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For Release in P.M.'s March 8, 1961
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COLUMBIA, Mo., March 8 - Missouri's Gov. John M. Dalton will give an address on the program at 2 p.m., March 24, in Jesse Auditorium here dedicating Louise Stanley Hall, the new building helping to house the School of Home Economics at the University of Missouri.
The dedication address is to be given by Dr. James H. Hilton, president of Iowa State University, and the formal program will also include a tribute to the late Miss Stanley by Dr. Hazel K. Stiebeling, Director of the Institute of Home Economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. Louise Stanley, for whom the new building is named, taught and conducted research here for 16 years. Joining the staff as instructor in 1907, she became professor and was chairman of the departmant of home economics from 1917 until 1923. She inaugurated the first research program in home economics at the University, and wrote several publications and various articles for scientific and popular journals and for the Bureau of Home Economics. 
Miss Stanley resigned in 1923 when President Calvin Coolidge created the Bureau of Home Economics in the U. S. Department of Agriculture and appointed her its first Director. She retained that position until 1943, when she was named special assistant to the administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, a post she held until 1950. 
Miss Stanley held degrees from George Peabody College, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Yale University.

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