Inside Iowa State
Dec. 6, 1996
Happy Birthday FCS!
by Michelle Johnson
It's a birthday party and you're invited. The College of
Family and Consumer Sciences will celebrate its 125th
birthday with cake and refreshments Friday, Dec. 6, from 10
a.m. to noon in the LeBaron Lounge.
Did you know . . .
- Mary B. Welch founded the "Ladies Course" at Iowa
State in 1871. It was the nation's first home economics
program at a land-grant university. Welch also published the
first book in home economics at ISU and was inducted into the
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1992.
- With the birth of Veishea in 1922, came the baking of the
now famous cherry pies. Students in the hotel, restaurant and
institution management program prepare about 8,000 cherry
pies each year for the Veishea celebration.
- In 1924, Anna Richardson, dean of the Division of Home
Economics, established a nursery school through a five-year
grant. The nursery school, now the Child Development
Laboratory School, enrolls 92 children in its programs.
- The Tearoom opened in 1913 on the third floor of the
original MacKay Hall. The current Tearoom opened in 1926 and
now serves more than 5,800 meals every semester. It is a
training facility for students in the college's hotel,
restaurant and institution management program and for
dietetics majors.
- The ISU Historic Textiles and Clothing Collection
contains approximately 6,000 pieces, including a 1770s bonnet
and dress owned by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt. The oldest
piece in the collection is an Egyptian headdress dating back
2,000 years.
- FCS graduated its first male student in 1952 from the
hotel, restaurant and institution management program.
Currently, 17 percent of FCS students are male.
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