Virginia True Oral History, 1964.
Collection Number: 47-2-O.H.172
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell
University Library
Title:
Virginia True oral
history,
1964.
Collection Number:
47-2-O.H.172
Creator:
Virginia,
True 1900-
Quantity:
111 pp.
interview.
Forms of Material:
Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Transcript of an interview with Virginia True
conducted by Dolores Greenberg, February 27, 1964.
Language:
Collection material in
English
Virginia True began her career at Cornell as a part-time instructor in the College of
Architecture and in 1942 became an assistant professor in the Department of Housing and Design in the
College of Home Economics. As head of the department she expanded the design courses into the undergraduate
curriculum, helped develop the Cornell University Housing Research Center, and established a housing program
in Cooperative Extension. She also participated in national conferences to improve the teaching of housing and
art in land-grant universities. She was an accomplished artist and her mural entitled “Home Economics” hangs
in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. She retired in 1965 and was appointed professor emeritus at the time.
Transcript of an interview with Virginia True conducted by Dolores
Greenberg, February 27, 1964. Topics include her childhood experiences in St.
Louis; early education and art training; teaching at the University of Denver;
graduate study at Cornell University; research, teaching, and administration in
the Department of Housing and Design at Cornell, 1930s-1964; impressions of
Flora Rose, Sarah Blanding, and others; relations with industry; comments
concerning a mural depicting home economics; development of graduate degrees in
the Department of Housing and Design; and the development of the Center for
Housing and Environmental Study.
Names:
True, Virginia,1900-
Blanding, Sarah Gibson,
1898-
Greenberg, Dolores.
Rose, Flora.
Center for Housing and
Environmental Study.
Cornell University--Graduate
students.
New York State School of Home
Economics.Dept. of Housing and Design.
University of
Denver--Faculty.
Subjects:
Home economics.
Women college students.
Women educators.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral
histories.
Access Restrictions:
Restricted.
Cite As:
Virginia True oral history, #47-2-O.H.172. Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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