Bio: Lemke, Barbara (Betty Crocker Award - 1967)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Surnames: Lemke

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 02 Feb 1967

Lemke, Betty Crocker Award (February 1967

Barbara Lemke, by finishing first in a written homemaking knowledge and attitude examination for senior girls December 6, , became Loyal High School’s 1967 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow.

Barbara, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lemke, route 1, Loyal, is now eligible for possible state and national scholarship awards. Her test also earned her a specially designed silver charm from General Mills, sponsor of the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker ofTomorrow.

A state Homemaker of Tomorrow and runner-up will be selected from the winners of all schools in the state, with the former receiving a $1,500 college scholarship; her school will be given a complete set of encyclopedia Britannica, by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. The runner-up will be awarded a $500 educational grant.

The Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow from this state, together with those from all other states and the District of Columbia, each accompanied by her school advisor, will join in an expense paid educational tour of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and Washington D. C., next spring.

The national winner – the 1967 All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow -- will be announced at a dinner in Williamsburg. She will be chosen from the state winners on the basis of original test scores plus personal observations and interviews during the tour. Her reward will be an increase in her scholarship to $5,000. Second, third, and fourth ranking national winners will have their original scholarship grants increased to $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000respectively.

This is the 13th year of the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow, initiated in 1954-55 by General Mills to emphasize the importance of homemaking as a career. More than 5,000,000 senior girls have participated in the Search since its inception and 1,256 winners will have earned scholarships totaling $1,371,500 at the conclusion of the current program.