Lemo Rockwood papers, 1912-1948.
Collection Number: 23-13-2984
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Lemo Rockwood papers, 1912-1948.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-13-2984
Abstract:
Subject files of Professor Rockwood, including material relating to family life, parenthood,
and education; also, notes, reprints, monographs and other professional working papers,
and material relating to Martha Van Rensselaer.
Creator:
Rockwood, Lemo Dennis, 1896-1982.
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor emeritus of marriage and family life education, New York State College of
Home Economics.
Lemo Rockwood received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska in
1919 and her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1926. In 1929, she
came to Cornell on a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship to work for a Ph.D. degree
in sociology and psychology with a special emphasis on the family, which she received
in 1931. In 1935 Rockwood was hired as an extension specialist in the New York State
College of Home Economics. The following year she was promoted to full professor,
and from 1937 until her retirement in 1958 she devoted herself primarily to undergraduate
teaching and research.
Subject files of Professor Rockwood, including material relating to family life, parenthood,
and education; also, notes, reprints, monographs and other professional working papers,
and material relating to Martha Van Rensselaer.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Lemo Rockwood papers, #23-13-2984. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
See also collections #47-10-3394 and #23-2-749 for additional biographical information.
Names:
New York State College of Home Economics
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
Marriage -- Study and teaching.
Family life education -- Study and teaching.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Course material - from the files of Martha Van Rensselaer
|
1926-1929 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"Origins and Development of the Movement for Education for Marriage, Family Life and
Parenthood in the U.S.; 1940-1948, with Major Emphasis on Developments During the
Past 25 Years" - by Lemo Rockwood
|
n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Marriage Courses in other colleges and universities
|
1940s-1950s |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Publications concerning family life issues
|
1926-1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Publications concerning family life issues
|
1927-1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Publications concerning family life issues
|
1927-1945 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Publications concerning family life issues
|
1936-1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Conference material
|
1934-1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letter to Liberty Hyde Bailey concerning the controversy surrounding teaching agriculture
at a high school
|
1912 |