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Florence Fallgatter

Florence Alberta Fallgatter (1891 – April 8, 1973) was an American educator and home economist. She was head of the home economics department at Iowa State University from 1938 to 1958, the first woman president of the American Vocational Association, and president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) from 1950 to 1952.

Florence Fallgatter
A smiling middle-aged white woman with wavy hair, wearing a dark jacket
Florence Fallgatter, from a 1936 publication of the US Department of the Interior
Born
Florence Alberta Fallgatter

1891
Rock Valley, Iowa
DiedApril 8, 1973
Ames, Iowa
Occupation(s)Educator, home economist
Known forPresident, American Vocational Association (1946-1947); president, American Home Economics Association (1950-1952)

Early life and education

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Fallgatter was born in Rock Valley, Iowa,[1] and lived in Parker, South Dakota as a girl.[2][3] She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University.[4][5] She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Iowa State University.[1]

Career

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Fallgatter taught school in Iowa and Minnesota as a young woman. In 1926 she was state president of the Montana Home Economics Association.[6] From 1935 to 1938, she was chief of the Home Economics Education Service, a program of the United States Office of Education; she succeeded Adelaide Steele Baylor as chief, and was in turn succeeded by Edna P. Amidon. She was a home economics instructor at the University of Minnesota in 1923.[7] She was a professor and, from 1938 to 1958, head of the home economics department at Iowa State University, the largest such department in the United States.[4][8]

Fallgatter was national president of Phi Upsilon Omicron from 1934 to 1938. In 1945 she testified before a Senate hearing on women's postwar employment.[9] She was the first woman president of the American Vocational Association, an office she held from 1946 to 1947.[8][10][11] As AVA president, she preferred state control over federal control of vocational education programs.[12] In 1949 she attended the International Federation of Home Economics congress in Sweden.[2] In 1951 she served on the planning committee for the White House Conference for Children and Youth.[1] She was president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) from 1950 to 1952.[13][14][15] She chaired the advisory board of the Journal of Home Economics.[16]

Publications

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  • The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics (1931, with Elsie Wilson Gwynne)[17]
  • The home project in homemaking education (1933, with Jane Hinckley Blake)
  • "Consumer Education Aids" (1934)[18]
  • "The Modern Homemaking Department" (1936)[19]
  • Space and Equipment for Homemaking Instruction: A Guide to Location and Arrangement of Homemaking Departments (1936, with Edna P. Amidon)[20]
  • "Trends in Home Economics Education" (1951)[21]
  • "Our Responsibility for Freedom as Home Economists of Today" (presidential address, 1951)[22]
  • A guide for planning homemaking departments in Iowa (1955, with Louise Keller and Gladys Grabe)[23]

Personal life

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Fallgatter died in 1973, in Ames, Iowa. Her grave is in the Iowa State University Cemetery.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Rites Friday for Florence Fallgatter". Ames Daily Tribune. 1973-04-11. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "Iowa Leader to Address State Women". Argus-Leader. 1953-03-17. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "U.S. Educator Visits in City". Argus-Leader. 1930-10-15. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "Fallgatter, Florence, 1891-". Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  5. ^ "State Convention of Home Economics Here". The Sunflower. 1928-03-14. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Montana Home Economics Association". The Journal of Home Economics: 411. July 1925.
  7. ^ Minnesota, University of (1923). Bulletin. University of Minnesota.
  8. ^ a b "First Lady of Vocational Education". American Vocational Journal. 22: 5. January 1947 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ United States Congress Senate Committee on Education and Labor (1945). Vocational Education: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 619, a Bill to Provide Vocational Education and Retraining, Including Part-time Training and Work-experience Programs for the Occupational Adjustment and Readjustment of Youth and Adults, Including Persons Demobilized from Essential War Work Or from the Armed Services, in Order that Individuals and the Nation May Attain Economic Stability and Security. April 30, May 1 and 2, 1945. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 55–60.
  10. ^ "Answering the Call to Duty" Techniques (February 2002): 30.
  11. ^ "Florence Fallgatter, Head of Vocational Association, Visitor". Globe-Gazette. 1946-12-28. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Federal Bureaucracy Held Threat to Vocational Education in America". The Los Angeles Times. 1947-12-17. p. 19. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Iowa Teacher to Head Home Economics Body". The Boston Globe. 1950-07-13. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Elias, Megan J. (2010-08-03). Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 105, 124. ISBN 978-0-8122-2121-3.
  15. ^ "Food is Root of Peace, Home Economists Told". The Boston Globe. 1950-07-15. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-03-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Wilson, Zoe (1943) "American Home Economics Association Benefits Graduates" The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 23 : page 14.
  17. ^ Fallgatter, Florence, and Elsie Wilson Gwynne. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics (US Government Printing Office 1931). via Project Gutenberg
  18. ^ Fallgatter, Florence (September 1934). "Consumer Education Aids". School Life. 20: 11.
  19. ^ Fallgatter, Florence (June 1936). "The Modern Homemaking Department". School Life. 21: 279, 282.
  20. ^ Amidon, Edna Phyllis; Fallgatter, Floirence (1936). Space and Equipment for Homemaking Instruction: A Guide to Location and Arrangement of Homemaking Departments. United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education.
  21. ^ Fallgatter, Florence A. (1951-08-01). "Trends in Home Economics Education1". Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 27 (8): 645–649. doi:10.1016/S0002-8223(21)30876-8. ISSN 0002-8223. PMID 14860986. S2CID 244886308.
  22. ^ Fallgatter, Florence (September 1951). "Our Responsibility for Freedom, as Home Economists of Today". Journal of American Home Economics. 43: 501–505 – via Internet Archive.
  23. ^ Fallgatter, Florence; Keller, Louise; Grabe, Gladys; Iowa State University; Engineering Extension Service (1955). A guide for planning homemaking departments in Iowa. OCLC 1008776794.
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