At the home of Ron Doron, professor of biology, Devito members participote in a cookout Sept. 9. "At the cookout, we hod fun hanging out and talking about scienc e with fellow biology nerds," senior Trixie Lee, club president, said. -Courtesy of Ron Doran Family and Consumer Sciences club hosts leadership conference The Family and Consumer Sciences club hosted the fifth annual Arkansas Associatio n of Family and Consumer Sciences Leadership Conference Sept. 30 in the Founder's Room. The meering was gea red fOward helping students majoring in child and family sciences, dietetics, family and consumer sciences, education and interior mer– chandising bridge the gap between themselves and the professionals in their field. The conference also emphasized rhe importance ofbecoming leaders in the family and consumer sciences discipline as well. "The conference was a good opportunity for public relations at Harding," Sharen C rockett, professor of family and consumer sciences and club sponsor, said. gedanken "Planning (h,7 conference was a great experience for our students. Junior Vanessa Snyder, state chairman for the AAFCS, and Crockett arranged for Harding graduates to speak at the meeting. "Vanessa represented Harding well," C rockett said. "She was very poised and professional." The first speaker at the conference was Lindsey Underwood, a 2003 graduate. Underwood was a child care program technician for the University ofArkansas Cooperative Extensio n Service. Kristen Mote, a 2003 graduate, was a high school teacher in Bald Knob, Ark. While a student at Hard– ing, Mote served as the AAFCS state chairman for nvo years. "It was good ro establish connections with not only people from Harding, bur [with people] throughout the state as well," Snyder said. Family and consumer sciences club members from Henderson State University, the Un iversity ofCentral Arkansas and the University ofArkansas at Pine Bluff also attended the conference. "The hardest parr of planning the conference was trying to coordinate with the officers and advisors from the other uni versities," Snyder said. "I had troub le getting them to tell me if they were coming and how many people they were bringing." The conference also included group sessions in wh ich rhe participants d iscussed their plans after graduation. "{The groups were] my favorite parr ofthe confer– ence," Snyder said. "I wanted people to get a chance to bounce ideas off of each other in order to get a new perspective about their field and possible careers." Snyder said helping plan the conference took time and was difficult work, but she said she was proud of the results. Sixty people participated in the conference. ·Jackie ]hrapp Row 1: A. Volkman, S. Boy, J. Carroll, T. Hendrixson, M. Hitt, A. Confalone, J. Eichhorn, J. Smeal. Row 2: E. Wilson, M. Easterly, A. Dempsey, M. Brown, M. Brown, J. Mills, B. Dell, J. Younger. Row 3: Row 1: K. Cosey, A. Clark, J. Pettey, C. Gryszko. Row 2: R. Tea gue, T. Rine, K. Eastland, C. Butler, B. Wilson. J. Gronvold, J. Rudderow, S. Christensen, S. Brunson, S. Barber, A. Kelly, D. Ashley, P. Ashley. Row 4: D. Cole, E. Schramm, G. Sheu– maker, T. Rogers, F. McDonald, Z. Long, K. Harkness. science '~""JI
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