Have you planned mental rest, physical rest or both this summer? Are you counting on gaining experience working with people? Or would you like to obtain a position in your major field near your home? Christine Thomson suggests last-minute summer job opportunities and tells how to write a letter of application.

Picnics mean fun and food. For more fun, serve food that is different. To solve the problem of no kitchen, serve tasty dishes, which need only the qualifications of a good Girl Scout or two.

The spoon and thimble days are past. Today, home economics means more than cooking and sewing. The science has developed to include many new phases. Home economics has expanded and home economists have broadened with it.

As the mercury in the thermometer soars upward, Vicky prepares her wardrobe for play. Warm summer weekends mean swimming, sunning, picnics and tennis. Summer shows cottons crisp as taffeta, cool rayons and sturdy denims that can take the beating of a picnic at the Ledges.

Tantalizing Appetites, Jane Haselton, page 3

Keep Pammel Young Set Busy, Barbara Parsons, page 4

Chart Your Course, page 6

What’s New In Home Economics, Peggy Krenek, page 7

You’ll Be a Calm, Lovely Bride, Janet Sutherland, page 8

Predict Future Positions, Ruth Hackett, page 9

Vicky Takes to the Sun, Jo Ann Breckenridge, page 10

Home Economics Women Invade The Air Waves, Jeanne Wallerius, page 11

Your Summer Work Pays Dividends, Christine Thomson, page 12

Let Your Personality Speak For You, Margaret Rutherford, page 14

Here’s An Idea, page 16

Seniors Advise on Elective Choices, Jo Ann Breckenridge, page 19

Keeping Up With Today, Mary West, page 20

Alums in the News, Patricia Close, page 23