Muriel Shortreed fonds

Scope and Content: Materials related to Shortreed's career as a Home Economics teacher at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and the Home Economics Association. The fonds includes photocopies of two digitized images showing home economics students displaying their work. 2012.1029/001 to 2012.1029/005 2012.1029/006 Sho…

History Biographical: Muriel Shortreed was born in Edmonton in 1922. Her father grew up on a farm near Guelph, Ontario before heading west to Edmonton in 1912. After serving in World War I he became a Coal Operator in Camrose and Three Hills. Her mother emigrated to Edmonton from Minnesota in 1899. Muriel was the Education Rep. to the Canadian Home Economics Association from Alberta and the first president of the Lethbridge Home Economics Association in 1968, serving in a number of other positions including that of the First Provincial President of the Home Economics Council, 1962. She was an Honorary Life Member of both the Alberta Teachers' Association and the Home Economics Council and she earned the Alberta Home Economics Association Distinguished Service Award. She was an Elder at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church and taught advanced sewing classes at the college in addition to her career as a Home Economics teacher. She taught at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute for 33 years, retiring in 1983.

Scope and Content: Materials related to Shortreed's career as a Home Economics teacher at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and the Home Economics Association. The fonds includes photocopies of two digitized images showing home economics students displaying their work. 2012.1029/001 to 2012.1029/005 2012.1029/006 Shortreed's member profile with attached biography, correspondence, journal articles, flyers, certificates, newspaper clippings, fashion show commentaries, workshop materials, et cetera. 2012.1029/007 Workshop materials, suggested minimum cost of food and clothing, net worth statement form, our estate form, brief history of conumers' association of Canada; children and money paper; LCI Academic Awards Ceremonies (1985); newsletters and correspondence.

Notes: File found in 2012 Year end box #3 The records were copied, the originals were returned to the donor. See also: Lethbridge Home Economics Association Fonds (UID 20021009000)