Reorganization
and a New Beginning (1974-)
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| Elizabeth
Simpson |
In 1974, the School
was once again reorganized, this time into five departments: Child
and Family Studies; Consumer Science;
Environment and Design (later Environment,
Textiles and Design); Home Economics
Education; and Home Economics
Communications. In September of that year, Dr.
Elizabeth Simpson was named Dean of the School of Family Resources
and Consumer Sciences. The School celebrated its 75th anniversary
with a gala event at the Sheraton Inn in 1979. A graduate student
of the School, Grace Tonge, published Ten Dynamic Women
with funding from the Meta Schroeder Beckner Homemaker Fund. One
of the women featured in this 1984 publication was nutritionist
May Reynolds.
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| Students
sitting on the lawn of the Home Economics Building, 1981 |
Following Dean Simpson's
tenure, Dr. Hamilton McCubbin
was appointed Dean of the School in 1985. The field continued
to evolve nationally and on the University of Wisconsin campus,
and in 1996 the School was once again renamed--the School of Human
Ecology.
In 1999, with the resignation
of Dean McCubbin, Professor Robin
Douthitt was named interim dean, an appointment made permanent
two years later. Also in 1999, the School received the largest
bequest in its history, nearly half a million dollars from Elizabeth
Metz of Marinette.
