Evening star., 1952-04-27
,Wrs. Milton Eisenhower to Visit
Penn States
First Lady
Due May II
By Jessie Font Evons

/ Eagerly anticipated here is the
visit which DR.. and Mrs. Milton
5. Eisenhower will pay to Wash
ngton on May II. They will be
guests of Mrs. Eisenhower's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Eakin,
while DR.. Eisenhower attends
meetings of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges and Univer-
stiles. He is president of Penn
State College, Pennsylvania's 81
year-old land grant educational
institution that is bursting at the
seams with students and forward
looking academic ideals.
Helen Eakin Eisenhower, Kansas
born graduate of George WASH
ington University and a former
resident of Manhattan, Kans., is
a charming. accomplished person
in her own right, quite apart from
the fact that she is the capable
helpmate Of the youngest of the
famous Eisenhower sons.
Helen Eisenhower is an intel
lectual with a keen, we'll trained
mind, up to the minute in it's
awareness. She is so warmly
human. though. so generously
outgoing in all of her relation
ships. it is her many sidedness
which makes the first appeal.
This is not her first experience
as a campus first lady. Before
her husband came to his present
post, he was president of Kansas
State College, occupying the chair
at Manhattan during seven years
Iof signal achievement.
Trained in gracious home max
ing from her girlhood by her
mother. whose name is a byword
for quiet effectiveness upon COM
mittees of this city's Washington
Club, the daughters merry chal-
lenge. "Now let's get organized, :"
is familiar one among her asso-
ciates. wherever and whenever she
is undertaking any job.
Entertoins EosiIy
With a gift for putting people
at ease, Mrs. Eisenhower enter
|tains students, faculty groups and
distinguished visitors to the cam
pus with the same effortless seren-
ity. Actually back of the delight
full hospitality, which DR.. and Mrs.
Eisenhower extend in the presi-
dents residence, built in 1856 and
remodelled adequately and con-
veniently in 1889. is Mrs. Eisen-
hower's smoothly running and
well-organized domestic setup
She does her own marketing and
plans menus at least a week
ahead. but in such flexible fashion
they can be expanded from the
family circle of four to almost any
number. President Eisenhower
comes home to luncheon almost
invariably, and often with guests.
The company angle is met by re-
course to capacious deepfreeze
boxes and the hundreds of home
canned vegetables, fruits, jellies
and pickles upon pantry shelves.
Her regular household staff con-
sists of smiling, capable Elizabeth
and David. a husband and wife
team from Charlottesville, Va,
where David was headwaiter at
the Pennington Country Club, and
Elizabeth justly famed for her
culinary skill. Mrs. Eisenhower
plans the vegetable garden and
herb garden with David. She and
Elizabeth cooperate in seeing to
it that any of it's products not i'm
rnediately used upon the table are
canned according to the last word
process in home extension courses.
incidentally, although her own
college curriculum did not include
one, Helen Eisenhower believes
home economics course "is an in
valuable asset to every woman,
career or homemaker alike. You
are much more effective in organ
izing and directing others if you
have been trained in home max
ing fundamentals and the upkeep
of a home"
Collecting cookbooks in one of
her hobbies. Her Pennsylvaniana
in this respect is a sizable one,
and recipes from it appear con-
|stantly upon the Eisenhower table.
She uses the "Georgetown Cook
Book" too, and especially likes its
golden cake recipe.
The Eisenhower youngsters po-
lice their own rooms and make an
admirable job of it. The family
circle is an intimate and closely
knit one with each member of it,
sharing the others interests and