PARSE GRUCATIOR
Chairman--Miss Hazel E. Thompson

TO: STUDY GROUP CHATRMAN

By this time you will be thinking about ee study group
programs for the coming year. The National Congress is offer-
ing an excellent series cf lessons in the National Parent-=
Teacher.

"Defense Begins at Home."

This is a series of eight lessons beginning in September,
1941. Study outlines, motivating questions, and reference
materials will be inciuded for each lessons

"How We Grow.!

This is a series of eight lessons of particular interest
to parents and teachers of pre-school children. The first
Lesson will be published in the September, 1941, issue of the
National Parent-Teacher.

“"Special Courses in Nutrition."

The appointment of the Governor last year of a State
Committee on Nutrition in Relation to National Defense was the
beginring of a state-wide program directed toward improving the
nutritional status of the people of Kansase

Today there.is a volume of publicity on nutrition going
out in newspapers, magazines, and over the radioe Important
and effective as tnese measures have been, it now seems Gesir=
able to supplement them with « direct educational program that
Willi utilize in patriotic service the many trained home econ-
omists who gre homemakers in the statee

Platis are under way to give "refresher" courses to home
economists trained women throughout the state who are willing
to volunteer their services to teach classes in nutrition.

Such training will be offered in several centers in the statee
Following this training course classes offering the most recent
knowledge of nutrition and food YAR will be available in
“many communities.

Women can do no finer service than to give their support
to a program that will contribute directly to the health of
family members, and the betterment of home and family living.

Bach PeToAe Unit in the stete is urged to help promote
and organize at least one or more courses of from six to ten
lessons in nutrition and food for the family. Watch the Kansas
Parent-Teacher for further announcements. Write to the chair-
man for additional informatione