Jackson Advocate

Alcorn College
Host To Home
Economic
Workshop

Twenty-seven in-service home economics teachers came to the campus Sunday, July 13, 1958, to spend a busy week in a workshop under the direction of Mrs. E. P. Frice, itinerant teacher-trainer, Alcorn A & M. College.

The workshop was a 36 hour professional improvement course—July 14th-19th.

The purposes were as follows:

A. To give teachers opportunities to renew vocational license.
B. To provide opportunity for professional improvement.
C. To help teachers enrich and improve the homemaking program.

Miss Ruth Wallace, State Supervisor of Home Economics Education and the Alcorn A. & M. College homemaking faculty assisted in making the program meaningful, instructional, and beneficial to those who attended.

Emphasis was placed on the various methods and techniques of teaching home economics with special help through audio-visual aid. Movies showing how to set up a home economic laboratory, giving additional techniques in the organization and presentation of material were highlights of the workshop program.

President Boyd welcomed the group to the college and gave evidence to his desire to make the facilities of the college available at all times, for the use of teachers, research workers, students, and the general public in those areas of human attempt which make for a greater Mississippi and a grander American commonwealth.

They were from Alcorn County to the Sea.

A list of the teachers in attendance follows:

Mrs. Ruby S. Bridges, Smith County Training School, Taylor'sville, Miss.

Mrs. Pearl Brown Baker, Edwards Junior High School, Edwards, Miss.

Mrs. Allene Demby Cain, Utica Institute Junior College, Utica, Miss.

Mrs. Gwendolyn deMark, M. F. Nichols High School, Biloxi, Miss.

Mrs. Roberta Green Denham, McIntyre Junior High School, Vicksburg, Miss.

Miss Lela V. Emmons, Balkin Vocational High School, Schlater, Miss.

Mrs. Charlotte M. Harrison, Linwood High School, Vaughn, Miss.

Mrs. Jency Ree Henderson, 938 W. Pearl St., Jackson, Miss.

Mrs. Pauline G. Jordan, Canton Negro High School, Canton, Miss.

Mrs. Isabelle L. Knight, Magnolia High School, Moss Point, Miss.

Mrs. Laverne Young Lindsey, Holmes County Training School, Lexington, Miss.

Miss Florence McGhee, Route 2, Box 221, Tchula, Miss.

Mrs. Ruby B. Melchor, Tunica High School, Tunica, Miss.

Mrs. Janie Middleton, Bowman High School, Vicksburg, Miss.

Mrs. Daisy J. Mullen, Rowan Junior High School, Jackson, Miss.

Mrs. Nerissa Norman, Mound Bayou Attendance Center, Mound Bayou, Miss.

Mrs. Catherine Barnes Norris, Issaquena County Training School, Mayersville, Miss.

Mrs. Vera B. Oatis, 1406 Rowan Ave., Columbia, Miss.

Mrs. Thelma M. Owens, Yazoo City Training School, Yazoo City, Miss.

Mrs. Roberta M. Petty, Morgan City High School, Morgan City, Miss.

Mrs. Bernice A. Phillips, Harper Vocational High School, Mendenhall, Miss.

Mrs. Rosa Ransom Nero, Sam Balkin High School, Schlater, Miss.

Miss Mamie B. Riley, 440 E. Division St., Biloxi, Miss.

Mrs. Annie P. Taylor, Liddell High School, Fayette, Miss.

Mrs. Johnnie Pearl Young, Brinkley High School, Jackson, Miss.