Ethel Bushnell Waring papers, [ca. 1917-1965]
Collection Number: 23-13-550
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ethel Bushnell Waring papers, [ca. 1917-1965]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-13-550
Abstract:
Correspondence, research reports, films, voluminous nursery school records, and other
materials constituting a history of the Department of Child Development and Family
Relationships from its beginning as courses in child guidance in the 1924 summer school
to becoming an independent department. Also, one volume with typescript history of
the department, student papers for Mrs. Waring, and lessons for Christian agricultural
missions in China, 1942.
Creator:
Waring, Ethel Bushnell, 1887-1972.
Quanitities:
78.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of home economics, Cornell University.
In 1927 Ethel Waring came to Cornell as professor of home economics in what was then
the Department of Family Life. In 1945 the name was changed to the Department of Child
Development and Family Relationships. This department is now called Human Development
and Family Studies. Her greatest interest was in child guidance. She wrote six Cornell
Extension bulletins, published two books, and was a consulting editor for PARENTS
Magazine and other child-parent related publications.
Correspondence, research reports, films, voluminous nursery school records, and other
materials constituting a history of the Department of Child Development and Family
Relationships from its beginning as courses in child guidance in the 1924 summer school
to becoming an independent department. Also, one volume with typescript history of
the department, student papers for Mrs. Waring, and lessons for Christian agricultural
missions in China, 1942.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ethel Bushnell Waring papers, #23-13-550. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
See also collection #47-10-3394 for additional biographical information.
Names:
New York State College of Human Ecology. Department of Human Development and Family
Studies
New York State College of Home Economics. Department of Family Life
New York State College of Home Economics. Department of Child Development and Family
Relationships
New York State College of Home Economics -- : History.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
Missions -- China.
Children -- Counseling of.
Family life education.
Child development.
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