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Castle On The Hill
1937 The Ranger Annual
Northwestern State Teachers' College

Home Economics Department

The Home economics department consisting of five practical rooms and two well-equipped offices, is located on the second and third floors in Jesse Dunne Hall. Mrs. Estella Rackley, Head of the department for the past eight years, together with her assistant, Mrs. Allie D. Hale, who has been here four years, have watched the department grow until it has more than doubled its enrollment.

With the move into the new permanent quarters, much new equipment has been added amounting to hundreds of dollars in cost. Of unusual interest is the spacious, thousand dollar, model living-dining room, where the social phase of life may be enjoyed.

Besides the experimental kitchen which is well-equipped for laboratory use, another kitchen on the four-unit plan has been devised to accommodate four girls at a unit. Each unit kitchen has a modern Magic Chef range, a kitchen cabinet, a sink with built-in wall cabinets, and the old colonial style breakfast room suit of maple. A large birch-wood general supply cabinet, fourteen feet long, is very attractive too and the most expensive built-in feature in the whole department.

In the "good old days" in the Science Hall, ladies in the college clothing department were kept busy adjusting shades, dodging behind wobbly screens, and guarding doors while special fittings were being made. Now, a well-furnished fitting-room has been arranged in connection with the college clothing laboratory-lecture room with its fifty-six spacious, walnut drawers, coat wardrobe, triple mirrors, glass display case, eight new sewing tables, four new ironing boards, and two fitting tables which offer opportunity for work under ideal conditions.

Through the executivfe ability and careful management of Mrs. Estella Rackley, chairman of arrangements for the Dedication Luncheon, March 12, there was perfected one of the most significant feats of service in teh entire history of the home economics department.

The advanced foods' class planned and prepared the servings of food with clock-work exactness for 294 guests for the Dedication Luncheon, at which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a guest of honor. Then great beauty was added to this gala affair when the thirty-two waitresses dressed in clever black and white uniforms, designed and made by the college clothing department, executed precision in their art of marching and serving under the careful supervision of Mrs. Allie D. Hale.

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