Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES RECORDS

1925-1990 and undated

East Tennessee State University

University Archives

Box 70295

Johnson City, Tennessee 37614-0295

Telephone: (423) 439-4338

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INTRODUCTION

Title: Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records

Collection Number: Accession No. 716

Physical Description: 14.25 linear feet (15 boxes)

1 photographic print

68 photographic slides

Creator: Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records

Repository: University Archives, East Tennessee State University

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records were transferred to University Archives on September 23, 2005 by Trillis McKee, executive aide in the department.

Access: The collection is open for research

Processing Information: Mary Dykes processed the collection, which was opened for research in October 2007.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Home Economics was one of the original subjects taught at East Tennessee State University when it was founded as a normal school for the training of teachers in 1911. In 1914, it was made a department as Domestic Science and Arts. In 1917, it was renamed the Department of Home Economics, which it remained until renamed in 1992 as the Department of Applied Human Sciences. The department was renamed again in 2003 as the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences.

The first instructor in home economics was Della Stroud, who soon resigned and was replaced by Alexandra Allen Arrants. Arrants was followed by Elizabeth B. Armstrong in 1912 and Nettie Armstrong in 1913. In 1917, with the establishment of the Department of Home Economics, Ada Hornsby (later Ada Hornsby Earnest) became department chair, a position she held until her retirement in 1955. In 1958, Vivian Rockwood began another long tenure as chair, retiring from the position in 1976. For a more complete list of department heads, see the “Academic and Administrative Register of East Tennessee State University” maintained in the archives.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records document operations of the department, especially regarding areas of instruction in home economics and activities of the department’s student organization, the Student Member Section of the Tennessee Home Economics Association and American Home Economics Association. The collection is arranged into two series, as follows: Series I, Scrapbooks and Miscellaneous Publications, 1949-1990, Boxes 1-14 and Series II, Photographs and Slides, undated, Box 15.

Important subjects covered in the collection are:

East Tennessee State University. Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences

East Tennessee State University—History

East Tennessee State University—Students

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I, Scrapbooks and Miscellaneous Records, 1935-1990, Boxes 1-14.

Series I consists of miscellaneous issues of East Tennessee State College annuals, a guest book for the Ada Earnest demonstration house, and eleven scrapbooks compiled by the Student Member Section (student chapter) of the Tennessee Home Economics Association and the American Home Economics Association (SMS/THEA/AHCA). The series primarily documents activities of the student chapter. The miscellaneous material is filed chronologically in Box 1. The scrapbooks are also filed in chronological order.

Series II, Photograph and Slides, undated, Box 15.

Series II consists primarily of 68 color slides related to the department and such topics as foods, clothing and textiles; housing, interior design, and home economics education. Also included is a photographic print of the Ada Earnest House (Home Economics demonstration house) on the ETSU campus. The slides are arranged in photo sleeves alphabetically by subject matter.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Series I, Scrapbooks and Miscellaneous Records, 1935-1990, Boxes 1-14.

Box 1

1. The Chalk Line, 1935

2. The Buccaneer, 1938

3. Guest Book, 1959

Box 2

1. Scrapbook, 1949-1965, Part 1

Box 3

1. Scrapbook, 1949-1965, Part 2

Box 3

1. Scrapbook, 1950

Box 4

1. Scrapbook, 1960-1975, Part 1

Box 5

1. Scrapbook, 1960-1975, Part 2

Box 6

1. Scrapbook, 1964-1971

Box 7

1. Scrapbook, 1967-1968

Box 8

1. Scrapbook, 1967-1969

Box 9

1. Scrapbook, 1970-1974, Part 1

Box 10

1. Scrapbook, 1970-1974, Part 2

Box 11

1. Scrapbook, 1978-1982

Box 12

1. Scrapbook, 1981-1982

Box 13

1. Scrapbook, 1988-1989

Box 14

1. Scrapbook, 1989-1990

Series II, Photograph and Slides, undated, Box 15.

Box 15

1. Photograph (Ada Earnest House, ETSU), undated

2. Slides, undated