At Christmas, one of the happiest times of the year, we share joy, good cheer and kindness with others. It is then that we like to gather friends about us, talk over old times and renew acquaintances. The family is together again. Oh, it is a busy, bustling holiday, crowded with barely time to get everything in.

The first appearance of home management at Iowa State College was in 1916. During the following 10 years the interest of the college women and the increasing enrollment made it necessary for three houses to be used:

The life of another home economics woman is only a beautiful memory. Helen Bishop is dead. All that is left to us of this splendid woman is the department which she built so carefully and so well. There remains also in the hearts of students and faculty the stir of a philosophy of life builded deeper and more sincerely than the philosophies which most of us have been able to attain. All through her long and painful illness she lived outside herself and thought always of others and their comfort and joy rather than her own.

It’s Merry Christmas Time… By Marjory Vaughn

Even If You Burn the Midnight Oil… By Betty Melcher

Needle and Thread, Pot and Pan… By Marjorie Griffin

By the Proverbial Calendar… By Helen Clemons

With December, practically everyone thinks of gifts; and gifts entail the expenditure of many hours of time either shopping in the retail store or deftly applying one's brains and fingers in the developing of unique gifts from materials found in the attic or scrap bag.