NEWS ^ VIEWS 



New officers and director* named at the 35fh annual meeting of the llllnelt Home Bureau 



federation, left to right, are: Mrt, Herman Stiehr, Lake county, vice-president; Mrs. C. B. 



Kull, Coles, treasurer; Mrt, Harold Bower, Kendall; Mrs, tdwin Schroder, Lawrence, and 



Mrs. Cmmett Dunham, Warren, directors. 



IHIOMl iUIREAy MEETS 



Top Organization Project for 1949 is a 

 Neiv Home Economics Building at the 

 University of Illinois 



SHC.L'RINCj a new home economics 

 building on the University of Illinois 

 campus IS one of the top projects of 

 the Illinois Home Bureau Federation 

 for 19-49, according to the resolu- 

 tions adopted at the J^tli annua! meeting 

 held in I-ebruary in 

 conjunction witli 

 Farm and Home 

 Week. 



A bill >cc-king ap- 

 propriations tor such 

 a building is to he- 

 introduced into the- 

 state legislature un- 

 der the joint spon- 

 sorship of the Fed- 

 eration and the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. 



The iiome economics building is 

 listed on the university's third list of 

 proposed buildings with a priority "A" 

 .IS adopted in prepar.ition of the 19-i9-''l 

 building program. I he- highest priority 

 listing is "AAA." 



Need for the new home eionomics 

 building was explained to the Federation 

 meetiiii: bv Mrs. Kath.^vn \'an Aken 



Mrs. Oeorge McCoy 



Burns, acting hea 1 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 tiieir communities. 



At least Sl.OCO IS necessary to bring a 

 German woman into an American farm 

 liome to live for a number of months. 

 If the I'ederation is unable through vol- 

 untary contributions to raise $1,000 it 

 will cooperate with another state federa- 

 tion in the program. 



Miss M\ra Robinson, Fdgar county. 

 Federation president, reported a gain of 

 more than 8,p00 active members during 

 19 is. The total membership of the 

 Federation, on Jan. 1, of active and as- 

 sociate was -19,^67. 



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, 2 1 . Counties making more than 1 

 per cent gain with their percentages are; 

 McLean, 14; Williamson, 13; Stark, 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 the 

 other award, with 136 persons enrolled 

 and 80 reporting 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, infoona- 

 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 tht 

 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. Kull, 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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