High school students sitting in a semicircle and holding teacups

Home Economics students posing for a group photograph

Three kitchen stations busy with groups of young ladies working on a Home Economics assignment.

Images of Department of Household Science class grouped.

Head and shoulders image of Helen G. Wilmot, School of Household Science, 1930-1954.

Bio/Historical Note: Helen Gertrude Chapman Wilmot was born 21 September 1892 in Salisbury, New Brunswick.. She earned an MA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1931, and an MA (Chicago). Wilmot was on staff with the College of Household Science from 1930-1954. Helen Wilmot died in December 1969 in Beaconsville, Ontario, and is buried in Coverdale, New Brunswick.

High school students sitting around a table set for tea

Head and shoulders image of Kathleen (Taggart) Ferguson, College of Home Economics, 1954-1959.

Bio/Historical Note: Kathleen M. (Taggart) Ferguson was born at Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1923 and lived on the Experimental Farm for first 11 years of her life. The family moved to Regina where she attended Lakeview School and then Central Collegiate. She received a BHSc from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in Interior Design from Cornell University, Syracuse, New York. Ferguson was a member of the WRENS during World War II and helped with harvest chores on farms. She was both assistant professor and associate professor of Home Economics at the U of S between 1954-1959. Kay Ferguson died 27 March 2001 in Regina after a struggle with Parkinson’s Disease.

4 kitchen stations in the Rosetown Composite High School Home Economics Lab with students busy at work while a teacher watches closely.