This year is a memorable one for the home economics family at Iowa State. It marks the seventy-fifth year that courses in home economics, once called "domestic economy," have been taught on this campus. It is fitting that such a long and useful life be commemorated in an appropriate manner.

Beth Bailey McLean, M. S. '33, discussed graduate work at a recent Province Work Shop of College Home Economics Clubs. This article covers excerpts of her talk. Mrs. McLean is head of the home economics division of Swift and Company's research laboratories in Chicago.

A war had just ended, education-hungry veterans were streaming back to school and in one desk drawer in the office of the Iowa Agriculturist lay the beginnings of a new publications, a magazine for homemakers from the Division of Home Economics.

For 75 years Iowa State has turned out women specialized in the field of home economics. They have gone into professional life and carved their niche. But there's much more to this point than one discovers immediately.

Closely integrated with the technical training of Iowa State students are numerous cultural advantages. These offer ample opportunities for active or spectator participation in music, literature and the arts.