Records, 1925-2008, 1960-2008 / Mecklenburg County Extension Homemakers Association.

Mecklenburg County Extension Homemakers Association (N.C.)

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The extension homemakers movement began in the early twentieth century in order to educate homemakers in rural and agricultural areas to management their households more effectively and economically. By the latter part of the twentieth century, demographics in North Carolina and the United States had changed, and women were less interested the program that home economists had to offer. By the beginning of the twenty first century, most extension homemaker clubs and organizations had closed. The ...

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. West District

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North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service

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Organized home demonstration work among rural women in North Carolina started when I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, appointed Jane S. McKimmon State Home Demonstration Agent in 1911. A pioneer in home demonstration work, McKimmon headed the program until 1937. Ruth Current succeeded her and directed the program for three decades afterward. In 1958, Current was named assistant director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extensio...

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...

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...

Mecklenburg County Extension and Community Association (N.C.)

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North Carolina State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Advisory Council "advises the university administration on how best to meet the needs of the state's people through its programs and activities, especially in the area of extension and research." The Advisory Council was created in the 1950s and met twice a year to "analyze and critique school programs and to suggest new activity." The Council is currently inactive. From the description of North Carolina State University, College of Agricu...

Miller, Kathryn 1931-2007

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Heritage Extension Homemakers Club (Mecklenburg County, N.C.)

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North Carolina Extension Homemakers Association

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Hickory Grove Extension Homemakers Club (Mecklenburg County, N.C.)

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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...

North Carolina State University. School of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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