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THE ballots are now in and the re- 

 sults of the election held by mail to 

 name 1945 officers and directors of the 

 Illinois Home Bureau Federation have 

 been reported. When Farm and Home 

 Week was cancelled, the officers of the 

 Home Bureau in compliance with the 

 government order on conventions 

 limited the annual meeting to an ad- 

 \isory council and executive board 

 meeting. With terms of certain of- 

 ficers and directors expiring it was de- 

 cided that the report of the nominating 

 committee would be submitted by mail 

 to the voting delegates for balloting. 

 Here are the results: Mrs. C. W. 

 Cutler, LaXjrange, Cook county, vice- 

 president; treasurer, Miss Myra Robin- 

 son, Kansas, Edgar county; Mrs. M. 

 Kimmelshue, Manteno, Kankakee coun- 

 ty, north east director; Mrs. E. D. Mc- 

 Guire, Makanda, Jackson county, south 

 east director, and Mrs. R. E. Wrigley, 

 Trivoli, Peoria county, west central di- 

 rector. 



The new vice-President, Mrs. Cutler, 

 helped to organize the Cook County 

 Home Bureau in 1941 and was a char- 

 ter member. She 

 has served as Cook 

 county president 

 for one year and as 

 treasurer for two 

 years. She has been 

 interested in 4-H 

 club work and 

 served for four 

 years as leader of 

 the Lyonsville 4-H 

 club. 



Mrs. Cutler's 

 husband. Major 

 Clarence W. Cutler, is now stationed in 

 Belgium in charge of special equipment 

 for the U. S. Army. 



The new treasurer. Miss Robinson, 

 joined a local unit of the Edgar County 

 Home Bureau about a year after the 

 county organization was started. She 

 served as secretary of her local unit and 

 then was elected a director of the 

 county organization in 1940 for a two- 

 year term. In 1943 she was elected 

 county chairman and is just completing 

 her two-year term in this capacity. Miss 

 Robinson is the daughter of J. W. 

 Robinson, a former director of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 



Mrs. Kimmelshue, new director of 

 the north east district, is a director of 



Mrs. C. W. Cutler 

 Cook County 



the Kankakee County Home Bureau 

 which is celebrating its 30th anniversary 

 this year. Kankakee county was the first 

 Home Bureau organized in the state 

 and the second in the United States. 

 Mrs. Kimmelshue has been an active 

 member of the Kankakee Home Bureau 

 for 17 years, and was elected chairman 

 of the county organization in 1940 and 

 1941. For two years prior to 1940 she 

 served as county program chairman. Mrs. 

 Kimmelshue is a former assistant home 

 adviser and her husband is director of 

 the 14th district of the Pure Milk Associ- 

 ation. 



Mrs. Kimmelshue recalls that "way 

 back in 1915, when horses shied 

 at automobiles," she drove throughout 

 the county for her mother and co- 

 workers. These women were charter 

 members and hence, organizers who 

 worked hard to interest rural women 

 in something new — an organization 

 that would make them better house- 

 keepers, homemakers, and mothers. 



"It is most interesting," Mrs. Kim- 

 melshue says, "to look back to see the 

 long, upward path that Home Bureau 

 has traveled. It is also most fascinat- 

 ing to look forward to the great educa- 

 tional opportunities that this organiza- 

 tion offers to homemakers." 



Mrs. McGuire, south east director, 

 has a Home Bureau career that dates 

 back to 1928 when the Jackson county 

 merged with Wil- 

 liamson and John- 

 son counties to 

 form the Tri-Coun- 

 tv Home Bureau. 

 At that time she 

 served as a member 

 of the original or- 

 ganization commit- 

 tee. Mrs. McGuire 

 later served as a 

 member of the or- 

 ganization commit- 

 tee when the Jack- 

 son-Perry Home Bureau was started. 



Mrs. McGuire has served at one time 

 or another in each of the various offices 

 of her local unit in the Home Bureau 

 and has served four years as a mem- 

 ber of the Jackson-Perry executive 

 board, one year as vice-chaicman, one 

 as publicity chairman, and two years as 

 county chairman. She also served on 

 the lAA school committee as one of the 

 two members chosen from the 25 th 



Mrs. McGuire 

 lackson County 



congressional district. Mrs. McGuire 

 also served on the Illinois Home 

 Bureau Federation's 1945 resolutions 

 committee. 



Mrs. Wrigley, west central director, 

 is a charter member of the Peoria 

 County Home Bureau which was or- 

 ganized in 1930. 

 She served as its 

 first vice-chairman 

 and then as treas- 

 urer. Mrs. Wrigley 

 also acted as sec- 

 retary at various 

 times while holding 

 both of these jobs. 

 At the present time 

 she is county 4-H 

 chairman with a 

 background of nine 

 years as a leader. 

 Mrs. Wrigley has also served in various 

 offices in her local unit. 



Mrs. Wrigley says that "4-H club 

 work is my special favorite, and we are 

 a cooperative. Farm and Home Bureau 

 and 4-H family. My husband leads a 

 boys club and Gene, 13, is a member. I 

 am one of the leaders of a girls club 

 of which Miriam is a member and a 

 leader of a junior girls club." 



Mrs. Wrigley 

 Peoria County 



Cook Connty Home Bureau 

 Has 4th Annual Meeting 



Importance of home and family ties in 

 defeating juvenile delinquency was 

 stressed in the address by Mrs. A. R. 

 Rohlfing, former president of the Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation, at the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Cook County 

 Home Bureau in the Mural Room of the 

 Morrison Hotel, Feb. 28. 



A full program included a fashiort 

 show by a dress pattern company, an ex- 

 hibit of hand crafts by members, and a 

 fashion review by the Future Homes 4-H 

 club. Members of the latter club mod- 

 eled costumes of the last 50 years up to 

 the present day jiving jean-and plaid- 

 shirt clad high school girl. 



Officers elected at the meeting in- 

 cluded: Mrs. C. W. Cutler, president; 

 Mrs. L. J. Eib, vice-president; Mrs. 

 James Foggo, secretary; Mrs. A. W. Bor- 

 kenhagen, treasurer; Mrs. W. E. Fritz, 

 membership chairman; Mrs. George 

 Dean Johnson, 4-H club chairman; Mrs. 

 C. J. Hill, and Mrs. A. Zuidema, project 

 chairman; Mrs. Robert Suydam, recrea- 

 tion chairman; Mrs. G. Rex Volz, pub- 

 licity chairman. 



"Three hundred of the 600 members 

 attended the meeting. 



Fruits and vegeubles are valuable in the 



diet and the food in the soil determines the 

 food values. 



APRIL, 1945 



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