JANUARY 12, 1968
Maine West Enters Home Arts Contest
As part of the competition the girls will create recipes for a two-crust, nine-inch cherry pie and then prepare and bake it unassisted before three home economics experts. They have only two hours in which to complete the last two operations.
The contest, sponsored by the Northern Illinois Gas Company, is open to all junior and senior high school girls, within the service area of the company, who have taken or are presently taking a home economics course.
Each school chooses one candidate to compete on the regional level from among those who submitted applications to the Home Economics Department. On Thursday, January 25, they will also compete in an all school bake-off in A-104. Maine West's candidate will then receive a certificate of merit and an opportunity to compete in the regionals.
For the contest she will not only bake the cherry pie but take a quiz on home economics. Three home economists will then judge her on the quiz (35 points); demonstration techniques, organization, and prac-tical ability (25 points); the appearance, quality, and display of the pie (60 points);
The final bake-off senior winner and runner-up will receive $1,000 and $300 scholarships. The junior high winner and runner-up will receive monetary prizes of $200 and $100. Schools sponsoring the four girls will receive trophies.
During homeroom and first period on December 5, 1967, 30 senior girls from Maine took the Betty Crocker Homemaking Test. This quiz was part of a national competition, the Fourteenth Annual Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow, sponsored by General Mills.
The girl with the highest score will receive an award as the School Homemaker of Tomorrow and can enter the state competition. The state winner will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an expense-paid educational trip. The national winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship.