Catherine J. Personius Oral History, 1964.

Collection Number: 47-2-O.H.130

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Educational administrator.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

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.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

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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