Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-22 | Page 9 | Secure Speaker of International Fame

SECURE SPEAKER OF INTERNATIONAL FAME The extension division of the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college, has just announced that it has been successful in securing Miss Alice Raven hill. home economic worker of international fame, as a speaker speak-er at the Ogden Farmers' round-up and Housekeepers' conference, which convenes con-venes from January 22 to 27. Miss Rav-enhill Rav-enhill was a pioneer workw in home economics eco-nomics in England, where she took a leading lead-ing part in the development of the home betterment idea. Leaving England for Canada, she was a prominent figure in the organization of home economic work there. Since coming to the United States, she has become a. national figure in home development work. Two years ago she was a prominent speaker at the convention conven-tion of the National Home Economics association as-sociation and since then she has organized a branch of the association in Canada. At present she is connected with Columbia Colum-bia university, New York.