Guide to the New York State College of Human Ecology Ghana Project Records,
1961-1988.

Collection Number: 23-2-2703

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
KJ Hillgren
Date completed:
November 2003
EAD encoding:
KJ Hillgren, Martin Heggestad, January 2004

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
New York State College of Human Ecology Ghana Project records, 1961-1988.
Collection Number:
23-2-2703
Creator:
New York State College of Human Ecology. Ghana Project.
Quantity:
1 c.f.
Forms of Material:
Reports, correspondence, lists, syllabi, plans, clippings, photographs, and other materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Ghana Project records, including description of the project, reports, correspondence, lists, syllabi, plans, clippings, and photographs and the work done by Professor Kathleen Rhodes.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Ghana Project records, including description of the project, reports, correspondence, lists, syllabi, plans, clippings, and photographs and the work done by Professor Kathleen Rhodes.
SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Human Ecology. Ghana Project.
Rhodes, Kathleen.

Subjects:
International cooperation.
Home economics--International cooperation.
African cooperation.

Places:
Africa--American influences.
Ghana--Study and teaching.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
New York State College of Human Ecology Ghana Project records, #23-2-2703. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Photographs
A. Reception Photos
B. Picnic and Barbecue Photos
C. Ithaca Sr. High Photos
D. Extension Classes and Workshop Photos
E. Miscellaneous Photos
Series II. Slides
Series III. Documents
Series IV. Memorabilia
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Photographs
A. Reception Photos
Dr. Hazel Hauck, Efunjoke Coker, Olusola S. Banjo, Pricilla Adewale, Margaret Kitchener Olowu.
1
Box 2 Folder 1
Margaret Kitchener Olowu, Edgar Clemens, Pat Husar, Ethel Mapoma, Olusola S. Banjo
2
Box 2 Folder 1
Reception with Home Economics students
3
Box 2 Folder 1
Carol Waslien, Prof. Esther Stocks, Prof. Catherine Personius, Dr. Verna Carely, Efunjoke Coker
4
Box 2 Folder 1
Dr. Hazel Hauck, Lati Hyde-Forster, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley
5
Box 2 Folder 1
Margaret Olowu, Prof. Helen Cady
6
Box 2 Folder 1
Lillian Hill, Samira Seif
7
Box 2 Folder 1
Ezerina Mwaipopo
8
Box 2 Folder 1
Ethel Mapoma, Hazel Hauck, Dean Helen G. Canoyer
9
Box 2 Folder 1
Lottie E. A. Hamilton, Hazeley, Jane Levin, Joan Ryan, Margaret FitzGerald, Mary Rice, Diane Handy, Prof. Nancy Hoddick
10
Box 2 Folder 1
Flossie H. Chokani
11
Box 2 Folder 1
Dr. Verna A. Carley, Samira Seif
12
Box 2 Folder 1
Victoria Mutswairo, Sister St. Jeanne Laval
13
Box 2 Folder 1
Dorice A. C. Martinson
14
Box 2 Folder 1
B. Picnic and Barbecue Photos
Alberta Addo, Dorice A. C. Martinson
1
Box 2 Folder 2
Efunjoke Coker
2
Box 2 Folder 2
Ezerina Mwaipopo, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley, Lati Hyde-Forster
3
Box 2 Folder 2
Margaret Kitchener Olowu, Prof. Emeritus Lucille Williamson
4
Box 2 Folder 2
Alberta Addo, Ethel Mapoma, Flossie H. Chokani, Ezerina Mwaipopo, Dean Helen G. Canoyer
5
Box 2 Folder 2
Olusola S. Banjo
6
Box 2 Folder 2
C. Ithaca Sr. High Photos
Alberta Addo, Pricilla Adewale, Saada Barwani, Victoria Mutswairo, Mary Wood, Marcia Robinson
1
Box 2 Folder 3
Alberta Addo, Pricilla Adewale, Saada Barwani, Victoria Mutswairo, Mary Wood, Marcia Robinson
2
Box 2 Folder 3
Margaret Kitchener Olowu, Pamela Ogot, Olusola S. Banjo, Ethel Mapoma
3
Box 2 Folder 3
Efunjoke Coker, Pamela Ogot, Ethel Mapoma, Olusola S. Banjo, Mary Wood
4
Box 2 Folder 3
Olusola S. Banjo, Ezerina Mwaipopo, Pricilla Adewale, Pamela Ogot
5
Box 2 Folder 3
D. Extension Classes and Workshops Photos
Ethel Mapoma, Prof. Dorothy Proud, Saada Barwani, Lati Hyde-Forster, Ezerina Mwaipopo
1
Box 2 Folder 4
