PIECING THE PAST TOGETHER

ALTHEA, 8TH GRADE GRAD 1914 ELLEN LOUISE, HS GRAD 1935

RUTH ELLEN, HS GRAD 1935 TRACY ELLEN, HS GRAD 1985

ELLEN GRACE, 8TH GRADER IN 2012

20th Century Skills

Making Do or Doing Without

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$ 1914 Federal Deficit = 0

My Great Aunt Althea passed away the year I graduated college.

Education spending = 6% of per capita GDP

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Making It Better My grandmother Ellen gave me my first typewriter, (an electric one!) for my high school graduation.

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1935 Federal Deficit = 46,600,000,000.00

Education spending = 12% of per capita GDP

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Making a Plan

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1961 Federal Deficit = 25,380,000,000.00

Education spending = 13% of per capita GDP

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“As long as you can type, you can find work.” My mom let me use her manual typing books at grandma’s.

Making My First and Last Quilt My first programming class was in HS, now am spending most of my evenings online as part of first MSU EPET Hybrid PhD cohort following family tradition of innovating (but miss quilting).

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1985 Federal Deficit = 452,670,000,000.00

Education spending = 19% of per capita GDP

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Making a Mess

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2011 Federal Deficit = 1,324,000,000,000.00

Education spending = 21% of per capita GDP

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Ellen and Gabrielle looked at this & said, “Mom, you forgot to put in a bunch of stuff.” It didn’t fit.

Making it fun

10 Minutes 2Girls, 1 iPad 50+ Pictures

They facebooked them, too.

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