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HOME ECONOMICS HOSHTAUTY DAY

This welcome presented by Dr. Louis B. Howard, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, opened the Hospitality Day activities for Illinois High School students on Saturday, April 6, 1957. It is a genuine privilege to welcome to the University of Illinois this fine group of mothers and daughters that today have assembled in such large numbers as to overtax the capacity of the Lincoln Hall Theatre- It is a wonderful conclusion to the three days of ceremonies dedicating our splendid new home economics building. Perhaps some of you may wonder why the Dean of the College of Agriculture is here to extend a greeting to the guests of Home Economics Hospitality Day. For those of you who arc not aware of our organizational setup at Illinois, I should say that the Department of Home Economics has a very close administrative relationship in the College of Agriculture as one of its most important departments. For example, the many significant research activities carried on in the field of home economics are supported and administered through the Agricultural Experiment Station. Moreover, the very vital home economics extension program, carried out in most of the counties of the st;ate, through home advisers and youth advisers, is It part of the Extension Service administered by the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. It is for these reasons that I have a most sincere interest in the activities of the Department of Home Economics and that I am privileged to welcome you to the campus today. We think that we are most fortunate indeed to have these wonderful new home economics facilities — the main home economics building which many of you have seen, and the splendid child development laboratory of which we are so rightfully proud. I have seen a number of other home economics facilities in the United States, but I sincerely believe that ours today is the best of them all. Not only do we have these remarkable facilities, but we have the all important staff to go with them — a staff which is without comparison. To those of you who are graduating seniors in high school, I hope you will all come to the University of Illinois next year and register in the home economics curriculum. You can have fun, learn, and if necessary you can earn part of your expenses all at the same time. Now I should like to say just a few words to the mothers who have come along today. I am sure that you all will agree with me that

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