Dorice A. C. Marginson, Saada Barwani, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley, Samira Seif
2
Box 2 Folder 4
Dorice Martinson, Marjorie Burns, Ruthe Thomas
3
Box 2 Folder 4
Anne Row, Margaret Kitchener Olowu
4
Box 2 Folder 4
Frances Grauman, Dorothy Johnson, Victoria Mutswairo
5
Box 2 Folder 4
Hazel Reed, Samira Seif
6
Box 2 Folder 4
Rita Raymond, Gulzar Sunderji, Margaret Kitchener Olowu
7
Box 2 Folder 4
Efunjoke Coker, Marion Graves
8
Box 2 Folder 4
Prof. Vera Caulum, Flossie H. Chokani, Samira Seif, Dr. Verna A. Carley, Ethel Mapoma, Prof. Dorothy Proud, Saada Berwani Lati Hyde-Forster, Victoria Mutswairo
9
Box 2 Folder 4
Frances Grauman, Victoria Mutswairo
10
Box 2 Folder 4
Ethel Mapoma, Pricilla Adewale
11
Box 2 Folder 4
Pauline Wade, Lottie Hamilton-Hazeley
12
Box 2 Folder 4
Ezerina Mwaipopo, Prof. Madeline Blum, Ethel Mapoma
13
Box 2 Folder 4
Pamela Ogot, Ethel Mapoma
14
Box 2 Folder 4
E. Miscellaneous Photos
Olusola S. Banjo, Foreign Student
1
Box 2 Folder 5
Latin Hyde-Forster, Olusola S. Banjo, Pricilla Adewale, Margaret Kitchener olowu, Pamela Ogot, Alberta Addo, Gulzar Sunderji, Ezerina Mwaipopo, Lottie E. A. Hamilton Hazeley, Efunjoke Coker, Saada Barwani
2
Box 2 Folder 5
Lati Hyde-Forster, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley
3
Box 2 Folder 5
Gulzar Sunderji, Samira Seif, Pricilla Adewale, Pamela Ogot, Olusola S. Banjo, Ethel Mapoma, Ezerina Mwaipopo, Flossie H. Chokani
4
Box 2 Folder 5
Pamela Ogot, David Twardock, Martha Raimon, Eva Raimon, Miriam Taitz
5
Box 2 Folder 5
Efunjoke Coker
6
Box 2 Folder 5
Pricilla Adewale, Saada Berwani, Pamela Ogot, Alberta Addo, Gulzar Sunderji, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley
7
Box 2 Folder 5
David Bechoffer, David Twardock, Pamela Ogot, Martha Raimon, Rebecca Holmes, Prof. Clara Melville, Deborah Thomas, Ethel Mapoma
8
Box 2 Folder 5
David Bechoffer, David Twardock, Pamela Ogot, Martha Raimon, Rebecca Holmes, Prof. Clara Melville, Deborah Thomas, Ethel Mapoma, Gilbert Crawford
9
Box 2 Folder 5
Gulzar Sunderji, Pamela Ogot, Margaret Kitchener Olowu
10
Box 2 Folder 5
Gulzar Sunderji
11
Box 2 Folder 5
Saada Berwani, Mrs. Gerega, Mrs. Asyro, Ezerina Mwaipopo, Emma Yonjo, Gulzar Sunderji, Samira Seif
1
Box 2 Folder 6
Gulzar Sunderji, Olusola S. Banjo, Samira Seif, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley
2
Box 2 Folder 6
Alberta Addo
3
Box 2 Folder 6
Mrs. Gerega, Emma Yonjo
4
Box 2 Folder 6
Lati Hyde-Forster, Lottie E. A. Hamilton-Hazeley
5
Box 2 Folder 6
Joan Holland, Freda Guilliam, Frankie MacHugh
6
Box 2 Folder 6
Unknown
7
Box 2 Folder 6
Nigeria
8
Box 2 Folder 6
Dorice Martinson
9
Box 2 Folder 6
Victoria Mutswairo
10
Box 2 Folder 6
Sarah Caldwell, Camilla Low, Verna Carley, Willa Player, Helen Hifferman, Helen Canoyer
11
Box 2 Folder 6
Photographs from Ghana 1963-64
Box 1 Folder 37
Photographs of Visit of African Educators to College of Home Economics 1961
 Box 1 Folder 38
Series II. Slides
Kenya Slides
 Box 2 Folder 7-9
Nigeria Slides
 Box 2 Folder 10-12
Miscellaneous Slides
 Box 2 Folder 13-14
Series III. Documents
1988
Description of Project; Progress Reports (1, 2, 3); "The International Heritage of Home Economics in USA" by Kathleen Rhodes, AHEA-Ghana.
Box 1 Folder 1
1962-1963
Report of 1961 Visit of African Educators to the NYS College of Home Economics at Cornell University; Report on visit to Ghana by Kathleen Rhodes, Project Statement
Box 1 Folder 2
1963
Survey Conducted by Students at Winneba College and student autobiographies; April 1963 Report on 2nd Visit to Ghana by Kathleen Rhodes
Box 1 Folder 3
May 1963
Correspondence regarding Agreement with Ghana Steering committee minutes.
 Box 1 Folder 4
1963
Project Statement (revised); Oct., Nov., Dec. correspondence.
 Box 1 Folder 5
1964
Correspondence and reports from Ghana
 Box 1 Folder 6
1964
