Guide to the Catherine Jane Personius Papers,
1930-1967, [1940-1967 (bulk).]

Collection Number: 23-14-979

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:

RMC Staff

Date completed:

July 2010

EAD encoding:

Daniel W. Young, December 2010

Date modified:

RMC Staff, November 2012

© 2010 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Catherine Jane Personius papers, 1930-1967, 1940-1967 (bulk).

Collection Number:

23-14-979

Creator:

Catherine Jane, Personius 1904-

Quantity:

5 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Publications, Research Materials

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Includes printed and photocopied material, and other papers relating to Personius' work.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of food and nutrition, Cornell University.

Catherine Personius graduated from Elmira College in 1925 with a degree in home economics and chemistry, subsequently joining the staff as foods instructor. In 1928, she completed her M.A. at Teacher's College, Columbia University and in 1937 her Ph.D. from Cornell, joining the faculty as an assistant professor that same year. From 1940-1943, she was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then returned to Cornell as professor and co-chair of the Department of Food and Nutrition and a year later as chair. In 1947, she also became Coordinator of Research for the College and Assistant Director of the Experiment Station. Personius was the first woman to be a faculty representative on the Board of Trustees where she served from 1959-1964. She retired in 1966.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes printed and photocopied material, and other papers relating to Personius' work as a teacher and researcher in home economics, especially relating to her field of food and nutrition and with the Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Personius, Catherine Jane,1904-

Cornell University--Faculty.

Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.

Subjects:

Home economics.

Nutrition.

Women college teachers.

Home economists.

Nutritionists.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Catherine Jane Personius papers, #23-14-979. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Biographical Material

Series II. Course Material

Series III. Subject and Reference Files

Series IV. Cornell Committees, Events, Projects, Research

Series V. Outside Associations and Organizations

Series VI. American Home Economics Association (AHEA)

Series VII. Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (ASULGC)

Series VIII. Northeast Region

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Biographical Material
1937-1966	Biographical Information, including photograph	Box 1	Folder 2
1938-1959	Reprints and Manuscripts	Box 1	Folder 2
1943	Course Notes - University of Wisconsin	Box 1	Folder 3
1947-1961	Talks and Papers by Personius	Box 1	Folder 4
1962-1968	Talks and Papers by Personius	Box 1	Folder 5
1949-1964	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 6
1955-1965	Correspondence and Memos	Box 1	Folder 7
1959-1964	Correspondence - Various Outside Organizations	Box 1	Folder 8
1955-1964	Board of Directors - Cornell Research Foundation	Box 1	Folder 9
1959-1960	Trip to Russia	Box 1	Folder 10
1959	Consulting Project - Carnegie Institute of Technology	Box 1	Folder 11
1963	Oral History Project	Box 1	Folder 12
1964	Oral History Transcript	Box 1	Folder 13
	Series II. Course Material
1938-1944	Core Curriculum	Box 1	Folder 14
1938	Sub-Freshman Foods Questionnaire	Box 1	Folder 15
1939	Food Tests	Box 1	Folder 16
1939-1940	Food and Nutrition Lab Notebook (1)	Box 1	Folder 17
1939-1940	Food and Nutrition Lab Notebook (2)	Box 1	Folder 18
1938-1939	Lectures - 1st Term	Box 1	Folder 19
1938-1939	Lectures - 2nd Term	Box 1	Folder 20
1939-1940	Lectures - 1st Term	Box 1	Folder 21
1939-1940	Lectures - 2nd Term	Box 1	Folder 22
1952-1959	Lectures	Box 1	Folder 23
1955-1961	Lectures and Labs	Box 1	Folder 24
1933-1939	Course Material (1)	Box 1	Folder 25
1931-1939	Course Material (2)	Box 1	Folder 26
1934-1939	Course Material (3)	Box 1	Folder 27
1936	Course Material	Box 1	Folder 28
1940	Course Material (1)	Box 1	Folder 29
1940	Course Material (2)	Box 1	Folder 30
1941	Lectures - Cora Miller	Box 1	Folder 31
1947-1949	Department Curriculum Study	Box 1	Folder 32
1950s	Food and Nutrition Course Material	Box 1	Folder 33
1950	Food and Nutrition Course Material	Box 1	Folder 34
1951	Food and Nutrition - Summer Session	Box 1	Folder 35
1960-1961	Food and Nutrition - Course Material	Box 2	Folder 1
1961-1963	Flour	Box 2	Folder 2
1944-1967	Food and Nutrition (FN) 314 Course Material	Box 2	Folder 3-39
1947-1963	FN 316 Course Material	Box 2	Folder 40
1966	FN 217 Course Material	Box 2	Folder 41
1955-1957	FN 420 Seminar - Food and Nutrition	Box 2	Folder 42
1966	FN Course Material	Box 2	Folder 43
1950-1955	Course Offerings Study	Box 2	Folder 44
1961	Undergraduate Curriculum	Box 2	Folder 45
	Subject and Reference Files
1925-1959	Papers Concerning Research in Home Economics	Box 2	Folder 46
1960-1967	Papers Concerning Research in Home Economics	Box 2	Folder 47
1955-1960	Talks, Papers by Various Home Economists	Box 2	Folder 48
1961-1966	Talks, Papers by Various Home Economists	Box 2	Folder 49
1947	Food Research Workers - Biographical Information	Box 2	Folder 50
1952	Encyclopedia Americana Entry	Box 2	Folder 51
1954-1955	Doctoral Programs in Home Economics	Box 2	Folder 52
1955-1958	B. T. Shaw's Statements on Redirection of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Research	Box 2	Folder 53
1957	Research Needs in Agriculture	Box 2	Folder 54
	Milkoato, Milkcorno, Milkwheato - G. L. F.	Box 3	Folder 1
1941	Testing Proficiency in Food Preparation	Box 3	Folder 2
1941	Soy Flours in Baking	Box 3	Folder 3
1944-1945	Soy Bean Committee	Box 3	Folder 4
1941-1942	Effect of Heat on Cheese	Box 3	Folder 5
1942-1943	Dried Egg Powder	Box 3	Folder 6
1944	Dried Whey in Bread	Box 3	Folder 7
1945-1951	Dairyman's League Fellowship - Nonfat Dry Milk Solids	Box 3	Folder 8
1945-1947	American Dairy Association Project - Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 9
1945-1947	Recipes Tested for NYS Historical Association	Box 3	Folder 10
1945-1957	Vegetables - Market Growers Journal	Box 3	Folder 11
1946	Cherry Pie	Box 3	Folder 12
1946-1949	Yale Food Study	Box 3	Folder 13
1949	Calcium Treatment of Tomatoes and Apples	Box 3	Folder 14
1950	Borden Award - Frances Johnston Nomination	Box 3	Folder 15
1962	Cornell Executive Aircraft	Box 3	Folder 16
	Series IV. Cornell Committees, Events, Projects, Research
1948-1949	Radio Broadcasts	Box 3	Folder 17
1950-1950	Radio Broadcasts	Box 3	Folder 18
1943-1946	Post-War Planning Committee	Box 3	Folder 19
1944	Food Preservation Committee	Box 3	Folder 20
1944-1945	School of Nutrition - Committee and Special Reports	Box 3	Folder 21
1945	Graduate Students Committee	Box 3	Folder 22
1948	College Nutrition Committee	Box 3	Folder 23
1950	Ad Hoc Committee on Library Building Program	Box 3	Folder 24
1950-1951	Conference Committee on Higher Education for Women	Box 3	Folder 25
1958-1961	9th and 12ths Committee	Box 3	Folder 26
1961	Ad Hoc Committee on Patent and Trademark Policy	Box 3	Folder 27
1961-1962	Nuclear Peril Committee	Box 3	Folder 28
1924-1930	Purnell Projects in Home Economics	Box 3	Folder 29
1926	Purnell Act - Paper by E. W. Allen	Box 3	Folder 30
1930s-1940s	Home Economics Research	Box 3	Folder 31
1944-1947	Food Technology Program	Box 3	Folder 32
1944-1947	Rural Housing Project Research	Box 3	Folder 33
1948-1950	University Policy - Research	Box 3	Folder 34
1950-1951	Housing Research Center at Cornell	Box 3	Folder 35
1964-1965	Social Science Research Center - Cornell	Box 3	Folder 36
1944	School of Nutrition - Freezing of Pre-Cooked Foods Research	Box 3	Folder 37
1945-1947	School of Nutrition - Frozen Food Research	Box 3	Folder 38
1946-1948	School of Nutrition - Frozen Food, Food Preservation Research Reports	Box 3	Folder 39
1946-1950	Medical Consultants	Box 3	Folder 40
1929	Experiment Station Staff - Identification with College - Letter from A. R. Mann to Martha van Rensselaer	Box 3	Folder 41
