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Informationen zum Autor Angie Klink writes compelling stories of Americana and the hero's journey. An author of twelve creative nonfiction books set in the heartland, Klink is a historian, biographer, essayist, scriptwriter, and copywriter with sixty-one American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards. She has written for Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History magazine, MS. Magazine, and the American Writers Museum. She was the scriptwriter for two documentaries narrated by actor Peter Coyote: the public education film Rise Above the Mark and Eternal Flame about Tom Kelly, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2024, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored Klink for her distinguished contribution to historic preservation, particularly the publishing of books. A six-time attendee of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton, Klink received an Honorable Mention in the Bombeck Writing Competition. She holds a BA in communication from Purdue University. Klappentext In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a sparkler who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene, safe water, childcare, and more. Reserved Mary established Purdue's School of Home Economics, created Indiana's first nursery school, and authored a popular textbook. Both women used their natural talents and connections to achieve their goals in spite of a male-dominated society. As a land grant institution, Purdue University has always been very connected to the American countryside. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal. Zusammenfassung Based on extensive oral history and archival research! this sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty at Purdue University played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story! engagingly told! of two very different personalities united in a common goal. ...
