Meat Research underway at Iowa State will eventually aid consumers.

Are you baffled with finger or fork decisions? Here are a few tips that will change your perplexity to poise.

The life of Catherine MacKay, first Dean of Home Economics at Iowa State, was not an easy one, but her accomplishments were many. Her name will always be remembered here and the naming of the auditorium in Home Economics Hall after her is but one of the many tributes paid this woman in appreciation of her work.

Finger or Fork, Doris Jean Coxon, page 3

Learn to Play, Floramae Gates, page 4

What’s Your Beef, Jackie Morrison, page 5

Born to Travel, Ruth Anderson, page 6

Hardships, Colene Ruch, page 7

The O’Bryan Touch, Nancy Voss, page 8

What’s New, Constance Cornwell, Harriet LaRue, page 10

Here’s An Idea, Darleen Bornschein, Jean McGhie, page 12

Alums in the News, Jane Novak, page 15

Trends, Anne Dallager, page 16

Original ideas, ingenuity and some good old-fashioned elbow grease can give a home a distinctive, personal touch that all the money in the world can never buy. Professor Edna O'Bryan, of the Department of Applied Art, has used all three of these and the result is not on!y pleasing and comfortable, but unusual and outstanding as well.