82 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Twelve students enrolled in hospital dietetics and spent their laboratory hours 

 at Sparrow Hospital working under the direction of Professor Faust. 



Five students took visiting housekeeping, first doing case work with aid 

 of social worker, later having assigned to them a special family as a problem. 

 In every case wiser use of the family income was planned, mother was assisted 

 in making family clothing, buying and cooking of food, planning meals. 

 Professor Person is responsible for the excellent manner in which this course 

 was developed. 



The feeding of the ex-service men continued during the spring term. 

 Students were made entirely responsible for purchase, preparation and serving 

 of food, each student taking managerial authority for one month. New 

 men were added as for various reasons some left college and the problems 

 were continually changed. This course continued under the supervision of 

 Professor Faust. 



The course in Institutional Management was greatly enlarged and during 

 the winter term the laboratory was given in cooperation with club "C", 

 food being prepared by the class for club "C". During the spring term an 

 additional course in large quantity cooking was offered. Students took charge 

 of the high school lunch at East Lansing, planning, preparing and serving 

 the food. Other students did six hours field work per week in commercial 

 cafeterias, tea rooms and high school lunch rooms of Lansing, the purpose 

 of which was to acquaint them with procedure, methods and standards of 

 commercial concerns. Weekly reports were made, conferences held and 

 lectures given. The large quantity cookery, through the cooperation of 

 Mrs. James of Wells Hall, prepared some articles of food for two hundred at 

 each laboratory period. This was done without cost to the division. Many 

 graduates upon leaving the College, are called upon to conduct school lunches 

 in connection with their work, and it is very important that they understand 

 the management, financing and the preparation of food so as to take care of 

 the health of hundreds of children. 



HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. 



The practice teaching work done in the East Lansing high school has greatly 

 improved. The students have been given more responsibility in planning 

 the project during their teaching. Each student has taught larger number of 

 lessons, and next year each practice teacher will teach a minimum of thirty- 

 six lessons. Work has been started this year in the eighth grade and next 

 year will be introduced into the seventh grade. The regular senior high 

 school classes will meet five days a week next year instead of three a week as 

 at present. 



Next year practice teaching in clothing and foods will be done at rural 

 schools, the students having complete charge of the course. 



A school lunch was started last fall and was carried on by the students 

 doing practice teaching, so they had some experience in school lunch manage- 

 ment. This lunch was taken over by the class in institutional management 

 during the spring term due to lack of time in schedule of the student doing 

 practice teaching. 



The course in Special Methods has steadily improved and by being offered 

 every term, makes the classes smaller so that much more intensive work can 

 be clone. 



All the work which has been accomplished during the year in the Home 

 Economics division has been made possible through the magnificent spirit of 



