North Carolina Extension and Community Association Records 1916-2003

National Extension Homemakers Council (U.S.)

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In 1983, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC) for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country. The council is a national nonprofit educational organization made up of 30,000 organized groups (or clubs) in forty-four states and two territories, with a membership of approximately 500,000. It is one of the lar...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

North Carolina Extension Homemakers Association

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North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations

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This organization was formed in 1952 as the North Carolina Women's Council, and served as a clearinghouse for women's groups, in order to prevent duplication of effort and to provide the opportunity for groups to act together in areas of special interest to women. In 1955 the name of the agency was changed to North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations. In 1956 it became a cooperative service of the University of North Carolina Extension Division. The organization was chartered in 1959 and i...

Dalla Pozza, Ada

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National Association of Extension Home Economists (U.S.)

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McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957

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First home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina and author of Raleigh, N.C. From the description of Jane Simpson McKimmon papers, 1894-1919 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23743324 Jane Simpson McKimmon was the first home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina, and an author of Raleigh, N.C. From the guide to the Jane Simpson McKimmon Papers, ., 1894-1919, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Col...

National Home Demonstration Agents Association (U.S.)

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North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs.

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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service

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Although extension activities began in the late nineteenth century with the formation of the North Carolina State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service was officially formed in 1914 with the passage of the Smith-Lever Act. Extension services provide education and programming in numerous subjects, among them agriculture, forestry, environmental sustainability, youth and family development, and community viability. From the descript...

Smith, Estelle T.

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Associated Country Women of the World.

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The Associated Country Women of the World group was organized in June 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden. The object of the group is "to promote and maintain friendly and helpful relations between country women and homemaker associations of all nations, to further the common interests of these groups in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, and to encourage the formation of similar organizations." From the description of Records, 1953-1994. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 4...

Country Women's Council.

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North Carolina Extension and Community Association

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The first women's home demonstration clubs were formed in North Carolina in 1913, in the fourteen counties that employed home demonstration agents. As the number of clubs and counties involved grew steadily thereafter, it was decided that a statewide organization was needed to coordinate agents activities and to act as a voice for their concerns. Thus, at the 1920 Farm Women's Convention in Raleigh (held in connection with the annual Farmer's Convention which began in 1903), the Fed...

North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs

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Farm and Home Week

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National Home Demonstration Council (U.S.)

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Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967.

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Stanton, Verna

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Lowe, Dazelle Foster

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