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Since hearing you speak at the state teachers' conference in Burlington last fall, I have wanted your advice on books relating to eugenics and the story of life that we might be able to use in high school. In our Junior and Senior Home Economics class we are at present studying a text called "Problems in Home Living" (Lippincott's) which you may be familiar with, and we are just now studying the chapters on heredity and environment of the child.
Do you know of any text or reference books that we might be able to use in connection with this which you would recommend as being especially fine and appropriate for the high school girls? We are for the first time here making a beginning with this group of going into the matter of sex and its problems, using a questionaire last week to find out if the girls desire information, if they are interested and would like an opportunity for discussion and to ask questions. We find that the majority of them do not feel free to ask questions of this nature at home of their parents and that they do have questions that they would like to have cleared up correctly. Any suggestions as to material which would help me in getting information for them, or of books to which I could refer them will be most gratefully received.
Thank you for this anticipated cooperation. May I hear from you this week, if convenient please?
Should we discuss these matters in class, would your parents
approve?
Why
do you feel free to ask them?
Why do you not feel free to ask them?
What is their
attitude toward you when you do ask such questions?
Why do you think so?
In what classes?
With what teacher?
With a nurse?
With your family doctor? Where and when?
to ask
questions? to correct wrong impressions? In this class?
Names of generative organs? location of generative organs? Normal
function of these organs? Effects of wrong care? Effects of wrong
use?
Names of diseases?
Symptoms?
Effects on the person?
How caught?
Do
innocent people suffer from the wrong doing of others?
Who?
being
attentive?
Lady‐like?
Not making fun of whatever someone else may try to
say?
Not making fun of whatever someone else may have difficulty in
expressing?
being polite to everyone?
not making anyone feel
uncomfortable?
Please list any special questions which you would like to have discussed or answered. Would you prefer to have these taken up privately, or in the group?
Any suggestions?
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