Family and consumer science teachers to meet in Havre

More than 60 teachers from around Montana will be attending the annual meeting of the Montana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Wednesday through Friday at the Best Western Havre Inn and Suites.

To old-timers, the subject might be better known as home economics, said Mary Kay Rambo, a retired teacher at Chester-Joplin-Inverness and organizer of the event.

But the new name better explains what the course offers today.

“It changed dramatically over the years I was a teacher,” she said.

The changes involved not only what was taught, but the students.

“In the last few year...