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Caption: Dedication - Home Economics - Challenge of Home Economics
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fcl MAP FOR LIVING — 5 0 YEAR PLAN Honorable Florence Ellenwood Allen Judge Florence Ellenwood Allen, the only woman in the world ever to sit in a federal court of general jurisdiction, was born March 23, 1884, at Salt Lake City, Utah. She was educated at Salt Lake Academy and New Lyme Institute, Ashland, Ohio* She received her master's degree in political science and constitutional law from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1908 and was graduated from the New York University Law School in 1913. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1914. In 1922 she was elected to the Supreme Court of Ohio for a six-year term, and re-elected in 1928 and appointed as United States Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit in 1934. Judge Allen holds honorary degrees from many universities and colleges and has written extensively in her field* The following is the convocation address given by the Honorable Florence Allen, on Friday, April 5,1957, at the dedication ceremonies' convocation of Bevier Hall and the Child Development Laboratory. We meet to dedicate a building erected by this great university primarily for the cultivation of the domestic arts. It is a living token of the affection and concern of the state of Illinois for its girls and young women and also of the public realization that all that concerns the home has a professional aspect. The domestic arts need to be cultivated with intelligence just as other arts. Time was when any desire of women to do their work professionally was frowned upon. Even as distinguished an educational institution as Vassar Female College issued a prospectus published in Godey's Ladies Book in 1865. It stated: "The intellectual course of study is to be ample but not crushing. "A special school of physical training will be provided under the charge of a lady professor who will instruct in the arts of riding, flower gardening, boating and other physical accomplishments suitable for ladies to acquire. "The play grounds are large and secluded and the apparatus for such simple feminine sports as archery, croquet, graces, shuttlecock, etc., will be supplied by the college, "There will be a special course in the fine art of entertaining, with suggestions for small talk suitable for kettledrums, routs and banquets.'* 7
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