Domestic Science Band, Agri Fair, c1900
Postcard captioned Margaret Snell Club O.A.C. c1915. Forerunner of Home Economics Club.
Newsclipping about Fashion Show, 1921
Eleanor May & Francis Miriam Spike, Home Economics Students, c1920
Home Economics Style Show c1950s
Home Economics style show, c1960s
Home Economics student Priscilla Jennings was the first Oregon State College student to receive a full scholarship. Seen here in 1955.
Oregon State graduate went on to become Editor in Chief of Glamour Magazine, 1964
Home Economics student Sharon May Lasater, Class of 1968, seen here in majorette uniform.
John Conger, doctoral student of Family Studies enjoys some good reading at an HDFS Child Development Center, 1985
Home Economics was no longer the exclusive domain of women.
In February, 1950, Dean Ava B. Milam wrote, "Today Dr. Snell's school has a significant number of men students in the home economics courses. They have chosen them as electives. Often one finds engaged or married couples taking a family relations or marriage course together." [RG141]