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Home Economics Department Records, 1966-1990

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)Home Economics Department
Title
Home Economics Department Records
Dates
1966-1990 (inclusive)
1970-1990 (bulk)
Quantity
2.0 cubic feet, (5 document boxes)
Collection Number
A-022
Summary
The Home Economics Department Records document the administrative and program activities of the department from 1966 to 1988. The records contain correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, projects and proposals, committee records, curriculum records, newspaper clippings, program records, and photographs.
Repository
Lane Community College Archives
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, OR
97405
Telephone: 5414635466
archives@lanecc.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions. The collection is open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

The first home economics classes at Lane Community College were a part of the Manpower Development Training Act program (MDTA). More classes were added in 1967 and 1968, and the first full-time Home Economics Department staff member was hired in 1969.

At this time, the Child Development Center opened and launched their first vocational program, a one-year certificate program in Child Care Services. In the fall of 1970, two Associate of Science degree programs were offered: Early Childhood Education and Institutional Food Service Supervision.

In 1969 and 1970, the Home Economics Department helped organize the Lane County Chapter of Community Coordinated Child Care (4C's), a federal program developed in 1968 to help meet the growing need for child care. With the help of the 4C's, another child care center was opened in a nearby church in 1970.

Also in 1970, the Home Economics Department published six informational packets for homemakers called Home Economics Learning Packets (HELPs) for Homemakers. The packets were designed to be studied at home in conjunction with instruction from an aide trained by the HELPs coordinator. The topics include clothing choice, child care, grocery shopping, and home energy management.

In the fall of 1988, the Home Economics Department was dismantled and the classes were absorbed by other departments. Early Childhood Education, the Nanny Option, and any other non-food service classes became part of the Health Occupations Department; the Culinary, Food Service and Hospitality Program, which was originally called Institutional Food, became part of the Industrial Technology Department.

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Content Description

The Home Economics Department Records document the history of the Home Economics Department at Lane Community College from 1965-1988. The collection contains administrative records dealing with the department as a whole, as well as individual programs within the larger department.

The records are organized into seven series: Administrative Records, Committees and Task Forces, Curriculum, Newspaper Clippings, Photographs, Programs, and Publications. Within the Programs series, there are 4 subseries: Community Coordinated Child Care, Early Childhood Education Program, Food Service Programs, and Home Economics Learning Packets for Homemakers.

The activities of the Home Economics Department from 1976-1988 are not well documented in this collection.

Thirty-nine color photographs from a scrapbook were separated from the collection and are now contained in the Photograph Collection. Other photographs acquired independently of this collection of the Home Economics Department are located in the Photograph Collection.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

There are no use restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Home Economics Department Records, 1966-1990 (A-022), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is divided into seven series.

Series A: Administrative Records: 1968–1988 (bulk 1970–1980)

Series B: Committees and Task Forces: 1968–1977

Series C: Curriculum: 1966–1978 (bulk 1970–1978)

Series D: Newspaper Clippings: 1969–1990

Series E: Photographs: 1969-1972

Series F: Programs: 1968–1987 (bulk 1970–1978) Subseries 1: Community Coordinated Child Care (4C's): 1968-1976; Subseries 2: Early Childhood Education Program: 1970-1978; Subseries 3: Food Service Programs: 1967-1987 (bulk: 1973-1976); Subseries 4: Home Economics Learning Packets for Homemakers: 1970-1977

Series G: Publications: 1966–1990

Acquisition Information

Records were an administrative transfer from the Home Economics Department to the Archives.

Processing Note

The collection was transferred to the Archives in three accessions in 1971 and 1999. They were processed by Elizabeth Currans in 1998 and Tiah Edmunson-Morton in 2006.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • Child care--Study and teaching
  • Child development--Study and teaching
  • Food service--Study and teaching
  • Home economics--Study and teaching

Personal Names

  • Belden, Gladys
  • Dresser, Judy
  • Heilpern, Jill
  • Reipe, Linda

Corporate Names

  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Community Coordinated Child Care Program
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Culinary, Food Service and Hospitality
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Early Childhood Education
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Family and Health Careers Department
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Food Service Program
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)--Home Economics Department

Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Currans, 1998, and Tiah Edmunson-Morton, 2006
2006

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