A unique cookbook and set of note cards, published by the College of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, are available for purchase.

The limited edition cookbook contains the wartime recipes of the late Bessie May Allen and the note cards feature paintings by Ethel Hill, two former home economics faculty members.

The items were published to celebrate the centennial of UWSP�s oldest specialized program, to raise funds for a centennial garden and to kick off an endowment. Domestic Science, later called home economics, was the first major approved at Stevens Point Normal School. The centennial celebration will be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20 and 21.

The event will open Friday evening in the Founder�s Room in Old Main. Saturday�s activities will include historic displays, speakers, a silent auction and a luncheon. All alumni and former faculty members of the programs are invited to attend.

Cookbooks and packages of six note cards can be purchased in the College of Professional Studies Dean�s Office for $10 each plus tax. An order form can be printed from the centennial Web site http://www.uwsp.edu/cps/centennial/store. Ordering information also is available by e-mail to jnorth@uwsp.edu, by calling (715) 346-4775 or writing to UWSP College of Professional Studies Dean�s Office, 1901 Fourth Ave., Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897.

Allen was instrumental in shaping the home economics programs during her tenure from 1913 to 1952. She headed the domestic science department and chaired the home economics department. She published a quarterly bulletin during World War I to help homemakers conserve food and deal with rationing.

Allen�s recipes have been collected in the cookbook along with recipes from retired and current faculty and staff members, students and alumni. Printing for the cookbook was donated by Worzalla Publishing.

Hill is an emerita home economics professor and a 1940 graduate of Central State Teachers College who taught at UWSP for 24 years, specializing in clothing classes. She took up watercolor painting after retirement and continues to study at The Clearing in Door County each summer.

Profits from the sale of the items will go toward building a perennial garden on the southeast corner of the College of Professional Studies Building. The garden will include perennial flowers, grasses, benches and a walkway.

The garden also will have space for engraved bricks in thanks for larger donations to the Centennial Endowment. The endowment will fund distinguished professorships in the three home economics related programs, dietetics, family and consumer education and interior architecture.

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