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NBC DRAMATIZES HOME LIFE Newest Course PreseiUed inj NBC Unwersitij of the Air Is Colleii "Heme h What You Make It"— Material Is Factual and Timely. FOURTH and newest course to be presented under the auspices of the NBC University of the Air is "Home Is What You Make It," a 28-\veek series of half-hour drama- tizations heard Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. ^EWT). The new home economics course is devoted to the men and women of the nation who are concerned with the many elements that go to make up successful home life. The series is sponsored in cooperation with the NBC University of the Air by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American Home Eco- nomics Association and the Na- tional Congress of Parents and Teachers. Factual and timely, popular in style, and educational in purpose, the broadcasts take the form of dramatizations of the important a.spects of home life. Directed pri- marily to the homemaker, and de- sijrned to bring her a thorousJfh un- derstandinjr of her new and ever- chaiiRiiiK problems, "Home Is What You Make It" stresses the impor- tance of cooperative family rela- tions, and contains material of vital interest to every meml.ier of the family. In addition to the dramatizations, each iiroirram iiresents an outstand- ing exjiert in the field under discus- sion. The course is divided into the following subjects: Housing (planning for the new home and remodeling the present one) ; Home Decoration (and the pur- cha.se, use and preservation of home equipment); Child Care and Training (the development of personality; helps for new mothers) ; Schooling (progressive and con- servative educational measures) ; Health (in relation to nutrition as well as to the medical require- ments of the family) ; Clothing (home sewing and the inirchase of new clothing) ; Gardening (for city dwellers as well as for small-town folk) ; Beauty and Grooming; Budgeting (the wise use of money) ; PROGRAM HOST AND NARRATOR OF NBC S COURSE IN HOME ECONOMICS IS DON GODD.ARIl. SHOWN HERE .AT HOME WITH HIS FAMILY. STERLING FISHER, DIRECTOR OF THE NBC UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR. Civic Interests (one's responsi- bility to the community) ; Cultural and Spiritual Values ( music, art, books) ; Problems of Youth (in urban and small-town environments); For "Home Is What You Make It," as for other NBC University of the Air courses, a handbook of background material and suggested reading accompanies the series. This handbook differs from the oth- ers in that separate chapters are written by authorities in the vari- ous fields under discussion. Narrator and program host for the series is Don Goddard, well- known WEAF and NBC news com- mentator. Supervising and coordi- nating "Home Is What You Make It" is .Jane Tiffany Wagner, newly- appointed Director of Home Eco- nomics for NBC. The NBC University of the Air is directed by Sterling Fisher, un- der the general guidance of Dr. James Rowland Angell, NBC Public Service Counselor. Other NBC Uni- versity of the Air courses now on the air are the history series, "We Came This Way" (Fridays, 11:30 l).m.. EWT) ; the literature course, "The World's Great Novels" (Sat- urdays, 7:00 p.m., EWT), and the music series, "Music of the New World" (Thursdays, 11:30 p.m., EWT). [RADIO AGE 25]