning, are gathered together to rejoice with one of our members in the dedication of its beautiful new home economics building. As we have moved through its spacious halls and visited its well-equipped laboratories we experienced no envy. We only rejoiced that one of our family had been given this great opportunity to extend its influence. It is, indeed, a pleasure and a privilege to share these days of dedication to a greater and more significant home economics program at the University of Illinois. I bring with me the congratulations and good wishes of the Iowa State College and particularly those of its Division of Home Economics and of its Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station. We are living in an era of technology, and it has created a strange 35