Home . Economics Mildred L. Bell, PhD - Professor Sharen A. Crockett, MS - Associate Professor Lynn A. England, MA - Assistant Professor Loleta F. Higginbotham, MA - Assistant Professor Elizabeth K. Wilson, MA - Associate Professor & Chairman * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Domestically speaking Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. Jt. ¥- ¥- ¥- • fter 35 years of dedicated service to Harding University, with 25 of these years as chairman of the Department of Home Economics, Dr. Mildred L. Bell made plans to retire from teaching at the end of the 1987 spring semester. The health factors that had forced her retirement as department chairman early in the 1984 fall semester continued to exacerbate. Dr. Bell was respected throughout the state as a leader in home economics education and her leadership at Harding had enabled Harding to continue majors in vocational home economics, dietetics, and fashion merchandising when most college/universities of the state dropped these majors. Mrs. Edmond W. Wilson, chairman of the department, continued work on a limited basis toward the Ph.D. degree at Memphis State University while directing 176 Home Economics an extensive study of all of the degree programs in home economics and administering the program in effect . The study was designed to strengthen all programs from a career viewpoint, to meet current accreditation standards, and to prepare graduates for the new professional certification examinations of the American Home Economics Association. Several students during 1986 received high recognition. Linda Connell and Betsy Gore were awarded internships in dietetics by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock. Dana Sullivan received a dietetics internship from Texas A & M University and Suzanne Newberry received one from West Virginia University Hospital. Receiving graduate assistantships were Kim Earle in dietetics from Eastern Kentucky University and Dana Latham in fashion merchandising from Oklahoma State A stitch in time. During a clothing lab, Dr. Mildred Bell demonstrates the complicated stitches involved in sewing a successful buttonhole. Many home economics majors spent untold hours in labs to perfect activities brought out in the different classes . Most of the home economics classes met in the Olen Hendrix Building. - photo by Jerry Traughber. University. Connie Alexander pursued the master's degree at Texas Woman's University and was elected president of their student chapter of the American Society of Interior Design. Mary Thomas, a senior in dietetics, served as state chairman of the Student Member Section of the American Home Economics Association. Amy Thompson, a junior vocational home economics major, served as chairman-elect of the Arkansas Home Economics Association Student Member Section. Faculty members were active in various state and regional associations. Loleta Higginbotham served as a board member of the Arkansas, Lynn England spoke on the Harding 13-in-1 Workshop, and Sharen Crockett AACUS Scholarship Comittee chairman.~
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