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- Title
Home is what you make it.
- Authors
Amoroso Leslie, Catherine
- Abstract
This research explored a radio series, Home Is What You Make It (HIWYMI) on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) during and after World War II. Beginning in spring of 1944, HIWYMI was a collaboration among the American Home Economics Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Pioneer female broadcaster and AHEA member Jane Tiffany Wagner, Director of Women's War Activities and Director of Home Economics for NBC, produced the series. A second series of weekly programs on housing, child care, food, family relations, clothing, and fashion ran from 1945 through 1948, with a total of 171 broadcasts dedicated to the American family. Its significance was reinforced when a 1949 Journal of Home Economics fundraising appeal called on members to honour the AHEA's fortieth anniversary by promoting the theme "Home Is What You Make It." A series of handbooks accompanied the HIWYMI course including Housing, Food, Clothing, Children, and the Family. In the first booklet, Dora S. Lewis, AHEA President wrote, "Home Is What You Make It... will suggest how, through careful management of their own resources, families can make life richer physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually..." (Lewis, 1945, p. 5). Through primary documents including the handbooks, recordings, advertisements, and publications about the series, this article presents a successful collaborative initiative that can inform and inspire today's Home Economists. Home Is What You Make It was a "series of entertaining and enlightening broadcasts" which provided hope in wartime and fostered happiness for the future.
- Subjects
HOUSING; RADIO serials; NATIONAL Broadcasting Co. Inc.; RADIO programs; HOME economics
- Publication
International Journal of Home Economics, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1999-561X
- Publication type
Article