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developments--in more depth than the significant research activities
of School personnel. Undoubtedly, research has been an integral
element of the School since its inception. We provide only few
examples detailing the long-standing and vital research tradition in
the School because data documenting these activities are relatively
easier to locate. Faculty curriculum vitae, biographical files, and news
clipping are housed in the University Archives; especially for the
recent past, publications and other public records are generally
available. It is more difficult to uncover the changing ambience of
the School, the shifting concerns of administrators, and the issues
students faced. It is this sense of the School that this history seeks to
capture.
To highlight the people and the challenges they faced over the
past 100 years in the development of the School, this book is divided
in to two major sections. Part 1 describes the history of the School's
first century in five chronologically presented chapters. The vision
of Caroline L. Hunt, the first director of home economics on the
Madison campus, and the obstacles she faced are discussed in chapter 1.
Abby L. Marlatt headed home economics in Madison from 1909 to
1939. The critical challenges the School faced during this period are
the subject of chapter 2. Marlatt was followed by Frances Zuill.
Though her tenure was shorter than Marlatt's, it was during Zuill's
years that significant transformations in the School began, from a
single-sex to co-educational program and to a greater focus on
professional preparation. These changes are the subject of chapter 3.
The social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s
affected the School, its students, faculty, and curriculum in many
ways, which are analyzed in chapter 4. The final chapter of Part 1,
chapter 5, details some of the more recent events that have developed
from the School's history of challenges and changes and that suggest
possible paths for the School's future.
Part 2 details a set of case studies that focus on two particular
aspects of the School's history: student life and research. In