Archives: Guide to Home Economics Department Records, 1966-1990
Title: Home Economics Department Records
Dates: 1966-1990
Collection number: A-022
Size: 5 document boxes (2.0 cubic feet)
Description: 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.
Access Restrictions: None, collection is open for research
Provenance: Administrative transfer
Processed by: Elizabeth Currans, 1998
Citation: Home Economics Department Records, 1966-1990 (A-022), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon
Repository:
Lane Community College
Archives and Records Management
Elizabeth M. Uhlig, Archivist
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon 97405 USA
Telephone: (541) 463-5466
Fax: (541) 463-3996
Email: archives@lanecc.edu
Administrative History
The Home Economics Department grew out of classes in the MDTA (Manpower Development Training Act) program when Lane Community College was established in 1965. More classes were added in 1967 and 1968, and the first full time staff member was hired for the 1969-1970 school year. At this time the Child Development Center was opened and the first vocational program--a one year certificate program in Child Care Services--was launched. Starting 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 Lane Community College 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 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 with the help of 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. Early Childhood Education, the Nanny Option and any classes not dealing with food service became part of the Health Occupations Department while the Culinary, Food Service and Hospitality (originally Institutional Food) program became part of the Industrial Technology department.
Scope & Content Note
The Home Economics Department Records document the history of the Home Economics Department at Lane Community College from 1965-1988. The collection contains primarily administrative records dealing with the department as a whole as well as programs within the larger department.
The records for the Community Coordinated Child Care (4C's) program includes information on both the Lane County chapter (which the Lane Community College Home Economics Department helped coordinate) and the federal program itself, which was begun in 1968 to help meet the growing need for child care in the United States. The newspaper clippings document some of the controversy over federal versus private control of child care that the 4C's caused within the child care community in Lane County. The correspondence shows the positive response that many community members had to the 4C's program.
The records document the beginning of the Early Childhood Development and Food Service programs in 1970. Both programs still exist independent of the Home Economics department. Early Childhood Development became a part of the Health Occupations Department in 1988 (now called Family and Health Careers). The Food Service program (now called Culinary, Food Service and Hospitality) became a part of Industrial Technology in 1988.
The records of the Home Economics Learning Packets (HELPs) for Homemakers includes correspondence, history and the published packets themselves, which were designed to be studied at home by homemakers with the help of an aide trained by the HELPs coordinator. The topics of the packets include child care, clothing selection, grocery shopping and home energy management.
The activities of the Home Economics Department from 1976-1988 are not well documented in this collection.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into seven series.
- Series A: Administrative Records, 1968-1988
- Series B: Committees and Task Forces, 1968-1977
- Series C: Curriculum, 1966-1978
- Series D: Newspaper Clippings, 1969-1990
- Series E: Photographs, 1969-1972
- Series F: Programs, 1968-1987
- 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
- Subseries 4: Home Economics Learning Packets for Homemakers, 1970-1977
- Series G: Publications, 1966-1990
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 also exist in the Photograph Collection.
Finding Aid
For a detailed finding aid which includes a complete list of the contents of this collection, refer to: