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Our New State President 



As a home maker, community 

 worker, and writer, Mrs. J. V. Steven- 

 son of Streator, LaSalle county, as- 

 sumes the office of president of the 

 Illinois Home Bureau Federation with 

 a background of rich experience. 



Graduated from the University of 

 Illinois in 1916 with a degree in Home 

 Economics, Mrs. Stevenson, as she be- 

 came that next year, went with her 

 husband to live on a farm near 

 Streator. In 1918, she assisted in or- 

 ganizing ajjid became a charter mem- 

 ber of the LaSalle County Home Bu- 

 reau. In various positions of respon- 

 sibility, she served on the county 

 executive board for a number of 

 years. Advancing from county to 

 state office, she became a member of 

 the committee which organized the 

 State Federation in 1925 and helped to 

 write the first Constitution. 



In 1926 Mrs. Stevenson became a 

 staff member of the Corn Belt Dailies, 

 publishing syndicated articles of in- 

 terest to homemakers in the middle 

 west. She is still filling that position 

 under the pen name. Hope Needham. 



Mrs. Stevenson is the mother of four 

 children. A daughter, Ruth, is a soph- 

 omore in the University of Illinois 

 studying Home Economics. The three 

 boys at home. 15, 14, and 6. are busy 

 and active in 4-H club work. One has 

 a fine herd of purebred Guernsey 

 cattle. All have had projects and won 

 honors with hogs, dairy cattle, and 

 com. The community 4-H club of 

 which the boys are members has won 

 the silver cup in corn projects for 

 three years. One of the boys lately 

 participated in and won a letter writ- 

 ing contest conducted by the Future 

 Farmers of America. For her work 

 as 4-H Club leader for six years. 

 Mrs. Stevenson has been awarded the 

 Gold Pin of Achievement. Before en- 

 tering the University, the daughter. 

 Ruth, worked with her mother as as- 

 sistant leader. 



Other activities in connection with 

 home and community have not been 

 overlooked. A class of young people 

 are proud and happy to claim her as 

 their Sunday School teacher. The 

 rural school which the children at- 

 tended was the first in the county to 

 organize a Parent-Teachers Associa- 

 tion which Mrs. Stevenson has served 

 as president. She is a member of the 

 Streator Woman's Club. 



Asked about her hobbies. Mrs. 

 Stevenson replied. '"Reading has been 

 always a great interest for me. There 

 hasn't been much time for anything 

 else. Now that the children are grow- 

 ing up I hope to take more interest in 

 landscape gardening. A flower garden 

 will be fun: And maybe I'll plant a 

 few trees, when I'm not busy with 

 my Home Bureau work." 



With the Home Bureau 



By Nell Flatt Goodman 



Representatives from more than half 

 of the townships in Shelby county met 

 with members of the Farm Bureau 

 Board to discuss the advisability of re- 

 newed efforts for a Home Bureau in 

 Shelby County. 



The group decided to hold a county 

 wide meeting on February 19. A goal 

 of 350 members was set. Plans were 

 made for completing an organization in 

 the early spring. 



Whiteside County organized the thir- 

 ty-eighth Home Bureau February 1, with 

 360 members. Officers of the new group 

 are, President, Mrs. Lester Jacobs; Vice- 

 president, Mrs. Earle Johnson; Secre- 

 tary, Mrs. Russel G. Mathew; Treasurer, 

 Mrs. Bruce Slaymaker. Whiteside en- 

 ters the class of counties organizing in 

 a short length of time. The first meet- 

 ing to discuss the organization was held 

 the middle of September. 



Miss Mary Stansifer has accepted the 



Little Visits With 



Home Bureau Women 



Uncle Ab says that the days are all 

 too short for the man who is doing good 

 work. 



A most active leader in Home Bureau 

 and 4-H Clubs in Jersey County is the 

 newly appointed director of the south- 

 west district, Mrs. Clarence Sunderland 

 of Delphi. 



In the 11 years she has served as 4-H 

 Club leader, she has been in charge of 

 17 different clubs. 

 She was active in 

 4-H club work be- 

 fore the County 

 Home Bureau was 

 organ ized. Mrs. 

 Sunderland is one 

 ^ " ^ who believes in spar- 



""^TBr ^^^^ ing no effort to do 

 "^^^ a thing well. Her 

 demonstration team 

 in the state this year. 

 MKS. sixDERi-.AND ^as the winning one 

 At present, Mrs. 

 Sunderland is filling the office of vice- 

 president of the Home Bureau executive 

 board in her county. This busy woman's 

 activities extend from the home and 

 family to the school and the church. 

 She taught school in Jersey County for 

 six years and one year in Iowa. For 

 more than 20 years she has taught a 

 class in Sunday School. For five years 

 she served as superintendent and for six 

 years on the Council of Religious Edu- 

 cation. Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland have 

 one child, a daughter, of high school age. 



position of Home Adviser of Adams 

 County. Miss Stansifer was formerly 

 Home Economics instructor in Litch- 

 field Community High School. Other 

 counties reporting new Home Advisers 

 are: DuPage, Mrs. Ethel J. Marshall; 

 Fulton County, Miss Maude Hine. 



Entertaining with a tea, Miss Henri- 

 etta Seldon, retiring Home Adviser of 

 Marshall-Putnam County, introduced to 

 200 guests the incoming Adviser, Miss 

 Luella Kohlstedt. Miss Kohlstedt became 

 the new Adviser on February 1. 



To stimulate interest in 4-H and 

 Young Adults programs in Kane County, 

 125 girls, women, and young ladies, at- 

 tended a "Big Sister Tea" held at 

 Mooseheart in January. Cooperation of 

 Home Bureau was encouraged. A varied 

 program of talks and recreation was pre- 

 sented. Refreshments were served by 

 three units of the Home Bureau. 



In Jersey County a special session 

 was held for the women at the annual 

 meeting of the County Farm Supply 

 Company. Eighty-five women attended. 

 Miss Ruth Freeman spoke on "Money 

 Management by Home Accounts." Three 

 of the women keeping accounts gave 

 their personal experiences. In the after- 

 noon at a joint session, 850 men and 

 women heard Miss Freeman speak on 

 the "Value of Home Accounts." One 

 woman said, "If we take the time to 

 make the money, why not take the time 

 to account for it?" 



"Thrift for the Home Decoiator" was 

 the subject of a talk by the Home Ad- 

 viser of Coles County, Mrs. Bessie Wil- 

 son, at the Lowell P. T. A. in Mattoon. 

 More than 100 were present. The ad- 

 viser also talked on Home Economics 

 and Home Making at the Humboldt 

 P. T. A. 



In spite of cold, snow, and ice. 

 Max Fuller, Landscape Gardening spe- 

 cialist of the University of Illinois, con- 

 ducted the third of his series of land- 

 scape garden lessons in La Si41e County. 

 The meetings are being held jointly by 

 the Home and Farm Bureaus. 



Parent education in Saline County is 

 bringing results. The ability of children 

 to entertain themselves in their own 

 section of the home was shown in a unit 

 meeting in December. Children of the 

 Child Study Club members were brought 

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