MacKay, Catharine Jane, 1871-1921.

College dean and home economics educator. Catharine MacKay was Dean of the Iowa State College Home Economics Division, 1914-1921. She began at Iowa State in 1910 as an associate professor. MacKay received a degree in domestic science from the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia in 1907. She later studied at Teachers College and Mrs. Farmer's School of Cooking in Boston. MacKay established courses in domestic science at the YWCA in Minneapolis and supervised domestic science teaching in the public schools of Winnipeg before coming to Iowa State in 1910.

From the description of Papers, 1917-1977. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 34298108