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Caption: Dedication - Home Economics - Challenge of Home Economics
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education is, in essence, a process of maturing. I like to think of this as a process of developing maturity in at least four different areas. For example, there is first the development of intellectual maturity — the learning of the many aspects of the world in which we live so that we may be better able to enjoy and adjust ourselves to our surroundings in the years to come. Secondly, there is the development of a social maturity. Surely nowhere can this be acquired more effectively than on a college campus where girls from different areas of our society and with different interests can live and work together and understand each other's objectives. Thirdly, there is the development of a vocational maturity. This involves the preparation of our daughters to enter into adult life with a feeling of competence and ability to earn their living in some vocation. Finally, but by no means the least important, is the development of an aesthetic maturity in which one learns to enjoy and appreciate the beauty of the world in its manifold aspects. In my opinion, the curriculum offered in home economics is the best combination of these four different areas. I sincerely hope that many of you will choose to come to Illinois for home economics — either next year or in the early future. 57
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