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Show Alter ra Girls Draw Assignment To Homemakers Convention Vee Rasmussep'"and Joyce Bingham have en selecfedas! two of the Iron." Cxaiito j represent their stale at the National Na-tional Convention of Future Homemakers of America to be held at the municipal auditorium auditor-ium in Kansas City, Missouri, July 6-9. Students of Alterra high school, the two girls are majoring in home economics under un-der the supervision of Mrs. Myrtle Lambert and are members mem-bers of the Alterra Chapter of i Future Homemakers. The Kansas City meeting will he the first national convention of the Future Homemakers of America to be held since the organization or-ganization was founded three years ago. It is expected that 4000 homemaking students, rep-' rep-' resenting 45 states, Puerto Rico i and Hawaii, will attend the con- vention. Attendance is necessar-i necessar-i ily limited due to lack of housing hous-ing facilities. The members'xip ol the Future Fu-ture Homemakers of America is made up of students studying homemaking in junior and sen-.ior sen-.ior high schools. It is a national organization which has as its ob-Ijcctiyes ob-Ijcctiyes the development of better bet-ter nome life. Although spon-I spon-I sored by the U. S. Office of i Education and the American ' Home Economics Association, j the organization is entirely self-supporting. self-supporting. j Mrs. Myrtle Lambert, instructor instruc-tor of home economics at Alterra high school, also will be in at-1 at-1 tendance at the national conven-! conven-! tion. Mrs. Lambert has lead the j Alterra chapter to a recognized I position' in the state organization since its inception. News of Al-terra's Al-terra's participation in the first national convention of the Future Fu-ture Homemakers brought words of praise for Mrs. Lambert and her work with Alterra home economic ec-onomic students. The 29 Utah girls who will attend the convention1 will leave Salt Lake the morning of July 4 by chartered bus. |