Sarah Gibson Blanding Oral History, 1964.
Collection Number: 47-2-O.H.169
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell
University Library
Title:
Sarah Gibson Blanding
oral history,
1964.
Collection Number:
47-2-O.H.169
Creator:
Sarah Gibson, Blanding
1890-
Quantity:
148 pp.
transcript.
Forms of Material:
Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Transcript of an interview with Blanding
conducted by Dolores Greenberg, June 11, 1964.
Language:
Collection material in
English
College president.
Transcript of an interview with Blanding conducted by Dolores
Greenberg, June 11, 1964. Subjects include experiences as a child in Lexington,
Kentucky, and as a student at the University of Kentucky; experiences as dean
of women, University of Kentucky; study at the London School of Economics;
impressions of Harold Lasky, Tagore, G.P. Gootch, and Queen Mary; impressions
of Flora Rose and the College of Home Economics at Cornell University;
discussion of liberal arts in a home economics curriculum, the National
Association of Women Deans, and the American Association of University Women;
separation of the College of Home Economics from the College of Agriculture;
impressions of Carl Ladd, Edmund Ezra Day, Helen Canon, and Martha Eddy; the
effect of World War II on the College of Home Economics; attitude of the
college faculty; observations concerning President and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt;
comments on Helen Monsch's infant feeding program in Ithaca, New York;
observations concerning the administration of the College of Home Economics;
comments on two-year colleges; relationships between the College of Home
Economics and other units of Cornell University; impressions of Herbert Lehman,
Thomas E. Dewey, Charles Poletti, and Fiorello La Guardia.
Names:
Blanding, Sarah
Gibson,1890-
Canon, Helen.
Day, Edmund Ezra,
1883-1951.
Dewey, Thomas E.(Thomas Edmund),
1902-1971.
Eddy, Martha.
Gootch, G. P.
Greenberg, Dolores.
La Guardia, Fiorello H.(Fiorello
Henry), 1882-1947.
Ladd, C. E.(Carl Edwin), b.
1888.
Lasky, Harold.
Lehman, Herbert H.(Herbert Henry),
1878-1963.
Mary, 1867-1953.
Monsch, Helen.
Poletti, Charles.
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.(Franklin
Delano), 1882-1945.
Rose, Flora, b. 1874.
Tagore, Rabindranath,
1861-1941.
American Association of University
Women.
London School of Economics and
Political Science.
National Association of Deans of
Women (U.S.)
New York State College of Home
Economics.
University of
Kentucky--Administration.
University of
Kentucky--Students.
Subjects:
Universities and
colleges--Administration.
Education.
Home economics--Study and
teaching.
Infants--Nutrition.
Education, Humanistic.
Women--Education.
Women college
administrators.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral
histories.
Access Restrictions:
Restricted.
Cite As:
Sarah Gibson Blanding oral history, #47-2-O.H.169. Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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