1951-1953	Research Appointments	Box 3	Folder 42
1956-1961	Graduate Staff	Box 3	Folder 43
1961	Visitors from Other Countries	Box 3	Folder 44
1965	Institute - Nutritional Status: A Critical Evaluation	Box 3	Folder 45
1965	Conference for Home Economists Working with Low Income Families	Box 3	Folder 46
	Series V. Outside Associations and Organizations
1925	Land Grant College Association Conference Report	Box 3	Folder 47
1940-1948	Reports and Studies at Wisconsin and Cornell	Box 3	Folder 48
1945-1946	NYS Dept. of Education Committee on Food and Nutrition Curriculum	Box 3	Folder 49
1951-1962	Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee - Reports, Minutes	Box 3	Folder 50
1955-1966	Home Economics Research Advisory Committee - Reports, Minutes	Box 3	Folder 51
1952-1959	Interregional Committee on Nutritional Status - Meeting Minutes	Box 3	Folder 52
1957-1959	NYS Home Demonstration Agents Association - Research Committee	Box 3	Folder 53
1953	Workshop - Administrative Management for Home Economics in the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities	Box 3	Folder 54
1957	Workshop - Administrative Management for Home Economics	Box 4	Folder 1
1960	Workshop - Home Economics in Higher Education	Box 4	Folder 2
1962-1963	Accreditation Review - University of Tennessee; University of Delaware	Box 4	Folder 3
1962-1963	USDA Food and Human Nutrition	Box 4	Folder 4
1963-1967	U. S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare - Home Economics Curriculum Project	Box 4	Folder 5
1965-1966	Capener Committee - OEO	Box 4	Folder 6
	Series VI. American Home Economics Association (AHEA)
1966	Conference - "Strengthening Home Economics Research," Sponsored by AHEA and Oregon State University	Box 4	Folder 7
1938-1947	AHEA - Research Department - Division of Food and Nutrition	Box 4	Folder 8
1942-1947	Handbook of Food Preparation - AHEA	Box 4	Folder 9
1955-1956	AHEA - Sub-Committee on Need for Home Economics Resrach at the Federal Level	Box 4	Folder 10
1956-1961	AHEA - National Research Institute for the American Home	Box 4	Folder 11
1962-1963	AHEA - Survey of Status of Publication of Home Economics Research	Box 4	Folder 12
	Series VII. Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (ASULGC)
1947-1952	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities - Research Committees	Box 4	Folder 13
1952-1960	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities - Research Committees	Box 4	Folder 14
1948-1951	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities - Research	Box 4	Folder 15
1949-1956	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities - Research	Box 4	Folder 16
1953-1954	Financing Research Publications - Land-Grant Committee	Box 4	Folder 17
1960s	ASULGC - Publications	Box 4	Folder 18
1960s	ASULGC - Reports of the Executive Committee	Box 4	Folder 19
1960-1962	Centennial Committee - Anniversary of the Establishment of Land-Grant Colleges	Box 4	Folder 20
1960-1961	Centennial Committee - Anniversary of the Establishment of Land-Grant Colleges	Box 4	Folder 21
1961	ASULGC - Centennial Convocation Remarks	Box 4	Folder 22
1961	ASULGC - Centennial Convocation Remarks	Box 4	Folder 23
1961-1965	ASULGC - Study of Home Economics (1)	Box 4	Folder 24
1961-1965	ASULGC - Study of Home Economics (2)	Box 4	Folder 25
1963	ASULGC - Study of Home Economics	Box 4	Folder 26
1962-1963	ASULGC - Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 27
1964-1966	ASULGC - Home Economics Division - Reports, Memos, Correspondence (1)	Box 4	Folder 28
1966-1968	ASULGC - Home Economics Division - Reports, Memos, Correspondence (2)	Box 4	Folder 29
1963	ASULGC - Papers Given at General Session	Box 4	Folder 30
1964	ASULGC - Papers Given at Meetings of Home Economics Division	Box 4	Folder 31
	Series VIII. Northeast Region
1937-1945	Northeastern Home Economics Research Workers	Box 4	Folder 32
1952-1954	NE Regional Textiles an Clothing Research Project Minutes	Box 4	Folder 33
1956	Regional Research Proposal - Home Economics Marketing	Box 5	Folder 1
1947	NE-4 - Correspondence	Box 5	Folder 2
1947-1952	NE-4 - Minutes, Annual Reports, Budgets	Box 5	Folder 3
1950-1954	NE-4 - Cooperative Nutritional Status Studies in NE	Box 5	Folder 4
1952-1956	NE-16 - Minutes	Box 5	Folder 5
1952-1960	NE-16 - Project Statements, Annual Reports, Budgets, Publications	Box 5	Folder 6
1954-1960	NE-19 - Annual Reports, Procedural Manual	Box 5	Folder 7
1954-1957	NE-19 - Minutes of Committee Meetings	Box 5	Folder 8
1958-1962	NE-19 - Revised - Minutes, Memos	Box 5	Folder 9
1958-1964	NE-19 - Revised - Annual Reports, Budgets, Publications	Box 5	Folder 10
1954-1957	NE-20 - Regional Research in Housing Meetings	Box 5	Folder 11
1957-1965	NE-37 - Annual Report Budgets, Publications	Box 5	Folder 12
1962-1963	NE-37 - Memos	Box 5	Folder 13
1955-1962	NE-37 - Revised - Regional Project Statement, Policy and Procedure	Box 5	Folder 14
1956-1963	NE-37 - Revised - Minutes	Box 5	Folder 15
1960-1966	NE-37 - Revised - Correspondence	Box 5	Folder 16
1958	NE Regional Research in Housing Projects - Not Activated	Box 5	Folder 17
1962	NE Regional Research Exploratory Studies	Box 5	Folder 18
1957-1958	NEM-32 - Marketing Project - Correspondence	Box 5	Folder 19
1963-1966	NEM-32 - Minutes, Annual Reports	Box 5	Folder 20

Guide to the Catherine Jane Personius Papers, 1930-1967, [1940-1967 (bulk).]

Collection Number: 23-14-979

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2010 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Catherine Jane Personius Papers,
1930-1967, [1940-1967 (bulk).]

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library