After a break for graduate studies, she returned to academic employment, as a professor in Household Art ( later renamed the Department of Decorative Art in 1939 ) at Berkeley.
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Dodd divided the school into several departments : plastic and graphic arts, mechanical arts, household arts, library, gymnasium, clubs, social service house, and buildings and administration.
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In their second and third years, students could choose to specialize in secretarial courses, household arts and institutional management, technical dressmaking, costume design, applied design, or architectural and interior decoration.
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Upon her return she accepted a position at Pratt as an instructor of design and household arts and sciences, authoring a textbook entitled " Planning and Furnishing the Home : Practical and Economical Suggestions for the Homemaker ".
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Due to the demolition of school buildings to make way for the Harbour Bridge access road cutting, staff and " Household Arts " girls were transferred to be the initial student population of the new Willoughby Home Science School at Mowbray Road.
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By 1912, with growing enrollments, she appears to have resigned from her teaching job to devote her full attention to The Lesley School . 10 The school added training for the early primary grades, and in 1917 opened a Household Arts department.
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In her later years, she became dean of the College of Household Arts and Sciences at Texas State College for Women, and built an exceptionally well-funded and well-regarded research program there during a decade as administrator ( 1952 1962 ).
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One grandmother was Italian, the other Scots-Anglo-Irish, and they differed mightily on whether beds should be made up immediately each morning or aired out, whether ironing was a waste of time or the queen of household arts, whether sunlight should be invited in or sealed out, and whether red-eye gravy or garlic belonged in a healthful meal.
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He has also written a number of works of non-fiction : " How to Get Things Really Flat : A Man's Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts "; " Ghoul Britannia, Notes on a Haunted Island; " " Underground Overground, A Passenger's History of the Tube; " " Belles and Whistles, Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains, " and " Flight by Elephant, the Untold Story of World War II's Most Daring Jungle Rescue " about Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission, published in 2013.
