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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 13, 1963
Home Ec Students On Flexible Schedule
Red and white paper streamers hung from the chandelier. A giant white cardboard cake sat on the buffet in the dining room.
Children's toys were scattered around the living room.
This was the Home Management House, 700 W.16th St., after a recent birthday party for one-year-old Kent Taylor. His mother, Mrs. Laura Taylor, is one of the home economics students doing "lab work" at the Home Management House.
MRS. HELEN ADAM, assistant professor of home economics, said an unusual situation exists in the house. Four of the five students in the house are married. Two of them have children.
Home economics education majors and dietetics majors are required to spend five or six weeks in the house to complete the second part of the home management course. The first part of the five-hour course consists of attending three lectures a week.
THE WOMEN spend about 12 hours every weekday on campus or at the house. The married women return to their own homes every evening and after lunch on Saturdays. The unmarried students and Mrs. Adam stay at the Home Management House.
Each of the students and Mrs Adam paid $45 at the first of the semester to meet expenses. Expenses for meals, entertainment and supplies are budgeted.
THE WOMEN divide the work into five areas: upstairs cleaner, downstairs cleaner, cook, assistant cook, and manager. The cook plans the menus, buys groceries and prepares and serves the meals. The assistant cook helps with the cooking and serving. The manager coordinates the activities of the whole group.
"It's not like an English course with a required number of books and themes," Mrs. Adam said. "For this course, the girls apply the principles of home management."
Mrs. Adam does not direct the activities of the students.
"I DONT WANT to be a teacher-manager," she said. "I want the students to do the planning."
One married woman and senior home economics student said:
"You can't get everything done exactly like you want to do it. You must have flexible standards and adjust them to the situation.
"We all have helpful husbands," she said, referring to herself and her classmates whose husbands now fix their own breakfast, lunch and dinner while their wives are enrolled in home management.
One week the student who was cook needed more time to study for a test, and she adjusted her menu to give her additional time.
"I changed from broccoli cassereole to buttered broccoli and fixed hard cooked eggs instead of meat," she explained.
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