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Elizabeth (Mazanec) Dillenburg: Home Economics Class of 1923
My grandmother, Elizabeth (Mazanec) Dillenburg attended the Stevens Point Normal School during the 1919-1920 and
1922-1923 school years, earning the 2-year degree in Home Economics. She taught home economics for 2 years at the
high school in Laona, Wisconsin, and taught foods for one year in Bessemer, Michigan (her home town). In the
summer of 1926, she went to Chicago and enrolled in the course in Hospital Dietetics at Cook County Hospital. She
completed that program (6 months) in December 1926. Her first job as a dietitian was at Bayside Hospital in Tampa,
Florida. She came back to Wisconsin in the summer of 1927, and got a job as a dietitian at St. Joseph's Hospital in
Milwaukee. She stayed in Milwaukee for 3 years. After taking time off to travel, she accepted a position as a
dietitian at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1933 she returned to Wisconsin
and got married.
I cannot explain the depth of my feelings knowing that I am following in her footsteps. Dietitians in the 1920s
were the pioneers of the field. Much has changed since then. But one thing remains the same: our caring commitment
to maintaining human health through good nutrition. I am proud to be both a student at UWSP, and a future dietetics
professional.
Margie Dillenburg
Class of 2003
Floy E. Salter: Home Economics Class of 1924
Floy grew up on a farm in Germantown, WI. She started school at Carroll College, but a cousin who was attending Point wrote
to her and told her to come here where she could get the same degree in two years instead of four. She says going to school
here were "some of the happiest days". She lived in Sims Cottage which she said was "really a nice part of the home economics
program. Everybody tried to beat the other one in the expense area." After graduation she lived with her mother, helping out
on the farm. Moved into Menomonee Falls when she was in her 40s and worked at the bank.
Memories:
She recalls Bessie May Allen as "a jewel". "Miss Allen would tell you when you were doing something wrong. At dinner one day
she said I was doing something wrong and I said, 'And I know what it is. I buttered my whole slice of bread at one time.'
That's right, Miss Allen said. And to this day, I've never buttered all my bread at one time even when I'm at home eating alone."
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