Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1963, page 15

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program so that it would not interfere with a girl‘s school work. Miss Eadie’s interests were always close to the farm home and the rural community, with a steadily growing awareness of world relation- ships as she travelled rather widely in connecâ€" tion with her work. And she missed no oppor- tunity to remind girls of the richness of their heritage in belonging to a good farm home and a rural community, their responsibilities to both and as citizens of a wider area. Y.W.C.A. committee work has been one of Miss Eadie’s side interests. She will probably devote more time to this when she returns at the end of March from a holiday in Florida. Miss Jean Scott Succeeds Miss Eadie ISS JEAN SCOTT who succeeds Miss M Eadie as Director of Junior Home Economics Extension is a graduate or Macdonald Institute. She has many friends among the women and young people of Rural Ontario, having served as County Home Economist in Eastern Ontario in the nine counties from Toronto to Kingston and In the Western counties of Perth. Middlesex. Dut- ferin. Huron and Bruce. Following this work she was Field Consultant to the Home Econ, Photo courtesy Federated Cutler/es Miss Jean M. Scott WINTER 1963 omists of. the province. In AugUst, 1956. she was appotnted Supervisor of County and Dis- trict Home Economists with headquarters at Guelph. She has now transferred to the To- ronto office. Miss Scott has had an active part in de~ \icloping and directing the Junior Extension program with 4â€"H Homemaking Clubs‘ Junior Institutes and Junior Farmers so she is well prepared for the responsibilities of her new office. Testimony to Club Work HE ONTARIO 4H Homemaking Club program includes nineteen units or pro- jects, In Food Clubs there are The Supper Club, Dressing Up Home Grown Veg- etables. The Milky Way, Meat In the Menu. The Cereal Shelf and Featuring Fruit; in Clothâ€" ing; Being Well Dressed and Well Groomed. (‘ottons May Be Smart, What Shall I \-‘v’car’_’ Sleeping GarmentsI Working With Wool and Separates for Summer, Home Furnishing Is studied in the projects. Clothes Closets Up- to-date and Cotton Accessories for the Club (iirl's Bedroom. The Club Girl Stands on tiuard is something of at citizenship unit; and hospitality is the theme of The Hub (iirl l-.n~ tertains. Along with these there is :1 thrcc~ year project for Liarden Clubs. A girl who has completed this program has acqurrcd considerable education in home eco- nomics. Our County Home Economists have located sis of them in the province and their answers to a questlonnuire give some intorma lion ol Interest. First: the mothers of all six girls were clut- leaders which might be partly responsible to. the sustained interest until they had completed all the protects. One girl said: “My brothers and I took 4H clubs in both homemaking and agriculture. as a natural part of our education because Mom and Dad were both club leadâ€" ers" To the tltleslton “In what way do you conâ€" sider your club training is helping you now?“ \UI'TTC ol the answers were: "I can plan inexpensive but nourishing meals and I now make all my own clothes.” “In club work I made a bedspread. dresser scarf and chair pad which I am using in one of m} bedrooms. And I find that by making my own clothes and my children‘s, I can cut down clothing costs. Meals are easier to pre- pure and more varied because I know several ways of serving the same vegetable or Irttit." “('Iub work helps since I have started keep- ing house because I can refer to my note l5

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