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 iss Orthula Doescher, who taught home management skills to hundreds of coeds at the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has retired. After 18 years on campus and 42 years in the teaching
profession, she has left to spend the summer traveling through the western states to visit friends and relatives.
This fall, she intends to settle either in Pueblo or Greeley, Colo., or Brookings, S.S. Miss Doescher was an a
ssistant professor of home economics who directed UW-SP's home management at the corner of Main and Reserve Streets
(across from Old Main) from the time she arrived in 1964 until it was put to other use by the university about three
years ago. She lived in the house and every six weeks during the academic year she had six coeds in residence with
her to give them first hand instruction on everything from nutrition to entertaining. "My ultimate concern was to
promote work simplification in the home so the students could learn to save time on routine chores for the things
they want to do," she said. With that philosophy, it was appropriate that another area of her specialization was
equipment in the home. She hasn't been sold on all of the "work simplification" devices which have been put on the
market, including microwave ovens. For some things they may be fine, she said, but she believes people concerned
about the quality of their cooking and baking would be dissatisfied with the unevenness of the ovens' heat. Her
favorite new kitchen devices are electric pressure cookers and food processors. Miss Doescher, who was born on a
farm near Kimball, S.D., graduated from the General Beadle Teachers College in Madison, S.D., and started her career
in a one-room country school in 1937. After two years as a teacher, she returned for more preparation at South
Dakota State University in Brookings where she received a bachelor's degree and later her master's. She did
additional course work at several colleges and universities across the country. She taught 19 years on the
secondary level including 11 years as the supervising teacher in the Brookings High School. She also served one
year on the home economics faculty at Colorado in Greeley before coming to Stevens Point. A highlight of her
career was her election to the presidency of the South Dakota Home Economics Teachers. What aspect of her work
did she enjoy most? Teaching two first graders to read in her first year on the job and later working with
graduate students at UW-SP.
*Stevens Point Journal 6/16/1982
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