Fifty
golden years - a timeline
Home Economics Victoria 1958-2008
Our first decade 1958-1968
The first
meeting of the Home Economics Teachers Group
was held at MacRobertson
Girls High
School on Friday 24 October 1958 at 8pm. At the
end of the decade there were 300 members
Our second decade 1968-1978
An incorporated
company officially took place in June 1977 when the group became the Home Economics Teachers Group of Victoria,
‘a company limited by guarantee'. By the end of 1977 the organisation had close
to 400 members
Our third decade 1978-1988
A boom time for
home economics and a name change in 1983 to Victorian Home Economics and Textiles Teachers Association. The
first Annual Conference was held in 1979.
Our fourth decade 1988-1998
The HSC Home
Economics subject flourished with 8000 students enrolled in 1989. In April 1993 VHETTA purchased its own premises in Mount Waverley,
and added an additional second story in 1995.
Our fifth decade 1998-2008
2008
denoted a name change to Home Economics
Victoria aligned to a new look and new logo. In 2005 approval was granted
to become a Registered Training Organisation thus enabling the delivery of the
approved Vocational Diploma in Home Economics Education. The organisation now
has a membership of 800.