Vocational Education Week, 1981

This image shows Chancellor John Thomas (1979-1993) and Boone Mayor Hadley Wilson sitting at a table signing the Vocational Education Week proclamation in February 1981. February 9-14 was designated Vocational Education Week, promoting vocational education programs that teach high school and non-college students job skills and programs that train vocational education teachers. Seen standing in the background are the officers of the Home Economics Club, including Darlene Riddle, Sylvia Howey, Barbara Cook, Dora Chacon, and Kim Gray. The program was promoted by the Department of Home Economics in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at Appalachian State University (1967-current). 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. A similar image appears in the February 12, 1981 edition of "The Appalachian" (p. 1).

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

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

Thomas, John Edwin, 1931-

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