Editor's note: This is the final installment in a five-part series of articles honoring retired educators for Teacher Appreciation Week. RUSSELLVILLE - An untold number of former students can ...

The last 10 years of her life, Mama once said, were the happiest of an extremely happy, fulfilling life. Daddy had “made his way to the Lord” a decade before Mama did so, for the final chapter of her ...

Some students from Gainesville High School use their Nutrition and Wellness class to learn how to cook, an option few Alachua County schools still provide. Once called home economics, Nutrition and ...

High schools and middle schools refer to the home economics classes of yesteryear as family arts and consumer sciences courses today. I never had any of those classes during my school years, but I’ve ...

Family and consumer science teacher Marcia Kreutner smiles Tuesday as seventh-grader Alexander Kriener, right, Landon Hemphill, middle, and John Mauren, back, ask how to get their “baby” — an infant ...

For 35 years, Carol Seirup has been teaching middle-school students basic life skills. "They learn safety, nutrition, and how to be a good consumer," Seirup said. "This isn't just a cooking or sewing ...

Whenever I bite into a ginger-spiced cookie I think about Mrs. Wright (no relation), my seventh-grade home economics teacher. She taught me about the basics of cooking before my mother did — I had ...

Dr. May Edwin Burke, who taught at several schools and became head of the home economics department at Lake Clifton High School, died of a stroke Sunday at her Owings Mills home. She was 92. Born in ...

Marjorie Moore Kadue got the bang for her buck and spent her time wisely. She'd listen to Twins games on the radio while gardening rhubarb and hostas. At Olive Garden, she'd treat protégés to lunch, ...