from Grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West No date or newspaper name just a clipping A former Decatur County lady, Dr. Florence Davis, has retired as head of the home economics department at Illinois State University. she was raised in the Fairview area and graduated from the Leon high school. She has a brother Irvin Davis, of El Paso, Tex. and they often visit relatives and friends in this vicinity. Dr. Davis will leave the United States late in September for Nagasaki, Japan. In Nagasaki she will be curriculum coordinator and teacher in the home economics department at Kwassui Gakuin, the oldest women's college in Japan. She has retired two years early in order to do work abroad. She will fly to Hawaii and stop at the University of Honolulu to check on some research. She will go toTokyo before going to Nagasaki. She will be working under the Unted Church of Christ in Japan. She will teach a Kwassui Gakuin for two years and during that time, hope to travel in the Orient.