Vocational Educational Week, circa 1980

This image shows Chancellor John Thomas (1979-1993) signing the Vocational Education Week proclamation, with four students and Dr. Charlotte McCall from the Department of Home Economics in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in the early 1980s. Vocational Education Week promoted vocational education programs that teach high school and non-college students job skills and programs that train vocational education teachers. The Department of Home Economics is now the Family and Consumer Sciences Department and provides graduate and undergraduate programs in child development, nutrition, apparel and textiles, and family and consumer sciences.

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Appalachian State University

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 11, Home Economics, C14.2.2.5.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

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Appalachian State University. Department of Home Economics. College of Fine and Applied Arts

Thomas, John Edwin, 1931-

1980-1989

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

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