MERCHANDISING AND TEXTILES

The members of the Committee appointed to examine the thesis of DEBORAH ANN VANDERMAR find it satisfactory and recommend that it be accepted ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to librarians and archivists who guided me to documents from apparel and textile education in Washington’s past: John Bolcer and the Special Collections staff in at the University of Washington, Tamara Belts, Gail Kleer and Ruth Steel at Western Washington University, and Charles V. Mutschler at Eastern Washington University. Contemporary apparel and textile educators who shared their own stories include