Catherine J. Personius Oral History, 1964.
Collection Number: 47-2-O.H.130
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell
University Library
Title:
Catherine J.
Personius oral history,
1964.
Collection Number:
47-2-O.H.130
Creator:
Catherine J., Personius
1904-
Quantity:
136 pp.
transcript.
Forms of Material:
Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Transcript of an interview with Personius
conducted by Dolores Greenberg, February 7, 1964.
Language:
Collection material in
English
Educational administrator.
Transcript of an interview with Personius conducted by Dolores
Greenberg, February 7, 1964. Subjects include her education at Elmira College;
teaching at Elmira, and evaluation of the home economics program there;
graduate study at Teachers College; teaching at Hampton Institute; prevailing
attitudes toward home economics; comments on social mores in the 1920s;
evaluation of the home management program at Cornell University; contributions
of Marion Pfund and Flora Rose; discussion of graduate study at Cornell;
relationship between the College of Agriculture and the College of Home
Economics; comparison of the home economics program at Wisconsin with that at
Cornell, ca. 1942; teaching at the University of Wisconsin; development of the
Department of Food and Nutrition at Cornell; impressions of Martha Van
Rensselaer and Sarah Blanding; effects of World War II on research and teaching
at Cornell; impressions of Helen Monsch and the infant feeding program; job
opportunities in administration; and changes in attitudes toward graduate
degrees.
Names:
Personius, Catherine
J.,1904-
Blanding, Sarah Gibson,
1898-
Greenberg, Dolores.
Monsch, Helen.
Pfund, Marion.
Rose, Flora.
Van Rensselaer, Martha,
1864-1932.
Cornell University.
Elmira College--Faculty.
Elmira
College--Students.
Hampton
Institute--Faculty.
New York State College of
Agriculture.
New York State College of Home
Economics.
University of Wisconsin.
Subjects:
Colleges and universities--Graduate
work.
Home economics--Study and
teaching.
Infants--Nutrition.
Women college students.
Women educators.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral
histories.
Cite As:
Catherine J. Personius oral history, #47-2-O.H.130. Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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