78 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



KEPORT OF WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT. 



To the President: 



Dear Sir : — The year just closed showed au enrollment in the Women's 

 department of two hundred thirty-two women, which necessitated the 

 use of two outside houses for rooms. Class rooms and laboratories have 

 been crowded also, although the large incoming classes required a divi- 

 sion of sections and increased teaching force. 



Miss Kate M. Coad, a graduate of the class of 1905, was secured as 

 senior instructor in charge of domestic art. Miss Coad had taken addi- 

 tional courses in the University of Chicago and has built up the work 

 in this department very successfully. During the summer of 1908, Miss 

 Chapman tendered her resignation, but fortunately for us she returned 

 for the first few weeks of the year to assist in the work of organizing 

 and classification of new students. Her successor, Miss Mable Long, a 

 graduate of the New Haven Physical Training School, was necessarily 

 late in arriving but has been a very efficient worker. 



Our teaching force, with average number of hours per week, has been as 

 follows : Miss Freyhofer, musical director and director of the college choir, 

 21 ; Miss MacDonald, domestic science and steward of department dining 

 room, 10; Miss Coad, domestic art, 20; Mrs. Peppard, domestic art and 

 domestic science, 22; Miss Kedzie, domestic art (giving half time only), 

 15; ]\[iss Long, physicial training and health officer, 15; Miss Hopson, 

 music, 21; Mrs. Georgia Woodman, music (fall and winter only), 10; 

 Mrs. Martha Barber, home nursing (fall term only), 2. 



The experience of the past year with special students confirms the 

 opinion formed before, that until we can maintain a special course in 

 Home Economics of one or two years, it is unwise to continue the present 

 policy of admitting specials. The last catalog makes this definite state- 

 ment, "Unless conditions are exceptional each applicant is expected to 

 enroll as a regular student." Adherence to this rule is the part of wisdom 

 for the present. 



The dean of the department has made several trips during the last 

 half of the year, by invitation, usually of Women's Clubs, to present to 

 the high school girls and their mothers the work of the department. 

 It is evident that the women of the state are unaware of the scope of 

 the opportunities aS'orded. We need the enlightened interest and co- 

 operation of the great body of Michigan women to carrj' on the work 

 that is possible at this institution. 



Respectfully submitted, 



MAUDE GILCHRIST, 

 Dean of the Women's Department. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1909. 



