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Naw offlcars and diractori nomarf of tha 35th annual maaHn^ of tfca fiffnob Homa Bvraav 



f»6»raHon, Mt to right, armi Mrt. Harmon SNahr, lofca coontjr, vka-prasMant; Mrs. C. B. 



ITwH, ColaS/ tr»a»ur»r; Mrs. HaroU Bowmr, Kmndall; Mrs. Ecfwin Schrocfar, lawranca, and 



Mrs. fmmaft Dvniiani, Warran, diractors. 



HOME ISURiAU MiiTS 



Top Organization Project for 1949 is a 

 Netv Home Economics Building at the 

 University of Illinois 



SECURING a new home economics 

 building on the University of Illinois 

 campus is one of the top projects of 

 the Illinois Home Bureau Federation 

 for 1949, according to the resolu- 

 tions adopted at the 25 th annual meeting 

 held in February in 

 conjunction with 

 Farm and Home 

 Week. 



A bill seeking ap- 

 propriations for such 

 a building is to be 

 introduced into the 

 state legislature un- 

 der the joint spon- 

 sorship of the Fed- 

 eration and the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. 



The home economics building is 

 listed on the university's third list of 

 proposed buildings with a priority "A" 

 as adopted in preparation of the 1949-51 

 building program. The highest priority 

 listing is "AAA." 



Need for the new home economics 

 building was explained to the Federation 

 meeting by Mrs. Kathryn Van Aken 



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Mrt, Oaorffo McCoy 



Burns, acting head of the university home 

 economics department. 



Another project voted by the Federa- 

 tion was to cooperate with the Associated 

 Women of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation in bringing a German woman 

 from one of the newly organized women's 

 groups there to the United States to study 

 extension work. Such a delegate would 

 live in a farm home and observe the 

 part played by American women in the 

 activities of their communities. 



At least $1,000 is necessary to bring a 

 German woman into an American farm 

 home to live for a number of months. 

 If the Federation is unable through vol- 

 untary contributions to raise $1,000 it 

 will cooperate with another state federa- 

 tion in the program. 



Miss Myra Robinson, Edgar county. 

 Federation president, reported a gain of 

 more than 8,000 active members during 

 1948. The total membership of the 

 Federation on Jan. 1, of active and as- 

 sociate was 49,567. 



Counties listed on the honor roll for 

 making more than a 20 per cent gain in 

 membership are as follows with their per- 

 centage gains: Lawrence, 63; Wayne, 



52; White, 28; Richland, 27, and Sanga- 

 mon, 21. Counties making more than 10 

 per cent gain with their percentages ate: 

 McLean, 14; Williamson, 13; Staric, 12; 

 Stephenson, 11, and Schuyler-Brown, 10. 



Champaign County Home Bureau was 

 recognized with one of the Illinois Safe 

 Home awards. Mrs George McCoy, 

 Philo, received the award for the county 

 which had 448 persons enrolled in the 

 project. Richland county received die 

 other award, with 136 persons enrolled 

 and 80 refjortine no accidents. Mrs. Lloyd 

 Burgner, Dundas, accepted this award 

 for her county. 



Champaign county had the largest per 

 cent of enrolled families reporting no 

 home accidents in the program. There 

 were 12,000 families in 49 counties par- 

 ticipating in the safe home program. 



Mrs. Helendeen Dodderidge, infonna- 

 tion specialist, production marketing ad- 

 ministration, Washington, D. C, told 

 the federation gathering that "rural 

 women, generally speaking, know more 

 about the role agriculture plays in our 

 own economy than do urban people." 

 But I am not certain that we as rural 

 people thoroughly understand the inter- 

 dependence of all of our people in main- 

 taining a stable economy." 



In the field of her topic, "International 

 Understanding," Mrs. Dodderidge said 

 that many of the things American women 

 do are misinterpreted by women in other 

 lands. Some of the things done with the 

 best of intentions are construed as being 

 detrimental to the interests of other coun- 

 tries by their inhabitants. 



Mrs. Herman Stiehr, Waukegan, Lake 

 county, was elected vice-president of the 

 Federation at the annual business meet- 

 ing. Mrs. C. B. KuU, Mattoon, Coles 

 county, was elected treasurer. Other offi- 

 cers hold over for another year. 



New directors named included: Mrs. 

 Harold Bower, Oswego, Kendall county, 

 northeast district; Mrs. Edwin Schrader, 

 Bridgeport, Lawrence county, southeast 

 district; Mrs. Emmett Dunham, Mon- 

 mouth, Warren county, west central dis- 

 trict. 



The Home Bureau resolutions cited 

 the fact that "facilities for higher learn- 

 ing for the youth of the state" in the 

 southern third of the state are "glaringly 

 inadequate," because there is only one 

 university with a radius of 200 miles as 



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