In the mid-1970s, when a history of the school of home economics was being compiled, a number of oral interviews were conducted with different groups of alumni. One group consisted of grads from the 1920s. One person remembered:
that Miss Bales taught us to never put our elbows on the table and one night we were sitting there visiting after eating and all of a sudden Miss Bales sat there with her elbows on the table and we had the worst time trying to keep our faces straight.
Another remembered that they had gone to a show where someone had taken butter on a knife, flipped it, and it had landed on bread across the table. Apparently they tried this when they got back to the Practice House. Luckily they were able to clean the butter off the ceiling before Alba Bales returned.
And another remembered that when we were in the practice house, she (Alba Bales) had her first class for men and the morning that she had her class we knew it, she came down all dressed to a tee.
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Michael.Robinson@ndsu.edu Michael J. Robinson, Archivist, 701-231-1017 Site Design, Dan Hamre Published by the University Archives, NDSU Last Updated: 4/12/04 |