Alice M. Burgoin Oral History, 1964.

Collection Number: 47-2-O.H.82

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Alice M. Burgoin oral history, 1964.
Collection Number:
47-2-O.H.82
Creator:
Alice M., Burgoin 1902-1971.
Quantity:
77 pp. transcript.
Forms of Material:
Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Transcript of an interview with Blanding conducted by Gould Colman, February 5, 1964.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

College teacher.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Transcript of an interview with Burgoin conducted by Gould Colman, February 5, 1964. Topics discussed include her childhood experiences on a cattle farm in Iowa; description of home economics education in an Iowa secondary school; food conservation during World War I; home economics at Nebraska Wesleyan University; evaluation of graduate study at Ames in institutional management; job opportunities for institutional management majors; effect of social and technological changes on institutional management curriculum; teaching experiences at the University of Wisconsin and at Cornell; development of the graduate program and work in cafeteria management at Cornell; relations between the Department of Institution Management and other departments at Cornell; development of the School of Hotel Administration; and impressions of Flora Rose and Katherine Harris.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Burgoin, Alice M.,1902-1971.
Colman, Gould P.(Gould Patchin), 1926-
Harris, Katherine.
Rose, Flora.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University.Dept. of Institutional Management.
Cornell University.School of Hotel Administration.
Iowa State University.
New York State College of Home Economics.
Wesleyan University (Nebraska)

Subjects:
Education.
Home economics--Study and teaching.
Institutional management.
World War, 1914-1918.
Women college teachers.

Form and Genre Terms:
Oral histories.

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Alice M. Burgoin oral history, #47-2-O.H.82. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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