Plans for and reports of consultant conference in Ghana; Reports from consultants, needs of Home Science program and proposed budget; Arrangements for visitors from Ghana. Report from Wood on Ghana situation. Correspondence regarding Home Demonstration Agents participation.
Box 1 Folder 7
1964
Proposed phases of Cornell-Ghana project; Correspondence regarding Rhodes visits to Ghana; Report by Flemming (University of Ghana); Arrangements for visit by Jiagge (Ghana); Report regarding Cornell-Ghana project Wilson.
Box 1 Folder 8
1964
Advisory Committee minutes; Regulations for Diploma in Home Science; Needs of Home Science Program (Rhodes); statement of project; Reports (Newkirk and Feldman)
Box 1 Folder 9
1964
Letters from Newkirk; clippings from Ghana Times; Advisory Committee minutes, personnel recruitment for '65-'66.
 Box 1 Folder 10
1965
Summary report Sept.-Jan. (Newkirk); Letters to and from Newkirk regarding salary funding.
 Box 1 Folder 11
1965
Letters from Narrowsburg Home Demonstration unit; Colson (U of Ghana) to Wilson (U of Ghana); Flemming (U of Ghana) to Colson.
 Box 1 Folder 12
1965
Advisory Committee Minutes (3/3/65); Letters Canoyer (CU) to Brown (Ghana); Wood to Newkirk; Wilson to Canoyer; Wood to Flemming; Canoyer to Doulo (Ghana); Newkirk to Wood; Wood to Armbruster; O'Brien (U of Ghana) to Wood, Newkirk to Damatey (Ghana); Feldman and Newkirk to Wood; Canoyer to O'Brien.
Box 1 Folder 13
1965
Institutions Cooperating with CU-Ghana program. Advisory Committee minutes; letters Canoyer to Miller (Ghana); Canoyer to Pres. Perkins; Newkirk to Wood; Project report Feb.-March (Newkirk, memoranda on future projects, review of commitments)
Box 1 Folder 14
1965
Advisory Comm. memo; report to college faculty and minutes; correspondence need for Home Science degree; recommendations regarding Home Science (U of Ghana).
Box 1 Folder 15
1965
Letters Wood and Newkirk; Communications regarding project development.
 Box 1 Folder 16
1965
Reports of social science consultant; memo of understanding (CU and U of Ghana); Letters Muller (CU) to Canoyer; Wood to Edzii (U of Ghana) and Newkirk; Newkirk to Wood; Advisory Committee minutes.
Box 1 Folder 17
1965
Letters, Canoyer to Middlemast (H Dagent); Muller to Wood; Wood to Olds; Ambassador Williams; Newkirk; Kwapong (U of Ghana); Anderegg; Review of memo of understanding and budget.
Box 1 Folder 18
1966
Memos to Advisory Committee regarding plans for HSC building at U of Ghana; award of Fulbright to V. Cukler for 66-67; letter Canoyer to Addo (Ghana)
Box 1 Folder 19
1966
Report (Newkirk); letter Newkirk regarding building plans; Advisory Committee minutes; Revised draft of Memo of Understanding.
 Box 1 Folder 20
1966
Comments on Ghana contract and memo of understanding; Final report on Cornell-Ghana project.
 Box 1 Folder 21
1966
Letter Wood to Cutter; memos from Cutter; draft of proposed site visit to U of Ghana by USAID.
 Box 1 Folder 22
1967-1968
Advisory Committee memo regarding planning HSC facilities at U of Ghana; description of program for FAO; letters between Wood and Cutter; Statements; "Education of Women in Ghana"; "Women's Education and Development of Community Health."
Box 1 Folder 23
1963
Winneba College syllabi; Nutrition; Applied Chemistry and Physics; Regulations for 1963; Plan for '65 grads.
 Box 1 Folder 24
1964
Winneba College Regulations; statement of project.
Box 1 Folder 25
1965-1966
Winneba College syllabi for Foods and Nutrition; Social Science; Regulations for Home Science Diploma
 Box 1 Folder 26
Materials on clothing and textiles for home science diploma.
 Box 1 Folder 27-28
1964-1965
Research Studies; Home Science course 1964-1965
 Box 1 Folder 29
1962-1965
Requests for financial assistance
 Box 1 Folder 30
1964
Newspaper clippings: Ghana
 Box 1 Folder 31-32
1965
Newspaper clippings: Ghana
 Box 1 Folder 33-34
1966
Newspaper clippings: Ghana
 Box 1 Folder 35-36
1962
Lati Hyde-Forster's Closing Speech in a letter from Helen G. Canoyer
 Box 1 Folder 39
Series IV. Memorabilia
Two silver trays and a pin - MU#1133
 Box 3